After traveling through time, the four best friends were all targeted by the boss

Gu Ling noticed that something was wrong with her and reached out to touch her face, but Meng Yin dodged him.

"Ayin, what's wrong?" He slowly put down his hand without showing any impatience.

Meng Yin turned her head away and didn't look at him. She bit her lip, as if she had made a great decision.

"It's okay, but I think we should not be so intimate in the future, men and women..."

Before she could finish her words, Gu Ling pushed her onto the bed.

Meng Yin felt his hands exerting force and couldn't help but let out a hiss.

Gu Ling paused, and changed the action of pressing her wrist to pressing her shoulder.

"No, this is not like you." He looked at her steadily, trying to read something from her face.

Meng Yin reached out to hit him, saying angrily, "What are you doing? Let me go!"

"Someone told you something, right?" he asked, ignoring Meng Yin's fist and angry eyes.

Meng Yin was stunned. She didn't expect him to guess it so quickly.

"Even if no one told me, I would have thought of it," she muttered.

This was true. She had been thinking about her relationship with Gu Ling recently, but Zhang Su's words made her think in a broader context.

"Ayin, is this what you think now?" He said something that made no sense, but Meng Yin immediately realized that he was answering her question about them not being too close.

Facing his blazing gaze, Meng Yin answered with gritted teeth: "Yes, that's what I think now."

"What is our relationship? It's so unclear, what's the point?" She said this deliberately to make herself appear unreasonable.

Gu Ling raised his eyebrows and pulled her up.

"Then, Ayin, what kind of relationship do you think we should have?" His inquiring eyes moved across Meng Yin's fair face.

Meng Yin grabbed the quilt with both hands: "There is no relationship, so we shouldn't be so intimate."

After she said this, she instantly felt the air pressure around Gu Ling drop. He turned his head and looked at her with gloomy eyes.

Meng Yin swallowed. Gu Ling wouldn't do anything to her, right?

Gu Ling stared at her for a while, then reached out and lifted her chin.

"Ayin, we have been together for so long, you have already understood my feelings. Do you think it is possible for you to run away from me?" He stared at her and slowly uttered these words.

Meng Yin felt that he was particularly different today. From the moment she said that, she felt that Gu Ling was suppressing some emotion.

"I don't want to run away, I just feel...that things can't be like this between us." Meng Yin said weakly.

"Oh?" He grinned, "Then what do you think should happen between us, Ayin?"

Meng Yin sighed and took his hand away. "Gu Ling, you are the heir of the Gu family and the next master of the Soul Devouring Hall. I have nothing and can only eat and take for free. Don't you feel that I am losing out? Don't you think that our identities don't match?"

"I don't think so." Gu Ling immediately retorted.

He had made up his mind a long time ago that no matter whether Meng Yin loved him as a person, his money or his power, as long as she stayed with him, that was enough.

"I don't think it's good, and I've delayed you a lot of things." Meng Yin said in a low voice.

"Delaying me?" Gu Ling approached her, "Delaying me for what?"

"It's delaying your career!" Meng Yin said angrily.

But her concerns went far beyond that.

She considered her own safety, the safety of her sisters, and Gu Ling's safety. If staying with Gu Ling would bring countless hidden dangers, she might as well distance herself from Gu Ling.

"No." Gu Ling shook his head.

"meeting."

"will not."

"Yes! And can you ensure my personal safety? Are you sure that you can become the hall master? Are you sure that nothing will happen to you? So many people are watching you, if something happens to any of us, what should I do? What will you do?" Meng Yin didn't want to continue arguing with him, so she just said it directly.

She turned her head and wiped away the tears the moment they fell.

Gu Ling looked at her steadily, the emotions in his eyes were unclear.

"So Miss Meng is worried about this." He said in a hoarse voice.

Meng Yin felt bitter in her heart. She didn't look at him, not wanting him to notice the sadness and tears in her eyes. She said, "Well, let's just be ordinary friends in the future, okay? You don't affect me, and I won't affect you."

Impossible, Gu Ling said in his heart.

But on the surface, he just looked at her indifferently.

In fact, before he came, Lu Yun told him about Zhang Su's attempt to sow discord.

He just curled his lips and said, "He is looking for death."

He came to Meng Yin to express his feelings to her, with the hairpin he had picked up in the afternoon in his arms. But he never expected that Meng Yin would listen to Zhang Su's words.

He thought Meng Yin would not take his words seriously, and he would take this opportunity to get rid of Zhang Su. But she believed him and said that she wanted to be ordinary friends with him and keep a distance from him.

Gu Ling looked at every inch of Meng Yin's skin with attachment. Ah Yin, if I keep you by my side, will you love me?

Meng Yin noticed his strange look and forced herself not to look back. She was afraid that if she looked back, she would soften her heart.

Gu Ling didn’t know that she was more worried about leaving in the future.

She was afraid that she couldn't bear it, and she was even more afraid that Gu Ling couldn't bear it.

But now Gu Ling just wants to keep her by his side.

It took him a lot of effort to suppress his impulse. He stared at Meng Yin for a long time, stood up and walked towards the window.

The moment he turned around, Meng Yin couldn't hold back her tears any longer.

She bit her lip, and only when Gu Ling was sure to leave did she pick up the roast chicken that Gu Ling brought her and started eating it in big mouthfuls.

"Gu Ling, I'm sorry." She sobbed.

Outside, Lu Yun was so frightened by Gu Ling's low pressure that he dared not even breathe.

"What exactly did he say to Ayin today?" he asked, with suppressed murderous intent in his tone.

"We don't know either. We only know that he called Miss Meng into the room alone." Lu Yun said with his eyebrows lowered.

"Looking for death." Gu Ling gritted his teeth and flew away.

-

Meng Yin found that she didn't even have a blanket on her body and slept with her knees hugged all night.

She propped up her heavy body and looked around the room.

There was no one there. She laughed at herself secretly, she had driven them away, but she still wanted them to come find her.

Meng Yin shook her head, feeling as if the sky was falling apart and the earth was cracking in her head, with a severe headache.

"Is it because I fell asleep last night?" she murmured to herself, only then realizing that her voice was hoarse.

She got up, poured herself a glass of water, and recovered a little.

"Seems to be sick..." She sighed. After what she said to Gu Ling yesterday, he shouldn't come to see her, right?

Meng Yin slapped his temples with his palms, trying not to think too much.

She washed up and went out to have breakfast with the three of them.

At the dinner table, Xia Nian immediately noticed that something was wrong with her.

Meng Yin drooped his eyelids, sniffed from time to time, and looked listless.

"Yinyin, are you sick?" Xia Nian asked.

Meng Yin nodded, "I think I have a cold."

Xia Nian reached out and touched her forehead, looking worried: "I'll ask Taozi to prescribe some medicine for you later."

Meng Yin forced a smile: "Okay."

She only drank a few mouthfuls of porridge and felt so uncomfortable that she couldn't eat anything. She put down the bowl and went straight back to the house.

Meng Yin sat on the floor, buried her head in her knees, and her tears could no longer be controlled.

She began to scold herself in her heart. It was she who made this decision. Why should she be sad?

Meng Yin stood up and walked to the dressing table. Looking at her pale face, she was shocked.

"Hey, I lost a man, why did I become like this?" Meng Yin smiled miserably, but the tears in the corners of her eyes revealed her true thoughts.

But...Gu Ling is not an ordinary man.

She glanced at the dazzling array of accessories on the table, most of which were bought for her by Gu Ling.

She opened the drawer again, and inside were the silver notes and tokens that Gu Ling had given her.

She took out the token and gently stroked the pattern on it with her fingers.

"Gu Ling, Gu Ling, we are not destined to be together in this life." She whispered softly, tears falling onto the token.