When they met again, the boss' eyes turned red, kissed her and said sweet words to her

Pei Muchuan looked at Ye Qingrou's stunned expression and said, "Her name is Bai Qiong, and she and Cheng Yu are a couple."

It was obvious that he was the one who found the person.

"Oh." Ye Qingrou pulled her wrist free from his grasp and said calmly, "Your love rival."

Pei Muchuan pursed his lips and his face darkened.

"You... who are you! What nonsense are you talking about!" Cheng's mother said angrily in a sharp voice.

"Auntie, I'm Xiao Qiong, don't you recognize me?"

Bai Qiong slowly approached. The sun had set and her face was shrouded in shadow. Her expression was a little distorted and looked creepy.

"Back then, I accompanied Xiao Yu home to visit you..."

They mustered up the courage to confess their relationship. On the surface, Cheng's parents were very enthusiastic, but secretly they sent people to investigate Bai Qiong. After discovering that her family was of average financial status, they immediately expressed their disapproval. Cheng's mother even threatened to commit suicide to force them to break up.

Cheng Yu relented and agreed to break up. Cheng's parents then forced her to go on a blind date with a rich boy, which made her miserable. Later, she met Pei Muchuan in Country F and started dating him to deal with her parents.

Cheng Yu thought that a wealthy young man like Pei Muchuan, who was a top-notch person, would just pursue girls for fun and not take it seriously. Unexpectedly, Pei Muchuan dated her for a year and even proposed to get engaged to her.

Cheng Yu panicked, feeling guilty and knowing she wasn't worthy of Pei Muchuan's sincerity. Meanwhile, Cheng's parents continued to pressure her to marry him. They were determined to curry favor with a son-in-law like Pei Muchuan, a rare talent.

Cheng Yu and Bai Qiong had a deep relationship and they had been in contact secretly for the past year. When Cheng Yu had a breakdown, he cried to Bai Qiong.

then……

At that banquet, Bai Qiong hid it from Cheng Yu and sneaked in disguised as a part-time waiter. By chance, Ye Qingrou became the unlucky person chosen by her, and that incident happened with Pei Muchuan.

Pei Muchuan immediately went to his girlfriend Cheng Yu to explain, but Cheng Yu was relieved and took the opportunity to break up.

When Cheng's parents found out, they threatened to commit suicide and forced Cheng Yu to take Pei Muchuan back.

Cheng Yu was in great pain, but she was unwilling to deceive Pei Muchuan's feelings anymore. After struggling for a long time, she finally realized that her parents were just using her as a tool to climb up the social ladder. So she made a promise with Bai Qiong to escape and live abroad together...

The day they went to the airport happened to be Pei Muchuan's wedding day.

The two were excited and looking forward to the new life that was about to begin.

However, while waiting for the flight, Bai Qiong let slip that it was she who was behind what happened between Pei Muchuan and Ye Qingrou that night.

Cheng Yu was a kind-hearted girl. After being shocked, she immediately decided to call Pei Muchuan, confess everything and apologize.

She felt that Ye Qingrou was too innocent to be dragged into the whole thing for no reason. Why should a girl she didn't even know pay the price for their new life?

But she couldn't get through to Pei Muchuan on the phone, so she decided to go to his house in person to explain. She hurriedly took a taxi to leave the airport... but had a car accident on the way.

"At that time, Xiao Yu and I had planned everything. We rented a small house abroad and raised a white kitten and a black puppy. She played the piano and I composed music. She painted and I made her own paints. We held hands and went to bask in the sun, get caught in the rain, and watch the sunset at the beach..."

Bai Qiong's gray eyes flashed with tenderness, and then were covered with deep sorrow: "We only have half an hour left to board the plane."

"My little fish was a silly girl. She was afraid of making others sad and afraid of owing others, so she died 30 minutes before she was about to embrace happiness."

Bai Qiong tried her best to restrain herself but still choked up, tears rolling down her red eyes.

"You! You are the murderer who killed my daughter! How dare you come back?" Cheng's father and mother glared at her with gritted teeth, looking very righteous.

"Ah."

Bai Qiong wiped the corners of her eyes, feeling both hatred and contempt. "You guys claim everyone you arrest is Xiao Yu's murderer. Do you think you can shift the blame onto others this way?"

"Actually, you're the murderers! You're a pair of heartless blood-sucking worms! You didn't treat Xiao Yu as a living person, but only as a tool for you to make money. You forced her to go on blind dates with old men, sleazy men, sick men... As long as they had money, you were willing to let her marry them!"

"Even after she passed away, you still used her to deceive Mr. Pei and make money! How sad must she be watching all this from underground? She won't be able to rest in peace!"

There wasn't a trace of distress or guilt on the faces of Cheng's parents, only anger and shame. Cheng's father even rushed forward and wanted to kick Bai Qiong!

However, Pei Muchuan took a step forward and kicked him to the ground.

"Ouch! Ouch!" Father Cheng collapsed on the ground and cried out: "My bones are broken, I can't breathe..."

"Old man, are you okay?" Cheng's mother pretended to support him and glared at Pei Muchuan threateningly. "My old Cheng is already in poor health, and you dare to hit him! His life is definitely in danger. I'm going to call the police. You'll have to bear the consequences!"

Over the years, Cheng's parents often acted pitifully in front of Pei Muchuan, and their attitude was extremely good, but now that their true colors have been exposed, they have turned against them.

Cheng's mother pretended to take out her cell phone to call the police.

Pei Muchuan kicked her phone away and said sullenly, "If you want to call the police, get out of here and report it."

Then he called the bodyguards forward and said, "Take off their clothes and throw them out. Don't let them take even a leaf from here."

The Cheng family has been in decline for a long time.

Everything in Shanshui Manor belongs to Pei Muchuan. They have been eating and drinking from him and cheating him for so many years.

Cheng's parents even shouted, "You, how dare you! This is our home!"

The level of shamelessness made Ye Qingrou frown.

However, Pei Muchuan had been a leader in the business world for many years and had seen many shameless people. He crossed his arms and said calmly, "I advise you to get out of here right away."

"You've lied to me for so many years, and I haven't chopped you up and fed you to the dogs. This is the limit of my patience."

Cheng's parents were stripped down to their underwear and thrown into a garbage recycling station outside the manor.

Pei Muchuan had a gloomy face. He glanced at Ye Qingrou cautiously, then frowned at Bai Qiong.

Bai Qiong took a deep breath, then suddenly walked up to Ye Qingrou, knelt on both knees, banged his head heavily on the ground, and said solemnly: "I selfishly dragged you into this back then. You are innocent. I'm sorry."

Ye Qingrou's eyes were cold and calm, like stagnant water.

"Back then, I didn't agree with Xiao Yu going back to see you. I had a fight with her and boarded a plane to leave the country. Sometimes I regret doing that wrong thing to you, sometimes I regret letting the cat out of the bag, and even more I regret not going back with her. I wish I had died with her..."

Bai Qiong couldn't control her emotions and burst into tears: "I have been hiding abroad for these years. I am not afraid of death, but I dare not die because I don't have the face to go down and see her..."

Ye Qingrou looked at her skinny body. Her hands were shaking, probably a side effect of excessive drinking. And her face, covered in large scars, seemed like the result of an injury that had been left untreated and aggravated...

"Get up."

Ye Qingrou neither said forgiveness nor expressed hatred.

Bai Qiong was living, but it was more painful than death. How could he deal with such a pitiful person who tortured himself to the point of being half-human and half-ghost?

So be it. What else can be changed?

Ye Qingrou rubbed the sore corners of her eyes, turned around and slowly walked out of Shanshui Manor.

"drop!"

Car horns honked.

She turned around and saw Pei Muchuan sitting down from the driver's seat and slamming the car door.

In the evening, the sky in the distance is filled with colorful clouds and diffuses soft orange and yellow light.

Pei Muchuan was wearing a white shirt and black trousers. Against this background, his tall figure approached her step by step.

There is a moment of intersection between time and space.

Ye Qingrou watched him approach in a daze and calmed herself down.

"I'll take you back." Pei Muchuan said.

"I'll call a taxi myself."

As soon as Ye Qingrou finished speaking, he picked her up horizontally.

Pei Muchuan stuffed her into the passenger seat, quickly walked to the driver's seat, and locked the car doors and windows.

He turned around and picked up the painting from the back seat of the car, handed it to her, and stared at her with sharp eyes: "When did you draw this painting?"