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This apartment complex is considered the best in the area, with excellent security, so there's no need to worry about anyone from the Su family coming in casually.

Pei Zhili took Su Cheng to the top floor. "This room and the rooftop are all yours. Don't you like glass greenhouses? We can make one for you."

"Really?" Su Cheng looked at him gratefully, "Pei Zhili, thank you."

"No need." Pei Zhili led her inside. "See if you need anything else, or if you want a certain style, we can arrange it."

The current style is French cream style, which Su Cheng likes very much. After all, it is much better than the environment at home.

The light here is very good, and the brilliant sunset shines through the huge floor-to-ceiling glass windows. In the distance is the blue sea, which makes people feel relaxed and happy. Compared with the cramped and dim little room in her home, the moss-covered wall of the neighbor's house outside the window is like a world of difference.

Su Cheng shook his head. "No, that's all. I like it very much."

"I'm glad you like it." Pei Zhili took out his cell phone to check the time and said to her, "Then you can stay here. I have something to do and need to leave first."

Su Cheng was startled. "Are you leaving now?"

"Anything else?"

Meeting his indifferent gaze, Su Cheng felt a pang of repression in her heart. She bit her lip and said a little embarrassedly, "I was planning to cook you a meal myself as a thank you, but you're leaving so soon. These days... I specially learned a dish that you like, and I wanted to make it for you to try."

She had originally thought that if she went with him to the nearby supermarket to buy groceries, cooked him a meal, and let him stay there longer, their relationship would probably grow stronger.

However, he was leaving so soon, disrupting her plans.

Pei Zhili was a little surprised. She seemed to be much more proactive than before, but he no longer needed such initiative.

His heart now had a real place to rest. As for Su Cheng, he had realized that they were just mutually beneficial. He would compensate her. After all, she had been living in humiliation because of him over the past few years, and now he let go.

Let her be free and be with the boy she likes instead of continuing to be tied to someone she doesn't like.

Thinking of this, Pei Zhili felt a little depressed and said perfunctorily: "Next time."

"But..." Su Cheng hesitated to speak.

Pei Zhili turned his head to look at her, "What's wrong?"

Su Cheng looked at the handsome face in front of him, took a deep breath, and mustered up the courage to say, "This house is too big, I'm a little scared to live alone. Can you...can you come over and keep me company more often?"

After saying that, she quickly looked away, her fair face flushed, and her hands nervously twisted the corners of her clothes.

"..." Pei Zhili froze, suspecting that he was hallucinating. Was this something she would say to him?

If it was said to Lu Yuanze, there would be nothing wrong with it.

What I said to him was really... quite fake.

Pei Zhili suddenly became a little irritated, "If it really doesn't work, you can ask Lu Yuanze to come and accompany you."

what? !

Su Cheng never expected him to say that.

He was actually willing to let Lu Yuanze come and accompany her. Didn't he not even allow her to say a word to Lu Yuanze before?

Could it be that his mind is really no longer on her?

But, who did it transfer to? It couldn't be his stepmother!

Seeing that Pei Zhili was about to leave, Su Cheng called him again, "Pei Zhili, wait a minute!"

Pei Zhili stopped and looked at her in surprise.

Su Cheng didn't know where he got the courage from, he ran up and hugged him, burying his head in his chest, "Don't leave, okay? I don't want Lu Yuanze to accompany me. I said I will break up with him completely, don't you believe me?"

Pei Zhili was completely stunned. After being with Su Cheng for so many years, this was the first time she took the initiative to throw herself into his arms. In the past, if he wanted to hold her hand, he would have killed her.

So, what is she doing now?

Pei Zhili came back to his senses, stretched out his hand and pried open her fingers. In her stunned eyes, he said calmly, "I really have something to do."

"Pei Zhili, are you in love with another girl? If I say now that I no longer like Lu Yuanze and I like you, will you believe me?"

As Su Cheng spoke, she reached out and grabbed the corner of his clothes. Her eyes were red and pitiful, with tears welling up in her eyes. She was about to cry.

Like him?!

Pei Zhili once again suspected that he was hallucinating. Su Cheng kept saying shocking things today, which made him a little unable to digest for a while.

Su Cheng took two steps closer to him, standing very close to him. She looked into his eyes and choked up, saying, "Pei Zhili, I don't know when it started, but I began to care about you so much. I didn't know my feelings before, and I thought you were overbearing and authoritarian, and I wanted to get rid of you. But now, when you ignore me, I find that I am not used to it. My mind is full of you... I don't think about Lu Yuanze at all."

As she spoke, tears began to fall from her eyes, sliding down her fair and beautiful face. "I'm afraid you'll ignore me in the future, and you'll be with another girl... I won't be able to accept it. At that moment, I suddenly realized that the person I like is you. As for Lu Yuanze, it's just a good impression, not love!"

Su Cheng said it all in one breath. She knew that if she didn't say this, Pei Zhili would really leave her.

She didn't want to lie to him, but she really had no choice!

She didn't want to live under the control of her family anymore, didn't want to be beaten and scolded day and night anymore, and wanted to take revenge on them... She wanted to let them know that it was wrong to look down on her and dislike her as a daughter!

She was the only one who was useful to the family. What was that useless brother who only skipped classes to play games all day long?!

Su Cheng has imagined countless times that her whole family would cry and admit their mistakes and beg for forgiveness from her, so in order to see such a scene, she must rely on Pei Zhili.

It was true that she liked Lu Yuanze. They were classmates in junior high school. At that time, Lu Yuanze was also the top student in the grade. He had a handsome appearance and a gentle temperament. He looked especially good when he smiled. Many girls liked him, and he had always been her admiration.

In order to catch up with him, she studied hard and eventually ranked second in the grade, which made him notice her and they began to have some interactions.

Unfortunately, she was entangled with Pei Zhili at the time, so she had to bury this girlish thought deep in her heart.

Until now, she still likes Lu Yuanze, and he likes her too. Before, it was Pei Zhili who obstructed her from being with Lu Yuanze, but now, she gave up on her own initiative.

Pei Zhili, I'm sorry, I really didn't want to lie to you...

Pei Zhili was still immersed in this sudden confession when suddenly a cell phone rang, breaking everything and bringing him back to his senses from his shock.