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"Then you now..." Song Xu hesitated, unable to finish his sentence.

"It's nothing, you can go back now." Lu Bozhou's voice was as indifferent as ever.

But Song Xu didn't know if it was just his imagination, but he could inexplicably hear something different in that voice.

It's like... a wild beast that's had its fill.

In the animal kingdom, large felines, after hunting and feasting, lazily lie on the ground sunbathing and licking their paws.

That's just how I feel.

Song Xu: "...And what about her?"

Song Xu tried her best to keep her gaze away from Lu Bozhou's arms.

I had already glanced at it briefly when I came in.

The woman, slender and delicate, nestled in Lu Bozhou's arms, her clothes disheveled.

The lips are red and swollen.

Her fair neck, behind her ears, and even her wrists...

They all have hickeys.

It's not hard to imagine what it would be like under the clothes.

Given the current situation...

This was Lu Bozhou's woman, her clothes disheveled. Song Xu naturally couldn't stare at her.

But seeing that Jiang Mian's condition didn't seem good, his professional ethics as a doctor compelled him to ask her a question.

"Her?" Lu Bozhou glanced down at the person in his arms, his eyes narrowing slightly, a faint smile playing on his lips. "It's alright, don't worry about it. Let's go."

"Alright then." Song Xu sighed softly and left through the entrance.

Before driving away from the mansion, Song Xu thought about the scene he had seen earlier, as well as Lu Bozhou's expression and demeanor.

Although there weren't many clues, Song Xu had a strange feeling that the situation was about to change.

Everything is about to change.

Jiang Mian didn't know how long she had slept.

In her dream, she watched with lucidity how her former self gradually succumbed to depravity.

It seems that only from an outsider's perspective can one see more clearly how pathetic and ridiculous one was in the past.

I don't know how long I slept.

What woke Jiang Mian was a wave of soreness, screaming through her limbs and bones.

She slowly opened her eyes and saw the scene before her.

I'm back in my room.

No longer that dimly lit garage...

But as soon as I close my eyes, those scenes and the temperature in the garage seem to appear vividly clear.

Jiang Mian bit her lip, and then felt a sharp pain in her lips!

While in the garage, her lips had already been broken by the man's intense kisses.

Jiang Mian frowned slightly, propped herself up to sit up, and felt the pervasive soreness all over her body!

Even more turbulent.

She struggled to get up and off the bed.

She carefully made her way to the bathroom, her whole body tense, afraid of running into Lu Bozhou.

I decided to go to the bathroom in the small stone room.

Looking at the childlike decor in the little stone's room and bathroom.

Looking at myself in the mirror again... I felt utterly pathetic.

There were hickeys on her neck, and even behind her ears!

Swollen lips, and under the clothes, on the chest, back, everywhere...

She had been Lu Bozhou's wife for three years and knew his style in bed very well.

That's just how he is.

Despite appearing indifferent, aloof, and abstinent on the surface, she's actually quite wild in bed.

At this moment, Jiang Mian felt somewhat ashamed.

She tugged at her collar and buttoned it up tightly.

Little Stone hasn't returned yet.

But she doesn't know when the child will come back, or if he will suddenly return.

She absolutely cannot let her child see her like this.

Jiang Mian hurriedly left the house, initially worried that she might run into Lu Bozhou.

Or perhaps you'll run into bodyguards.

But none of that happened; the bodyguards should still be at the Lu family's old residence guarding Lu Chaochi.

Jiang Mian left the mansion without incident.

As she walked from the mansion to the bus stop, she felt as if her legs were no longer her own.

It felt as heavy as lead, yet as soft as cotton soaked in water!

I got on the bus.

She finally let out a long sigh of relief.

My gaze drifted out the car window, wandering quite far.

For a moment, Jiang Mian didn't even know where she should go.

I got off at the station closest to Luocheng No.1 Middle School.

After getting off the bus, Jiang Mian felt that something was amiss.

In this state... should I go find Jiang Feng?

She looked at herself through the glass of a roadside shop.

I've decided not to go looking for Jiang Feng.

Unexpectedly, at that moment, the phone rang.

Jiang Mian answered the phone and heard an unfamiliar female voice on the other end, which sounded somewhat tentative.

He asked, "Are you a family member of Jiang Feng?"

Jiang Mian was taken aback. "I'm his sister. Who are you?"

"Oh, hello, I'm Jiang Feng's homeroom teacher, my surname is Xiang."

"Hello, Teacher! My name is Jiang Mian." Jiang Mian was a little nervous. "Is...is something wrong with Jiang Feng again?"

Jiang Mian was already somewhat frightened by the bullying incident that happened to Jiang Feng last time.

I was afraid he would experience something like that again at school.

“Miss Jiang, it’s like this…” Teacher Xiang hesitated for a moment, “I’m very sorry about what happened to Jiang Feng last time. As his teacher and homeroom teacher, I failed to notice his abnormality in time and failed to handle the matter properly.”

"Ah, it's alright." Jiang Mian couldn't bring herself to say it was nothing.

She also knew that under the pressure of Xue Ze's family background, poor students like Jiang Feng could often... do whatever they wanted.

I thought that was all the teacher wanted to say.

But when I spoke to the teacher again, it was about something else entirely.

"Miss Jiang, it's like this, Jiang Feng has excellent grades, great talent, and a very good chance of getting into a top university. He is currently a key student being cultivated by the school."

As he spoke to the teacher, he changed the subject, "So the school doesn't want anything to affect his studies."

Jiang Mian was stunned for a moment, "So what's affecting his studies..."

When Jiang Mian said this, she paused for a moment, then suddenly realized what she meant.

What else could it be?

What else could possibly affect their studies but their troublesome father?

"...Is that my father?" Jiang Mian asked.

Teacher Xiang sighed softly, "Miss Jiang, I know that we can't choose our parents, but it's really not right for him to keep badmouthing Jiang Feng to other students at the school gate like this."

"Jiang Feng finally escaped from one instance of bullying; if he were to be ostracized by other classmates because of this..."

The teacher's voice was filled with helplessness, "Ms. Jiang, the school will intervene in matters of bullying, but isolation..."

He hesitated for a moment, but then continued speaking to the teacher.

"Who students choose to befriend and associate with is their own business, and even the school can't interfere. I'm worried that this will affect Jiang Feng's future studies."

Jiang Mian took a deep breath; she fully understood Teacher Xiang's concerns.

Although Jiang Mian was aware that the teacher might bring this up, it was very likely that Jiang Da's lingering spirit was also affecting the school and other students.

But no matter what, there was genuine concern for Jiang Feng in those words.

"Thank you, Teacher Xiang. I will find a way to handle this matter."