A new message popped up, this time from the security camera on the second-floor balcony.

When Qin Zhouyu saw Liang Qing pick up a bench from the balcony and smash the glass door, he couldn't help but feel a chill.

With glass shards flying everywhere, will Liang Qing be injured?

He immediately turned around and drove towards his grandfather's house. On the way, he thought of that photo, and the worried expression on his face turned into panic.

When he was a child, he took a family photo of Liang Qing from some documents and casually tucked it into a book.

Over time, he almost forgot about the photo until he took Liang Qing back to his grandfather's house for a few days, and Liang Qing was flipping through books when he suddenly remembered it.

He immediately snatched the book with the photo from Liang Qing's hand, afraid that she would find out.

At the time, Liang Qing thought he was doing the same thing as he had done at school, slipping sheet music into his book, so she didn't notice anything unusual. Instead, she teased him, "What have you been secretly writing this time?"

To avoid arousing her suspicion, he told a little lie: "It's not finished yet, you can't look at it now."

After listening to him, Liang made a few more jokes and then picked up another book.

Later, while she went downstairs to the garden, he secretly slipped the photo into an obscure book on the highest shelf.

Qin Zhouyu broke out in a cold sweat.

Was Liang Qing after that photo?

But how did she find out?

A whole host of questions popped into Qin Zhouyu's mind, but none of them could compare to this one: After Liang Qing finds out about this, will she still be with him?

He forced himself to stay awake and drove himself to his grandfather's house.

As soon as I got out of the car, my hands started shaking uncontrollably.

He pressed the keypad on the door with trembling hands, then ran straight upstairs to the second floor.

The study was a complete mess. Bookshelves were overturned on the floor, and books were scattered everywhere—inside the shelves, on the floor, on the windowsill, and on the table.

Some were open, some were closed, standing in all sorts of strange shapes and postures.

Liang Qing sat on the ground, looking down at the photo she was clutching tightly in her hand, her fingertips turning white.

Her exposed skin had numerous cuts, large and small, from glass.

The wounds weren't deep, but there were many of them, some of which bled, creating a stark contrast with her fair skin.

Qin Zhouyu felt as if his blood had frozen in an instant. He practically slid to her side, looking at her wounds with heartache, his voice trembling as he asked, "Xiao Qing, does it hurt?"

Liang Qing ignored him, still staring blankly at the photo in her hand.

Qin Zhouyu's heart sank when he saw the photo. Her unusual behavior meant that she already knew about that matter.

But he didn't have time to think about those things now; all he could see were Liang Qing's wounds. He gently advised, "Qing, shall we apply the medicine first?"

He gently grasped her arm, intending to help her up, but Liang Qing pushed him away the moment he touched her.

Qin Zhouyu was half-squatting on the ground when she pushed him so hard that he fell to the ground.

His foot bumped against a few books, causing a slight pain, but this pain was nothing compared to the agony in his heart.

Liang Qing pushed him away. Did she really not want him anymore after finding out about this?

He looked at Liang Qing in a panic. Liang Qing had already stood up. She looked down at him with full of resentment in her eyes. She threw the photo at his face without any mercy.

"Someone told me you knew from the beginning, and I didn't believe it, but you really slapped me in the face!"

The photo slid down Qin Zhouyu's face and fell to the ground. Qin Zhouyu stood up and hurriedly tried to grab Liang Qing's hand, but she dodged him again and said sharply, "Don't touch me!"

Qin Zhouyu's hand hovered in mid-air, looking rather helpless. He said to Liang Qing in a panic, "Xiao Qing, let me explain."

"Explain? Explain what?" Liang Qing sneered, her eyes burning with hatred and rage. "You're really something! This is the worst I've ever been fooled like this in my life!"

Her hateful gaze pierced Qin Zhouyu, causing a sharp pain in his heart. His eyes instantly reddened, making him look somewhat pitiful. "Xiao Qing, I didn't mean to lie to you. I just didn't want you to be sad because of this."

Liang Qing didn't believe his explanation and scoffed, "Is that so? Isn't it to get revenge on me?"

Qin Zhouyu was stunned. How could he possibly want to take revenge on Liang Qing?

Even in his angries, he only wanted to take revenge on Kang Ruoxi and Qin Xiaojing, and never thought of hurting Liang Qing.

She was in the same situation as him, how could he possibly bring himself to hurt her?

"Xiao Qing, how could I possibly seek revenge against you? Do you think I approached you because of that incident?"

"Otherwise what?" Liang Qing seemed to have already believed the answer, and said with great certainty, "Otherwise how do you explain that you knew my identity and still approached me?"

“Because I love you,” Qin Zhouyu said, his eyes brimming with tears, as he took her hand and looked at her intently, as if he could convey his heartfelt words to her. “I really love you.”

At first, Qin Zhouyu did want to stay away from Liang Qing, so after the music room incident, he tried every means to avoid contact with her.

But on his birthday, when he saw Liang Qing standing in the rain, an indescribable emotion welled up inside him. Later, he realized that it was heartache.

He impulsively held an umbrella over her and escorted her back to school.

Later, she played a violin version of Happy Birthday for him. Watching her focused expression in the candlelight, his heart beat like the musical notes.

The moment he blew out the candle, he knew he had fallen in love with her.

Because the wish he made that day wasn't about himself, nor about Bo Jiangdai.

Instead, I hope Liang Qing will always be happy.

But how could he possibly like her?

She is Kang Ruoxi's daughter, and he is Qin Xiaojing's son.

If he wants to be with her, how difficult will their relationship be?

He couldn't let Liang Qing know that her mother was still alive, nor could he let Kang Ruoxi and Qin Xiaojing know about his relationship with Liang Qing.

He struggled countless times in this relationship, but in the end he still gave up.

No matter how much reason urged him to stay away from Liang Qing, his reason would vanish without a trace the moment he saw Liang Qing.

Whenever she appeared, he couldn't help but want to look at her and talk to her.

Later, this relationship developed to the point where even if she didn't appear, reason couldn't prevail.

When she doesn't show up, he starts to want to see her.

In order to see her more often, he applied for accommodation because he remembered that she had said in the music room that she would take him out to eat.

He successfully persuaded Qin Xiaojing to stay at his place, but he couldn't find an opportunity to tell Liang Qing about it.

He was afraid that she would discover his feelings and that she would distance herself from him because of it.

As a result, by sheer chance, Xue Fanxing told her about it, and he successfully got to have more contact with her.

The more he understood her, the more he liked her.

But at the same time, he was also afraid that she didn't like him.

He was both happy and sad, and sometimes these alternating emotions tormented him to the point of madness.

Sometimes, when he was in a high mood, he thought about confessing his feelings to her and even began to imagine their wonderful future together.

But the thought that she might also reject him instantly made him feel depressed, and this possibility caused him great pain.

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like