[GB] Boss Ruan, your husband doesn't want you anymore.

Huo Jingmo lowered his head, his eyes filled with an inscrutable emotion, and said, "If I did something to wrong you, would you forgive me?"

Ruan Qian'an said coldly and quickly, even somewhat urgently: "No."

Huo Jingmo smiled faintly and said in a low voice, "Fortunately, fortunately I didn't do it."

But Ruan Qian'an did hear it and sneered, "Never done it before?" Her voice was very soft, as if she hadn't made a sound.

This reminded Ruan Qian'an of her past life, when she strangled Huo Jingmo.

She arrived at the Huo family in a red dress. Huo Jingmo's expression changed from annoyance to panic, and she even remembered the details of his death clearly.

Finally, Huo Jingmo's lips formed the words: "No..."

What? She had always thought that sentence meant "Don't kill me," but today it seems to mean something else entirely.

The car was parked in a very secluded spot, but the surrounding area was dilapidated, with rats scurrying about.

After walking along a winding path, we arrived at a room. The room was completely empty except for a small window, which was sealed shut with cement, so there was no light at all.

When the room door was opened, Zheng Qing was so blinded by the sunlight that she shielded her eyes with her arm.

Zheng Qing was unharmed, but her face was extremely pale. She was covering her head as if she were in great pain, and her clean clothes looked as if they had been hastily put on.

The moment Zheng Qing saw Huo Jingmo, it was as if she had seen a savior. She rushed over and tried to grab him.

But he was blocked by someone.

Ruan Qian'an stood between the two and kicked Zheng Qing aside, preventing her from taking another step forward.

Zheng Qing trembled when she saw Ruan Qian'an and didn't dare to say a word.

Huo Jingmo frowned and looked at Zheng Qing, who seemed off, and asked, "What's wrong with her?"

"Isn't it perfectly intact?" Ruan Qian'an said listlessly.

Huo Jingmo sighed. Of course he knew that Zheng Qing couldn't possibly be completely unharmed in her current state, so he said, "Let her go. She's suffered enough already."

Ruan Qian'an turned around, looking down at Huo Jingmo and said, "Are you pleading for her? Why are you pleading for her? Look at what she has done!"

Huo Jingmo said unhappily, "Don't be unreasonable. You know that's not what I meant. If you keep acting like this, I can't protect you. Do you know that the Zheng family, together with several other powerful families, has been putting pressure on you?"

"And the Huo family is now playing it safe, ignoring me, this cripple." Her tone was rather innocent.

Ruan Qian'an's excitement turned into a smile: "I never thought that President Huo would have a day when he would play the victim."

Then he added, "Letting her go isn't out of the question, but what if she causes trouble?"

Ruan Qian'an looked at Huo Jingmo with a smile, wondering what he would say.

Huo Jingmo: "Her father said that as long as she is spared, everything can be discussed."

"Here's what I'll do: I'll have her father put her under house arrest and make sure she never shows her face again."

Upon hearing this, Zheng Qing looked up as if she had seen hope and nodded quickly, saying in a rough voice, "I won't do anything bad, never. I will never step out of the house again."

Ruan Qian'an: "Huo Jingmo, you're always so soft-hearted towards others, but why are you so cruel to me?"

Huo Jingmo moved his lips, unsure of what to say.

The silence inside the car was almost eerily quiet.

Zheng Qing stayed close to Huo Jingmo. To her, Huo Jingmo was now her salvation, the hero who had rescued her from the clutches of the devil.

Ruan Qian'an, sitting in the passenger seat, seemed to have found some amusement, glancing at Zheng Qing every now and then, which startled Zheng Qing, causing her to remain tense.

Huo Jingmo, with his eyes lowered, seemed oblivious to the interaction between the two, lost in thought.

After returning to the hospital, Ruan Qingyu stayed there obediently, which made Ruan Qian'an very gratified.

Huo Jingmo said to Ruan Qian'an, "I'm taking her with me."

Ruan Qian'an: "Mm."

Ruan Qingyu said somewhat embarrassedly, "Ruan Ming came when you left just now."

Ruan Qian'an: "What's he doing here?"

Ruan Qingyu: "He said he wanted to take me away, but he thought you had ulterior motives and wanted to take me away. However, I had the people outside throw him out."

Ruan Qian'an nodded and said, "Well done."

After learning that Ruan Ming had done nothing even though he knew she was in danger, and had only used her as an excuse to openly insult and humiliate Ruan Qian'an, Ruan Qingyu decided to stay away from him.

Ruan Qingyu asked with some doubt, "With your abilities, why did you agree to marry Huo Jingmo? You can still back out now."

Ruan Qian'an: "There's no going back now, we've already gotten our marriage certificate."

Ruan Qingyu: "???!"

"You two haven't even had an engagement ceremony, have you?! Who did you tell when you got your marriage certificate?! ...

Ruan Qingyu was hit with a ton of blows. Didn't she say before that she was her sister? But she didn't even tell her this?

Ruan Qian'an said indifferently, "Is there any need to tell you?"

Ruan Qingyu's cheeks twitched: "This is truly an unbelievable development. Since you like cripples, I have nothing more to say."

Just as Ruan Qian'an was about to speak, she sensed something was wrong inside the cabinet.

She gestured for Ruan Qingyu to be quiet, then moved closer to the cabinet, unaware of Ruan Qingyu's eagerness to stop her.

Ruan Qingyu tried to stop her, but it was too late.

Ruan Qian'an opened the cabinet and found that the person inside was none other than Xiao Yun.

Seeing that he had been discovered, Xiao Yun walked out of the closet with an arrogant air and said to Ruan Qingyu, "I already said there's no need to hide from her. I don't understand why you're so afraid of her."

She tilted her head back and said disdainfully, "She even kowtowed to me. She's just someone who wants to climb the social ladder. It would be shameful for me to avoid her."

Upon hearing his words, Ruan Qingyu lowered her head, wanting to admit her mistake.

Ruan Qian'an then raised her leg and kicked him, causing him to kneel straight down on the ground.

Straight and stiff, his knee made intimate contact with the ground with a thud.

It hurts so much.

The pain caused Xiao Yun's head, which had been tilted back, to bend instantly.

Yes, when she was not fully conscious before, she had begged this person to raise money for her mother's medical expenses, but what did this person do?

Previous life

The rain that day was heavy, but it was nothing compared to the grief and indignation in Ruan Qian'an's heart. Her mind was a blur, and her knees ached. She didn't know how long she had been kneeling there. The blood on her forehead was washed away, leaving traces in her eyes, marks left from when she had begged for help.

The door opened, and a person came out, with a black umbrella covering most of Ruan Qian'an's view.

When Ruan Qian'an saw someone come out, he immediately knelt down and went forward, grabbing the person's trouser leg and pleading bitterly.

"I'm sorry, it's all my fault. Please, please save my mother, please!"

Ruan Qian'an looked up at the person she knew so well, her boyfriend Xiao Yun.

His eyes were filled with disgust and impatience as he kicked Ruan Qian'an away: "Even at a time like this, you still come to disgust me."

Ruan Qian'an was kicked to the ground. She quickly got up and kowtowed to him, pleading, "Please, please, I won't ask you to marry me anymore. Please save my mother."

Ruan Qian'an kept kowtowing, not caring about how pathetic she looked, and the blood that had been washed away started to gushed out again.

The man stopped and turned back, as if he found it amusing.

He squatted down and said to her, "I never imagined that the once spoiled and domineering Miss Ruan would be so humble and begging for help."

After saying that, he laughed loudly, then stopped laughing and said viciously to Ruan Qian'an, "If it weren't for you, how could Fei'er and I have separated! Why would I help you? I'd rather you suffer a fate worse than death!"

Ruan Qian'an was taken aback for a moment upon hearing these words. Wasn't he the one who pursued her first? Why was he saying this? But she couldn't care less about anything else now: "It's all my fault. Please forgive me and lend me 500,000 yuan. Just 500,000 yuan. Please, I really beg you."

Xiao Yun burst out laughing, "Unbelievable! Unbelievable! Miss Ruan would actually kowtow and beg for forgiveness here for 500,000!"

Then, with a playful tone, he said, "I can give it to you, but that depends on your sincerity." He moved his gaze downwards and gave Ruan Qian'an's soaked clothes a malicious look.

Ruan Qian'an shivered from the cold. After watching the people gradually disappear into the distance, she stood up and followed them blankly.

In the distance, shrouded in the rain, a low-key yet luxurious car was parked.

"Mr. Huo, should we go and stop them?"

With an icy expression on his handsome face, Huo Jingmo said to the person in front of him, "No need, let's go."

Ruan Qian'an got into Xiao Yun's car. Xiao Yun looked at Ruan Qian'an who had followed him, his eyes filled with undisguised smugness.

He sneered, "Some people say you're a spoiled young lady who can't even understand what they're saying. Now it seems you're not. You really are a lowly bitch."

He pinched Ruan Qian'an's face, his hand gradually moving downwards.

Xiao Yun placed a hand on Ruan Qian'an's leg. Ruan Qian'an nodded blankly, her mind filled with thoughts of her mother lying in the hospital. She did not resist.

Before the Ruan family fell, who would dare to treat the eldest daughter of the Ruan family like this? But when she learned that she was the fake heiress who had been switched at birth, everything changed. She became the person she wanted to be with no matter what, even if it meant offending that person.

But at this moment, he was hurting himself the most. His father even kicked him and his mother out of the house. His mother couldn't bear the blow and fell ill.

He hadn't graduated and didn't even have the money to treat his mother's illness. When he couldn't afford it, the hospital cut off his mother's medication.

She couldn't bear to watch her mother die, she couldn't. She silently told herself, she must be strong, she must.

Ruan Qian'an gritted her teeth and trembled all over, but then she heard a muffled groan from the person next to her. The huge aura emanating from Ruan Qian'an made Xiao Yun unable to breathe.

Everyone in the car felt suffocated by Ruan Qian'an's aura.

The intense, powerful, and arrogant aura made it hard for everyone in the car to breathe. They could even smell the unique scent of the sea, but there was no sea here, surrounded by mountains. The aura was like a raging storm crashing down on them, and eventually, two people couldn't take it and fainted.

Ruan Qian'an's heart pounded, she gasped for breath, felt panicked, and her aura grew increasingly severe.

Xiao Yun, who was standing next to her, was foaming at the mouth. At that moment, there was a knock on the car door. In that instant, Ruan Qian'an woke up and immediately suppressed her aura.

If the car door hadn't been knocked on, Xiao Yun might have been suffocated by that aura.

Ruan Qian'an opened the car door.

The person who had just been talking to Huo Jingmo said to Ruan Qian'an, "Mr. Huo, please let me invite Miss Ruan."

He was a little confused when he saw the situation inside the car, but he quickly recovered and said, "Please, Miss Ruan."

Ruan Qian'an recognized this person; he was Huo Jingmo's assistant.

Ruan Qian'an got into Huo Jingmo's car. The man's long legs were crossed, and he was a sight to behold just by sitting there.

Ruan Qian'an's aura leaked out again, but this time she suppressed it very well.

His black hair and dark eyes exuded the aura of a superior. He merely glanced at Ruan Qian'an, and Ruan Qian'an unconsciously flinched. Indeed, even when she didn't know she was a fake heiress, she was afraid of this person, but she had utterly humiliated him.

Huo Jingmo gestured with his chin to indicate that he should start driving.

Ruan Qian'an swallowed hard and mustered her courage to say to him, "Could you... lend me 500,000?"

He said coldly, "Ruan Qian'an, you're delusional."

Ruan Qian'an grabbed Huo Jingmo's sleeve: "I beg you, please, just consider it, please consider it, for the sake of the past."

Huo Jingmo grabbed Ruan Qian'an by the neck: "You still dare to bring up things from the past."

Ruan Qian'an knew she had done something wrong to him, and could only awkwardly say, "I'm...I'm sorry."

Ruan Qian'an found it increasingly difficult to breathe and tried to struggle. Huo Jingmo released Ruan Qian'an, who gasped for breath and weakly protested, "I didn't mean to."

Huo Jingmo sneered, his aura growing increasingly oppressive. Seeing Ruan Qian'an's eyes reddened from crying, he felt a pang of unease.

"parking."

Huo Jingmo coldly said, "Get out of here."

The car drove away.

The driver asked with some reluctance, "Mr. Huo, isn't it a bit cruel to just leave Miss Ruan here like this, especially with such heavy rain?"

Sitting in the back seat, Huo Jingmo glared at the driver, and he immediately fell silent.

Ruan Qian'an picked up the umbrella that had been thrown out with her from the ground and opened it.

At least Huo Jingmo has some conscience.

She was just trying it out, and sure enough, why would he lend her money? Ruan Qian'an smiled sarcastically, realizing she was truly desperate and had to ask him for money.

She had humiliated him so much; it was already a favor that the arrogant man hadn't killed her.

The cell phone rings.

It was a call from the hospital, and Ruan Qian'an quickly answered it.

“Miss Ruan Qian’an, if we can’t pay for your mother’s medication soon, we will stop giving her the medication immediately.”

Ruan Qian'an pleaded, "Doctor, could you give me a few more days? I'll get the money right away."

"Miss Ruan, I'm sorry, I can't help you."

Before Ruan Qian'an could speak again, the phone went dead.

Helplessly, Ruan Qian'an said to her phone, which was already busy, "Please! Please give me a few more days."

Ruan Qian'an felt helpless. She slowly squatted down, her snow-white dress sticking to the dirt on the ground, as she wept silently along with her owner.

Ruan Qian'an snapped out of her reverie.

Honestly, I'm thinking of really bad things. Did I really live such a miserable and pathetic life during those two chaotic years?

She smiled wryly.