He broke his vows for her, and a tycoon descended to earth for love.

Those passionate words landed on her hesitant heart.

But it didn't hurt; it was burning.

The heat soothed all her unease, and then a sweet sensation welled up inside, almost overwhelming her.

She no longer had the strength to push him away.

He had no intention of letting her go, his thin lips pressed against her earlobe.

Her low voice carried that familiar, seductive charm, "Sisi, I've been here for three days. I knew you'd come to help me. I don't want you to repay my favor. You owe me, and this isn't enough to pay it back, is it?" As she spoke, she grabbed Sisi's hand and pressed it against her chin. The scar had faded considerably, but it was still clearly visible upon closer inspection. "I'm already disfigured, and it seems like you're the culprit. Shouldn't you compensate me?"

He always does this, always speaks to her in this tone, leaving her helpless and unable to resist.

They clearly had a fight just now, so why don't they feel like they had a fight at all now?

He clearly said he was flirting with other women before, so why is he hugging me now and saying he misses me?

Before she came, she had repeatedly told herself that she was only helping him to repay his favor, but why... why does everything seem to have gone off track now?

She clearly had so much to say, but his one sentence just now shattered all her thoughts, leaving her speechless...

Her mind was still a mess, but Siyi knew very well that she could breathe smoothly again, and the heart-wrenching feeling from those two days seemed to have disappeared all at once.

She didn't know why, and she didn't have time to delve into it at the moment. After all, this was a police station, and it seemed strange for them to always be in the same room like this.

Thinking of this, she still reached out and pushed him away. "Jiang Yan, go back and cooperate with the police to complete the formalities first. We can talk about anything else after we leave the police station."

"I have only one request." He raised his eyebrows, shamelessly pushing his luck, "I can cooperate, but after we get out, you have to take me in. I have nowhere else to go."

Siyi, of course, didn't believe his pitiful story. "Stop messing around, okay? You think you have nowhere to go? You probably own properties all over City A. Let me go first." Only then did she remember this place. She wondered if there were any surveillance cameras, since it was a police station. She looked around and saw only white walls with no cameras.

Jiang Yan saw through her thoughts and smiled gently, "Baby, don't worry, how could there be cameras where I am? You can answer my questions with peace of mind, no one else can hear you except me."

"Jiang Yanhui, can't you be serious for once? I'm not here to joke with you. Go and get the paperwork done first..."

The hot nail fell off. "Where did I do something inappropriate?"

He interrupted her innocently, “Every word I said was serious. In your eyes, am I just a good-for-nothing playboy? That day I seriously injured someone, so I planned to pay him a lot of money. But I had a falling out with my father, and he said he would cut ties with me. He froze all my cards, and now I’m truly penniless. I still have a few properties I bought before, which I plan to sell to pay the person I beat up. You just said we should take responsibility, right?”

Siyi listened to his earnest and serious manner, her delicate eyebrows furrowing involuntarily. She asked with a hint of doubt, "You... are you telling the truth?"

Why would I need to lie to you?

Siyi thought that his relationship with Jiang Jizhen was really not good, and there was also Jiang Yansen who was eyeing him covetously. She had seen all of this.

It's not impossible that he and Jiang Jizhen really had a fight and fell out, but... she actually had a question in her mind, she really wanted to ask, did Jiang Jizhen know where her mother was?

The question lingered in her throat several times, but she still couldn't bring herself to ask it.

Sometimes the most hurtful thing is not knowing nothing, but knowing everything.

She knew how terrified she was of hearing that answer—what if he said Jiang Jizhen really was with her mother?

No, it can't be, it definitely can't be...

She didn't want to know anything! She didn't want to endure those things.

"Let's go out and get all the paperwork done first." She calmed herself down, took a deep breath, and said, "We can talk about it after we leave the police station."

"I'll only go out to take care of it if you promise me. Otherwise, I'll just stay here. It's fine here anyway, and they won't let me starve to death."

Siyi had no choice but to grit her teeth and agree, "I promise you, you can go out and get the paperwork done first."

Jiang Yan raised his eyebrows and smiled easily, his eyes and brows full of his signature wickedness, but his tone was very unserious, "You are my lawyer, I will listen to whatever you say. Lawyer Ye, let's go and get the formalities done."

"Jiang Yan, when we go out, don't hug me, don't hold my hand, just follow behind me..."

"Why can't I hold you? Why can't I hold your hand? You're my woman, why can't I?"

"Who said you're my woman? What nonsense are you spouting! This is a police station. You may be shameless, but I have my pride. Let me go!"

"So what if it's the police station? So what if you're a lawyer? Who says a suspect can't have feelings for their lawyer? I'm going to hold your hand."

"Jiang Yan, come back!"

"If you keep making noise, I'll kiss you right in front of them, you believe me?"

In the middle of the night, there weren't many people in the hospital. The inpatient department had already closed its access gates, and the person on duty was dozing off at his desk when a hand suddenly reached out from the doorway and gently patted his back.

The middle-aged man on duty was startled and suddenly woke up, only to see a woman who looked to be in her forties standing behind him.

Even though it was late at night, she was wearing a pair of dark red sunglasses. However, even through the sunglasses, you could see that her features were delicate and her skin was very well-maintained, so she looked even more mature and charming.

Especially for a man his age, it was a refreshing sight.

"What...is there for you?"

The security guard on duty didn't mind being woken up from his sweet dream at all; instead, he smiled and asked the woman in front of him.

Guan Fengru smiled slightly, "I'm sorry, I know you don't allow family members to go in now, but my husband is inside, and I want to go in to see him. Could you make an exception?"

Upon hearing this, the security guard immediately shook his head. "No way! If the hospital administration finds out, I'll have my pay docked. No way!"

"Brother, here's some money, please take it and let me in. I really came to see my husband. I don't look like a bad person. If you're really worried, I'll leave my ID card here and I'll come back for it tomorrow. What do you think?" Guan Fengru said as she pulled out a wad of cash, which looked to be at least two thousand. The security guard on duty's eyes flashed, and he immediately smiled.

"Well... alright then, give me your ID card and I'll register you. But don't go through the front door now, go through the back door. The stairwell is locked. Here's my key, take it. Remember to lock the doors again when you go up. Tomorrow, bring this key to exchange for your ID card, okay?"

Seeing that she looked so gentle and delicate, he couldn't possibly be a bad person. The security guard, with his eyes glued to the thick wad of cash, didn't think about anything else. When Guan Fengru handed him her ID card, he immediately gave her the keys.

Guan Fengru took the keys, said thank you, and walked into the hospital without looking back.

Following the security guard's instructions, she walked up the stairs floor by floor, locking the doors at the entrances of the corridors on each floor. Ye Xiongming's ward was on the twelfth floor.

By the time she reached the twelfth floor, she was already panting heavily.

After locking the last door, she cautiously looked around the corridor. The nurses should be resting at the nurses' station, and the corridor was quiet at this time. She quickly put away the key and then walked briskly towards the end of the corridor. Soon she arrived at Ye Xiongming's ward.

Ye Zhenghao received a call from the police station this afternoon, saying that there was an important mission, so he had to rush to the police station.

He wasn't here at all. He originally wanted Siyi to come and take over for him, but then he thought that Siyi hadn't rested well these past few days, so he didn't call her. He just asked a nurse to keep an eye on things and to call him if anything happened.

So when Guan Fengru entered the ward, there was no one there. Ye Xiongming was lying on the bed, seemingly asleep. Only a dim light was on by the bedside, and the soft light shone on his face, making him look even thinner.

He used to be such a righteous person, but now he lies in bed, unable to even utter a single word.

Guan Fengru felt a lump in her throat and her eyes welled up with tears. She couldn't help but cover her lips with one hand, and it took her a long time to calm herself down. She gently closed the door to the ward before walking towards the bed.

Whether it was a telepathic connection or not, Ye Xiongming, who had his eyes tightly closed, suddenly opened them. He clearly saw the woman standing by the bed and blinked excitedly.

Guan Fengru knew he was awake. She slowly leaned down, reached out and took his hand, her voice a little hoarse, "I'm sorry, Xiongming."

Ye Xiongming's lips trembled as he struggled to utter a single sentence, "...Tell...tell me...how...how...she...is...already..."

Although he spoke haltingly and his pronunciation was unclear, Guan Fengru understood perfectly what he was asking. She held back her tears and choked out, "She's gone..."

Before he could finish speaking, Ye Xiongming suddenly became agitated, but he couldn't muster any strength. He was convulsing and breathing rapidly. He wanted to say something, but he just couldn't muster any breath.

Seeing this, Guan Fengru quickly reached out to help him catch his breath, and said in a low voice, "Xiongming, don't be like this, you can't get agitated, don't do anything else. Actually, we all know that she has had a very hard time these past years, and her passing may not be a bad thing. It's just that whenever I think about the pain she has endured all these years, I feel hatred! I really hate it that bad people can get away with it, while good people have to suffer like that..."

“Feng…Feng, Fengru…don’t…don’t worry about me anymore…you go…you go do it…” Ye Xiongming gripped Guan Fengru’s hand tightly, sweating profusely as he spoke, yet still managed to say, “…promise, promise me…don’t…don’t let…don’t let…Si…Si…Yi…know…you can’t…you can’t let…she…and…Jiang…Jiang…”

"Xiongming, stop talking."

Seeing his increasingly grim expression, Guan Fengru quickly stopped him. She knew what he was going to say, so she continued for him, "I know what you're going to say. You want me not to tell Siyi these things, right? I know. We've kept it from her for so many years. If I could, I wouldn't tell her either, to let her suffer such a blow. I also hope she can grow up happily and carefree. And about her and Jiang Yanhui... I'll handle it. Xiongming, you must take good care of yourself and not let anything else happen to you. If something happens to you, Siyi will definitely... I've almost finished preparing everything else, but... I'm just sorry."

As she finished speaking, her voice grew faint.

"Don't...don't say...you...are very good...very good...Feng...Fengru...you...you must take care..."

Guan Fengru's tears finally fell. "Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it, but when I think about what happened back then... Xiongming, I really decided to give up back then. Looking at you, Zhenghao, and Siyi, I felt that living our lives as we were was good enough. But when I found out that Siyi had gone back with Jiang Yan... I knew that our Guan family would eventually be entangled with the Jiang family. If I didn't resolve this, Siyi would be hurt in the future. I had no way out. She... she's gone. I can't let Siyi suffer even the slightest harm. This is my promise to her. I swore with my life at her grave that I would protect Siyi. I owe her so much in this life. This is the only thing I can do for her."

She paused, her eyes blurry with tears, looking at her husband on the bed, his face filled with pain and remorse, a hint of regret in his brow. She couldn't bear it any longer. Slowly, she took a ring from her pocket and slipped it onto his ring finger. There was already a ring on that finger—their wedding ring—but now, with another on, the two rings side-by-side on his finger, her voice choked with emotion, "This is her only possession, it should be left to you. I'm sorry…I'm so sorry…"

~

When the car pulled up to the parking lot of Siyi's apartment building, she was still a little dazed.

She felt like she was bewitched.

I just finished the formalities at the police station, so why did I obediently bring this "troublemaker" to my residence?

Jiang Yan got out of the car first. Seeing that she was still sitting in the driver's seat, unmoved and lost in thought, he walked around to the front of the car, put his hands on her car door, and smiled wickedly, "Baby, what are you thinking about? Are you thinking about how to make me feel good later?"

Siyi blushed after hearing what he said.

This man keeps bringing up his own issues; he's so annoying!

“Jiang Yan, if you keep talking so recklessly, you can sleep on the streets. I don’t care about you. Also, you heard what happened at the police station. You can’t run around now. I don’t know what the attitude of the person you injured is. I will go to see him tomorrow. If possible, I will ask him to settle out of court and compensate him for some of his losses.”

Jiang Yan chuckled, "Attorney Ye is really dedicated; so that's what you were thinking about."

"Stop being sarcastic and get out of my way!"

She opened the car door, bent down and got out, slammed the door shut with a bang, then pressed the sensor. The car beeped twice and locked itself. Standing opposite him, she said seriously, "Jiang Yanhui, let me tell you first, you'll stay here tonight. But my apartment only has one room, so you'll have to sleep in the living room tonight. There's no food either. If you want anything, there's a convenience store across the street; you can buy it yourself."

Jiang Yan chuckled softly, said nothing, and just looked at her.

Because there was a gray pillar behind him, his slender body and the marble pillar together outlined a triangle of light and shadow. Having spent quite a long time in the police station, he had developed a somewhat decadent air about him, which, combined with his current posture, made him appear even more languid.

Siyi felt a little intimidated by his gaze and subconsciously said, "Why are you looking at me like that? If you're not happy, go find someone else now. Anyway, would it be a problem for you, Young Master Yan, to find a place to stay?"

“Sisi arranged everything so well for me, how could I possibly have any complaints?”

He lazily raised an eyebrow, smiled and leaned closer, calmly putting his arm around her slender waist. Ignoring her protests, he put his arm around her and walked towards the convenience store across the street. "But since we haven't eaten, let's go buy something to eat first."

Siyi couldn't help but reach out and pat the hand that was wrapped around her waist. "Hey, if you want to buy something, go buy it yourself. I'll just tell you which floor my house is on. Don't drag me along. I'm tired and not hungry. Jiang Yan, go back!"

"I didn't bring any money."

"I'll just give you the money, won't that solve it?"

"Ha, what do you take me for? I would never take a woman's money."

Siyi was speechless for a moment. "Then why did you drag me there? You don't accept money from women, are you going to use me as collateral at that convenience store later?"

"How could I bear to?"

He actually put his hand on her shoulder, kissed her on the lips, and said in a frivolous way, "Taking your money and you paying for me are not the same thing. Sweetie, we're here. I won't eat much, I won't eat you out of house and home."