People will always feel sympathy when they see someone who is worse off than him.
Qin Luoying hated sympathy, but she couldn't live without others' sympathy for her.
Over the years, she relied on this sympathy to get what she wanted, money, treatment, and Chi Yanchen's eyes.
But what she wants does not include Zheng Hui's cheap pity.
Loosening his clenched fists, Qin Luoying put on a flattered expression, "Thank you, Second Aunt, for your concern."
"Thank you, the room is empty and there is space."
Zheng Hui rarely has a good temper.
"Auntie, you're biased. You didn't ask anyone to clean my room when I came back." Huo Feixue lay lazily on the sofa, stretched out her hand and spread her fingers, as if appreciating her newly painted manicure.
"You haven't lost your hands or feet." Zheng Hui glared at Huo Feixue.
The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional. As soon as these words came out, Qin Luoying's face suddenly turned pale.
"Oh, I didn't mean it." Zheng Hui came back to her senses with a stern look on her face.
Qin Luoying forced a smile: "I'm fine."
"It's all gone."
Chi Yanchen glanced at the old clock hanging on the wall and handed Qin Luoying into Zheng Hui's hands, "Second aunt, help me send Luo Luoying back to the room."
"Achen, where are you going?" Qin Luoying stopped him.
"Something's wrong." Chi Yanchen rushed into the night without looking back, his cold words still floating in the air, "You have a good rest."
He walked very quickly and arrived outside the Huo family's gate in a few steps.
"Young Master, do you need a car? I'll ask the driver to take you there." The butler was still waiting at the door.
"Um."
Chi Yanchen asked the driver to take him across the street where Ye Mingqian lived.
"You go back first."
He dismissed the driver, sat in the car and lit a cigarette, looking up just in time to see the floor where Ye Mingqian lived.
After a while, the smell of smoke drifted into the small space of the car. Chi Yanchen rolled down the window and dusted off the cigarette butts. At this time, a vague figure appeared behind the curtains upstairs.
After taking a shower, Ye Mingqian sat in front of the dressing table with a headscarf on her face, carefully applying eye masks and facial masks in front of the mirror.
"I'm tired and haggard. Hurry up and rehydrate."
She patted it desperately, wanting to get all the essence into her face.
When her cheeks were slightly warm, Ye Mingqian picked up the hair dryer and dried her hair.
"Comfortable." She was lying on the bed, stretching her limbs and feeling indescribably comfortable. Her joints were crackling, and she couldn't help but murmur.
"The Qin family." Ye Mingqian became more and more curious about what happened that year as he ran through what the Gu brothers and sisters said in his mind.
Her eyelids began to feel heavy as she was thinking so wildly, so she closed her eyes and touched the overhead light switch.
With a snap, the bedroom fell into darkness.
As soon as the lights went out, Ye Mingqian's shadow could no longer be seen on the curtains. Chi Yanchen got out of the car and leaned against the car door, lighting up a cigarette again. The sparks from the cigarette butt flickered in the silence and darkness.
One, two, three...the ground was already covered with cigarette butts.
He reached for the cigarette again, but only found a flat cigarette box.
"Ye Mingqian."
Chi Yanchen murmured to the dark floor, "What are you suffering from?"
"Oh, I'm so annoyed."
Ye Mingqian was obviously very sleepy, but she couldn't sleep. She rolled around on the bed a few times. She irritably put on her shoes and went to the living room to pour water.
She held the cup and opened the curtains. It was still dark outside, but sanitation workers were already sweeping the floor. It was estimated that it was about five o'clock in the morning, and the noisy city seemed to be sleeping quietly at this time.
"Why is it still so early?" Ye Mingqian slowly drank the water. Just when she was about to close the curtain and go back to sleep, she saw a tall and familiar figure standing downstairs from the corner of her eye, with a car parked next to her. It looks familiar.
Her heart skipped two beats, she closed her eyes and said silently: Hallucination.
When he opened his eyes again, the figure was still standing straight downstairs. On the dark street, because it was almost dawn, only a few street lights were still on. Under the weak orange light, the man's true emotions could not be seen clearly.
It's not her illusion! It's really him.
"Chi Yanchen, why are you here?"
Why not stay with Bai Yueguang and go downstairs to blow the cold wind?
"I want to come." Chi Yanchen put out the cigarette in his hand. When he saw her slightly raised eyebrows, he said with a half-smile, "Why, you're not welcome?"
His voice was as mellow as old wine, echoing for a long time in the extraordinarily quiet street. His auspicious eyes were slightly raised, but he only glanced at Ye Mingqian and his charm was revealed.
"It's just a bit unexpected." Ye Mingqian was fascinated by Chi Yanchen's beauty and was stunned for several seconds before replying dully.
Chi Yanchen came over and said, "What's the surprise?"
The handsome face was magnified infinitely as she pressed against it, and the man's warm breath was still ringing in her ears. Ye Mingqian was so startled that she stepped back again and again.
"Chi Yanchen, if you drink too much, don't come here and act drunk." She distanced the two of them and glared at Chi Yanchen.
"I am not sleeply."
Chi Yanchen's eyes stopped at Ye Ming's Qiansu chest. The deep V nightgown with small suspenders was casually put on her body. There was a large spring light on her chest, and the morning breeze blew up the corners of the skirt, revealing her graceful calves.
"Don't catch a cold." Chi Yanchen took off his windbreaker and put it on Ye Mingqian's body.
"It's none of your business."
She turned her head away from him and quickly lifted her body off the ground.
The man picked her up steadily and said, "I'll take you up."
"No need! Chi Yanchen, let me down."
Ye Mingqian screamed anxiously and frightenedly.
"Shut up if you don't want to be watched." Chi Yanchen glanced at her sideways, "It's so loud, I won't do anything to you."
Ye Mingqian was silent.
Seeing that she no longer resisted, Chi Yanchen opened his long legs and carried her into the house in the blink of an eye.
He carried her into the dark house and found her bedroom as if there was nothing there.
"Can't sleep?"
Chi Yanchen put Ye Mingqian on the bed.
"Yeah." Ye Mingqian curled up his knees.
"Why?" He reached out and touched Ye Mingqian's cheek, lowered his head and pressed it against her forehead. At such a close distance, their breaths were intertwined.
This long-lost ambiguous atmosphere made Ye Mingqian start to feel excited.
Chi Yanchen held her face and asked persistently, "Why can't you sleep?"
His pressing steps made Ye Mingqian hide back subconsciously, "There is no reason."
"Shall I help you fall asleep?" Chi Yanchen smiled softly and blew gently on her earlobe.
Ye Mingqian was so shocked that her hair stood on end. She slapped the man's hand away and rolled to the other side of the bed.
The ambiguity dissipated and the atmosphere became awkward.
"Ah."
Chi Yanchen chuckled, "When did you become so afraid of me?"
"Now." Ye Mingqian hugged the quilt tightly in her arms.
Her obvious lack of cooperation made Chi Yanchen unhappy, "I want to know the reason."
Ye Mingqian didn't like the feeling of being questioned. She asked, "I also want to know your current feelings for Qin Luoying."
"Are you jealous?" Chi Yanchen was surprised.
Ye Mingqian sneered, "Mr. Chi, cooperation is cooperation. Don't involve love. Only interests can make our 'friendship' stronger, right?"
