"You shouldn't be here."
After Ye Weiwei fell asleep, Ye Mingqian and Chi Yanchen sat face to face in the living room.
She turned her head to look at the balcony, lowered her eyes and said quietly.
Hearing this, Chi Yanchen's dark sleeping hole suddenly shrank, his thin lips pursed tightly, and his hands folded on his knees were trembling unnoticeably.
"Then why did you come back?" There was a hint of anger in his voice, "You are living well in my memory, and suddenly you appear in front of me and let me turn a blind eye?"
"Ye Mingqian, you are still so cruel."
Cruel enough to leave without saying goodbye for five years.
The corners of Ye Mingqian's mouth dropped and turned to a sneer: "Who is cruel? Chi Yanchen, please understand that from the beginning to the end, I was the passive one. From the day you chose Shu Qiaoqiao, we and I It’s completely over between you.”
Chi Yanchen lowered his eyes and stared at her, his tightly pursed lips barely loosened:
"Shu Qiaoqiao and I..."
"I don't want to hear about the love affair between Mr. Chi and Mrs. Chi. Please leave."
Ye Mingqian interrupted him.
Chi Yanchen took a deep breath and his eyes were colder than before, "I'm not here to quarrel with you, Qianqian. Before Huo Jili died, he explained the details of the Zhou family fire. I thought you would be interested. It seems that I made a mistake and overestimated the importance of the Zhou family in your heart..."
Without another word, he stood up and turned around to leave.
Ye Mingqian grabbed Chi Yanchen's sleeve. She lowered her head and slowly tightened her fingers. "Chi Yanchen, you have always used my weak side to pinch me. It's so despicable."
Chi Yanchen turned his body sideways and saw through the corner of his eye her knuckles that were slightly white from exertion. The small feeling of pride in his heart was completely wiped out. His Adam's apple rolled up and down. He wanted to say something, but the words came to his lips. But no sound could be made.
That he was teasing her? Wasn't he the one being picked on?
With a wry smile, Chi Yanchen held Ye Mingqian's hand with his backhand and said hoarsely: "Qianqian, let's go back to the past, okay?"
"not good."
Ye Mingqian withdrew her hand the moment the other party's hand touched it. She looked at Chi Yanchen quietly, her heart still, "Chi Yanchen, I don't love you anymore."
Her words were as light as a feather, but they were like a heavy cauldron hitting her. Chi Yanchen felt a roar in his head.
There was a rare look of confusion on his indifferent face. He kept his movements and stood still, lowering his eyes just to meet Ye Mingqian's unruffled eyes. Something stabbed his heart so hard that it made him feel uncomfortable. Out of breath.
It hurts.
"Qianqian..."
He murmured the name, as if he wanted to hold on to something he was about to lose.
The pain of suffocation started from the heart and spread around the body in circles. Until finally, Chi Yanchen, who was almost unable to breathe, swayed and relied on the sofa to stabilize himself.
"The confessions at that time were all in the drawer under the coffee table."
Ye Mingqian bit her lips tightly, her delicate eyelashes trembling slightly, blocking her inner emotions from being exposed.
Until the sound of closing the door sounded and the living room returned to calm. She sat on the sofa in a daze, her eyes fixed on the drawer handle of the coffee table. It was obviously something she had been thinking about for five years, but she didn't have the strength to open it and take it out to take a look.
A tear fell on the back of my hand.
Did you cry?
When she realized this, the tears in her eyes fell one after another uncontrollably, "Ye Mingqian, you are so useless. You promised not to shed tears for him again."
Ye Mingqian cursed in a low voice for her failure. She raised her head and fell on the sofa, looking at the ceiling to prevent tears from falling again. The lonely background before the man left kept reappearing in her mind.
He deserves it. Don't be soft-hearted. Chi Yanchen, a liar, doesn't deserve it.
She kept convincing herself with these words.
After her tears dried up and Ye Mingqian calmed down, she took out Huo Jili's testimony and began to read it.
As speculated five years ago, Huo Jili used Chi Wanrong's informant to burn down the Zhou family's house with Ye Shirong at her birthday party when the Zhou and Yun families gathered.
What's even more disgusting is that Huo Jili, a scumbag, locked all the exits in the Zhou family in order not to survive. While her relatives were being tortured by fireworks, this beast swaggered to the Zhou family's company and took away everyone. Information contract, using the Zhou family's official seal to transfer all assets to the Huo family's name.
Ye Shirong, who killed his wife and sold his daughter, only received a measly five million.
Just for this money, eighteen members of the Zhou and Yun families were killed.
Huo Jili deserves to die, and so does Ye Shirong!
Seeing that Ye Shirong was sentenced to twelve years and six months, Ye Mingqian threw away the information, covered her face with her hands, and hid herself feebly behind her hands.
It was only twelve years, she could afford to wait.
Moreover, aren't there Ye Qing and Wang Lan outside?
Ye Mingqian's eyes flashed.
She wouldn't make it easy for the mother and daughter.
With a faint sigh, Ye Mingqian got up and went to draw the curtains. Tomorrow she would accompany Xu Yue to try on wedding dresses, and maybe she could meet her boyfriend who was mentioned by her friends but had never met.
The moment the thick gray curtains closed, the eyes of Chi Yanchen, who was standing downstairs and looking up at Ye Mingqian's floor, dimmed.
He leaned under the large landscape tree opposite the hotel door, holding an unburned cigarette. After retracting his gaze, he lowered his head and looked at his feet, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Achen?"
When Gu Erya drove to pick her up, she noticed something was wrong with her friend at just one glance.
"What are you doing?"
Have you met Ye Mingqian?
After swallowing the name, he looked at Chi Yanchen worriedly.
"Well, I gave her the Zhou family's things."
The umbrella-shaped landscape tree above the head is lush and lush, but the man under the tree has a tired face. The downward corners of his mouth show that he is not in a good mood. The unlit cigarette adds a bit of loneliness and loss.
"Let's go, stay at my place today."
Gu Erya couldn't see him like this, frowned, took the cigarette from Chi Yanchen's hand, and drove him into the car.
After all the sounds outside were isolated, he continued: "No matter what happened, or what Ye Mingqian thinks of you now, her willingness to come back is a good start."
"Easy to say."
Chi Yanchen habitually wanted to touch the cigarette in his pocket, but then he put his hand down as if he remembered something.
"Didn't the conversation have a good time?" Gu Erya saw Chi Yanchen's ugly face through the rearview mirror, and he couldn't help but gloated: "Hurry up and coax him, his wife can be coaxed."
Chi Yanchen glanced at Gu Erya and snorted coldly: "You have embraced the beauty and started teaching me how to do things?"
"At least my sweetheart and I are getting married in a mutually agreeable manner. It's not your kind of business marriage where you don't even have to go back home. Anyway, you're not going back to Huo's house. Why don't you stay with me during this period so that you can be more convenient? My opinion."
