Xia Meng wore a red halter-neck dress and had her hair tied in a high ponytail. She was pressed against Fu Yanshen, her rounded breasts resting against his elbow.

Feeling the man's gaze, I glanced at him indifferently.

I stepped inside.

"Sister Qiaoqiao!" Xia Meng belatedly greeted me.

I smiled and said, "Hello."

As the sound faded, I turned around, and my smiling face was reflected in the gleaming silver walls of the elevator, alongside a handsome face as cold as ice.

"Get out of my way." A cold male voice came from behind me, and I could feel the chilling aura emanating from Fu Yanshen.

Does he want me to get lost?

"Ah, Mr. Fu, I'm so sorry, my heels just twisted a little, and I lost my balance. I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to..."

Immediately afterwards, I heard Xia Meng's trembling, tearful voice. Through the wall, I could see that she was terrified and wanted to avoid Fu Yanshen at all costs.

It turns out she was trying to seduce Fu Yanshen on purpose.

I thought it was another new stand-in he had found. Xia Meng, dressed in fiery red, looks just like the outfit I wore when I first met Fu Yanshen.

Inside the wall, Fu Yanshen's thin lips were pressed into a thin line, his eyes fixed on me, as if filled with resentment.

Neuropathy.

The elevator doors opened, and I stepped out.

...

Lin Xiao came looking for me while I was drinking.

He pulled out a high chair, sat down next to me, and ordered a whiskey.

"It's just a matter of bowing down and coaxing President Fu, why go out drinking and hurt your health?" Lin Xiao said to me after taking a sip of his drink.

"It's just a matter of bowing your head and coaxing him? Lin Xiao, you're his accomplice." I glanced at him.

Lin Xiao raised an eyebrow, looking at me with a very wronged expression, "Miss Sheng, do you think I'm trying to harm you?"

I rested my cheek in my hand, looked at him, and nodded.

“Miss Sheng, how did my matchmaking with President Fu harm you? Don’t I understand President Fu’s feelings for you? Do you know when he started having insomnia?” Lin Xiao gritted her teeth and said to me.

I took a sip of my drink. "I don't want to know."

But Lin Xiao wouldn't let go of my ears.

“He started having insomnia and his stomach problems started acting up after you filed for divorce and moved out.”

What's it to me?

I chuckled to myself.

"His self-harm in London was also triggered by you, wasn't it? Only you can comfort him," Lin Xiao said again. I kept shaking my head, looking like an old man on the subway looking at his phone.

"Why did he take you to London for the New Year? Haven't you thought about that?"

"During the two years that President Sheng has been missing, before he left, he paved the way for you and Mu Ye, and even had his most trusted brother protect you. Can't you really see the care he has for you?"

"Lin Xiao, can you shut up?" I was so annoyed by him that I slammed my hand on the bar.

I got off the bar stool.

"Miss Sheng, do you know that before Mr. Fu disappeared, he handed over all his assets to a trust company?"

"I don't want to know, shut up, you bastard," I hissed.

"He even had a lawyer draw up a will. Do you know who his heirs are?" Lin Xiao pressed me, relentlessly.

Upon hearing this, I was stunned.

Fu Yanshen made a will...

My head was buzzing, I felt dizzy, and I was unable to think.

“I don’t know what Mr. Fu has gone through these past two years, but the fact that he came back alive means he must have escaped death. After he came back, he didn’t even have time to recover, and he bowed his head to you in public and clung to you. What else could this be but affection?”

"He's gone through all this trouble just to give you a way out, so you can go and coax him."

Lin Xiangxiang was like a fly, buzzing endlessly in front of me.

"Lin Xiao, did Fu Yanshen save your life in a past life? Why are you so loyal to him? You're trying to trick me into becoming his plaything. Where's your conscience? He already has a girlfriend!"

I was a little drunk, and after I finished speaking, I tried to walk around him, but my feet were a little unsteady. However, Lin Xiao blocked my way again.

"Miss Shi is at most his family member, not his girlfriend."

"President Fu has done me no favors. He is a man who clearly distinguishes between public and private matters, and between right and wrong. He wins over his subordinates by offering them sufficient benefits. He doesn't play the emotional card with us, and he doesn't believe in that kind of thing."

“I help him because he gives me enough. As his assistant, I don’t want him to be depressed all the time, which would affect our ability to make money, right?”

Lin Xiao's words really surprised me.

Fu Yanshen deserves to be all alone, that scumbag.

However, he really doesn't need feelings. In my past life, I was so attentive to him, but he remained unmoved.

The only people he could truly trust from the bottom of his heart were Fu Ren and Shi Jin.

“Miss Sheng, what I’m saying is the truth!” Listening to Lin Xiao’s words, I walked out of the bar step by step.

As soon as I stepped outside, I noticed that the billboards across the street were removing the watch advertisement featuring Makino. I knew that it was about to be replaced by an advertisement featuring my rival, Ji Che.

In an instant, a sense of resentment welled up in my heart.

I am not reconciled. In this life, just like in my previous one, Mu Ye was once extremely popular, but then fell like a shooting star.

It "died" again in the hands of capital.

It's all because of me!

I clenched my fists and swallowed the lump in my throat.

Taking advantage of my drunken state, I made a last-minute decision.

I went down the steps, hailed a taxi, and gave the driver an address I knew by heart.

At night, the gate to the villa's courtyard was open.

Was he anticipating that I would come begging to him, and deliberately leaving the door wide open to lure me into a trap?

I gave a self-deprecating twitch at the corner of my mouth, and walked unsteadily inside, climbing the steps at the villa entrance and entering the familiar yet unfamiliar mansion.

My former home.

Looking back now, for me, an orphan whose biological parents were nowhere to be found, this was the home I ever truly had.

It was only a brief period of possession before she was kicked out.

Holding onto the teak-colored handrail, I laboriously climbed up the stairs to the second floor and entered the master bedroom.

Seeing the tall figure standing by the French windows, I approached him.

Fuming with alcohol, I unzipped the hidden zipper on the side of my dress. "Fu Yanshen, I'm drunk, my body should react to you... Hurry up and do it... After you're done, please let Mu Ye go, please..."