Chi Baiyi pulled her other hand to his lips and kissed it. "Mmm. Everything was resolved quickly, but..."

"But what?" Qin Yuanyao asked.

A sly glint flashed in Chi Baiyi's dark eyes. "But our relationship isn't progressing quickly."

So far, they've only been hugging and kissing.

Qin Yuanyao playfully scolded him, "I think I'm quite satisfied with our current relationship."

“I’m not satisfied.” Chi Baiyi sighed softly. “We’re different from other couples; we both have a five-year-old daughter.”

“Our five-year-old daughter was born five years later, not when I was born now.”

"But at least it shows that we were destined to be together, whether in our past lives or this life."

That's true.

Qin Yuanyao couldn't deny that.

“However, this cannot be a reason for you to speed up our relationship.” Qin Yuanyao said domineeringly, “Whether you are satisfied or not is not important, my satisfaction is the most important thing.”

Chi Baiyi was amused by her words and looked at her affectionately. "Yes, you're right."

"Since nothing else can satisfy me, please grant me this request."

As Chi Baiyi spoke, he leaned down and kissed Qin Yuanyao's lips.

Meanwhile, Chi Nao, fast asleep in bed, was having a dream.

In her dream, she returned to ten years later, and to the night her house burned down.

The scene shifts, and she sees Xu Zhiming.

Xu Zhiming looks much older than he does now.

He stood by the window, gazing outside, and murmured, "I may not have many years left to live. The Chi family has never treated me as an equal. I've been lying low for so long; it's time to get my revenge."

“I have no interest in the Chi Group. Rather than watching it prosper, I would much rather see it go bankrupt overnight. It would be so satisfying to see the Chi Group, which has been built up by generations of the Chi family, go bankrupt in the end.”

"To bring down the Chi Group, all we need to do is get rid of Chi Baiyi. Chi Boyou is not capable enough. I know he looks at me like I'm a dog, but in my heart, I also despise him. I think he's a dog, a dog that can only live a glamorous life by attaching himself to the Chi Group, a dog that has no awareness of his own true abilities."

"Although Chi Hongzhou is quite capable, his only son, Chi Baiyi, is dead. How could he possibly be in the mood to run the Chi Group? Even if Chi Hongzhou manages to run the Chi Group successfully, I can still find a way to get rid of him."

"In short, once we get rid of Chi Baiyi, everything else will be much easier to handle."

"The anonymous chat room that I've been maintaining for so long is finally going to come in handy."

The scene then shifts again.

In a private room resembling a restaurant, Xu Zhiming sat at the table, leisurely carving a small wooden penguin.

Standing at the other end of the table, looking extremely nervous, was Cui Yi.

Cui Yi asked cautiously and ingratiatingly, "Boss?"

"It's me." Xu Zhiming slowly carved the little penguin without looking up. "Is the money I transferred to you enough?"

"It's enough, it's enough," Cui Yi said with a fawning smile.

“If anything happens in the future, or if you run out of money, just tell me. I will definitely help if I can,” Xu Zhiming said.

"Alright, boss, you're such a good person, you're like Maitreya Buddha reincarnated!" Cui Yi flattered.

"Is your wife named Zou An? Is she pregnant?" Xu Zhiming asked slowly.

Cui Yi exclaimed with admiration, "Boss, you even knew that?! You truly are the boss! I knew it! Although we each have our own ID in the chat room, and we don't know who the others are or can't chat with them privately, you must know each of us very well!"

Cui Yi felt no fear at all that Xu Zhiming knew so much about him; instead, he felt only admiration.

“I need your help with something. The deposit is 100,000, and I'll give you another 5 million if it's done. If you feel you don't want to stay in China after this is done, I can send you abroad, and I can even take care of your expenses overseas.”

Upon hearing this, Cui Yi knew that what his boss wanted his help with was definitely not a legitimate matter.

However, he wasn't exactly a respectable person to begin with, and when he heard that he could have so much money and go abroad to live a carefree life, he immediately agreed.

Later, Xu Zhiming told Cui Yi that what he wanted Cui Yi's help with was to kill Chi Baiyi.

He had already finalized the plan. All he had to do was wait until Chi Baiyi's family was asleep, then Cui Yi would sneak into their house and set it on fire. He would disable Chi Baiyi's family's security system beforehand.

So, one night, Cui Yi, wearing the yellow mask with a red dot between its brows, sneaked into Chi Baiyi's house and set it on fire...

Chi Cheese was once again engulfed in the raging fire.

Strangely, the fire began to fade little by little, and thick fog rose around her.

Just as Chi Cheese was wondering where she was, she spotted someone sitting in the thick fumes ahead.

She jogged over, intending to ask the person.

She ran inside and found that the person was crying.

Hearing footsteps, the person looked up.

Chi Nai was astonished. "Great-grandfather—"

Grandpa Chi sat by the roadside, tears streaming down his face.

Upon seeing Chi Nao, he desperately held back his tears and sighed, "I know what happened after I died. I really didn't realize that Zhiming harbored such deep hatred. It doesn't matter if he slanders me; I'm already dead. What does reputation matter to a dead man like me? But why did he so cruelly burn Baiyi and you all alive? You didn't do anything to wrong him. He should hate me! Why did he harm you all?"

As Grandpa Chi spoke, tears began to flow again.

Chi Nai Nai gently wiped away Grandpa Chi's tears with her soft little hands. "Great-grandfather, don't cry. It's all Grandpa Xu's fault. You and we did nothing wrong. My father said that's just how people are, that's how complicated they are. When you encounter someone like that, don't worry about it or think that you did something wrong to deserve this treatment. Just do your best."

"So, we're not wrong. It's because Grandpa Xu is crazy that he does things like a madman."

Grandpa Chi was touched by Chi Cheese's words one second, and amused by them the next.

"Is he crazy?"

“Yes!” Chi Nao nodded her little head seriously. “My parents often teach me that I shouldn’t play with fire. So, normal people don’t set fires, only crazy people do.”

The tears welling up in Grandpa Chi's eyes evaporated because of Chi Cheese's serious expression.

He touched Chi Nao's face with his rough hands. "The only thing that great-grandfather is grateful for is that you came from ten years in the future, allowing great-grandfather, who never met you in his previous life, not only to see his great-granddaughter in person, but also to spend so much time with her."

(End of this chapter)

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