Cui Ziqi promised Xia Wan that he was just teaching Zheng Minghuai a lesson and wouldn't really kill him.

Xia Wan suddenly asked, "Where's Cui Jiyang? He's the only one missing from the photo. What did you do to him?"

Cui Ziqi did not answer her question.

He kissed the corner of her lips and held her tightly in his arms.

"Sleep a little longer, I'll stay with you."

He won't tell Xia Wan.

He crippled Cui Jiyang and imprisoned him in a forbidden area, binding him in the same way he bound his mother.

He wanted Cui Jiyang to repent to You Shuang every day.

Xia Wan didn't ask any more questions.

Time seemed to slow down.

Life gradually became dull.

Xia Wan was trapped in the villa day after day, unable to go out or use electronic devices.

They expect to be waited on hand and foot, with clothes handed to them and food served to them.

Like a rag doll that can be manipulated at will, it has completely lost its human characteristics.

She became increasingly irritable.

Cui Ziqi, however, was in high spirits.

There was a swing chair in front of the French windows in the study. Cui Ziqi held Xia Wan and snuggled inside, watching the people bustling about in the rose garden outside.

"Wanwan, do you know what they're going to build there?"

Xia Wan didn't want to talk and didn't answer.

Cui Ziqi didn't care and said, "How about I move my mother's grave here? We can build a small villa as her tombstone?"

Xia Wan's eyelids twitched slightly.

Looking down through the glass window, I saw piles of broken stones.

Those stones were broken but familiar.

These are stones removed from the two bungalows where Cui Ziqi lived in the Cui Family Manor.

Xia Wan knew that Cui Ziqi already knew that her mother's ashes were inside.

She clenched her fists, her frustration turning into a slight pang of heartache, which she then suppressed.

Just as she was about to look away, she suddenly caught sight of a familiar figure among the people building the house.

(End of this chapter)