Chapter 31 Chapter 31 (End)

If the first floor cabin is the epitome of luxury, the second floor cabin is a tangible display of warmth and thoughtfulness. Every item here, representing a source of angst and frustration for Ruo Ruo during her renovations, has now been thoughtfully placed within this space, creating a dreamlike retreat for private living.

Because Ruoruo was really tired of the white wards, the main color of both the first and second floors is not white, but it still does not affect the style that it wants to highlight.

Just looking at the ubiquitous "Ruoruo I love you", Ruoruo remained silent.

"What is this?" Ruoruo turned her head and looked at Xia Peizhi who was chasing after her with a red face and a stiff expression.

Xia Peizhi sighed silently in his heart. The scene that he had originally planned to confess to Ruoruo two days later was exposed in front of Ruoruo in advance.

"I..." He was torn. He wanted to use this moment to confess, but he didn't have the ring and necklace he'd prepared on him. The scene wasn't completely set up. He wanted to brush it off, but he didn't know how to explain it.

This boat had been prepared in advance for his confession to Ruo Ruo, but this incident hadn't happened yet. But Xia Peizhi was still thankful, as at least the boat had played a more crucial role.

"Do you like me?" Ruo Ruo looked up at Xia Peizhi, who was struggling with his thoughts. She knew his perfectionism was kicking in again. She had long noticed that the more he cared about something, the more he wanted to make sure it was absolutely perfect. Sometimes Ruo Ruo found it amusing to watch him fret, but other times, she found his fussing uninteresting.

"In that case, Mr. Xia Peizhixia, I wonder if you would be willing to formally establish a relationship with me in such a beautiful scene and become my dear boyfriend?" Ruo Ruo stretched out her little hand, a faint smile on her lips, and stars twinkling in her eyes.

Well, she admitted that she did have a bit of a bad taste in her mouth and didn't want Xia Peizhi to go through the confession perfectly.

Xia Peizhi: ...

Although Xia Peizhi could see the clever and mischievous smile on the corner of her mouth, a flower still blossomed in her heart when she said the word "boyfriend".

No one knew how happy he was when Ruoruo said these three words while looking into his eyes. However, as she wished, he still showed a little regret that he could not make a perfect confession, and there was a sense of loss between his eyebrows.

He placed his hand in Ruo Ruo's. Her hand was luminous white, small enough to not completely enclose Xia Peizhi's. The man's slender fingers slowly tightened around the girl's hand, as if holding the most precious treasure in the world, and then he took over the role.

It wasn't just her hands that took over, it was also his body that was gradually approaching, and his warm breath...

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Bai Minmin, Duan Wenbai, Lu Yi, the mercenaries and the people they brought with them were all taken back. Everything was sentenced according to the law. The guilty ones were convicted, and the innocent ones who had made mistakes were criticized and educated.

Among them, Duan Wenbo was the one with the most serious crime, not only because of Ruo Ruo's matter, but also because many things he had done in the past, including some behaviors of other people in the Duan family, were all investigated.

Duan Wenbai himself knew it very well, otherwise he would not have been so unscrupulous as to let people board the ship with so many guns. According to his calculations, he should have robbed Ruoruo and fled the country together.

Unfortunately, something unexpected happened and his attempt to escape not only failed, but also accelerated the investigation of him by his superiors.

Otherwise, we can say that Duan Wenbo is the male protagonist. If some things happened to other people, they should have been arrested long ago, but they happened to him but he was at large for many years and it took a lot of effort to find evidence.

If Lu Yi does not take other people's feelings seriously, then Duan Wenbo never takes other people's lives seriously, or even more than just life.

Some people have been in a high and mighty position for too long and begin to feel that they are above everyone and everything. Just a casual order may ruin a person's life.

Ruoruo's life trajectory did not happen exactly as described in the book, but there are many people in the world who are as unlucky as Ruoruo, or even more unlucky than Ruoruo.

It was two months later that the result of Duan Wenbo's trial came out. Because he had always been walking on the edge of the law, many people could be said to have gotten into trouble because of his orders, but upon closer inspection, it was often not his fault alone. So in the end he was sentenced to life imprisonment instead of the death penalty or suspended death sentence.

Duan Wenbo was naturally unacceptable to go from a favored child of heaven to a criminal sentenced to life imprisonment. Even if the sentence could be gradually reduced for good behavior, he still couldn't accept it. Therefore, when serving his sentence in prison, he was always the most unruly and disobedient one.

Country Z also has a measure for this kind of people, which is to transfer him to the famous X Prison. Most of the prisoners there are those who have completely given up on themselves and have been completely abandoned, and have been sentenced to suspended death sentences or life imprisonment. Duan Wenbo's transfer there can be said to be a blessing in disguise.

He himself didn't know what Prison X meant, but for the people in Prison X, every new inmate, especially one who looked decent, was a huge bonus. And as for the fact that it was a man and not a woman? Damn! They were going to die any day, so who would care? Female prisoners were hardly ever incarcerated there, anyway!

Sometimes, not having a guard to supervise you isn't a good thing. Duan Wenbo didn't understand this until he was lying on the ground, in tattered clothes and without dignity...

Once, a single word from him could arbitrarily determine a person's life, death, or innocence. He could look down from afar, watching those whose families were torn apart or left without a burial ground because of a single word he'd spoken, always indifferent, as if looking at an ant, and casually lamenting that weakness was the original sin. But when he was humiliated and pinned to the ground, truly feeling the pressure of being at the mercy of others, he realized how powerless he truly was, and this feeling of powerlessness would haunt him day and night for the rest of his life...

He didn't even have the right to die. He was good-looking, and a handsome man to a certain extent was not much different from a beautiful woman. When had X Prison ever seen such a person? No one would allow him to die. They would only torture him over and over again, day after day, like the best toy in this sinful place without sunlight, breaking his pride and grinding it down slowly.

As for Bai Minmin, she was sentenced to seven years in prison. However, before going to prison, she kept requesting to see Ruoruo, but Ruoruo never agreed.

Ruoruo and Xia Peizhi were traveling in a city in the southernmost part of the country when they received the news that Bai Minmin was seriously injured and was about to die. When Ruoruo returned, she saw Bai Minmin lying on the hospital bed, skinny and covered with scars.

At this moment, she was completely different from her former self. Seeing Ruoruo coming, she only moved her hands. Only her eyes were filled with emotions. After a long while, she slowly said, "Sister, you can forgive me..."

Ruo Ruo shook her head firmly, "No."

Bai Minmin smiled bitterly. She was not surprised by this answer. "Then will you remember me forever?"

Ruo Ruo frowned, nodded slightly and shook her head.

The moment Bai Minmin nodded slightly, she closed her eyes and fell into eternal sleep with a few tears in the corners of her eyes.

Ruoruo didn't feel sad because of her death, but she still tried to find out the reason why she had scars all over her body. It turned out that a big sister in the prison couldn't stand the little white flower, so she had been bullying her.

Of course, now that Bai Minmin is almost dead at the hands of the big sister, that person has not had a good ending either.

As for Lu Yi, I heard he was expelled from University A. The Lu family's business has become a mess under his leadership, and it seems they're being targeted...

Ruoruo didn't spend much time on these things. Instead, she bought a birthday cake and went home to celebrate Aunt Qin's birthday.

People of Zhang Qin's generation have always had somewhat inaccurate birthdays, especially girls, who would just fill in a number at random. She had no habit of celebrating birthdays, whether at her parents' home or after getting married. It was not until she started taking care of Ruoruo that Ruoruo would often prepare a gift for her on the birthday listed on her ID card.

When she was in her teens, the gifts Ruoruo prepared were generally not of high value, and were sometimes just things that little girls would like. But every time she gave them to Zhang Qin, Zhang Qin would be moved to tears and would treasure the small gifts as if they were her most precious treasures.

To this day, the things Ruoruo had given her are still treated like treasures by her. Some of them are placed on her bedside table and wiped every day, and some are kept in the cabinet together with her money and important documents.

Although it was Zhang Qin who was taking care of the sick Ruoruo, for Zhang Qin, wasn't Ruoruo also healing the broken heart of her?

Zhang Qin was truly content. The fact that the little girl she cared for had fully recovered and was happy every day was more satisfying to her than if she had lived a good life herself. Not to mention that her life was pretty smooth and satisfying right now.

Zhang Qin has always loved cooking, but she never had the conditions to learn it systematically. Now that she has some free time, she has begun to study cooking seriously and even signed up for a cooking class. After finishing her studies, she went to Youran Ju to study for a while, determined to cook delicious food for Ruoruo in different ways every day.

In the evenings, Zhang Qin would go to the square near her community to dance, where she met many people. Even when Ruoruo wasn't home, she didn't feel lonely without him. She enjoyed her current life and cherished it deeply.

Ruo Ruo and Xia Peizhi's wedding wasn't a grand affair. Although Ruo Ruo had long since recovered, she still disliked overly lively occasions. Therefore, only a few people were invited to the wedding. Besides some relatives of the Xia family, they also invited an important brother and business partner of Xia Peizhi.

As the benefactor who developed the special medicine, Ma Songjin was naturally invited to participate. Of course, for Ma Songjin, Xia Peizhi was also his brother's lifesaver. Without Xia Peizhi's funding, he actually had no idea what to do next.

Logically, if he could invent something, he could make money and find a suitable heart source for his brother. But he knew clearly that for him at the time, all these things would be incredibly difficult to accomplish. The simplest thing might be inventing something, and even that required some money...but all his money at the time was spent on his brother's medical treatment, not to mention that even if he created something, he probably wouldn't be able to sell it.

He was not good at speaking and had no diploma, so he had no way of getting others to believe him. Thanks to meeting Boss Xia, he was able to cure his brother and now he can focus on inventions. So Ma Songjin was really grateful to him, and also to the person who made Boss Xia spend so much money.

The wedding was the first time that Ma Songjin saw the girl that Boss Xia said was worth everything no matter how much he paid for her. She was so beautiful in her white wedding dress that it was no wonder that Boss Xia was full of insecurity every time he mentioned her.

Some people would inevitably feel possessive when seeing this face, while others would only feel admiration. Ma Songjin was the latter.

Ruo Ruo specially came to toast him with a glass of wine, thanking him for the medicine he developed that saved her. "If it weren't for the special medicine you developed, I wouldn't be able to recover to my current state even if I waited for the right heart source."

Ma Songjin was at a loss. "No, no, no, I should be thanking Miss Bai and Boss Xia. If Boss Xia hadn't invested so much money, my brother would be in trouble..."

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Twenty years later, Zhang Qin passed away.

She was never valued or loved in her life. Everything was fine at first after she got married, but later they parted ways and parted ways on bad terms. Fortunately, she was hired as Ruoruo's caregiver, and fortunately, someone developed a special medicine to cure Ruoruo's congenital heart disease. For the rest of her life, she no longer suffered, but was filled with joy.

After Zhang Qin left, Ruoruo's health began to decline in her sixties. Xia Peizhi, still in good health at the time, took care of everything for Ruoruo himself. They remained childless, both because Ruoruo had no desire to be a mother and because Xia Peizhi worried about the effects of childbirth on her health.

Grandpa Xia passed away just a few years after they got married. Before he died, he knew that his grandson and his wife did not want to have children. He did not think it was a big deal. After all, in his opinion, it was enough for his grandson to have a close friend by his side to accompany him for the rest of his life.

As for his great-grandson, he didn't have the time to worry about it so much. Besides, Xia Peizhi's sister had already satisfied his desire to hold a great-grandson long ago.

In the blink of an eye, Ruoruo and Xia Peizhi also grew old.

"Pei Zhi, I want to eat vegetarian meat porridge..."

"I'll make it for you right away!" As early as when Zhang Qin was older, Xia Peizhi followed her to learn how to make dozens of Ruoruo's favorite dishes, porridge and soup.

But when he came back with the vegetarian meat porridge, he found that the person lying on the bed had already stopped breathing.

Ruoruo is no longer young, her hair has turned gray and wrinkles have appeared on her face, but in Xia Peizhi's eyes, she is still stunningly beautiful and is the most beautiful flower that he will always protect.

He laughed with her, played with her, and walked with her through the years and days, until they grew old together. This was his luck and his blessing.

He quietly ate all the porridge he had cooked by himself, cleaned up the dishes and other things in the house, and then began to calmly arrange his and Ruoruo's funeral arrangements.

He bought the most beautiful burial clothes for Ruoruo and also chose one for himself that matched the clothes. He dressed Ruoruo carefully and then took care of himself.

The road to the underworld is too dark and cold, and his baby will definitely be scared if he walks alone, so he has to hurry...