Du Muchen suppressed his anger.

"Su Peishan, do you really want to keep this stalemate with me? You were so resolute when you abandoned me back then. Do you know how much I hated you then? I think I really wanted to tear open your heart to see just how hard it was inside. No matter how much I begged, you resolutely shook me off. Even when I was in a car accident while chasing after you, you didn't look back at me even once..."

Du Muchen's eyes reddened as he recalled the past.

"Back then, when I was in the hospital, I only had one thought in mind: I wanted to be discharged immediately to find you and beg you not to leave me. I was frantic, begging everyone around me to contact you and making up countless excuses for you, believing that you had your reasons. But in the end, when I heard news about you again, you had actually started a company with the senior you had loved for many years and were working hard together. In the eyes of outsiders, you were willing to be his mistress to stay by his side. Do you know how much it hurt when I saw this news?"

The unresolved issues from back then are a pain he can never erase, and he has told himself countless times to forget this woman.

This woman doesn't deserve his true love.

But he still couldn't control himself. He entered the entertainment industry because he wanted her to see him all the time and let her know that he could live a good life even without the Du family.

However, whenever the night is quiet, the beautiful memories of him and her in the past come flooding back to him.

He knew he was completely doomed; he had no interest in any other woman besides her.

Until recently, he finally learned the real reason why Su Peishan had so resolutely broken up with him back then.

It wasn't that she didn't love him, but that her father had secretly approached her and forced her to leave him.

Thinking of this, Du Muchen's cold heart gradually warmed up a little.

Su Peishan stood with her back to him, her spine straight, but her thin body trembled slightly, and her hands, hanging at her sides, unconsciously gripped her sleeves.

Don't be soft-hearted, Su Peishan. You're almost thirty years old now. You're not the naive girl who just graduated from college a few years ago.

Seeing a handsome young man squatting by the roadside, you might assume he's a harmless lamb.

In fact, the more harmless a lamb may seem, the more dangers it may actually hide in the shadows.

Didn't you suffer enough setbacks back then?

“I’ve almost forgotten what happened in the past, but if I caused you any harm back then, I sincerely apologize.”

Clench your fists and take a deep breath.

Su Peishan slowly turned around.

"But who hasn't encountered a few scumbags in their life? Just consider it bad luck to have met the wrong person, and it taught you a lesson in life during your naive and ignorant youth."

Du Muchen strode up to Su Peishan and wrapped his arms tightly around her shoulders.

“I know everything now. My father himself admitted that when your mother was critically ill, he secretly used despicable means to make all the hospitals in Pingxiang refuse to admit her. You had no choice but to come to the capital, hoping to get your mother treated in a hospital there. But all the hospitals in the capital also refused to admit you. In order to save your mother, you had no choice but to agree to my father’s request: never come to me again.”

During that time, he was tricked by his father into going abroad, where he was told he would study under a famous teacher for three months.

In order to enter society as soon as possible and earn money to give her a good life, he chose to study abroad.

Unexpectedly, she encountered such a huge change in these three months.

The death of a loved one, unemployment, and being evicted by the landlord.

There was nowhere left for her in the entire capital.

He could imagine how helpless she must have felt at that moment.

But when he called her, she always managed to soothe his anxiety and longing with her usual encouraging tone.

He even blamed her for cruelly abandoning him back then.

Looking back now, I realize how ignorant he was.

Su Peishan lowered her head, her eyes closed, and remained silent.

Du Muchen's eyes welled up with tears, filled with self-reproach.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know what you had gone through back then, and I took all my anger out on you."

"Du Muchen, don't flatter yourself. It was me who wanted to leave you back then. I didn't love you anymore, you know? When I thought of you and your Du family, all I felt was hatred!"

Su Peishan slowly freed herself from Du Muchen's hands.

“If it weren’t for the Du family’s bullying and abuse of power, my mother’s illness wouldn’t have been delayed. If the hospital had been willing to admit her back then, she would still be alive and well. It’s all because of you that my mother left me forever. I was filled with hatred back then. I hated myself for taking you in out of pity, and I hated myself even more for falling in love with you.”

Du Muchen's eyes welled up with tears, filled with self-reproach.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's all because of me. You can hate me, but please stop blaming yourself. This has nothing to do with you, it's my fault."

Su Peishan suppressed the urge to cry and gave a self-deprecating laugh.

"Then blame it on fate. Who arranged for me to meet you? In my mother's eyes, we are both sinners!"

Upon hearing Su Peishan's words, Du Muchen felt as if his heart had been ripped out.

He was like a child who had made a mistake, clutching her sleeve with one hand.

“Peishan, I would rather you put all your hatred on me and not make things difficult for yourself. Your aunt in heaven would not want you to be like this.”

Su Peishan raised her head, her eyes glistening with tears, but she stubbornly refused to let them fall.

"I don't hate you anymore. There is no hate without love. From now on, I only hope that we can be like strangers and that you will not disturb my life anymore."

Du Muchen's hand, which was gripping the hem of his clothes, tensed subconsciously. After hesitating for a long time, he loosened his fingers one by one and took a step back.

I'll set you free!

Without hesitation, Su Peishan strode away.

Only she knew how conflicted she felt at that moment.

She didn't dare turn around to look at him, not even for a glance, for fear that she would lose control of her restless emotions.

Du Muchen returned to the ward dejectedly.

Just as I reached the door, I heard a gasp.

"Qianmo? Where is Qianmo?"

Du Muchen's expression suddenly changed, and he rushed inside.

Seeing Ji Cong'an lying unconscious on the hospital bed and Han Songyan standing beside the bed with a shocked expression.

Du Muchen inwardly cried out in alarm.

Where is Xiao Momo?

Han Songyan shook her head: "I just came back from outside and saw him lying in the hospital bed, but Qianmo was nowhere to be seen."

Seeing that Han Songyan was unaware of the situation, Du Muchen immediately went to the bedside and nudged Ji Cong'an.

"Old Ji, wake up!"

No matter how much he patted him, Ji Cong'an's eyes remained tightly closed, showing no sign of waking up.

"What should we do? Where did Qianmo go? Could she have been taken away by bad guys?"

Han Songyan was in a panic.

"Don't worry, there are surveillance cameras all around the hospital, and we'll find out what happened soon."

Han Songyan suddenly realized: "Yes, there are surveillance cameras!"