When Lou Shumin heard the whole story yesterday, she cursed Cui Xueheng's ancestors for eighteen generations and almost made a doll to curse her.

This harmful thing deserves to die!

Meng Sheng nodded and replied softly, "Yes, I know. Thank you, cousin."

Xu Jinmin touched her head and said, "Go ahead. Be careful on the road. When you get home and charge your phone, send me a message to let me know you're safe. Otherwise, my uncle and I will be worried."

"Okay, I'm leaving now."

Meng Sheng agreed and packed his bag. Then he said hello to Meng Chengli and turned to leave the ward.

As she took the elevator down, she couldn't help but think of what Pei Sui said before he went down.

When she reached the basement floor and the elevator door opened, she saw a familiar figure standing not far away before she could even take a step.

He stood there straight, like a green bamboo standing tall in the wind.

Suddenly, her heart seemed to be gently brushed by something, and ripples spread out from the center.

Whenever Pei Sui heard the sound of the elevator door opening, he would always look over here. Finally, after turning his head dozens of times, he saw the only light he wanted to see.

He was stunned for a second, then walked to the elevator door.

Meng Sheng also came back to his senses, stepped out of the elevator, and asked first, "Have you eaten?"

"Yeah." Pei Sui reached out to take her bag and asked, "Have you eaten?"

"have eaten."

As soon as she answered, her hand felt empty. Before she could react, her empty hand was wrapped by a big warm hand.

She was slightly startled, and was led by him to walk in front of a familiar black Maybach.

Pei Sui helped her open the passenger door, put his hand over her head, and waited until she was seated before putting her bag in the back seat.

I walked around the front of the car, got into the driver's cab, started the car, and drove out of the parking lot.

The car was silent. Pei Sui adjusted the temperature and humidity inside the car and handed her his coat. "Didn't you get much sleep last night? Go get some sleep first. I'll call you when we get home."

"When you sleep, your body temperature drops. Cover yourself with clothes and don't catch a cold."

Meng Sheng looked at his face, and after a few seconds, he took his suit jacket and said, "Okay."

She was indeed a little sleepy now. Not only was her eyelids drooping, but she didn't even want to talk.

She covered herself with her coat, lowered the chair a little, and lay sideways on it. As the car passed a traffic light, her steady breathing could be heard from inside the car.

Pei Sui turned his head to look at her several times, and the anxiety that had been lingering between his brows suddenly dissipated a lot.

He slowed down a bit and drove steadily.

An hour later, we arrived at the Left Bank Courtyard.

He didn't rush to wake her up. After about thirty or forty minutes, he called her name softly.

Meng Sheng opened her eyes drowsily, and a blurry outline came into her sight. She was stunned for a moment, her consciousness still a little confused.

He was stunned for a few seconds before coming to his senses, his eyes widened a little, but his soft voice still carried a strong sense of fatigue and sleepiness.

"Um... we're here."

Pei Sui felt distressed when he saw that she could barely open her eyelids. "Well, how long did you sleep last night?"

"Not asleep."

Meng Sheng sat up, and the coat covering his body immediately slipped down to his legs.

The voice, which had just woken up, was a little hoarse and very light, "My dad was not feeling well last night. He couldn't sleep well and had to wake up from time to time."

Upon hearing this, Pei Sui gripped the steering wheel a little harder.

After she unbuckled her seat belt, he said, "Then go to bed early and have a good sleep tonight."

"Um."

Meng Sheng responded casually, put on his coat, pushed open the car door and got out, then picked up her bag from the back seat.

Pei Sui walked around to her side and reached out to take the things in her hand, "I'll take it."

But Meng Sheng only returned his coat to him. He still held the bag in his hand and moved it aside. "No, it's not heavy."

Pei Sui's hand hanging in the air paused, curled up twice before retracting it, and raised his leg to follow.

After entering the elevator, Meng Sheng suddenly thought of something, "Oh, my luggage..."

A flash of realization crossed Pei Sui's handsome face, and he just remembered, "It should be in the trunk. I forgot to take it. I'll go get it later."

"good."

Meng Sheng responded and glanced at him sideways, "Go eat something first. It's not too late to get it tomorrow, and there's no rush to use it."

"Okay." Pei Sui also looked back at her, "If you stay at the old house, I'll have someone send it over tomorrow."

The elevator quickly reached the 11th floor. When the door opened, Meng Sheng pursed her lips and said, "You should get some rest tonight. Tomorrow morning, I'm not in a hurry to go to the hospital, so we can... talk."

After saying that, she retracted her gaze, quickly concealed the reluctance and sadness in her eyes, and walked out of the elevator.

But just as she walked out of the elevator, a figure suddenly came down from behind her. In the next instant, two hands came from the side and wrapped around her waist, and her back was pressed against a warm and firm chest.

A pleasant and cool scent of cedar enveloped her in an instant.

Her heart skipped a beat and her expression was stunned for a moment.

The male voice she was most familiar with sounded in her ears, with a cold and low tone mixed with a hint of trembling.

"Are you...going to break up with me?"

He couldn't wait until tomorrow and wanted an answer now, otherwise, this night would be too tormenting.

It’s like a death row inmate waiting for the verdict. He knows the answer, but can only wait for death.

He doesn't like this feeling and is afraid of losing it.

No matter how difficult it is, the question is finally asked.

Meng Sheng was shocked.

She asked this question over and over in her mind, but the more she asked, the emptier her heart seemed to become, and it felt like a hole had been opened in it, with a cold wind like that of a winter day constantly pouring in.

Trying to fill that heart.

But it is useless to replenish it. The more you add, the more you lose.

Separate?

The answer seemed to become clearer, but she wanted to cover it up with fog, but...

There were already so many emotions tangled in my chest, and now it's even more chaotic.

In this small space of the short corridor, time seemed to have stopped flowing the moment they hugged each other. Even the dust remained in the air, no longer floating up and down.

Each other's senses were infinitely magnified, the frequency of breathing, the speed of heartbeat...

The longer the silence lasted, the more Pei Sui felt depressed and panicky.

He suddenly felt a little uneasy and scared, afraid of hearing the words he hated the most from her mouth.

So, when Meng Sheng said that, he felt like he was hallucinating.

"Pei Sui, let's... just forget it."

Not suitable.

They are not suitable.

The word "break up" was too heavy for her.

She couldn't say it.

But the three words "forget it" don't seem to be that light either.

It also made her breathless.

So after she said this, she began to have tinnitus, and the air in her heart and lungs was suddenly sucked out of her, making her breathe a little lighter, yet she felt extremely suffocated.

She pressed her back against his chest as usual.

The lights in the city outside are still bright and brilliant, the traffic is still flowing, and the world is running as usual.

But it was this "normality" that made her feel extremely cold and lonely, as if her world was collapsing, and the capital, this extravagant and decadent gold-spending den, was completely unaware of it.

Her eyes suddenly felt sore and hot, and her vision became blurred.

She clearly felt that she seemed to no longer have the courage to face the troubles that Cui Xueheng would encounter after returning to China, as well as the possible pressure from the Cui family.

Last time at the Pei family's old house, she had already witnessed the three Cui siblings' ability to fight for power even though they were rude.

She wasn't sure if she could handle the pressure.

There is also a barrier in her heart that seems shallow but deeply affects her judgment.

so……

She wanted to be a deserter.

It was also my first time being a deserter.

Can……

Why does it hurt so much?

My heart aches, my lungs aches, my throat aches, my head aches, it's like my whole body is aching, even my bones are becoming extremely painful.