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Ye Wenyu gave up on postgraduate entrance exams, and her life seemed to have lost its winding mechanism. She became listless, pessimistic, and world-weary. Every day, her mind was filled with either Cai Wenchuan's death or her mother's death. She felt that life had lost its motivation and interest. Sometimes, she would wake up suddenly in the middle of the night, overwhelmed by fear and pain, making her wish she could go to another world with her mother.

Sometimes, when she was alone, she would muster up the courage several times to turn on the recorder and listen to the truth, but at the last moment, she would lose the courage.

Lin Tingfeng was the only person she had ever truly loved in this world.

She still cannot face the fact that Lin Tingfeng killed her mother, so she does not have the courage to face the truth now.

The person she loved most killed the person who gave her life, raised her, and loved her most.

Such a truth was an unbearable weight, suffocating her and making her feel like she was living in hell every day. She dared not think about it, for to even think about it was like being slowly tortured to death.

Life is like a tangled mess, and love and hate in relationships are like knots that can never be untied.

Time passed day by day, and she lived in a daze, numb and disoriented, like a rubber doll, without a soul or thoughts. Only in this way could she survive.

That evening, Ye Wenyu hurriedly returned home from grocery shopping alone. It was getting dark, the twilight like smoke enveloping the surroundings, everything appearing indistinct under the dim streetlights. To survive, one needs food and clothing. Since she had no appetite or friends to go to restaurants, she had to buy groceries and cook for herself, hastily chopping and heating the food to make do with her three meals a day. Because she had no income, her rented room was practically a slum, extremely basic, and often frequented by unidentified people, making it very dangerous.

Ye Wenyu walked along blankly with her head down. Occasionally, when she looked up, she would see someone standing in front of her. It was raining at the time, and under the orange-red streetlights, the raindrops fell in thin lines, like silver needles. That person was holding a large black umbrella and standing in the endless drizzle.

Because she had rushed out, she forgot to bring an umbrella, so her hair and clothes were soaked with rain. When she looked closely, she saw Jiang Zhiming holding a large umbrella, smiling at her.

How long has it been since she last saw him? When was the last time they met? Didn't she say that for his safety, it would be best to make him disappear from her world?

Why did he find her again?

Ye Wenyu immediately turned around and hurriedly walked in another direction. In any case, in order to stop harming people, she had to draw a line between herself and him!

Why was he so dense and stupid, unable to see her kindness and anxiety?

Jiang Zhiming caught up with him in a few quick steps.

He stood like a wall in front of Ye Wenyu once again.

Her face flushed red with anger and anxiety, like a boiled shrimp.

The rain was getting heavier, with raindrops as big as beans.

After an unknown amount of time, Jiang Zhiming said to Ye Wenyu with deep affection and tenderness, "Xiaoyu, you've lost so much weight. How did you end up living in a place like this? You're about to graduate from university, have you gone back to get your diploma?"

University graduate? Ye Wenyu paused for a moment before realizing that she had already graduated from university. She was actually a recent college graduate. However, after experiencing so much, she thought she was an old woman with white hair nearing the end of her life. She never expected that she had just graduated from university.

Ye Wenyu was somewhat shocked. She stood there, letting the raindrops hit her body. After a long while, she answered in a hoarse voice, "I still have three courses to pass the exams, so I won't be able to get my graduation certificate."

Thinking about it, her life is such a failure! She couldn't get a college degree, couldn't find a job, her mother died, and she was all alone, poor and miserable, with no home and no friends.

It was raining, the sky was gray and gloomy, and the world felt like a heavy sheet of lead, pressing down on my heart. There was no way forward, no way back, no hope, only despair.

She lowered her head, her heart filled with utter despair.

Why hasn't the man in front of her left? Does he want to stay and laugh at her? She's injured and on the verge of death. Can't she just hide away and quietly recover?

This man is absolutely despicable!

Jiang Zhiming stood in front of her, leaned forward, and thoughtfully held the large umbrella over her head to shield her from the raindrops falling from the sky. The rain grew heavier and heavier, almost pouring down, hitting the top of the umbrella with a "bang bang bang" sound.

Small puddles quickly formed on the ground, the water splashing and disappearing in an instant under the dim streetlights.

Jiang Zhiming's eyes were filled with heartache as he said urgently to Ye Wenyu, "Xiaoyu, let me take care of you, okay? If you continue like this, you'll ruin yourself! Do you know that?"

She ruined herself? Even after all this, she hasn't ruined herself yet? Does she still have hope? Jiang Zhiming is truly laughable!

Ye Wenyu suddenly raised her head, swiftly reached out and shoved Jiang Zhiming, saying to him, "I don't need your help! Go away, go now, I don't want to hurt you!"

Jiang Zhiming, however, remained unmoved, like a mountain. He raised his voice and urged her, "Are you worried that Lin Tingfeng will come after me? Let me tell you, I'm not afraid! Even if I die because of you, I won't regret it! I'll only regret it if you don't want me to take care of you and I just watch you head towards destruction!"

He reached out, his face full of regret, and tried to pull Ye Wenyu into his arms. His voice trembled as he said loudly, "I fell in love with you at first sight. You are my first love. I have never forgotten you for a moment these past few years. Xiaoyu, we are both unfortunate people. Let us be together."

We're all unfortunate people, but can unfortunate people stick together for warmth? No, they'll only bind each other together and drag each other into a deeper quagmire!

Ye Wenyu suddenly burst into tears. She reached out and kept hitting Jiang Zhiming. The two of them almost wrestled together. The large black umbrella fell to the ground, and then Ye Wenyu saw the world clearly.

Through the blurry rain, she saw Lin Tingfeng. He was standing in the rain dressed in black, without an umbrella, looking like a raging beast, tall and strong, with a sinister expression.

Ye Wenyu became frightened, her whole body trembling. She almost screamed as she shouted at Jiang Zhiming, "Get out! Get out of here now! Don't bother me!"

With his back to Lin Tingfeng, Jiang Zhiming didn't see Lin Tingfeng, so he still tried to pull the struggling and out-of-control Ye Wenyu into his arms.

To avoid Lin Tingfeng misunderstanding, Ye Wenyu had no choice but to lower her head like a little beast and bite Jiang Zhiming's wrist fiercely.