Late at night, at Qin Xu's home.

Qin's parents had just fallen asleep when Qin Xu lay down, and his phone beeped.

Qin Wan: "I miss you."

His lips unconsciously curled up in a smile, but Qin Xu tried hard to control himself and prevent himself from losing his composure.

The other party is typing...

The other party is typing...

...

Five minutes had passed...

Qin Wan stared at the notification that kept appearing at the top of the chat interface, lost in thought.

Just as Qin Wan was pondering whether to call directly, Qin Xu, as if on the same wavelength, called her.

"You're not replying to my messages."

As soon as the call connected, Qin Wan's accusations began.

Qin Xu's breathing was slightly rapid on the other end of the phone...

"May I come in?"

"?" Qin Wan was taken aback.

"You...are in my house?"

"Yes, I rushed over as soon as I received the message."

We sped all the way here.

Fortunately, it was late at night and there were few cars, which allowed him to travel without any obstacles.

This time, it was Qin Wan's turn not to reply to Qin Xu's messages.

The door opened with a "click".

Upon seeing Qin Xu standing at the gate, Qin Wan immediately rushed into his arms and hugged him tightly.

Qin Xu hugged her and quickly led her into the house, closing the door behind him.

Unexpectedly, the two had barely entered the house when, before Qin Xu could react, Qin Wan lifted her head from his embrace and suddenly attacked him...

Their lips met...

Feeling the warmth emanating from her, Qin Xu was afraid that his own chill would make her feel cold.

But Qin Wan hugged him tightly, and after failing to push her away, he could only respond to her with a mixture of helplessness and sweetness.

After a moment of sweet intimacy, Qin Wan nestled in Qin Xu's arms and reached out to trace his features.

"Is there anything else I don't know?" Qin Wan asked.

"What?" Qin Xu was taken aback, looking at her with puzzlement in his eyes.

Qin Wan smiled and held up the notebook in her hand.

Qin Xu: "!!!"

He instinctively reached out to grab it, expecting her to dodge, but to his surprise, he easily got his hands on the diary.

Qin Xu looked at her with a puzzled expression...

Qin Wan smiled at him and said, "I've finished reading it."

Qin Xu: "!!!"

"How...how did you get it?" Qin Xu's expression was very awkward and unpleasant.

"Aunt Qin gave it to me, saying it was a gift to mark our first meeting."

Qin Xu: "..."

She turned Qin Xu's face around and stared intently at him.

Is there anything else?

Qin Xu: "..."

"No, that's all," Qin Xu said, his eyes darting away.

I don't believe it.

"Speak quickly."

As she spoke, Qin Wan kissed Qin Xu's thin lips as if as a reward.

Qin Xu: "..."

"Really not going to tell?" Qin Wan said, pretending to threaten him as she got up and moved away from him.

Seeing this, Qin Xu finally reacted, and his long, slender hand suddenly rested on her slender waist.

"I can't really remember many things."

"I only remember two times..." Qin Xu said with a helpless look in his eyes.

"Hmm?" Qin Wan raised an eyebrow, looking curious.

"Those thugs who ambushed Wenze last time..."

thugs surrounding Wenze?

What does this have to do with her?

The thought had just surfaced in Qin Wan's mind.

The next second, she remembered that Wen Ze had deliberately pretended to be a green tea bitch to try and drag her into it. It seemed that the group of thugs had indeed been misled by Wen Ze and tried to keep her there.

However, in the end, the group of thugs obediently made way for her...

"What did you do to them?" Qin Wan asked him curiously.

"Nothing much, we just took down their base," Qin Xu said casually.

Qin Wan: "???"

“I am a law-abiding citizen. It’s those thugs who are no good. They have a lot of experience in extortion. I just provided the police with some simple information and addresses.”

Qin Wan: "..." Indeed, she is an excellent law-abiding citizen.

"And what about the other thing?"

Unlike his previous nonchalant expression, when another matter was mentioned, Qin Xu suddenly began to avoid her gaze, his eyes filled with complex emotions of surprise and uncertainty.

In that instant, the blank page of the diary involuntarily flashed into Qin Wan's mind...

"Is it the man from back then?" Qin Wan suddenly asked.

Qin Xu's pupils contracted, and he looked at her in disbelief.

"you……"

“I looked for him later, but I couldn’t find him.” Qin Wan stared intently at him with burning eyes. “You did it, didn’t you?”

"……Um."

Seeing that Qin Wan looked calm and seemed to have emerged from the shadow of the past, Qin Xu felt a little relieved.

“For those few months, I was tracking him and gathering evidence.”

"Later, I learned boxing from you, and after I got a little better at it, I often ambushed him..."

Qin Wan hit him.

He then hit that man.

He was tolerant of Qin Wan, accepting all her emotions and outbursts.

But he was just a child the same age as Qin Wan...

He also needed to vent his emotions.

My heartache for Qin Wan, my self-blame for him, and my hatred and loathing for the culprit...

Even during those days when he suffered greatly at the hands of Qin Wan, how could he not feel wronged?

So before he had enough evidence and sufficient confidence and ability to put that man in jail, he would continue to secretly do dirty work...

Put it in a burlap sack.

Hit him with a blunt object.

I dressed up as a ghost to scare him.

Demolish his house.

Tell his enemy the man's hiding place.

In short, he was wildly active and restless during that period.

Several months later, he successfully gathered enough evidence, and an anonymous letter sent the man straight to jail.

And so it all finally came to an end.

"Actually... nothing happened back then."

Seeing the heartache in Qin Xu's eyes, Qin Wan suddenly explained.

Qin Xu: "?"

"That man was drunk."

"I ran into Qin Cheng that day. I saw the woman and child with him..."

"It wasn't until that moment that I realized why he had never wanted to come home to see me."

It turned out that it wasn't that he refused to go home, but that the house she was in was no longer Qin Cheng's home.

Qin Cheng's home is in another house in this city...

That day...

She ran off to drink, then walked down the street, looking lost and dejected.

That man was also drunk...

Because she was pretty, he verbally abused her and even tried to take advantage of her...

Then, what Qin Xu saw when he arrived was...

She was only acting in self-defense.

When Qin Xu arrived, the scene was quite frightening.

In reality, the man only had superficial injuries.

The knife was for sharpening pencils; she had somehow slipped it into her pocket, and it was practically harmless.

It was just a cut to the man's skin, causing him to bleed a bit, which made it look a little scary.

That day, the most serious injury on that man's body was probably the one when the original owner resisted and pushed him away so hard that the back of his head hit the ground hard...

A mild concussion is likely present...

After all, the impact immediately knocked the man unconscious.

Furthermore, the rain caused the man's blood to mix with the rainwater, resulting in the extremely horrifying scene that Qin Xu witnessed when he arrived...

"And what about your emotional breakdown in the following months..."

Was it also because of Uncle Qin?

"It's because of Qincheng," Qin Wan said calmly.

Qin Xu: "..." So he misunderstood?

So...did he ultimately misplace his trust?