Zhou Shi was already annoyed, and now he said in a very aggressive tone: "What's it to you?"

"How can you talk like that?" Huo Minxuan also got angry.

After An Meng kicked him into the swimming pool, he drank a belly full of water. No one dared to go down to rescue him. In the end, someone threw a swimming ring into the pool, and he was able to save his life. He was looking for someone to vent his anger.

"You still have the energy to get angry with me here," Huo Minxuan sneered, "You might as well think about what to do in the future so that your old man won't vent his anger on you."

Zhou Shi's cheek muscles twitched a few times. Huo Minxuan's words hit him right in the sore spot.

Zhou Shi felt angry and was about to say something when he heard footsteps behind him. It was Xie Yun and the girl with long black hair.

"Are you leaving now?" Zhou Yucheng followed behind, reluctantly trying to persuade her to stay. "Xiao Mengmeng, you really don't want to stay and help me clean?"

Xie Yun was silent. An Meng said coldly, "It's late. Take your time to clean up."

Zhou Yucheng opened his mouth unwillingly, and Xie Yun glanced at him warningly: "You should take care of your family affairs first."

"Okay," Zhou Yucheng was rejected and pretended to cry, "How heartless! You called me Sweetie during the fireworks, and then you turned me into Mrs. Niu after the fireworks."

An Meng: “…”

[There's too much drama, bro!]

"Don't be so ungrateful after getting such an advantage." Xie Yun sneered and asked An Meng, "Are you leaving?"

An Meng looked back at the mess in the living room and said decisively, "Let's go!"

Huo Minxuan stood aside, his hair still wet, glaring at Xie Yun and angrily saying, "Xie Yun! Just wait and see."

"And you," he turned to An Meng, his expression changed, and his tone was a little complicated, "I'll remember the account for tonight."

An Meng had a stern face, as if she didn't hear anything.

【Fart! Love to remember!】

[When the enemy comes, I will fight back. When the water comes, I will build a wall. I am not from this world, so why should I be afraid of you?]

The two men didn't even look at him, walked away expressionlessly, and completely ignored Huo Minxuan.

Zhou Yucheng laughed out loud, ignoring the ugly expressions of Huo Minxuan and Zhou Shi, and went back to the living room to clean up while humming a little tune.

Actually, we could ask the cleaning lady to come, but he was very excited tonight and really wanted to clean the house.

After getting on the bus, the cool air from the air conditioner filled the car, and An Meng finally breathed a sigh of relief.

[Success! Zhou Yucheng's stepmother should be offline soon, right?]

In the original novel, Ye Ya repeatedly schemed to embarrass Zhou Yucheng in front of his father, causing his father to gradually lose hope in him. Over time, Zhou Huarong began to consider Zhou Shi his heir.

[Now she can't do anything weird anymore.]

An Meng turned her head to look at the rapidly receding city lights outside, and her excitement about the progress of the mission suddenly cooled down.

Unspeakable loneliness and emptiness surged up, drowning her from head to toe.

This is not her world.

An Meng withdrew her gaze and looked at Xie Yun again. He was driving calmly, his profile flickering in the light that quickly passed by the car window. He was handsome and flawless, like a sculpture made of jade.

But An Meng knew that he was a real, living person.

Then, she suddenly felt a desire to communicate, and said for no apparent reason, "Xie Yun."

Xie Yun stared intently at the road conditions and nodded.

"Why did Huo Minxuan treat you like that tonight?"

"..." Xie Yun slowed down the car and gave her a brief look without saying a word.

Don’t you know everything? Why are you still asking? He thought to himself as he looked at the endless stream of traffic in front of him.

However, in that brief glance just now, he saw that An Meng's expression was almost expectant.

Perhaps it was the alluring night that caused Xie Yun's long-lost desire to talk to suddenly resurface.

"I've told you before," he said indifferently, "when I was nine years old, a Taoist priest told me that I was destined to be alone."

"Yeah." An Meng was surprised and quickly responded. She didn't expect Xie Yun to actually speak.

"...You know," Xie Yun said directly, unwilling to repeat the ending they both knew, "The Taoist priest said I couldn't stay in the Xie family anymore, so my parents sent me to stay with the Huo family. I stayed there until I was 18."

An Meng listened carefully and then interrupted, "Will your fate change if you go to the Huo family?"

[That Taoist priest is talking nonsense. If going to the Huo family could change the ending, why would this novel exist?]

Xie Yun was stunned and silent for a few seconds before shaking his head. "I don't know. Maybe it's just that I can avoid bringing disaster to the Xie family."

This was said with a hint of sarcasm. If he didn't want to harm the Xie family, would he be able to harm the Huo family?

"Grandfather Huo Yuntian really dislikes me, and Huo Minxuan is used to changing his attitude according to the situation," Xie Yun frowned in disgust. "You saw it just now, he's always like that."

An Meng pursed her lips. She knew the plot.

The original novel uses words like "living under someone else's roof", "silent" and "depressed youth" to briefly describe Xie Yun's youth. However, the days that flow like water are not shortened by a single second because of the brevity of the words.

"But going to the Huo family is really useless," Xie Yun said coldly, "My parents died when I was thirteen."

He curled the corners of his lips stiffly: "My father provoked an enemy when he was young. When that person came out of prison, the first thing he did was to seek revenge.

"My mom...she was with my dad at the time and was also implicated. They were both stabbed multiple times. They received first aid, but they both died."

The pale plot that the system had crammed into An Meng, when narrated by Xie Yun, was mixed with the heavy power of blood and regrets that had fermented over a long period of time.

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