Meanwhile, Yan Qiao and Lu Qi were chatting in the kitchen.

"Sister Lu Qi, Mr. Chu, is he here for you?"

Lu Qi was taken aback, then gave a wry smile.

"How could that be?"

Yan Qiao said, "Aren't you two each other's first love?"

Lu Qi readily admitted, "Yes, Mr. Pei told you?"

Yan Qiao nodded. "I heard that Mr. Chu still thinks highly of you."

Lu Qi shook her head with a wry smile, "This is absolutely a rumor. He and I broke up a long time ago. There are so many old flames rekindled and broken mirrors mended in this world."

Yan Qiao hesitated for a moment, "But he was the one who helped solve Bai Yue's problem last time."

Lu Qi was taken aback. "Really?"

She really didn't know.

He thought he was just lucky that Lan Baoshan's wife discovered his infidelity.

"Maybe it was just something I did on a whim."

When Yan Qiao heard her words, it seemed she would rather believe that he did it on a whim than believe that Chu Xiting still had feelings for her.

How did you two meet?

Lu Qi paused, thought for a moment, and fell into memories.

It seems like many years have passed.

"When I met him, I was very young, so it was considered puppy love."

Chu Xiting comes from a single-parent family; he has only one mother who raised him with great difficulty.

Early romantic relationships between two people are not allowed in the eyes of their parents and guardians.

Their relationship lasted less than six months before it was discovered by Chu Xiting's mother.

His mother knew her son well and tried to dissuade him from doing so, so she went to find Lu Qi.

Raising a son was no easy task for her. She reasoned with him and appealed to his emotions, eventually persuading Lu Qi to initiate the breakup himself.

"My parents didn't even know about this relationship. I cried in bed and broke up with him the next day."

The reason was made up on the spot, and thinking about it now still makes me feel a little pained.

I don't know if it's because of my first love, or because of my youth, but that relationship, which lasted less than half a year, is so unforgettable.

“I came to Yancheng for university, and I know he did too. Yancheng is really big. So many years have passed, and we have never met once.”

“I said he couldn’t possibly be hung up on me because I know he holds grudges.”

After their breakup, his last words were: "This is the only time. You won't have another chance."

Yan Qiao bit her lip, "Maybe it's not your fault, it's his mother's..."

Lu Qi chuckled. "But that decision was mine. What did Yan Qiao's mother do wrong? She had the heart of a loving mother. And what did he do wrong? He knew nothing."

"But you didn't do anything wrong either."

Lu Qi smiled and shook his head, offering no comment.

In fact, if she had to do it all over again, she would still make the same choice.

Even now, she is still glad that she broke up with him back then.

Because after the breakup, something bad happened to her family.

Chu Xiting is a very responsible person. When he learned that Lu Qi's family had encountered a problem, his first reaction was definitely to share the responsibility with her, rather than to run away from it.

In that case, she would become a burden to Chu Xiting, an inescapable hindrance.

Thinking about it this way, Chu Xiting's mother was quite farsighted.

Yan Qiao didn't know what to say, so she simply remained silent.

We really shouldn't comment too much on other people's feelings.

The two were chatting idly when they suddenly mentioned Pei Jingzhan.

Lu Qi paused for a moment and then said, "Yan Qiao, I think this Mr. Pei looks very familiar."

Yan Qiao was taken aback. "Have you seen him before?"

Lu Qi shook her head. "It's not that his face looks familiar, it's his demeanor. I feel that Mr. Pei is not simple."

She felt that there was only one person in the entire Yancheng who could leave such a deep impression on her, with such a domineering aura and such outstanding temperament, and whose surname was Pei.

But she wasn't sure, so she didn't utter any nonsense in front of Yan Qiao.

Yan Qiao bit her lip. "You also think he's lying to me?"

Lu Qi hesitated for a moment and said, "I'm not sure, but I think relationships should be open and honest. You've only just started, and you've already sown the seeds of future problems. It's not good for the future."

Yan Qiao kept her words in mind.

Given Shiloh's reaction today, it is indeed very suspicious.

Even though Yan Qiao kept telling herself it, she couldn't convince herself.

To put it bluntly, she was just blinded by love. Pei Jingzhan had obvious flaws from beginning to end, but she stubbornly ignored them.

Yan Qiao absentmindedly thought about how she had been attracted to his face from the beginning, then to his body, and now.

She actually developed feelings for him.

She originally thought that once she got into university, the two of them could officially become a couple.

She can openly tell everyone, "This is my boyfriend."

They can get married after she graduates.

They can watch the snow together, surf together, see the aurora together, and many other things they can do together, all of which are listed in her little notebook.

Lucy and Shiloh's words made her feel extremely insecure.

There was even a hint of fear.

That evening, Yan Qiao strolled around and went into Pei Jingzhan's room again.

He was still taking a shower.

Yan Qiao sat down at his desk, cross-legged, and curled up in the leather chair.

She rested her chin on her knees, looking at her phone on the table.

She knew Pei Jingzhan's password.

I've heard that many girls want to look at their boyfriends' phones to prove their honesty and loyalty.

Yan Qiao was disdainful; out of respect, she had never looked through Pei Jingzhan's phone.

Today, however, I couldn't resist picking it up.

"Just one look," Yan murmured, swiping the screen saver and entering the password.

His phone was clean; it didn't even have any shopping apps, and the only app on the screen was WeChat.

Yan Qiao hesitated for a moment before clicking on it.

Her WeChat account was pinned to the top; Yan Qiao had taught him to do that.

Below are Li Qiao and Xi Luo's WeChat contacts. Both of them use their real names and do not need to be noted.

Yan Qiao bit her lip. According to this ranking, Pei Jingzhan should have contacted these two people recently.

Are he and Shiloh very close?

Yan Qiao hesitated for a while before opening the chat window with Xi Luo.

The conversation is still stuck on their chat from today.

Xi Luo accused Pei Jingzhan of lacking martial ethics and deliberately getting close to her.

He also accused Pei Jingzhan of not liking him at all, and of deliberately approaching him only to break her up with Xi Luo.

As Yan Qiao looked at it, she suddenly felt a stinging pain in her eyes.

Especially the words "Third Uncle".

In the entire Yancheng, there is only one person whom Xi Luo calls "Third Uncle".

There was a noise coming from the bathroom; Pei Jingzhan had come out.

Yan Qiao quickly put down her phone and blinked her sore eyes.

Before they could make a move, their eyes met.

Pei Jingzhan's gaze sharpened as he glanced at the phone still lit up on the screen, not even having exited the interface.

Yan Qiao opened her mouth, but suddenly felt that the man in front of her was extremely unfamiliar.

Just yesterday, they were still passionately kissing.

She pursed her lips, unsure of what to say.

"I'm sorry, I looked at your phone."

But if she doesn't look, she doesn't know when she'll discover that he's a liar!

She was completely absorbed in this scam and felt perfectly content with it.

It was so close, I couldn't get out.

Pei Jingzhan walked over slowly, looking at Yan Qiao who was clearly very angry and furious, yet acted like a child who had done something wrong, and felt a dull pain in his heart.

Even if she didn't see it today, he planned to find an opportunity to tell her and clear this landmine.