Chongxi struggled to break free from the bodyguard's hold, but no matter how hard she struggled, the bodyguard's hands were as firm as steel, tightly gripping her shoulders, and she couldn't break free.

Not far away, Di Chenxiao knocked down the bodyguard, clenched his fists, his eyes reddened, and said coldly, "Release her! I'll go back with you and let you punish me as you please."

After saying that, he knelt down on both knees.

With his own abilities, he couldn't take Xixi away. He couldn't let Xixi be in danger. The Di family members were all beasts, inhuman, and capable of anything.

Di Chenxiao's father paused, for he had never seen Di Chenxiao back down before.

"Let me punish him? You go ahead and teach him a lesson. If he dares to run away, he'll pay the price."

The two bodyguards behind him went straight for Di Chenxiao, who was kneeling on the ground, and punched him in the most painful places.

Di Chenxiao dared not fight back and was truly at the mercy of others.

Ten minutes later, Di Chenxiao was covered in blood, with countless broken ribs, a fractured right arm, and a swollen face, his handsome appearance completely gone.

After the bodyguard stopped, Di Chenxiao's father said, "I've told you before, you're just a lackey of the Di family, a tool to work for the Di family. You have no right to have feelings, nor do you have the right to a comfortable life. Since you have feelings, you're an unqualified tool."

He pointed the gun at Di Chenxiao's forehead and slowly pulled the trigger.

Chongxi wasn't a crybaby, but she kept crying for the ten minutes that Di Chenxiao was being beaten, watching the man lying on the ground covered in blood.

"Bang--"

She mustered all her strength to break free from the bodyguard's grasp, ran to his side, and took the fatal bullet for him.

The world fell silent instantly.

The bullet pierced Chongxi's heart; there was no way to save him.

Di Chenxiao seemed to have lost his soul. When he came to his senses, he struggled to crawl toward Chongxi, who was waiting for him just three steps away.

His throat felt as if it were being choked, and he couldn't speak. His heart ached so much that he couldn't breathe, and everything before his eyes turned dark. Only a pale and weak Chongxi could be seen in his eyes.

Chongxi glanced at Di Chenxiao, unable to utter a single word; she seemed to be dying!

A moment later, Chongxi closed her eyes and passed away.

It also took away Di Chenxiao's last bit of kindness and light!

Later, Di Chenxiao's grandfather wanted to bring Di Chenxiao back, and the dazed Di Chenxiao was dragged back to the country.

Chongxi's body was taken back by Chong En and buried in the Chong family's back garden.

From that moment on, Chongen aged decades overnight.

The Chong family home was deathly silent, devoid of its former joy.

Shi Dechang did not expect Chongxi to die. He began to look for girls who resembled Chongxi and captured them to conduct experiments.

**

After returning to the Di family, Di Chenxiao recuperated for half a month before starting to work for the Di family.

In just six months, he secretly killed all the younger generation of the Di family and became the only remaining junior member of the Di family.

At the age of fifteen, he officially appeared before everyone.

Later, someone told him that Chongxi would return, but the timing was uncertain.

This became Di Chenxiao's only belief in living.

At the age of twenty, he became the head of the imperial family.

In the Di family, there's only one person—him!

He suffered from insomnia and stomach problems, and his body lacked any vitality, as if there was no one or nothing in the world that he cared about.

He established Dark Night, selected ten leaders of the secret guards, and sealed all the photos that Chongxi had taken of him and Chongxi herself in a room on the second floor, locking it up and making it a forbidden area of ​​Xiyuan.

He would make a mango mille-feuille every day, waiting for Chongxi to come back so he could eat it with a smile, just like always.