Chapter 45 Burning the Photo Album

Nishikawa Yue.

Qu Ge was a light sleeper and vaguely heard someone enter her room.

She woke up suddenly.

At the door, a figure stood in the darkness, surrounded by the cold air from outside.

“Who is it?!”

Qu Ge turned on the light immediately.

Then, he saw Qiao Xuan's gloomy face clearly.

"How did you..."

She clearly locked the bedroom door before going to bed, but he still came in easily.

She wanted to ask him how he got in, but then she thought, this is his house, it's not surprising that he has a spare key.

She was startled awake from her sleep, and her rapid breathing was difficult to calm down for a while, and it was particularly clear in the quiet night.

Qiao Xu'an didn't elaborate, and asked immediately, "Have you been into my study?"

"Um."

Qu Ge had already expected that Qiao Wanwan was a big mouth and didn't expect her to keep her mouth shut.

She had already prepared herself to face Qiao Xian's questioning.

"Your door wasn't closed properly that day, so I went in. I was just bored and wanted to find a book to read, but I didn't expect to see something I shouldn't have seen."

Qu Ge spread his hands calmly, without any sense of guilt for having done anything wrong.

She met Josh Ansen's cold gaze without flinching, her eyebrows slightly raised.

"So, you came here so late, do you want to explain something to me?"

The guest becomes the host.

Qiao Xuan frowned, and the anger that had been pent up in his chest suddenly seemed to be blocked by a plug, with nowhere to vent.

After a long silence, he suppressed his anger and said, "That's all in the past. You don't need to care about it."

"Yeah?"

Qu Ge looked up at him, his eyes full of distrust.

Qiao Xu'an felt uncomfortable when he was looked at by her deep eyes.

He once again grasped her faults and tried to cover up his guilt with anger.

"You knew I never allowed anyone to enter the study, so why didn't you obey?"

"The day I was discharged from the hospital, you picked me up. You told me to treat this place as my own home. I thought that in my own home, there wouldn't be a need for so many rules. I thought that since we were about to get married, there shouldn't be so many secrets."

Qu Ge answered calmly, with a hint of grievance in his tone.

She didn't cry or make a fuss, but took a step back to advance.

Qiao Xian was speechless again.

He couldn't refute a single word Qu Ge said.

It was he who made her feel at ease living here and treating it as her home.

Who can't do whatever they want in their own home?

If anyone is to blame, it's only because he didn't dispose of the dirty stuff in time, which is why things turned out like this.

Qiao Xuan turned around and went into the study and took out the photo album.

The words behind these photos in the album were written by him a few years ago.

He had to admit that at that time his heart was filled with Qiao Wanwan.

His feelings for Qiao Wanwan were planted in his heart since he was very young.

At that time, he had just entered junior high school.

Qiao Wanwan, who is seven years younger than him, can hardly speak clearly.

"Tete, when will you come home? I miss you so much! I want to eat some potato chips, can you bring them for me?"

"Tete, you haven't finished school yet? Mom and Dad are so busy and can't play with me! Come back and play with me soon~"

"Tete, you will always be my favorite Tete! We will always be a family!"

The little girl with a big tongue always calls "brother" "Tete".

She always told Qiao Xian over and over again that he was her most important family member.

No one else had ever said anything like that to him except her.

Qiao Jingren and Liu Yuan always beat or scolded him.

Even Liu Yong, who often interacted with the Qiao family, could see that Qiao Xuan, the adopted son, was nominally the son of the Qiao family, but in reality, his treatment in the Qiao family was not much better than those servants.

Among all the people who knew his background, only Qiao Wanwan truly treated him as family.

family.

This is the obsession that Qiao Xian pursued throughout his life but was never able to obtain.

It was probably because of this obsession that the young and ignorant him mistakenly took his feelings for Qiao Wanwan as love.

However, no matter how strong this feeling is, he must bury it deep in his heart.

He knew how Qiao Jingren and Liu Yuan treated him.

Once they find out that he has any improper thoughts about Qiao Wanwan, he will be kicked out of the Qiao family immediately.

He finally had a home, he didn't want to lose it all, and he didn't want to lose Qiao Wanwan even more.

He must hide his thoughts, the deeper the better!

Whenever he couldn't contain the surging love in his heart, he could only write it down on the back of these photos.

He was afraid of being discovered, so he never let anyone into his study.

Over the years, Qiao Xuan has been respectful to Qiao Jingren and Liu Yuan on the surface, but in fact he has been enduring and secretly accumulating his own strength.

He had already planned to get rid of them.

Get rid of these two huge mountains pressing on his head.

Only in this way can he stand beside Qiao Wanwan openly!

As for the songs...

At first, he just used her as a decoy.

He was afraid that others would see his feelings for Qiao Wanwan, so he kept a woman by his side.

A woman who is beautiful enough and persuasive enough.

He had never thought about marrying Qu Ge.

It was not until the second year of their relationship that he suddenly discovered that Qu Ge's gentleness and understanding were something he had never seen in Qiao Wanwan before.

When the passion faded, he looked at her face as she fell asleep in his arms...

At that moment, Qiao Xuan suddenly felt that it would be a worry-free thing if he could spend the rest of his life with such a woman.

That was the first time Qiao Xuan had the idea of ​​marrying Qu Ge.

But he never felt that he loved her.

At most, I just like it.

Like a docile pet.

Later, Qu Ge became pregnant with his child.

A child with his blood flowing in his body, a child that belongs completely to him!

This was an unprecedented experience for Qiao Xian.

For the first time, he realized that he could have a real family and no longer had to live under someone else's roof and compromise!

Qiao Xian was ecstatic.

From the moment he learned that Qu Ge was pregnant, he was looking forward to the birth of the child all the time!

But who knows——

Qiao Wanwan killed his child with her own hands!

When the doctor told him that his child would never come into this world again, the vague feelings he had for Qiao Wanwan for so many years finally died along with the child...

“Wow—”

Qiao Xuan threw the photo album into the trash can and lit it with a lighter.

The flames that ignited instantly danced wildly before his eyes, quickly devouring the expired love.

Qu Ge stood aside and watched without saying a word.

The firelight made Qiao Xuan's eyes red, and he finally dug out the deepest secret in his heart and laid it in front of Qu Ge.

"Actually, I'm not the biological child of the Qiao family. Qiao Wanwan and I have no blood relationship."

"I admit that I had feelings for her before."

"But it's all in the past. From now on, I won't have any feelings for her anymore."

"Xiaoge, please believe me, okay?"

In the photo, Qiao Wanwan's smiling face was twisted and melted in the flames, emitting a pungent smell of glue.

There was a crackling sound in my ears, as if those memories were making their final struggle.

Qu Ge watched all this indifferently.

Frankly, she didn't care right now.

Qiao Xuan and Qiao Wanwan are not related by blood. She has known this for a long time and she doesn't care at all.

As for whether he loves Qiao Wanwan or not, she doesn't care even more.

The only thing she cares about is when their retribution will come!

She turned and went into the house, too lazy to participate in this contrived "farewell ceremony".

Seeing that she still refused to give him a good look, Qiao Xuan frowned.

He had already told her about his life story, which he didn't want anyone to know. Didn't she understand how much he cared about her?!

Qiao Xu'an quickly chased into the guest bedroom: "Are you still not satisfied? Then what do you want me to do?"

"Kill a life for a life."

Qu Ge answered without hesitation.

Qiao Wanwan killed Qu Shunzhi.

Any superficial apology is meaningless except for a life for a life.

She looked at Qiao Xu'an and said frankly, "If you really don't care about her at all, then send her to the police station and let them reinvestigate my mother's case and give her justice."

"Can you do that?"

As expected, Qiao Xuan remained silent.

After a while, he explained in a deep voice, "The media are all watching Qiao's company now. If this matter gets out of hand, Qiao's company will face immeasurable losses. I can't just watch Qiao's company be destroyed in my hands."

"Xiao Ge, I promised you that after these things are over, I will let her pay for our child's life."

"Can you give me a little more time?"

What Qiao Xuan meant was that he could make Qiao Wanwan pay with her life, but he could not let the police intervene and reopen the old case.

This is certainly not what Qu Ge wants.

She wants Qiao Wanwan to die, and she also wants to get justice for Qu Shunzhi.

She didn't want Qu Shunzhi to die in vain!

But she would not tell these words to Qiao Xian.

Because even if she talked until her mouth was dry, he wouldn't understand.

People like him who disregard the law and only know how to fight violence with violence are essentially no different from Qiao Wanwan who killed Qu Shunzhi.

People like them will always bully others and take human lives lightly!

Qu Ge clenched his fists in anger, but his face showed no sign of it.

She forced a smile that didn't reach her eyes and said softly, "Okay, I believe you."

Know when to stop.

Can't be too docile, nor can it be too noisy.

Only in this way can Qiao Xuan's vigilance be completely paralyzed.

…

the next day.

Qu Ge made an appointment with his tutor Hu Wenjing to meet at school.

As soon as she entered the school gate, she heard several students in front of her talking in a loud voice.

"Jinjin from the Finance Department is on leave. Did you know that?"

"Is it because of the rich girl who bullied Qu Ge and became a trending topic?"

"Yeah! I heard she's been cyberbullied for a long time, and now she's mentally unstable and even lives in a mental hospital!"

"So exaggerated?"

"By the way, I also heard that our school suddenly changed its principal because of Qu Ge!"

"Ah? Wasn't Song Youde arrested for embezzling public funds?"

"It seems Principal Song wanted to expel Qu Ge because of the negative news online. He went to talk to Qu Ge that day, and that same night the police came and took him away. Tell me, how could such a coincidence happen?"

"Oh my god...what's Qu Ge's background? Is he that awesome?"

"Brother, do you have 2G network? Qu Ge's fiancé is Qiao Xu'an, the chairman of Qiao Group!"

"Damn! She actually managed to get into such a wealthy family?!"

"Who said it wasn't true? Those people online sympathized with her about being bullied and said she was pitiful! Come on! How can someone who gets pregnant and tries to marry someone rich before graduating be some innocent little white flower?"

"Maybe even the Jin Jin incident was planned by her..."

The few people talked more and more excitedly, and didn't even notice Qu Ge walking behind them.

She wasn't angry and wasn't going to interrupt them.

Instead, he slowed down his pace and followed behind, listening all the way.

With so many things happening, Qu Ge has long been immune to all the gossip.

These energetic younger classmates reminded her of when she first entered college.

Because her family was poor, she could never fit in and always kept to herself.

I go to class alone during the day and have to work part-time after class. I have no time to make friends at school like other people.

During that period, the person who helped her the most was Professor Hu Wenjing.

Professor Hu knew that her family was not well off, so he often introduced her to some suitable part-time jobs and helped her get scholarships.

For Qu Ge, Professor Hu is not only her mentor, but also a close friend regardless of age difference.

And what she was going to do next, only she could help her...