Ye Zhiwei remained silent, and Qin Manshu continued, "I only asked him to keep an eye on you; I never expected him to do something like this."
“If that’s really what you think, he wouldn’t have shown up here in the first place.” Ye Zhiwei looked at Qin Manshu.
Qin Manshu shook her head and laughed, "If I really wanted him to do something to you, I wouldn't have asked Uncle Qi to keep an eye on this person beforehand."
As she spoke, she glanced at the skinny monkey lying on the ground.
Ye Zhiwei clenched her fists, turned her head away and said, "You may not want him to do anything to me, but you still want to teach me a lesson through this, don't you?"
Qin Manshu smiled but remained silent.
Ye Zhiwei further stated, "What did Jiang Jianian do to you?"
"What."
"If he weren't up there—"
Before Ye Zhiwei could finish speaking, Qin Manshu interrupted her, glanced at the big, obedient man behind her, and said politely, "Uncle Qi, you can go out first."
"Yes, Miss Qin." Uncle Qi seemed to sense the tense atmosphere. He was quick to notice and left the room.
Only Ye Zhiwei, Qin Manshu, and the man who had just fainted and wanted to do something to Ye Zhiwei remained in the room.
Ye Zhiwei looked at Qin Manshu and said, word by word, "Jiang Jianian, what did I do to you in my previous life?"
Qin Manshu laughed. She guessed that Ye Zhiwei must know something. She had been very wary of Ye Zhiwei and had been observing her ever since she sensed that something was different about Ye Zhiwei. Her room was full of Ye Zhiwei's information. She was so curious about what could control the devil.
"Little cousin, you really surprise me."
“It’s not me who surprised you, it’s you who surprised me.” Ye Zhiwei clenched her fists and stared at Qin Manshu as she continued, “And about that traffic accident before, that driver who worked for your Qin family—did you say something to him?”
Qin Manshu remained silent.
Ye Zhiwei further questioned, "Did you mistakenly think that the driver hit my father? He took the business card from my father's pocket, glanced at it, and quickly got into the car. After that, he called you, right?"
Looking at the disheveled Ye Zhiwei, Qin Manshu considerately tidied Ye Zhiwei's hair and stroked Ye Zhiwei's face without saying a word. The time was very quiet until Ye Zhiwei thought that Qin Manshu would not answer her question, at which point Qin Manshu said, "Yes."
Ye Zhiwei gripped her hand tightly. Her throat was dry, and she felt a mix of emotions she couldn't quite describe. She couldn't find her voice for a while before asking, "Why? What did Dad do to you in his previous life?"
"Do you think Ye Qingcheng in his previous life was the same as he is now?" Qin Manshu stared at Ye Zhiwei and smiled. "His daughter left a long time ago. She was the child left to him by his most beloved wife. He could never find the murderer. He transferred all the love he had for his biological daughter to Ye Yingying. But apart from Ye Yingying, whom he treated as his daughter, he was both bitter and mean. I just liked someone. I was wrong. What did I do wrong? Do you want to know how your father humiliated me after he found out about this?"
Ye Zhiwei stood there, speechless.
“What did I do to Ye Qingcheng? I didn’t do anything to him. It’s just that when that driver called me, I first asked him if the other person was dead, and then I told him: Oh, that’s Ye Qingcheng. If something really happened to him and he became a vegetable, that would be a real problem. It would be a medical bill that no one could afford to pay.” Qin Manshu began to straighten Ye Zhiwei’s clothes. “You see, people will do anything when they are extremely short of money. I never let him kill anyone.”
Ye Zhiwei gripped Qin Manshu tightly with her other hand, "Just because Dad humiliated you."
Qin Manshu's face darkened. "Just because? Little cousin, do you know how hurtful someone's words can be when you're strangers? Do you know that some words can even kill? Of course you don't understand. Have you experienced what I've experienced? Just because—haha, just because?"
Ye Zhiwei was silent for a moment before she finally said, "But in this life, Dad never did anything to you."
“Yes, so I helped your father too.” Qin Manshu laughed as well. “Oh, at that time, it was also the first time I had met people from my previous life again besides my mother and grandmother. Besides, I did do something. I also said that I just told the driver that if Ye Qingcheng was hit and became a vegetable but didn’t die, it would be quite troublesome.”
She repeated it again.
Ye Zhiwei looked at Qin Manshu, who was now completely unfamiliar to her, and pursed her lips without saying a word.
Qin Manshu noticed Ye Zhiwei's cold gaze, and after a while she continued, "You are not what I thought. It's amazing, it seems that many things have changed because of your appearance."
After a long silence, Qin Manshu stared intently at Ye Zhiwei and continued, "You should have died long ago."
Ye Zhiwei remained silent.
Qin Manshu looked at Ye Zhiwei and asked in return, "So, have you forgiven Jiang Jianian, or are you not the original Ye Zhiwei at all—"
She spoke very slowly, word by word.
Ye Zhiwei clenched her hands, without giving a direct answer.
"Did I guess right?" Qin Manshu laughed. "So, little cousin, it's not that you can forgive Jiang Jianian, but that he never did anything excessive to you from beginning to end. That's why you can say whatever you want so easily. After all, you've never been treated like that before. Do you want to know what it's like to have your chest cut open with a scalpel—"
"Enough, I already know what you mean, but that's from your past life." Ye Zhiwei interrupted Qin Manshu. "Yes, I can't empathize with you because the current Jiang Jianian has never done what you're talking about. He didn't kill anyone, didn't do anything to you, and didn't even target you. He's different from the person you're talking about. If you really resent someone, you should resent the person who did wrong to you, not transfer your resentment to him. At least he's innocent here."
"Innocent? Innocent!" Qin Manshu seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world. Grabbing Ye Zhiwei, she said in a suppressed voice, "He's innocent, just because he's forgotten what happened in his past life? Just because your appearance changed his original trajectory? Just because he hasn't done anything now? Ha, why should I forgive him? Why can't I do anything to him? Have you experienced what happened to me in my past life? Have you ever been killed? Was the person he killed you? Why should I forgive him? Why—"
Ye Zhiwei clenched her hands. "I didn't say you should forgive him. I'm just telling you that the person who did those things to you wasn't the current him. There's a cause for every grievance, and if you want revenge, you should go find the person who really hurt you."
"How do I find it?"
Ye Zhiwei remained silent.
Qin Manshu smiled as she approached Ye Zhiwei. Her gaze darkened, her smile vanished, and she said, word by word, "A devil is always a devil. Do you really think you can change him? Little cousin, I will let you know that the current Jiang Jianian and the Jiang Jianian of the previous life are the same person, both madmen and devils."
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