When he returned to his residence, it was almost one in the morning. Ji Yuqi was dripping with water all over his body, and his face looked even uglier than a female ghost, pale and colorless.
As soon as she opened the door with her key, Yu Guiwan came to greet her: "Qianqi, you're finally back. Has the contract with Director Da been finalized?! Is the salary very high?!"
"Why do you look so bad?!"
"Why are your clothes soaked?!"
"What happened?!"
"Oh my god, Qiqi, why is your arm swollen? Are you injured?!"
Yu Guiwan was extremely anxious, but Ji Yuqi was like a walking corpse without any consciousness. He stood numbly at the entrance and slowly changed his slippers.
Ji Yuqi's arm was so swollen that he couldn't even bend his fingers.
On the sofa, Yu Guiwan sat next to Ji Yuqi and took out a blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing spray from the medicine box, but didn't know where to spray it.
"Let me take you to the hospital. You're seriously injured. If you don't get treated promptly, you might develop a serious illness."
However, Ji Yuqi said, "In the capital, besides housing prices, medical care is the most expensive. Going to the hospital, getting an appointment, taking an X-ray, and getting some medicine will cost you at least 500 yuan."
"Your arm is about to be broken, and you're still worried about those few hundred dollars. Ji Yuqi, are you stupid?! Don't you feel pain?!"
Ji Yuqi answered her: "It doesn't hurt."
Yu Guiwan: "It's so swollen, but it doesn't hurt, Ji Yuqi, who are you kidding?"
Ji Yuqi glanced at his arm, which was swollen to an alarming degree. His expression suddenly became lonely and desolate. His indifferent tone also revealed a cold and dead air: "If possible, I would rather it hurt a little more."
"..." Yu Guiwan was still trying to decipher the hidden meaning behind Ji Yuqi's words when Ji Yuqi suddenly asked her, "Wanwan, if my arm hurts so much, will the pain in my heart stop being so severe? Will I stop feeling so miserable that I wish I could die right now?"
Ji Yuqi was smiling.
The corners of her lips are raised high, with two sweet dimples.
That smile is so beautiful and charming.
However, in Yu Guiwan's eyes, it was full of devastation.
Yu Guiwan didn't have much contact with Ji Yuqi, but in Yu Guiwan's cognition, Ji Yuqi seemed to be shrouded in a thin layer of fog, firmly isolated from this prosperous and bustling world.
Yu Guiwan knew that Ji Yuqi had a wound in his heart, but he didn't expect that the wound had been bleeding non-stop.
"Did you see that person tonight?" Yu Guiwan asked cautiously. The person she had buried deep in her heart, the one she would always feel sad about whenever she mentioned him.
"Yeah." Ji Yuqi was still smiling, but tears were rolling down her cheeks. "I've been chasing him for four years, giving him everything a girl could have. I'm willing to become a sinner for my family, knowing it's like a moth to a flame, a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, but I still ran towards him. But, to him, nothing can stop a single word from her."
At Ye Family Restaurant.
The cast members of "Against the Light" secretly asked her, "How did you offend Sister Yan?! She just complained to President Pei that Director Da asked her to be a stepping stone for a stunt double, intentionally exploiting her popularity to promote a new talent. And then President Pei removed your name from the cast of "Dynasty" without blinking an eye. He also issued an order: From now on, in this industry, as long as Ning Ruyan is there, you won't be there. Xiao Ji, President Pei means that for Sister Yan's sake, he wants to ban you permanently."
Everyone thought: She had offended Ning Ruyan.
But what made her uncomfortable were the two words "Pei family".
His words, "People like her don't deserve to get even a little dirty on the Pei family's land," really hurt her, and were enough to hurt her.
Ji Yuqi remembered that they had sex in the second month of their relationship.
The next day was the Dragon Boat Festival.
Pei Yucheng was tidying up his clothes while urging her: "Hurry up and pack. After I send you home, I have to rush back to the old house to worship our ancestors."
Ji Yuqi felt that every eighteen-year-old girl dreamed of marrying the person she loved in her heart.
Ji Yuqi is no exception.
At that time, she dreamed of marrying Pei Yucheng.
She asked him if he could take her back to the old house.
Pei Yucheng refused without even thinking about it.
She was lying on the bed, playing tricks. Pei Yucheng's dark eyes were deep and dull, and he couldn't tell whether he was happy or angry. "Ji Yuqi, be reserved. The person who can go back to the old house with me must be Mrs. Pei in the future. Although I slept with you last night, I have no intention of marrying you at this moment."
At that time, she felt so wronged that tears were about to fall out.
He didn't coax her either.
In this relationship, Ji Yuqi has always been the most humble, getting hurt every day and healing automatically every day.
She always thought that Pei Yucheng, who had high standards, would not tolerate lower creatures like women.
But I didn't expect——
Today, he would so easily and without hesitation admit without blinking that Ning Ruyan was a member of the Pei family.
It turned out that he was not unwilling to give her the identity, but he just didn't like her enough at that time.
To be more precise: Did he ever love her?!
The three months they spent together were probably just her insistence. He was really fed up and only agreed reluctantly.
When Ji met Qi, his army was completely defeated.
That night, Ji Yuqi was like a shrimp with its shell peeled off, curled up on a narrow and small sofa with scars all over his body, feeling desolate and lonely.
She didn't even know what time she fell asleep.
She only knew that she was unconscious and dazed, as if she had a fever, and someone fed medicine into her mouth.
She was in a daze and had many dreams.
She dreamed that she was in Country M, 20 weeks pregnant, and her relationship with her parents was at its worst, and she was forcibly locked in a dimly lit attic.
The father's furious roar echoed continuously: "Ji Yuqi, give up the idea of returning to the country to find Pei Yucheng immediately! For the rest of your life, you will never come out again! My Ji family will just pretend that you, a shameless daughter, don't exist!!!!"
She curled up in the corner, shivering, watching the window being nailed shut bit by bit by iron bars. She covered her mouth and uttered a desperate and sad whimper from her throat: "Pei Yucheng, save me..."
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