Chapter 117 Chapter 117 The man holding the knife has a scabbard that restricts the knife...
He Shengnian stumbled to the bedside, picked up the blanket and threw it on Qiao Wanshu, his face extremely cold. "Where are your clothes?"
Qiao Wanshu blinked and looked towards the window.
He Shengnian walked forward and saw a white, almost transparent dress lying on the windowsill. He didn't pick it up, but said in a colder voice, "Is this your idea, or the Qiao family's?"
Qiao Wanshu slowly sat up. "Is this important?"
Her chin was bruised and her forehead was bleeding. She looked like a resentful female ghost walking out of the dark night.
He Shengnian stared down at her, "You've made me angry."
Qiao Wanshu's behavior was tantamount to setting a trap for him. If he was not strong-willed and fell for her and the Qiao family's trick, he would be treated as a blood bag and harassed by them.
"It's up to you," Qiao Wanshu said with a dull look on his face, "You can take revenge on us any way you want."
She took off all her clothes in front of him and had no dignity left. If he accepted, she could continue to deceive herself. At least the clothes she took off were useful and proved her worth.
But He Shengnian rejected her. When she came to her senses, she felt like a shameless prostitute, and every inch of her skin made her feel nauseous.
"It's up to you," she said with red eyes, "you'd better make the Qiao family bankrupt so that I never have the strength to stand up again. Then I won't bother you anymore."
After she finished speaking, she seemed to have lost all her strength and collapsed to the ground.
He Shengnian didn't respond, but just lowered his eyes to look at her, then called the production team and asked them to get the paparazzi outside to leave.
After receiving an accurate response, he put on his coat, opened the door and strode out of the room.
Hearing the heavy sound of the door closing, Qiao Wanshu's eyelashes trembled a few times, and then an unconcealable sob came from his throat, and he hugged his shoulders and cried softly.
it's useless.
She knew better than anyone that if she couldn't impress He Shengnian like this, she and the Qiao family would be completely finished.
Not only does she have to inherit the Qiao family's debts, but she also has to live an ordinary life.
She comes from a wealthy family, but she is not indifferent to the world. She has seen too many employees commuting for more than four hours a day to find a suitable job, employees working overtime in the early hours of the morning, and women of marriageable age who have to accept evaluations from different men every once in a while in order to meet suitable blind dates.
Without her status as a wealthy daughter, would her life be easier than theirs? No, it would only be harder.
Her choices would become even narrower, so narrow that she felt suffocated just thinking about it.
She couldn't and didn't want to live that kind of life.
Qiao Wanshu stayed in the room for a long time, until it was completely dark outside and the staff of the program crew began to knock on the door worriedly. She then stood up and put on her clothes one by one.
The clothes are wearable, but what about the dignity she has put down? Can she pick it up again?
Qiao Wanshu looked at the closed door and suddenly became afraid to open it.
Xu Qinghu and Gu Jingchen stayed in the art gallery for a long time. It was not until dinner time that she took Gu Jingchen to a nearby restaurant for dinner.
"What are you planning to do this afternoon?" Gu Jingchen couldn't help but ask, "Are you going straight back to the cabin?"
"Of course not," Xu Qinghu raised his hand and poured him a bowl of soup. "I'll take you to the university town. Now is the season when roses are in full bloom, so we can go there and enjoy the flowers."
Gu Jingchen didn't expect that she had other plans. "Is that so? Then I'll listen to you."
After dinner, the two took a car to the rose garden. The whole garden covered a large area. As soon as they got off the car, they smelled the rich fragrance. Various flower walls and vine arches decorated the place beautifully.
"It's so beautiful." Gu Jingchen was a little surprised by the scenery here, "I didn't expect there would be such a place in the university town."
"This is one of the special features of this area," Xu Qinghu explained. "May and June are the best times to come and check it out."
When the two walked into the park, they were amazed by the intricate vine paths inside. It was as if they had entered the Wizard of Oz, with blooming flowers everywhere.
"Let's go," Xu Qinghu led the way. "There's a garden ahead with red roses in full bloom. You'll probably like it."
The two of them walked through the narrow path, faster and faster, going further and further away, and soon they left the photographer behind them behind.
Gu Jingchen was about to ask Xu Qinghu when he would arrive, but Xu Qinghu stopped and looked at the white flower wall blooming along the way, as if attracted by the blooming buds.
"Do you know the name of this breed?" She spoke softly with her back to Gu Jingchen.
Gu Jingchen was not familiar with rose varieties and shook his head, saying, "I don't know."
"Wedding Road," Xu Qinghu turned around and showed him the plump, round flowers. He smiled and said, "Doesn't it look like a bride's wedding dress? Pure white, romantic and beautiful?"
Gu Jingchen looked at the clusters of blooming white buds, the petals stacked one upon another, which was indeed very beautiful, and nodded, "Yes."
"Wedding Road has two types: vines and shrubs, but I prefer vines, which can climb freely along the trellis and bloom into a sea of white flowers, just like a gorgeous wedding dress."
Her voice was so clear and pleasant that it made Gu Jingchen a little dazed, as if the flowers in front of him were also given special meaning.
At this moment, Xu Qinghu asked casually: "When I died, were these flowers used at Qiao Wanshu and He Shengnian's wedding?"
"No." Gu Jingchen answered reflexively. The moment he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly widened and he looked at Xu Qinghu in disbelief.
Only then did he realize that she was standing in the semi-darkness, with no smile in her eyes, but full of scrutiny of him.
"It seems that you have awakened too."
She curled her lips and said slowly, "No wonder your attitude towards me changed so much after you were discharged from the hospital."
Gu Jingchen came to his senses and found his back was wet. He stared at Xu Qinghu blankly. He didn't expect her sense of smell to be so sharp.
He had clearly tried his best to control his emotions, but she still noticed something was wrong.
"You," he said hoarsely, "how did you know?"
"It's very simple," Xu Qinghu walked up to him and looked up into his eyes, "Because you are afraid of me."
She chuckled: "Based on our relationship, no matter what happens, you shouldn't be afraid of me, right?"
Gu Jingchen subconsciously closed his eyes to avoid her almost sharp gaze.
He took a deep breath, "I thought I could hide it from you."
You have to know that he died in his previous life more than ten years later. No matter how much longer he lived than Xu Qinghu, he still felt nervous when facing Xu Qinghu.
The fear of not being able to control his fate made it almost impossible for him to look directly into her eyes.
"I was just guessing," Xu Qinghu said, "I didn't expect it to be possible to actually trick them out."
Her words not only did not make Gu Jingchen relax his guard, but made him even more vigilant.
It’s no wonder that they ended up like that in their previous life. It was all because of Xu Qinghu’s design. Even after his death, he wanted to use Wu Xuan for revenge.
How could he not be afraid of such a scheming and narrow-minded person?
"I have awakened," Gu Jingchen opened his eyes and pretended to be calm, "but I didn't use you like in the novels. I won't do anything to you again. I just want to live the rest of my life in peace."
"You don't want to use me anymore?" Xu Qinghu looked at him with a half-smile. "Is it you who doesn't want to, or you who don't dare?"
She stared at Gu Jingchen motionlessly, "If it weren't for Wu Xuan, and if I didn't have the popularity I have now, would you still not dare?"
Her eyes were full of understanding, having already seen through his true colors. "Don't flatter yourself."
Gu Jingchen's mind was like paste when he heard this, and breathing became difficult. He couldn't help but say: "You have already changed your own destiny. Isn't it good for us to keep to ourselves from now on?"
"Not good." The smile in Xu Qinghu's eyes quickly faded. "You and Qiao Wanshu hurt me so badly in my previous life. How can I accept this?"
She stared at Gu Jingchen closely and said, "Not everything in this world can be settled. I will make you give back everything you have gained by taking advantage of me."
Looking at her extremely cold eyes, Gu Jingchen's heartbeat seemed to freeze.
"I've already received the punishment I deserved," he said with difficulty. "My future is ruined. No company in the industry will hire me anymore. My friends and family are all extremely disappointed in me. Why are you still not satisfied?"
He looked at Xu Qinghu with red eyes, "Do you really have to force me to death?"
"Force you to death?" Xu Qinghu sneered, "You clearly brought this upon yourself."
"Did I ask you to borrow totems and go to great lengths to organize a fashion show? Or did I ask you to use the fame of the dating variety show to gain popularity? Was all this my plan?"
She stared at Gu Jingchen mockingly, "And you, the most innocent person in the world, you have no responsibility at all."
Gu Jingchen's face flushed red after being scolded by her. Unable to bear it any longer, he said, "If you hadn't contacted that designer, he wouldn't have discovered the secret of the fashion show at all."
He gritted his teeth and roared out the resentment hidden in his heart, "You are the one who wants to destroy me!"
"If it weren't for you, the fashion show wouldn't have been aborted, and I wouldn't have become a target of public outrage. It's you who caused everything that happened now!"
He stared at Xu Qinghu with resentment. The hatred from two lifetimes combined made him unable to bear the dissatisfaction in his heart any longer. "It's all because of you! You are the culprit!"
Xu Qinghu looked at him quietly, as if he was watching a funny joke.
"You have a point," she said with a smile, "This is all my fault. I'm deliberately targeting you. Is that a problem?"
Gu Jingchen's face turned pale, and he was unable to refute her.
Reason gradually returned to his body. He looked at Xu Qinghu's beautiful face, and his chest felt extremely stuffy, and he almost vomited blood.
"I can apologize to you," he said, his momentum weakening and he closed his eyes again, "as long as you let me go, I'll do anything you ask me to do."
After saying this, he gritted his teeth and knelt down.
The garden is filled with fragrance, and the white flower wall is like a bride's veil, emitting an elegant aroma.
It was clearly a very suitable place for a date, but he knelt in front of Xu Qinghu in humiliation, looking up at her and begging for mercy, just to let her let him go.
Tsk tsk.
Xu Qinghu looked down at him, "Teacher Gu, when did you become so humble?"
"I'm sorry," Gu Jingchen looked at her face half-hidden between the flowers and leaves, his eyes full of determination, "I am sorry for you."
He knew that he was no match for Xu Qinghu and Wu Xuan no matter what. She was so smart. Instead of letting her ruin his entire life, he might as well give up all his dignity and beg for mercy from her.
He still has parents and relatives, and he still has a lot of time in his life. If he can't become a designer, he can still change his career.
If we go against her and Wu Xuan because of the instigation of the world's will, things will probably only get worse.
He never wanted to experience his past life again.
For this reason, he would be willing to kowtow to Xu Qinghu.
"Hulu, I already know I was wrong." His eyes were filled with intense pain. "I shouldn't have used you. I shouldn't have been drifting between you and Qiao Wanshu when I clearly had feelings for her. I shouldn't have added insult to injury when you were in the most difficult time. I'm sorry for you."
He whispered, "It's all my fault. Please forgive me."
After saying this, he kowtowed to Xu Qinghu and begged her to let him go.
Xu Qinghu took a step back, looking at his behavior coldly, like a lost dog. "Is that all?"
"Don't you have a good life in the novel?"
She said coldly, "Qiao Wanshu married He Shengnian, and you became an internationally renowned designer. Aren't you living a good life?"
Gu Jingchen paused. Xu Qinghu died early. Although she used Wu Xuan's plan, she obviously didn't know the fate of all of them.
Is he going to tell her?
Tell her what Wu Xuan did, so that she will understand that her plan was successfully completed, and even if she died, she would not be a loser.
"In your previous life, were you all dead?" Xu Qinghu leaned over and looked closely, as if he had seen through his disguise. "If it's really like in the novels, and you all lived happily, why are you so afraid of me?"
Xu Qinghu chuckled softly, "You'd be furious at most about me plotting against your fashion show, not this scared. But the fact that you're so scared of me shows that the ending of this story isn't unpredictable. Whether in this life or the last, I haven't lost."
Gu Jingchen's body was tense, his forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he was filled with unprecedented panic.
Xu Qinghu.
He murmured the name, feeling like he was in a nightmare from which he would never wake up.
"Are you all dead?" Xu Qinghu asked again.
Gu Jingchen pursed his lips and did not answer.
Xu Qinghu had already gotten the answer, and a light laugh came from his throat. The laugh became louder and louder, and he was almost laughing to tears.
"That's great," she stood up, her eyes cast over Gu Jingchen, "That's great, I want all of you to be ruined and rotten, I want you to be abandoned by your friends and family and die a miserable death!"
"I want you to have the opposite ending. Lovers will become enemies, people who are close will be completely changed, and all those who have vested interests will be impoverished and destitute forever!"
"Otherwise, how can it be compared to the suffering and grievances I have endured?"
Hearing her words, Gu Jingchen was shocked but did not move for a long time.
He was like a sacrifice awaiting judgment, and could only watch the sword hanging above his head fall.
Xu Qinghu laughed for a long time, and only when he had laughed enough did he look at Gu Jingchen. There was no emotion in his eyes anymore. "Gu Jingchen, my biggest regret is that I didn't see what happened to you in your previous life."
Gu Jingchen's eyelashes trembled and his face turned even paler. He could only apologize to her repeatedly and beg for mercy.
Only after the camera crew caught up with him did he hurriedly stand up from the ground, fearing that the scene would be photographed.
Xu Qinghu leaned against the flower wall, white buds fell on her shoulders, her eyes were clear and bright, and she had regained her former brightness.
Gu Jingchen stood not far from her and intuitively felt that she was even more terrifying than Wu Xuan.
Wu Xuan is just a sharp knife, but she is the one wielding the knife.
Even a knife has a scabbard and is controlled by someone, but the person holding the knife does not.
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