Zhou Yuan almost stumbled into the Zhou family villa.
She kicked over the antique vase in the hallway, and the porcelain shattered harshly on the marble floor. The servants lowered their heads, and no one dared to step forward—when the young lady lost her temper, anyone who tried to stop her was in trouble.
"Get out! Get out of here!" She screamed and smashed her limited edition Hermès bag against the wall, leaving a hideous scratch on the wall with the metal buckle.
She rushed into the bathroom and scrubbed her face frantically until her skin turned red, but the black marks of eyeliner were like a brand that could not be wiped off.
The mirror reflected her disheveled face - her carefully applied makeup was smudged, her hair was messy, her expensive Jimmy Choo high heels were covered in mud, and her stockings were torn.
"Ye Fanshuang..." She gritted her teeth and repeated the name, her nails digging deep into her palms.
She suddenly grabbed the perfume bottle on the sink and smashed it against the mirror - "bang" the glass shattered, and her reflection was distorted in the cracks, just like her sanity which was on the verge of collapse at this moment.
When Zhou Ziqian opened her door, he saw this scene——
Zhou Yuan curled up in the corner of the bed, holding her cell phone in her hand. On the screen was a photo of her and her group of friends at the "Mi Ye" bar.
Her fingertips trembled as she ran across the faces of the boys in the photos, muttering nervously, "It's over... It's all over..."
"What's wrong with you?" Zhou Ziqian frowned impatiently, loosening his tie. He had just returned from the office and was still exhausted from the negotiations.
Zhou Yuan suddenly looked up, her eyes red: "Brother! That bitch Ye Fanshuang - she has photos! Those photos of me in 'Mi Ye'!"
Zhou Ziqian's expression instantly turned cold.
"What photo?"
"It was... it was last month..." Zhou Yuan's voice became weaker and weaker, and finally turned into sobbing, "I, I drank too much... They handed me something..."
Zhou Ziqian's face darkened. He snatched her phone away, flipped through the photos, and glared at her. "Have you been on drugs?"
Zhou Yuan didn't dare to answer, she just trembled.
"Idiot!" Zhou Ziqian slammed his phone onto the bed. "Don't you know what the Zhou family's situation is like? The Chao family is eyeing us covetously, and my father is fighting for that piece of land in South City. How dare you at this time—"
"How could I have known we would be photographed!" Zhou Yuan screamed hysterically, "This is all Ye Fanshuang's fault! She must have planned this! She's been wanting to bring down our Zhou family for a long time!"
Zhou Ziqian sneered: "Do you think she needs a trick? You handed it to her yourself, who can you blame?"
Zhou Yuan's tears finally burst out. She grabbed a pillow and threw it at Zhou Ziqian: "Will you help me?! If these photos get out, I'm done! The Zhou family is finished too!"
Zhou Ziqian looked at her coldly for a while before pulling out a business card from his suit pocket and throwing it on the bed.
"Go find this guy tomorrow and he'll take care of it."
Zhou Yuan grabbed the business card, which had the words written in gold-plated font:
"Lin Chen, information security consultant."
She finally breathed a sigh of relief, but then she remembered something and looked up at Zhou Ziqian: "What about Ye Fanshuang? Are you just going to let her go?"
Zhou Ziqian's eyes were terribly dark. "Do you think I don't want to touch her? But the Ye family is not a pushover, not to mention that she might have the Ye family behind her."
Zhou Yuan's pupils suddenly contracted, and she clutched the bed sheet unwillingly: "Are we just going to let it go like this?!"
"Of course not." Zhou Ziqian sneered, "Just because I can't touch Ye Fanshuang doesn't mean I can't touch others."
Zhou Yuan was stunned: "What do you mean?"
"Doesn't she like Ye Qingliu?" Zhou Ziqian's voice was low and dangerous. "Then let her witness with her own eyes how the person she cares about most is destroyed bit by bit."
"Brother! Are you crazy!!! Are you going to destroy him?"
"How can you be so stupid? Did I say I wanted to destroy him?"
Zhou Yuan's breathing became rapid, and she finally understood what her brother meant.
——No matter how arrogant the Zhou family is, they dare not attack the Ye family directly, let alone the Ye family. Ye Qingliu is the only heir of the Ye family. Touching him? The Zhou family does not have the courage.
She slowly raised the corners of her mouth, tears still on her face, but her smile had become distorted.
"Brother, you're right." She said softly, "Ye Fanshuang has never cared about just Ye Qingliu."
Zhou Yuan's eyes fell on a photo on the dressing table - it was a photo of Ye Fanshuang and her best friend Su Xinghui.
She reached out and picked up the photo, her fingertips gently stroked Su Xinghui's face, and her smile became even colder.
"Ye Fanshuang..." she murmured softly, "You will soon know the price of offending me."
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The wind by the river carried a damp scent. Mu Xinrong sat on a bench, the beer can in his hand already bent and deformed. The setting sun dyed the river blood-red, like some scene in his memory that shouldn't have existed.
He tilted his head back and took the last sip of wine. His Adam's apple rolled as the cold liquid slid into his esophagus, but it couldn't extinguish the fire in his chest.
"This is the third can."
A familiar voice came from behind him, but Mu Xinrong didn't turn around. He could tell it was Ye Qingliu's footsteps—light as a cat's, yet with an undeniable presence. The other side of the bench sank slightly, and someone sat down.
"Minors are not allowed to drink alcohol." Mu Xinrong curled his lips and squeezed the empty can flatter.
Ye Qingliu unexpectedly did not respond.
Mu Xinrong then turned to look at him—the seventeen-year-old boy was wearing the Quanxin High School uniform, his black hair a bit messy in the wind, revealing a pair of calm eyes. So much alike. Mu Xinrong's heart suddenly prickled, and those chaotic memories churned through his mind again.
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