Xu Lai wiped away her tears, looked up at him stubbornly, and said, "Today is my boyfriend He Yu's birthday. I should celebrate it properly for him, but unfortunately, he just died."
He Songling trembled uncontrollably!
“So,” he said slowly in a hoarse voice, “you can’t accept the suffering I’ve endured, is that it?”
"Is this your suffering, or the suffering of their family of three?" Xu Lai asked instead of answering. "If you still have any conscience, don't keep making the same mistake. You've been helping the bad guys deal with Master Zhan and Madam Zhan, kidnapping their innocent child, and now you're even going after a defenseless girl. Aren't you afraid of retribution?"
"If you really want to live in the sunlight, you should stop, help Master Zhan and the others catch the bad guys, and then turn yourself in."
"Heh..." He Songling sneered, "I thought you were the person who loved me most in the world. I thought we were family, each relying on the other for survival. I also thought you would feel sorry for me after you knew the truth. But I never expected that I overestimated my importance in your heart..."
"Of course you can stand on the moral high ground and casually lecture me on how to reform myself, because you are not me and do not want to understand me."
"Fine, since you consider me dead, and a dead person can't do what you say, I truly regret coming here today..."
After finishing his sentence, He Songling turned around and left without looking back.
As Xu Lai watched his retreating figure, tears welled up in her eyes again, and the feigned stubbornness in her eyes instantly crumbled.
She struggled to walk to the table, sat down, grabbed a piece of cake, and stuffed it into her mouth.
There was someone else beside her. She turned her head and saw Qiao Wanwan sitting next to her.
"Isn't it said that eating sweets makes people happy?" Xu Lai forced a smile and said with difficulty, "Why am I still unhappy..."
“His thoughts are different from ours now,” Qiao Wanwan comforted him. “But I believe he cares about you, otherwise he wouldn’t have come here. So you must be stronger, because only you can pull him out of the darkness.”
"...Can I really do it?" Xu Lai asked, crying. "But I feel like he doesn't care about me. If he did, he would listen to me."
“That person must be his friend. Some people may be ruthless, but they value friendship very much. I believe that in his heart, you and that person are equally important, so he is unwilling to give you up or betray that person,” Qiao Wanwan said. “Putting everything else aside, he knows that I have been watching his phone and tracking his location, but he has never tried to get rid of my tracking. He is probably afraid that if he loses contact, I will take my anger out on you.”
Xu Lai's tears flowed even more fiercely. "Then what should I do now?"
"You two were a bit too emotional today. You should both calm down first. I think he also needs time and space to sort out his thoughts before he knows what to do."
"Um......"
......
When Qiao Wanwan returned to Wutong Bay, Zhan Jingting knew from her appearance that she hadn't come away with anything good.
"What's wrong?" The man sat down beside her. "Did their talks break down?"
"How did you know? Did you check the security footage?"
"I have no interest in watching a pair of lovelorn lovers blaming each other," Zhan Jingting said dismissively. "But judging from your expression, it's not going well."
How do you know they're blaming each other?
"It was easy to guess."
“They did part on bad terms.” Qiao Wanwan sighed. “But I didn’t make things difficult for He Songling. Even if we caught him now, he wouldn’t be able to threaten the mastermind. It would be pointless. It’s better to let her go find Zaozao.”
"Um."
......
Late at night, Qiao Wanwan was fast asleep when a series of urgent phone calls woke her up.
Qiao Wanwan thought it was news from Huo Shiqian, so she sat up abruptly, only to find that it was He Songling calling.
She answered the phone, "Hello?"
"Hey, is this phone your friend's? A man's voice came from the other end of the line. Your friend is drunk, completely out of it. You'd better come and pick him up."
Qiao Wanwan frowned. "You've got it wrong, he's not my friend."
“But there’s no one else in his contacts except for someone named Xu Lai. I called her, but her phone was off, so I found you in the call log. There’s no one else in the call log, only your number, so I had to contact you.”
"I've already said, we're not friends, that's all."
Qiao Wanwan hung up the phone and lay down immediately.
The man beside her turned over and hugged her, his deep voice tinged with sleepiness, "You're just stubborn but soft-hearted. Send someone to check on you."
"..." Qiao Wanwan protested, "It's none of our business, why should we send people?"
“His drinking shows he cares about Xu Lai, which is a good thing for us.” Zhan Jingting slowly opened his eyes. “Also, you’ve already received a call. If anything happens to him tonight, you’ll definitely feel guilty. So send someone to check on him to avoid causing more trouble later.”
“Okay,” Qiao Wanwan said. “Then you go to sleep first. I’ll go make a call and get a drink of water while I’m at it.”
"good."
After finishing her phone call, Qiao Wanwan poured herself a glass of water and went to the terrace.
The moon is beautiful tonight, big and round, a day meant for family reunion.
Qiao Wanwan took a sip of water, opened WeChat, and saw a message in a WeChat group.
It was a few bodyguards guarding Xu Lai chatting, saying that Xu Lai was in a bad mood and hadn't slept yet.
Qiao Wanwan immediately called the female bodyguard.
"Madam," the female bodyguard answered immediately, "why aren't you asleep yet?"
"I woke up in the middle of the night," Qiao Wanwan asked. "How is Xu Lai?"
“After you left, she told us to take the things off the table and throw them away. I brought her some food, but she didn’t eat it, saying she wasn’t hungry. Then she lay on the bed in a daze and hasn’t fallen asleep since.”
"You've been staying with her all this time, aren't you tired?"
"Madam, I'm not tired. We take turns on duty, so you don't need to worry."
"Okay, make sure you take good care of yourself. If you get tired, call more people to take your place."
"Yes, thank you for your concern, Madam."
Qiao Wanwan hung up the phone, finished her water, and went back to her room to sleep.
The next morning, she saw a message sent by her bodyguard at around 3 a.m., saying that he had picked up He Songling and taken her to the hotel.
Qiao Wanwan didn't ask any more questions until evening, when she received a call from He Songling: "Why did you help me?"
"I wouldn't say I'm helping you, but since I received the call from the waiter, I can't just sit idly by. If something happens to you and you die, I'll feel guilty."
He Songling smiled faintly, "Do you know that when you're fighting against that person, being soft-hearted is a big no-no?"
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