Yu Die tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear, revealing her beautiful face, and shivered slightly.
"Xiang Qing, it's so cold outside, can you let me in first?"
Xiang Qing thought he had made his meaning very clear, but Yu Die was also a master at pretending to be stupid.
He frowned impatiently, wanting to lay things out and explain things to her.
Yu Die suddenly leaned in and hugged him, "Brother Xiang Qing, I'm scared!"
As Yi Mu approached, brimming with heroic ambition, he looked up and saw this scene.
He stopped in his tracks, stood still, and raised an eyebrow.
Xiang Qing shoved Yu Die away without any mercy, ignoring the fact that she crashed into the door frame with a loud thud and cried out in pain.
Xiang Qing walked up to Yi Mu, her eyes showing no panic, and explained, "She came to see me about something, but I didn't let her in."
Yi Mu gave him a half-smile, then looked at Yu Die.
In the past, Yu Die would definitely have provoked Yi Mu.
But Yi Mu is not the same person she used to be; if she goes head-to-head with him, she will only suffer losses.
Giving Xiang Qing a resentful look, Yu Die slunk away.
After she left, Yi Mu and Xiang Qing went into the room and asked, "What did she come here for?"
Xiang Qing didn't hide anything from him and told him about Yu Die's current state of mind.
Given Yu Die's personality, she simply wants to find a backer in the apocalypse, and without a doubt, that backer is Xiang Qing.
Yi Mu sat on Xiang Qing's bed, casually grabbed his travel bag, unzipped it, and looked inside.
He glanced at it casually as he asked Xiang Qing, "Do you know how I was taken away back then?"
Xiang Qing knew this day would come sooner or later, and he didn't intend to hide it from Yi Mu.
“The documents on my desk have been moved. Someone saw Yu Die enter my office. Shortly after that, you disappeared. I’ve known for a long time that she was the one who did it.”
Yi Mu paused, looked up at him: "So, you still allow her to be by your side."
Xiang Qing knelt down on one knee at Yi Mu's feet. He had nothing to hide from Yi Mu.
“Her mother died to save my mother, and my maternal grandfather took her into his home to raise her. To me, she is a family member, my own sister.”
Yi Mu didn't speak, he just listened to him.
“From the moment she attacked you, there was no room for forgiveness from me. I only brought her along to give my grandfather an explanation.”
Yimu asked him, "What if she attacks me again?"
Xiang Qing kissed the back of his hand, a cruel smile curving her lips: "She only gets one chance. If she makes another stupid mistake, she'll face utter ruin."
Yi Mu thought that Xiang Qing would reject the "if," but he didn't.
He wasn't an unreasonable person; he couldn't interfere with Xiang Qing's life before he met her.
Because of Yu Die's special status, he couldn't say anything.
Now that Xiang Qing has expressed his opinion, let's consider this matter closed.
As for Yu Die's deliberate hug at the door, Yi Mu wasn't blind; he could see through her little trick.
He rummaged through Xiang Qing's backpack and found a lot of things.
The most abundant items inside weren't various medicines and weapons, but rather the small things he had given to Xiang Qing in bits and pieces before.
A lighter, a keychain, and a scarf he knitted himself.
These things take up space and have no practical use.
Yi Mu took out the item, glanced at Xiang Qing, and although he didn't say anything, the meaning was clear.
Are you stupid?
Xiang Qing packed everything back, handling it as gently as if it were a precious treasure.
"These are all precious gifts you gave me, and I can't have a single one missing."
Without these things, he might not have been able to resist seeing Yi Mu these past few years.
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