Bai Lian's head was turned to the side after being hit, and her face immediately swelled up.
She wasn't really a delicate little flower; covering her face, she immediately raised her hand and slapped him back.
"Smack!"
The slap was quite forceful; Yi Mu stuck out his tongue and touched his numb face.
The female supporting character and Bai Lian were both stunned.
One never expected him to take the slap for her, and the other never expected him to one day not stand by her side.
"Yi Mu!" Bai Lian staggered back a step, screaming out of control in a shrill, piercing voice like noise.
Yi Mu stopped the female supporting character who rushed up to fight, his gaze as gentle as the new moon when he and Bai Lian first met as an adult.
"Xiao Lian, you know I..." He paused, a slight sob in his voice, "Do you know I like you?"
Poor Emu, even though the answer was obvious a long time ago, he still couldn't resist asking one more question.
Bai Lian's face twitched. Staring at his hand holding the female supporting character's wrist, she said without hesitation, "So what if you like me? I don't like you, not at all!"
"Crack," something broke.
A tear uncontrollably streamed down Yi Mu's face; his vulnerability was heartbreaking.
But the person he cared about most was heartless, angrily turning their face away, not feeling that they were being willful, only feeling incredibly wronged.
You like me, so keep liking me, like me for a lifetime. What does it mean to suddenly be with someone else? How can you face me?
The female supporting character couldn't stand it anymore, so she stepped forward and shoved Bai Lian to the ground, then fired at her like a machine gun.
"If you didn't like her, why didn't you say so sooner?"
"If it weren't for him, you'd still be washing dishes in a restaurant, earning three thousand yuan a month. You probably couldn't even afford the scraps of fabric for the clothes you're wearing."
"They only come to him for help when something happens; it's rare to even see you normally."
"He's sacrificed so much for you, how could you not know? Stop pretending to be some aloof and pure white lotus. Does Xi Junyan know about your scumbag affair with Zhong Yue?"
"No wonder he ignores you after being cheated on, serves him right!"
Bai Lian had remained silent with a grief-stricken expression until she heard the last sentence, at which point she could no longer hold back and shouted at the female supporting character in a fit of despair.
"You're making baseless accusations! There's nothing between Zhong Yue and me. If it weren't for you, Junyan wouldn't have misunderstood me at all!"
If there's really nothing wrong, why is she reacting so strongly?
The female supporting character had already gained the upper hand in the previous series of questions, and Bai Lian was no match for her at all.
The argument between the two women was really not pleasant to listen to.
Yi Mu went back inside, closed the door, and took ice cubes from the refrigerator to apply to his face.
Bai Lian looked delicate and weak, but I didn't expect her to be so strong.
It's unclear what the female supporting character said to Bai Lian, but a scream came from outside the door, and after a brief commotion, things calmed down.
The female supporting character was banging on the door from outside. Yi Mu picked up his phone from the coffee table, opened the door, and handed it to her.
The female supporting character reached her hand through the crack in the door to stop Yi Mu from closing it.
"What, you want to dump me after you've used me?" Anger rose on the beautiful face of the female supporting character.
Yi Mu leaned against the door frame and looked at her, his calm demeanor unlike that of the man who had been immersed in grief just moments before.
“Miss, there’s no exploitation between us, it’s just a matter of mutual benefit. I got what I wanted, and you also profited quite a bit, didn’t you?”
Not long after the Xi family fell, all their resources were divided up among other families, with the female supporting character's family receiving the most due to inside information.
The female supporting character twitched her lips, stared at the slap mark on his face for a while, and then withdrew her hand.
Yi Mu slammed the door shut.
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