Qiao Zhen held the plate, looking at Xu Li and the unconscious Chu Chu in his arms. She calmly uttered a single word, "Oh."
Xu Li looked at Qiao Zhen with trepidation. He felt that this was the calm before the storm. He didn't know whether to withdraw his hand from Chu Chu's neck or continue to pinch her.
Qiao Zhen lowered her head, using her hair hanging down on both sides to cover the emotions in her eyes. In just a moment, tears welled up in her eyes. She looked up at Xu Li with a accusing gaze: "How could you be so cruel?! Little Chrysanthemum is only a little over a month old!"
Xu Li looked at Qiao Zhen helplessly, then withdrew his hand from Chu Chu's and put it behind his back. He wanted to retort, but couldn't utter a single word. "I..."
Qiao Zhen placed the plate on the dining table with a blank expression, then held the limp little orange cat in her arms.
Xu Li quickly grabbed Qiao Zhen's hand, his brows furrowed as he looked down, "Don't go..."
Qiao Zhen was already immune to his pitiful appearance. She forcefully shook off his hand, "If I don't leave, do you expect me to live under the same roof as a cat abuser like you?"
She carried the little orange cat and pushed open the door to leave, and Xu Li followed closely behind her.
"Don't follow me! I don't want to see you!"
Xu Li remained silent and followed her.
Qiao Zhen was also upset, mainly because Chu Chu would be waking up soon, and she wouldn't have anyone to vent her anger on. So she took off running like the wind. "If you follow me again, I'm moving out!"
Xu Li stopped walking, watching Qiao Zhen's figure disappear quickly into the distance. Finally, he hunched over and walked along the path where Qiao Zhen had left.
Not long after Qiao Zhen left, she sat on a bench in the park in the community. She leaned against the little orange cat's back, lowered her head, and silently shed tears, looking extremely sad.
Xiao Ling: [Xu Li isn't here, there's no point in you crying now (???????)]
Qiao Zhen: [In this world, there's something called a camera, a reaction called the butterfly effect, and a saying: "If you don't want others to know, don't do it in the first place." You can never predict how serious the consequences of a moment's carelessness will be.]
Xiao Ling: [This feels so profound, I don't understand it and I don't want to understand it. Good luck, Zhenzhen. I'm going to play a game of Dou Dizhu with the system next door.]
Qiao Zhen: ...I have mixed feelings.
Chu Chu: [I dare not open my eyes.]
Qiao Zhen: [Don't open your eyes, don't move, keep it up, don't give yourself away, you're a fairy (dead) cat now.]
Chu Chu: [I can't keep doing this, I'll starve to death. And how long are you going to keep lying to Xu Li?]
Qiao Zhen: [I want to teach him a profound and unforgettable lesson, starting today.]
Chu Chu: [Don't mistreat me, thank you.]
Qiao Zhen didn't respond to Chu Chu anymore. She got up and went back to the villa, only to find that Xu Li hadn't returned yet. So she quickly grabbed her bag and her ID card and passport, and bumped into Xu Li as she went out. "I'm going to bury it. I don't think it wants to see you, and neither do I."
Xu Li lowered his head and stepped aside to let Qiao Zhen leave, but as the two brushed past each other, he grabbed Qiao Zhen's hand and said, "I'll have the driver take you."
This is an affluent area. There are no buses or taxis, and the residents are mostly wealthy and powerful people. The chances of Qiao Zhen getting a ride are almost zero.
"No need." Qiao Zhen refused decisively. There was a mobile app called Double Didi Chuxing in this world. "I hope you won't follow me. I'm afraid that if I turn around and see you, I won't want to come back."
She pulled her hand away from Xu Li's and then slammed the door shut.
Xu Li stood there for a long time inside the door, still hoping in his heart that he would be forgiven.
Qiao Zhen, standing outside the closed door, steeled her heart and turned to leave. Xu Li had done such a heinous thing to Xiao Juhua out of jealousy; who knew if he would escalate his actions in the future? She had to make him reflect deeply.
Qiao Zhen took a Didi taxi outside the residential area to the airport and bought a ticket for the next available flight. She flew directly to country Y, then to country W, then to country H, and finally to country M.
Most of her investments and assets are in the US, so even if Xu Li is powerful and influential, he can't easily find her.
As for Chu Chu, the little orange cat, Qiao Zhen directly had Xiao Ling tamper with the airline's records and ship the little chrysanthemum directly to the United States. She also had the system erase her from the airline's records and from the camera footage.
For Xu Li to find her was as difficult as climbing to the heavens.
Xu Li initially thought Qiao Zhen hadn't returned because she was angry. Especially since he had just made a mistake, he dared not send anyone to follow Qiao Zhen again. So he waited anxiously for two days, but still didn't see Qiao Zhen return. He couldn't wait any longer and immediately had his assistant take him to Qiao Zhen's old apartment.
He was immediately alarmed when he couldn't find Qiao Zhen in the apartment in the Jinyu residential area. He sent people to search for her extensively, but to no avail. It was as if she had vanished into thin air.
Half a month later, Xu Li still had no news of Qiao Zhen. Every day, he would sleep in the place where Qiao Zhen had slept, hug the pillow that Qiao Zhen had used, and smell the scent on Qiao Zhen's clothes. This allowed him to deceive himself into believing that Qiao Zhen was still by his side.
Anyone with eyes could see that Xu Li was getting thinner and thinner, and Xu's mother was heartbroken to see it. But at the same time, she hoped that she could make her son give up completely when Qiao Zhen left. Besides, Yu Kewei was waiting for Xu Li behind him.
Yu Kewei finally got her chance. She was confident that with her beauty, figure, family background, and temperament, she could win Xu Li's favor.
Six months later, Xu Li had lost so much weight that he weighed less than 100 pounds. He had been to the hospital due to alcoholism and malnutrition. After being discharged, he was no longer depressed and began to concentrate on his mission.
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