This day, Qiao Zhixia had just washed her hair and was helping Li Aizhen dry some dried radishes when two uninvited guests arrived at the door - Chen Jidong and Wang Ruqiu.

Even though these two were newlyweds, there was no sweetness or satisfaction on their faces. Instead, they looked like puppets that had been drained of their vitality.

"What's up?"

Chen Jidong looked at the girl standing in the sun with her long vertical hair draped down to her waist. The soft halo on her body added a hazy beauty to her.

He was in a trance for a moment, then came to his senses and said, "I took Qiuqiu around here to reminisce about the past. I didn't expect you guys to move here."

Qiao Zhixia raised her eyebrows with a sense of mischief: "Your past is indeed worth remembering. It was so exciting to sneak around. Now that you are together, has the excitement that can only be felt by stealing disappeared? That's why you need to remember the past 'battlefield', right?"

Qiao Zhixia's shameless remarks were like throwing their faces to the ground and crushing them.

But this is the fact, a fact they cannot even refute.

Although Chen Jidong looked unhappy, he had to admit that Qiao Zhixia had told him so.

As it was, he could no longer find the passion in Wang Ruoqiu that made him fall in love with her at first sight, especially after her parents made a big fuss at the wedding banquet, he felt even more uneasy.

A pimple targeting Wang Ruoqiu.

Wang Ruoqiu saw how powerless Chen Jidong was when facing Qiao Zhixia, and she even felt a flash of resentment. She was so angry that her teeth itched, but she still bit her lip and said:

"Zhizhi, I know you hate me for taking Dong away, but we really love each other, why can't you make it happen? Why did you have to ask my parents to come and mess things up?"

Qiao Zhixia's smile turned cold. "If you have a serious illness, go see a doctor. Don't come here to complain. Put away your pitiful face. I'm not a male dog in heat. It's not good for me to look like this. And...your parents gave birth to you and raised you, but you didn't even inform me when you got married. Do you think you are right? If they want to make trouble, it only means that you didn't handle it well. It's none of my business."

Wang Ruoqiu was emotional, "You obviously did it on purpose. You knew that I didn't have a good relationship with them!"

"You have a bad relationship with them because you are not satisfied! You are a ruthless person! Your parents do favor your brother, but as far as I know, they have never treated you harshly, right? Your father even borrowed money to support you through high school. After you went to the countryside, they kept sending you money and things, just to make your life better. What about you? You disappeared after you took advantage of them. Where is your conscience?"

"So what? They are nice to me so that I can better support my brother. Their love for me has a purpose from the beginning. Why should I be oppressed?"

"You just enjoy their kindness to you without a clear conscience. If you really have the guts to break up with them, you shouldn't accept it. Since you have accepted it, you should give back. Your parents are indeed wrong, but does that mean you are okay? You are just as selfish as they are."

It is true that Wang Ruoqiu's parents were not kind, and some of their behaviors were even very inappropriate, but compared with the parents of many other families, their "evil" was not worth mentioning.

They have been influenced by the traditional idea of ​​favoring sons over daughters and believe that daughters need to sacrifice for their brothers. However, they believe that sacrifice is limited to finding a financially affluent partner for her and then giving the betrothal gift to her younger brother.

In other aspects, they never treated Wang Ruqiu badly. They never skimped on her food, clothing, and education, let alone beat or scolded her.

Qiao Zhixia knew all this because she analyzed the words in Wang Ruoqiu's letter asking for money coquettishly when the two of them were not quarreling.

They didn't expect that Wang Ruoqiu was more selfish and self-centered than them. Not only did he decide his life for himself, he also planned to completely cut off contact with his family.

That's why they got so angry after they found Wang Ruoqiu and made a scene at the wedding banquet, and they had to get money.

Because they were extremely disappointed with their daughter and had no intention of saving her face.

In their rage, they magnified the evil and selfishness in their hearts and could not be stopped.

Wang Ruoqiu's eyes were filled with resentment, as if he wanted to poke a hole in Qiao Zhixia, but Qiao Zhixia pretended not to hear him and just looked up at Chen Jidong who was feeling a little embarrassed.

"What? Boss Chen thinks his parents shouldn't come to your wedding? Are you here to ask me for an explanation? I'm here to give you a happy wedding to bring your family together, so don't be rude to me."

Qiao Zhixia knew that even if she didn't admit that she had invited the Wang couple, they wouldn't believe it. Moreover, such things could be figured out with a little investigation. Instead of pretending to be stupid, she might as well just piss them off to death.

Sure enough, both of them looked so gloomy that water could drip out of their faces. However, Chen Jidong still endured it because he was not in the right.

"Zhizhi, you have changed." Chen Jidong's tone contained a hint of anger.

Qiao Zhixia quickly stepped back in disgust, "Don't call me so affectionately, don't you know why you still can't forget your old feelings for me? Are you unhappy that I've changed? You have to let me hug your legs and cry and beg for your mercy, so that you can change your mind, then you will feel satisfied, right? Sorry, without you, I will only get better and better, as for you..."

She said half and kept the other half, only looking back and forth between the two of them with a meaningful look, some things left unsaid are more hurtful than spoken out.

"You just set up a vegetable stall to sell vegetables, didn't you? You started bragging and opened a company. Lying is not a good habit. You will suffer losses when you lie." Wang Ruoqiu said sarcastically.

Qiao Zhixia chuckled: "Yes! Lying is not a good habit, Section Chief Jin, you are right!"

"You..." Wang Ruoqiu was so angry that his whole body was shaking, but was pulled away by Chen Jidong.

"We're leaving now."

"Goodbye! I won't see you off!"

When Chen Jidong turned to leave, he ignored Wang Ruqiu's struggle and grabbed her hand tightly.

On his way back, he passed by the dirt slope under the big locust tree, he stopped and his thoughts flew back to his childhood.

At that time, he often came to this dirt slope to play with Qiao Zhixia. When the locust flowers bloomed, he climbed up to pick them. But he couldn't climb trees as well as Qiao Zhixia, and he couldn't pick as many as she did every time.

But she is a girl, and she is often scolded by her family for climbing trees. But she always forgets the lesson, and does what she should do with her back foot after being punished.

At that time, Qiao Zhixia was like the sun. No matter what she went through, she always had a bright smile on her face.

What about her now? Is she still the sun? Maybe! But she no longer belongs to him.

How did they become so estranged from each other? They were even like enemies.

In his previous life, he had let Wang Ruoqiu down, so after marriage he had never treated Qiao Zhixia well, but she never got angry and was always cautious and humble in front of him.

The more she acted like this, the more disgusted he became.

Even when they were making love in bed, he deliberately called Wang Ruqiu's name in her ear.

Hearing her crying in the middle of the night, he felt much happier.

It was because of her existence that he missed Qiu Qiu, and she deserved it all.

Qiao Zhixia is now a completely different person. She no longer sticks to him or tries to please him. She only feels alienated and disgusted with him.

He married his beloved Qiuqiu as he wished, but why didn't he feel the happiness he imagined?