The sky was just beginning to brighten.
Cheng Ze got out of bed, his head throbbing with pain.
He drank a glass of baijiu yesterday, and I never expected him to get this drunk.
When he suddenly discovered Qian Ying sleeping beside him, he felt as if he had been struck by lightning!
"Ah Ying, how did you get here?" He lifted the blanket and his heart sank.
Qian Ying woke up from her sleep, rubbed her eyes, and pretended to be still sleepy, saying, "Aze, you're awake."
"What did I do to you last night?" Cheng Ze asked, his mind blank.
Qian Ying revealed her smooth shoulders, her face flushed: "You were drunk last night, and I helped you back to your room to rest. You were really drunk, vomiting and gagging, so I stayed to take care of you. I never expected you to—" She couldn't finish her sentence and buried her head in the blanket.
Cheng Ze's mind went blank, and he slapped himself hard: "I'm no human being! How could I do such a thing to you!"
Qian Ying quickly grasped his hand and pleaded in a tearful voice, "Aze, don't blame yourself. I was drunk at the time, and I couldn't help myself. I half-heartedly went along with it..."
“It’s not your fault, it was all my wishful thinking,” she vowed again. “You don’t have to take responsibility for me, it was an accident.”
Cheng Ze hurriedly put on his clothes and whispered, "I'm sorry, Aying!" before striding out of the room.
Unexpectedly, he ran into Cheng Duoguo and his wife on the stairs.
“Aze, Qian Ying is a good girl. She traveled all the way from abroad to come back to China. You should treat her well in the future.” Cheng Duoguo lectured her, acting like the head of the family. “I think we should arrange for the two families to meet and set a date for the wedding.”
"I'm busy!" Cheng Ze pushed him away and ran out.
Cheng Duoguo sneered, "He has no manners at all. Does he even want to marry Lu Siqiao?"
"Duoguo, stop talking." Chen Luoxia winked at him.
At this moment, Qian Ying stood at the door of the room, her eyes filled with resentment, her face alternating between pale and flushed.
She couldn't resist and ran away.
Can love that is forcibly taken truly bring happiness?
Meanwhile, Cheng Ze drove at breakneck speed, finally stopping in front of the Lu family's house.
He didn't have the courage to ring the doorbell; he just sat at the door, lost in thought.
"what are you doing here?"
Lu Siqiao returned from outside, carrying fried dough sticks and congee, and looked at him with a frown.
Cheng Ze was startled. He looked up and saw her standing in front of him, looking at him with concern.
"Jova—" His heart skipped a beat, and he hugged her tightly, greedily savoring the moment of peace that belonged to the two of them.
Lu Siqiao broke free and looked at him: "Cheng Ze, what's wrong with you?"
"Don't ask!" Cheng Ze said, hanging his head and looking dejected.
Lu Siqiao didn't ask any more questions and led him into the house.
Lu Mingfeng and his wife went to the company early in the morning, and no one was home.
Lu Siqiao treated him to breakfast.
Cheng Ze looked at her with sorrowful eyes, his gaze filled with despair and helplessness.
"What exactly did you do?" Lu Siqiao smiled, tore off a fried dough stick and stuffed it into his hand, "Even if the sky falls, we still need to eat our fill before we talk about anything else."
Cheng Ze lowered his eyes, absentmindedly biting into his fried dough stick, and asked absentmindedly, "Qiao Wa, what will you do if I marry Qian Ying?"
Lu Siqiao's hand holding the spoon turned slightly white.
Her eyes reddened, and she forced back her discomfort, saying, "What does it matter to me who you marry? Rain is inevitable, and mothers are destined to remarry; this is an immutable law. You can't stay single forever, and neither can I."
Cheng Ze looked at her with heartache: "Qiao Wa, I'm so sorry. I made a mistake—"
Lu Siqiao stopped him from continuing, saying coldly, "Don't say anymore!"
She knew what he wanted to say.
He made the mistake that all men make.
ridiculous.
"Cheng Ze, we can't go back." She closed her eyes, letting her tears fall onto the glistening white porridge, and choked out, "We've grown up, and we'll all have our own partners. If we miss each other, we miss each other."
Cheng Ze, his heart heavy, pounded his fist on the table: "I'm not human!"
“When I was studying abroad, I was once ostracized because I was not good at communicating. At that time, the Cheng family ignored me, but the Qian family took me in. To me, they were family.”
"Later, Qian Ying's father passed away, and her mother became disabled after both of her legs were injured. I had no choice but to stay abroad to take care of them."
"I never imagined that one day I would marry Qian Ying."
"In my heart, she is like the girl next door."
His eyes were bloodshot as he stared intently at Lu Siqiao. "Qiaowa, I know I no longer have the right to love you. I just want to express what I've been thinking for the past ten years."
"I have tarnished the noble love in my heart; I am unworthy of you!"
Lu Siqiao felt a mess in her mind, slowly got up, her face covered in tears.
"Since that's the case, then you should treat them well." She covered her face, trying not to cry out loud.
Love is too tiring.
Cheng Ze grabbed her, urgently asking, "Qiao Wa, are you—"
"No," Lu Siqiao replied. "Cheng Ze, from beginning to end, you have never been able to let go of the Qian family mother and daughter. Whether I have ever loved you or not is no longer important."
"Let's treat each other like siblings from now on," she said, rushing back to her room.
No matter how loudly Cheng Ze shouted from outside the room, she did not come out.
Cheng Ze left heartbroken.
Lu Siqiao locked herself in her room, the curtains drawn tightly, as if she had fallen into endless darkness.
Just then, the phone rang.
It's Fang Dingding again.
"Qiaowa, I heard Chengze slept with Qian Ying. Oh dear, what a pity. I thought Chengze would marry you." She immediately rubbed salt into her wound.
Lu Siqiao said calmly, "Is that so? Isn't that even better? Give up one tree and gain the whole forest."
"Your heart must be aching, right?" Fang Dingding's voice chuckled sinisterly. "Don't tell me you have no weaknesses. Even if you send the second branch of the Lu family back to their hometown, so what? As long as you live, you'll have your own weaknesses."
"This time it was Cheng Ze, but who knows who it will be next time."
She laughed wildly, "By the way, I heard your best friend Mo Yan is pretty and wants to sign with an entertainment company to debut?"
Lu Siqiao said coldly, "What do you want?"
"Nothing much, just letting her experience what it's like to fall from a great height."
"I'll remember that. I'll wait for you to change your mind."
After saying that, she hung up the phone.
Lu Siqiao was startled.
She rushed out of the villa.
Cheng Ze was still pacing at the door when he saw her flustered look and hurriedly asked, "What happened?"
Lu Siqiao had no choice but to mention Fang Dingding's warning, "I'm going to find Mo Yan."
Cheng Ze was surprised that Fang Dingding had also gotten involved in his relationship with Qian Ying, and immediately sensed that something was wrong.
However, now is not the time to focus on that.
When they arrived at the set, Mo Yan was suspended by wires and tumbling through the air like a butterfly.
Lu Siqiao's heart jumped into her throat, and she was about to shout out in alarm.
But then, the rope broke.
Mo Yan was like a fallen angel, plummeting from a height of ten meters.
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