《If We Cannot Grow Old Together》


 C1. Like Mother like Daughter

    "Mu Ziyou, you did a good job! Since you are in need of money so badly, why don''t you just go to make money with your body like your mother? How dare you have got a naked loan (having a picture taken, naked, with the ID card in hand as a precondition)?! Why didn¡¯t you turn to me? Am I dead to you?"


    Mu in a light sleep suddenly feels a sharp pain in the face, which is followed by a storm of abuse.


    She opens her eyes and sees a furious face.


    It¡¯s her husband, Li Qiaosheng. Obviously, it¡¯s his slap that has made her face burning.


    She¡¯s stunned, staring blankly in his angry face.


    Although she has been used to his occasional hot temper, today¡¯s fury is beyond her. What is the naked loan he mentioned? She totally has no idea.


    Li squints his eyes. The woman in front of him is still attractive despite there¡¯s an ugly scar on the face, and she can still bring up pity deep in a man¡¯s heart easily.


    He hesitates for a second before fury takes over him again.


    Why? Why his heart softens suddenly?


    If it hadn''t been for her, his father wouldn''t have died so early, and the family wouldn''t have fallen apart!


    Thinking of this, he squeezes his two hands around her neck while crying, ¡°Why is it you who survived? Why is it not you who have died? Why are you making me so miserable these days and every following day as you are still breathing?¡±


    Mu coughs hard, trying to get some air, ¡°Qiaosheng, I...¡± That little delicate face crumbles with tears shedding. She grabs his arm out of the urge for self-preservation and struggles hard.


    Yet as the last word hits her, she closes her eyes slowly in despair. Bitter memories overwhelm her simultaneously.


    The air of despair brings a bit of sense back to him. Li Qiaosheng loosens his hold on her neck at once and says in a cold voice, ¡°You wish to die? No way! Let me make it clear: you will never free yourself of this until my last breathe!¡±


    ¡°I did get a loan, but not in the shameful way as you have mentioned!¡± Mu Ziyou figures out the cause for all this rumpus now. She tries to defend herself while trying to inhale fresh air.If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    ¡°No? Shame on you for lying! See for yourself!¡± Li pushes her head hard against an envelope.


    It hurts so badly. On tilting her head slightly, she finds on the top of the envelope a photo of herself naked with her ID card in the hands.


    How come?!


    ¡°No, it¡¯s impossible. It¡¯s not me. No way... Qiaosheng, trust me, please. I made the loan to cover my mom¡¯s medical bills next month. I swear I did not do it with my photo... It¡¯s not me who took the shot. Definitely not!¡±


    Mu Ziyou kneels by the bed with hands tugging tightly at a corner of Qiao¡¯s clothes. With tears shedding, she tries to clear her name.


    Once again, the way Li looks at her hurts her badly.


    Loathing as usual, but an air of unveiled contempt is added today.


    ¡°Well, your photo is right here, what else do you want to say? It seems that you¡¯re fond of earning money with your body, then please me with it! Make full use of your body, since it¡¯s still favorable to me. Don¡¯t waste it.¡±


    ¡°You must be kidding,¡± She is freaked out by this man in front of her, ¡°I... I¡¯m your wife.¡±


    ¡°My wife? Then how many times have you fulfilled your obligation as a wife? Listen, for God¡¯s sake, I will pay you ten thousand yuan each time, that¡¯s my best offer.¡±


    Li Qiaosheng sneers while undressing himself slowly. Then he throws her in the bed and himself on top of her with stormy lust in his eyes.


    He can¡¯t control his nature: Hating the woman so much that he wants her to go to hell right away on the one hand, he can still be aroused by her on the other!


    A sharp pain in the abdomen frightens her. She stretches out her hands against his chest, her face pale, she besought, ¡°No, Qiaosheng, I¡¯m having my period. Please don¡¯t, please...¡±


    ¡°Oh?¡± Li Qiaosheng freezes for a second and lifts the corner of his mouth later, ¡°I¡¯m perfectly Okay with it.¡±


    Hardly has his voice faded away when something big and hard is thrust into Mu¡¯s body and moves in and out of her body frantically before she comes to know what was happening.


    There is no hope in her eyes any more. Once again, she reminds herself that he is no longer the man, who risked his life for her safety when she was a little girl and whom she has addressed as ¡°Brother Qiaosheng¡± affectionately.


    The man in front of her now hates her so much that he wants to humiliate and torture her every second. This is the very thing he had done on their wedding night. He actually raped her instead of making love to her with the furious look of sending her straightly to Hades.


    Mu loses the track of time, with the pain in her body numbing her senses. At last, she passes out for short of physical strength.


    Mu Ziyou wakes up alone and realizes it is as cold as if no one has ever slept over on the other side of the bed.


    Trying to pull herself together, Mu only finds herself overwhelmed by piercing pain all over her body as if she had been run over by some heavy gears.


    She reaches out for the phone on the nightstand, mustering up all her strength, but she touches something else first. It is a bank card with a note. Li Qiaosheng¡¯s handwriting is easy to tell: ¡°Well, how much do you think you are worth for your bad performance in bed? A whore can do a much better job than you. Remember this, Mu Ziyo, I only gave this card out of mercy. If you want more, go on improving your skills in bed!¡±

 C2. I Did It Perfectly

    With the card in hand, Mu Ziyou sweats on the forehead out of weakness.


    He would not miss any opportunity to humiliate her, and she is used to it, isn¡¯t she?


    She has thought of leaving him for countless times, but she didn¡¯t just because she still anticipated for a change.


    Because this man has been her dream lover ever since she was a little girl until now!


    She always has a fantasy that all the misunderstanding would be eliminated someday, and their relationship would be restored just like that during childhood, and he would still look at her in a pampering way...


    Mu Ziyou wipes off her tears, and notices the sheet which has been replaced with a new one, with not a single trace of making love left.


    Deathly despair restores in her eyes. Probably this is the true Li Qiaosheng, who hates her to the guts.


    At the meal, the maid made a few dishes that are antianemic, but Mu Ziyou clearly understands that it is not because of the conscience of her husband who wants to make up for his bad behavior, but for the rare Rh-negative trait blood in her body.


    Only her blood could be used to save his most beloved woman, Xia Wanyan, who had tried to commit suicide in order to prevent him from marrying Mu Ziyou.


    "Lan, did the doctor forget to come here today?" She speaks softly and emotionlessly.


    Lan gives her a black look and answers in a disdainful way, "Of course not. You are in your period, and Mr. Li is afraid that if you lose too much blood, it will cause more trouble than benefit so the blood collecting is canceled this week."


    ¡°OK.¡±


    Mu Ziyou has been used to the bad attitudes of servants. Probably from their points of view, Xia Wanyan is the actual Mrs. Li, and Mu herself is just a tool generating blood for Xia.


    Somehow, Mu Ziyou¡¯s menstrual period is particularly short this month, which just lasted for 3 days, much shorter than the usual 7 days.


    Mu doesn¡¯t think much about it. After recovering a little, she goes to the central hospital with the loan next morning, since her mother¡¯s medicine bills are waiting to be paid.If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement.


    After paying the bills for the next month, Mu Ziyou gets into the packed elevator. Being absentminded for a while, she finds herself on the wrong floor.


    Her mother is in the common ward, but she is now on the floor of VIP wards. She shakes her head thinking maybe she is really tired recently that she even went absent-minded just now. She is ready to turn back to the elevator when she freezes at what she hears.


    "Dad, when am I going to leave the hospital? It¡¯s really dull here. And I don¡¯t know why Qiaosheng is still hesitating about divorcing Youyou. What should I do next?


    "Dad, don¡¯t worry. I fabricated the matter of naked loan perfectly. No one could discover it. Qiaosheng looked very gloomy when he came to visit me this morning, which must have been caused by Youyou (an intimate term for Mu Ziyou)¡­I¡¯m sure that with a little more tricks, I could make it.¡±


    On hearing the conversation unexpectedly, Mu Ziyou trembles with anger.


    More ironically, they had been best friends in the world once upon a time!


    Why does Xia treat her so cruelly?


    On hanging up the phone and turning towards the door, Xia Wanyan finds Mu Ziyou standing in front of her glaring at her. She is shocked at first, but immediately covers her mouth while smiling, ¡°Youyou, are you here to visit me or your prostitute mother?"


    ¡°Xia Wanyan!¡±


    Hearing the word ¡°prostitute¡±, Mu Ziyou could not bear it any longer. She steps forward and grabs Xia¡¯s neck, ignoring the fact that the window behind is wide open. She vents out her anger thoroughly.


    "Why on earth do you treat me so cruelly? You slandered me for harming you after you jumped down from a building. I promised to offer you my blood every week when you said you were suffering from anemia. What else should I do to make you satisfy? And now you are trying to set me up in such a vile way! You ¡­"


    Anger has blinded Mu, and she really wants to strangle this woman! ¡°Youyou, come on, if you don¡¯t want to give me your blood, you can talk to Qiaosheng in person. It¡¯s not me who made you draw blood to feed me. I didn¡¯t ..."


    Xia Wanyan was just about to stretch out her hands with a malicious look when she catches a glimpse of Qiaosheng who emerges from behind. She suddenly changes her tone and covers her mouth tightly.


    Mu Ziyou is not able to speak, but she has decided to give this woman a lesson today!


    But unexpectedly, while she is tightening her hands, a sudden force behind her hits her and her whole body falls back defenselessly!


    "Mu Ziyou, Why is it you again? Who gave you the nerve to do this?!"


    "Bang", the moment she falls down, with her forehead hitting the column in front of her, she hears Li Quashing¡¯s furious roar.


    With her sights getting fuzzier and fuzzier, she still gets a full view of Xia Wanyan¡¯s defiant looks to her while she was telling Li about what was happening while crying.


    "Mu Ziyou, go to hell and stay away from us. Why do you think I would let you, a vicious woman, stay with me if it weren¡¯t for your blood type?"


    Before she loses consciousness, all that she hears is the furious voice of the man again...


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 C3. You Can’t Talk About Her like That!

    Mu Ziyou had a dream where there was Qiaosheng''s gentle look and mom¡¯s amiable and affectionate smile.


    She wakes up crying. Feeling that her tears are tenderly wiped away, she slowly opens her eyes.


    "Youyou, honey, are you awake?" The man in front of her is wearing a doctor¡¯s white coat and looking at her with a loving and distressed look.


    Mu Ziyou can¡¯t believe her eyes. "Qin Yang! Is it really you? You... Aren¡¯t you in Japan?"


    His tone is extraordinarily gentle, just like before, casting a beam of warm light into her heart.


    "Well, my family all came back and I was assigned to work in this hospital." Qin Yang touches her soft hair on the top of her head with a smile and asks her with concern, "You are not doing well?"


    "Qin Yang, I am OK. These... I owe these to him. I deserve them.¡± Mu Ziyou shakes her head with a bitter smile.


    Hearing her saying this, Qin Yang''s expression changes. He can''t help shaking her shoulders and growls:


    "Li Qiaosheng''s father died in the car accident to protect you just because he owed it to your mother. You owe nothing to Li Qiaosheng. Do you understand?


    Mu Ziyou droops her head and the past events unrolled in her mind one by one. She covers her chest with a hand cupping on it as comfort and tears pour down uncontrollably. "But... Seeing Qiaosheng being that painful, I am also... "


    "Mu Ziyou, you lust for man so much that you can even flirt with a random doctor in the hospital?"


    Outside the door stands Li Qiaosheng, looking at them without any expression.


    He has just wanted to check on her, but unexpectedly heard the voice of a strange man.


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    Before Mu Ziyou can explain, Li Qiaosheng¡¯s fist directly smashes into Qin Yang¡¯s face. Taken off guard, Qin Yang is hit and blood runs down the corner of his mouth.


    Mu Ziyou covers her mouth out of surprise. However, Qin Yang goes on with the conversation after he calms down and even gracefully wipes the blood off his face:


    "Nice to meet you, Li Qiaosheng. This is Qin Yang, Youyou¡¯s Good Friend. Just now we were only having a small talk about the good old days. Please don''t misunderstand.¡±


    "Are you finished? If so, get out now!" Li Qiaosheng is so agitated, inexplicably agitated.


    Qin Yang was still worried when Mu Ziyou gives him a reassuring look telling him to leave.


    This scene was totally seen by Li Qiaosheng, which makes him feel suffocated with agitation like a big ball of cotton has been stuck in his heart.


    As soon as Qin Yang leaves the room, Li Qiaosheng presses her to the hospital bed, holding her two wrists in one hand above her head and tugging violently at her pants with the other hand. He utters some bad words ferociously at the same time: ¡°Whenever I wanted to make love to you before, you would decline with all kinds of excuses. While now you are so willing to throw yourself on him. You are really the same as your mother, the old ...¡±


    Before the word "whore" comes out of his mouth, being extremely sad and irritated, Mu Ziyou smashes her forehead directly into Qiaosheng''s chin with great force¡­ "My mom is not like what you think of! You can¡¯t talk about her like that!"


    Li Qiaosheng is so irritated that he bursts into a cold laughter. With no more arguing, he turns to the nurse nearby and orders, "Come on, draw a bag of blood from her and send it to patient Xia Wanyan in Room VIP08."


    "No, I won¡¯t give her any bit of my blood because it is she who framed me for the naked loan matter. Li Qiaosheng, will you believe me this time? Will you?" In complete despair, Mu Ziyou can only hear the buzzing noise around her.


    The nurse is trying to dissuade him, explaining that it is not the right situation in which blood can be drawn. But will a man in a rage listen to her?


    He just looks at the woman in the bed with sheer hatred in his eyes. ¡°Damn, I will never trust you! You like pretending to be a victim so as to earn mercy from people, just like your mother, don''t you?¡±


    "I told you I didn¡¯t..." She growls, only to be clutched by the neck by Li Qiaosheng.


    "You owe me. You owe Wanyan. You owe the whole Li family. Do you think you can pay off with just a little blood?"


    His voice seems to be coming from the hell while her eyes become more and more blurred.


    Li Qiaosheng, if I die, can I free myself from all the sufferings?


    She stares at the ceiling dully. Suddenly everything went silent around her. What she can see is Li Qiaosheng''s lips opening and closing. But the sight becomes more and more obscure¡­


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 C4. There is Nothing Wrong with Her Health!

    When Mu wakes up again, she finds herself alone in the middle of the transfusion of nutrients. The ward is horribly quiet.


    Recalling all has happened since she married Qiaosheng, suddenly she comes to wonders whether she has been wrong for having been too obsessed and stubborn.


    She feels devastated by the mutual torture in her marriage...


    ¡°Youyou, anything wrong? You must tell me if so. Let me give you a thorough examination, OK?" Qin Yang finds by chance that she is staring ahead numbly as he passes by. He walks to her hastily, afraid that she has been hurt by some undetected internal injuries.


    At this, Mu Ziyou slowly raises his head. In order to relieve his worries, she turns her face sideways like nothing has happened. ¡°Where is he?" she asked.


    ¡°He came... to get Xia Wanyan out of the hospital today." Qin Yang is not much of a liar and tells her the truth.


    ¡°Today? Out of ... the hospital?" Mu Ziyou does not know that she has already slept a whole day and night.


    Qin Yang nods, ¡°Yeah. By the way, one thing confuses me.  It¡¯s been a long time since Xia Wanyan fell off a building and got a bad loss of blood. I think it¡¯s understandable to call for your blood at that time. But why does she still want your blood for her good over and over again now?¡±


    ¡°Because she was diagnosed with aplastic anemia. And Qiaosheng had always thought that it was because of me that she fell off the building. Therefore he requires me to make up for her... "


    ¡°It can¡¯t be! She shows no symptom of that at all!"


    By virtue of his identity as a doctor, he retrieved Xia Wanyan¡¯s health status report with an excuse. The report shows that there is nothing wrong with her health! She should have been discharged from the hospital long before!This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version.


    ¡°What?!!" Mu Ziyou¡¯s brows knit together. She just finds that all of a sudden everything starts to make sense.


    Qin Yang looks bemusedly at Mu Ziyou, then nods.


    She has the right to know the truth.


    Mu Ziyou takes a deep breath and comes to a decision at that second: ¡°Get me out of the hospital, please."


    Despite Qin Yang¡¯s disagreement, Mu insists on leaving the hospital and returns to Li Qiaosheng¡¯s villa.


    To her surprise, Xia Wanyan is already there and has decorated the next guest room in the way she likes.


    Mu Ziyou¡¯s face darkened perceptibly at seeing this. Without a second thought she comes forward to question her: ¡°Xia Wanyan, you¡¯ve never suffered from aplastic anemia, have you? Then why on earth are you still taking a bag of my blood every week? What on earth are you doing with all my blood?"


    ¡°Your blood... Well, since you¡¯ve already found out, I¡¯ll make it straight. Look, there¡¯s a spare one." Xia Wanyan gets out a bag of blood from the drawer of the nightstand and heads for the bathroom while saying, ¡°Usually I will take advantage of the time when Qiaosheng is absent and pour the left blood into the toilet and flush it clean. Well, of course, there might be some other USE, like ---"


    A ¡°thwack" sound stuns Mu Ziyou to the soul.


    Xia Wanyan just slaps hard in her own face. Then she dips her finger in the rest of the blood and draws at the corner of her mouth and gives Mu a mysterious and weird smile.


    Before Mu Ziyou figures out what has happened, Li Qiaosheng has appeared behind her without a single sound. He pushes her hard down to the ground in a rage. ¡°Mu Ziyou! I asked Wanyan to live over not for you to hurt her!"


    ¡°Darling, boo-hoo, Youyou said she would rather flush the blood down the toilet than give it to me. I... I don''t know why. Since she doesn''t like me here, I think I''d better go." Xia Wanyan covers her ¡°bleeding mouth¡± with one hand, giving out a pathetic look.


    Due to the dizziness, Mu Ziyou cannot stand up at once. She can only watch her own husband taking Xia Wanyan up against his chest gently and coaxing. Facing her, however, he immediately becomes another man, ¡°Just wait and wish!" He roars at her without any clue to love that Mu grew up with.


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 C5. I Have Something to Tell You

    Just for the sake of these simple words, Mu Ziyou has been waiting for Li Qiaosheng till 11 o¡¯clock P.M.


    When her eyes lids become heavy with sleep, she hears a burst of messy footsteps outside. And then the unlatched door is pushed open heavily and in comes Li Qiaosheng.


    ¡°He must have had some enjoyable time with Xia Wanyan before he came back...¡± thought Mu Ziyou bitterly. Just then she notices the strong smell of alcohol on him.


    Mu Ziyou feels sick but after uttering a brief sigh, she still gets up and intends to make some soup to dispel the effects of alcohol for him in the kitchen.


    Before she gets out of the door, Li Qiaosheng stretches out a hand and pulls her back to his bosom. He lowers his head and gives her an evil but charming smile, ¡°You ought to pay off the debt tonight!¡±


    ¡°No, Qiaosehng. I¡¯m not feeling well now.¡±


    ¡°Why? If you don¡¯t want to do that, pay off all the money you owe me right now!¡± The man interrupts her sharply.


    Mu Ziyou stares at him surprisingly. ¡°When did I owe you money?¡±


    ¡°Aha, have you already forgotten about the naked loan? Do you think you can swipe my card for free? Do you think... you can pay it back?¡± Li Qiaosheng breathes heavily. While approaching Mu Ziyou step by step, he begins to undo his belt...


    ¡°Do you want to have sex with me or not?¡± His face wears complicated expressions. ¡°Didn¡¯t you still pretend to love me? Then why don¡¯t you want to have sex with me?¡±


    As listening to the insulting words, she suddenly covers her eyes and bursts into tears.


    Yes... She loves him...


    It is just because she loves him that she seems to have completely forgotten what she herself was like before.


    After crying for a while, she suddenly thinks of something and takes hold of the man¡¯s hand while saying in a hurry: ¡°I have something to tell you. It¡¯s about Xia Wanyan...¡±If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.


    ¡°Do you want to tell me that it wasn¡¯t you who caused her to fall off the building so that you don¡¯t need to give her your blood?¡±


    ¡°Qiaosheng, I am not cheating you.¡±


    ¡°You would rather sell blood so as to pay off the debt, or even pour your blood into the toilet rather than give it to Wanyan?¡±


    Mu Ziyou is refuted speechless, but Qiaosheng hasn¡¯t finished.


    ¡°And do you want to tell me that the naked loan is framed by Xia Wanyan? Do you want to tell me that you didn¡¯t go to get a loan at all because Qin Yang is willing to offer your whore mother medical treatment for free?¡±


    Noticing her silence, Li Qiaoshengonly thinks that she has acknowledged everything. His cold smile crawls to the corners of his mouth, ¡°Mu Ziyou, stop pretending to be poor. Even if it wasn¡¯t you who rendered Wanyan like this, you must give her your blood! Hum, the only thing to blame is your rare Rh-negative blood type which is the same as hers.¡±


    ¡°But she has no anaemic symptom at all. Would you believe me just this time? You can get the truth from her medical report!¡± Mu Ziyou feels cold at the bottom of her heart, but she cannot reconcile herself to keeping the truth unknown to Li Qiaosheng.


    But Li Qiaosheng says with a sneer, ¡°So you mean that Wanyan even deliberately faked the symptoms of anaemia?¡±


    ¡°Yes! Brother Qin Yang saw Xia Wanyan¡¯s medical report which says there is nothing wrong with her!¡± Mu Ziyou almost makes an oath gesture.


    A moment of hesitation has flashed through the man¡¯s expression. But on hearing ¡°Brother Qin Yang¡±, so intimate an addressing term, he suddenly turns his face extremely cold and impatient!


    He doesn¡¯t want to listen to any of her nonsense any more. He pushes Mu Ziyou hard to the floor. While looking down at her he asks for another time, ¡°But, I just want to know... whether you want to have sex with me... or not ... now!¡±


    ¡°Qiaosheng, I¡­¡±


    ¡°Kneel down, or I¡¯ll throw you and your bitch mother out of the hospital tomorrow!¡± The man says these words indifferently. Knowing that he¡¯s got Mu Ziyou¡¯s fatal weakness, he smiles in a brutal way.


    Biting at her lips, Mu Ziyou thinks of the money for her mother¡¯s medical fee and the words said by Qiaosheng¡¯s father before his death...


    Perhaps her action is really too slow, or Li Qiaosheng is too impatient to wait. He takes the woman¡¯s chin between his fingers. With a little force, he has her mouth opened and thrusts himself into it mercilessly. On thinking of the scene when she and Qin Yang were intimately together, he pushes himself ruthlessly deep down her throat, again and again!


    After this, he goes directly into the bathroom without even a glance at Mu Ziyou who is left throwing up everything from her stomach into the trash can...


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 C6. You Will Be Honored for the Sake of Your Baby

    Since Mu Ziyou started vomiting that night, several days have passed but she shows no sign of stopping.


    Li Qiaosheng finally realizes that something is wrong. After an examination in the hospital, he finds it out that she has been pregnant for two months.


    "Pregnant..." Mu Ziyou''s expressions are complicated. ¡°Why at this time...¡±


    Regarding her relationship with Li Qiaosheng at present, does she dare to give birth to this baby?


    To her surprise, although Li Qiaosheng doesn¡¯t show much concern by his facial expression, he no longer forces her to give blood to Xia Wanyan. He even hired an experienced nanny to look after her.


    Mu Ziyou couldn¡¯t help crying with joy. Even though Li Qiaosheng doesn''t say anything nice, he doesn''t purposely find fault with her anymore. He even drops in on her intentionally or unintentionally.


    Some of the wounds in her broken heart seem to have gradually healed day by day.


    However, peaceful life is doomed to end fast.


    One day, when she is sunning herself in the yard, she finds Li Qiaosheng walking towards her in a rage with a note in his hand.


    "Mu Ziyou, it seems that you are in a good mood, huh? Do you think that when you are pregnant, you will be honored for the sake of your baby? You¡¯d better keep it in your mind that it is Wanyan who is my beloved. I will get you out of this house as soon as you give birth to the baby!"


    After finishing these words, he throws the note at her and turns to leave without a glance back.


    Deeply hurt by Qiaosheng¡¯s words again, Mu Ziyou¡¯s face turns white. She is in a daze for a while before she takes a look at the note which is a farewell letter from Xia Wanyan.


    In the letter, Xia Wanyan said that the reason why she left was Mu Ziyou. She could not bear to see the pregnant Mu Ziyou wandering around her every day. But she wouldn¡¯t stay there like a mistress any longer unless Qiaosheng promises to marry her, or she would never appear in front of him again!Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road.


    In the following days, Mu Ziyou didn¡¯t see Li Qiaosheng again, either.


    The servants said in private that he has gone to look for Xia Wanyan and it seems that he has been determined not to return until he finds her.


    Mu Ziyou has been living a miserable life. She has no time to fix her broken heart because her morning sickness is very severe. But for the sake of the baby she  carries, she has to force down the tasteless food obediently.


    The baby, the combination of her and Qiaosheng, is her only hope and concern now...


    The baby probably has sensed her emotions and responds accordingly, which makes her vomit after eating. Then she will eat, vomit, eat vomit, again and again. After several days, she feels that her spirits and energy are being drained little by little.


    When Li Qiaosheng finally appears in front of her again, it is also a little hard for him to believe his own eyes.


    The skin of the woman in front of him has turned from snow-white into wax-yellow without any luster.


    She seems that she has been reduced to bones.


    He has been on a business trip for only a week. How has she maltreated herself and become like this? There is a flash of tenderness and pain in his eyes.


    But when he thinks of the pain that Wanyan has suffered because of her, his face becomes hard again. Abruptly he rushes out of the room, dragging her behind!


    ¡°Why is my heart softened again? Fine, fine, Mu Ziyou, you want to use the Battered-Body Trick again, right?¡± Qiaosheng thinks to himself.


    ¡°Where are you taking me?¡± Mu Ziyou is terrified. Is he going to¡­


    "Since you are not willing to eat obediently and I won¡¯t let my baby starve, I will get you a nutritional transfusion!"


    The second he finishes his words, his cell phone starts ringing. He takes out the phone. On its screen the caller¡¯s name is flickering --- Xia Wanyan, whom he hasn¡¯t seen for a long time. At the same time, Mu Ziyou standing next to him also sees that, and her heart sinks to the bottom.


    Sure enough, the man immediately lets go of her and steps away while picking up the phone.


    When he comes back, he still looks extremely cold, which causes her to retreat several steps subconsciously.


    This scene is captured by Li Qiaosheng, and it makes him confirm that she is feeling guilty. Then he approaches her step by step until her back is against the cold wall behind and nowhere to escape.


    "Tell me, who---is---the---father---of---the---baby?" The man tries to restrain his inner anger and asks.


    "Li Qiaosheng, what the hell are you talking about?" Mu Ziyou''s eyes pop wide and she stares at him incredulously. "You don¡¯t know who is the father of the baby in my womb, do you?"


    "On that day, my father and you, what happened? This baby... is it his?"


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 C7. They Kept Their Behavior in Secrecy and Mystery

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    Mu Ziyou finds her moods changing from thunderous to  exceedingly ironic ¡ª the man to whom she has been married suspects her and his father after such a long time they''ve spent together. How ridiculous...


    She is overwhelmed by anger and gives out a dreary laughter. "Li Qiaosheng, try to imagine how disappointed your father would be if he got to know this in the heaven!"


    After saying this in a deadly flat voice, she turns around and walks downstairs in determined strides.


    Li Qiaosheng stays stunned and grounded for a while. Suddenly, anger rises in him. He bangs his fist on the white wall!


    He would definitely roar with rage if he were not in the hospital!


    Finally he gets out his phone and once again dials Xia Wanyan¡¯s number simply ignoring the wound on his hand. He speaks in a plain and terrifying tone. "Wanyan, where is my mom? Get her on the phone. I need to talk to her.¡±


    ¡°Qiaosheng, I''ll get Auntie on the phone. Although auntie is not yet fully recovered, the words she says now unconsciously should be true to the fact, don''t you think so?¡± Xia Wanyan then makes the phone available for the woman lying in the hospital bed.


    This woman is Li Qiaosheng¡¯s mother, Baiyun, who accidentally fell down the stairs and got her head bumped before Li and Mu got married. Since then she has been acting like a lunatic and stayed in the sanatorium.


    Therefore, when Li Qiaosheng hears that his mother can finally speak in whole sentences and still keeps on cursing Mu Ziyou and her mother, Mu Qing as an enchantress in broken sentences at the other end of the line, he gets so angry that he almost crushed his phone in the hand .


    He doesn''t wish to suspect Mu Ziyou in his heart, but his mother did fall down the stairs just before they got married.If you encounter this story on Amazon, note that it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it.


    And his mother did try to stop their wedding from happening.


    Was it really caused by Mu Ziyou?!


    A dangerous light appears in his eyes, yet he looks rather painful.


    ¡°Qiaosheng, I have been keeping Auntie¡¯s company these days.   When her mind was clear, she told me that Youyou right now is exactly the same as her mother when she was young. You also know that Uncle Li had never stopped missing Auntie Mu Qing and he had cared about even pampered Youyou so much. What¡¯s more..." Xia Wanyan stops right there on purpose, pretending that she dare not to continue.


    ¡°Go on!" Li Qiaosheng squeezes out the words from between his teeth.


    ¡°What¡¯s more, I also heard that whenever Uncle was free, he would take Youyou out for a drive. They kept their behavior in such secrecy and mystery that nobody knew what they were out for. Even on the day when the car accident happened, they didn¡¯t tell Auntie Bai where they had been, did they?¡±


    On hearing this, Li Qiaosheng is reminded of something happened in the past. It did happen several times when he came back home for dinner from the Group. He saw his father and Youyou come back together in a rush, which turned his mother into a foul mood.


    He follows up Mu Ziyou unconsciously, recalling the whole picture in his mind little by little.


    Considering her bad mood may worry her mom a lot, Mu Ziyou leaves the hospital against her original intention to drop in on her when comes to the floor where the common wards are located.


    No sooner has she got back to the villa and is about to take a shower to get refreshed and relaxed than her husband shows up outside of the door. Li catches her taking off her clothes. Finding his wife¡¯s perfect and sexy figure even in pregnancy, Li gets lit up inside immediately.


    "Ah! Qiaosheng! Are you out of your mind?!" Hardly has Mu Ziyou got anything to cover her body when she is pushed down into the bed and is entered from behind the next second!


    "Yes, I am! I should have known long before that you''re never any better than your filthy mother!¡±


    "Li Qiaosheng, how can you say it like that?" She can no more stand such torture physically and mentally. While tears are running down her face, blood begins to stream out from her lower body...


    However, the place that is bleeding harder is her heart...


    "My baby... Stay strong, please! Mommy will not live alone in this world if you are gone... "


    With a pale face, she struggles in misery. But a familiar stun hit her suddenly and she passes out at last...


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 C8. Why Do You Look Thinner?

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    Mu Ziyou wakes up and sees Qin Yang at the first glance. She hurriedly shouts to Qin Yang who is about to leave, "Qin Yang, is my baby still¡­ OK?"


    "Oh, awake? Take it easy, your baby is OK, but ¡ª " Qin Yang doesn''t know whether or not he should tell Mu Ziyou the bad news when he meets her eyes full of hope. But he can¡¯t hide the truth, and asks tentatively, "I heard that Li Qiaosheng is having an abortion surgery arranged for you. Why is he so merciless even to his own child?¡±


    Getting to know that her baby is OK, Mu Ziyou has just calmed down. But on hearing the word ¡°abortion¡±, she is shocked and becomes restless again. Wearing an anxious expression, she grabs Qin Yang''s white coat and says, "Oh, no, Qin Yang. Save me, please! Qiaosheng is the baby¡¯s father. He will regret for it. He will!"


    "What on earth has happened? Youyou, don''t panic. I will for sure help you!"


    "Qiaosheng suspected that his father rather than he is the father of the baby! But his father and I¡­ How could that be possible? I don''t know what Xia Wanyan said to him, which made him so firmly believe that the baby is not his. What should I do now? The baby is innocent!"


    Even though Mu Ziyou¡¯s statement is incoherent, Qin Yang comes to understand the whole story when she finishes talking.


    After a long time of thinking, staring at her in a serious way he says to this poor and weak little woman, "Get divorced with him, Youyou."


    ¡°Divorce?¡± Mu Ziyou has thought about it before. But due to a variety of factors, she¡¯s never put it into action.


    "Yes. Youyou, you are not happy with him at all. He has probably forgotten what you were like when you were a child. He had to marry you just to his father''s will and order! It¡¯s time for you to wake up, Youyou. You don¡¯t need to worry that you cannot get the divorce. One of my friends is a lawyer who can help you with that. As for the baby, if you want to keep him, I will help you to bring him up. If you don''t want him, just have an abortion and start a new life. Isn¡¯t it OK?"The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there.


    After Qin Yang leaves, Mu Ziyou is left to stare out of the window in a daze.


    Should she divorce Qiaosheng? She was once full of joy and content when she married him. Maybe only his father knew how profound her love toward Qiaosheng was.


    However if she doesn¡¯t divorce him, she will not only have to bear the humiliation from him, but also have to face her husband flirting with her used-to-be best friend every day, which hurts her most.


    Mu Ziyou picks up the phone and calls Qin Yang after a painful struggle in mind. "Qin Yang, I have made my decision. Could you please do me a favor? ..."


    Before having the abortion, Mu Ziyou comes to her mother''s ward. It¡¯s been quite a long time since her last visit. Her mother, Mu Qing, even looks much better in her hospital bed at seeing her.


    "Youyou, what are you busy with recently? You haven¡¯t come to see me for so many days. Why do you look thinner? Did Qiaosheng¡­?"


    "No. I''m all right, mom. Actually¡­ I¡¯m pregnant, and I have been vomiting severely these days. Don''t worry. Qiaosheng treats me well. He worries about my safety, so he doesn¡¯t let me go around casually.¡± Mu Ziyou has always told her mother good news rather than bad news.


    But Mu Qing does know something about Ziyou¡¯s marriage life. Sometimes if her daughter doesn¡¯t want to talk about it, she will also avoid mentioning it. But today her daughter looks so weak and thin that she looks almost like herself who has long been tortured by illness and pain.


    She then takes hold of her daughter''s hands with concern and focuses her gazes on her unobservable belly, and says, "It¡¯s really great that you¡¯re pregnant. You should take more care of yourself now because it¡¯s not you yourself who need nutrition. Ask Qiaosheng to add more nutrition to your food, you know?"


    "OK, I will take a good care of myself, mom. Do you like a boy or a girl? Give him or her a nice name when he or she is born, will you?"


    Mu Ziyou chokes several times while talking. Thanks to her mother''s attention on the baby, she doesn¡¯t notice it. But after going out of the ward she cannot hold herself in any more. Leaning against the wall, tears pour down her face silently.


    ¡°I can tell that Mom likes the baby, too, so I will protect him no matter what happens!¡± Mu Ziyou thinks in her mind.

 C9. Why Are You Still Here?

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    After the operation, Mu Ziyou takes out the divorce agreement that she prepared beforehand and hands it to Li Qiaosheng. There is no light in her eyes any more. She says, "Qiaosheng, the baby is gone. And the doctor said that I might never become pregnant again. So let me go and let''s get divorced."


    Because the baby is gone and she has been the one who was unwilling to get divorced before, Mu Ziyou thinks that Qiaosheng will agree to divorce straightforwardly.


    Unexpectedly, Li Qiaosheng doesn''t look at the papers at all, instead he stretches out his hand and strongly pinches her pale face between his fingers and sneers, "Oh, divorce? Mu Ziyou, it was you who made my father force me to marry you before. So what? You want to end the game so quickly? Or is it because-


    "Is it because your cousin who has no close blood ties with you is back and you can be together with him now?" With these words, the man increases his force in the hand.


    Although Mu Ziyou is choked with pain, she still rushes to defend herself in a hoarse voice. "No, no. It is not like this! Qin Yang, ..."


    However, Li Qiaosheng doesn''t bother to listen to her explanations. Although he doesn''t know much about woman''s thoughts, he clearly knows the meaning of the light in the man'' eyes when he looks at his own woman.


    "Mu Ziyou, don''t forget that you owe Wanyan and your mother and you owe my whole family! If I count all these in, huh, I think ten of you can never compensate me! You want to divorce me and get away from all that?"


    Thanks to the fact that she has just had the abortion operation, Li Qiaosheng does not do anything else to her except that he tears the divorce agreement into pieces and throws them all on her face. Then, he leaves the ward without a glance back.


    Since then, Mu Ziyou has been imprisoned by Li Qiaosheng. On the second day after Mu Ziyou got out of hospital, Xia Wanyan also returns arm in arm with Li Qiaosheng''s mother to the villa.This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience.


    "Qiaosheng, Auntie is much better. With the permission of the doctor, I took her back home to have a reunion with you for a few days. Isn''t it a surprise?"


    Standing in front of the man with a big smile, Xia Wanyan deliberately does not wear any lipstick, but sticks out her tongue to make a cute look.


    Therefore, in Li Qiaosheng''s eyes, even with a sick body she is still trying to make a surprise for him. So he pulls her into his embrace with much concern. Lightly scratching her small and delicate nose, he says in a tender tone, "You haven''t fully recovered yourself yet. Why are you taking her around? You cannot leave home without leaving a word next time, you know?"


    "OK, I know, darling Qiaosheng."


    The public display of affection falls completely into Mu Ziyou''s eyes, who stands not far away. Even though she has been prepared for such a scene, her broken heart is still twitching with dull pain. Just as she forces herself to turn around to avoid seeing them, Bai Yun is suddenly out of control on seeing her!


    "You, the shameless bitch, vamp! Why are you still here? Why haven''t you divorced with Qiaosheng?" While shouting, Bai Yun rushes forward and grasps Mu Ziyou by the hair. She pulls at Mu Ziyou''s hair with great force while cursing her without stopping at the same time. I have thought that you would become an ugly woman after the car accident, but you only got a long scar in your face! Just like your hooker mother who is infected with the AIDS, you can only pretend to be poor in front of men. Isn''t it right?"


    Seeing her tormented with such pain that her face twists, Li Qiaosheng frowns a little and seems not able to bear this. But hearing his mother''s words, he stops his footsteps suddenly thinking that letting his mother vent her spleen in this way may not be a bad idea.


    Xia Wanyan observes his expressions closely and pretends to stop Auntie Bai. Meanwhile she even apologizes to him,"I''m so sorry, Qiaosheng. In fact, Auntie really has almost fully recovered. I didn''t expect that she would have a relapse when she sees Youyou. Ah-"


    Xia Wanyan falls to the ground, which is done deliberately and is seen clearly by Mu Ziyou.


    However, Li Qiaosheng''s face turns sullen and terrible. He strides towards Mu Ziyou who is entangled with his mother and shoves her away hard. Without another glance at Mu, he gently lifts up Xia Wanyan, who is shedding tears and looks even more lovely. He also drops an order to Mu Ziyou in a commanding voice, "From today, you move to live in the maid''s room on the first floor!"


    Click to read chapter 9 - I Will Never Let Anything Happen to Him</a> on Flying Lines ahead.

 C10. I Will Never Let Anything Happen to Him

    It never occurred to Mu Ziyou that one day she would have been degraded from Li Qiaosheng¡¯s wife to a servant in his house!


    She wouldn¡¯t have felt the great difference mentally if the servant''s way of life had been imposed on her from the very first day. But the fact is that she is still Mrs. Li in title, yet living with the maid, Lan, and doing the same as, even more work than she does.


    At the same time, Xia Wanyan seems to have become the new Mrs. Li, who would speak for Mu Ziyou with hypocrisy when Li Qiaosheng is present. Yet when he is not at home and nobody is around, she would order her around, even humiliate her by all means mercilessly.


    Mu Ziyou puts up with all these and says nothing, just for the sake of her unborn baby.


    Though she succeeds in keeping her pregnancy a secret from Li Qiaosheng and Xia Wanyan, she fails to hide it from Bai Yun.


    Mu Ziyou is cleaning Bai Yun¡¯s room when Qin Yang calls over.


    Seeing that Li Qiaosheng''s mother comfortably enjoys the sunshine with her narrowing eyes on the balcony, Mu Ziyou doesn''t put herself on guard. She just walks up to a corner and picks up the phone in a subdued voice, ¡°Qin Yang, Qiaosheng refuses to divorce. But don''t worry. The baby is fine. I will never let anything happen to him.¡±


    ¡°I see. If you insist on divorcing him, I can try to help with that. Youyou, take good care of yourself, OK? As for your mom, I will keep an eye on her."


    ¡°Well, let''s talk about that some other time. Thank you, Qin Yang. I¡¯ve got to go, bye." Mu Ziyou doesn''t dare to chat long on the phone with piles of chores waiting for her to do.


    However, when she puts her phone back in the pocket and turns around back to cleaning, Bai Yun is standing right in front of her like a ghost. She then asks thoughtfully, ¡°Are you pregnant again?" She seems to be talking to herself, ¡°No! You¡¯ve never had the abortion to remove it at all!¡±A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation.


    Li Qiaosheng is not at home, but Xia Wanyan is right in the next room. Mu Ziyou rushes forward to cover her mouth, fearing that her rising volume would draw others'' attention. She begs in a whisper, ¡°No, no. Please believe me, Mrs. Li, this is Qiaosheng''s baby and your biological grandson!"


    ¡°No, it is my husband''s blood! I won''t let it come to this world. I swear I will definitely not let it get any fortune of our Li¡¯s family, never!!! You little bitch, slut¡ª" Bai Yun can''t hate Mu Ziyou more for she believes firmly that her husband Li Wenkang had affairs with Mu Ziyou, their daughter-in-law. After pushing her hard to the ground, Bai Yun begins to scan every corner of the room.


    Mu Ziyou''s belly bumps on the corner of the nightstand when she falls down. Immediately a fit of pain overwhelms her. Her failure to get up quickly wins the other party plenty of time.


    When she finally rises to her feet with her hands covering her lower abdomen and is about to rush out of the room, Bai Yun comes to stand in her way with a pair of shiny scissors. She walks towards Mu with a grim smile on her lips. "A bastard''s child could be nothing but a bastard. Haha... As long as I am still breathing, I won¡¯t allow it to live!!! Now that you want to protect it with your life, then go to hell together!!!¡±


    With these words, the scissors go straight down to Mu''s belly. To defend herself, Mu has to remove one hand from her belly to stop the scissors. Fortunately, she catches that fist with scissors.


    Mu Ziyou just intends to get the scissors out of her hand. While Bai Yun, though sick, seems to have gained enormous strength from somewhere and just won¡¯t let them go...


    Xia Wanyan suddenly bursts into the room. Catching them wrestling with the scissors, she immediately lets out some loud and unceasing screams. Both Mu and Bai are terribly startled. Mu takes the lead to stop and takes a few steps back while Bai, who is not prepared for it, loses her balance and falls forward.


    Mu steps aside subconsciously for the fear that she would still hurt her unborn baby. Unexpectedly, Bai Yun falls down with the scissors grasped tightly in her hand. And she never gets up again!


    ¡°Oh, my god! Help! Someone is killed here!" Xia Wanyan sees a stream of blood slowly coming out from underneath Bai Yun''s body. She turns pale with fright. The idea to step up and get Bai up just stops in her mind in less than a second. She freezes her ongoing foot and turns to point at Mu Ziyou, who''s still stunned at what has just happened, ¡°It¡¯s you, Mu Ziyou, you killed her. You killed Auntie Bai!!!"


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 C11. How Did She Die on Earth?

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    On receiving a call from Xia Wanyan, Li Qiaosheng immediately rushes back to the villa leaving an important meeting unfinished.


    But he is still late. He is only in time to see the doctor put a piece of white cloth over his mother''s body.


    "Qiaosheng darling, Youyou is crazy!" Once seeing Li, Xia Wanyan jumps into his arms, trembling fiercely, and looking at Mu Ziyou with her eyes full of fear. "I didn''t know why she and auntie came into a fight. But when I came in, I saw her raise the scissors and poke them into auntie''s heart! How...how terrible! Auntie was killed like that. She died so miserably!"


    "Mu! Zi! You!"


    Li Qiaosheng has no time to comfort the woman in his arms. With a ferocious face, he strides forward and takes hold of Mu''s delicate neck between his fingers. He intensifies the strength and lifts Mu up off the ground by the neck. Mu Ziyou struggles desperately, with her cheeks choked red. She tries to defend herself, but cannot utter even one syllable.


    At this moment, the man''s killing and merciless eyes like cold and sharp ice knives are killing Mu Ziyou by cutting her into pieces little by little, including her heart.


    When she thinks she is about to die this way with a buzzing sound in the ears, the doctor comes and says something to Li Qiaosheng. And abruptly he lets go of Mu Ziyou and leaves with his arm around Xia Wanyan''s shoulders who is still weeping aside.


    So no one notices that Mu Ziyou falls to the ground with a miserable expression on her face and arches her body. Between her legs comes out a stream of red blood slowly.


    When Qin Yang hurries to the scene, he gets hell surprised!This story has been taken without authorization. Report any sightings.


    Regardless of the servants'' hindrance, Qin Yang picks up Mu Ziyou who is already unconscious and rushes out of the door. He drives so fast that he ignores the red lights several times on the road. Finally he himself rushes her into the operating room within the shortest time possible.


    "Don''t, don''t touch my baby. Don''t kill him, please! Don''t-"


    Mu Ziyou wakes up from her nightmare and jumps to sit up in the bed suddenly, subconsciously reaching out to touch her belly. But this action causes the infusion tube to be pulled up accidentally and blood is seen to trace back into the tube.


    Qin Yang has never left because he is so worried about Mu Ziyou. He then comes toward Mu Ziyou and pats her back down, "Be careful! Don''t move. Your baby is safe. Don''t panic! He is still staying in your belly safely."


    "Really? Thank you! Thank you, Brother!" Hearing these words, Mu Ziyou cannot help bursting into tears of joy.


    However, Qin Yang''s worries are clearly written all over his face. "But Youyou, Mrs. Li... What happened? What conflict did you have? What on earth caused her death?"


    "Do you believe me, Brother? I didn''t kill her! It wasn''t me who killed her. It was she who wanted to kill me with the scissors. But she accidentally fell to the ground and the scissors happened to poke into her heart. I didn''t kill her! Believe me, please!"


    Mu Ziyou pulls at Qin Yang''s white coat at the beginning, but later she puts her hands around her head, with her face wrinkling and her whole body trembling.


    Seeing this scene, Qin Yang feels his heart held tight with anxiety and compassion. When he was about to stretch out his hand to comfort her, the mobile phone in his pocket suddenly starts to vibrate.


    "Pardon?" Hearing the news from the other end of the phone, Qin Yang slowly turns to look at the weak and fragile woman in bed. And the expression on his face turns from astonishment to seriousness.


    Mu Ziyou notices his strange expressions and watches him with tearful eyes, waiting for him to speak first.


    After a long moment, Qin Yang manages to organize his words and speaks out the truth carefully, "Youyou, your mom...She killed herself by jumping off the building because-"


    On hearing her mother''s suicide, Mu Ziyou is stunned at first, and then frantically she rushes out of the ward and goes downstairs!


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 C12. Your Mom is Dead

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    In the letter Mu Qing left before she killed herself, she was still imploring Li Qiaosheng desperately to let her daughter go and she was willing to give up her own life for his mother''s.


    When Mu Ziyou sees the letter and then stares at her lifeless mother lying in a pool of blood, she only feels that the sky has collapsed and she is almost out of breath with the great pressure looming large.


    "Ah---" Ignoring all the people around who are murmuring and gossiping, Mu Ziyou falls down onto the ground and suddenly lets out a long and crazy scream in despair.


    When Li Qiaosheng arrives, he happens to see this heartbreaking scene. He is touched too and his expression changes slightly. But when he thinks of his mother''s death, his expression becomes cold again. He walks over and grasps one of Mu Ziyou''s arms and says, "Come on! Go to the funeral with me!"


    At the same time, the medical staff also show up and intend to take Mu Qing''s body to the morgue.


    On seeing this, Mu Ziyou pushes Qiaosheng''s hand hard away for the first time and struggles forward to protect her mother''s body. She shakes her head with force and tries to keep the medical staff away. "Go away! Don''t take my mom away! My mom is fine. She can be cured! You can''t give up on her yet!"


    "Youyou, don''t behave like this. Your mom is dead. She did this just for you. If you hadn''t killed Auntie Bai, your mom wouldn''t have made such a big sacrifice. You should understand why she had done so..." Actually Xia Wanyan has been hiding herself among the crowd. She just rushes out to help comfort her the moment she sees Li Qiaosheng coming.


    But these words irritate Mu Ziyou''s fragile nerves even more. She clearly knows that Bai Yun was not killed by her. Why should Mom atone for what she has never done?


    All anger in her heart suddenly spurts out. She then turns around and tussles with Xia Wanyan. She doesn''t bother to mind that many people are around watching. She gets over and sits on Xia Wanyan''s body and firmly covers Xia Wanyan''s mouth with her hand and shouts, "You are smearing me again! I didn''t kill Qiaosheng''s mom at all. I didn''t! She herself fell down on the ground by accident!"Support the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more.


    Seeing that the scene is getting out of control, Li Qiaosheng immediately signals with his eyes to the medical staff to take the dead woman away. At the same time, with a gloomy face, he takes Mu Ziyou in his arms who has completely collapsed. He leaves without even a glance back at Xia Wanyan who is still lying on the ground with a pale face.


    At the funeral for Bai Yun, Mu Ziyou, a dead-alive person now, thinks of her mother who has just died. Instead of taking care of her own mother''s death, she is forced to kneel in front of the coffin of Bai Yun with her feet and hands restrained by the specially-made iron chains from her husband. On thinking of this, she can''t contain herself any more and lets out a wail.


    People attending this funeral have heard her heart-breaking cry and think that she finally comes to repent and blame herself for the crime she has committed.


    Even Li Qiaosheng thinks so. He has finished his call and comes back from outside when he hears it.


    He is thinking of taking Mu Ziyou to the crematorium to see her mother for the last time when Mu Ziyou faints down because of the fits of pain in her lower abdomen. She can''t sustain herself and falls down during which process her head hits against the corner of the coffin.


    Qin Yang, who is hiding among the crowd at the funeral, rushes to help Mu Ziyou, a step faster than Li Qiaosheng. He feels that Mu Ziyou''s vitality is draining away quickly. He suddenly shouts at her in anxiety, "Youyou, wake up! Don''t you care about your baby?"


    "Baby..." Mu Ziyou lets out the word with great effort and subconsciously puts her hands around her abdomen. However, her hands fall down finally because she is running out of strength.


    Qin Yang is flustered. He picks up the skinny woman in his arms with ease and starts to rush outside. But when Li Qiaosheng hears that the baby is still alive, he stops Qin Yang and wants to make clear of the situation.


    "Li Qiaosheng, if you don''t step aside, Youyou and your baby will both be dead!"


    Qin Yang spares one hand and takes out and throws the real paternity test report on the ground. When Li Qiaosheng stares at the report dumbfounded, Qin Yang takes the advantage of it and rushes to the hospital.


    Xia Wangyan stands next to Li Qiaosheng, and her face changes when she sees the report. She wants to snatch away that report. But it is too late because Li Qiaosheng quickly picks up the report from the ground before her. After seeing the contents of the report, he feels chills suddenly coming out from every pore of his whole body.


    Outside the operating room, the moment the light is off, Li Qiaosheng quickly steps forward and grasps the doctor''s arm who is still sweating and asks about Mu Ziyou''s condition.


    The doctor replies cautiously with an apologetic look, "Sorry, President Li. Mrs. Li''s will to survive is too weak. We really have tried our best."


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 C13. Why Didnt You Save Her

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    Li Qiaosheng¡¯s instinctive reaction is that it can¡¯t be true that Mu Ziyou is already dead together with his unborn baby.


    Despite being obstructed by Xia Wanyan, he rushes into the room after doctors and nurses come out one after another, only in time to witness Qin Yang slowly pulling a piece of white cloth over Mu Ziyou''s face.


    ¡°How come? She could make through that terrible accident sound and safe. How could it kill her so easily this time?!¡±


    He steps forward and snatches away the white cloth with force. What comes into his sight is indeed Mu Ziyou¡¯s little face which is so pale that it looks horrible. The blood on the forehead has dried. The closed eyes together with the deathly pallor of the lips make her look like a lifeless doll.


    ¡°Come on, Qiaosheng. She killed Auntie! Probably she died of the sense of guilt. Her mom also took her own life because of her. Therefore, she has gone to heaven to accompany them. What¡¯s more, Auntie will be sent to cremation soon! Could we go back now, Qiaosheng?¡± With a guilty conscience, Xia Wanyan doesn¡¯t want to go into the room.


    But she feels that there''s something weird about the man. She therefore keeps reminding Li that Mu has killed his mother, trying to make him accept the truth in the shortest time possible.


    Yes, it¡¯s this frenzied woman who has killed his mother!


    First, her whore mother upset his mother and made her become lunatic and troublesome since then! Then, she stabbed his mother to death with scissors. They probably planned everything from the very beginning just to ruin his formerly happy family! Now they should be satisfied!If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation.


    How could they have died one after another then?


    He has not even let them pay for what they have done. How could they have died like this?


    Thinking of this, Li Qiaosheng turns to Qin Yang. He grabs at Qin''s collar and questions with anger. ¡°Aren¡¯t you proficient in medicine? Aren¡¯t you in intimate relationship with Mu Ziyou? Then why didn''t you save her?! I don''t want to blame you for the baby, but you couldn''t even save the mother! How can you be a doctor? You''d better resign as soon as possible!¡±


    ¡°Yes, you are right. I''m thinking about this.¡± Qin Yang signs to let go of him and retorts harshly, ¡°But, Li Qiaosheng, you should be the one who knows best of the reason why Youyou would have the least desire to live on, aren¡¯t you?¡±


    On hearing this, Li''s face turns stiff slightly. And subconsciously he retreats the strength in his hands.


    Good! Very good, Mu Ziyou! Don¡¯t you think your death can end it all?


    ¡°What are you doing?! Are you crazy?¡±


    Qin Yang has intended to take Mu''s body to the morgue. Yet unexpectedly Li Qiaosheng steps forward in his way and picks up the body together with the white cloth cover from the wheeled stretcher!


    Xia is also stunned, but she figures out what is happening immediately. The moment Li is about to step out of the operation room, she slowly falls to the ground with her hand on the stretcher and groans, ¡°Qiaosheng, don''t go, please! Don''t leave me behind! I''m feeling really bad, and dizzy...¡±


    Li hesitates for a second, which wins Qin enough time to get back Mu Ziyou¡¯s body. With no time to put it back onto the stretcher, he runs straight away with it held in his arms.


    ¡°Could you help me up, Brother Qiaosheng? It¡¯s so cold on the floor. Am... am I dying as well?¡± Noticing Li''s eyes are still following Qin Yang who is disappearing in the distance, she then utters several moans as if she is suffering some great pain.


    Li Qiaosheng could do nothing but clench his fists. Eventually he draws back his sight, picks up the ¡°fainted¡± Xia Wanyan in his arms and strides out of the door in a hurry.


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 C14. It’s Only Because of Hypoglycemia

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    The attending doctor who treated Xia Wanyan formerly is performing an operation. So Li Qiaosheng has to find another doctor who looks relatively free in the corridor to check Xia Wanyan¡¯s condition.


    Actually, Xia Wanyan just pretends to be ill so she feels uneasy and worried when she finds that the doctor is unknown.


    ¡°It¡¯s no big deal. She probably gets the palpitation out of some shock. Take it easy, young man. Your girlfriend is rather healthy except that she is a little weak. Don¡¯t worry!¡± This doctor is a senior who comforts Li Qiaosheng with a smile.


    However, Li feels somehow uneasy on hearing the word ¡°girlfriend¡± and explains subconsciously, ¡°I¡¯m married. And she is just one of my younger sisters.¡±


    ¡°Oh. Sorry to have mistaken your relationship!¡± The doctor feels a little awkward and is about to leave with an apologetic expression on his face.


    But Li stops him, ¡°Wait a moment, doctor. Does my sister get¡­¡±


    Before the word ¡°anemia¡± comes out of his mouth, Xia Wanyan¡¯s face has already turned terribly pale out of fear.


    Last moment, she is still disturbed by Qiaosheng calling her sister. The next second, she interrupts Qiaosheng¡¯s words in panic, ¡°Brother Qiaosheng, I ate quite little for lunch so maybe I feel so dizzy just because of hypoglycemia. Could you please go and buy me some tasty food downstairs?¡±


    ¡°OK. I¡¯ll be back in a minute.¡±


    The pampering expression returns to Li Qiaosheng¡¯s face. After patting her little head, he turns to leave the ward.


    The only difference is that the moment he steps out of the ward, his face turns expressionless. He catches up with that doctor in several long strides and continues to ask about Xia Wanyan¡¯s illness. ¡°Doctor, I wanted to ask you whether you found that she suffers from aplastic anemia.¡±Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings.


    ¡°What? Aplastic anemia? No! Your sister doesn¡¯t have a single symptom of anemia.¡±


    ¡°Then why does she often feel dizzy? And her former attending doctor made this diagnosis and told us that she could only survive by getting transfusion continually. And her blood type happens to be Rh-negative so¡­.¡± Li Qiaosheng¡¯s face becomes sullen when he hears the doctor¡¯s answer.


    The doctor waves his hand determinedly. ¡°The diagnosis of that doctor must be wrong. I¡¯m confident in my medical skills. Young man, your sister¡¯s dizziness may be just attributed to hypoglycemia like she said, but it could not be the so-called anemia.¡±


    ¡°OK. Thanks a lot.¡±


    Actually, the reason why Li Qiaosheng suddenly asks this question is that Mu Ziyou¡¯s words before death occur to him.


    After all, Mu Ziyou who has the same blood type as Xia Wanyan¡¯s is dead. If Xia really suffers this illness, then who can offer her the blood for transfusion like Mu anytime and anywhere? Mu Ziyou once pointed out that Xia didn¡¯t have aplastic anemia and she just faked it. Therefore, today he wants to verify her words.


    Unexpectedly, Li Qiaosheng still becomes dramatically furious even though he has already been mentally prepared to hear the truth from the doctor with his own ears.


    Why did Wanyan tell lies?


    She and Mu Ziyou had been the ¡°best friends forever¡±(BFF) in the world, hadn¡¯t they?


    How could she, an always kind and gentle girl, do such a thing even though Mu Ziyou treated her badly?


    But what if Mu Ziyou told the truth? Then a lot of other things need to be checked again apart from Xia Wanyan¡¯s pretending to be ill...


    Naturally, Xia Wanyan can think of everything Li Qiaosheng has thought about. She hurriedly finds her former attending doctor¡¯s phone number and calls him. Thank God! The doctor¡¯s phone is picked up this time.


    ¡°What¡¯s up, Miss Xia?¡±


    ¡°Tell me, is the so-called aplastic anemia curable? Mu Ziyou is dead. If I pretend to be suffering from this disease, what about my Rh-negative blood transfusion in the future? It¡¯s troublesome. Could you tell me how I can pretend to be cured?¡±


    ¡°This illness... is actually difficult to be cured. Hum, I got an idea! You can have a bone marrow transplant! I can pretend to do such an operation on you and then announce that you¡¯re cured.¡±


    ¡°Bone marrow transplant? All right. If you can find the matching bone marrow, just carry out the plan as you¡¯ve designed!¡± Xia Wanyan can do nothing but agree to the doctor¡¯s suggestion after pondering about it over and over again.


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 C15. She Let Us Dispose of It on Our Own

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    Xia Wanyan is still designing a bigger lie to patch up this one, but Li Qiaosheng takes actions faster than she.


    Previously, Li Qiaosheng totally believed what Wanyan had said. He just listened to her tearful complaints without investigating the specific situation in which she fell off the building. Xia Wanyan said that because of her intimate relationship with Qiaosheng after his marriage, Mu Ziyou was very unhappy. So Mu Ziyou asked her out to have a talk. But they didn¡¯t end up well and Mu Ziyou pushed her down from the rooftop in a rage.


    Since Xia Wanyan pretended to be sick first, Li Qiaosheng feels OK to have someone check the surveillance video of that day.


    The angle of surveillance camera is not quite direct, but it is clear enough for him to see the actual scene. He can see in the video that they were in a dispute. Suddenly Xia Wanyan herself got onto the platform and then turned and jumped!


    How could it be like this?


    Li Qiaosheng freezes the video at the scene when Xia Wanyan turned and jumped. Still he cannot believe she could have done this.


    After Xia Wanyan woke up she got into his embrace and pointed at Mu Ziyou, complaining, ¡°Youyou, why can¡¯t you talk with me peacefully? You have changed! Why are you so mean to me? I don''t want to take Qiaosheng away from you. If you don''t want to see me, then, then I will leave..."


    At that time, Mu Ziyou was apparently stunned at her words and wanted to explain, but he interrupted her arbitrarily and told her to get out of the ward.


    After hearing that Xia Wanyan had lost too much blood and had been detected to have the rare Rh-negative blood, Mu Ziyou proposed to draw blood from her because she has the very same blood type. At that time, he thought that she was feeling sorry for what she had done to Wanyan.


    But now, it seems that Wanyan has changed to another person whom he cannot recognize any more.


    ¡°As for Ziyou, I did have wronged her...¡± Li Qiaosheng says to himself.The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.


    Thinking of this, Li Qiaosheng remembers something else. He then calls the hospital. "Where is Mu Ziyou? How did you deal with my wife after her death?"


    "Oh, Mr. Li. Mrs. Li had been unclaimed for several days after her death until Dr. Qin Yang, who resigned from our hospital, took her away and put her to earth in the name of her brother. If you need the specific site, you can ask him."


    Unclaimed?


    Although he has been busy with his mother¡¯s burial matters and his own work in the past few days and has forgotten to go and sign the death notice, he has been waiting for the hospital¡¯s notice. ¡°Why didn¡¯t you call me?¡±


    "We did. It seems to be answered by... Oh, by Miss Xia. She said that you had been divorced and let us dispose of it on our own."


    Huh, what on earth is Xia Wanyan planning?


    After getting Qin Yang''s contact information, Li Qiaosheng calls him immediately. But the phone isn¡¯t answered.


    When he is about to redial, he receives a call from Xia Wanyan. This time, Li''s tone is not so gentle as before. He asks indifferently, "What¡¯s up?"


    "Brother Qiaosheng, my incurable anemia can be cured now! The doctor said that he had helped me find the matching bone marrow and I can have a bone marrow transplant right away! The success rate of the operation is quite high. As long as it succeeds, I will be able to live like a normal person in the future!¡± Xia Wanyan at the other end tells him the ¡°good news¡± with great enthusiasm without noticing his different attitude.


    After hearing this, Li''s brows slightly knitted together. Huh, bone marrow transplantation? You intend to go on making up stories?


    "You found the matching bone marrow so soon? My examination report has just come out and I am going to tell you... Since Mu Ziyou is dead, you can''t drag on with your disease like this. What if there is no blood for you to draw one day? Fortunately, my bone marrow also matches yours. Don''t bother others. Just use mine."


    Xia Yanyan didn¡¯t expect that Qiaosheng also considered bone marrow transplant. It is such a big surprise! But... the bone marrow transplant is just a lie.


    She cannot let Qiaosheng take such a risk. After thinking for a moment, Xia Yanyan bursts into a cry and says, "Brother Qiaosheng, you are so kind to me! But, no! I¡¯ve known about your kindness but I cannot accept your bone marrow donation. What if the donation causes some harm to your original healthy body? Brother Qiaosheng, it¡¯s OK for me to use the bone marrow I have already found. I need not change to use yours. ¡±


    "How can I be relieved if you use others¡¯ bone marrow? Wanyan, you don''t have to be so polite with me. It is Mu Ziyou who made you like this. As her husband, I¡¯m supposed to pay you back for her. You may just take it this way."


    After saying this, Li Qiaosheng hangs up the phone abruptly.


    He wants to see how on earth Xia Wanyan will be able to continue keeping the secret of the fact of her faked disease.


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 C16. Id Like the Marriage Arrangement Postponed

    Xia Wanyan had actually conspired with her doctor to claim that they have found suitable bone marrow and then to fake an operation.


    But the thing gets out of control and she doesn¡¯t know what to do when Li Qiaosheng said suddenly that he could donate his bone marrow.


    After all, she does love Li Qiaosheng heart and soul, otherwise she wouldn¡¯t have fallen out with Mu Ziyou and made her enemy. Now that the bone marrow transplant thing is just a supposed operation, how can she allow the doctor to really take the bone marrow from his body?


    ¡°Dad, I''m in trouble! I need your help...¡± At the end of her wits, Xia Wanyan calls her father for help.


    Getting to know the whole story, Xia Zhiguo, Xia Wanyan¡¯s father, starts to comfort his beloved daughter. ¡°Okay, I got it. Take it easy. In fact, I think it could be your time...¡±


    There comes the day and Li Qiaosheng is preparing for the operation.


    ¡°Qiaosheng!¡± Suddenly there comes a solemn male voice from behind.


    Seeing Xia Zhiguo, the chairman of the board of a company, Li Qiaosheng slightly lifts the corners of his mouth and steps forward, ¡°How are you doing, Mr. Xia?¡±


    ¡°Good. Qiaosheng, I''m quite clear about your feelings toward my daughter, which has fallen into my eyes as a father. Although the loss of a bone marrow (a common sense mistake) would not do you much harm, Wanyan doesn''t think so. She is worried that you might get hurt. After all, we can get others¡¯ with money. But yours is different, Qiaosheng! Since your wife is gone, what about letting Wanyan take over her responsibility to take care of you?¡±If you encounter this tale on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    ¡°Dad!¡± Just at this time, Xia Wanyan comes over with the help of a nurse. She puckers her lips and says coquettishly, ¡°It¡¯s been only a few days since Youyou''s death. Even though she made Qiaosheng lose his mom, she has compensated him with her death. Anyway, Youyou has been Qiaosheng''s wife. How can you urge him to marry me at this time?¡±


    ¡°I''m sorry, Qiaosheng. I have thought it over and I¡¯ve decided that I can''t use your bone marrow. It''s such a big favor that I can''t afford anything other than myself to pay you back. Anyway, the doctor told me that he had found the matching bone marrow for me, so don''t worry about it.¡± She turns to face the man.


    Li raises his eyebrows and finally gets the essence of what the father and daughter want to convey to him£­


    ¡°Give up donating his bone marrow to Xia Wanyan; otherwise, marry her.¡±


    He lowers his head in deep thinking. When he raises his eyes and looks into Xia Wanyan¡¯s expectant eyes, he finally says slowly, "Well then, I would like to follow your wish, Mr. Xia. Wanyan is a good girl, and I''m pleased to be able to marry her. But, since it hasn¡¯t been long since my mother''s funeral, I''d like the marriage arrangement postponed for a while.¡±


    ¡°Great! Of course.¡±


    ¡°Do you mean it, Qiaosheng? Do you really want to marry me?¡± Xia Wanyan rushes to Li Qiaosheng with a cheer, her eyes sparkling, totally forgetting that she''s still faking a ¡°patient¡±. Yet her expression is still somewhat scrupulous.


    Seeing her reaction, Li can¡¯t help being touched again.


    ¡°There might be some unspeakable reasons for her to deceive me.¡± Li thinks to himself.


    ¡°Why not? Do you remember the appointment we made when we were just little kids? I promised you that I would definitely marry you if you''re still single when we grow up.¡± He softens his voice naturally.


    However, Xia is irritated on hearing this because she knows clearly that the appointment was made between him and Mu Ziyou, that dead "BFF" of her! Although Xia is almost bursting with hatred inside, she appears to be quite moved and hugs Li tightly.


    Why?!


    Why does he only see Mu¡¯s image in their childhood rather than her image when they are grown up, even though she has done so much for him?!


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 C17. It’s More Like an Accident

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    Li Qiaosheng certainly won¡¯t donate his bone marrow to Xia Wanyan because his doesn¡¯t match with hers at all. However, since Xia Wanyan can collude with the doctor, so can he. It¡¯s not an effort-needing job for him to find a substitute.


    He thought that Xia Wanyan would tell him the truth since things have gone this far.


    Unexpectedly, Xia Wanyan accepted his bone marrow with peace of mind since he promised to marry her. Her so-called attending doctor even claims after the operation that it was rather successful and she wouldn¡¯t rely on others for blood transfusion any more when she passes out thereafter.


    Some complex feelings flood into Li Qiaosheng¡¯s heart.


    The so-called operation was successful with the bone marrow he ¡°offered¡±, which was actually a mismatch to hers. What does this mean?


    It seems that this girl is going to lie all the way to the end. Then anything else white has been deliberately called black by her?


    It occurs to him that she has kept on accusing Mu Ziyou for having killed his mother. When he calms down now, he thinks it necessary to check the truth of this matter too...


    In Li¡¯s house.


    In the villa, all the servants, no matter old or young, are ordered to stand in a line, facing directly Li Qiaosheng¡¯s merciless and arrogant face. Many of them are so scared that they hold their breath and do nothing but look down at their toes.


    ¡°Tell me, what exactly happened between my mother and my wife that day? No lies! I want the ones of you who heard with your own ears or saw with your own eyes the event to tell me nothing but the truth!¡± The man repeated gloomily.


    Seeing the man¡¯s anger, Lan, thinking of Xia Wanyan behind her, structures her words in her mind and steps ahead boldly, ¡°I...I¡¯ve heard something, Sir. I was doing some cleaning outside the door that day when I heard Milady (Li¡¯s mother) and Mrs. Li seemed to come into a dispute about a baby or something. I left when Miss Xia came. Later, I heard Miss Xia scream and I rushed to the scene, only to see the scissors in Mrs. Li¡¯s hand stabbing into Milady¡¯s heart!¡±The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement.


    ¡°Huh? Are you sure that you did see Mu Ziyou stab the scissors into my mother''s body?¡± Li Qiaosheng¡¯s voice gets even colder.


    "Ye... yes..." The maid Lan dare not look into the Li''s chilling eyes, but she still sticks to what she has said.


    Hearing her words, Li Qiaosheng utters without a change of expressions, "Okay, then, would you like to go to the police station with me to record your witness statement because your words seem to be a little different from the clues found by the police...¡±


    ¡°Hah?¡±


    ¡°Sir, I was cleaning the courtyard when the tragedy happened. I saw that, actually, it was... was Milady who first found a pair of scissors and wanted to kill Mrs. Li.¡± Another timid voice is suddenly heard.


    Li Qiaosheng¡¯s eyes darken for a second and he signals her to continue.


    ¡°Then I followed over there as well as soon as I heard a scream. When I made it, Milady was lying straight on the floor, while Mrs. Li was standing beside her. So it¡¯s more like an accident to me...¡±


    It¡¯s true. Li Qiaosheng has talked with the doctor who arrived earlier than he and also noticed such a detail.


    If Mu Ziyou did stab the scissors into his mother''s heart, his mother shouldn''t have fallen to the ground by such a posture.


    Li Qiaosheng therefore turns his deep sea-like eyes to Lan again. After all, she was the first person who made it to the room besides Xia Wanyan. He confirms the information to her once again, ¡°Zhang Lan, did you see my wife stabbing the scissors into my mother¡¯s heart?¡±


    ¡°I, I...I, I saw Milady fall with the scissors in her hand... It couldn¡¯t be a suicide, therefore I took it for granted that it¡¯s Mrs. Li, who stabbed and...¡±


    ¡°Oh, well, I know!¡± The corners of Li Qiaosheng¡¯s mouth slowly lift a little with coldness. ¡°Go to the housekeeper for this month''s salary and leave. The liar maid is not welcomed here.¡±


    Zhang Lan has completely flustered at his words. After all, she can hardly find such a labor-saving and high-paying job if she leaves. She kneels down and almost pulls at the bottom edge of the man''s pants in pleading. ¡°No, please! I will tell the truth from now on. It was Miss Xia who told me to say so. It was she who made me frame up Mrs. Li. It had nothing to do with me!¡±


    Welcome to read chapter 18 - She Has Been Dismissed by Sir</a> on Flying Lines.

 C18. She Has Been Dismissed by Sir

    It¡¯s Xia Wanyan again!


    Li Qiaosheng¡¯s face is more overcast with irritation at this moment. He really cannot understand why Wanyan wants to frame up her best friend again and again!


    After Li Qiaosheng figures out the whole thing, he still mercilessly fires Zhang Lan. Unexpectedly, this woman tells him another secret in order to keep her job!


    ¡°Sir, I still have something very important to tell you. Just don¡¯t drive me away. If I get fired, my whole family will...¡±


    ¡°What is it? Tell me, right now!¡± The man interrupts her pleading with impatience.


    Licking at her lips, Zhang Lan seems to have made up her mind and goes on, ¡°Well. It was not an accident that Milady fell down the stairs and it was not Mrs. Li¡¯s fault. Instead, it¡¯s... it¡¯s Miss Xia! Because Milady didn¡¯t want Miss Xia to be together with you, Miss Xia laid her murderous hands on her... And when Mrs. Li saw Milady fall, she rushed to help her but Milady mistakenly thought that it was she who pushed her down. Sir, I did this against my own will because my child is sick and I badly need a big sum of money. Miss Xia said that she was willing to help me out if I could conceal the truth for her, so I¡­"


    ¡°OK, I will pay for your child¡¯s medical bills, but you must leave today.¡±


    How can he continue to use a person who can do bad things against her conscience for the sake of profits?


    As for Xia Wanyan, it turns out that she wants to become Mrs Li!


    Well, if she wants to become Mrs. Li, then he will let her become his wife so that he can see whether she can perform this role well...


    But it is a little weird why his mother strongly opposed Wanyan to be together with him at that time.


    It makes sense that his mother objects to his marriage to Mu Ziyou, who is the daughter of the whore and who has an ambiguous incestuous relationship with his father. But as for Xia Wanyan, she is the only daughter of the Xia family. Although her family is not as rich as his, their marriage is still a perfect match.


    In his memory if it didn¡¯t go wrong, the fact was that his mother actually hoped that he could marry Wanyan when his father forced him to marry Mu Ziyou.Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on.


    What on earth has happened that caused his mother to change her mind suddenly?


    In his memory, Xia Wanyan was so kind that she wouldn''t even step on an ant. Would she kill his mother just for becoming his wife?


    How could she become like this? Are there any unspoken troubles for her?


    After Xia Wanyan comes back from the hospital, she obviously feels that there is something different in the villa. Yes, it¡¯s the atmosphere. It¡¯s the light in the servants¡¯ eyes towards her that makes her uncomfortable...


    ¡°Xiaoli, where is Lan?¡± Xia Wanyan can¡¯t find Zhang Lan in the kitchen. Finally she stops a maid and asks.


    Xiaoli doesn''t dare to say too much. She simply replies, ¡°She has been dismissed by Sir. If you want to eat something, you can also tell me.¡±


    ¡°Dismissed?¡± Xia Wanyan stands there dumbfounded for a moment and then some bad feeling flashes through her mind. ¡°Oh, no, thanks. You may go on with your own work.¡± After saying this, Xia Wanyan trots upstairs, holding the hemline of her skirt.


    Li Qiaosheng is not in his study, nor in the bedroom. However, she hears the sound of shower water in the bathroom. Xia Wanyan swallows and walks into the bedroom quietly. She seats herself on the edge of the bed in a sweet and cute manner and waits for Qiaosheng to finish his shower.


    Zhang Lan was suddenly dismissed, which makes her feel that she might have been betrayed by her.


    Otherwise, Brother Qiaosheng should have gone to the hospital as usual to pick her up instead of just sending a driver!


    Finally, Li Qiaosheng comes out from the bathroom with only a bath towel on him. When he sees Xia Wanyan sitting on the bed, he is not surprised and says, ¡°You are back. Pack up your own things. After dinner, I will take you back to your own home.¡±


    ¡°Why, Brother Qiaosheng?¡± Xia Wanyan is so surprised on hearing this that her emotions blow up and she challenges him without much attention to her choice of words, ¡°Is that Lan? Did she tell you something bad about me?¡±


    ¡°Something bad? There is no enmity between you two. Why does she want to say bad things about you? I want you to go home because you will become my wife soon. Shouldn¡¯t we avoid meeting each other before the wedding?¡± There is a hint of playfulness in the man¡¯s eyes.


    Xia also realizes that she seems to be a little too excited and tries to cover up in a hurry. ¡°Oh, I see... I heard that she loves gossiping about people behind their backs. Otherwise, why did she suddenly get fired by you?¡±


    ¡°Her child is sick and it affects her work a lot. I let her go home to take care of her kid. She did want to tell me something. But I was impatient to listen to her and let her leave.¡±


    Hearing this, the heart in her mouth finally falls back to its place and she echoes, "She loves gossiping about something out of nothing. So you are wise not to listen to her.¡±


    ¡°Wanyan, I really don''t like listening to lies, so except private matters, you¡¯d better not hide anything else from me. Otherwise, I will be very angry.¡± Li Qiaosheng wants to give her an opportunity to confess.


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 C19. All These Must Have Been Schemed by Him

    Xia Wanyan is somewhat panic-stricken at the man¡¯s words, though she denies that she has hidden anything.


    She knows that this man in front of her is really someone. And she knows it¡¯s just a piece of cake for him to find out the truth if he wants to. She dared to do all the things previously just by taking advantage of his trust in her.


    What now?


    It seems that Lan should not be allowed to live in the world any longer. Otherwise she would probably reveal everything she has done to Qiaosheng someday!


    Li Qiaosheng finally got Qin Yang on the phone.


    ¡°Hello? Who is that?¡±


    ¡°Where did you bury my wife? Mr. Qin Yang, it¡¯s very bad manners for you to take away my wife without a word, isn''t it?¡±


    ¡°Your wife? Huh...¡± Qin Yang recognizes the voice at the other end of the line and responds with slight amusement. ¡°It¡¯s been several days since I brought Youyou out of the hospital. Yet as the husband, you just remember to think of her whereabouts till today! What a husband you are!¡± He goes on coldly, ¡°Did you really take Youyou as your wife?¡±


    ¡°Well, this is my domestic affair. Tell me, where on earth did you bury her?¡± Li Qiaosheng¡¯s hand on the phone tightens with the words unconsciously.


    He would definitely beat him up if Qin Yang was talking with him face to face!


    However, Qin Yang¡¯s attitude is rather indifferent. ¡°Sorry. Aren¡¯t you already divorced? Then all the things concerning her have nothing to do with you at all and I have no obligation to inform you. Goodbye.¡±This content has been misappropriated from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.


    Hearing the ruthless buzzing from the dead line, Li Qiaosheng could control himself no more. ¡°Damn it!¡± He smashes his phone to the ground in a rage.


    Well, since Qin Yang won¡¯t tell him, then he will go through all the cemeteries one by one until he finds the place where Mu Ziyou is buried!


    At the Xia¡¯s company.


    Xia Zhiguo suddenly receives a call from his man. ¡°Bad news, Chairman Xia. We took Zhang Lan to the outskirts as you ordered. But before we had time to end her life, several men in black appeared out of nowhere and snatched her away. It happened that one of our men recognized one of them. He said...said that they work for Li Qiaosheng!¡±


    ¡°What?¡±


    In this sense, Qiaosheng has long known that someone might threaten Zhang Lan¡¯s safety?


    No, no. In this sense, all these must have been schemed by him! This lad has probably known all the things Wanyan has done from Zhang Lan. Therefore, it seems that the matter requires further thoughts then...


    At the same time, the assistant finally gets Li Qiaosheng on line. He says anxiously, ¡°Mr. Li, as you expected, Zhang Lan had a mishap. I couldn¡¯t get through to your number then, so I decided myself to save her first in urgency. But, they might have recognized us...¡±


    ¡°Well, no big deal.¡± Now that they have known about it, they should be the ones to be more anxious.


    ¡°On knowing that it¡¯s you who saved her, Zhang Lan was so thankful that she revealed a lot more, which I have recorded and sent to your phone.¡±


    ¡°Good.¡±


    Although Li Qiaosheng has broken his mobile phone, the computer is still in use. He logs on his QQ account quickly and receives and downloads the audio file. He immediately clicks on the mouse.


    It is Zhang Lan¡¯s voice intermingled with her sobs. ¡°...In fact, Mrs. Li is really a nice person. She regarded Miss Xia as her best friend, but Miss Xia didn¡¯t. Her only interest is to get close to Sir! However, Mrs. Li¡¯s nature was so innocent that it allowed Miss Xia to cast in a bone between you and her. The relationship between Mrs. Li and Milord (Li¡¯s father) is not like that Sir has imagined. Dear me! I have heard something in Milord¡¯s study and I have also seen something. You can go and see for yourself if you don¡¯t believe me. It¡¯s in...um, in the drawer on the right hand. They indeed had been innocent.¡±


    Welcome to read next chapter Attempting to Separate Them</a> ahead.

 C20. Attempting to Separate Them

    When Mu Ziyou was sent to their home, even she herself didn¡¯t know her mother had been infected with HIV.


    And before the outbreak of Mu Qing¡¯s illness, Li Qiaosheng did have some good memories with Mu Ziyou, because at that time he viewed Mu Ziyou as an orphan who was abandoned by her parents. From his point of view, Mu Ziyou was very poor and boarding in their home and he was supposed to treat her kindly.


    But later, he overheard his parents quarrel and got to know that Mu Ziyou¡¯s mother was his father''s first love. According to his mother, Mu Qing was a shameless mistress who seduced his father. Therefore, he also changed his attitude when facing Mu Ziyou.


    Especially during the period when Xia Wanyan came to visit Mu Ziyou but actually she was seeing Li Qiaosheng, he also got to know many secrets from Xia Wanyan.


    For example, Mu Ziyou¡¯s mother was engaged in ¡°that kind¡± of occupation in Japan.


    Mu Ziyou even doesn¡¯t know who on earth is her father.


    Besides, Mu Ziyou and Xia Wanyan were supposed to be best friends, but Qiaosheng always noticed Mu Ziyou bullying Xia Wanyan, which made him form an uneducated and bad-behaved impression of Mu Ziyou and which alienated him from her further.


    However, are all these false?


    After hearing Zhang Lan¡¯s words, Li Qiaosheng stepped into his father¡¯s study for the first time after his father¡¯s death. In that drawer, he found a lot of hand-written letters, photos and so on.


    The letters were written a long time ago. Some are love letters written by his father to Mu Ziyou¡¯s mother and other are innermost thoughts and feelings that Mu Ziyou¡¯s mother wrote to his father.


    He reads through all letters one by one and finally figures out what kind of emotional entanglement was among the last generation!Stolen story; please report.


    In fact, Mu Ziyou¡¯s mother and his father were their first love for each other. Their life was really happy and sweet when they were together. And even the name ¡°Mu Ziyou¡± had already been named by then because the Chinese characters ¡°Mu¡± and ¡°Zi¡± together form the word "Li"!


    They had an agreement that if a girl was born, she would be named after the mother¡¯s family name, and if a boy, he would be named after the father¡¯s family name.


    But sweet and happy life didn¡¯t last long. After Mu Qing¡¯s best friend, namely, his mother Bai Yun met his father, she fell in love with him at first sight. And she designed all kinds of schemes, attempting to separate them.


    But because his father trusted Mu Ziyou¡¯s mother, misunderstanding between them could be resolved very quickly every time even if it kept appearing ceaselessly. Until the relationship between them was found out by their families, his father¡¯s family were opposed to their relationship because of the poor background of Mu Ziyou¡¯s mother. Instead, he and Bai Yun were expected to get married.


    Bai Yun also knew it, so she designed more schemes and finally forced his father to marry her.


    So, in fact, his own mother was the one who separated his father and Mu Qing!


    What is more heartbreaking is that Mu Qing¡¯s terrible occupation experience in Japan was also caused by Bai Yun. She ordered several men to sexually assault Mu Qing by turn and then sent her penniless to Japan!


    No wonder his father on his deathbed asked him to make sure that he would take good care of Mu Ziyou, and he absolutely prohibited him from divorcing. His father also said that if he chose to end their marriage, he would surely regret for it in the future.


    But as for what exactly the regret means, Li Qiaosheng has not figured it out yet .


    However, he is now really regretful for his misunderstanding and hurt to Mu Ziyou when she was alive and who is now dead! No, no, he must find her burial place, at least... he can express his apology by her grave!


    "Mr. Li, we searched every cemetery in this city, but did not find a woman called Mu Ziyou, or anyone with the same name."


    "What?" Hearing the assistant¡¯s report, Li Qiaosheng stays stunned for a moment.


    But soon, another hope inexplicably lights up in his heart. Is it possible that Mu Ziyou actually is not dead?


    How could such a tenacious girl die so easily?


    Welcome to read next chapter Might Not Be Thoroughly True</a> ahead.

 C21. Might Not Be Thoroughly True

    When Xia Wanyan gets to know that Li Qiaosheng has already known the mistakes she made from her father, she suddenly feels that the sky is collapsing.


    "Wanyan, don¡¯t worry. Qiaosheng trusts you so much. You can explain it to him. Do you know how to avoid the important and dwell on the trivial? In short, as long as he is willing to marry you, it will be fine. As for taking Zhang Lan¡¯s life, you may shirk the responsibility and shift the blame onto me and say that you don''t know anything about it." Xia Zhiguo really pampers his daughter.


    Because he is a carrier of HIV, he dare not try having children, that¡¯s why he married a woman who cannot give birth.


    However, once he got drunken in a social activity and had sex with a hostess. Unexpectedly the hostess got pregnant and gave birth to a pair of twin babies! After he learned about this, he took one of the babies to the hospital for examination.


    He found that the baby carried no sign of infection so he brought her back and let his wife raise her like their own child. That baby is just Xia Wanyan.


    Until now, Xia Wanyan still doesn¡¯t know that her biological mother is the kind of person whom she spurns most.


    Xia Wanyan follows his father¡¯s advice and clears her thoughts. Not until she has the words ready does she have the courage to come to Li Qiaosheng¡¯s office.


    Li is busy with the work at hand. When he hears the knock on the door, he subconsciously thinks it is his assistant. Without raising his head he says, ¡°Come in¡±.


    "Brother Qiaosheng, it''s me." There comes a timid voice.If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    Hearing this, Li Qiaosheng put down the documents and looks at her with a poker face. "Oh? What¡¯s up?"


    Hearing Li Qiaosheng¡¯s cold voice, Xia Wanyan wrinkles her face, purses her lips and tears drip down immediately. "Brother Qiaosheng, are you angry with me? I just got to know that my dad has made trouble for Sister Lan... Can you listen to my explanation? What Lan said might not be thoroughly true, right?"


    "Okay, I can give you this opportunity to explain." Says the man generously. Striking a pose of listening, he overlaps his long legs and idly looks at the little woman who is excellent at crying and acting.


    Xia Wanyan feels hopeful again so she tries harder to show her grievance. "Brother Qiaosheng, Lan must have told you that I framed Youyou deliberately, right? But how could she use the word ¡®frame¡¯?! I.. I just couldn¡¯t stand that she had you to her own and showed it off to me. Brother Qiaosheng, obviously, you liked me, but you married her! You don¡¯t know how complacent she was behind you! Sometimes I was so angry that I make some troubles for her. I ¡­¡±


    "My time is limited, you¡¯d better pick something important to say." The man looks a little impatient.


    Xia Wanyan bites at her lower lip and decides to lay her cards because Li Qiaosheng''s meaning is already very obvious, "Well, Lan must have said that I deliberately pushed Auntie Bai downstairs, right? But it was not the case. Because I had something on my mind then and didn''t notice that Auntie was walking in front of me. I bumped into her and she fell downstairs! Later, I was afraid that you would blame me and thought I did it deliberately, so I hid myself... And it was Youyou who killed Auntie Bai, because when I entered the room, I just saw them scrambling for a pair of scissors. When Youyou saw me, she was afraid and she quickly let go of the scissors while Auntie Bai was still snatching at them. She fell forward, which caused the scissors in her hands poke into her chest!"


    "Finished?"


    "Brother Qiaosheng, you..." She couldn¡¯t tell his emotion from his words now, so she couldn''t help but ask.


    But Li Qiaosheng just replies succinctly, "Well, I know. You can go back and I won''t blame you."


    Welcome to read next chapter The Girl with a Mask</a> ahead.

 C22. The Girl with a Mask

    Hearing that Qiaosheng won¡¯t blame her, Xia Wanyan feels greatly relieved and leaves him alone without further disturbance. Obediently she retrieves from his office.


    As soon as she is out of the door, Li Qiaosheng slightly lifts a corner of his mouth, his eyes full of disdain.


    If she had come round and confessed all her mistakes honestly instead of complaining about her being wronged, he would possibly forgive her.


    However, things turns out that she has not realized her mistakes at all, and it killed his last bit of tender affection for her. From now on, he will think about nothings but how to make her pay the price she deserves...


    As for his father¡¯s death, since Li Qiaosheng now knows about the love between his father and Mu Ziyou¡¯ s mother, he can understand why his father would sacrifice his own life to protect Mu Ziyou from injury in that car accident.


    He thinks about his mother¡¯s death. If Mu Ziyou killed her by accident, it is more tolerable than Xia Wanyan¡¯s pushing his mother downstairs on purpose and her fabricating lies to deceive him.


    The date of their wedding is still on the due schedule only because he wants to see if Mu Ziyou will show up at the wedding.


    As for getting the marriage license, Li Qiaosheng applies various excuses to get it postponed.


    Xia Wanyan at this time feels guilty in heart for the filthy deeds she committed, which were exposed by Zhang Lan. She therefore has no gut to force Li Qiaosheng to acquire the marriage license before the wedding. Since everybody in the city knows about their due wedding, why should she worry about his refusal to get the marriage license later?Unauthorized usage: this tale is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings.


    Though it is the first wedding for Xia Wanyan, yet the second one for Li Qiaosheng, which means this wedding cannot be too luxurious.


    Fortunately, her father did a lot of work behind to ensure his daughter a happy wedding: he contacted various TV stations secretly, asking them to give live broadcasting on the scene!


    There comes the big day finally. Xia Wanyan is called up early in the morning for make-up and dress-up.


    Not allowed to eat freely, she could only satisfy her stomach with water. As a result, she drank too much and has to go to the ladies¡¯ room carrying her somewhat heavy wedding dress.


    Suddenly someone behind calls her to stop. The girl, with a mask, claiming to be the assistant of the dresser, comes to help her with the wedding dress.


    With her help, Xia Wanyan finally answers the call of nature. While washing her hands, the masked girl suddenly reveals her complete face, exactly the face of the dead Mu Ziyou!


    ¡°You, you are... You¡¯re still alive?!¡± Being terribly astonished, Xia Wanyan quickly regains her mind.


    Mu Ziyou smiles slightly. ¡°Yeah, I¡¯m still alive. Once I stand in front of Qiaosheng, he will be charged with the offence of bigamy and your marriage will be void consequently.¡±


    "No! No. Youyou, I apologize for what I have done to you. All is all my fault. You can punish me in whatever way you like. But it¡¯s me that Brother Qiaosheng loves. We have been through a lot and finally are able to be together. Please, please leave us alone, will you?¡± Xia Wanyan will never let her ruin the wedding, so she has to give in. She almost kneels down in front of her and begs bitterly for her mercy.


    On hearing her words, Mu Ziyou can¡¯t help muttering, ¡°Yes, the one he loves has always been you, never me.¡±


    ¡°Youyou, I can apologize to you in anyway you like, but it is my wedding day today. You may come if you want, but never take off the mask please, OK? I...¡±


    ¡°You think too much. I have no interest in spoiling your wedding with Li Qiaosheng. Xia Wanyan, I just come to ask you about one thing£­what role did you play in my mother¡¯s death?!¡± Mu Ziyou doesn¡¯t want to waste time on her. Interrupting her nagging utterance, Mu gets directly to the point.


    Welcome to read next chapter Vicious to Such an Extent</a> ahead.

 C23. Vicious to Such an Extent

    The reason why Mu Qing jumped off the building to kill herself was not because she wanted to commit suicide herself, but...


    Mu Ziyou finally learned about the truth from Qin Yang, because she couldn¡¯t have let go of her mother¡¯s death deep in her heart. Qin Yang accidentally found from the monitoring video that the person who came into the ward on the day of her mother¡¯s death was not Li Qiaosheng, but Xia Wanyan!


    She probably told Mu Qing that Mu Ziyou had killed Qiaosheng¡¯s mother. Mu Qing obviously did not believe that her daughter could be so malicious. Soon after Xia Wanyan whispered something to her, Mu Qing took the paper Xia passed her, picked up a pen and slowly wrote a note.


    After handing over the suicide note to Xia Wanyan, Mu Qing turned and jumped off the building.


    Just then Li Qiaosheng walked into the ward. Xia Wanyan handed the note to him and exaggerated about the whole thing. No sooner had Li Qiaosheng rushed downstairs than Mu Ziyou arrived.


    After reading the suicide note, Mu Ziyou thought Li Qiaosheng had said something bad to her mother which resulted in her suicide. She had blamed Li Qiaosheng for her mother¡¯s death by mistake until she got to know that it had been Xia Wanyan who had schemed all these.


    So Mu Ziyou didn¡¯t want to have any relationship with Li Qiaosheng any more after Qin Yang helped her to fake her death. She just wanted to let him think that she has been dead. But she could not accept her mother¡¯s innocent death, especially when they would get married so quickly!


    Seeing them so happy in the pictures, Mu Ziyou felt her heart was full of hatred.If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. Please report it.


    Xia Wanyan was scared to step back several steps by Mu Ziyou¡¯s murderous eyes until her back touched the cold wall, ¡°Youyou, Auntie committed suicide because of you, didn¡¯t she? How, how could it possibly have anything to do with me?¡±


    ¡°You don¡¯t admit it? Fine. I¡¯ll have to turn to legal help. After all, there is a big difference between voluntary and passive suicide.¡±


    ¡°No, Youyou, please don¡¯t. Let me tell you. Because Li Qiaosheng thought that you killed his mother, he had ordered to stop Auntie¡¯s medicine by then. You know, Auntie would be not far from death if she had no drugs to control her disease. Therefore, she chose to help you atone before her death. You should understand your mother¡¯s good intentions!¡±


    ¡°Xia Wanyan, you£­¡± Mu Ziyou can¡¯t believe that her best friend can be vicious to such an extent.


    She has intended to give her a chance to admit her mistakes. Now it seems that it is not severe enough to punish her by law! Suddenly a blade pops up from Mu Ziyou¡¯s hand which shows her determination to die together with her!


    However, a strong force strikes her from the side of her body. The very man who takes hold of her waist tightly, at the same time gets her hand with the knife under control.


    Xia Wanyan immediately changes to a crying face as soon as she sees the man is Li Qiaosheng. But this time, before she begins to pour out her grievance, Li has picked up Mu Ziyou by the waist and turns to leave in another direction, without even a glance at his bride.


    ¡°Let...let me go, Li Qiaosheng, you bastard!¡± Mu Ziyou accidentally cuts the man¡¯s arm while struggling. But he is not at all affected as if he were not the one who is bleeding.


    She thinks that he misunderstands her again by thinking that she is that kind of woman coming to bully Xia Wanyan so she is so furious and restless.


    But, seeing him bleeding, Mu Ziyou felt a little distressed at the bottom of her heart. Finally, she is tired of struggling. Not wanting to see him, she keeps her eyes tightly closed, letting him carry her wherever he wants. He probably will throw her out of the hotel!


    Welcome to read next chapter Leave Them Together for Goo</a> ahead.

 C24. Leave Them Together for Goo

    In the presidential suite, Li Qiaosheng looks at Mu Ziyou carefully for a long time before putting her down.


    It has been half a year since he last saw her. The ugly scar on her face has disappeared. Mu Ziyou right now has a perfect and pretty face, and any expression, such as a frown or a smile only, can touch any man¡¯s heart. It works the same on Li Qiaosheng, who feels like he has seen these similar eyes somewhere.


    He doesn¡¯t know why he has a feeling so bizarre, a feeling of regaining something precious which has been missed once.


    Sure enough, he doesn¡¯t love her, does he?


    ¡°Youyou, where have you been these days? Have you been with Qin Yang all the time?¡± Li Qiaosheng doesn¡¯t notice that there is a flavor of jealousy in his tone.


    But to Mu Ziyou, it sounds more like a criticism. He seemingly has known clearly about her fleeing by feigning death, which led to his failure in finding her. Luckily she¡¯s followed Qin Yang¡¯s suggestion to leave this country immediately. She went to Korea for cosmetic surgery before she journeyed to Japan, Paris and Provence, etc.


    All those places she once wished to go with Li Qiaosheng, in the end, were visited with the help of Brother Qin Yang.


    ¡°Mr. Li, it has been a long time. Since you¡¯ve found out that I am still alive, let¡¯s talk about our divorce lest you...would commit bigamy.¡± Mu Ziyou speaks with a light-hearted expression, yet she is full of bitterness inside.


    Even before she decided to come, she had planned to revenge herself at the wedding by making them fall out with each other. However, the moment she saw him, her heart softened and chose to leave them together for good.Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there.


    Although it was a false death, she did experience death herself. Tracing back, Mu Ziyou really feels that she was too paranoid before.


    She has remembered that Brother Qiaosheng promised to marry her when they were still little kids. She also mentioned this to Li Wenkang, Qiaosheng¡¯s father. That¡¯s why Li Wenkang was so persistent in realizing this dream for her, even if his son already had fallen in love with someone else.


    However, the bitter result from his good intention has left the three of them struggling in the turbulence of love.


    Mu Ziyou loved him so deeply that she was reluctant to let go of him; Li Qiaosheng had to marry her due to the pressure from his father, but had kept tormenting her ever since they got married; as for Xia Wanyan, it was clear that she fell in love with Qiaosheng later, but she acted as if Mu had taken her beloved away. Since then the two best friends fell out.


    Mu Ziyou realizes that all these are caused by her!


    Therefore, it¡¯s better to sacrifice herself and help the two of them realize their dreams.


    In fact, after marrying her, Li Qiaosheng had always wished she could propose a divorce, which is the reason why he hurt her over and over again, trying to force her to suggest ¡°divorce¡± by herself. However, later owing to his parents¡¯ death and Xia Wanyan¡¯s matters, he just wouldn¡¯t let her get away easily.


    Now, he feels clearly the reluctance and unwillingness in his heart when hearing the word ¡°divorce¡± coming out from her mouth again.


    ¡°Youyou, could you give me some time? I¡¯m not really marrying Xia Wanyan. All the misunderstandings between us are gone now. Don¡¯t be afraid. I¡¯ll take revenge for your mother¡¯s death, OK?¡±


    ¡°You?¡± Mu Ziyou stays stunned for a moment, feeling that she almost does not know the capricious man in front of her.


    Soon she puts herself together£­after all, the affection between this man and Xia Wanyan is obvious to all. He probably said so out of the fear that she would kill his sweetheart for real. It¡¯s his stalling tactics!


    ¡°Well, Li Qiaosheng, if you could make Xia Wanyan kneel down in front of me, kowtow to me for three times and apologize to me formally, I would let you off.¡±


    Welcome to read next chapter I Wish You a Happy Wedding</a> ahead.

 C25. I Wish You a Happy Wedding

    Of course, three kowtows from Xia is far from enough to compensate her mother¡¯s death. Mu Ziyou just wants to embarrass Xia and deliberately makes things difficult for Li because formerly Li Qiaosheng would think that she was making trouble out of nothing and would never let Xia Wanyan do as she required.


    So she makes such a suggestion.


    Unexpectedly, Li Qiaosheng accepts it without hesitation and adds, ¡°Okay, I promise you, she would not only kowtow to you and apologize, but also go and kneel in front of your mother¡¯s grave for three days and nights!¡±


    ¡°You£­¡±


    Mu Ziyou looks in amazement at the man in front of her uttering these sincere words. She still cannot believe that such words really come from his mouth.


    He must be deceiving her. He must be comforting her with these nice words.


    He must fear that she would rush out with the knife and hurt his bride so that the wedding would then be ruined. Yes, that must be the case!


    ¡°So many years¡¯ youth sacrificed for you won me a ¡®thank you for giving me the chance¡¯. The chance for your freedom and adventure, for my blue sea and sky. She promises you a solemn pledge of love with sweet words. I have only one plain offer of chance without regret. Giving chance for your today and tomorrow, and for my next summer...¡±


    Just then, Mu Ziyou¡¯s mobile phone rings. She quickly picks it up and takes a look at it£­ it is Qin Yang.


    Li Qiaosheng catches the caller¡¯s name as well. With this ringtone, he feels so terrible inside that it seems that thousands of needles are pricking at his heart. His heart hurts so much that it is difficult to describe it.


    ¡°I¡¯m still in the hotel. Okay, I¡¯m fine. Well, wait for me downstairs. I¡¯m coming right now.¡±Did you know this text is from a different site? Read the official version to support the creator.


    Mu Ziyou doesn¡¯t bother to shun Li Qiaosheng. Ending the call in his presence, she finds he is still standing in her way. Impatiently, she pushed him aside. ¡°Mr. Li, I wish you a happy wedding. I will send you the divorce agreement by express delivery. You can send it back after you finish signing.¡±


    ¡°Youyou, I¡¯m not kidding you. Since you¡¯re still alive, you¡¯re still my wife. And you will be my wife for this lifetime! Wait for me, Please.¡±


    After saying that, with no other useless words, Li Qiaosheng goes  back to attend the wedding ceremony for it is already the the due time for the ceremony.


    He will absolutely make Xia Wanyan pay little by little for the pain and grievance Youyou has suffered before!


    This is the main reason why he insisted on the wedding ceremony with Xia Wanyan.


    But Mu Ziyou doesn¡¯t know about the man¡¯s good intentions, nor does she take all his words seriously. She is here today for only two purposes: one is to make sure that Xia Wanyan had done something to her mother¡¯s death; the other is to divorce Li Qiaosheng.


    Mu Ziyou¡¯s hatred for Li Qiaosheng is different from that for Xia Wanyan.


    When she finally calms down, she finds that she only wants to take revenge on Xia Wanyan. As for Li Qiaosheng, she just wants to give him the words: you¡¯re free.


    Back in the car, Qin Yang turns around and sees Mu Ziyou¡¯s red-brimmed eyes. He cannot help sighing, ¡°You¡¯ve really thought it over this time and made up your mind to divorce him?¡±


    ¡°Yes!¡±


    ¡°Actually, I think that if you want to take revenge on Xia Wanyan, the best way is not to divorce for the time being. Ruining their marriage is the strongest blow to her.¡± Suddenly something occurs to Qin Yang. He pauses for a moment and then waves his hand, ¡°Oh, forget it.You still have some remaining affection for that fellow. I¡¯m afraid you would probably make it real! Just forget it...¡±


    Mu Ziyou doesn¡¯t say anything, but she does take what Qin Yang says seriously.


    That¡¯s right. It isn¡¯t worthwhile at all to kill Xia Wanyan for just venting her anger, yet at the cost of herself! Not a good deal indeed!


    However, Xia Wanyan would not end in jail, either, if Li Qiaosheng continued pulling strings from behind even though Mu Ziyou submitted the evidence to the police.


    Considering this, the best approach to make Xia Wanyan pay for her deeds is to constantly show up in front of them reminding Xia Wanyan that she is not dead, and her marriage with Li Qiaosheng is still in effect, whereas Xia Wanyan herself is actually the hateful third party!


    This must be the most terrible torment for Xia Wanyan both physically and mentally!

 C26. I Didn’t Mean It

    The wedding night is supposed to be really attractive and intoxicating.


    But Xia Wanyan has never expected to see this scene after taking a bath and coming out from the bathroom that the man is still sitting fully-dressed at the head of the bed, staring expressionlessly at the door that she has just come out of. It seems that he wants to challenge and condemn her.


    ¡°Brother Qiaosheng, what¡¯s the matter with you? Are¡­ are you still mad at me for the suicide of Youyou¡¯s mom? In fact, I just told her about Youyou killing Auntie. She committed suicide just to pay for her daughter¡¯s sin.¡± Xia Wanyan mistakenly thinks that the man is still concerned about what happened in the restroom in the daytime today, so she carefully continues to defend herself, ¡°I didn¡¯t expect that Youyou would want to kill me with a knife. She shifts all the responsibilities to me. I¡¯m really falsely wronged!¡±


    ¡°Take off your bathrobe.¡± Unexpectedly, the man suddenly pops out such a totally irrelevant sentence.


    Instead of the flame of love, Xia Wanyan just notices the coldness in Li Qiaosheng¡¯s eyes, which makes her rather upset. But she can do nothing but do as he orders.


    Li Qiaosheng sets his sight on her waist which is perfect with fluent waist line and snow-white skin. With a cold smile in the corner of his mouth, he says, ¡°Wanyan, haven¡¯t you received the bone marrow transplant? How perfect your recovery is! There is not even a scar left!¡±


    ¡°This¡­¡± Xia Wanyan¡¯s smiling face turns into bloodless paleness!


    Oh, damn, she has forgotten to fake a scar at the place where she is supposed to receive the operation. She has thought that he wouldn¡¯t notice it with her clothes on. But now they¡¯re married, how could she continue to deceive him?Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere.


    ¡°Brother Qiaosheng, allow me to explain, please. I didn¡¯t mean to deceive you. I didn¡¯t really. It¡¯s all my attending doctor¡¯s fault. He made a wrong diagnosis and didn¡¯t find out that I had no anemia until Youyou¡¯s death. So he kept me ignorant of it by deception. Only when I was in the operation room did I get to know about the truth. He asked me not to reveal it, otherwise he¡¯ll be fired by the hospital. I can¡¯t bear to destroy him, so¡­¡± Xia Wanyan kneels down at the man¡¯s feet in fear hurriedly, hoping to get his forgiveness by lowering her profile.


    If Li Qiaosheng hadn¡¯t known the truth, he might have believed that it was all the doctor¡¯s fault. Anyway, Xia Wanyan is always extremely kind-hearted in his mind.


    ¡°You feel merciful for a stranger, then what about my donated bone marrow? You just threw it away mercilessly? You feel merciful? Then why didn¡¯t you feel merciful while drawing blood from your best friend every week? Your mercy is only prepared for strangers, not for your family and friends, huh?!¡±


    Hearing the man¡¯s merciless sarcasm, Xia Wanyan knows that she was wrong in the beginning. After pondering for a while, she has no choice but to admit her fault with her head lowered.


    ¡°I¡¯m really sorry, Brother Qiaosheng. I have realized my fault. Really. I had intended to tell you, but I was so busy preparing for the wedding that I forgot about it. You can punish me in any way you want. Just don¡¯t leave me, please!¡±


    ¡°Xia Wanyan, I¡¯m asking you how many other things you are still hiding from me, huh?¡± The man holds her chin between his fingers and forces her to look at him directly in the eyes.


    Xia Wanyan feels guilty and dares not look into his bottomless eyes. She just answers awkwardly, ¡°Nothing, nothing more. Really.¡±


    ¡°Alright, since you don¡¯t want to tell voluntarily yourself, I¡¯ll question you then.¡±


    Li Qiaosheng loosens his grip and she drops to the floor. Though feeling cold, she dare not reach for her clothes. Just like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, Xia Wanyan trembles, while waiting for the man¡¯s final trial which is like coming out from the hell¡­ Next chapter -> Just for Marrying Me</a>

 C27. Just for Marrying Me

    ¡°Let¡¯s talk about it backwards. You cheated me about the bone marrow transplant. So your aplastic anemia is also a lie. Then let¡¯s talk about the accident of falling off the building. At the beginning, you told me that Mu Ziyou pushed you. Do you have any evidence?¡±


    ¡°This...¡± From the man¡¯s expression, Xia Wanyan can tell that he must have known the truth. But where did he get the clue?


    In fact, she deliberately asked Mu Ziyou to meet her on the rooftop, because she carefully checked the place and found no surveillance camera there. So no matter what happened, only she and Mu Ziyou knew the truth. Thanks to Li Qiaosheng¡¯s trust on her then, she knew that Li Qiaosheng would believe her no matter what she said and no one would listen to Mu Ziyou even if she explained.


    Thinking of this, Xia Wanyan feels that he is likely to be swindling her. She thinks over her words and continues, ¡°In fact, she did not push me down on purpose. At that time, I was so irritated by her words that I said, ¡®I wish you could enjoy eternal love. Since I am really a redundant person, I¡¯d better jump down from here!¡¯ She just took up where I had left off, and said, ¡®Jump then. Do you need me to do you a favor?¡¯ I didn¡¯t think she would really want me to jump down, so I got a little scared and wanted to get back to the safe place. Unexpectedly, she got angry and raised her hand. I lost my balance and fell off...¡±


    ¡°Oh? You can still remember it so clearly even though it happened such a long time long. Unfortunately, there is something wrong with your memory. I think you have got it messed up with some shit plots from certain TV series. Do you need me to help you recall them?¡± The man gives several taps on his phone screen while saying these words.


    Xia Wanyan moves forward and sees the surveillance image. Instantly all her hopes were shattered to pieces!


    Li Qiaosheng, however, relishes one of the details. ¡°You see, after talking eloquently for a while, it was your own choice to jump down from the rooftop. Youyou even did not stretch out her hand. Is it possible that she pushed you with her mind?¡±


    ¡°Brother Qiaosheng, it was my fault and I admit it. She didn¡¯t push me. At that time, I was disheartened and didn¡¯t want to live any longer. I couldn¡¯t bear watching you two get married and she kept talking to me about your love story. I really can¡¯t stand it, so I...¡± The only relief for Xia Wanyan is that no sound in the video can be heard.The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.


    But the man has lost trust in her totally because of her constant lying and does not want to listen to any of her explanations at all.


    Then he continues questioning, ¡°And about my mother. You have admitted that it was you who pushed her down the stairs instead of Mu Ziyou. Oh, I almost forgot one thing: In order to pay for her mother¡¯s medical bills, Mu Ziyou borrowed money from the usury, which turned out to be a naked loan. You played the trick, didn¡¯t you?¡±


    ¡°I ¨C¡±


    Sure enough, this man is unfathomable. Whatever he wants to find out will never remain concealed any more.


    Before giving into her destiny, Xia Wanyan struggles for the last stroke as she is used to, ¡°Brother Qiaosheng, in fact, the truth is not like what you think of. At the beginning, Youyou chose the usury, but the interest was too high. Later she heard that the interest of naked loan was lower and changed her mind. It¡¯s none of my business. I... I did suggest that she choose the naked loan, but she is the one who made the final decision, isn¡¯t she?¡±


    ¡°You don¡¯t think I can tell that the picture is composite?¡±


    Just one sentence renders Xia Wanyan¡¯s face paler.


    She should have admitted it directly! It would be better if she had directly admitted that she envied Mu Ziyou and couldn¡¯t bear to see the affectionate happiness between her and Brother Qiaosheng. It is true that the more one talks, the more mistakes s/he will make...


    ¡°Well, I don¡¯t want to list the rights and wrongs between you and Mu Ziyou. What¡¯s your aim to get close to her deliberately? Just for marrying me?¡±


    The man looks down at her disdainfully out of the corner of his eyes. Xia Wanyan knows that she cannot hide the truth anymore tonight, so she changes her pattern and begins to play an affectionate drama. ¡°Yes, Brother Qiaosheng. I... I did all those just for such a simple purpose! Have you forgotten that you said you would marry me? Later we grew up, I accidentally got to know that you lived together from Mu Ziyou. Since then, I tried my best to please her and made friends with me. Then we became the best friends. I would be satisfied to get a glimpse of you from a distance when she invited me over to play at your home.¡±


    ¡°Brother Qiaosheng, you belonged to me and we were in love, weren''t we? But at the end she became your wife, which made me so sad that I was about die because of the sadness ¨C¡±


    ¡°Then you deliberately designed the scheme of your being blocked by several men in the alley, which deliberately disturbed our wedding night. You calculated the time so that I could arrive in time to save you. Isn¡¯t it the truth?¡± Li Qiaosheng doesn¡¯t intend this sentence as a question because his tone is extremely positive.


    After saying these words, he snaps his fingers. Then several poker-faced bodyguards in black walk into the room one after another. Next chapter -> Even Though Raised in the Affluent and Influential Family</a>.

 C28. Even Though Raised in the Affluent and Influential Family

    Xia Wanyan doesn¡¯t understand what Li Qiaosheng means until she is dragged out by the men in black and thrown out of the villa.


    When she is about to plead a man to give her a coat to cover her naked body, there suddenly appear several tall and strong men behind her one of whom covers her mouth, another two strangle his hands and feet respectively. In this way her whole body is lifted up.Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work!


    Knowing nothing about the place they are heading for, Xia Wanyan is freaked out on the path with no trace of other folks. Even worse, a man takes advantage of her and touches her body from time to time! Unlock the whole chapter -> Even Though Raised in the Affluent and Influential Family</a>