Qin Haiyao kept staring at Ruan Yihan, his narrow eyes filled with tears.
Her heart was trembling with pain, and blood oozed out from the inside out, drop by drop, bit by bit, gathering all the love, hatred, and vengeance of the past, bursting out at this moment.
—Xiao Hai, when this is over, let’s go, take grandma with you, and find a place with beautiful scenery. You... marry me.
Mr. Qin, I can... beg you like a dog again.
I reduced her to dust.
I once loved you so much that if you wanted me to die, I would hand the knife to you with my own hands.
…
It turned out that she still hurt her and failed to save her.
Ruan Yihan's brows were tightly furrowed. Once upon a time, her eyes were full of love and tenderness that could melt people, but now, they were full of hatred and determination.
Step by step.
Qin Haiyao walked slowly towards Ruan Yihan. There was still a faint smell of ointment and disinfectant on her body. The wound on her neck had not healed yet, and she had not slept well recently. Now, after being thrown by Ruan Yihan, her body was so limp that she was almost exhausted.
But she still gritted her teeth and persisted as she walked towards her with all her strength.
She wanted to know if all this was true
It must be a dream, right
Ruan Yihan took a deep breath, took out the cigarette next to her and wanted to light it.
Her hands were shaking.
I tried to light the lighter several times but it didn't light up, and I couldn't stop shaking.
Qin Haiyao suddenly held her hand. Ruan Yihan's body stiffened and she looked at her. Qin Haiyao's hand was as cold as ice, but she was still calm. She held her hand, pressed the lighter and lit the cigarette.
In the firelight, there were ripples in Qin Haiyao's eyes, which were captivating.
Is it true...
Ahaan is in front of her.
She is not dead.
Their love is dead.
Ruan Yihan inhaled the slightly pungent mint-flavored cigarette into her mouth. With the soothing cool feeling, she felt better. She looked at Qin Haiyao, who looked into her eyes and slowly reached out his hand to touch her shoulder blade.
There, there are the marks she once left.
Time and time again, Ruan Yihan indulged her in what she left behind.
My hand just touched the smooth skin.
Ruan Yihan cruelly slapped Qin Haiyao's hand away: "Don't touch me."
A vicious tone, a sinister intonation.
Qin Haiyao's body stiffened, and her heart quickly became as hard as a stone and stopped beating.
A long silence hung between the two of them.
Qin Haiyao didn't move, but his eyes were always fixed on her greedily and obsessively, refusing to leave.
Ah Han...
She was standing there quietly, looking haggard but still herself.
Ruan Yihan lowered her head, smoking fiercely, and refused to look at her. There was an inexplicable bitterness in her chest.
Once upon a time, the woman in front of her was the one she loved the most and cherished in her heart.
Not to mention yourself, no one else is allowed to touch it or get contaminated by it.
The person she once protected with her life.
But now, she has punished her time and time again, but the flame of hatred in her heart has not been extinguished. An inadvertent fragment or detail can bring back the unbearable past.
Ruan Yihan is not a cruel person.
On the contrary, she was born with a silver spoon in her mouth and has always been well protected. She is gentle, kind and occasionally naughty, but hatred is like a fire that has surrounded her and burned everything she once had.
Ruan Yihan didn't say a word, she just smoked hard.
One after another.
In the end, Ruan Yihan never looked up. She extinguished the cigarette ash and said coldly, "Go away. I don't want to see you."
Although she didn't look up, she knew Qin Haiyao didn't move.
"Tick, "tick, "time passes by every second, and every moment that passes by seems to leave a scar in my heart.
After a moment, Ruan Yihan finally raised her head. She stared into Qin Haiyao's eyes and said mercilessly, "Go away. Don't you understand?"
Qin Haiyao looked at Ruan Yihan, and the surging emotions in her heart burst out. She wanted to go up and hug her, even for just a moment.
But that person no longer gave her any tenderness.
Yes, she had experienced life and death, hurt, deception, separation... Even if she tried her best, she couldn't change it. After all, that was the pain and consequence she had brought about.
She should accept it.
She reaped what she sowed.
The door was opened.
Qin Haiyao walked out of the house slowly. Her steps were light and her eyes were wandering, as if she had lost her soul.
Grandma Ruan, who had been standing by, looked at her nervously. She sized Qin Haiyao up and down, as if she was afraid that her granddaughter would do something cruel to others again.
Qin Haiyao focused her eyes and finally saw her grandmother. At that moment, she couldn't help but let the tears fall from the corners of her eyes.
"Doctor Qin, are you okay?"
Grandma Ruan looked at her worriedly. What happened to her granddaughter
Qin Haiyao didn't say anything, just looked at her grandmother. Her body was trembling and the thread in her heart was about to break.
Grandma Ruan looked at Qin Haiyao, whose face was as pale as a sheet of paper, and whispered, "I'll send someone to take you back, Doctor Qin."
Qin Hai shook her head, forbearing and forbearing, and she reluctantly responded: "No, thank you."
grandmother…
Sorry, grandma.
The wind is a little cool at night.
When Qin Haiyao opened the door, she looked so fragile that she seemed like the wind could blow her away.
Or the way back.
All alone.
She walked slowly alone. In the cold wind, Qin Haiyao slowly stretched out her right hand and looked at the paper crane in her hand, the edge of which had turned black. She slowly opened the paper crane with her trembling hands, and on it, something was written in a sonorous and powerful voice.
—I love you, Xiaohai, marry me.
The tears that I had managed to hold back fell again.
In the evening breeze.
Qin Haiyao covered her mouth with her hands, tears kept falling down. At this moment, she completely exploded and collapsed.
It was almost eleven o'clock when Qin Haiyao returned home.
The sky was as dark as ink.
Huang Lan and Qin Shan were anxious. When Qin Haiyao opened the door, Qin Shan was putting on his coat and was about to go out to look for someone.
"Xiao Hai?! Why did you just come back?"
Huang Lan walked up to her and stared at her.
Even after being blown by the wind for a long time, the redness and swelling of Qin Haiyao's eyes did not fade away. She looked at her mother, then looked at her father who was looking at her worriedly, and forced a smile: "I'm fine, Mom and Dad, you can rest."
The bathtub is filled with water.
Qin Haiyao immersed herself completely in it.
The warm water covered the roof and buried everything.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
Feel the pain of suffocation again and again.
It seemed that only physical pain could ease the pain in her heart.
Countless fragments poured into her mind from all directions, pushing Qin Haiyao to the brink of collapse.
—I once loved you so much.
If you really wanted me to die, I would have handed the knife to you, but you were hurting grandma.
…
Huang Lan and Qin Shan didn't dare to sleep at all. They stayed in the living room, listening to the noises coming from the bathroom, and they were all very nervous.
Half an hour later.
Qin Haiyao came out of the bathroom. She was wearing pajamas and her hair was still wet. Although her eyes were still a little red, she looked much better.
Huang Lan cooked porridge for her: "Xiao Hai, drink some to warm your stomach. Mom sees that you don't look well."
Qin Shan went to wipe the coffee table in the living room and brought up a few of her favorite side dishes.
Qin Haiyao looked at her parents, then slowly sat down on the sofa, picked up the bowl, and took a sip of porridge.
The fragrant porridge slid down the esophagus, and the boiling liquid fell into the stomach. The food warmed the cold body. Qin Haiyao was silent for a while. She looked at Huang Lan and Qin Shan: "Mom and Dad, Mo Mo's throat still needs treatment. We can't give up."
"But—" Huang Lan was about to speak, but Qin Haiyao interrupted her. Her daughter seemed a little different from usual. Her eyes were cold and there was a hint of disobedience: "Listen to me."
Listen to her...
It's miraculous.
The two elders were shocked by their daughter's aura.
"Go to sleep, don't overwork yourself." Qin Haiyao softened her tone and looked at her parents as usual, "After a while, when Momo's summer vacation comes, take her abroad for a few days. Hasn't she always been clamoring to go abroad?"
Qin Shan sighed and fanned his daughter with a palm leaf fan: "I don't have the time. Besides, how much money will it cost?"
Qin Haiyao paused for a moment and said, "I'll figure out a way to deal with the money issue. Mo Mo is almost eighteen, so it's time for him to go out and broaden his horizons."
Huang Lan and Qin Shan looked at each other. They both felt that something was wrong with their daughter, but they couldn't tell what was wrong.
The bright moon at night hangs bleakly in the sky.
Lying in the room, Qin Haiyao looked out the window and murmured, "No, I don't want to lose you."
…
The brightly lit Ruan family home.
Grandma gave her granddaughter a profound ideological education lesson.
"Grandma doesn't know what grudge you have with Dr. Qin, but you should have basic courtesy. Most importantly, people in our Ruan family never use roughness on others, especially women."
Ruan Yihan was very silent, staring straight ahead with her eyes fixed, not knowing what she was thinking.
Grandma Ruan: "Grandma has also sent people to investigate. Although Dr. Qin's family conditions are average, his background is clean. How could he have offended you?"
Clean and innocent
Ruan Yihan sneered, she turned her head and looked at her grandmother: "Grandma, you are old, it's time to take care of yourself, there are some things you don't have to worry about."
"Look at your tone now, you little bastard!" Grandma Ruan was really a little angry. "Grandma just wants to know why. I am your only relative. Is there anything you can't tell me? Ah Han, grandma really can't see through you any more."
I can't see through you anymore.
Isn't she the same
My grandma was worried about me and didn't get a good rest at night.
The next day, early in the morning, Qin Qin brought some vegetable dumplings. This was Grandma Ruan’s favorite, and she had someone make them specially. “What’s wrong, old lady? Did you quarrel with Ah Han again?”
Qin Qin looked at the dark circles under her eyes. Grandma Ruan waved her hand and said, "Don't mention it. Maybe something happened to her friend. She's in a bad mood and has been very irritable recently."
I even learned how to do it myself.
This was something Qin Qin had expected. Ruan Yihan just came out of the house after washing her face. She called her, "Come and eat."
Ruan Yihan walked over slowly, sat down in a very awkward manner, and crossed her legs: "Aunt, I'm taking a leave today. I want to go to Huairou Resort for a day."
Taking leave again
Under normal circumstances, Grandma Ruan would have roared, but at this moment, she suddenly remembered her granddaughter's violent and bloodshot eyes yesterday, and she didn't say anything.
When people get old, they really have no abilities anymore and even are afraid of their own granddaughter.
Qin Qin looked at the old lady, then at Ruan Yihan: "I heard that when Dr. Qin came over yesterday, you had a conflict?"
Hear
Ruan Yihan sneered in her heart, but on the surface she still looked unconcerned: "No, aunt, I won't mention it after all the hard work, so that grandma won't nag me again later."
Is this a love game for young people
Qin Qin didn't understand, she nodded: "Okay, come back early and be careful."
But just in the afternoon, when she was drinking tea with Grandma Ruan, Ali brought a group of people in. The group didn't even say hello, but walked straight into the house, measuring and drawing.
Grandma Ruan was stunned for a moment and put down the milk tea in her hand: "What are you doing, A-li?"
Is my granddaughter doing something again
Qin Qin also stood up at once and looked at him alertly, "What are you doing?!"
Uncontrollably, her tone rose and stiffened. Grandma felt it and looked at her strangely. Why was Qin Qin so nervous? The people that Ali brought must be because Ruan Yihan was naughty and was going to do something again. This was not the first time she had such a whim.
The old lady was walking on the edge of a knife back then.
She quickly noticed Qin Qin's abnormality and looked at her with a little surprise. Why were you so excited
Qin Qin felt it, she smiled and covered it up: "Which piece of furniture in this house is not an antique and priceless? How can you bring someone here casually? Aren't you afraid of breaking it?"
Ali came over and bowed, "Madam, President Qin, President Ruan said that she doesn't spend much time at the company, and there are many people who object to it, so she won't do anything about the office. She wants to change her home into a Mediterranean style."
"What sea?"
Grandma Ruan was angry. "She is getting bolder and bolder, isn't she? She didn't even discuss this with me?"
Those workers were measuring everywhere with rulers and designing plans. They were all invited by General Manager Ruan and were obeying his orders.
The leading contractor had a pencil stuck to his ear and was looking around. Qin Qin kept staring at her, her heart beating wildly. Finally, with a "Huh?", Qin Qin closed her eyes.
Ruan Yihan was out partying with friends and drinking when she received a call from her grandmother, who yelled at her so loudly that her eardrums were about to break, so she hurried home.
On the way, Ali hurriedly reported to her: "The old lady got very angry. There were actually pinhole probes and listening devices in the house."
Ruan Yihan was surprised. She looked at A Li and asked, "What's going on?"
Ali wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Didn't you ask me to go to your house to do the renovation? I discovered this by accident."
"Do you know who did this?"
Ruan Yihan stared at A Li, her eyes full of anxiety but she was sneering in her heart.
Ali shook his head: "I don't know yet. The old lady is very angry. I have never seen her lose her temper so badly."
Aren't you going to lose your temper
This happened in my own home.
Grandma Ruan had a gloomy face. She sat on the sofa in the living room, knocking the ground with her cane. "Check it for me!"
Standing next to her were several middle-aged men in black suits. They were all in their forties or fifties.
When Ruan Yihan came in, she was very surprised: "Wow, Uncle Sen? Uncle Song? Why are you here? Aren't you walking your birds in the park?"
These were all the heroes who worked under her parents back then, and she thought they had retired long ago.
Ruan Yihan was dressed very coolly today, with her shirt tied in a knot, clean jeans, and long flowing hair, making her look four or five years younger.
Grandma Ruan was furious when she saw her granddaughter. She didn't dress properly, her shirt had to expose her belly button, her hair was loose like a monster, and she had big red lips and long eyelashes. Is this how a child from a good family would dress
"There are surveillance cameras at home, and you're still showing off?"
Qin Qin had been sitting on the side in silence. She looked at Ruan Yihan, who threw her limited edition bag on the sofa and said, "If it's not in the bathroom or bedroom, then it's fine. What are you afraid of?" She picked up the pinhole probe and looked inside, then shouted, "Hey, hey, hey, which idiot dares to spy on my grandma? Be careful or you'll be pushed off the cliff and your bones will be crushed to dust!"
Grandma Ruan:!!!
A group of people hugged Grandma Ruan for fear that her walking stick would fall and break Ruan Yihan. Ruan Yihan smiled and ate cherries as if she was watching a show.
In her opinion, no problem would matter as long as her grandmother and Aunt Qin were around.
She had been like this before she was reborn.
What's more, she is not the one who should be anxious now.
A few minutes later.
Grandma Ruan calmed down. She sat on the sofa and said coldly, "This is either a traitor or something fishy. We need to investigate the source and not let go of even a trace."
When Qin Qin came out of Ruan's house.
She sat in the car and smoked two cigarettes to calm herself down. This matter was not a big deal, and she could easily push it away, but the old lady was afraid that she would become suspicious.
Duanzi was sitting in the driver's seat, and he didn't dare to move unless she spoke.
After a while, Qin Qin asked calmly, "Has Ah Han really just been hanging out with his friends recently?"
Duanzi nodded. He had already reported all of Ruan Yihan's recent schedules to Qin Qin. "She is still eating, drinking and having fun with a bunch of playboys as usual. You don't need to worry too much. A while ago, she wanted to find Jiang Zhenyue, the daughter of the bankrupt Jiang family, to be her secretary, but she refused. She also asked Ali to find a distant relative from the countryside. The kind of guy who is useless wanted to come here to be a bodyguard. He must have watched too many TV dramas."
This has become a joke in the eyes of jokers.
Qin Qin, however, frowned and said, "Just to be safe, cut off all the connections with these two people."
Duan Zi was a little confused. He felt that Mr. Qin was too cautious. This thought just turned around in his stomach. He lowered his head and said, "Yes."
Qin Qin thought for a moment and said, "The people that Longxiong is going to arrange should also be put on hold. No one is allowed to move until the old lady relaxes her vigilance."
Duan Zi: “Yes.”
Outside the open window, there was a blaze of neon lights.
Ruan Yihan crossed her arms and listened to the news brought by A Li: "Miss Jiang was about to come, but suddenly this afternoon it was said that the Jiang family received a cooperation letter from Longxiong Group, and her father held it down. This is simply a pie in the sky for them. The company is likely to be revived, so..."
Ruan Yihan pursed her lips and said nothing.
She only found out about the relationship between Longxiong’s president and Qin Qin before she jumped off the cliff.
Ali continued: "Also... Brother Duan came to me today and said that there was a surveillance camera at home. We can't let anyone with unclear background stay around Mr. Ruan, and Xu Jian can't come over either."
There was silence for a moment.
Ruan Yihan nodded: "I understand, you can go out."
She had been very careful and had turned everything that was inevitable into something that happened by chance.
But even so, Qin Qin still became suspicious.
She once said to Qin Haiyao that the game had just begun.
The same is true for her.
She had known before that Qin Qin was a formidable opponent. Now she had a protective shield and she had made some superficial arrangements, but before they could take root or sprout, they were easily defeated by her.
The road ahead is too long, so long that people dare not think about it.
Maybe I was thinking too much, maybe it was the nightmares I had in recent days, or maybe the carefully planned things were easily destroyed by Qin Qin.
Ruan Yihan had a fever and couldn't get out of bed. Her grandmother sat beside the bed, touching her hot forehead and her eyes were red.
Doctor Chu gave her an IV drip and consoled her with a smile, "Madam, it's nothing serious. It's just a common fever. It will be fine in two days."
Grandma Ruan didn't say much. She held her granddaughter's hand and stroked her cheek with one hand.
Looking at Ruan Yihan's haggard face, and seeing her brows furrowed even when she was asleep, I really wanted to ask her, what's wrong? Ah Han, what's wrong with you
Ruan Yihan has been sleeping the whole time.
Halfway through, her head felt like it was pricked by a needle.
Before and now, all kinds of phantoms flashed through my mind, mixed with some fragments that had never appeared before.
She saw Qin Haiyao, covered in blood, standing in front of her, holding her with one hand, staring at her deeply. There seemed to be someone behind them, but she couldn't see clearly.
Ruan Yihan looked at herself in the illusion. She was so cold and ruthless. In the end, something cold grabbed her wrist.
The heart-piercing pain came again.
Ruan Yihan waved her hands and murmured, "Don't... Don't... Don't do this... Don't leave me alone... Don't..."
Qin Haiyao arrived very early. She asked Grandma Ruan to go and rest, and she stayed to take care of Ruan Yihan.
To make her feel more comfortable, she kept putting a handkerchief on her forehead and constantly changing the water.
Ruan Yihan slept uneasily, crying and roaring from time to time, and she looked extremely weak.
Qin Hai looked at her, biting her lip, wanting to hold her hand and hug her, but when she stretched out her arms, she remembered Ruan Yihan's previous manic look, and she did not dare to do so.
"don't want!"
With a roar, Ruan Yihan sat up suddenly. She was covered in sweat. The handkerchief on her forehead slid down her cheek, and the cool touch made her soul return to its place.
Qin Haiyao stood beside her, blinking his long eyelashes, looking at the tear marks on Ruan Yihan's face.
Ruan Yihan took a deep breath, looked around quickly, and then she felt relieved.
"What are you doing here?"
It was still that cold and heartbreaking voice, without any mercy.
It seemed that in the blink of an eye, President Ruan changed from being fragile to being fierce and strong.
Qin Hai looked into her eyes and said softly, "Boss Ruan, I owe you an answer."
Answer
—Do you want to be my plaything? I'll give you three days, either agree or get out.
Today is already the fourth day.
Haha, is she here to refuse
The corners of Ruan Yihan's lips curled up in a terrifying arc, and a cold light gathered in her eyes. Even if Qin Haiyao refused, she had plenty of ways to trap her.
Qin Haiyao looked into her eyes, smelled the mint scent on her body, and said softly, "I do."
Ruan Yihan suddenly looked up and stared into her eyes.
Qin Haiyao looked into her eyes and said slowly: "I am willing... to be Mr. Ruan's plaything."