On the way back, Yu Minglang didnât say a word.
Xiao Qian accompanied him, slowly walking along the road towards their home. âXiao Qiang, deep down, you donât actually hate him, do you?â Xiao Qian asked. âHmm.â
If Yu Minglang truly hated Zeng Rong, he wouldnât have asked all his friends to come and see him off.
âHis methods were not good, but his intentions were. He has experienced the pain of losing a friend, so he didnât want these close brothers to lose me as well. Although his methods were stupid, I have the duty and the confidence to show him what kind of woman I have chosen and to let him leave in peace. Itâs my responsibility too.â
Even though Rong Yuan had left, in Yu Minglangâs heart, he was still his friend. This was a responsibility, a mission.
Xiao Qian was not surprised by Ming Langâs words.
âSo, you brought me to show him, to tell him that you have chosen a smart woman?â
In terms of tactics, Ming Langâs move was indeed quite brilliant. He believed in his own judgment, and even more so in the expertise of his woman.
Managing to make a tenacious man cry loudly, Yu Minglang was genuinely curious.
Throughout all the ups and downs they had experienced, Minglang had never seen Rong Yuan cry.
But Xiao Qian managed to do it.
Rong Yuan never cried during his time as a lone wolf. In fact, sometimes, being able to cry was better than bottling it up inside, but many people spent their entire lives competing with themselves. Before meeting Xiao Qian, Rong Yuan had always been competing with himself.
âSmart woman, can you tell me what you said to him that made him cry like that? Iâve tortured him for so long, and he hasnât shed a single tear.â
âI wonât tell you, itâs a secret.â
A secret between a bad woman, and a man determined to avenge his deceased brother.
âDonât be so mysterious â Xiao Mei, you tell me.â
With an itchy heart, Ming Lang begged and pleaded, ultimately threatening Xiao Qian that if she didnât confess, he would kiss her on the street.
In the end, Xiao Qian couldnât withstand his thick-skinned persistence.
âWhen Lone Wolf is lying here, apart from his friends and family, who will remember him? Who should not forget him?â
âYou mean⦠you and Rong Yuan reached an agreement that you have to deal with Lone Wolfâs ex-fiancee?!â
Xiao Qian blinked, âWhy are you so blunt? Iâm a woman of high position, taste, and social status, I canât break the law.â
She meant that she would definitely not do anything illegal.
Ming Lang reached out his finger towards Xiao Qian, then decided to stroke her hair instead.
Hmm, keep up being the woman of high position, taste, and social status. Your awareness is great.â
In other words, just do your thing.
Who didnât have fire in their hearts about the events of the past?
Yu Minglang didnât believe that Lone Wolf had died accidentally because he was distracted. He believed that Lone Wolf was just like himself â both of them top-notch men who knew what to do at the right time and wouldnât let their emotions kill them.
But his death was so miserable, and with his last breath, he still called out the womanâs name. Yet, she treated a man who had given his life for her with unimaginable cruelty. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
Moving away, taking the money and leaving â not even bothering to bring a single flower to his funeral.
The dead cannot see this, but the living are deeply affected.
Everyoneâs hearts were chilled back then.
They couldnât imagine that if one day, the person lying underground were them, would their loved ones take their money and leave without even giving them a momentâs worth of incense, just like the woman did to Lone Wolf?
That would genuinely be the saddest thing in the world. What was the point of
it all, was a hero not even entitled to a single thought?
Hey, Yu Xiaoqiang, donât you feel like scolding me a few times?â Xiao Qian felt that Ming Lang was becoming more and more like her.
As the two spent more and more time together, their values inevitably influenced each other.
Xiao Qian would change for Ming Lang, and Ming Lang would learn to adapt for her.
Ming Lang also harbored a fire in his heart over this matter, but he just didnât want to take action against a woman. That woman owed a tear to the fallen warrior-hero.
When even the loss of their pet cats and dogs could cause sadness, much less when a person was involved! A man willing to leave his compensation to her, not asking her to remain chaste and not marry another, but was it too much to ask for her to come and visit his grave?
And yet, she heartlessly took the money and married someone else right away. Since his Qian Bao was willing to do it, Ming Lang would not play the saint and try to convince her otherwise, as this was an agreement between Qian Bao and Rong Yuan.
Youâre happy and thatâs all that matters. Just mind the limit, anything else goes â although I am curious, why⦠would he tell you all this?â
Xiao Qian smiled faintly, pushing her glasses with her hand.
âBecause the world is vast yet small. You would think that some people far away are, in fact, connected by a thousand threads.â
âSpeak plainly!â
âPlainly, it means â your good friend Lone Wolfâs mother was my teacher, your cold-looking but kind-hearted uncle is someone my mentor would curse at. I think I should do something for my teacher, understood?â
Ming Langâs eyes widened.
It was only after Xiao Qianâs rebirth that she discovered that although the two of them had missed each other in their past life, the intricate connections between them had not been severed.
There had always been people around her who were connected to him, they were just a hairâs breadth away from meeting, but strangely, they never did despite his search for her, and her fame within the industry in their past life.
In this life, they technically shouldnât have had any interaction, yet they kept running into each other by chance, and now they were even together.
Fate really was a mischievous child.
âXiao Qiang, do you know that the news of me being kidnapped and it being leaked, it wasnât Rong Yuan who did it?â
âHmm.â
âSo, who do you think it was?â
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Ming Lang s silence told Xiao Qian that her guess was correct.
Her astute Xiao Qiang had already figured out there was someone else involved
in the case after discovering the clue about Rong Yuan.
However, when Ming Lang heard Xiao Qian proactively asking about the matter, he asked her back.
âYou thought of it too?â
âItâs not hard to guess. If it wasnât Rong Yuan who leaked the information, who else would know about it? By reasoning backwards, itâs not difficult to arrive at a conclusion. Who else participated in the rescue operation and whom else in your family is there that Iâve offended?â
Up until now, it seemed like she and Ming Lang had just offended one person.
âItâs not someone you offended. Iâll deal with it myself.â Ming Lang initially didnât want to tell Xiao Qian about it, as he didnât want to trouble her with such a trivial matter.
However, Xiao Mei was a very clever girl â after talking to Zeng Rong only once, she knew that two different people were responsible for these two incidents.
âYou handle your own matters.â
The Chinese language is vast and profound; âyou handle itâ versus âyou handle your own mattersâ â these two phrases have completely different meanings.