"Maybe I can try," Gu Lichen said without flinching.The two high and mighty men, both who dominated Shen City, were now confronting each other."If Yiran doesn't want to stay here, then I'll take her away no matter what!" said Gu Lichen."Then I'll break your other hand too," Yi Jinli said coldly, immediately attacking Gu Lichen.Gu Lichen saw it coming and dodged. The two men began to fight back and forth, but Gu Lichen could not strike because of his injured right hand.Yi Jinli had pinned Gu Lichen down and grabbed his uninjured left hand. Just as he was going to break it, Ling Yiran suddenly rushed forward and grabbed Yi Jinli's hand tightly. "No! Don't hurt Gu Lichen again!"Yi Jinli's expression immediately turned incredibly pale. "What if I insist on breaking his hand?""Is it nothing to you to break a man's hand?" asked Ling Yiran. Hao Yimeng and Xiao Ziqi had also talked lightly about incapacitating her hand.They had made the decision so lightly, but it had cost her
"I'll keep my promise, and you mustn't forget it, got it?"It was as if that childlike voice was surrounding her ears again.However, she forgot about it and did not recognize him afterward.With a thump, Ling Yiran knelt in front of Yi Jinli. Her kneeling immediately surprised the two men present."You..." Yi Jinli's eyes were full of disbelief. "What are you doing? Are you kneeling for Gu Lichen? I won't stop even if you get down on your knees!""This has nothing to do with Gu Lichen!" Ling Yiran took a deep breath and said calmly. The moment she knelt, her panic and hesitation suddenly faded away. "The thing between you and me has nothing to do with others. Even if you said you still love me, I simply can't afford your love. So Yi Jinli... let me go.""Let you... go?" Yi Jinli's body suffered an imperceptible tremor, and his face instantly turned incredibly pale.Even now, he would rather she beg him to let Gu Lichen go than her!"Do you know what you're talking about?" he m
However... it turned out their relationship was just a ‘mistake’ to her.The woman he loved most was begging him to let her go. Was there anything more ironic?"Okay, I'll let you go." He heard his voice saying. "We have nothing more to do with each other after this!"Neither a lover nor a sister, no relationship of any kind existed between them from now onward.Just like how two horizon lines were only horizon lines....Gu Lichen took Ling Yiran back to her rental house. She had not been back for a week, and nothing had changed except for some dust in some places.Gu Lichen said, "You... didn’t have to kneel before Jinli. I could’ve thought of something else even if you didn’t kneel." Ling Yiran gave a wry smile. 'I’ll just think of it as payback for him kneeling before me previously.'Yesterday, Yi Jinli knelt in front of her, begging her to love him! Today, she knelt in front of Yi Jinli, begging him to let her go!"Gu Lichen, thank you, but…" She paused and looked at hi
Ling Yiran gave a wry smile after Gu Lichen left. Her phone was still with Yi Jinli.Yi Jinli had taken her phone when she was locked up in the mansion, and she never saw it again.It seemed that she would have to report that she lost her phone card and get a replacement as well as a new phone.It did not cost much to get a replacement card, but a new phone... She heard a knock at the door as she was thinking about it.'Did Gu Lichen come back?' Ling Yiran stood up and opened the door to her rental house.However, to her surprise, it was Gao Congming at the door."Hello, Miss Ling. Here's your phone. Young Master Yi asked me to return it to you," said Gao Congming as he handed Ling Yiran her phone.Ling Yiran took the phone, and Gao Congming left without saying anything more.Ling Yiran turned on her phone once she was back in the house. It still had some battery left. She saw a lot of missed calls that were mostly from Qin Lianyi and some from the firm.Ling Yiran called Qin
However, sometimes, everything could change in an instant—just like when they broke up.Only that time, it was he who wanted to break up. This time, it was she who wanted to leave."Yi Jinli, I really should get over you this time," murmured Ling Yiran....Qin Lianyi planned to head over to Ling Yiran's rental house to see her as soon as she got off work the next day.Although they had talked on the phone yesterday and Yiran said she was alright, Qin Lianyi was still a little worried.However, a figure stopped in front of her when she came to the parking lot to get her car."You must be Qin Lianyi," they said.It was a woman wearing a new outfit from multiple luxury brands' fall collections. She wore elaborate makeup and was looking haughtily at Qin Lianyi.Qin Lianyi was stunned. "Who are you?""I'm Gao Jingrong, the one Bai Tingxin is going to marry. I heard you've been with Tingxin for a while, so I wanted to meet you. What do you think? Why don't we go somewhere and talk
Qin Lianyi blinked her eyes. She took out her phone and started searching for Four Seas Property.Seeing this, Gao Jingrong almost had an impulse to faint.'Is this woman telling me through her actions that she hasn't heard of Four Seas Property?'Gao Jingrong felt like she had been slapped in the face. She thought Qin Lianyi would be shocked to hear her mention Four Seas Property, but instead... she was looking it up on the search engine.After reading the online introduction of Four Seas Property, Qin Lianyi smiled. "Okay, I know your background, but you said that you're the marriage partner decided by the Bai family and you and Tingxin will get engaged. That means you're not engaged yet, are you? You're the marriage partner decided by the first wife of the Bai family, but Bai Tingxin probably hasn't decided yet. Therefore, you have nothing to do with him, do you?"Qin Lianyi did not believe Bai Tingxin would marry this woman at all. Somehow, she trusted Bai Tingxin.'Perhaps t
She was indeed going to do what Qin Lianyi said. She was not even going to give her the five million. She only intended to make Bai Tingxin get rid of the woman in front of her.However, she did not expect her to be so meticulous and even correctly guessed her intention.Just then, Qin Lianyi's phone rang. She took out her phone and saw an incoming call from Bai Tingxin, so she pressed the answer button."Where are you?" Bai Tingxin's gentle voice came from the phone."I'm negotiating with the daughter of the boss of Four Seas Property, whom the Bai family has chosen to marry you," said Qin Lianyi."Negotiating?" Bai Tingxin was stunned and got nervous immediately. "That woman came to see you? Did she do anything to you?""She's trying to gain something for nothing. She said she's going to pay me to leave you, but she never planned to give me a dime," said Qin Lianyi.Gao Jingrong's delicately painted face was distorted when she heard that. 'Qin Lianyi doesn't play by the rules.
"Yi Jinli just locked you up there? He didn't… Uh… Do anything bad to you?" Qin Lianyi asked gingerly."No," said Ling Yiran.Qin Lianyi was relieved. "Then he's still a gentleman after all."Qin Lianyi seemed to think of something and said, "By the way, what did you mean when you said you have nothing to do with Yi Jinli anymore? You—""Like I said, he's he and I'm me. Even the brother and sister game is over now. He and I are really just strangers," Ling Yiran said calmly.However, Qin Lianyi was worried about her calmness.She did not like Yi Jinli. She just thought that Yi Jinli had hurt Yiran too much, but... Once she knew that Yi Jinli and Yiran had really become strangers, she had a sour feeling in her heart.Qin Lianyi more or less thought that maybe Yi Jinli and her best friend still had a chance."Yi Jinli's not the only man in this world. You'll find someone better." Qin Lianyi encouraged her best friend.Ling Yiran smiled faintly and did not contradict her best fri