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“Nan Heng was right today. Sometimes, we can’t blame others for being too cold-blooded. We can only blame ourselves for being too weak,” Ji Nuan snuggled in his arms, carelessly and softly speaking.

Ji Nuan was slightly drunk today. Mo Jingshen stared at her for a long while without speaking before he carried her into the villa.

After entering, her arms remained around his neck as she looked at his handsome face. “I need to work harder… hard enough so I can chase up to your footsteps… so I can work hard to support my new life…”

The two words, ‘new life’ caused the man to pause momentarily. It was only a short moment before he carried her into the room, leaning down to place her on the bed.

Looking at the little woman’s dazed eyes, he propped himself up by the bed to watch her, calmly saying, “You’re not allowed to touch alcohol again.”

It seems like in the future, even if it was just a cake, he had to taste it first to be sure.

He was taking back the promise he made previously about the cake.

“Mo Jingshen.”

“En?”

“I want to become stronger.”

“…”

“I want to become more capable.”

“…”

“I want to become capable enough so I wouldn’t have to rely on anyone’s sympathy or help. So I can completely be in charge of my own life. I need to become strong enough so I won’t be fearful of any risk for life and death. I also want…”

The man abruptly kissed her, pressing her words back.

Ji Nuan was originally drunk. After being kissed for a while, she really could not speak and kept quiet. She closed her eyes and held his neck.

Ji Nuan fell asleep very quickly, while Mo Jingshen lowered his head to watch her.

—-

Ji Nuan woke up in the middle of the night to discover that Mo Jingshen was not by her side. She sat up and rubbed her slightly messy hair before climbing off the bed. She pushed aside the study door and the balcony windows but could not find Mo Jingshen.

Standing on the balcony, she looked down at the Yu Garden’s parking area and saw the black Ghost was not parked in its position. She was not sure when it had been driven away.

She did not have any intention of being drunk today, but after mixing the fruit wine in the cake with the alcohol in the fruit juice, she was left with a headache even after sleeping.

She stood on the balcony for several minutes, but the cold air did not help; her head still ached painfully. She rubbed her forehead and turned to return to the room. After closing the windows and falling back into bed, she grabbed her phone to call Mo Jingshen. However, she only heard the sound of a woman’s voice going, “I’m sorry. The number you’ve dialed is currently unavailable…”

Ji Nuan tossed her phone to the side. Her head was really aching badly, so she grabbed a pillow and pressed it heavily against her scalp, forcing herself to continue sleeping.

—–

At this moment, the black Ghost was speeding down the road. Mo Jingshen called Nan Heng.

The call was quickly connected. Nan Heng was slightly tipsy from drinking, and his tone was lazy. “I thought that after sending Ji Nuan back, you would start a passionate fire with your woman at home and wouldn’t have the time to head out again.”

Mo Jingshen: “…”

He initially did not plan on leaving Ji Nuan alone at home. However, the woman was drunk and would occasionally spout nonsense. She was also on her period, and after helping her shower, he felt wide awake. If it weren’t because of it, he would not have left just because of a call from Nan Heng.

“Didn’t you just drink tonight. Why did you go to Qin Siting’s place to drink again?” Mo Jingshen coldly and indifferently asked.

Inside Qin Siting’s villa, Nan Heng sat on the sofa. He narrowed his eyes at the bright lights indoors, before shifting his gaze onto Qin Siting who stood by the ceiling-to-floor windows gloomily. He chuckled mockingly, “This old man was afraid that he would take things too hard and came for a look. He’s been standing like a log in front of the window for half an hour. I suspect he has entered the state of a true Buddha and can no longer hear any of my words.”

Mo Jingshen apathetically replied, “It was his business; you shouldn’t have interfered.”

After sitting here for several more drinks, Nan Heng was slightly drunk. His long fingers rubbed his brows. “I owed Shi Niange a favor in America. Otherwise, do you think I would’ve cared to mess with her old trifle matters with Old Qin?”

Nan Heng was not someone who enjoyed being a busybody. If it weren’t because Shi Niange chose his birthday to insist on bringing a cake, and coincidentally, Nan Heng had been feeling the urge to mess with Qin Siting for the past few days, he would not have bothered to interfere with their matters.

He cared even less about whom to help. It was just that Qin Siting had been living a lonely, insipid life for several years. After seeing that he was living like a monk, the sight of it was like an eyesore to him; he thus decided to bring some excitement into his calm life.

Mo Jingshen calmly spoke while driving, “Are you still there right now?”

Nan Heng: “Recently, he seems to have acquired a lot of good drinks. I drank quite some and am somewhat gone now. I’m too lazy to move, so I’ll stay here tonight. Anyway, we’re just two men. I have to at least guard here in case that pitiful-looking Ling Xuaner returns and does something to Old Qin while he is vulnerable. Why? Are you really coming?”

The new alcohol in Qin Siting’s place naturally all came from Mo Jingshen.

Mo Jingshen: “Wait there.”

Fifteen minutes later.

Nan Heng sucked on a cigarette, turning back to look at the man who had appeared in the villa.

Mo Jingshen wore black from head to toe and appeared as though he was dyed by the evening shadows. He glanced at Qin Siting, who stood by the windows.

Qin Siting had one hand in his pocket. He was solemn and appeared to have no intention of paying them any mind. He only coldly glanced toward the door once before shifting his gaze back without speaking.

“How long has he been standing there?” Mo Jingshen walked over.

Nan Heng turned to see the tall man approaching. His distinct fingers brushed away some cigarette ash as he raised his brows. “I suspect he’s been standing there since the moment he came home. He’s been like this since I arrived.”

“Speaking of which.” Nan Heng then turned his teasing smile onto Mo Jingshen. “You could actually come so late into the night. Could it be that Ji Nuan was so drunk she couldn’t even recognize you and you were kicked off the bed?”

Mo Jingshen coldly glanced at him. “Are you well-experienced with that? Do women often kick you off the bed?”

Nan Heng raised his brows, picking up his cigarette with a smile. He picked up the bottle on the coffee table and poured him a drink.

Mo Jingshen did not receive the glass, shifting his indifferent, cold eyes toward Qin Siting’s direction. Qin Siting kept staring coldly out of the window.

“You’ve already chased away the lost young lady you brought back?” Mo Jingshen eyed his gloomy figure as he asked.

Nan Heng sat on the sofa, smoking his cigarette as he curved his eyes in a smile. He also glanced toward Qin Siting. “He clearly had no interest in that Ling Xuaner, yet he insisted on buying her. Placing such a sticky candy by his side, wasn’t it all for the sake of making Shi Niange uncomfortable—spit, spit—why was there a need to do so? Hurting your enemy by a thousand while losing eight hundred… Oh, no, I should say, hurting your enemy by a thousand while losing ten thousand…”

Mo Jingshen did not speak. Nan Heng was just about to hand him a cigarette when he received Mo Jingshen’s cold gaze. Recalling he had quit smoking eight hundred years ago, he immediately snorted and tossed the cigarette on the coffee table.

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Mo Jingshen approached the ceiling-to-floor windows, lifting his lids to glance outside.

The place Qin Siting stood faced the villa standing not far away across the windows.

The villa was not lit; no one had returned. The large, black gates engraved with the image of birds had also been quiet for the entire night.

On this side of the window, there was only a single floor light lit. Under the dusky rays of light, no one spoke. There was a moment of silence.

It was as though the entire world was silent. There was only a white cat perched atop the high walls of the villa across. Occasionally, it released one or two meows.

Mo Jingshen shifted one hand into his pocket. His low, soft, and heavy voice was exceptionally clear under the evening light. “Back then, you disregarded your own well-being to invest yourself in your first love, and then went on to hate her desperately. Now that she’s back, you insist on avoiding her. Today, you clearly showed you would maintain the estranged relation. What’s the point of standing here now? If she doesn’t return until tomorrow, are you going to stand here for the whole night?”

Qin Siting, who had stood motionless for a long while, finally shifted. However, he only turned to glance at him. “Which fucker said I was standing here to look at her?”

A night of stifled silence was finally broken. Qin Siting’s expression was ice-cold. “Do I look like the type to stand here guarding through the night for that kind of woman?”

Mo Jingshen coldly said, “Her villa has been vacated and standing there for several years, just like how you’ve stayed here for several years. After staring at an empty villa for so long, even though the person that left is finally back, she is probably still unaware you live right across from her. For how many days and nights have you been standing here watching? Do you not have a clear knowledge of it in your heart?”

Qin Siting: “…”

He abruptly turned to approach the sofa, picking up the cigarette Nan Heng had thrown on the coffee table to light it up. He took a few drags to calm himself down before coldly saying, “Moving here was a decision I made when I was young, clueless and still entangled in love and hatred. I’ve long lost all feelings for her. I’m just used to this place and am too lazy to move.”

Nan Heng spat out a mouthful of smoke and coldly chuckled. “Is it being young and clueless, or is it that you, fucker, have only been moved by one woman in your twenty-plus years of life. Even now, you’re disinterested in the group of women constantly running after your backside, wistfully wishing they could bed you. Who would have known your pure young heart would be crushed by a woman, and that even now, it’s still not fully pieced together?”

Qin Siting was expressionless. “The two of you came here in the middle of the night to ridicule this old man’s stupid past?”

Nan Heng chuckled. “I do have that intention. I just don’t know why he came at this time. I said he was kicked off the bed by Ji Nuan, but he refuses to admit it.”

Nan Heng glanced at Mo Jingshen while speaking.

Mo Jingshen indifferently replied, “I couldn’t sleep, so I came to see how unhappy Old Qin is exactly. If he talks about it, it might help to lift my mood.”

Qin Siting: “…”

“Couldn’t sleep?” Qin Siting chuckled coldly, pinching off the edge of the cigarette after only taking a few drags. “The two of you couldn’t sleep, so you made a special trip here just to look at me?”

Nan Heng chuckled while smoking.

Mo Jingshen indifferently raised his cold brows.

He indeed could not sleep.

It was not that he was kicked off the bed or that he argued with her, but that his woman wanted to head off to T City to study and to turn away from the identity of Mrs. Mo to become a business student in T University. Although she would only be studying there for several months, it was still a form of separation. This was clearly a decision she had arrived at after the evening party that day.

The little woman had clearly relied on her drunken state to speak up about her decision.

Could he reject her?

He could reject her, but he also clearly could not.

Ever since her temperament changed several months ago, he keenly felt that her mature and composed surface hid a sensitive and strange vulnerability.

She intensely feared death and was even more terrified of having no control over her life. There was more stubbornness in her bones—she had gained more things she wished to protect, but she hid them very deeply.

—-

When Mo Jingshen returned, it was nearing sunrise. The sky remained dark, but it was slightly paler.

He initially thought that Ji Nuan was still asleep. However, the little woman tossed and turned on the bed; clearly not sleeping well. When he laid down by her side, she furrowed her brows and buried herself in his arms while asleep, before gradually quieting down.

Mo Jingshen touched her hair. “Headache?”

Ji Nuan nodded her head in his embrace with her eyes shut. She was half-asleep, in a daze, and she did not speak.

Mo Jingshen’s hand shifted on her hair to rub gently on her forehead. She did not move, allowing him to help ease the ache in her scalp.

The little woman wore a soft nightgown; her long hair spread across the pillow as her fragrance surrounded him. She laid in his embrace with her eyes shut. Without asking him where he had gone, she instinctively leaned dependently in his embrace without allowing him to shift a single inch away.

—–

Mo Nuan Studio.

The computer screen displayed the various news Xia Tian was sending her through MSN.

Right now, Xia Tian could already walk normally with the support of a walking stick and only needed to go through three months of physical therapy. If she wanted to help out at the studio, it was not convenient for her who stayed so far away.

Back when Xia Tian studied with her in America, she had studied at the University of Finance and Economics. Her specialty was financial analysis. Right now, the position of the finance supervisor was vacant in the studio. Since Xia Tian wanted to help her, it would help Ji Nuan save some effort.

The two of them were discussing up a storm when the intercom suddenly rang in her office. Ji Nuan casually picked up the call. “Hello?”

“Hello, CEO Ji. There’s a parcel for you here.”

The call was from the mail room on the first floor of the Jin Lin Building. Ji Nuan looked at the displayed number before speaking. “All right, I’ll go down later.”

After hanging up the call, Ji Nuan typed a few words on the keyboard: [Did you send your things to the studio for fear you would have too many things after being discharged?]

Xia Tian replied: [No, I don’t have many things. When I head over, I’ll just grab a box and leave it at the place I’m staying at.]

Ji Nuan raised her brows slightly.

That was strange.

Why would there suddenly be a parcel for her?

At this time, the local online business had only just begun. Ji Nuan did not have the habit of buying things online. It was also rare for her to exchange mail with others. Furthermore, Xiao Ba and the secretary were typically in charge of all the letters and faxes the studio received.

Why would there be a parcel directly mailed to her?

Ji Nuan went downstairs and headed for the mail room on the first floor. The person inside handed her a not too large rectangle box.

Ji Nuan saw that the box was very well-packaged; it was impossible to tell what was packed inside. Only the office’s address and her name were written on it. The sender’s details were not provided.

“Who sent it?” Ji Nuan was careful as she asked.

“I’m not sure. We found it earlier when we were decluttering the pile of boxes outside the door.”

Hearing this, Ji Nuan shook the box in her hands. She could not hear anything.