Zi Xuan had been missing since high school after that incident happened.

  Pei Si Cheng had never intentionally gone to look for Qi Xuan, he knew that in this kind of situation, Qi Xuan should have his own space, and when he wanted to see people again, he would reappear.

  However, he did not think that this wait would be ten years.

  Ten years have passed since he was a young boy and now he has grown into a real man.

  Pei Su followed Zhang Mengxue out, leaving Song Yuqiao in the room.

  Song Yuqiao sat up, rubbing her own belly. Staring at the door that had been closed from the outside, she wondered if she should sneak out and eavesdrop on Pei Si Cheng and Zhang Mengxue's conversation? And who was Qi Xuan anyway?

  Pei Si dialed back the phone number that Zhang Mengxue had sent him a message from, but no one answered. He then asked Zhang Mengxue to call back.

  Zhang Mengxue called back, but no one answered either, so she sent a message, "What time?"

  But still there was no response.

  Pei Si Cheng looked at Zhang Meng Xue, and Zhang Meng Xue couldn't help but explain: "I received this text message early in the morning, I don't know..."

  Pei Su Cheng said: "Then it might be someone's prank, but people who know Qi Xuan are really not many now."

  Zhang Mengxue knew that Pei Si Cheng was suspicious of her, suspecting that she had borrowed Qi Xuan's name to deliberately disturb him.

  Because the station is not far away, from Pei Su's slightly opened door. Just enough to see Song Yuqiao sitting on the edge of the bed, Zhang Mengxue was filled with unwillingness in her heart.

  She didn't want to do anything at first, she just wanted to move in, but now that Xia Chuchu is pregnant, she doesn't want to be comfortable either. However, Xia Chuchu always deliberately shows off her love in front of her, as if intentionally provoking her.

  Pei Shichen really spoiled Song Yuqiao. He often accompanied her and was very good to her, never saying no to her requests.

  If Pei Shuai could treat herself so well, she would be willing to die for it.

  As soon as the door closed in front of her, Zhang Mengxue quickly took two steps forward and blocked Pei Si Cheng: "Pei Si Cheng, wait a minute."

  Pais stepped back and turned around.

  Zhang Mengxue's gaze, from the door crack, saw Song Yuqiao's curious expression, and turned to ask Pei Si Cheng: "Do you really like Xia Chuchu?"

  Her voice was neither loud nor soft, but it was enough for Song Yuqiao inside the door to hear.

  Pei Si Cheng turned around and faced Zhang Meng Xue completely. He first closed the door behind him with a backhand.

  "Zhang Mengxue, regardless of whether I like Chu Chu or not, it's my personal business. You're living here now, so just live well. Once the lawsuit is over and the commotion has passed," Pei Si Cheng said, "you can move out. For now, I consider you a friend, my friend. I hope you can also consider me your friend."

  "Yes, I treated her as a friend, but she," Zhang Mengxue shrugged, "completely regarded me as a thief."

  Pei Si Cheng glanced at Zhang Meng Xue, his tone already cold by three degrees, and said calmly: "If you can't get used to living here, you can move out now. No one will stop you."

  "Pei..."

  Zhang Mengxue's words had not been finished, and on this side Pei Si Cheng had already closed the bedroom door with a slam. She furrowed her brow in anger.

  …………………

  Zhang Mengxue returned to her own room and soon received a call from an unfamiliar number.

  She picked up the phone and a long-familiar voice came from the other end: "Meng Xue, it's Qi Xuan."

  Zhang Mengxue was startled and almost dropped her phone.

  "I just called you, why didn't..."

  After ten years, the voice seemed to have changed completely and was unrecognizable, but Zhang Mengxue's subconscious knew that the person on the other end of the phone was Qi Xuan. He hadn't answered the call earlier, and she didn't know what the reason was, perhaps because he didn't want Pei Si to know?

  Zhang Mengxue had never said that she liked Qi Xuan, if it wasn't for Pei Si Cheng considering him as a friend, she wouldn't have any contact with Qi Xuan.

  "What do you want to say?"

  Zi Xuan said over the phone, "There's no need to tell Pei Sheng about this either. I didn't plan on going out to see you, and I didn't plan on meeting him in person either. I just wanted to say one thing: Meng Xue, some things can't be forced. When it's time to let go, you should let go."

  Zhang Mengxue furrowed her brow, she was most disgusted by people lecturing her, especially when they interfered with her own emotional world, and it was Qi Xuan, a person who had been a social outcast in high school.

  She retorted: "What position are you in now to say these things to me?"

  "Zi Xuan sighed: "Meng Xue, I used to like you, but I did something wrong to you. Now I still like you, and I hope you still have the same heart as before, keeping that initial beauty. I don't want you to go astray because of someone else. There are many good men in this world, why do you have to be stuck on Pei Si Cheng? He has someone he likes, and you also..."

  "How did you know he didn't like me?" Zhang Mengxue was particularly disgusted with Qi Xuan's tone of voice, "If he didn't like me, would he do that kind of thing to me? It's really ridiculous."

  Now Zhang Mengxue has a somewhat dazed feeling, always thinking about the thing that happened ten years ago. If it weren't for that thing, how could she and Pei Si Cheng be together as boyfriend and girlfriend for ten years?

  "Meng Xue, that time was me..."

  After finishing speaking, Zhang Mengxue hung up the phone.

  Then this phone number was pulled into the blacklist.

  ………………

  In the bedroom, Song Yuqiao blinked and asked Pei Si Cheng who Qi Xuan was. Pei Si Cheng explained: "A high school friend, but he went missing and no one has been in touch with him."

  "What about now?"

  "Still can't find her, Zhang Mengxue just received a harassing message, the sender was Qi Xuan, but no one answered when she called back."

  Pei Su Cheng explained patiently to Song Yu Qiao.

  For Song Yuqiao, he will now patiently and thoroughly explain every question she has, avoiding any emotional fluctuations that might affect the child in her womb.

  Song Yuqiao heard Pei Si Cheng's words and hummed in her heart, wondering what kind of trick Zhang Mengxue was playing again to call Brother Pei away from her side.

  Still dislike her, no matter what Zhang Mengxue does, it's all annoying.

  On Friday morning, after breakfast, Pei Shichen took a half-day leave from the company and accompanied Song Yuqiao to the hospital for a prenatal examination.

  Because the expected delivery date has been set in January, Pei Si Cheng wants to take a month's leave from the company in December to accompany Song Yu Qiao before giving birth.

  Song Yuqiao was delighted, tiptoed and kissed the bottom of Pei Shichen's chin, but Pei Shichen's stubble was a bit prickly, so he stretched out his fingers to touch it: "Brother Pei, you need to shave, it's scratching my hand."

  Pei Sicheng smiled and leaned down, kissing Song Yuqiao's lips. Song Yuqiao turned her head to the side, avoiding him: "Your stubble is all coming out, it scratches."

  In the evening when going back, Song Yuqiao took the initiative to pick up a razor and shave Pei Si Cheng's beard.

  Song Yuqiao wanted to experience the feeling of shaving with foam and a manual razor, so he didn't use an electric shaver. He held a shiny razor in his hand, with foam applied to one palm.

  Song Yuqiao's hand trembled slightly as the blade fell onto Pei Shengcheng's chin, and he put it down again: "I still don't dare to do it, what if I accidentally cut you? You'd better shave yourself."

  "Don't be afraid," Pei Si grasped Song Yuqiao's hand, "my own wife shaves me, what am I afraid of?"

  "So I'll really take action then."

  The first time Song Yuqiao shaved Pais's beard was when he was holding a small fire, his technique was not yet skilled, and he scratched several mouths on Pais's chin. In the end, it was still Song Yuqiao who pitied him and applied medicine, and also vowed that he would never pick up a razor to shave Pais's beard again.

  When going out for dinner, Zhang Mengxue naturally saw the scratches on Pei Si's chin clearly, not very obvious, but those few marks were also quite eye-catching.

  Pei Si Cheng had another very important meeting in the morning, and his breakfast was a bento box prepared by Zhang Shu at Song Yuqiao's request. She sent Pei Si Cheng to the door, and after a goodbye kiss, Song Yuqiao still stretched out her hand to gently stroke Pei Si Cheng's chin: "Does it still hurt?"

  Pei Si pinched Song Yuqiao's delicate face: "Silly girl, it doesn't hurt anymore."

  Song Yuqiao burst into the room, turned around, and couldn't help but smile from ear to ear. She was so delighted that she almost wanted to jump up and down on the spot. However, Zhang Mengxue, who was eating at the dinner table, calmly said: "Don't pretend to be a connoisseur if you're not one, don't think this is a display of affection, it's just scratching your face, you won't feel any pain."

  The happy smile on Song Yuqiao's face just now suddenly disappeared without a trace.

  She indeed accidentally scratched Pei's chin, but she didn't do it on purpose, and she had already apologized to Brother Pei. Now that someone else was saying these things to her, she found it hard to accept, especially from someone as annoying as him.

  Song Yuqiao sat down and said: "My brother Pei, you haven't said anything, what can you say? Are you heartbroken?"

  Zhang Mengxue pulled out a tissue to wipe her mouth, "Hmm, it hurts."

  Song Yuqiao slammed her chopsticks on the table after hearing Zhang Mengxue's lukewarm words, "Even if he is heartbroken, he is still my brother Pei! You are just temporarily living in our house, what qualifications do you have to speak out of turn?"

  Zhang Mengxue was also stifling a breath of anger in her heart, and now she couldn't bear to look at this little girl Xia Chuchu. This kind of ignorant little girl like Xia Chuchu is simply not worthy of being on the same stage as others. If it weren't for Xia Chuchu being pregnant with Pei Sicong's child, how could Pei Sicong possibly accept her?!

  She had secretly become pregnant, and it wasn't until over seven months later that she told Pei Si Cheng. Zhang Meng Xue knew in her heart that if Pei Si Cheng had found out about Xia Chu Chu's pregnancy at the time, when the fetus was still small and not yet fully formed, he would definitely have made her get an abortion! But now, with a seven-month-old fetus that was already fully formed, who would be willing to go through with it?

  She really underestimated Xia Chuchu's cunning, actually understanding how to use a child to tie down a man at such a young age.

  Zhang Mengxue sneered and stood up, throwing down a sentence: "You're just relying on being pregnant with Pei Si Cheng's child. If you didn't have the kid, see if he'd still want you."

  Song Yuqiao's heart suddenly turned cold.

  Zhang Mengxue's words really pierced Song Yuqiao's heart.

  If it weren't for this child in my belly...

  Song Yuqiao didn't dare think about it anymore.

  She gritted her teeth, it was impossible that he didn't want her, Brother Pei said so, he wanted her and also Xiao Huo, he was the father of the child and also the person she liked the most.

  Zhang Mengxue returned to her room and called Zheng Jiawei. She was very angry now, and when she got angry, she wanted to pour out her emotions, so she told him about the phone call from Qi Xuan.

  "Does Qi Xuan dare to call you again?!"

  Zhang Mengxue was confused by Zheng Jiawei's words and immediately asked: "Why didn't he dare to call me?"

  Zheng Jiawei finally shut her mouth, realizing she had spoken too quickly and said too much. "Nothing, I've always thought Qi Xuan was a loser, starting from high school. It's pitiful that Pei San still treats him as a friend."

  Zhang Mengxue's mind is now filled with thoughts of Pei Si Cheng, and she doesn't have any extra thoughts to think about Zheng Jia Wei and Qi Xuan's unusual words on the phone today.

  Zheng Jiawei promptly changed the subject and asked: "The address you gave me last time was correct, right? I've already sent the tape."

  "That's right."

  Zheng Jiawei said: "The recipient I wrote was Xia Chuchu, and the phone number was also filled in with the one you gave me. I told the courier to deliver it during the day, so as to avoid Pei Si seeing it at night."

  Zhang Mengxue murmured in agreement.

  Actually, she still felt a little guilty in her heart. She didn't want to use this fake video tape to do something. She thought it was unfair to Pei Si Cheng. But now, if Pei Si Cheng really got tied up by Xia Chu Chu that little villain, then she would feel even more like she had harmed Pei Si Cheng.

  "Alright, I'll keep an eye on Pei Sheng from here."

  The situation is very serious.

  On the day the tape was sent to Los Angeles, Zhang Mengxue happened to receive a call from Qi Xuan, who used another number, so Zhang Mengxue didn't set up an intercept and answered it.

  Zixuan said with an address, "You go to this restaurant now, Mengxue, I have something important to tell you."

  "Didn't I tell you not to call me again? What's so important that it can't be said over the phone?"

  Zi Xuan said: "It was something that happened ten years ago at the art center."

  Zhang Mengxue's hand suddenly shook violently, and her phone fell directly down, but fortunately it fell on the bed without making a sound.

  Ten years ago...

  Art Center...

  That has always been a nightmare for Zhang Mengxue, but it's a nightmare that she dare not face.

  That night, she was pressed to the ground, which was all wet, in the most humiliating posture. She could hardly forget it for her whole life and painfully wanted to end her own life.

  Until then, Peisong Cheng finally pulled her out of the abyss.

  If that person was a stranger, and that person happened to be Pei Shichen, the feeling he brought to Zhang Mengxue was completely different.

  Yes, it is indeed different.

  Since Qi Xuan said so, Zhang Mengxue took her bag and went downstairs to drive to the address reported by Qi Xuan.

  The address reported by Zixuan was a Chinese restaurant, which wasn't too crowded in the afternoon.

  Zi Xuan saw Zhang Mengxue walking in through the doorway, stood up, waited for Zhang Mengxue to walk over, and then pulled out the chair behind him for her.

  After ten years, both of them had changed a lot.

  Zhang Mengxue wore a light-colored windbreaker, while Qi Xuan was dressed in formal attire, the clothes looked like they were handmade and seemed quite expensive, as if he had made a lot of money.

  Zi Xuan did indeed make a fortune. After leaving C City, he followed a real estate tycoon to Guangzhou and was lucky enough to get to know this businessman. He made money and then started investing in the stock market. The stock market is indeed risky, but it also requires a skilled operator. Through his connections, he learned about the direction of the stock market in advance and then bought low and sold high, making another fortune. Now he can be considered a small rich man.

  Zi Xuan, in these few years, during the most difficult times, only slept for three or four hours a day. He wanted to change his situation, prove himself, and win back Zhang Mengxue. Then, as Pei Si Cheng would say, he became a real man, letting good brothers temporarily take the blame for him. This burden, in the end, still needed to be taken back, all for Pei Si Cheng.

  Zhang Mengxue took off the sunglasses on her nose, Qi Xuan had already ordered several dishes and asked the waiter to hand over the menu to Zhang Mengxue. Zhang Mengxue said: "I've already eaten lunch."

  Zi Xuan chose a Chinese restaurant because his English wasn't good and he didn't want to be looked down upon again after ten years.

  However, Qi Xuan was wrong after all.

  Sometimes, if you don't like someone from the first sight, it's just that you don't like them. For example, Qi Xuan can tell right away that Zhang Mengxue is not his type, and Zhang Mengxue can also tell that Pei Si Cheng is not her type, it's the same logic.

  Zhang Mengxue had already guessed what Qi Xuan wanted to say when he came over, since Qi Xuan only wanted to find her and not Pei Si Cheng.

  When the waiter brought up the dishes, several of them looked good and were fragrant, but Zhang Mengxue had no appetite to eat.

  Zi Xuan said: "Try these few dishes, they are what you used to..."

  Zhang Mengxue directly interrupted his words, sitting upright in the chair, without even taking off the single-shoulder bag on her shoulder, looking at Qi Xuan, "Qi Xuan, we no longer have any possibility, whether it was ten years ago or now, the result is the same. Back then I rejected you, and now, I will reject you again."

  Zi Xuan clenched his fists involuntarily.

  "Zhang Mengxue said: 'Qi Xuan, I'm a person who is determined and committed. From the start to the end, my first love was him, my first gift was given to him, and I have decided that it's Pei Sicong. The person I like is him, and this lifetime won't change. Maybe I won't marry him, but as long as he's in my heart, he'll always be there.'"

  Zi Xuan gritted his teeth, he didn't come to Zhang Mengxue this time to listen to her refusal, ten years ago she had already refused him once, there was no need to hear it again.

  This time, he mainly wanted to clarify what happened ten years ago.

  In Los Angeles, Qi Xuan had seen Pei Sheng and Xia Chuchu before. They were by the artificial lake in the garden. He saw that little girl with a big belly, didn't know what the two of them said directly, the little girl made a ghostly face and turned around to run, but was caught by Pei San, then took a step forward and suddenly hugged her horizontally, hugging her and spinning around in place, a burst of cheers and laughter.

  Zi Xuan and Pei Sheng Cheng met in their youth, a carefree period of time. The most relaxed moment he saw Pei Sheng Cheng was on the basketball court, with his agile figure, bringing a burst of cheers.

  However, Qi Xuan had never seen Pei Si Cheng take anything to heart. He was indifferent to everything, and even when he achieved excellent results, he always looked disheveled, whether he was a well-behaved student or a loner.

  But this time, abroad, on the lawn in the garden, Qi Xuan really saw Pei Si Cheng's moment of relaxation, which was the only time except when he was young and sweating on the basketball court.

  So, Pei Si Cheng had once borne the brunt of this blame for him, and now he still had to take his place. He was a man who always took responsibility for all the wrong things he did because of his own impulsiveness.

  Zhang Mengxue saw that Qi Xuan didn't seem to have anything else to say, so she wanted to get up. She didn't want to waste her time on Qi Xuan.

  Qí Xuān looked at Zhang Mengxue in front of him, put down the chopsticks in his hand and said: "Actually, ten years ago, the person at the art center was me..."

  Zhang Mengxue, who was about to stand up, suddenly fell back into her seat and stared at Qi Xuan in shock.

  "That night, I was drunk, completely wasted. I saw you practicing dance, and you were alone. You went into the bathroom, and then I..."

  "You... you're talking nonsense!" Zhang Mengxue suddenly flipped over a bowl of soup on the table, spilling it all over the desk and floor. The tablecloth was completely soaked. She shouted angrily, "Qi Xuan, shut your mouth!"

  Zi Xuan lowered his head, and his voice became very calm. "It's been ten years already, we're not the same as when we first started. Meng Xue, I just want to give Pei San a fair chance now. He has someone he likes, so you should..."

  "Damn you!"

  Zhang Mengxue slapped a palm on Qi Xuan's face and then screamed and ran out of the restaurant.

  The truth is actually so unbearable and unlistenable that she has been deceiving herself and others for ten whole years.

  Everyone in the restaurant looked over here. Qi Xuan just sat silently in his seat for a long time before letting out a sigh.

  This result was something he could have anticipated from the moment he decided to acknowledge it, but he still had to say it out loud. If not, his heart would always feel like he owed Pei Su Cheng an apology, and not just Pei Su Cheng, but also Zhang Meng Xue.

  Maybe from now on, I'll really be drifting further and further away from Meng Xue.

  Yes.

  It's really fading away.

  However, Qi Xuan did not expect that this meeting would be his last meeting with Zhang Mengxue in this life.

  ………………

  At the same time, in Pei's residence, Song Yuqiao received an express delivery from a domestic courier.

  Song Yuqiao originally thought it was something sent by her grandmother, but when she opened it, she felt that something was off. The recipient's name was clearly written as Xia Chuchu, and her grandmother wouldn't know this fake name at all. Then who could have sent this express delivery from within the country?

  Thinking so, Song Yuqiao still opened the express package.

  Inside is a hard paper box containing a CD.

  The CD had nothing written on its surface and I didn't know what it was, but there was a small note attached to it with the words "Summer Chuchu's personal letter" written on it.

  Still using this pretentious tone.

  Song Yu Qiao stuck out her tongue and suddenly had a movement in her heart, could it be that Pei Ge gave her a surprise, sent from the country, just to prevent her from guessing.

  Song Yuqiao seemed to be delighted with this idea, and when she put the disc into the computer, she couldn't help but laugh out loud. However, when the image popped up on the screen, she was suddenly stunned.