Changqing, we have already broken up. I beg you not to take your anger out on my father."Gu Changqing scoffed.He said, "Then a loss, somebody has to take responsibility."Wen Man still wanted to plead...Hoxi didn't know how long he had been standing, nor did he know when the banquet ended.

When she left,

At the hotel lobby, I encountered Zhang Chongguang. Qin, his secretary, was beside him, speaking in hushed tones that were inaudible.

Upon seeing him again, Ho Xi felt a surge of complex emotions.

She stared straight at Zhang Chongguang, at this man she had once loved deeply and hated with every fiber of her being. When she learned the truth... a sudden realization washed over her, those feelings of love and hate no longer mattered. Just like when she attempted suicide in Melbourne, Zhang Chongguang had compromised for her. Now, wasn't her own state of mind also a compromise

Even with all the love and hate tangled together, she still hoped he would be well every year.

Zhang Chongguang turned his head and saw her.

The crystal chandelier in the hotel lobby cast Ho Xi's face in a sickly white light, devoid of any color. Her palm bled, drop by drop, crimson blood staining the deep red carpet, soaking a small patch.

But Hoshi was completely oblivious.

Zhang Chongguang quickly stepped forward and grabbed her wrist. Seeing the wound on her palm, his tone became slightly stern: "How did you get like this Where is your… man"

Before Hoxi could speak, he already wanted to pick her up.

But as he reached her waist, he remembered his own leg. He couldn't even hold a one-year-old baby, let alone her. His arm dropped and he said in a soft voice, "Get in the car! I'll take you to the doctor."

Ho-Chi still stared at him.

Her eyes were glistening with moisture.

Zhang Chongguang didn't know what she had gone through. In a panic, he grabbed her slender wrist and led her to the car. At this point, even if it was difficult to walk, even if it wasn't natural, he didn't care.

Hoxi was gently pushed into the backseat and then he slid in.

Qin the secretary was quick-witted. She immediately sat in the front passenger seat and told the driver, "Go to the nearest hospital."

The driver did not dare to delay and pressed the accelerator.

The interior of the car was dim. Huo Xi and Zhang Chongguang sat side by side, closer than they had been in a long time. Zhang Chongguang whispered to her, "Did you bring hemostatic enzymes"

Huo Xi asked off-topic, “Where’s your girlfriend Are you not together anymore”

Zhang Chongguang's gaze was deep: "At this time, you still ask this"

He skillfully retrieved hemostatic enzymes from her bag, and Qin, the secretary ahead of him, immediately brought over a bottle of mineral water, twisting the cap off. Zhang Chongguang took it, looking at Huo Xi: "Eat it quickly."

Hoxie didn't move.

Zhang Chongguang didn't know what had stimulated her, so he directly fed it to her. When his thick and warm palm touched her lips, both of them were startled....

The light was dim, their eyes met with a complex mixture of emotions.

Zhang Chongguang's Adam's apple bobbed, his voice raspy and broken. He spoke in a low, almost coaxing tone: "How old are you, still being so disobedient! In the future..."

He couldn't go on.

He didn't forget they were divorced, he didn't forget he couldn't give her a normal life, he didn't forget that she might belong to someone else now.

Huo Xi's eyes were filled with tears.

She leaned in softly, her lips brushing against his palm. The tiny pill was licked away by her tongue, but left a damp patch on Zhang Chongguang's palm.

Zhang Chongguang slightly curled his fingers and handed her water: "Drink some water."

After she had finished drinking the water, he took out his first-aid kit and bandaged her wounds.

The process of bandaging inevitably involved skin-to-skin contact. He held her slender wrist, noticing how much thinner it had become compared to before. Zhang Chongguang murmured, "How has he been taking care of you"

"Which one is he" Ho Xi asked him.

Zhang Chongguang suddenly raised his eyes, and they met each other's gaze. After a long silence, he spoke: "Didn't you have a boyfriend I thought you two seemed to get along well."

Hoxi did not deny it, only withdrawing his hand after he had bandaged the wound.

She leaned back against the chair, sitting silently without a word.

Zhang Chongguang is also the same.

The interior was dim, with headlights from oncoming cars flickering in every now and then, illuminating their faces…in a shifting pattern of light and shadow.

No one could make out each other's expressions.

The car stopped at the hospital. Zhang Chongguang leaned over and said, "Get out! Let the doctor bandage you up."

Both the driver and Qin's secretary got out of the car.

Only Huo Xi and Zhang Chongguang were in the car. Huo Xi sat still, just as Zhang Chongguang was about to call her again, she suddenly spoke, "Zhang Chongguang, does it hurt"

Lying alone in the hospital, does it hurt when you undergo surgery

Does it hurt when I leave, and you're forced to stay in the ward because you can't move

Does it hurt to see me in a wheelchair

When Hoxi asked this, her voice trembled. She even... wanted to touch his injured leg, she wanted to see it, to see how badly he was hurt.

Zhang Chongguang's body was tense.

He seemed to sense something, tilting his head to look at her with cool eyes.

For a moment, he raised his voice: "Qin Secretary, you accompany her in!"

Secretary Qin was blowing cold wind outside. He was startled by the words, and hadn't reacted yet to Huo Xi being invited out of the RV by Zhang Chongguang. His attitude became much colder, slightly tilting his head to signal the driver to get in the car.

In the gusty night wind, Ho Xi stood outside the car.

The car door slammed shut, and the black RV slowly drove away in front of her.

Qin the secretary felt very sorry and stepped forward, "Mr. Huo, I'm really sorry, Mr. Zhang has been... a bit strange lately, I suspect he might be experiencing early menopause."

Hoxi looked down at the gauze on his palm.

The bleeding has stopped.

She looked at him silently, her eyes filled with warmth. She spoke softly, “There’s no need to bandage it anymore, this is just fine now!”

She hailed a taxi and got in.

Qin the secretary stood in the wind, disheveled. She thought, one was crazy and two were crazy.

When she told Zhang Chongguang, she thought he would blame her. Unexpectedly, Mr. Zhang just calmly said he knew.

Qin's secretary was even more confused.

……

Huo Xi did not return to the Huo residence; she came to an apartment under her name.

It was late at night and everyone was asleep.

She stood in the darkness without turning on the light, she hadn't even changed out of her dress... She touched a slender lady's cigarette with her fingertips, didn't smoke it, just let it burn slowly.

The discovery shook her to the core.

But she has always just been an ordinary person, having gone through too much. She can't be as reckless as she was when she was young.

She has too many things to consider.

Family, marriage, children... these are all things she has to face when making her choice.

Night, growing ever deeper.

When the first hint of fish belly white appeared on the horizon, Huo Xi extinguished the last cigarette... She took out her phone and dialed her assistant's number. When the call connected, she asked softly, "Last year's car accident, wasn't Zhang Chongguang badly injured"

The assistant was originally dazed, but the moment they heard this, they immediately woke up.

She naturally didn't dare to speak.

Knowing the truth from her attitude, Hosi paused for a long time before speaking again: "I want to take a look at that car."

The assistant persuaded: "I heard it was sent to the junkyard! It's not necessarily findable."

"Help me find it! No matter the cost."

The assistant, hearing the firmness in her tone, immediately replied, "Yes, Ms. Huo."

Four hours later.

Huoxi drove to a junkyard, where many scrapped cars were piled up. The person in charge accompanied him and said with a smile, "Don't look at it as dilapidated here, these cars weren't cheap when they were good. Most of them were smashed during car accidents. For example, this one was smashed by a second-generation car enthusiast. Don't even mention the car, even people got smashed."

He said it casually, no doubt accustomed to it.

Ho Xi tugged at his windbreaker, his voice raspy: "Where's the car I want to see"

The manager pointed to the distance: "Isn't it right there Hey, why are you looking at that beat-up car It used to be a good car, but it's unlucky, you see. There was a major accident with it, and I heard the owner had one leg shattered... Tch tch tch, even now I think that leg is still disabled. Such a shame."

Ho Xi had no heart to listen to what he said.

She quickened her pace and, upon arriving at the overgrown area, saw a Lincoln covered in rust.

It's long since lost its original color.

The front of the car was completely mangled, leaving only a cramped space in the driver's seat. Even after half a year exposed to wind and sun, faint traces of deep red blood could still be seen on it.

Ho Xi's fingertips trembled, gently touching...

Those, those are Zhang Chongguang's blood, perhaps even his flesh and skin.

When her assistant hurried over, Huo Xi's eyes were glistening with moisture... After standing for a long time, Huo Xi softly said, "Let's go!"

The assistant did not dare ask where to go.

Ho Xi's car dropped off his assistant in the city center. The assistant stood outside the car, hesitant: "Mr. Ho..."

Ho Xi rolled down the car window.

She said calmly, "I'm going to find Zhang Chongguang."

The car window rose, and the white Bentley slowly drove away. Huo Xi was driving very slowly all the way because her eyes were always misty.

After more than half an hour, she arrived at the villa where they used to live. The housemaid was surprised to see her: "Madam, why are you here"

Huo Xi Guan got in the car and looked up at the second floor.

"Is the gentleman at home"

The maid hesitated and said, “Yes, yes, but she hasn’t come down all day. She seems to be in a bad mood.”

Ho Xi drooped her eyes, her long eyelashes trembling slightly.

For a moment she crossed the entryway, walked through the hall, and ascended the stairs, handrail in tow.

The maid hesitated, wanting to speak but ultimately remained silent.

Huo Xi came to the bedroom door of the second lord's main house. It was quiet inside... Her hand was flat against the door panel.

She also knew what it meant that she came to Zhang Chongguang.

Finally, I gently pushed open the door.

Zhang Chongguang was in the bedroom. He sat quietly on the rug beside the bed, surrounded by some photos... and a box of painkillers.

Upon hearing the door creak open, he said unhappily, "Didn't I say not to come in without my permission"

The person at the door remained silent, approaching with light steps.

Suddenly, he looked up and saw Ho Xi.

Ho Xi also looked at him.

She saw the photos scattered at his feet, all of them taken secretly. There were some from abroad and some that were recent… Her throat felt like it was constricted, her voice hoarse: "Didn't you say you lost them last time"

Zhang Chongguang's fingers curled slightly.

He realized she knew something. The man's pride swelled at that moment, and he tried to speak in a nonchalant tone: "This doesn't bother you, does it"

Hosei didn't speak. She simply slowly crouched down and sat beside him.

Zhang Chongguang's body stiffened.

He heard Huo Xi say, “Zhang Chongguang, let's try again!”d night!"Wen Man heard his meaning and her eyes fell on Xiao Yunsi, she said softly, "We'll go in a while!"Lu Qian smiled faintly and didn't force it.At that very moment, Huo Shaoting finished sending...