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After washing up in a hurry, I changed into a slightly more formal set of clothes.

He took his handbag and headed out of the house.

But before I could get out, Mingyu came over and handed me my company's elevator card.

"Thank you …"

I took the card and was about to leave when Mingyu came over and took my car keys.

"Sister-in-law, what happened to you recently?" "Why do you always lose face!"

Ming Yu reprimanded him.

"Sister-in-law, aren't you getting on in age …"

With a forced smile, I took the car keys from Mingyu.

I sat in the driver's seat, not knowing where I was going.

No matter how he thought about it, he still made a call to Zhou Zijin.

"Hey, come out for a bit."

"Alright."

Without too many words, I made an appointment with him at the coffee shop downstairs.

I ordered a cup of coffee and sat in the most inconspicuous corner waiting for him.

After a while, he came and sat across from me.

"Xiao Ye, what's wrong?"

"Mingyu is back, did you know?"

I looked at her tentatively. In fact, I didn't expect him to give me an answer.

"Are you blaming me?"

"I didn't."

I took a sip of my coffee.

"You've never had American coffee before, and it's always too bitter."

"People's habits can change. Especially after suffering so much. "So I don't want Mingyu to be like me at such a young age, bearing all the pressures that shouldn't have been on him at his age."

I put down my coffee and looked at him blandly.

"I thought you'd be happy."

"I hope that he can always be carefree in the United States. Domestic affairs, especially those between adults, have nothing to do with him. I don't want him to get involved."

"Sorry, I thought you'd be happier seeing him …"

Zhou Zijin's apology stopped everything I wanted to say.

"I don't have anything left now. Mingyu is my only hope. I just want him to be fine, so …" I still need you to help me hide things from him. He's still young, I don't want him to feel any psychological pressure. "

I was afraid that Zhou Zijin would tell Mingyu everything that had happened. If Mingyu had an impulsive temper, she would definitely find Jiang Yu to settle the score. But she was still young, how could she be a match for Jiang Yu! I don't want him to get hurt.

"Xiao Ye, originally, there was no need for such great pressure. As long as you agree …"

I interrupted Zhou Zijin: "As long as I agree to it? Promise to be with you? Zhou Zijin, I admit that I once had a good impression of you, but good impression is not love, furthermore … I don't want my feelings to be used as a bargaining chip. "

"I know it's mean, but it's the only way to win you over. Xiao Ye, why can't you give me a chance? "

"Zi Jin, you should understand! The only reason I accepted your help all these years was because you were that person's friend! If you are not his friend, there will be no connection between us. "

I know that if I didn't make things absolutely clear, Zhou Zijin would never give up on me no matter what.

I know his character.

A pale smile appeared on Zhou Zijin's face. "So, the only good impression you have towards me is because I'm Lin Mu's friend …"

"Yes."

I was afraid to look at his face, afraid to see the look of despair and sadness on it.

"So that's how it is …" What if I told you that he and I weren't friends in the first place? What if I picked you up because I fell in love with you at first sight? "

Back then, Lin Mu indeed did not tell me how much of a relationship he had with Zhou Zijin. The only reason I knew Zhou Zijin was also because they were business partners.

Lin Mu admired him a lot.

I suddenly remembered, he approached me in the name of Lin Mu's friend. It was after Lin Mu died …

My heart thumped. Just how many things are they hiding from me!

"You … "What do you mean?"

I felt my voice tremble.

Could it be that the friendship of so many years was also fake!?

"Xiao Ye, I really do like you, and I guarantee that the degree to which I like you, will not be any less than any one of them! "Why can't you see me?!"

"What on earth do you mean!"

I looked at Zhou Zijin who kept on telling me how deep his feelings for me were, and my heart turned cold.

He laughed with a pale smile. "If I didn't have a proper reason to get close to you, would you think that I was trying to take advantage of you?"

I didn't say anything. I was waiting for him to continue.

"I knew he wasn't dead. I knew it from the beginning."

"Then why didn't you tell me! "Why do you keep me in the dark when you know everything!"

When I heard him say that, I felt my blood go cold.

"Because I promised him to help you. A large portion of the reason why our Ye’s have been able to reach this point is because of him supporting us from behind the scenes. "

"Just how many more things are you hiding from me!"

No wonder, he clearly knew that the company was my hard work, yet he didn't stop Jiang Yu from intervening, not because he didn't care about the shares in the Ye’s, but because the real owner of the Ye’s is Lin Mu.

He was afraid that if I knew that Lin Mu wasn't dead and wanted to reform with me, I would agree to it.

"How much do you want to know?" He smiled, helpless and forlorn.

"I just want to know one thing. Have you ever lied to me?"

I bite my lip and look at him, holding my breath as I wait for his answer. I'm so afraid to hear it in his mouth.

He was silent. There was no reply.

"I understand."

Picking up my bag, I flew out of the coffee shop and returned to my car. I drove aimlessly, not even knowing where I wanted to go.

I looked at myself in the rearview mirror, carefully made up, like a pheasant stuffed with peacock feathers.

I tried to smile, but it was worse than crying.

But I still try to persevere, I do not know why, laughing actually cried out.

So many years have passed, I thought I had everything, money and status, fame and love friends … But in the end, everything was fake!

I'm probably the funniest joke in the world...

It was open, and somehow I was outside the house again.

I was thinking that Mingyu was still at home and didn't want her to worry about me, so I drove the car and was ready to drive out for another couple of laps, but then Mingyu saw me as I was about to drive out.

"Sister-in-law, where are you going?"