DLWAV CH122

There’s a reason they say a lover’s embrace is a hero’s tomb.

It almost forgot such an important matter.

The Milk Dumpling immediately said, “Listen to me, Xiao… Zhang Ruize is not a good person at all. Don’t be fooled by him.”

Sun Xiuji: “…”

He couldn’t help but reach out and pinch the Milk Dumpling’s ear again: “Did Zhang Ruize bully you again?”

Why did Sun Xiuji add the word “again”?

The Milk Dumpling was stunned for a moment.

Sun Xiuji must have misspoken, right?

But these things weren’t important.

The Milk Dumpling said, “I’m not just speaking ill of Zhang Ruize, everything I’m saying is true.”

“He, he, he, he’s a total scumbag! He’s already had five wives, and yet he still comes to provoke you.”

Sun Xiuji: “…”

His brows immediately furrowed.

Most importantly…

The Milk Dumpling had come prepared this time: “I swear I’m not lying to you.”

“I even have the letters he wrote to those wives here…”

After saying that, it directly pulled out a pile of letters, some from ancient times and some from modern times.

These were, of course, all fake.

After all, how could Ao Ruize let it keep the love letters he wrote to his wives?

However, these love letters were also real.

They were duplicated using its magic.

Sun Xiuji picked up the letters and started looking through them.

Seeing this, the Milk Dumpling couldn’t wait to ask, “How about it? I didn’t lie to you, right?”

“Looking at these letters, don’t you feel very angry?”

At almost the same time, Sun Xiuji’s voice rang out: “I dare say that the vast majority of calligraphy masters can’t compare to Zhang Ruize’s brushwork.”

His tone was even filled with the pride of ‘as expected of my boyfriend.’

The Milk Dumpling: “…”

The Milk Dumpling: “……”

The Milk Dumpling: “………”

Is that the main point here?!!!

Sun Xiuji finally reacted.

What should he say?

Say that he was actually very cautious?

Therefore, before officially pursuing Ao Ruize, he had actually sent people to investigate him.

So he was well aware of whether Ao Ruize was a scumbag or not.

Although, somewhere deep down, he had this intuition that the Milk Dumpling wasn’t lying to him.

But his sixth sense also told him that Ao Ruize was indeed innocent.

But none of this mattered. What mattered was—he didn’t want to fight with Ao Ruize over this. After all, if a couple had a cold war, it was inevitable they would have to sleep in separate rooms, and he and Ao Ruize were still in their honeymoon phase…

So what could Sun Xiuji do?

He could only say vaguely, “I got it. Don’t worry, if this matter is true, I definitely won’t let him off.”

The Milk Dumpling’s eyes instantly lit up.

“Okay.”

It didn’t expect that Sun Xiuji was actually persuaded by it.

It felt that its plan had already mostly succeeded.

Then it heard Sun Xiuji say, “Then let’s go find Zhang Ruize for lunch now.”

The Milk Dumpling: “…”

Sun Xiuji probably wanted to say ‘go find Ao Ruize to settle the score,’ and just misspoke, right?

And so, the Milk Dumpling aggressively led Sun Xiuji toward Qian City.

Seeing the Milk Dumpling beside Sun Xiuji, Ao Ruize’s eyebrow instantly raised.

He didn’t even need to guess to know why it was following Sun Xiuji.

So before they could speak, Ao Ruize said, “You’re here. Perfect timing, the Beggar’s Chicken and roasted lamb leg I ordered will be delivered soon.”

“Oh right, I also prepared your favorite mango juice.”

Beggar’s Chicken.

Roasted lamb leg.

Mango juice.

Both Sun Xiuji and the Milk Dumpling couldn’t help but smack their lips.

And the next second, Sun Xiuji went straight to sit at the dining table: “Alright.”

The Milk Dumpling: “…”

The Milk Dumpling could only comfort itself by thinking that in the morning, Sun Xiuji was too busy feeding it, so it was only natural that he was hungry now and wanted to fill his stomach first, right?

It immediately followed suit and sat down.

Ao Ruize then tore off a chicken leg and a chicken wing for each of them.

By the time they ate and drank their fill, an hour had already passed.

Holding a water cup larger than its two paws combined, the Milk Dumpling happily took a sip of Da Hong Pao tea.

It remembered that this was a gift from Governor Wu to Ao Ruize.

It could only be said that it lived up to the legend of a special supply; the taste was excellent.

Only then did it sit up straight again, although it was still weighed down by its little round belly.

It thought, Now Sun Xiuji should finally settle the score with Ao Ruize, right!

However, the next second, it heard Ao Ruize say again, “A new amusement park just opened in the south of the city, want to go check it out together?”

Sun Xiuji naturally wouldn’t refuse: “Sure.”

The Milk Dumpling, who had absolutely no time to interject: “…”

The Milk Dumpling could only continue comforting itself: It’s fine. Sun Xiuji played with me all morning, so it’s perfectly normal that he wants to play for a bit now to relax his mood first.

Three hours later, the two finally came out of the amusement park.

The Milk Dumpling thought, Now Sun Xiuji should settle the score with Ao Ruize, right!

Yet, almost simultaneously, Ao Ruize’s voice rang out again, “Since we’re already out, want to watch a movie? I heard from CEO Chen that a suspense film recently released by their company has gotten pretty good feedback.”

Sun Xiuji: “Sure.”

The Milk Dumpling: “…”

After finally waiting for the movie to end, the Milk Dumpling thought, Now, Sun Xiuji SHOULD settle the score with Ao Ruize, right!!!

As a result, Ao Ruize’s voice rang out yet again, “Are you hungry? Do you want to go grab a late-night snack?”

Sun Xiuji: “Sure.”

The Milk Dumpling: “…”

The Milk Dumpling was completely numb!

While the Milk Dumpling was jumping up and down in frustration, on the other side, it was already late at night when Zhang Qingyan returned home.

The Goji berry tree was watching TV. Seeing her come back, just like usual, it first poured her a cup of hot water.

Only this time, Zhang Qingyan didn’t immediately pick up the hot water, but instead said, “Get me a few bottles of beer.”

The Goji tree paused. It originally wanted to say that drinking alcohol late at night wasn’t good.

But seeing Zhang Qingyan’s exhausted face, it ultimately got her a few bottles of beer.

Seeing this, Zhang Qingyan directly picked up a bottle of beer and started drinking.

By the time she lowered her hand again, less than half of the liquid in the bottle was left.

Just moments ago, she and Yan Qi had a huge argument.

The cause was that at noon, Mother Yan had suddenly sent someone to deliver lunch to her company, claiming she made it herself.

She thought Mother Yan was showing goodwill, so she accepted it.

But she didn’t expect that upon opening the lunch and tasting it, she’d discover the food was completely spoiled.

So how was this Mother Yan showing goodwill? She was clearly demonstrating her dominance.

She immediately told Yan Qi about this.

To her surprise, Yan Qi replied that he and his mother had made that food together, so it couldn’t possibly be spoiled.

It turned out that Mother Yan and Yan Qi had made a bet. They cooked a lunch together, but when delivering it, they would only tell her that Mother Yan made it alone.

If she truly wanted to be with Yan Qi, then after receiving this lunch, she would definitely use this stepping stone to reconcile with them.

But if she wasn’t sincere about being with Yan Qi, then upon receiving the lunch, she would nine times out of ten use any means necessary to slander Mother Yan.

And her phone call had just perfectly “confirmed” Mother Yan’s guess.

She was so angry she actually laughed.

She didn’t even need to guess to know that Mother Yan had definitely pulled a trick on the way to deliver the meal, swapping the good lunch for a spoiled one.

She instantly wanted to take that spoiled lunch to find Yan Qi and show him his mother’s ‘good methods.’

Unexpectedly, when she turned around, she found that the lunch was nowhere to be seen.

But by this point, none of that actually mattered anymore.

What mattered was that Yan Qi truly believed his mother’s words.

They then got into a huge fight.

From start to finish, Yan Qi interrogated her on whether she was truly intentionally hiding her family background from him; whether, while he was condescendingly judging her background and character, she was looking down from an even higher place treating him like a joke.

He also mentioned more than once that the entire high society of Qian City was now treating his family as a joke. They said he had no real skills but a huge ego, relying on his good family background to be picky about women, only to end up being the one getting picked over. They called him a hypocrite, always claiming he wanted to find a mutually affectionate girlfriend, yet now that Zhang Ruize looked down on him, he was still clinging desperately to her, clearly harboring the idea of latching onto the rich and powerful himself…

Zhang Qingyan’s heart ran completely cold.

Only then did she realize that in Yan Qi’s mind, him hiding his true identity to approach her was an insignificant matter, but her hiding her identity to approach him was an unforgivable, heinous crime.

Before Ao Ruize’s identity was exposed, others maliciously speculating or even slandering her for wanting to marry into the Yan family to become a phoenix flying up the branches was an insignificant matter. But after Ao Ruize’s identity was exposed, others maliciously speculating or even slandering him for wanting to become Ao Ruize’s brother-in-law to ride her coattails to success was a heinous, unforgivable crime…

She had never imagined that Yan Qi would be this kind of person.

Right when she had made up her mind that even if Father and Mother Yan looked down on her, as long as Yan Qi was willing, she was still willing to keep walking alongside him.

She suddenly realized that Yan Qi actually wasn’t perfect at all.

The confidence and magnanimity he had displayed—the very things that had made her fall so deeply for him—were actually all built upon the massive disparity in their family backgrounds.

When they stood on equal footing, or even when their family statuses were reversed, he could no longer display even a sliver of that confidence and magnanimity.

So their argument ultimately ended on a sour note.

Even though her face felt hotter and hotter after downing a few bottles of beer, her brain was becoming increasingly calm.

She suddenly realized that since things had reached this point, there was actually no longer any possibility between her and Yan Qi.

She had been the one being indecisive all along.

Thinking of this, right before getting completely drunk, she pulled out her phone and deleted all of Yan Qi’s contact information.

Then she passed out, dead drunk.

The Goji tree nimbly stretched out a branch, catching the beer bottle that slipped from Zhang Qingyan’s hand.

Looking at the teardrops that had somehow seeped from the corners of her eyes, it couldn’t help but shake its head.

Then it stretched out a few more branches, lifted Zhang Qingyan up, and placed her on her bed. It tucked her under the covers and turned on the air conditioner while at it.

After finishing all this, it finally returned to the living room and continued watching its TV.

On the television, an emergency news broadcast was playing.

“In recent days, a major gang of murderers has been moving around the country committing crimes. We urge all citizens to try and avoid going out late at night during this period…”