Chapter 285: Break Up, Kill Yourself
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Hearing those words, Luo Wanbai immediately felt cold all over.
“… Break up?” Her voice trembled.
Cheng Jie nodded indifferently. “You can see that I don’t like you anymore.”
He waved his hand indifferently. He didn’t even look at Luo Wanbai seriously when he said this. Instead, he looked in the direction where Murong Qiao had left just now and wondered if he should try harder now that she had escaped.
Biting her lip, she took a deep breath and looked at Cheng Jie standing in front of her.
She wanted to find a trace of doubt in the other party’s eyes, but in fact, Cheng Jie didn’t even want to look at her.
“I—” Luo Wanbai began, but she didn’t know what to say.
She suddenly recalled the scene she had just seen. Murong Qiao’s disdain for Cheng Jie made her feel a sense of deja vu.
Once upon a time, when she was the Young Miss of the Luo Family, didn’t she also reject others so arrogantly?
Her throat tightened as she looked up at Cheng Jie. When she saw the disgust and impatience in his eyes, she suddenly felt confused.
When did he start looking at her like that?
Was it when she took the initiative to ask him for help, or when she gave herself to him?
Cheng Jie thought that she wanted to pester him. “1’11 transfer some money to you.”
Breaking up and transferring money was how Cheng Jie treated his female companions.
He did not want to waste time on Luo Wanbai. After saying this, he turned around and prepared to leave.
However, Cheng Jie slowly stopped when he was about to leave.
She had been staring at Cheng Jie’s back. Now that he had slowed down, she thought that Cheng Jie had changed his mind. Her eyes lit up and she couldn’t help but take a step forward, only to hear more heartless words.
“You’d better know your place and part on good terms.”
With that, Cheng Jie’s figure completely disappeared.
The light that had just risen in Luo Wanbai’s eyes was completely drowned out and returned to darkness.
She stood in silence, saying nothing.
Her cell phone buzzed twice. She took it out and saw that it was a transfer from Cheng Jie, but she only felt that it was extremely glaring.
She looked at the transfer message for a long time, and her heart gradually turned cold.
No matter how down and out she was now, she was once the daughter of the Luo family. Cheng Jie’s so-called breakup payment was even more humiliating to her, making her feel like she had been splashed with cold water.
She would not take a single cent of his money.
Murong Qiao didn’t know anything about what happened between Cheng Jie and Luo Wanbai at the entrance of the banquet.
“Let’s go.” Murong Qiao found An Nuo.
Not only did she not manage to test Huo Xiuyuan, but she also encountered Cheng Jie. Murong Qiao simply didn’t want to stay at this banquet anymore.
She wanted to spend more time with Huo Yichen.
An Nuo was also bored. “Coincidentally, my family just asked me when I was going back.”
After the two of them agreed, they left the banquet and decided to send An Nuo home first as her house was along the way.
On the way back, the chauffeur sat in the front and focused on driving while Murong Qiao and An Nuo sat in the back.
“…” An Nuo nodded her head slowly.
She seemed to be a little sleepy. She had been talking excitedly just now, but now she had quietened down. Her voice also became softer. Then, she tilted her body bit by bit and leaned against Murong Qiao’s shoulder. She slowly closed her eyes and fell into a light sleep.
Seeing that An Nuo was asleep, Murong Qiao instructed the chauffeur. “Drive slower.”
The car gradually slowed down. Murong Qiao let An Nuo lean on her while she was texting Huo Yichen.
[How’s your recovery? I can visit you tomorrow.] She asked as usual.
The other party would reply soon.
[It’s fine. I can already be discharged. It’s just that the butler wants me to recuperate for a few more days.]
Murong Qiao looked at the message and felt that the other party sounded a little helpless.
However, the butler he mentioned reminded Murong Qiao of that very kind old man.
She couldn’t help but smile. She pictured Huo Yichen’s helpless expression when he typed and chuckled.
However, Huo Yichen’s situation was different from what Murong Qiao had imagined. He was reading the doc.u.ments in his hand expressionlessly while the butler was sitting by the bed.
“Huo Xiuyuan.” Huo Yichen was not surprised. “He’s more impatient than 1 thought.”
The information in Huo Yichen’s hand was the result of his investigation by the butler.
He knew that Huo Xiuyuan had always been Huo Hong’s backup plan. The car accident had made Huo Yichen feel even more anxious.
Huo Yichen’s face seemed to be covered with a thin layer of ice, but the coldness that seeped out filled the entire ward, making one shudder.
The butler didn’t look as kind as he seemed to Murong Qiao that day. There was some anger between his wrinkles.
“He also attended the Han family’s banquet today. He probably wants to make a move on Young Miss Murong,” he reported.
If Huo Xiuyuan was here and heard the butler’s well-informed news, he would only feel cold and horrified.
The banquet he went to that night had not even ended when the news reached Huo Yichen.
At the mention of Huo Xiuyuan wanting to make a move on Murong Qiao, Huo Yichen’s expressionless face changed.
The corners of his lips curled up slightly. He was clearly extremely angry, but he smiled instead. However, this smile did not reach his eyes, and it exuded a danger that made people tremble.
If one observed carefully, they would even see the redness at the corners of Huo Yichen’s eyes and the coldness in his eyes.
There was an almost imperceptible madness in his voice. “I guess he’s not busy enough after all.”
In any case, Huo Xiuyuan was an obstacle. It was not a bad choice to get rid of him as soon as possible.
The butler read his meaning. “Understood.”
Huo Hong had always hated chess pieces who wanted to break free from his control, and Huo Xiuyuan was actually not as obedient as he appeared to be.
It was also a good opportunity to divert Huo Hong’s attention so that he wouldn’t have to arrange for people to keep an eye on him.
Huo Yichen arranged everything with the butler in an orderly manner and replied to Murong Qiao’s message at the same time.
[It’s eleven o’clock. 1 won’t disturb your sleep then.] Murong Qiao ended the conversation first.
She stared at her phone screen and scrolled through Huo Yichen’s last message.
Actually, she really wanted to talk to Huo Yichen more, but she wanted him to rest more.
Huo Yichen’s expression softened. [Goodnight.]
Seeing Young Master Huo like this, the butler was a little gratified. He tactfully shut his mouth and did not hold him up any longer.
Murong Qiao said goodnight to Huo Yichen and sent An Nuo home before instructing the chauffeur to return to the Murong residence.
She sat in the backseat and leaned against the window. Her gaze fell on the scenery outside the window, and her thoughts were complicated.
Her instincts told her that Huo Xiuyuan was definitely involved in Huo Yichen’s car accident.
Murong Qiao thought about it and decided to send a message to Jiang Chi to investigate. However, her eyes reacted faster than her hands and she caught a familiar figure outside the car window first.
It was… Luo Wanbai?
At this moment, the car drove to a road by the river. Murong Qiao frowned and saw a person standing by the river, looking especially bleak.
She didn’t meet Luo Wanbai many times, so she couldn’t be sure if it was her.
However, before Murong Qiao could identify it clearly, she saw that person walking towards the river.
Was she trying to commit suicide?!