Ye Jinghuai still left with An Nuan in his arms.
The words Tong Zhitong said had no effect at all.
Until the moment he walked out of the warehouse, he did not give Tong Zhitong a single glance back.
Tong Zhitong laughed.
Again so crazy.
She just watched as the countless black suits got closer and closer to her.
"Ah!" Tong Zhitong's screams echoed through the warehouse.
Anyone who heard it would feel their heart race with fear.
Only something terribly tragic could make such heart-wrenching screams.
For a long time.
The night grew even darker.
Everything seemed to have returned to calm.
Everyone had left the warehouse.
Everyone had left.
Leaving only Tong Zhitong alone.
She lay on the ground, hovering on the brink of death.
Suddenly.
Footsteps sounded in the warehouse.
Step by step.
Approaching her.
Tong Zhitong numbly turned her head to see the man walking towards her.
So.
Could she still hope it was Ye Jinghuai?!
She cruelly watched as Ye Jingxuan approached her.
Cruelly watched as he stood before her.
And witnessed all her misery.
She said, "You were here all along, weren't you?"
All along.
Watching as she was...violated.
Ye Jingxuan said, "I warned you not to provoke An Nuan."
"So you knew all along that Ye Jinghuai would never go easy on me, right?"
"Yes."
"So the man who slept with me that night was you, not Ye Jinghuai, right?"
"Yes."
"Why didn't you tell me?!" Tong Zhitong screamed.
But her throat was already too broken to emit such loud sounds.
All that could be seen were her bloody tears bursting forth once more at that moment.
"Would you have given up on Ye Jinghuai if I had told you?" Ye Jingxuan asked her.
Tong Zhitong's heart ached.
No.
She loved Ye Jinghuai, loved him to the point she didn't care if she died.
Nothing could have stopped her!
"The important thing is, Ye Jinghuai only got close to you to divert attention in the first place," Ye Jingxuan said, revealing the whole truth to her.
Tong Zhitong wanted to laugh.
She really wanted to laugh at her own foolishness.
But at that moment, all that fell were large teardrops.
She said, "Didn't Ye Jinghuai take the aphrodisiac?"
"He did," Ye Jingxuan said.
"He'd rather endure it himself than let me help relieve him, right?"
"Yes."
Tong Zhitong felt her heart had gone numb from the pain.
"Do you want to know how he endured it?" Ye Jingxuan asked her.
It seemed he intended to tell her everything.
Because.
There was no longer any need to conceal it.
Tong Zhitong just looked at Ye Jingxuan.
And heard him say, "Using An Nuan's photos."
"I don't believe it," Tong Zhitong rejected in disbelief.
She wouldn't believe it.
That Ye Jinghuai loved An Nuan this much.
That Ye Jinghuai really loved An Nuan so so much.
She still wouldn't let herself believe that even many years, even many many years ago, Ye Jinghuai had already fallen for An Nuan.
Tong Zhitong strongly retorted, "Ye Jinghuai hasn't slept with An Nuan even until now, so his feelings for her can't be that deep! They're nothing more than that!"
Yes.
Although there was no final confirmation.
But she believed what An Nuan said was true.
And if a man truly loved a woman.
How could he possibly
not sleep with her?!
Ye Jingxuan looked at Tong Zhitong, still unwilling to accept reality, and stated plainly, "There are only two reasons a man won't sleep with a woman. One, he truly doesn't love her. Two, he loves her to the bone."
Tong Zhitong looked at Ye Jingxuan.
Looked at him as he coldly spoke all the truths.
"What kind of person Ye Jinghuai is, what kind of environment he's in, you should understand clearly. The only reason he doesn't sleep with An Nuan is because he's afraid of bringing her into his cruel world. It's because he loves her too much that he forces himself to restrain, to protect." Ye Jingxuan's mild voice carried no emotion, merely stating a fact.
In this way.
Tong Zhitong finally understood as well.
Ye Jinghuai loved An Nuan.
Loved her very very much.
While she had only been constantly pushing Ye Jinghuai's limits.
"Tong Zhitong, Ye Jinghuai has always let you off easy until now, even letting you off today. It's not because you're important to him, but because I desperately pleaded for him not to kill you. Rest assured, I don't love you anymore and I'll never fall for a cruel, vicious woman like you ever again. I only pleaded for you so I wouldn't feel guilty. Feeling guilty for someone like you isn't worth it."
Having said that.
Ye Jingxuan left.
Leaving Tong Zhitong alone, truly leaving this time.
He'd also truly given up.
He coldly departed the dilapidated warehouse.
Not caring what state Tong Zhitong collapsed into after learning the truth.
That night, the one who had tangled in pleasure with Tong Zhitong was him.
It was him, helping Ye Jinghuai avert suspicion.
Because their disguises had almost been seen through, he deliberately took the bait in order to dispel the other's doubts.
Ye Jinghuai could endure even when his body reached its limits, all because deep in his heart lived a white moonlight.
So precious.
So beloved.
So when he received Ye Jinghuai's call tonight, he already knew Tong Zhitong's fortunes had run out.
Making a move against An Nuan was a dead end.
After Tong Zhitong took An Nuan, Ye Jinghuai mobilized all his men and resources to locate where she was held captive.
He came along with him.
At the moment of leaving the warehouse, he requested, "Brother Huai, don't kill Tong Zhitong. I owe her. I want to repay that debt."
Ye Jinghuai hadn't given him any response at the time, not even a glance.
At that time, Ye Jinghuai's whole heart and soul were filled with only An Nuan.
In the end.
Ye Jinghuai still agreed.
So he used the cruelest method for a woman, yet spared Tong Zhitong's life.
He didn't know if, after going through so much, Tong Zhitong would be unable to accept it and end up choosing suicide...
"Bang!"
A sudden gunshot.
Deafening in the quiet night.
Ye Jingxuan's eyes still turned red.
That gunshot from inside the warehouse was clearly Tong Zhitong committing suicide.
Suicide it was.
That was her own choice.
It had nothing to do with him whatsoever.
He didn't even look back once.
And left completely.
