Ye Qingcheng didn't go to school. Everything she had worked hard to build over the past decade was all destroyed. She didn't even know what else she could do.
Ye Shengming was making a phone call downstairs, borrowing money, collecting debts, even appraising real estate, including applying for bankruptcy and so on.
A heavy and oppressive atmosphere filled the entire Ye family villa.
She still remembered the year she was seven years old, being led by Li Aixin into this villa and being shocked by its luxurious wealth.
At that time, she vowed to settle down here and take root, never to be driven away again.
She went all out to win over this family and blend in with them.
She was very successful, her younger brother liked her, her mother loved her dearly, and even the most selfish father regarded her as a treasure because of Lin Yimo's closeness to her.
She thought her days would go by smoothly and peacefully until Gu Qingqing appeared...
Ye Qincheng walked out of the room, and Li Aixin was waiting outside the door. Seeing her come out, she asked nervously, "Qincheng, are you hungry?"
Ye Qincheng didn't answer, she went straight downstairs, Ye Shengming saw her and his face was a bit uncomfortable.
Seventeen years ago, he decided to use his own daughter as a bargaining chip for a brighter future. All these years, he had been using Ye Qingcheng to curry favor with the Lin family. Just a few days ago, in order to placate Gu Qinger, he even said that he would drive her out of the house. In the past, he thought she wasn't his biological daughter, so giving her a home was enough, and it didn't matter how he used her. But now, he discovered that this was actually his biological daughter...
No one can pretend nothing has happened again.
He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but couldn't bring himself to speak.
Ye Qingcheng didn't even look at him and went straight into the kitchen to pour herself a glass of water.
She drank water in the kitchen and came out. Ye Shengming had already made up his mind and put on a fatherly attitude.
"Give me the patent certificate for the robotic arm, I want to go find CEO Li and have a face-to-face talk."
This is Ye's family last straw to survive, and Ye Shengming doesn't have time to follow Ye Qingcheng's filial piety.
Not a single apology was offered, and those words were spoken with such a sense of entitlement that Ye Qingcheng had never felt such disgust towards anyone before.
"She calmly said: 'The patent has already been returned to Lin Yimo...'"
"What did you say?"
"That's not mine, I returned it to him, don't think about using me again!"
Bang!
A loud slap landed on Ye Qingcheng's face.
"You this disobedient girl, do you know that's the last hope of our Ye family! Go and get it back for me! Otherwise, get out of the Ye family, I, Ye Shengming, don't need a useless daughter like you!"
As an orphan, Ye Qingcheng has learned since she was sensible that the first word is compromise, but now she doesn't want to compromise herself anymore.
She was treated like this by her own parents, why should she still compromise herself for them?
"I won't go begging!"
She also wants to live with dignity.
Ye Shengming's anger made him tremble: "Good, you have guts! Then get out of here and don't come back until you bring the patent back. If not, never set foot in this house again!"
Ye Qiancheng: "In your heart, am I still less important than a patent?"
Ye Shengming's voice was filled with hatred: "Yes!"
Yes, okay!
What's the point of having such parents and such a family?
Ye Qincheng ran out, Li Aixin chased to the garden gate but didn't see anyone.
"Ye Shengming, you're crazy! If anything happens to Qingcheng, I'll fight to the death with you!"
Until nightfall, Ye Qingcheng still hadn't returned, and it wasn't until then that Ye Shengming started to get a little anxious.
But he didn't rush to find his daughter, instead he made a phone call to Lin Yimo first.
"Also silent, the city has lost its beauty, did you know?"
This tone completely forgot how he ridiculed Lin Yimo at that wine party.
But it was Lin Haiyang who responded to him, not Lin Yimou. "Director Ye, your family's affairs have nothing to do with us Yimou anymore. Please don't come to disturb us again in the future!"
Ye Shengming suddenly became angry, "How can you say it's none of your business? Don't forget, his life was saved by our city's efforts! You want to be ungrateful and faithless, no way!"
"Was it really Ye Qingcheng who saved him?"
"Lin Haiyang, what do you mean?"
"My point is that you should understand, the money and benefits you took from the Lin family under the name of repaying kindness, I will sue you for fraud, you'd better be prepared..."
Lin Haiyang didn't say a word, and Ye Shengming hung up the phone with a "click".
Then dropped the phone.
"Damn it! What the hell! Just wait till I turn things around, you'll be in trouble then!"
Li Aixin looked at her husband, Ye Shengming, whose face was red with rage, and she felt a chill run down her spine. At this moment, he reminded her of the terrifying look on his face over ten years ago when he had lost everything in business and had even tried to sell their own daughter without hesitation.
What other outrageous thing will he do this time without his daughter selling?
Li Aixin absolutely did not allow a second tragedy to occur, she secretly made a phone call to the psychiatric hospital...
Lin Yimo is packing his luggage. Tomorrow morning, he will take a plane to the Imperial Capital, where the Huake Institute has arranged for him to undergo internship and assessment.
"Dad, whose phone is it?"
Lin Haiyang hesitated for a moment before telling him, "It's Ye Shengming's. Ye Qingcheng seems to have gone missing."
No matter if there was a lifesaving grace or not, the two children had been together for over ten years since they were young, how could their feelings be gone just like that?
Lin Yimo's action of folding clothes paused for three seconds before continuing again.
"That's their Ye family's business."
When you cut off something that is not broken, it will rebound and bring chaos upon itself!
The Ye family will inevitably go through a painful ordeal in the face of great changes. Whether they will thoroughly perish or rise again is their own choice, and has nothing to do with him anymore.
Ye Qiancheng sat on the rooftop of the Four Seasons Hotel, where she had completely lost Lin Yimeng.
The cold wind made her face ache.
She wanted to jump down and end this miserable and chaotic life, but seeing the car lights swimming below, she was afraid.
She repeated this process several times before finally picking up her phone and dialing Lin Yimo's number.
She is eager to find her own value of existence and reason for living.
The phone didn't connect until the last ring, Ye Qingcheng felt a surge of joy, "Yi Mo ge..."
She wanted to say that she was going to jump off the building, and ask if Lin Yimo would rush over to save her. She wanted to say that she didn't want to leave him, and ask if he could forgive her. Many words were swirling around in her heart, eager to be told to the person on the other end of the phone, but Lin Yimo was the first to speak:
"Tomorrow I'm going to Tokyo, see you again someday."
The young man's tone was without anger or blame, and he simply bid her farewell in a calm manner.
From now on, they will be separated by mountains and rivers, with no more connection between them, and may meet again someday if fate allows it.
One sentence sealed their fate and extinguished all her hope.
Ye Qingcheng fell into the icy cave, she replied: "Good."
No crying, no entanglement, she wanted a dignified farewell with him.
In the end, they became strangers.
The phone was hung up, the mobile phone slipped from her palm and bounced on the railing, falling into the dark abyss. She looked down and suddenly felt that death didn't seem so scary after all.
But for a moment, two moments, her feet moved slowly to the edge, yet hesitated and didn't jump down.
Someone couldn't help but say, "Do you need my help?"
