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Aren't you a prisoner?

"How did your grandmother die?" I asked him.

But even so … Xia Ze shouldn't use me like this, what am I supposed to be?

"It's not like that." I got down from the windowsill and stood one meter away from Xia Ze. I did not know what he planned to do.

"I can't see through you." "You know I don't just want your apology."

"But all I can do is apologize." Xia Ze said, "Perhaps we can face this matter together, I have already told you everything."

"So?" "Let me erase the damage you've done to me, sympathize with your loss of your grandmother, and stay with you."

I paused, afraid that I would lose control of myself. I took a deep breath and said, "I can't do it. I don't have the means to be with you, who has always been scheming against me."

Hearing my words, Xia Ze slowly revealed a smile, and said, "We will be together."

His words were like an incantation, it was the same words that Cheng Ruojun used to say to me in the past, that I would never be able to leave his side.

"I won't." "No," I said.

I slowly retreated out of the room and looked at Xia Ze's face carefully. He was really similar to Cheng Ruojun, but he just smiled and stabbed the blade into my body.

As he said, perhaps he was being honest with me by telling me this, but I couldn't accept it.

When I opened the door, it was still raining. It was already completely dark, but the rain had no intention of stopping.

I knew it was raining, but when I came out, I didn't even think about taking the umbrella. Even if I was drenched in the rain now, it didn't seem like I was going back to take the umbrella. I didn't want to see Xia Ze again.

Where can I go now? Return to Du Lirong's home? It must be a mess over there by now. Go back to my own house? When I get back, my parents will be arguing. I just want to be quiet.

There was something in my heart that I wanted to let loose, but now I had to endure it.

"So you are here." Just as I was about to leave slowly with no one to rely on, I suddenly heard Cheng Ruojun's voice.

The voice pulled me out of my melancholy.

I looked up at him to make sure he was there.

Cheng Ruojun was standing not far from me. He wore a business suit and carried an umbrella. There was not a single place on his body that was wet at all.

"Come here." I looked at his face, hoping to find something that made me angry, but I couldn't see anything.

I tightly clenched my hands, and for the first time, I wanted to approach Cheng Ruojun.

No matter how much I wanted to escape Cheng Ruojun, I still didn't have the ability. Maybe it was because of this that I couldn't leave him.

However...

When I saw Cheng Ruojun's face, the things that he had done to me in the past, they involuntarily appeared before my eyes. Those shameful things, those scars on my body that were caused by those things, all caused me to feel pain.

"Come here." Cheng Ruojun's expression darkened. He said to me once more, and this time his expression became extremely stern.

I couldn't help but think that he had mistreated my face before, but I still couldn't accept it. I couldn't just turn around and love him because I was so helpless right now.

But even if I thought that in my heart, I still walked over, because Cheng Ruojun was angry, I could only go over.

I walked in front of Cheng Ruojun and opened my mouth to say something. I wanted to explain what happened at Li Zhen's factory, but Cheng Ruojun simply pulled me into his embrace.

"You're shaking." Cheng Ruojun said.

"Yes." "I'm scared." Because there doesn't seem to be anyone in the world I can trust.

"I'll take care of it." Cheng Ruojun hugged me even more tightly. "I will protect you."

"Alright." I nodded and leaned my head against his chest. I could hear his heart beating, and that made me feel relieved.

I'm completely out of control now, and all I want now is a hug, no matter whose it is.

"Let's go home." Cheng Ruojun said.

"Alright."

We sat in the car, I leaned my head against the window and looked towards the roasting room, my eyes involuntarily looking towards the attic, which was the room Xia Ze and I were in previously.

The distance between the two of us isn't too far, so I could clearly see Xia Ze standing at the bedside where I often sit, and even clearly see his current expression. His expression is so cold, and it's the first time I've seen such an expression on his face.

I can't accept it at the moment. I remembered that I had hoped to be able to see the other side of Xia Ze's disguise in the past, but when he actually appeared in front of me, I was instead afraid.

I had lost the feeling of being in control, but Xia Ze was able to see through me with a glance, which made me very sad.

"Are you alright?" Cheng Ruojun asked while handing me a towel.

"I'm fine." I need more than a towel. I need a hot bath now, and I want to be in a warm tub, and that's the only way I can feel the fatigue dissipating. "How's it going over there?"

Cheng Ruojun glanced at me and said, "It's nothing, even if there's a problem with the base wine, it won't affect the operation of the company. After all, we can't possibly place all our chips there."

I looked at Cheng Ruojun and felt that he was extremely gentle at this moment. However, when I saw such a gentle him, my heart ached, why wasn't he gentle to me in the past?

"What about that?" I asked hesitantly. "Have you caught the prisoner?"

When Cheng Ruojun heard my question, he looked up and glanced at me, feeling that my question was extremely ridiculous. Then, he said with a faint smile, "Aren't you a criminal?"