Yun Muxi was studiously indifferent at the words, laughed and said, “What? How come! Momo’s mother, you dare to say! The young president of Mou’s Group is really somebody. How can he be my husband? You really dare to think!”

Later, Yun Muxi made an excuse to cheer for Niannian and Mou Yichen and left Momo’s mother.

Until the sports meeting concluded, Mou Yichen and Niannian remained thrilled, as if they had been still lost in the excitement. On the way home, they two were talking about the sports meeting in great amusement, while Yun Muxi was looking out of the window thoughtfully, silent.

Arriving home, Mou Yichen walked ahead with Niannian held by the hand. What a harmonious picture they made. Following them, Yun Muxi seemed redundant.

After entering the house, Yun Muxi said to Niannian, “Niannian, wash your hands and play by yourself in the room.”

Niannian nodded obediently and ran away.

Yun Muxi looked at Mou Yichen calmly and said, “Yichen, let’s have a talk.”

And then, she walked straight to the balcony. Mou Yichen had a bad foreboding immediately, because Yun Muxi seldom became so serious. Worry piled up in his heart, but he had to follow Yun Muxi to the balcony. Mou Yichen just stood still behind her.

Yun Muxi did not look back and spoke regardlessly, “Yichen, I know you always like me, but I want to tell you that—don’t waste time on me…”

Suddenly, Mou Yichen was so scared to hear what Yun Muxi was going to say that he interrupted her directly and said, “Xiao Xi, please stop!”

Yun Muxi turned around and stared at Mou Yichen’s hurt and disconcerted eyes seriously. There was a trace of reluctance in her heart, but soon she steeled herself to keep on saying…

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Mou Yichen was driving the car so fast that it was whizzing in the traffic. His mind was crowded with Yun Muxi’s firm words.

“Yichen, no person can live in my heart any more…

“I will not consider personal relationships, even for my whole life. I just want to lead a simple and quiet life with Niannian…

“Yichen, you’re a good person. You will meet another person that you love. Find a person who loves you and enjoy a happy life…

“I don’t want to hold you up. If you continue, it will only waste your time and feeling. We’re impossible…

“If you can let go, perhaps we can still remain friends. But if not, I have to give you up…”

…

Each word poked Mou Yichen’s heart piercingly like a knife, which made his heart riddled with a thousand wounds and bleeding. However, the words that he could not get rid of haunted and echoed in his mind like spells.

Mou Yichen’s vision was blurred with his eyes misted up, and big tears rolled down his cheeks. He had the car stereo on at full blast. Mou Yichen, as if he had been bewitched, jammed against the accelerator, and the car’s speed kept on soaring, which made the cars around dodge this crazy car as far as possible. While all the people were focusing their attention on this crazy car, they neglected a big truck that was turning fast at the front intersection.

The big truck turned the corner at full speed. It was too late for the fatigued, careless driver to notice the speeding car. Even Mou Yichen himself had not foreseen that a big truck rushed out of expectation. When he came to himself, his car was driving closer to the truck. Mou Yichen spun the steering wheel sharply, but it still seemed too late. The left side of his car was still smashed by the big truck, and his car was forced to spin several times before it collided into the guardrails. Mou Yichen’s forehead crashed directly into the front windshield, and the glass broke into pieces. Mou Yichen ended up slumping over the steering wheel with the car horn blaring into the sky…

The intersection was in a mess immediately. The truck not only hit Mou Yichen’s car, but also crashed over the cars behind in succession. Cries, calls for help, curses, and people’s murmurs mingled together…

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Outside the emergency room of the central hospital.

Mou Yichen’s mother sat on the bench outside the emergency room, weeping; Mou Yichen’s father paced back and forth in the corridor with a stern look on his face, and he kept looking up at the flashing red light from time to time; Mou Yichen’s sister, Mou Yilin, clenched her phone tightly in her hand, her palm sweaty.

Mou Yichen’s mother asked with great anxiety, “Lao Mou, why hasn’t Yichen come out yet? So many hours passed. Is there anything wrong?”

Mou Yilin stretched out her hand to stroke her mother’s shoulder. Although she was also anxious, she still consoled her mother and said, “Mom, please calm down and don’t cry. You have asked many times. He will come out at a proper time.”

Mou Yichen’s father scolded impatiently, “Well, stop crying. It’s so annoying. There is nothing serious about Yichen. Why are you crying?”

Mou Yichen’s mother wailed more loudly and said, “What do you mean by ‘nothing serious’? How long has he been in the emergency room? He hasn’t come out yet. He is my only son. If any unexpected misfortune happened to my son, what should I do?”

Mou Yichen’s father lost his temper and thundered, “All right! Do be quite a minute!”

As the voice had not faded, Yun Muxi ran in the direction. At the sight of her, Mou Yichen’s mother burst into fury immediately. She stood up quickly, rushed to Yun Muxi and shouted loudly, “Why did you come here? Who allows you to come? It is all done by you! You’are an evil! If anything untoward were to happen to Yichen, I would not let you off!”

After saying out these words, Mou Yichen’s mother felt it was not enough to work off her anger. So she came up to smack Yun Muxi with her open hand. The next second, Yun Muxi’s face was forced to slant to the right, and five red fingerprints appeared clearly on her white cheek. Seeing this, Mou Yilin rushed forward instantly, stopped her mother who was about to give another slap, and said, “Mom, please stop slapping. I called her to come!”

Hearing it, Mou Yichen’s mother shifted her rage to Mou Yilin and yelled, “What! You asked her to come! Why did you call this bitch to come here? Don’t you think your brother is too miserable because of her? He has been in hospital! Why did you ask her to come? Do you really want her to kill your brother? Does it really make you happy? This witch not only cursed her mother and father to death, but also had an unfathered bastard. She is such a dirty bitch, an evil. And you still asked her to come here. Don’t you think your brother’s life is too long…”

What Mou Yichen’s said was extremely vicious. Although she reproached her daughter, all of her words seemed to point at Yun Muxi. Yun Muxi felt overturned and pounded in her heart and also condemned herself that she was really a disaster, even got Mou Yichen into trouble, into the hospital. It was true that she would bring misfortune to the people around her.

Mou Yilin felt guilty about Yun Muxi inwardly. In fact, she always liked Yun Muxi and also knew that her brother loved her earnestly. Although she fully knew her mother’s hatred, she still supported Yun Muxi from her heart. Now, her mother scolded Yun Muxi harshly, which made Mou Yilin blame herself a lot. It was all her fault that she asked Yun Muxi to come. Otherwise, Yun Muxi would not have been beaten and abused here.

Mou Yichen’s father could not stand his wife to curse loudly in public like a sharp-tongued woman. He spoke to stop her with a sullen face, “Enough! Be quiet for a while! Don’t you think it’s annoying enough?”

As they quarrelled, the light of the emergency room was off abruptly. A doctor walked out of it. Suddenly, all the people stopped brawling and surrounded the doctor immediately. Yun Muxi dared not to come up and just stood still, watching the doctor nervously.

The doctor cast a glanced at Mou Yichen’s mother and father and said in a deep voice, “The patient has been rescued over temporarily, but he got the intracranial injury. We have removed his intracranial gore. But he needs more observation to see whether his cranial nerves are injured or not. If he can come to himself within 24 hours, it couldn’t be better. But if not, it will cause inconceivable problems. The worst consequence is that he may become a vegetable. Anyhow, you should prepare for the worst. Now the patient has been shifted to the observation room. You can come to see him later, but not too many people at a time. You’d better keep quiet!”

The doctor’s words were like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky for Mou Yichen’s mother. Her head was resounding the words—to become a vegetable. She burst into tears again. Mou Yilin comforted her mother immediately and said, “Mom, please calm down. Didn’t the doctor say it’s the worst consequence? Don’t we have a great hope to wait for Yichen to wake up? Don’t worry. Yichen will be fine!”

And then Mou Yichen’s mother turned around, about to beat and scold Yun Muxi again. Mou Yichen’s father howled angrily, “Enough, stop it! Go to see Yichen first!”

Reminded by Mou Yichen’s father, the Mou family hurried to the observation room to check the situation of Mou Yichen. Yun Muxi followed behind quietly. When the Mou family entered the ward, they saw Mou Yichen’s head and arms bandaged up and a guard plate placed around his neck. He was lying on the hospital bed quietly. Seeing it, his mother burst out crying again, even out of breath with tears. His father shouted distraughtly again, “Enough! Stop crying!”

Scolded by Mou Yichen’s father, Mou Yichen’s mother dared not cry loudly but had to sob in a low voice. And then she saw Yun Muxi standing at the door, and the rage soared up again. She rushed to the door and began beating and rebuking Yun Muxi, “Can’t you see what harm you have done to Yichen? You still don’t give up, do you? Is it when you kill my Yichen that you feel completely content?”

Mou Yichen’s father came up with a stern face and said to Yun Muxi frigidly, “Miss Yun, you’d better go back. If you’re here, I’m afraid my wife cannot look after Yichen peacefully. Instead, her crying does nothing good to Yichen.”

Mou Yilin also comforted in a soft voice, “That’s right. Xiao Xi, you’d better go home first. If Yichen wakes up, I’ll call you. If you’re still here, there’s nothing you can do to help. Even worse, my mother may become more worked up. Yichen has been like that. If my mother falls ill, what shall we do then?”

Yun Muxi could not say anything any more. So she had to nod and looked again at Mou Yichen on the hospital bed, and then bowed to the Mou family members and walked away.

However, no one knew that the moment Yun Muxi turned and left, a video had been sent to Ding Sisi’s phone secretly.