Jiang Yu didn't know what she had been busy with recently, often taking a long time to come back. It was inevitable to argue as soon as she came back.

I started to miss the time with Qi Zhaozhao more and more frequently.

When I was with her, I was always the one being taken care of. Her focus was always on me, unlike Jiang Yu who only knew how to run around.

I drove to the building where Qi Zhaozhao worked. This office building is located in the city center, with elite people coming and going.

After work, Qi Zhaozhao walked out with a group of colleagues, dressed lightly in a professional suit skirt, neat and tidy.

In the deep autumn season, it is the easiest to catch a cold.

In the past, I used to remind her every day to remember to wear more clothes and bring an umbrella on rainy days.

Without me, she was still the same.

I felt a little uncomfortable for a moment.

As the crowd dispersed, she stayed in place, as if talking on the phone with someone. I walked towards her cautiously, and when our eyes met, my heart beat violently, as if I had returned to the day of confession seven years ago. I couldn't help but wonder, what expression would she have when she saw me?

Joy? Surprise? Or anger?

But at the moment when I stood in front of her, a man walked up behind her and naturally put his arm around her shoulder, protecting her tightly in his embrace.

“What do you want?” The man's unfriendly eyes scanned me from head to toe.

I couldn't breathe at that moment.

There was no heart-wrenching reunion plot I imagined, no joy, no anticipation. She looked radiant, accompanied by someone. Only I felt a sense of emptiness and loss.

“Zhang Qiao, what are you doing here?”

Qi Zhaozhao's gaze towards me was calm, as if I were just an ordinary friend in her life, casually greeted upon meeting.

It felt like meeting a familiar stranger.

“I… I don't know what to say.

Our identities are too strange.

The man spoke first, “Oh, I remember now.”

He let go of Qi Zhaozhao and walked slowly towards me, exuding a sense of danger.

“You're the scumbag who wasted my cousin's seven years of youth, right?

“I've been wanting to beat you up, and here you are, coming to me on your own. Come here!”

I remembered! This is Qi Sheng! Qi Zhaozhao's cousin.

My legs were shaking a bit. Qi Sheng had been a troublemaker these past few years, hanging out with bad people. In the seven years, he occasionally called Qi Zhaozhao only for money, never met in person.

Looking extremely fierce, he grabbed my collar and raised his hand to hit me.

In the nick of time.

“Stop!” Qi Zhaozhao stopped him.

Her tone was full of worry, “Not worth it, don't fight in public.”

“Fine.” Qi Sheng impatiently let go of me, suppressing his anger and groping on me, he directly took my phone.

“You're lucky, next time I see you, we're not done.

I was very unhappy.

How dare he just take my things like that?

Once it's given to me, it's mine.

But Qi Sheng looked unapproachable, so I simply turned my eyes away and racked my brains to organize my words:

“Zhao Zhao, thank you for the gift. I didn't expect you to remember these things.

“I didn't expect you to remember me like this, this phone is quite expensive, you... you should take it back.”

Qi Sheng sneered, “Nice words, using it so smoothly?

“Sister, don't listen to him, let's go.”

She didn't pay attention to me.

Qi Zhaozhao's indifferent appearance left me at a loss, she stood in front of me, yet seemed so far away.

“If there's nothing else, goodbye.” She politely nodded at me, and with her brother, she was about to leave. After a few steps, she stopped, said seriously, “Don't thank me for these little things. The kindness I showed you before was real. I thought being good to you would get me what I wanted.

“But now when I think about it, I realize that my way was wrong. I shouldn't have relied my emotions on others.

“If you hadn't broken up with me before we got married, I probably would have needed many more years to understand.

“That's it, don't come looking for me again in the future.”

Qi Sheng raised his fist at me, implying a warning.

I was scratching my head and cheeks in a hurry, unwilling, unwilling to leave like this, feeling more and more uneasy in my heart.

No, it shouldn't be like this.

Our reunion shouldn't be like this.

I lifted my foot to go after them, but then I received a payment message on my phone, and the text messages almost drove me mad.

Frantically opening it, I saw my bank card... was maxed out!