A pampered young lady from a wealthy family is reborn, choosing a rich wife over a rich man.

Meng Zhixue's heart skipped a beat, but she quickly realized: she hadn't done anything wrong, so why was she so nervous?

That's right! She neither took Bai Xue's money nor arranged for Bai Xue to meet Zhou Yu. She did nothing. She's kind!

Thinking of this, Meng Zhixue immediately calmed down.

"I'm not going." She glanced out the window and said into her phone, "It's so cold outside, I don't want to go out. Is there something you can't say over the phone?"

As if he hadn't expected her reaction, Zhou Yu paused, seemingly taken aback.

But soon, he chuckled softly.

A faint smile came from the phone, like a very light yet rich feather, gently brushing against Meng Zhixue's ear.

But she knew this wasn't a gentle teasing, but a silent threat.

She hurriedly moved her phone away a little, her bright almond-shaped eyes staring at it warily, and the feeling of unease in her heart grew stronger.

Unconsciously, she suddenly remembered that night when Bai Xue "came back to life," when Zhou Yu returned home in the chill of the autumn night, and when he hoarsely told her that he wanted to terminate the contract with her early, and that faint kiss that landed on her cheek...

In her past life, whenever she angered Zhou Yu, he would retaliate even more severely at night, making her clearly experience the consequences of provoking him.

Why are men so fickle, changing their minds so constantly?

"Should I go in and find you?" Zhou Yu asked.

It sounds like an inquiry, but it contains an undeniable forcefulness; it is clearly an announcement.

Meng Zhixue found out.

I absolutely must see him tonight.

This person is often like this; he looks refined and aloof, but he's not easy to talk to.

Just like in his past life, he was determined to do it three times a night, and he would never do it less than once because she was crying.

At most, I'll comfort her for a while afterward, and the gold coins she gets will be several times more than usual.

She resigned herself to her fate and quickly said, "No, don't come in! Wait for me outside, I'll come out!"

No matter how good she was to Xie Wei, Villa No. 28 wasn't her home. It was already troublesome enough for Xie Wei to attend training courses and hire tutors here, so she felt embarrassed to handle personal matters here.

However, she was quite cunning; instead of changing out of her fluffy bear pajamas, she simply wrapped a thick cashmere scarf around her neck and went downstairs.

Stepping outside, the night wind was cold, and she shivered as soon as it blew.

But Meng Zhixue had a rosy idea: if things went wrong later, she could use the excuse of "it's too cold" to retreat in advance.

There's always a reason, isn't there?

If Zhou Yu disagrees, she can take the opportunity to yell at him a few times before leaving.

perfect!

As Meng Zhixue walked out of the gate of Villa No. 28, she immediately saw a black Maybach with its headlights on parked a few meters away, seemingly guiding her.

Zhou Yu stood outside the car.

The aloof and handsome man leaned back against the driver's side door, a cigarette glowing with a scarlet light between his fingers, and the other hand in his pocket.

Seeing her approach, he casually stubbed out his cigarette, slowly exhaled a smoke ring, and his clear, beautiful peach blossom eyes locked onto her precisely.

Meng Zhixue immediately stopped in her tracks.

In her eyes, Zhou Yu possessed an extreme kind of refined roguish sexiness at this moment. If they were watching a drama, she would definitely light up and scream with excitement for him, but in reality...

Let's forget about it then!

The little animal's instincts told her that it was dangerous!

She is by no means the type to "knowingly walk into danger." On the contrary, her philosophy of life is "a wise person knows when to yield" and "a good man doesn't suffer losses in front of him."

Without a second thought, Meng Zhixue turned and ran towards Villa No. 28, her reaction as swift as a startled rabbit.

But no matter how fast she was, Zhou Yu was faster than her.

A gust of wind suddenly swept up, and after the man called out "Meng Zhixue" with annoyance, she felt her collar being pulled, and her body involuntarily fell backward, crashing into a broad and sturdy embrace.

She turned her body and was hit hard on the forehead, causing her to let out a short cry of pain.

"Why are you running?" Zhou Yu was almost laughing in anger.

Meng Zhixue covered her forehead and looked at him, her eyes full of accusation, as if to say, "Why did you hit me?"

Zhou Yu glanced at her dismissively and said, "Serves you right!"

But the next moment, he took off his dark gray trench coat and threw it at her, saying, "Here you go."

Meng Zhixue hurriedly went to grab his clothes, and after a flurry of activity, she managed to prevent the trench coat from falling to the ground and getting dusty.

Is she his clothes hanger?

Speechless, she glanced at him with anger but dared not speak out.

As if understanding her gaze, Zhou Yu asked calmly, "Didn't you say you were cold?"

Meng Zhixue: "...?"

"Now you have no reason to leave early, very well," Zhou Yu said. "Let's settle the score!"

Meng Zhixue: "...!!!"

Her almond-shaped eyes widened, her face showing surprise at having her thoughts guessed, and also regret, which made Zhou Yu sneer again.

He knows it!

He stretched out his large hand towards Meng Zhixue and said casually, "Unlock your phone for me."

"..." Meng Zhixue didn't want to give it to him, muttering, "My phone is my privacy."

Zhou Yu said, "I won't hold it against you for letting Wei Hongyu invite me to the movies but not going yourself, and for sending Bai Xue instead."

"Then go ahead and argue with me!" Meng Zhixue wanted to protest her innocence, blurting out, "I never asked Wei Hongyu to invite you to the movies. If I wanted to invite you, I would have done it myself. Why would I need to ask Wei Hongyu? We don't even get along!"

She now understood why Wei Hongyu had been so sarcastic and cryptic when she called earlier.

Is that snow?

It must have been something Bai Xue said to that idiot Wei Hongyu that made Wei Hongyu "help" her arrange a meeting with Zhou Yu!

But wait...

Meng Zhixue looked at Zhou Yu in surprise and bombarded him with a series of questions: "Since you went to the movie theater, you must have seen Bai Xue. Why are you here now? Didn't you go to the movie with her? What's going on between you two?"

She was so caught up in her surprise that she didn't notice that Zhou Yu's gaze had softened considerably, and his usually tense expression was no longer so cold.

"You want to know?" Zhou Yu countered, then added, "The cell phone."

Meng Zhixue: "..."

She really didn't want to give her phone to Zhou Yu, but she couldn't resist her curiosity, so...

After frantically working on the phone for a while, deleting various search records, locking the photo album, and so on, she finally handed the phone to Zhou Yu.

As she handed it to her, she asked nervously, "What do you want to see?"

"..." Zhou Yu glanced at her, not wanting to answer.

But Meng Zhixue, who was standing on tiptoe, could see what he was doing.

He opened WeChat, found her chat with Bai Xue, opened the transfer information sent by Bai Xue, and directly selected "refund".

Meng Zhixue was stunned and a little angry.

What's wrong?

Did Bai Xue really use the WeChat records to sow discord?

She originally intended for the transfer to expire on its own, but this scoundrel was afraid she'd be greedy and take her white moonlight's money, so he stepped in to return it to her.

But the next moment, she saw Zhou Yu take out his phone with one hand and operate it for a while. Suddenly, an orange-yellow transfer note popped up in her and Zhou Yu's WeChat chat.

He transferred money to her, more than Bai Xue had given her, but not by much.

[Transfer of 52000.]

He gave her a deep look, then calmly opened the transfer information and clicked "Receive".

Then he asked, "Do you want more?"

Meng Zhixue: "...?!"

She stared at the handsome man in front of her, both surprised and stunned, feeling that what he was asking her if she still wanted wasn't just money, but... him.