Mrs. Fu, please be mindful of the appropriate boundaries.

His playful tone made Xu Qingcheng's face turn instantly red and white.

My heart is clenching painfully.

The moment I saw him, I was reminded of his rejection.

He said her love was worthless.

He shattered her completely, but she also truly understood his aversion and disdain for her.

But she didn't intentionally want to be known as Mrs. Fu; it was just what the agent thought. She was too lazy to tell a stranger that she was already divorced.

If she had known they would meet under these circumstances, she would have explained things clearly. Now, she feels like she took advantage of him.

She sighed softly, feeling that there were many things she couldn't bring herself to say because of his sarcasm, and decided not to say anything more. So she simply asked, "Did you come here for something?"

He didn't dare ask if she had come to see him, for fear that if he did, she would think he was being presumptuous, since he had told her not to appear in front of him.

Her voice was restrained and calm, and her beautiful eyes never met his gaze, as if she truly regarded him as air.

Fu Jingting looked at her with pursed lips, without saying a word. Xu Qingcheng couldn't hold back anymore. She felt the atmosphere was a bit tense and she felt uncomfortable. She didn't deliberately avoid him, but she did try not to think about him during this time.

She admitted that she liked and loved him, but love only counts when both people like each other. Especially since he had a lover, her feelings might make others uncomfortable, and she couldn't be open about it anymore.

Xu Qingcheng has her pride. She is certain that if she falls in love, she will love wholeheartedly. However, she will not allow herself to secretly like someone who already has a lover, especially since they are engaged, which means that marriage is not far away.

It wouldn't be fair to Wen Fei if she continued to hold Fu Jingting in her heart.

Since there's no hope, give up. This is the best way for Xu Qingcheng to be true to herself and to her love for herself. Never, under any circumstances, become the kind of person that everyone dislikes.

Whether it's painful or embarrassing, even if it hurts to the point of bleeding, we must tear it all apart cleanly.

Actually, she hadn't thought about it much during this time. Yuanyuan was busy enough on her own, and she would eventually let go completely in the future.

One day, even if she encounters something like today, she will no longer need to pretend to be calm, and her heart will truly be at peace.

Xu Qingcheng pretended to look down at her watch. "Sorry, I have to rush home. If there's nothing else, I'll be going now."

He then said to the agent, "Mr. Liu, thank you for your trouble."

"Mr. and Mrs. Fu, please rest assured. I will bring any other people who want to see the house to come. If there are any problems, we can discuss them over the phone. You can come over only if we need to meet in person."

The agent sensed something was off between the two, but didn't press the matter, so he just kept polite. However, when he addressed them as "Mr. Fu" and "Mrs. Fu," Xu Qingcheng wanted to sew his mouth shut.

At this point, I had to explain, "I'm not Mrs. Fu, Mr. Liu. I forgot to tell you, we've been divorced for almost three years."

Uh……

The agent was stunned.

"I'm leaving now." Xu Qingcheng let out a slightly annoyed sigh and started walking towards the elevator, but her arm was grabbed tightly.

Caught off guard, Xu Qingcheng staggered backward and fell directly into Fu Jingting's arms.

The man tightened his grip, holding her firmly in his arms.

Xu Qingcheng's head buzzed. The two of them were obviously inappropriate like this. She subconsciously tried to break away from him, but the man held her arm tightly.

Fu Jingting reached out his hand directly to the real estate agent, "Give me the key. I'm not selling it."

The agent hesitated, "So...you're not planning to sell anymore?"

"Why are you making this decision for me?" Xu Qingcheng was utterly shocked. She turned to the real estate agent, "Don't give it to him!"

However, before the agent could say anything more, Fu Jingting had already taken the key from his hand.

The man half-embraced her, forcefully leading her to the door, opening it, and letting her in.

No matter how much Xu Qingcheng struggled, it was useless.

The real estate agent stood there dumbfounded. This ex-husband and ex-wife... it's kind of... something.

The door closed behind her, and Xu Qingcheng was pressed against the wall by him. Even if she struggled, she couldn't break free from him; the difference in strength between a man and a woman was too great.

Xu Qingcheng closed her eyes briefly, her voice icy, "Let me go!"

The man seemed to ignore him. His gaze swept across the entire room. Even though the furniture was still there, it was clear that things had been mostly tidied up. Everyday items had been cleaned up, leaving only a few inconspicuous boxes in the corner.

His gaze returned to her face, and seeing her flushed with anger, he didn't change his position, still pressing her between himself and the wall, as if afraid that if he let go, she would run away.

"You're so short of money? So short of money that you have to sell your house? Hasn't the entire investment from Shengshi already been received?"

These words were inexplicably hurtful. Even though Qingyao didn't say it, she knew that FUC was pressing hard on the amount actually paid. Xu Qingcheng couldn't figure out what FUC was thinking. You could set a threshold to make them back down, but that didn't seem right, since the threshold wasn't high enough.

But if we're not talking about the threshold, 15 million isn't a large sum in the eyes of investment institutions, and Qingyao has already paid 17% in advance, so there's no way for them to run away. It wouldn't be difficult for FUC to make a concession, but they just stubbornly refuse to budge an inch, which really feels like they're deliberately bullying people.

Because of this deliberate act, Xu Qingyao was actually holding a grudge.

That was the resentment of being looked down upon.

She never considered asking Fu Jingting for help with this matter. Firstly, she couldn't disregard Qingyao's pride. However, the most important reason was that she really wanted to be with him at the time, and she wouldn't ask him for help, wanting to keep their relationship pure.

However, Xu Qingcheng did consider selling the house if Qingyao couldn't make up the shortfall, but she knew her brother wouldn't accept the plan, so she never mentioned it.

However, Fu Jingting's mention of this matter today made Xu Qingcheng feel somewhat annoyed, and she was even more unwilling to be looked down upon.

"My sale of this house has nothing to do with the Xu family's investment, nor does it have anything to do with whether I need money or not. It's just that I don't need houses, so this one is basically vacant and there's no point in keeping it."

"You don't need it?"

The man asked the question with a rising tone at the end, his eyes fixed on her, a slight smirk on his lips, seemingly scoffing at her boastful words. He sneered, "Yours? Or your new lover's?"

Xu Qingcheng's face snapped up, her eyes blazing with fury as she glared at him.

His tone was so contemptuous that Xu Qingcheng really wanted to ask, "Fu Jingting, what kind of woman am I in your eyes?"

But at this moment, she suddenly felt very weak and didn't want to give any explanation. "Young Master Fu, please let me go. You also have a fiancée. Don't let your fiancée misunderstand!"

"Do you think she'll misunderstand? She's seen you before at Jingshan No. 1. Why didn't you say she'd misunderstand when you kissed me in front of her? Isn't it a bit too late to worry about her misunderstanding now?"

"Fu Jingting!"

Her chest felt like it was about to burst, and Xu Qingcheng bit his name hard, her eyes reddening. "If you had told me back then that you had someone else in your heart, I wouldn't have had any contact with you. And don't use these things to humiliate me. I take back everything I ever said."

"Words spoken are like water spilled; do you think you can take them all back?" Fu Jingting's face was tense, and cold sweat was breaking out on his forehead. His stomach was suddenly churning with pain, but he ignored it all.

The man gripped her chin with his fingers, lifting her face up, his eyes filled with hatred. "You really can say anything you want."

It can also be taken back at will.

Xu Qingcheng's face was pale. She bit her lip lightly, her gaze fixed on the man in front of her. "You will start your new life, and so will I... Can we just let bygones be bygones?"

"At that time... I didn't expect it to cause such a huge chain reaction."

If she had known, she definitely wouldn't have done that.

But it's all in vain to say anything more at this point.

Tears welled up in Xu Qingcheng's eyes, which she forcefully suppressed. "I'm sorry. I didn't expect something like this to happen to you."

"Ha, you think you can erase everything and start a new life with just an 'I'm sorry'? Xu Qingcheng, aren't you being too naive?" The man's low laughter suddenly filled the air. He suddenly leaned down, his lips close to her ear. "Let me tell you, if you can't get over it, you can forget about starting a new life."

Suddenly, she felt a sharp pain in her ear as if he were biting her. He was maliciously nibbling at her ear, his tongue sweeping across her cochlea before sliding down to bite her earlobe. The earring on her ear was pulled, causing her some pain.

Xu Qingcheng was shocked. She roared, "Fu Jingting, are you insane!"

He thought he was crazy!

He didn't want to continue with her. There was a hole in his heart, a hole she had brutally ripped open, a hole that could never be filled or sealed, a cold wind howling through it. Rationally, he knew he shouldn't continue this entanglement, but he couldn't help himself.

Whether she took the initiative to show her affection or had ulterior motives, he was both extremely resistant and unable to control himself as he fell into her alluring trap.

His body was like ice and fire intertwined, constantly tormented, while she was always carefree and unrestrained, treating love or not as a game.

She actually wanted to start a new life. How could he bear to let her enjoy her freedom alone, and how could he watch her smiling radiantly as she was with someone else?

Since he can't do it, she shouldn't either.

Don't think about it.

First, Zhong Wanxiu suddenly ran to FUC and asked him to put Xu Qingcheng down, saying that she had already found a man.

Then Wen Fei sent him a photo, saying that she ran into Xu Qingcheng and her boyfriend while shopping with Zhong Wanxiu.

The photo shows a man helping her put on jewelry; the two of them are in profile, and she is smiling gently.

That was an expression Fu Jingting had never seen before.

Different people, talking about the same thing, subtly probing his emotions, all wanting him to let go, yet all relentlessly using the matter to provoke him.

With his emotions surging to the extreme, he just wanted to destroy everything without mercy.

"Let me go, let me go!" Xu Qingcheng slapped him hard, trying to push him away, but the man's strong body was like an impenetrable wall, and no matter how she struggled, she could not break free.

Not only that, he went even further, his hot, wet kisses sliding down her neck, her hands pinned behind her back, her whole body facing him in a welcoming posture.

"Fu Jingting, you can't do this to me! Let go!" Xu Qingcheng cried out.

"Can't I?" The man's hot voice slipped into her ear, "Your ability to say one thing and mean another is getting stronger and stronger, but your body doesn't quite live up to that."

"Get out! Let go of me!" Xu Qingcheng screamed. How could he do this? Where did he intend to put her?!

He got engaged, and she watched as the two of them received blessings from friends and family. She saw the relieved expressions on his parents' faces as they left, and she also saw Wen Fei's joyful face.

He may not like her, but how could he treat her like this?!

Fu Jingting reached out and untied his tie, binding her wrists. He pinned her to the sofa, unable to move. Xu Qingcheng trembled with rage, her eyes bloodshot, glaring at him with fiery intensity. "Fu Jingting, you're engaged!"

You have a fiancée!

"How can you do this to Wen Fei?"

She tried to use this incident to remind him that even if he thought of her in a depraved way, he should still think about the person in his heart.

But her words had no effect on Fu Jingting. Like a demon, he was determined to drag her into hell.

"Bastard! Let me go! Waaah..." Xu Qingcheng's eyes were filled with tears.

Xu Qingcheng's eyes reddened with hatred.

The man winced in pain, his hand slid across his face, staining his lips a deep crimson, giving him an indescribably alluring look.

But then he noticed her pale lips and covered her eyes with one hand, masking all the color from her face.

Even now, he still remembers that she faints at the sight of blood.

In her despair and collapse, Xu Qingcheng even felt that he was gentle, but this gentleness, used in the wrong place, became a knife, slowly and deliberately cutting into her heart.

He was not the person she remembered. Time had confused everyone, and no one was the same person they used to be.

Fu Jingting looked down at her; her face was covered in tears, and the sleeves wrapped around her eyes were soaked with tears.

……

The moment his wrists were freed, Xu Qingcheng slapped him hard across the face, but her hand was caught before it could touch his cheek.

Fu Jingting pulled the person into his arms and held them tightly. The two were so close, yet their hearts could never seem to connect.

"You're shameless!"

Xu Qingcheng couldn't break free; she was like a little fox that had fallen into a tiger's mouth, with no chance of escape whatsoever.

"Shameless?" The man's eyebrows curled into a cold smile. "Don't talk to men about shamelessness."

Xu Qingcheng's head was spinning with anger. "You said we were over, and I would never appear in front of you again. I won't play games with you, and I can't afford to. You can be shameless, but I still have my pride, and I have my own life! Fu Jingting, you can't treat me like this!"

Fu Jingting looked at her calmly, "Xu Qingcheng, don't expect me to let you off the hook."

He just couldn't stand seeing her have a new life.

His eyes and brows were filled with an evil aura, seeping out in every wisp. Those eyes, which had been cold and dark since we met again, were now tinged with wickedness, and he seemed to have changed completely.

It overlaps with the shameless person I remember.

Xu Qingcheng's eyes were red, and tears suddenly welled up again.

Fu Jingting kissed her eyes, ignoring her turning her face away in refusal, "Be good, don't cry. I originally wanted to let you go."

Let him off the hook.

"But I don't want to anymore, and you can't get rid of me. Do you know what I was thinking in the moment before I fell into the Genjiang River and lost consciousness?"

His voice was deep and hoarse. The wind was strong that day. Before he fell into a coma, he could only think of her. When he heard the news of his death, would she shed a single tear for him?

This woman is too ruthless; she probably won't shed a single tear.

"If I don't die, you'll never have a good life."

Don't try to get rid of him.

"You want to brand me a mistress, to make me despised by everyone?" Xu Qingcheng's eyes were bloodshot; she was so angry she felt like her soul was leaving her body. "How could you be so cruel!"

He's utterly wicked, wicked to the core, and knows exactly how to inflict excruciating pain on her.

"Are you scared? Shouldn't you be quite adept at handling this kind of thing?"

"roll!"

Xu Qingcheng was so angry that she was stunned and couldn't even speak.

He actually had this plan.

Fu Jingting grabbed her wrists with both hands, stroking the marks left on her wrists from her struggles. "If you listen to me, you won't get hurt."

"Why should I obey?" Anger was not enough to describe Xu Qingcheng's feelings.

Fu Jingting's eyes narrowed, and he reached out to pull her waist down, pressing her against him. "Because I'm your man."

"You are not."

Xu Qingcheng vehemently denied it, but he didn't give her a chance to deny it, demonstrating through his actions that only her man could do this with her.

In his frenzied confusion, he asked her, "Who is Brother Yin?"

Fu Jingting had to admit that her intimate words about missing that man were like a huge thorn. He thought the pain would subside, but he found that even now, he couldn't pull it out.

She didn't speak.

No matter how hot the body is, the heart is cold.

Fu Jingting's fingers touched her trembling eyelashes, which were wet with tears, making her look weak and pitiful. "I don't care who he is. Stay away from him, Qingcheng. You probably don't want our business to involve other people."

Since his return, this was the first time he had called her Qingcheng so gently, yet it was a threat.

Xu Qingcheng glared at him, "Fu Jingting, don't make me hate you."

"Have you done this kind of thing with him?" The man's dark eyes persisted.

Xu Qingcheng broke free of his wrist and slapped him hard across the face, tears streaming down her face. "Fu Jingting, what do you take me for? A woman who sleeps with any man she wants? Is that how cheap I am in your eyes?!"

She hit him hard, her cheek burning with pain, but Fu Jingting didn't even flinch. Her tears flowed so fiercely, as if she were the one who had been hit.

With her tongue lightly touching the corner of his lips, the slap she gave him was both painful and pleasurable, yet Fu Jingting wasn't angry at all.

well.

Since it has never happened before, it is even less likely to happen in the future.

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