From rejecting the beautiful female CEO to becoming extremely powerful

The Rolls-Royce had only driven a dozen meters when Lin Yuxuan caught up with it.

She even lost one shoe while running, and barefoot, she pounded on the car window, her fingernails scraping against the glass with a harsh sound.

"Yunzhou! Stop! I'm begging you!"

Lu Yunzhou stepped on the brakes.

It wasn't that I was being soft-hearted; it was just that the traffic light at the intersection ahead was red.

Lin Yuxuan lunged at the driver's side window and gripped the door frame tightly with both hands.

Her makeup was ruined, her eyeliner was smudged into two black streaks, and snot and tears were mixed together, making her look utterly disheveled.

"Yunzhou, I'm kneeling before you, please forgive me this once..."

She slammed her knee into the asphalt, raised her hand, and slapped herself across the face.

Snapped.

Another one.

Snapped.

He slapped her four or five times in a row, causing her cheeks to swell and blood to seep from the corners of her mouth.

Pedestrians waiting at the intersection for the red light turned their heads.

The food delivery guy on his electric scooter stopped beside me, took out his phone and started taking pictures.

Several aunties who were chatting at the entrance of the convenience store across the street also gathered around, pointing in this direction and whispering.

"This woman was kneeling on the ground hitting herself, and the man in the car didn't even look at her?"

"That's too cruel. She's a woman, after all."

"Luxury cars, huh? That's how rich people are. They play with them until they're done, then kick them aside."

The discussion grew louder and louder.

Several young girls passing by took out their phones to record the incident, cursing the scumbag.

Lin Yuxuan knelt on the ground, glancing around out of the corner of her eye.

Blood was still flowing from the corner of his mouth, and the tears were falling even more fiercely.

"Yunzhou, you can hit me, you can scold me, I'll accept anything... just don't abandon me..."

Her voice rose two octaves, trembling with sobs, and every word was precisely delivered to the ears of the onlookers.

A middle-aged man wearing glasses walked to the car window and knocked twice.

"Young man, leave some room for maneuver. The girl is already in this situation. Even if you don't stay with her, you should at least say something to comfort her."

Lu Yunzhou rolled down the car window and glanced at the man.

"If you feel bad about taking it home to raise, I won't stop you."

The middle-aged man opened his mouth, then stood there stunned.

"Get out of here, it's none of your business."

Someone next to him tugged at his arm.

Lin Yuxuan's sobs grew louder: "I know it's my fault, I'm sorry... I'll do anything you ask..."

The passenger door opened.

Mu Qingying pushed open the door and got out of the car.

Her white dress swayed briefly under the streetlights. She walked around the front of the car and went to Lu Yunzhou's side.

The intersection was quiet for half a second.

All eyes of the onlookers were on her.

Mu Qingying did not look at Lin Yuxuan.

She stood in front of Lu Yunzhou, looked up, and put her hands on his shoulders.

Before Lu Yunzhou could react, she had already tiptoed and moved closer.

The moment their lips touched, Lu Yunzhou froze on the spot.

The surrounding chatter abruptly ceased.

Mu Qingying's eyelashes trembled a few times in front of him, then relaxed after two seconds. She took half a step back, her cheeks burning red.

She took a deep breath, turned to face Lin Yuxuan kneeling on the ground, and spoke in a low voice, but everyone at the intersection could hear her clearly.

"Lin Yuxuan, what are you still kneeling for?"

The sound effect of Lin Yuxuan crying was stuck.

Mu Qingying tilted her head: "The people here may not know you, so let me explain for them."

"This woman, during the two years she lived with Yunzhou, laced his food with drugs, causing him health problems, while also working for another man..."

She paused, then chose a more restrained way of putting it, "She treated him like a pet, calling the man 'master' in the chat logs and referring to herself as 'little slave.'"

The expressions on the faces of the onlookers changed.

"She drugged someone and harmed them for three years. After being discovered, she ran away with her new master. Now that her new master doesn't want her anymore, she's come back to play the victim and gain sympathy."

Mu Qingying looked down at Lin Yuxuan, her tone as flat as if she were reading a report: "You slap yourself quite skillfully. You perform like this in front of your master, don't you?"

The intersection was completely destroyed.

"Drug her? Drug her boyfriend?"

"Calling someone else 'master'? What kind of problem is that?"

"I thought the guy was a jerk, but it turns out the woman is the really disgusting one."

"He deserved to be dumped; who would want someone like that?"

Lin Yuxuan knelt on the ground, her hands bracing against the asphalt, her whole body trembling.

She opened her mouth several times, but couldn't utter a single word.

Mu Qingying opened the car door and sat back in the passenger seat, closing the door behind her.

Lu Yunzhou came to his senses and took one last look at Lin Yuxuan on the ground.

She huddled under the streetlight, and none of the onlookers spoke up for her.

The phone cameras were all pointed at her, and the flashes were going off one after another.

The green light is on.

The Rolls-Royce drove into the traffic, and Lin Yuxuan's figure shrank to a tiny dot in the rearview mirror before being swallowed by the night.

The carriage was quiet for a while.

Lu Yunzhou gripped the steering wheel and glanced at Mu Qingying.

She huddled in the passenger seat, covering her face with both hands, her ears as red as if they were about to bleed.

"Qingying, thank you for earlier."

Mu Qingying parted her fingers a crack, revealing one eye to look at him.

"Don't thank me."

"Um?"

That was my first time.

She buried her face in her hands, her voice muffled, "Kiss someone else."

Lu Yunzhou paused for a moment on the steering wheel.

"……first?"

"You still ask!"

Mu Qingying lowered her hand, her cheeks flushed red. She glared at him, her eyes glistening with tears. "It's all that woman's fault for being so annoying. I got so anxious that I..."

She turned her face to the window halfway through her sentence, her ears burning so badly they could fry an egg on them.

Lu Yunzhou looked at the thin blush on her cheek, his Adam's apple bobbed, and he couldn't help but chuckle.

"Then how can I make it up to you?"

Mu Qingying remained silent for a few seconds.

"Buy me ice cream."

"That's it?"

"Double scoop, chocolate and strawberry, in a cone, not a cup."

She turned her head, puffing out her cheeks, "I'll treat you tomorrow, and the day after. I'll keep treating you until I feel like I'm getting my money's worth."

"OK."

Lu Yunzhou cracked open the car window, letting in the warm night breeze of early summer. "I'll treat you every day until you get tired of it."

Mu Qingying smiled slightly, shrank back into her seat, twisting her skirt with her fingers, and stopped talking.

The car stopped in front of the hotel, and the engine was turned off.

Mu Qingying unbuckled her seatbelt, placed her hand on the door handle, and didn't move.

"Senior."

"Um?"

She turned around and faced him.

The streetlights shone through the windshield, illuminating half of her face, making her eyes appear unusually bright.

"What happened today wasn't just to help you out of that predicament."

Lu Yunzhou looked at her.

Mu Qingying's fingers left the doorknob, gripped the corner of her skirt, and pinched it repeatedly.

I like you. I've liked you since college.

After she finished speaking, she seemed to have used up all her strength, and her shoulders slumped down.

Lu Yunzhou opened his mouth as if to say something, but Mu Qingying had already moved closer.

She wrapped her arms around his neck, pressed her forehead against his shoulder, and trembled.

You don't need to answer me now.

Her voice was low, her breath brushing against his ear, "But I don't want to wait any longer. Three years is long enough."

She looked up, met his eyes, and paused for a second.

When their lips touched, it was lighter and slower than the time at the intersection.

A few seconds later, Mu Qingying let go and stepped back into the passenger seat.

She pushed open the car door, and her skirt swayed slightly in the night breeze.

"You owe me the ice cream."

She smiled at him, then turned and ran into the hotel's revolving door.

The white dress disappeared into the lobby lights.

Lu Yunzhou leaned back in his chair and raised his hand to touch his lips.

The faint scent of her body still lingered in the car.