Song Yuqiao asked for leave and also asked Zheng Qing for Zheng Rong's phone number.

  Zheng Qing found it somewhat strange: "Didn't I already give it to you?"

  Song Yuqiao took out her mobile phone and flipped through several phone numbers that she had forgotten to save with names, asking: "Take a look. Which one is Zheng Rong's?"

  Zheng Qing re-reported Zheng Rong's mobile phone number and said: "He said he called you last time, but you didn't answer."

  Song Yuqiao suddenly remembered that there seemed to be a number from another place and said: "I'll call him back."

  When Song Yuqiao came out, he happened to see Lu Jingzhong in the corridor, who was talking to another man wearing casual clothes. Due to Pei Shichen's relationship, Song Yuqiao had also met Lu Jingzhong before, and when passing by him, he slightly nodded his head.

  Lu Jingzhong called out from behind, "Wait a minute."

  Song Yuqiao stopped in her tracks, and the man beside Lu Jing also turned his head around, "Third Aunt!"

  The man in casual attire, Song Yuqiao remembered, seemed to be called Liang Xiaoliu, yes, she had heard Pei Si Cheng call him that before.

  Liang Yi had already taken a step forward, "I was just discussing with Fifth Brother, isn't it summer now? Let's go to the seaside for vacation. However, Pei San Ge is very busy and doesn't care about us. We need you to whisper some sweet nothings in his ear, whether it's Thailand, Maldives or Hawaii, Third Sister, you have the final say, we'll cover all travel expenses."

  Song Yuqiao had no intention of going abroad for vacation with Pei Shichen, let alone following Pei Shichen's friends.

  Lu Jingzhong smiled slightly and said, "Third brother, in recent years, apart from work-related matters, it's all about his son's affairs at home. He has been looking for you all along, and now that he has finally found you, it's time for him to go out and relax a bit. We used to have times when we went out to play, but Third Brother almost never went."

  "Finally, Song Yuqiao said: 'Let me think about it. I'll give you an answer.'"

  Before leaving, Liang Yi called out: "Third sister-in-law, I'll give you a call before nightfall, don't tell third brother that we said this."

  Song Yuqiao nodded and left.

  Liang Yi looked at Song Yuqiao's back, rubbed his nose and said, "Fifth brother, do you think this Song Yuqiao can really go all the way with Pei Sange?"

  Lu Jingzhong turned around and walked towards the elevator, "Don't jinx it, or Pei San will find you to go to the boxing gym."

  Liáng Yì couldn't help but shudder. The last time he was thrown by Péi Sān Gē, his tendons and bones were almost broken, and in the end, someone had to carry him out. That kind of miserable experience, really didn't want to come again.

  ………………

  Song Yuqiao and Hua Zong came to pick up Lu Lü last time, but it was a waste of time. Lu Lü suddenly said to let Song Yuqiao open an account and transfer the money in, which ended up getting Song Yuqiao into trouble at the police station once again.

  "Is the several million in your account still there?"

  Song Yuqiao had already checked the day after she left the police station, and she said: "There is no movement, it was just frozen for two days, and then automatically unfrozen."

  Huawei slightly frowned and stopped the car. "That shouldn't be a problem, otherwise how would it have thawed? Let's wait for a while and ask Lu about this when we see her."

  This time it was a three o'clock flight, no mistake, and the two of them got off the bus together and walked to the side of the road.

  At around two or three o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was still scorching hot. Today's highest temperature reached 32 degrees Celsius. Even dogs stuck out their tongues and hid under the shade of trees to cool off.

  Song Yuqiao bought three cups of freshly squeezed orange juice, and Hua Zhen immediately opened the straw and drank it. One hand fanned the wind, "It's really damn hot, almost being roasted dry."

  Song Yuqiao simply handed over his own glass of iced orange juice to Hua Zhuan, "You drink it, I think it's fine."

  She had known since she started school that Huazhen was not afraid of the cold, but afraid of the heat. Once summer arrived, she would rather hide in an air-conditioned room for a whole day and never come out, even getting air conditioner disease once.

  Hua Yun wore a small suspender skirt with pure handmade embroidery, while Song Yuqiao wore a very formal professional attire. Under the shade of the tree, Hua Yun suddenly mentioned Zheng Rong.

  "Was Zheng Rong still chasing you at that time?"

  "When," Song Yuqiao was somewhat puzzled, "how did I not know?"

  "Didn't you used to pass love letters through me before? Ah, I forgot too. At that time, who was Zheng Rong's letter for, but it seemed like it didn't reach your hands in the end, and I didn't see it either." Hua Shuo finished a cup of orange juice, took two steps forward, walked to a trash can by the tree, threw the plastic cup into it, raised her head, and saw a woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat walking over from that direction. "Lu Lu?"

  That's right.

  Lu Lu lifted the sunglasses on her nose bridge upwards, "Hua Zhen! Song Yuqiao! Hua Zhen, you've become prettier, I heard you opened a shop and became the boss? Outstanding female boss. And Song Yuqiao, your... what's with the wound on your face?"

  Hua Yun was already hot and almost faint, she directly pulled Song Yuqiao to walk in the direction of the car, "It's a cheap trick, but now it's already inside the bureau, evil people have evil rewards, get in the car first."

  As soon as she got on the car, the temperature inside was even higher than outside. Huazhen immediately turned on the air conditioner and then took two big gulps of ice water.

  Song Yuqiao handed the orange juice in his hand to Lu Luan, sat with her in the back seat, and Hua Zhuan drove.

  Lu Lu brought back only a small and convenient luggage from Australia, Song Yuqiao had just helped her put it in the trunk when he found that he could lift it with one arm, "Why is it so light?"

  Lu Lu said casually, "I just brought two sets of clothes and makeup, I'll buy the rest when I get there."

  "Rich woman now," Hua Xuan said, seeing the dress on Lu Luan's body from the rearview mirror. It was obviously one of those expensive handmade clothes. "Made a trip abroad and got rich now?"

  It wasn't until Huazhen asked that Song Yuqiao remembered and asked: "What's going on with the money in that account?"

  Lu Lu smiled, "These two things are actually one thing, now I have a small amount of money in my hands, and it's no problem to support myself and my son..."

  "Son?!"

  But the car in front, however, was not paying attention and almost crashed into the guardrail. The driver slammed on the brakes, causing a loud screeching sound from the tires of the cars behind as they also braked suddenly.

  "Are you married? Have you had a child with a man outside?" Hua Xuan directly turned around and asked, when she got to the last question, she herself was shocked first, "Damn it, they all have children quietly!"

  The sound of the horn from the vehicle behind had already risen and fallen, so Song Yuqiao interrupted Hua Zhen's continuous questioning, asking her to drive the car to the temporary parking space in front first, and then find a place to sit down and talk slowly.

  Lulu was taken aback for a moment, "Who else has had kids?"

  Hua Yun was driving while casually saying: "Yu Qiao, her son is already over five years old."

  Lu Lu's gaze at Song Yuqiao had a hint of inquiry, "You have a child with Ye Zenan?"

  "Ye Zenan and I have already divorced."

  In fact, Song Yuqiao said that Lu Luan would not know either, because when she got married, it was completely kept secret, and even Hua Zhen knew about it later. Now that they are divorced, there won't be any waves stirred up by Shi Touzi either.

  However, Lu Lü was surprised after three seconds of silence, "When did you get married to Ye Zenan? I didn't even prepare a red envelope. Now you're getting divorced again?"

  Hua Yun found a vacant parking space, unfastened her seatbelt and said: "Didn't I tell you?"

  "Oh, that's what I forgot."

  At a roadside café, Song Yuqiao and Hua Zhen finally found out why Lu Lujun was rich.

  It should date back to the year of high school graduation, Lu Lu grew up in a single-parent family with only one father who was an alcoholic gambler and almost sold his daughter. However, Lu Lu had good grades and was pretty, so she got accepted into a university's undergraduate and graduate program, but couldn't afford it. At that time, an overseas Chinese rich businessman took notice of her and she chose to go abroad with him.

  Lu Lu finished speaking, and without looking at the faces of Hua Zhen and Song Yuqiao sitting opposite her, she lowered her eyelids, picked up the coffee cup in front of her, and savored it carefully for two mouthfuls.

  Hua Yun and Song Yuqiao exchanged a glance, they had indeed heard someone say at a class reunion two years ago that Lu Lu had seen money and left with an overseas Chinese over 50 years old, it was really shameless. At the time, Hua Yun was so angry that she wanted to fight with that female classmate.

  "What's with the son?"

  Lu Lu put down the coffee cup in her hand and said, "That rich businessman has a lot of money, but the only thing he doesn't have is a son. I got pregnant two years ago, and at that time, the doctor said it was a boy, and everyone said it was a boy. But when the baby was born, it was indeed a boy... however, he was born blind. Later, the five million yuan was compensation from that rich businessman, but there was a small mistake in between."

  "What about your son? Can his blindness be cured?" Song Yuqiao asked.

  She now hears the child, and the softest part of her heart aches slightly, possibly because of Pei Hangyu.

  "Since he's a son, that rich businessman must have stayed in Australia. Don't think nonsense, you all. It's not easy to gather once, and it's just this kind of messy thing."

  Although Lu Lü said so, Hua Zhen did not believe it. She also saw a similar look in Song Yuqiao's eyes.

  Because the two of them still remember clearly, Lu Xiang just said that she had earned enough money to support herself and her son, but now she says that her son stayed in Australia, which is obviously unreasonable.

  But seeing Lulu had already changed the subject, she didn't ask any further questions.

  Three people chatted for a while. Lu Lü had just returned from abroad by plane, and she needed to readjust to the time difference and environment. "Where are you planning to stay?"

  Lu Lu said: "Let's see which of you two is willing to take me in."

  Hua Yun has already said, "Come and live with me, now Yu Qiao is also renting a house outside."

  Hua Xuan and Song Yuqiao accompanied Lu Lulu to the mall to buy some essentials, Song Yuqiao asked: "What about the money in that account? Do you need to transfer it into an account?"

  Lu Lu waved her hand, "I'll take some time off another day to go to the bank and open a personal account of my own, then you can just transfer it over to me."

  Hua Zhen drove the car and first sent Song Yuqiao to the entrance of Jia Ge Building. After Song Yuqiao got out of the car, she restarted the engine, "Yuqiao has been busy with resignation these days, no time to entertain you, where do you want to eat?"

  "Let's go to the Chinese restaurant, I'm sick of Western food abroad," Lu Liao looked inside and saw that Song Yuqiao had already walked far away, asking Hua Shuang, "Song Yuqiao and Ye Zenan are divorced, and she even gave birth to a son for him?"

  "No," Huazhen turned the steering wheel to the right and said, "The child was born in Vancouver, but after coming back, she lost some of her memory..."

  Hua Xuan told Lu Lian about her own situation, and she found that when she mentioned Pei Si Cheng's name, there was still a lump in her heart, but it no longer had the initial awkwardness.

  She couldn't help but smile wryly, time was indeed a good medicine, and it was possible that by the time Pei Su Cheng and Song Yu Qiao got married, she would be able to attend as a bridesmaid without any qualms.

  "Was she married to Ye Zenan after returning from Vancouver?"

  "Yes, but I'm not sure what happened abroad at that time either. However, the fact that I lost my memory is confirmed."

  Lu Lu looked out of the window, "It's confirmed, she forgot some things."

  On the left side of Hua's car, there was a reckless overtaking vehicle. She directly pressed the horn frantically and didn't hear what Lu said clearly, so she asked: "What?"

  "It doesn't matter."

  ………………

  After Song Yuqiao arrived at Jia Ge, Zheng Qing had already gone through the venue setup and advertising arrangements. When she arrived, she saw Zhang Menglin again, who was applying an ice pack to one side of her face. Seeing Song Yuqiao, she gave her a fierce glare, with a particularly venomous gaze. Song Yuqiao thought that if Zhang Menglin's eyes had arrows, she would have been pierced by a thousand arrows already.

  It doesn't matter anyway, she never cared about people who didn't care about her.

  When Zheng Qing returned to Shallow Language Company together, Song Yuqiao received a call from Song Jierou.

  Song Yuqiao didn't think much and directly hung up, she didn't want to have any more dealings with Song Jierou or Xu Wanli. The last bit of feelings she had left for the Song family was her grandmother, as for the others who were not good to her, she remembered it in her heart.

  But unexpectedly, Song Jierou blocked her at the company entrance.

  Song Yuqiao wanted to bypass Song Jierou and head straight inside, but she was caught by her directly grabbing her arm, blocking the way.

  Song Jieyou said in a very stern tone: "I have something to say to you."

  "Should I go get security?" asked Zheng Qing beside him.

  "Not necessary," Song Yuqiao said, "I'll be right there."

  "What's with the wound on your face?" Song Jiejue was very surprised, this kind of wound, it's obvious that it was scratched by some metal sharp object.

  Song Yuqiao slightly turned her face away, recently because of the wound on her face, she had explained enough times, and now she didn't want to explain anymore.

  "If nothing else, then I'll be off."

  Needless to say, Song Yuqiao also knew that Song Jiejue came to find her because of Xu Wanli. Song Jiejue pulled Song Yuqiao's wrist and said, "Let's sit down somewhere and talk."

  "If you have anything to say, just say it here. Anyway, it's only a few words." Song Yuqiao pulled his arm out of Song Jieruo's hand and stood still on the spot. "If you don't have anything to say, then I'll go to work first. I still need to make money to support myself, unlike some people who can just sit back and enjoy life without doing anything."

  Song Jierou turned around, "I want to talk to you about Lili," she paused, "Lili is my daughter."

  Song Yuqiao's footsteps stopped abruptly, and he turned around to look at Song Jierou with a gaze full of astonishment.

  She knew that her aunt had been treating Xu Yuanyi's daughter differently since she was a child. Her sister Song Shuying had once guessed that Xu Wenyu might be the illegitimate daughter of their aunt Song Jierou, but at the time, the two sisters were just speculating among themselves and didn't think it would actually be true...

  Song Yuqiao adjusted his emotions and followed Song Jierou's footsteps to a Western restaurant not far away.

  ………………

  At the same time, on the 63rd floor of the Bai's building, Yu Na, who worked outside the CEO's office, saw Ye Zenan again.

  Ye Zenan walked up to Yu Na and asked: "I'm looking for your CEO Pei."

  This time, Pei Si Cheng was not in a meeting, but simply sitting in the office looking at documents. Yu Na pressed the intercom on her desk, informed him as usual, and got his consent. Then she turned sideways to open the door, "Director Ye, please come in."

  Ye Zenan walked in with a steady pace and sat down behind the office desk. Pei Si Cheng took off his glasses from the bridge of his nose and pressed his brow.

  Yuna put a glass of water on the coffee table and then left, after which Ye Zhenan took out a bottle of medicine and placed it in front of Pei Si Cheng, "Take a look at this medicine."

  Pei Si Cheng raised his eyes and glanced at Ye Ze Nan, picked up the medicine bottle, held it in his palm, and looked at the English instructions on it. "It's a type of vitamin C medication, what's wrong with it?"

  Ye Zenan said: "Actually, it's not. I specifically asked the hospital doctor to check, this is a suppressive drug for treating mental illness, and it was the medicine given to Song Yuqiao."

  Paisong's gaze suddenly deepened, as if at this time near dusk, the afterglow of the sunset shone on the glass skyscraper across the street, and the refracted light suddenly made his face stand out with a deep and shallow three-dimensional sense.

  Ye Zenan also sensed the intense aura that Pei Sicheng suddenly emitted, but since he had decided to come, he didn't plan on being afraid. Although in his heart, there were still a few parts of fear, mainly because the oppressive feeling that Pei Sicheng gave people was too strong.

  "This medicine was sent to my home from Vancouver, Canada two months ago. Later, Song Yuqiao came to my home to take the medicine and had a dispute with my mother, but in the end, the medicine was not taken away. My mother even stayed in the hospital that time."

  Pai Si clenched his fist, with his fingers curled and his knuckles pressed against the table, a hint of impatience in his tone. "Get to the point."

  Ye Zenan felt a fire burning in his heart, but he couldn't find an outlet. He clenched his fists and said: "She's lost her memory, there was a period of time she completely forgot, now taking this medicine, I think it should include the time with her mother in Vancouver, maybe she was stimulated and got a mental illness, although it may have healed now, but a part of her memory has been completely erased..."

  Among them was the memory of him being calculated by Lu Lian and betraying Song Yuqiao.

  But these words were left unspoken by Ye Zenan.

  Even in one's own memory, it is a dirty mark, and it is even more difficult to mention it to others.

  However, after hearing what Ye Zenan had to say, he could see that Pei Si Cheng didn't have much fluctuation, at least not in his expression. The heroic spirit between his eyebrows hadn't diminished in the slightest, but rather seemed to have increased a bit.

  "So, what is it you want to tell me?"

  Ye Zenan was speechless for a moment, and now, doesn't Pei Si Cheng still understand?

  "She's lost her memory, that's what I came to tell you, she's lost her memory, and judging from this medicine, it can be seen that she had a mental illness..."

  However, Ye Zenan saw Pei Si Cheng's calm expression and his voice gradually lowered.

  Pei Si put his hands together in a prayer-like gesture on the table, facing Ye Ze Nan's back, and said: "You've been in charge of Ye Corporation for three to five years now, haven't you? Can't you still learn how to get straight to the point? As a high-level leader, what you must do is make your employees or subordinates understand your meaning within three sentences, rather than wasting time and effort guessing your meaning, got it?"

  Ye Zenan's hand was already on the door handle of the office, and when he heard Pei Si Cheng's words, the anger that had been building up inside him finally erupted. He turned around and rushed towards Pei Si Cheng, raising his fist and punching him hard.

  However, what surprised Ye Zhenan was that Pei Sucheng had the opportunity to dodge, but he didn't. The corner of Pei Sucheng's mouth had split open, and blood was seeping out from the corner of his mouth.

  But just as Ye Zenan's hand grasped Pei Su Cheng's collar and his fist was about to strike again, Pei Su Cheng countered with an elbow to Ye Zenan's ribs. "Don't be a person who takes advantage of others' kindness. Just because I tolerated your first punch doesn't mean I'll tolerate your second."

  Pei Si usually doesn't take action, but when he does, it's always ruthless. Ye Zhenan immediately relaxed his grip, one palm pressing against his own ribcage, his facial features twisted in agony, speaking with gasps of air between his teeth.

  Pei Su Cheng said: "I and Qiao Ruolan, don't need others to point fingers, as for this medicine thing, it doesn't matter what purpose you gave it to me for, I received it and understood it. I still say the same thing, Ye Ze Nan, remember, or else you will suffer losses sooner or later."

  After Ye Zenan left, Pei Sicheng sat on the chair, holding the medicine bottle and looked at it for a long time. He then twisted open the cap, took out the pills inside and smelled them, looked at them, even put one between his lips and tongue to taste, before pressing the intercom, "Yu Na, arrange for the meeting later, and have Li Bei prepare a car for me."

  ………………

  In the café, Song Jieyou found a slightly secluded spot and ordered a cup of coffee for herself, asking Song Yuqiao what she wanted to drink.

  Song Yuqiao said: "I don't want anything, thank you."

  Song Jieyou's words were not credible in front of Song Yuqiao, so after digesting the shocking sentence that Song Jieyou had just said, Song Yuqiao was not too surprised now.

  Song Jierou picked up the coffee cup and took a small sip, looking up at Song Yuqiao sitting across from her. The originally clear and beautiful pale face was really ruined by the scar on her cheek, and it even looked a bit frightening.

  "Lily is my daughter, you can tell from her age, she's twenty this year. Twenty years ago, I was missing for a year, and that's when I went to have the baby elsewhere." Song Jiejiao paused, "You're now divorced from Ye Zenan, so Ye Zenan has nothing to do with you anymore, right?"

  "Yes." Song Yuqiao said firmly, his left hand already grasping the bag. "So whatever you have to do with him now, you should go find him, not come looking for me."

  "That aunt wants you to help Lily with something, and you know Ye Zhenan doesn't have a good relationship with Ben..."

  Song Jieyou hadn't even finished her sentence when Song Yuqiao interrupted her, "Does Song Hui know about this?"

  Song Jie furrowed her brow and came back to herself, "How can you directly address your father by name? No matter what he says, he is still your father."

  Song Yuqiao sneered, "Others have the qualifications to teach me like this, but only you and Song Hui are not. I don't believe in you anymore. Those who have disappointed me before, I will never have expectations for them again, forever."

  After finishing speaking, she stood up with her bag and turned around to leave.

  Song Jierou slammed the coffee cup in her hand heavily on the table, and the coffee inside splashed out, splashing onto the back of her hand.

  "You still thought you were really the young lady of the Song family? One by one, they are nothing but illegitimate children, and they don't even consider it. If there was no title of the Song family behind you, could you have climbed up to the Pei family? Dream on! No wonder someone scratched your face."

  Song Jieyou thought about it and felt that Song Yuqiao's life was really too good, why did she get divorced and still be so arrogant after a second marriage? Was she satisfied with her own luck? There must be a day when she would fall! Just wait and see!

  ………………

  Although Song Yuqiao said so, these three years have been repeatedly reminding herself that she has no relatives in the Song family, and the only remaining relative is her grandmother. Now, she still feels a dull ache in her heart.

  It's just like back then, witnessing with my own eyes the parents who were once loving and trusting each other, signing the divorce agreement and tearing their faces apart, becoming strangers. Everything that used to be seemed to shatter in an instant, like a flower in water.

  She clutched her bag strap and walked forward, on this side of the Shallow Language Company's office building, saw a pharmacy, suddenly remembered that she and Pei Si Cheng didn't take any measures the night before last, forgot about it for two days, fortunately the effective period of emergency contraception is three days.

  Song Yuqiao then entered the pharmacy, bought a bottle of emergency contraceptive pills, and the aunt standing behind the counter looked very kind and specially reminded Song Yuqiao: "This emergency contraceptive pill is harmful to the body, it's not necessary to take it unless absolutely necessary, you can take precautions in advance."

  Song Yuqiao smiled slightly: "Thank you."

  However, at this time, Song Yuqiao really didn't plan to have another child. She already had Pei Xiaohuo and hadn't even made up for the lost five years yet, so how could she want to get pregnant again? That would definitely limit her energy.

  Song Yuqiao walked forward with her head down, looking at the instructions on the emergency contraceptive pill in her hand. Suddenly, a dark shadow enveloped her and a hand took away the pill from her grasp.