Halfway to Mountain Villa.
"If you have any issues, take them out on me. It has nothing to do with anyone else. Let Miss Ji go."
Ye Cheng stood before Zimei, speaking coldly.
"If I didn’t do this, would you come to see me?" Zimei lightly swirled the red wine in her glass, raising her bewitching gaze fixedly on the excessively handsome man in front of her.
"There’s no need for all this effort. I told you long ago, from now on, we are strangers, no interference with each other." Ye Cheng looked at her expressionlessly.
"What you say doesn’t matter."
Zimei stood up, lifting the glass of red wine to his face. "This is a French rarity I specially brought for you. Want to try?"
Ye Cheng coldly brushed her hand aside. "This is the last time I meet you."
With that detached remark, he turned and walked away.
Zimei’s composed expression crumbled in an instant. She shouted emotionally at his retreating figure, her voice breaking apart, "Why? Why can’t we go back to how we were? I have everything now, Ye Cheng. I want you to come back to me!"
Pain flickered in Ye Cheng’s eyes for a moment before vanishing. He didn’t look back, leaving resolutely, just like before.
Zimei flung the wine glass in her hand heavily to the ground. The wine splattered instantly, and the glass shattered into shards.
Zimei stood frozen, staring at the crimson liquid like blood on the floor, her tears flowing in torrents.
A few minutes after Ye Cheng’s departure, someone cautiously reported at the door, "Boss, Miss Ji has been found by Gu Moqian."
Zimei dropped into the chair, her gorgeous face still stained with un-dried tears.
After a while, she spoke to the person quietly standing at the door, "Tell Miss Zhu that I’m doing this as a favor for her family’s elders, but just this once. Only this once, and nothing more."
Meanwhile, in the wine cellar, the scar-faced man was growing increasingly frenzied.
"You bitch, I’ll make you feel heaven right now!"
The scar-faced man rushed to undo his belt.
Ji Wei was pinned tightly against the wall by the man, screaming in terror, her entire being on the verge of breakdown.
At that moment, Gu Moqian’s face suddenly flashed in her mind.
His brows were handsome and his deep, ink-black eyes carried a gentle light. When he looked at her, they were filled with fondness, care, and joy.
He said, "Ji Wei, the only candidate for Mrs. Gu has always been you."
He said, "It’s fine, I’m here."
He said, "Because you’re my woman."
He said, "I miss you."
Despair gripped Ji Wei’s heart, but at the same time, determination burned fiercely.
In this life, her body and soul belonged to Gu Moqian alone. If she was going to be violated by another man, she would rather die!
Ji Wei’s bloodied lips suddenly curved into a smirk.
The next second, she bit down on her lips fiercely, gathering all her strength, and slammed her head viciously into the scar-faced man’s forehead.
Caught off guard by her sudden action, the scar-faced man groaned as he held his aching head. When he looked up again, cruelty shone unmistakably in his eyes.
"You slut! I’ll ruin you!"
The scar-faced man raised his foot to kick Ji Wei, but she staggered to dodge it, losing her balance and falling to the floor.
The scar-faced man raised his foot again, aiming a savage kick at her!
Ji Wei stared at him with blood-red eyes, biting her lips hard, refusing to cry out in pain.
"So you dare to go against me? I’ll kick you to death!"
Like he was venting his anger, the scar-faced man kicked her repeatedly with merciless force.
Ji Wei’s face was drenched in cold sweat from the pain. Unable to suppress it anymore, she opened her mouth and blood spurted out.
Seeing this, the scar-faced man grabbed her by the ground, lifted her, and pinned her against the wall fiercely, preparing to force himself on her again. "This time, I’ll see what tricks you have to resist me!"
Suddenly, the wooden cellar door behind them collapsed with an explosive sound, jolting the scar-faced man into turning his head abruptly.
In an instant, a flood of people charged in. The blinding beams from their flashlights caused the scar-faced man to temporarily lose his vision.
Before he could figure out who these intruders were, Gu Moqian, leading the front, kicked him forcefully to the ground.