Mu Chenxi just wanted to get back at Fu Zhi. As for whether or not their movie director could produce a good script, it was none of her business.

  That said, she still understood the gravity of the situation. Therefore, she said, “Dad, don’t mind Fu Zhi for now. Just focus on Pure Feather. I heard that Lu Jingqing is in Myanmar right now for a stone-gambling event. Why don’t we invite the Lus to our house when he returns? Then, we can put pressure on them. I’m sure he will give up on Fu Zhi!”

  Besides, it would be fine even if the Lu Family refused to cut ties with Fu Zhi. After all, they still had Ye Shiyun.

  Ye Shiyun was the most famous celebrity right now. If he and his fans knew that his first film adaptation had been ruined by an unknown little girl, there was no way they would let her off the hook so easily.

  Mu Chanqing narrowed his eyes.

  ‘Stone gambling in Myanmar, huh? Lu Jingqing doesn’t have much knowledge in this industry, yet he still hopes that he’ll get a good-quality jade from Myanmar? He’s really such a fool! All I have to do is wait until he loses all his money and his company. Then, I’ll just need to pressure him a little, and he will certainly abandon Fu Zhi!’

  *

  On the other side of the city, after Fu Zhi got home, she was shocked to find out that Ye Jiu was still in her house.

  The tall young man was sitting on the couch. He was holding a cup of orange juice while watching a soap drama with Xu Wei. There was a smile on his face, and it seemed to Fu Zhi that he was having a good time.

  Ye Jiu seemed to not notice her when she walked into the living room. He looked at Xu Wei and asked, “Is this a cute, butterflies-in-your-stomach type of romantic drama? I don’t really like it. I prefer the type with the bossy president that tortures the heroine by putting her in jail, making the heroine have a miscarriage in jail. Then, the bossy president will ask his secretary if the heroine knows she was wrong. The secretary will reply with something along the lines of ‘Nope, madam has married your father and she’s your step-mother now. She has given birth to your stepbrother, and she’s coming after you to get revenge!’.”

  Fu Zhi was speechless.

  ‘Anyone with a sane brain would not direct a maladroit drama like this one.’

  Xu Wei sighed. “Too bad the television station is prohibited from broadcasting a drama like this. Actually, I prefer this kind of drama as well.”

  “Why don’t we ask Zhizhi, Yumo, and Yushen to play it for you? Yushen will be the phony little b*tch, and Yumo will be the hard-pressed heroine, while Zhizhi will be the brainless but bossy president.”

  Fu Zhi looked expressionlessly at Ye Jiu.

  Meanwhile, Lu Yushen had just come downstairs. He approached Fu Zhi and joined her to look expressionlessly at Ye Jiu.

  Ever since Ye Jiu had come to their house, he had dominated all the couches in it. Not only that, but he’d also taken away the model house he had made for Fu Zhi with pink rhinestones.

  Everything in Ye Jiu’s room was pink in color, including his pillows and the cup he used to drink water.

  Lu Yushen treated his sister like a princess, but things had been different after Ye Jiu’s arrival. He was not a prince, yet he behaved as badly as a prince and he would cry whenever things did not go his way.

  Lu Yushen set his jaw tight and asked Fu Zhi, “Now that your biological brother has come back to find you, do you still like me?”

  Fu Zhi nodded and answered without any hesitation, “What are you talking about? Of course I still like you.”

  Her answer finally put Lu Yushen’s restless mind at ease. He looked at her and said, “Then…… Let me make another pink-colored model house for you.”

  After saying that, he went closer and whispered into her ear, “I’ll secretly bring it to you when it’s done.”

  Ye Jiu scoffed inwardly.

  ‘Scrooge. I wouldn’t want it even if you gave it to me.’

  He pulled out his phone and then froze when he saw Ye Qi’s message.

  Before they went to have dinner, he approached Fu Zhi and said, “Ye Qi is going back to Country M. Do you want to go and see him?”

  *

  The night in Yu City was particularly cold, as it was now winter. After Fu Zhi finished her dinner, she put on a jacket and flagged a cab to the nearest coffee shop.

  When she entered the coffee shop, her body slowly warmed up thanks to the space heater. A waitress with flushed cheeks went up to her and said, “Erm, he went out to buy something for you. He asked me to tell you to wait for him in private room No. 207.”

  Fu Zhi nodded. After she went into the private room, she took off her jacket and put it on a hanger.

  After a short while, Ye Qi returned. The waitress could not help taking a photo of him. She wanted to know what was going on in the private room, but she knew that was not the right thing to do.

  She thought for a moment and decided to post the photo on her Weibo with the caption “Blessed Love”.

  After doing that, she calmed herself down and got back to work.

  When Ye Qi entered the room, the first thing he saw was Fu Zhi, who was sitting on the soft cushion.

  Her face was red, and there were beads of sweat on her forehead due to the high temperature in the room.

  He stood there and looked blankly at her.

  She had used a red hairband to loosely tie her hair behind her shoulder.

  Ye Qi suddenly remembered the time when they had still been in the laboratory.

  Fu Zhao had clumsy hands. He had always made Fu Zhi wince in pain whenever he’d combed her hair, and she would hug Ye Qi’s leg and complain to him.

  She had grown considerably taller now. She no longer was the little girl who would hug his leg and she would not complain about everything to him in her little girly voice.

  She had a new family. Her new parents loved her a lot, and she finally had a normal life.

  She did not have an antisocial personality according to the International Crimes Unit’s test, and this was more than enough.

  Ye Qi told himself that he should be grateful for everything he had now.

  The milk tea in his hand was getting a little colder.

  Fu Zhi noticed him, so she turned her head around. Her eyes glowed, and she said happily, “You’re back?”

  Ye Qi’s heart melted when he saw her smile. He offered her a smile as if the two of them had not seen each other for years. He took a seat opposite her and handed her the milk tea. “It’s a little cold. Do you still want it?”

  Fu Zhi nodded. She put the straw in the cup and began sipping on the milk tea, which put a smile on Ye Qi’s face.

  Fu Zhi then said, “Ye Jiu told me that you’re going back to Country M…… You’ve seen Ye Jiu’s physical condition, and I’m sure your condition is no better than his. I still haven’t found a way to develop a drug to inhibit the failure of your organs. You……”

  Fu Zhi wanted to ask him to stay. However, she realized that both she and China had been absent for most of his life.

  Thus, she phrased her words in a different way. “What are you going to do in Country M? China is pretty good as well.”

  Ye Qi looked at her without saying anything. Then, he lowered his head and asked softly, “If I stay in China, can I stay with you?”

  Fu Zhi was stunned.

  “I’m just kidding.”

  The tips of Ye Qi’s fingers started turning white as he said, “Both this country and Ye Jiu are too noisy. I like to be alone.”

  He knew that they posed too much of a threat to society as adults, so unless they could prove that they did not have an antisocial personality, they would not be allowed to stay in this country.

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  Chapter 384: Fu Zhi: I Will Go Look For You, Whatever It Takes

  Fu Zhi already had Ye Jiu, and she could not take him in like she had when she was a child.

  ‘It’s fine,’ Ye Qi told himself. He wasn’t really upset after all.

  *

  The street was filled with pedestrians by the time they came out of the coffee shop at 8:00 p.m.

  The wind was freezing, and Ye Qi wrapped his scarf around Fu Zhi’s neck.

  The waitress in the coffee shop looked on longingly as Ye Qi slowly disappeared from her line of vision.

  Ye Qi was walking slowly ahead. Fu Zhi seemed to feel something, but she could not tell what kind of feeling that was.

  She took a few quick steps to catch up to Ye Qi and asked, “When are you going back to Country M?”

  “Maybe tonight? Maybe tomorrow? I’m not sure either.”

  “Then when are you coming back?”

  Ye Qi came to an abrupt stop when he heard this question. He pressed his lips firmly and replied, “I’m not coming back again.”

  Fu Zhi was disappointed, and she did not know what to say.

  Ye Qi rubbed her head and said, “Don’t give me that face. You should be comforting me. Repeat after me: I will miss you. Come on, say it.”

  “I will come to see you,” Fu Zhi said, her voice stern and her face serious, “If I miss you badly, I will come to see you. Just like I used to do when we were kids.”

  The street lamp above them flickered, and snow finally fell in Yu City.

  She stood under the snow and said she would run to see him. So yeah, he could finally stop thinking about wanting to stay with her forever.

  He bent forward and pulled her into his embrace, stunning Fu Zhi.

  “Don’t spoil Ye Jiu too much,” Ye Qi said as he rested his chin on her shoulder, his voice thick with emotion. “If he bullies you, you need to tell me. Also, I’ll miss you.”

  He was their brother, and he did not want to make things difficult for either Fu Zhi or Ye Jiu.

  A snowflake fell on Fu Zhi’s eyelashes, and she nodded. “If he bullies me, I will beat him.”

  Ye Qi rubbed her head and said softly, “Okay.”

  Then, he let go of her and pointed in the distance. “It’s getting late. You should go home.”

  As he was talking, he pushed Fu Zhi forward.

  The streetlights on both sides of the street were bright, and she looked back at Ye Qi, who was standing under a streetlight.

  He looked lonely, and she had no idea why, but a strong sense of guilt was rising from her stomach pit.

  “Are you not going home?”

  Ye Qi chuckled. He waved his hand and said, “I’ll go back when you get home.”

  Fu Zhi took two more steps forward.

  The snowfall became heavier.

  Lu Yumo had run away from the house today.

  This was because Xu Wei had only focused on making dumplings for Ye Jiu and had not made him his favorite Cola chicken wings.

  He had earned quite a sum from his Taobao shop, so he had enough money to run away from home.

  However, Xu Wei had not called him to ask him to come home yet.

  Lu Yumo called Fu Zhi and complained. “She doesn’t love me at all. Can’t she see that I’m just playing hard to get? Besides, does she not know why I ran away from home? Is it really because I am childish?”

  Fu Zhi did not know what she should say. She wanted to say yes, but Lu Yumo did not give her the chance before he continued. “Of course not! How can I keep staying in such a sad place when a stranger suddenly crashed into my house and took my sister and parents away from me? It goes without saying that I don’t want to see him at all!

  “When a man says no, does he really mean it? When a man says he wants a quiet life, does he really mean he wants a quiet life? Wrong! It’s all a lie! The whole world is fake! It’s because we’re jealous! The unreachable always unsettles you. We men have a lot of troubles on our minds that we can’t tell anyone about, and dense girls like you will never be able to understand us!”

  Fu Zhi’s heart trembled.

  The snowfall grew even heavier.

  Couples hugging each other and families taking pictures together could be seen everywhere on the street.

  Fu Zhi’s figure was getting smaller and smaller in his line of vision.

  The snow that fell on Ye Qi’s shoulder melted and seeped into his clothes.

  A little boy was standing next to him, pouting unhappily because his mother was forcing him to take a picture.

  When the mother saw Ye Qi, she asked, “Can you help us take a photo?”

  Ye Qi took the phone and took two photos very seriously. Then, he gave the phone back to the mother.

  The mother-and-son pair expressed their gratitude, and the mother said, “Is she your girlfriend? She looks very pretty, and you two make a good couple.”

  “Ah.” Ye Qi smiled, “She’s my sister.”

  The boy licked his lollipop and chimed in, “Liar. If you’re her brother, then why don’t you go home with her?”

  ‘That’s because that’s her home.’

  The street was filled with roars of laughter. The woman covered her son’s mouth and offered Ye Qi an embarrassing smile.

  Ye Qi could still feel the heat of Fu Zhi’s skin lingering on his fingers. He walked along the street, looking numbly at the men and women on the side of the road and feeling somewhat bewildered.

  Well, people always said that life was unpredictable, and one could never know what would happen next. In Ye Qi’s case, he was still oblivious to the things that were going to happen in the next few seconds.

  After a short while, the boy ran up to him and clutched his sleeve.

  “Mister! Mister!

  “Mister, stop. I was wrong about you!

  “Your sister has returned to take you home!”

  He turned around and saw a young lady running toward him amidst the snow.

  Ye Qi opened his arms, and she threw herself into his embrace. She raised her head, looked into his eyes, and said in a nasal voice, “I will teach Ye Jiu to be a useful person to society. I will not let him become a bad person. He will get better little by little, so wait for us, brother. Wait for us to pick you up. Then, we will come home together.”

  *

  Ye Qi returned to Country M that night.

  After Fu Zhi returned to the Lu Mansion, she went back to her room. She flipped through Ouyang Feng’s notebook, but there were some parts that she could not fathom, which annoyed her a lot.

  Just like Ouyang Feng had said, he would not jot down everything in his notebook, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that his notebook was even messier than Ouyang Zhui’s notes, even though Ouyang Zhui’s notes were the messiest thing she had seen in this world.

  There were a lot of concepts and mechanisms that Fu Zhi could not make heads or tails of.

  She was upset. She could not sleep, and it was only then that she realized why Ouyang Feng would willingly give her his notebook.

  He had given her the notebook but he had not given her any guidance. If Fu Zhi did not understand something, she would go ask him.

  When she went to ask him, he would ask her to be his disciple. Otherwise, he would not teach her.

  ‘How evil!’

  On the other side of the city, Ouyang Feng did not know why but he suddenly felt a shiver down his spine.

  Ouyang Ya, who was standing beside him, hastily said, “Are you alright, master?”

  Ouyang Feng shook his head. He was confident that someone must be cursing him behind his back right now.

  He turned around and sat on the chair. Rubbing the center of his forehead, he asked through clenched teeth, “Why did you come to Yu City?”

  “There’s an exchange meeting between Hang Yuan and No.1 High School, and I’m one of Hang Yuan’s shareholders,” Ouyang Ya said. “Master, you told me that if you couldn’t find a successor within five years, you would consider me. Does the offer still stand?”

  When Ouyang Ya had first joined the Ouyang Family, she had heard a lot about Ouyang Feng and she’d admired him a lot. She had vowed to herself that she had to become Ouyang Feng’s disciple one day, and even after she had been adopted by the Ouyang Family, she had not forgotten the promise she had made to herself.

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