Audiences in twos and threes walked out on the main road while chatting with each other.

The path outside the side door was surprisingly quiet.

In the distance, the brother and sister who came with Qin Ranqiu were still looking around on the roadside, and Zhou Song and the others were almost catching up while talking.

Under the girl's cold eyes, Qin Ranqiu wiped his face hard and stood up.

"You don't have to be sarcastic to me. I'm telling you this not for you, but for Wen Can."

Her eyes lost the gentleness and kindness that she had always pretended to have, and became much colder and sharper.

Ye Kong looked at her, and her originally uninterested emotions suddenly became more complicated and strange. This strange emotion drove her to ask another question: "Do you really like Wen Can?"

"..." Qin Ranqiu's eyes were somewhat humiliated, but he answered without hesitation, "Of course."

"Isn't it because he is very powerful?" Ye Kong raised his eyebrows and said coldly, "Isn't it because you know his status and wealth better than others?"

"..."

The girl's lips were slightly curved, but her eyes were cold, even colder than the pale sky after snow.

Qin Ranqiu looked away for a moment under her gaze, but finally looked back and answered with courage: "No - at least, not entirely like that."

They all knew what each other was talking about - when everyone thought that Wen Can was the abandoned son of the Wen family, only they knew that besides that, he had another identity.

Xingfei Group is the emerging group that appears in the news most frequently nowadays. It is obviously a high-tech company that even the country is vigorously supporting. As the boss behind it, Wen Can's current status, wealth, and future development potential are not inferior to when he was the heir to the Wen Group.

He was so powerful that it didn't matter whether the defect on his leg was real or not.

But Qin Ranqiu rarely opened his heart that was wrapped in layers of disguise, and told the truth with a steady look in his eyes: "I admit that part of it is because of this, but more importantly - from the beginning, he became different from other second-generation rich people in my eyes, because I have seen his truer side."

Ye Kong's eyes moved.

Zhou Song and others who had already walked nearby were about to come up and talk with a smile, but were stopped by Qu Wu who understood Ye Kong's expression at the moment.

"Let's go wait for her in front."

Several people walked away.

The path became increasingly quiet.

Ye Kong looked at Qin Ranqiu calmly and silently without saying a word, but was obviously waiting for her to continue speaking.

Over there, Zhou Song and his friends were being harassed by a strange brother and sister, and they could vaguely hear their noisy chatter.

Qin Ranqiu looked over there, and as his irritation rose, he felt more and more that the quietness here was a space for people to breathe. Even Ye Kong's face, which he hated the most before, was no longer unbearable.

——She would rather stay here a little longer.

Taking a deep breath, Qin Ranqiu retracted his gaze, looked at Ye Kong and said, "Actually, there's nothing much to say. That was just my one-sided peeping."

"Many years ago, after Teacher Chi passed away, we went to the Wen family to attend the funeral."

"Something happened to me at the time and I was in a bad mood. I didn't want to stay in crowded places, so I wandered around the manor and got lost. I didn't know which house I was in. In order to find the main house, I planned to climb to the roof to see the direction..."

She was just trying to delay time, but as she spoke, she seemed to be truly immersed in those memories, and her expression became subtle and bitter.

"In the end, there was a pool of water in the abandoned house. I saw Wen Can, who was supposed to be entertaining guests in the main house, by the water..."

"Master Wen," she smiled inexplicably, but it was not a smile of ridicule or admiration, but a more complex one that made people wonder how to describe it - a smile full of nostalgia, "The pride of the pride, standing at the top of our group since birth, the luckiest thing is that he has parents and a family that are happier and more normal than anyone else - he has always been a lofty existence that is looked up to by us, but at the same time, he is also a subtle existence that is envied and rejected by everyone."

"I thought... we all thought that even if a person like him died, he would express his grief in the spotlight - even his pain should be shining and lofty..."

Qin Ranqiu smiled as Ye Kong looked at him as a pervert. "Is it strange? But this circle is like this. For example, an illegitimate child whose mother died, and an heir whose mother died - no one cares about the former, but the latter can receive distinguished guests at the mother's funeral, and then cry bitterly under the attention of the public, surrounded by countless people to comfort them, and finally spread the reputation of being filial and affectionate - don't underestimate these things, reputation in the upper class is very important."

"It can be used to form marriage alliances, it can be used to manage the corporate image, it can even become the group's signboard when it is important, and it can also become an important weight in the struggle for succession rights."

"But..." She looked down at her fingers, "That day, I saw him not in the main house where there were many distinguished guests, but by the deserted lake far away from the crowds—"

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It was afternoon and the building was empty.

The late spring sun was in full swing, shining from the distant sky towards this cold, abandoned house.

The weeds had grown quite tall, and the wooden bridge that led from the outside of the house to the water was covered with moss. It looked slippery, but there were a series of footprints on it.

Qin Ranqiu, who was originally planning to climb upstairs, stopped and followed the footprints. He saw large pieces of grass leaves blown down by the wind, and then saw the young man's vague back in the wild green.

He sat on the wooden bridge by the water.

With his legs hanging over the water, facing the wild grass and the sparkling sunset, I wonder what he was thinking.

In fact, it was clearly just his back, and she couldn't see his expression at all, but...

But Qin Ranqiu was held by some huge invisible thing.

She stayed there for a long time, peering at the figure from behind, and then she noticed how loose his suit was - it clearly shouldn't be like this, Young Master Wen should have a private tailor who made clothes specifically for him, how could he wear an ill-fitting suit?

But then, she saw the blue and white striped hospital gown exposed at the collar of his hospital gown.

She then realized that he must have run away from the hospital, and remembered that the mother and son experienced the car accident together - that is, he was at the scene when his mother died.

After realizing this, Qin Ranqiu could no longer walk.

She was tired of standing, so she squatted behind the wall.

She thought it wouldn't take too long, but inexplicably she stayed there for the entire afternoon.

No one knew what he was thinking, and no one knew how long he had been there.

His body was as motionless as a sculpture, incredibly thin, and his slightly long hair was blown by the wind, revealing his thin profile, which almost made people think it was the skeleton of a young boy.

The young girl Qin Ranqiu just abandoned the elegance of a lady from a noble family and squatted there without any image or quality, in a gradually fermenting, strange mood, until the sunset filled the sky and the afterglow faded away.

Just when the last ray of orange-gold light was about to sink - she saw Wen Can finally move.

He picked up a bouquet of flowers at hand, red roses, yellow irises, and white lilies - he took the flowers from the bouquet one by one, bent over and put them into the water.

The last one was a white rose. The boy picked it up and stared at it for a long time, then put it to his lips and kissed it gently, then lowered his head and put it down.

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