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Esther Li leaned gracefully on the matte-colored leather sofa, gently swayed the red wine in the glass with his left hand, held his mobile phone next to his ear with his right hand, and said in fluent English, "Of course, I will have a party at the banquet the day after tomorrow." I will definitely take my daughter with me."

The phone lasted for more than ten minutes before being hung up. At this moment, Steward Wang knocked on the door and walked in, saying respectfully, "Madam, the dress you want has been delivered from France."

"Got it," she put the phone on the low table, brushed a strand of hair behind her ear, and said casually, "Is Allie Liu in the room?"

Steward Wang hesitated for a while before saying, "Miss has already gone outside in a car, and she didn't specify where she was going."

Esther Li frowned slightly, "Why didn't you tell me in time."

"This... because Miss said she would be back soon." Seeing that it was already evening, Steward Wang was also a little worried.

"This child is really worrying." Esther Li picked up the mobile phone on the table and dialed a number, the light in his eyes was unpredictable.

In the hotel room, Jin Tan rested his hands on the pillow behind his head, the haze in his eyes still hadn't completely faded away, he just lay silent on the bed, not knowing what he was thinking.

Li Xiaoxin, who was reading the book at the side, still kept his eyes on the book, and suddenly said, "You have been nagging all the way, now I will be very depressed if you don't speak suddenly."

"Brother is not about to take the exam, you should continue to read your book." Jin said with a sigh.

Li Xiaoxin closed the book and put it on the bedside table, looked at Jin Tan with interest, "Why, did you hurt yourself, tell me to make me, a pre-examinee, happy."

"Ha, brother, did you ruin your brain by reading?" Jin Tan turned his face and glanced at Li Xiaoxin, then turned his head again, and after a while of silence, he said again, "Brother has lived to this age, Is there anyone you like?"

"Of course," he replied as a matter of course, and Quan Xianzhu's serious appearance when teaching him his homework immediately appeared in his mind, but...she just regarded herself as an ordinary student...Thinking of this, the corners of his mouth are also A bitter smile floated up, "As someone who has experienced it, I want to tell you that if you love someone unrequitedly, you will be depressed a lot."

"Ah, it's really depressing..." When she ignored herself, when she resolutely rejected herself, when she kissed Cui Yingdao, the feeling of depression was much more than that of the ten years before he lived .

"What, are you so depressed that you want to cry?" Li Xiaoxin joked while watching Jin Tan's dim eyes.

"What?" Jin Tan pulled a forced smile at the corner of his mouth, "I didn't shed tears when I left Korea before, let alone now, I've grown into a man."

At that time when I left, at that age, my heart was as sad as if a bloody gash had been ripped open. I was reluctant to part with my mother, and she was reluctant to part with her. However, I could only embark on the journey to a foreign country in such a cold season. At that time , How much I wanted to cry, but I still swallowed it abruptly.

Li Xiaoxin chuckled and said, "It's best for me to hold back, I can't stand a big man crying beside me..."

Before he finished speaking, a "beep" sounded, and Liu Rachel walked in directly with the key card of their room in his hand.

"What's going on, why do you have the key card of our room?" Li Xiaoxin looked at Liu Rachel in surprise.

"You don't need to worry about it," Liu Rachel replied indifferently, staring at Jin Tan on the bed, raised her chin and said, "Although it's not my style to pursue these things, but... I feel too wronged, so I will follow up." She took a deep breath and continued, "It was my fault for sending text messages to trick you into coming to the training camp, but I didn't think of today's scene, and I didn't let you come here for you to watch it."

Jin Tan looked up at her, leaning on the cushion, and didn't have the slightest intention to sit up and talk to Liu Rachel, "So, what do you want me to do? Is there still a good topic between us... Let me run so far to listen to what you said?"

"It's to help you." Her eyes were a little hurt, but she still looked at him stubbornly, "To help you, help me, and Liu Allie, but you don't answer the phone call, so you use that reason to send text messages to let me know." You came." She pursed her lips tightly, and the grievance in her heart made her eyes water.

Listening to what she said, Jin Tan frowned slightly, and his eyes gradually became serious.

"Snapped--"

With the sound of swiping the card, the door was randomly pushed open.

Cui Yingdao walked into the room which was as bright as day, behind him was Zhi Xi in a heavy cotton dress.

"The camping environment is not suitable for you, so let's stay in the hotel first today. Liu Rachel also knows that you are in this room, so you can call her if you need something. Of course..." He turned his head, with a smirk on his lips, "If you don't mind If so, I can also reluctantly stay here with you."

Listening to his usual tone and expression, she was relieved of the embarrassment caused by what happened in the training camp, walked to the bed and put the bag on it, and then said to Cui Yingdao, "No, it's already very It's getting late, so go back and rest."

Cui Yingdao shrugged regretfully, then turned around and walked towards the door.

"Cui Yingdao..." Just as he was about to step out of the door, her hesitant voice came from behind him.She lowered her eyes, her voice seemed a little soft, "I don't want to lie to you, I'm sorry, I used you tonight."

His footsteps paused, and he slowly turned his hands into his pockets, and the corners of his mouth slanted, "I'd be happier if you didn't say that."

He turned around, his evil eyes gradually became deep, he stretched out his hand and pulled the door casually, and walked out directly.

"Cui Yingdao." Leaning against the wall in the corridor, Jin Tan watched Cui Yingdao who walked out of the room with a gloomy expression, and slowly stood up straight.

Cui Yingdao met his gaze, and the eyebrows that had been stretched for a while were raised high again.

The room where both Jin Tan and Li Xiaoxin had left seemed empty, and Liu Rachel sat on the edge of the bed looking weak, looking at one place in a daze, and the words Jin Tan said kept echoing in her ears.

——"So, at a time like this, is the first thing you think of is to give up on her?" There seemed to be contempt, contempt, sadness, and sympathy in his eyes.

"...It's not about giving up, but that we are powerless." She tried to refute the powerlessness in her heart.

"No, as long as she doesn't want to, I won't let you do it." He resolutely dropped this sentence, stood up and walked out of the room.

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"What, Jin Tan, you can't even solve your own affairs, so how can you help her?" Her fingers clenched the bed sheet tightly, and after a while, she simply stood up and walked towards the door.

"Where are you going?" Li Xiaoxin, who was guarding outside, mentioned it casually when he saw Liu Rachel walking out. He heard what he said just now. The relationship between the few of them was much more complicated than he imagined, just like As Rachel Liu said, they are all vulnerable.

"Senior, don't worry about it." She ignored Li Xiaoxin and walked to the right, but Li Xiaoxin grabbed her hand.

"This is a matter between them, don't meddle in it." Li Xiaoxin said with a light sigh.

"They? Ha, Liu Allie is my younger sister, and Jin Tan is my fiancé. What did senior say about them?" She stared at Li Xiaoxin, shook his hand holding her away, and then walked to the right.

"Ah, it's really troublesome... Dealing with these things really makes me ten years old." Li Xiaoxin sighed helplessly, and followed Liu Rachel up.

When Liu Rachel arrived at the door of Zhixi's room, Jin Tan and Cui Yingdao were no longer there. She glanced at the half-closed door, pushed it open with her hand, stepped on the heavy carpet, and walked in. At the corner of the wall, she heard Liu Zhixi who was sitting on the edge of the bed with her back on the phone, and she also stopped.

"So, mother, are you planning to change the heir?"

Liu Rachel's eyes widened in disbelief when she heard Zhi Xi's words, and she put her hand on the wall all of a sudden.

Change... the heir...

Zhi Xi, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, had a sarcastic smile on her lips, and said slowly to Esther Li on the other end of the phone, "Sure enough, the choice mother made is the most rational, after all, I still remember what you said a year ago Woolen cloth."

That paragraph... the words that made her want to erase in pain, the words that made her run into the rainy night regardless of her weak body, the words that made her have a high fever in a daze... the words that almost died.

"Snapped--"

The mobile phone in Liu Rachel's hand dropped to the ground.

Zhixi also turned her head when she heard the sound, and put down the phone unconsciously when she saw Liu Rachel with a pale face.

"elder sister……"

"It's so funny," Rachel Liu's mouth twitched far-fetchedly, and her eyes were fixed on her. "We're all a family, what are you talking about behind my back?"

She just looked at Liu Rachel, whose eyes were burning with anger, her lips moved, but she didn't know...how to tell her.

Esther Li folded her arms and looked at the white off-the-shoulder floor-length dress decorated with dark blue feathers hanging in the single wardrobe. The corners of her mouth were slightly curved, and her fingers rubbed the smooth satin.

"It's so beautiful..."

She spoke softly, but the light in her eyes faded little by little, and she finally stretched out her hand and pulled the cabinet door, completely locking that beautiful and delicate dress in darkness...l3l4