"Pei Jiangmu! When you forced her to leave with you back then, did you ever ask her even once if she really wanted to go with you?!"
"Here! In Haicheng! She had friends from childhood, familiar family members, the university she wanted to attend, and the future and dreams she yearned for!"
"But what about you? For your own selfish desires, for your dirty panic and paranoia, you forcibly tore her away from everything she was familiar with."
"And took her all the way to a foreign country where she knew no one! Did you ever consider her feelings?!"
The more Qin Mu spoke, the more excited he became. The pent - up emotions got out of control again. He swung his fist and aimed another punch at Pei Jiangmu.
This time, Pei Jiangmu was on guard.
After the initial shock and the panic caused by having his most hidden feelings exposed, a torrential wave of anger and jealousy instantly overwhelmed him!
Especially the words from Qin Mu's mouth, "the university she wanted to attend" and "the future she yearned for".
It stepped precisely on the landmine in his heart that had been buried for years and never faded!
He suddenly turned his head to dodge Qin Mu's fist. At the same time, he clenched his right fist and counterattacked mercilessly with a fierce gust of wind.
"Bang!"
An equally solid punch landed heavily on Qin Mu's chin.
"If I didn't take her away?!"
Pei Jiangmu's voice roared like a wounded beast, his eyes blood - red.
There was paranoia, panic, and the rage of having his territory invaded churning in them.
"Should I have left her here to be coaxed and lured away by you people who coveted her?!"
He stared fixedly at Qin Mu, each word squeezed out through his teeth, with a strong smell of blood and years of pent - up jealousy.
"Qin Mu! Don't act so high - and - mighty here! When you approached her back then, did you really have no selfish motives at all?!"
He took a step forward, his crazy eyes filled with jealous flames.
"Don't think I don't know! In your senior year of high school, you were going to confess your love to her, weren't you?!"
"I saw the book you gave her in her study! There was a note in it."
"Something like 'We've made a promise to get into the same university'... Oh, how fucking affectionate you wrote!"
This incident had been a poisonous thorn in Pei Jiangmu's heart for many years!
At that time, he was already a junior in college and had started to get involved in the family business.
The pressure and the separation from Meng Ruochao made his already sensitive and paranoid mental state even more unstable.
Once he went to Meng Ruochao's adoptive parents' house to find her.
By chance, he saw a collection of poems given by Qin Mu in her study, with that note of the promise in it.
Later, he also accidentally caught a glimpse of the message Qin Mu sent to Meng Ruochao, inviting her to go camping by the sea during the summer vacation...
The panic and anger at that time, as if his possession was being coveted and he was about to lose it, almost drove him crazy!
He immediately had a fierce argument with Meng Ruochao on the spot -
Or rather, it was his one - sided emotional breakdown. He said a lot of sarcastic things, accusing her of "flirting" and "not knowing her boundaries".
At that time, Meng Ruochao actually didn't fully understand the deep meaning behind his sudden outburst of anger and accusations. She just thought he was being unreasonable and inexplicable.
The two fell into a long - term cold war.
Pei Jiangmu was extremely angry in his heart.
On the one hand, he was too proud to apologize actively. On the other hand, he was constantly paying attention to Meng Ruochao's every move.
The fear of losing her tortured him day and night.
Then, on Meng Ruochao's eighteenth birthday.
He was in a very bad mood because of company matters and was also drunk by several business partners.
He returned to his off - campus apartment in a drunken haze.
When he pushed the door open in a daze, he actually saw Meng Ruochao waiting for him.
Meng Ruochao knew the password of this apartment and would come to play with him when she had time.
But at that time, he only thought it was all his hallucination...
Because Meng Ruochao had just taken a shower and was wearing his sports clothes. When she saw him staggering in drunk, she was startled and stepped forward to help him.
"Brother Jiangmu, why did you drink so much?"
"I came to find you, but you weren't home. I accidentally got caught in the rain, so I borrowed your bathroom and clothes..."
Before she could finish her words, Pei Jiangmu suddenly hugged her tightly.
The strong smell of alcohol mixed with his familiar cold - like aura surrounded her.
His hot body pressed tightly against hers with amazing strength, as if he wanted to crush her into his arms.
"Chaolao... Mine... You're mine..."
He murmured vaguely in her ear, with strong possessiveness and uneasiness.
"Pei Jiangmu, let me go! You're hurting me!"
Meng Ruochao struggled in panic.
Her struggle seemed to stimulate the more sensitive and paranoid Pei Jiangmu in his drunken state.
He held her tightly, lost his balance, and the two of them fell heavily onto the soft sofa behind them.
Pei Jiangmu's heavy body almost completely pressed on Meng Ruochao.
His hot breath sprayed on her neck, and his drunken lips rubbed randomly on her cheeks and neck.
One of his hands instinctively began to tear at the sports clothes on her body...
"Pei Jiangmu! What are you doing! Let go!!"
Meng Ruochao was so frightened that her face turned pale. She pushed him away with all her strength, and her voice was tinged with sobs.
Pei Jiangmu didn't really remember clearly what exactly happened that night in the end.
He only remembered that Chaolao was crying and trembling in fear.
And he himself was dominated by a kind of madness mixed with alcohol, possessiveness, and long - suppressed emotions...
In the end, perhaps her desperate cries awakened a glimmer of his reason, or perhaps for some other reason, he didn't go all the way.
But that sense of approaching - out - of - control violation and Chaolao's frightened eyes became a nightmare he couldn't get rid of for many years to come.
It also made him more convinced that he had to keep her firmly by his side, otherwise... he might really hurt her, or... lose her.
At this moment, in the face of Qin Mu's accusation, that embarrassing, possessive, and almost - out - of - control memory overlapped with the man in front of him -
This man who had almost gone to the same university as Chaolao and almost confessed his love to her -
Completely ignited all the dark and violent sides in Pei Jiangmu's heart!
One of the two men was a paranoid and jealous guardian whose reverse scale had been touched.
The other was a former admirer who, after learning the truth, was angry at the other's despicable means and felt sorry for Meng Ruochao's experience.
In the hospital corridor filled with the smell of disinfectant, like two angry lions, they completely lost their senses and fought each other.
The dull sound of fists hitting flesh, heavy breathing, and suppressed roars... broke the silence of the ward area.
The surrounding bodyguards and medical staff looked at each other in dismay, but no one dared to step forward to stop these two obviously out - of - control men.
Until -
"Stop!!"
A stern shout full of authority and anger came from the other end of the corridor.
Pei Jingdu had rushed back in a hurry after dealing with the impact on the company caused by the public opinion. When he saw this scene, he was so angry that the veins on his forehead were throbbing.
"Stop it all! This is a hospital! Chaolao is still lying inside! What do you two look like?!"
Pei Jingdu stepped forward and forcibly separated the two men who were fighting.
Pei Jiangmu and Qin Mu were both gasping for breath, with bruises on their faces. But their eyes still glared at each other fiercely, as if they would pounce on each other again at any moment.