After rejecting my celebrity husband

Chapter 550: Chapter 554 Love Makes People Strong, and Also Drives Them Mad【4】

Gao Jie and Lin Ye immediately came over to help Luo Xiaoqian pack up her things.

Leng Zimo approached, took the bags that the two had packed for Luo Xiaoqian, and said, ”You two can finish for the day. I’ll take her home.”

Zhuo Yannan went to the recording console, backed up the part they had recorded to his own computer, and at the same time, deleted the files from the recording console.

Once all the work was completed, they all left the recording booth together, heading for the elevator. When the elevator doors opened, Xu Pei suddenly remembered something, ”Ah... I just remembered, I’ve forgotten to bring something. You go ahead, I need to go back to the recording booth!”

No one paid much attention, they agreed on the next day’s work schedule and said goodbye to each other before leaving.

Xu Pei returned to the recording booth, and instead of actually retrieving anything, she took out a cigarette from her bag, placed it between her lips, and lit it, taking a deep inhale.

The others were okay, but Leng Zimo was too astute; she didn’t want him to find out that she had switched cars.

The blue smoke slowly billowed in front of her eyes, blurring everything in sight.

In a daze, she felt as if she had suddenly returned to the past.

At that time, after an incident at the Xu Family, whenever the children in the courtyard saw her, they would secretly gossip about her, avoiding her as if she were carrying the plague.

”Traitor, her dad is a traitor!”

”That’s her, the traitor’s daughter...”

She didn’t know who threw a stone, hitting her forehead hard, and it hurt badly.

”You’re talking nonsense; my dad is not a traitor,” she shouted defiantly.

”That’s right, that’s right. Otherwise, why would your dad be arrested? I heard my dad say that your dad sold national secrets to the foreign countries, your dad is a spy!”

”My dad is not a spy!”

She screamed and rushed towards them, but hopelessly outnumbered, she couldn’t win and was quickly pushed to the ground and captured by a group of kids.

One child, who found some rope from who knows where, shouted, ”Tie this little spy up!”

Her hands were twisted behind her back, causing excruciating pain.

Another child found an old rag somewhere and was about to stuff it into her mouth.

She struggled fiercely but couldn’t break free. Just as the rag was about to enter her mouth, a shadow flashed in front of her, and the two children holding her were thrown away to either side.

”Get lost!”

A stern command echoed above her head. Without looking up, she knew it was Leng Zimo.

”If anyone dares to bully her again, I’ll beat them to death!”

Pulling her up from the ground, Leng Zimo coldly declared.

From childhood to adulthood, he had always been the same—domineering, direct, cold-hearted, like an emperor.

Cigarette ashes fell, and the burning cigarette that reached her fingers startled Xu Pei back to reality from her memories.

Standing up, she placed the cigarette in the ashtray on the table nearby, raised her hand to wipe her face, and realized she had tears streaming down without knowing when they had started.

Wiping her face hastily, Xu Pei turned around to take her bag and pulled out a half-old tin box she had treasured for ten years. She carefully extracted the letter inside and unfolded it tenderly.

On the letter, the bold fountain pen writing had deeply indented the paper.

”Xu Pei:

I’m the one who did it. I know I shouldn’t have, but I... I just like you too much, and I can’t control myself...

”I don’t like to see you cry; I like to see you laugh. You don’t know how beautiful you are. Every time I see you smile, I feel as if I’ve seen an angel.”