Chapter 1: We Break Up

Jian, three years old, used to have dark clouds covering the moon, making your world pitch black. So, let me be your moon.

The moon in the sky belongs to everyone, but I, only belong to you.

— Pei Yanzhou

Drowning in his gentleness.

The future, with him in the twilight.

— Jian Jinci

Capital City.

“Song Xuchen!” Jian Jinci glared at him, pointing at the woman beside him: “Today, either she leaves, or we break up.”

Song Xuchen’s voice was faintly impatient: “Jinci, don’t be silly, okay.”

“Me, silly?” Jian Jinci’s dark eyes were filled with obvious sarcasm mixed with bitterness: “You let your maid’s daughter live in your house, wearing revealing lingerie that barely covers anything, and she’s flirting with you. The problem is you, Song Xuchen, not me, Jian Jinci.”

This was the third year of her relationship with Song Xuchen. This year, Song Xuchen’s maid’s daughter had nowhere to go, so Song Xuchen temporarily let her stay in the villa.

Jian Jinci had caught them in this kind of situation more than once. Before, it wasn’t too bad. The lingerie she wore was sexy but still normal. Even if she was unhappy, Song Xuchen would coax her with a few words.

This time, she caught them because Song Xuchen had a stomach ache. She cooked him a nourishing pig bone and yam soup and brought it to him. When she arrived, she saw the maid’s daughter clinging to his neck, offering him a kiss, her body pressed tightly against him, and Song Xuchen didn’t reject her.

In the world of adults, not rejecting means accepting. How could Song Xuchen, such a shrewd man, not know this woman’s intentions? He knew, he was just pretending to be oblivious.

Song Xuchen: “萱萱 and I are not what you think.”

The “萱萱” he mentioned was his maid’s daughter, Su Jingxuan.

萱萱?

What a suggestive name. Jian Jinci’s dark eyes flashed with tears: “Not what I think? What is it then? If I had come a little later, would I have seen a scene of you two rolling in the sheets?”

Jian Jinci’s words seemed to hit Song Xuchen’s thoughts. He frowned unhappily and roared: “Enough!”

Jian Jinci sarcastically curled her lips. One, a homewrecker, clinging to him, and the other, unable to reject her. A man’s heart is easy to read. Not rejecting means accepting.

Su Jingxuan stepped forward, grabbing Jian Jinci’s clothes, her eyes filled with tears, looking pitiful. Su Jingxuan had a pure and innocent look, with a youthful and innocent face, seemingly harmless.

This look would make anyone feel sorry for her, but Jian Jinci felt disgusted.

Su Jingxuan: “Sister Jian Jinci, it’s me who admires Brother Xuchen. I was momentarily infatuated. I’ll move out tomorrow. Please don’t let this affect your relationship with Brother Xuchen.”

“Get away from me, don’t touch me, you’re dirty.”

Jian Jinci pushed Su Jingxuan away. She fell to the ground weakly, the skin under her revealing lingerie was faintly visible, very seductive. Every move was carefully designed.

A slight curve appeared at the corner of her lips, fleeting, unnoticed by anyone.

Song Xuchen: “Jian Jinci, don’t be unreasonable.”

He stepped forward, pulled Su Jingxuan up from the ground, held her in his arms, and his voice softened: “Did you hurt yourself anywhere?”

She bit her lower lip and shook her head, her eyes filled with tears, making Song Xuchen feel very sorry for her.

Jian Jinci felt a bitterness in her heart, but she tried to hide it.

Su Jingxuan leaned forward and kissed him: “Sir, tomorrow, Jingxuan and I will move out of the villa. I hope this won’t affect your relationship with Miss Jian.”

Jian Jinci twitched her lips, a clear sarcasm: “You’re really a homewrecker, disgusting.”

This pair of homewreckers really put on a good show.

So she can act, no wonder every time Jian Jinci came to the villa, this maid would give her a cold shoulder. It turns out she was blocking her daughter’s path.

Song Xuchen looked at her unhappily, his voice raised, losing the gentleness he had towards Su Jingxuan: “Jian Jinci, watch your words.”

Jian Jinci clenched her fist at her side and laughed sarcastically: “You’re protecting her now? Oh, I forgot, she’s your future mother-in-law, of course you have to protect her.”

Song Xuchen was furious, he pursed his lips, his eyes clearly filled with anger.

Su Jingxuan nestled against his chest like a little bird. Jian Jinci could see the challenge and pride in her eyes, but Song Xuchen didn’t see it, or maybe he saw it but still wanted to protect her.

“Sister Jian Jinci, Xuchen and I really don’t have anything. That time before, we both had too much to drink…”

Jian Jinci narrowed her eyes slightly: “Too much to drink? You slept together?”

Su Jingxuan seemed to have revealed a secret, she quickly covered her mouth, looked at Song Xuchen innocently, and then looked at Jian Jinci: “Sister Jian Jinci, it was a mistake. I thought Xuchen had told you…”

Jian Jinci ignored her, she looked coldly at Song Xuchen: “I’m asking you, is what she said true?”

She already had the answer in her heart, she wanted to hear him say it himself.

Song Xuchen: “Jinci…”

“Song Xuchen, don’t tell me it was a drunken mistake. You really disgust me.” Jian Jinci thought of Song Xuchen sleeping with Su Jingxuan and then holding her hand to coax her, it really made her feel disgusted and nauseous.

Song Xuchen pinched the bridge of his nose, showing impatience: “Jian Jinci, can you stop dwelling on this? I just made a mistake that all men make.”

Song Xuchen’s words shattered her worldview. She didn’t want to stay here for another second. The air here made her feel incredibly sick. It was only now, after three years, that she realized she didn’t know this man at all.

Jian Jinci: “Song Xuchen, we’re breaking up.”

She looked coldly at Su Jingxuan: “Even if I break up with Song Xuchen, and he makes you his wife, it won’t change the fact that you’re a homewrecker.”

Song Xuchen didn’t want to break up. He hadn’t completely won over Jian Jinci yet. They had been together for three years, their relationship had only gone as far as hugs and hand-holding. He hadn’t been able to make Jian Jinci willingly sleep with him.

He said: “Jian Jinci, I don’t agree to break up. Don’t forget, Jian Xu’s medical expenses and tuition fees are all paid by me. Without my continued high tuition fees, how will you pay for it?”

“Don’t worry about it.” Jian Jinci said: “Two years of tuition fees, two hundred thousand, surgery fees and medical expenses combined, three hundred thousand. I will pay you back with interest.”

From the beginning, Jian Jinci borrowed this money from him, she even wrote him an IOU. Even though they were boyfriend and girlfriend, she didn’t want to spend a penny of Song Xuchen’s money.

Song Xuchen: “How will you pay it back? Your family won’t give you money. You just graduated from college, you haven’t even found a stable job, where will you get so much money?”

Jian Jinci sneered: “You should be more concerned about the one in your arms. Don’t worry about my business.”

She didn’t have a job, but that didn’t mean she didn’t have any income. Although it wasn’t much, even if life was hard, she would pay him back every penny she owed him, with interest.

Song Xuchen said: “Since you insist on breaking up, for the sake of our past relationship, I’ll give you half a year to pay back the money.”

“Then I really have to thank you.”

When Jian Jinci left the villa, Su Jingxuan followed her out. She was no longer the weak and innocent girl she had been before. She had dropped her carefully crafted disguise and was now sharp and smug, looking at her with disdain: “The great Miss Jian of the Jian family, you’ve fallen to this point. You can’t go home, and you can’t keep your boyfriend. It’s really laughable.”

Jian Jinci stopped and turned around, her eyes cold as she stared at her. For a long time, Su Jingxuan thought she had hit a sore spot and wanted to continue to mock her, but Jian Jinci slapped her across the face.

She used a lot of force. Immediately, a clear slap mark appeared on her delicate face. She was stunned and her face burned with pain.

Jian Jinci’s voice was cold, with an invisible pressure: “Please recognize your own identity. Even if I’m not favored in the Jian family, the identity of Miss Jian is still there, and it’s still better than you, a maid’s daughter.”

Song Xuchen wasn’t there, and Su Jingxuan no longer pretended to be weak. Her face was full of malice, she stared at Jian Jinci viciously and was about to hit back.

Just as Su Jingxuan raised her hand, Jian Jinci grabbed her wrist and kicked her in the stomach, sending her sprawling to the ground.

Jian Jinci was never the kind of person who would let others bully her. Growing up in the Jian family, she had learned from a young age that if she was bullied, she had to fight back.

Jian Jinci looked down at her, her lips slightly parted: “You’re overestimating yourself.”

Su Jingxuan wanted to fight back, but at this moment, Song Xuchen came out. She regained her innocent and harmless look, she could only watch helplessly as Jian Jinci left.