Xiao Meiyan was incredibly excited but didn't know how to express her feelings.
"Oh my god, Qing Muye, look quickly, a shooting star! Make a wish, they say wishes made on shooting stars are the most effective."
Xiao Meiyan spotted a meteor streaking across the starry sky and jumped up with joy. She then clasped her hands together, slowly bowed her head, closed her eyes, and began to make a wish.
Shooting star, shooting star, you must bless me, bless me to become Qing Muye's wife in the future!
Qing Muye, standing by, saw Xiao Meiyan's demeanor and suddenly felt she was as straightforward, pure, and naive as Meng Jingwei, and not so detestable.
"Why hasn't she come out yet?"
Qing Muye stood for a while, waiting for Meng Jingwei, and asked.
"Ah? Oh, that... you wait, I'll go call her."
Xiao Meiyan felt incredibly lucky to be able to spend a moment with Qing Muye. Not only was she happy, but she was also nervously unsure of what to say.
So she immediately turned and ran off.
She scurried to the room, pushed open the door, and walked in, finding Meng Jingwei sitting on the bed counting money with a serious and focused expression.
"Wow, Meng Jingwei, you're absolutely amazing."
Xiao Meiyan threw her arms around Meng Jingwei, pushing her onto the bed, and happily kissed her on the cheek. "Meng Jingwei, you're so smart. This young lady is so happy today. Come..."
In her excitement, she shoved another wad of cash into Meng Jingwei's hand. "This is for you, a reward for our first successful collaboration!"
"Ugh, are you disgusting? That's all slobber... Hahaha, really?"
Meng Jingwei pushed Xiao Meiyan away, wiping the saliva from her face with her sleeve, looking disgusted. The next moment, she saw Xiao Meiyan directly shoving a wad of cash into her hand.
Her movements paused, and she couldn't stop smiling. "Alright, Xiao Meiyan, you're quite loyal, just like your brother, very likable."
They were indeed siblings, both so likable.
Especially these wads of cash, given so generously, made her feel very good.
"Of course! My brother likes you, so I definitely like you too. And now you like me too. We're good friends now!"
She sat happily on the bed, lost in her joy.
After a while, she remembered Qing Muye's words and said to Meng Jingwei, "You should go out quickly, Qing Muye is waiting for you. If you're any later, it'll be exposed."
"Oh, right."
Meng Jingwei suddenly came to her senses and immediately put the forty thousand yuan away, into her bag.
Before leaving, she didn't forget to warn Xiao Meiyan, "My money is known by heaven and earth, you and I know it. If it gets lost, I'll make you pay."
If someone else had said this to Xiao Meiyan, she would have erupted in anger.
But with her good mood now, Xiao Meiyan replied, "Don't worry, this young lady will keep an eye on it for you. If it gets lost, I'll compensate you."
"Tsk tsk tsk, that's great, I like you just like this."
Meng Jingwei winked at her and then darted out of the room and into the courtyard.
Outside the courtyard, though it was pitch black, Meng Jingwei spotted Qing Muye standing with his subordinates at once.
Fortunately, she knew there was a person there, otherwise, in the dead of night in the mountains, it would have been quite eerie.
She skipped over, "Why are you still here?"
"Waiting for you."
Qing Muye heard Meng Jingwei's voice, turned to look at her, and said.
Meng Jingwei remembered her earlier instructions to Xiao Meiyan not to expose anything, so she had to keep the truth of this matter hidden, or her source of income would be cut off.
"You said earlier, was there something you wanted to say?"
Qing Muye stood with his hands in his trouser pockets, gazing at her in the darkness, and asked.
Meng Jingwei's eyes darted around. She reached up and touched her head, carefully considering how to answer his question.
"I just..."
She looked up at the bright, full moon and said, "I just wanted to look at the moon. Let's look at the moon together."
Look at the moon, what nonsense.
Having grown up in the countryside as a child, the most she did was watch stars and moons with her adoptive parents.
Qing Muye looked up at the bright moon. "Yes, the moon is exceptionally round tonight."
"Right? Exactly."
Meng Jingwei also looked up at the moon.
Finally, thinking she wouldn't be able to sleep anyway, she said to Qing Muye, "Go back and get chairs. Isn't it tiring to stand and watch the moon?"
Mainly because in the countryside, the ground was all mud, and there was nowhere to sit.
"Okay."
The man hesitated for a moment, then turned and went back to get chairs.
Watching his retreating back, Xiao Meiyan was a little bewildered and muttered to herself, "What's going on?"
Qing Muye seemed a bit strange today.
Why was he so compliant?
With nothing else to do, she stood at the door listening to the frogs croaking in the pond. Before long, Qing Muye emerged, holding two chairs.
They sat side by side, looking up at the moon, enjoying the quiet night.
That night was long.
Because it was in the countryside, there were mosquitoes. The village chief had planted a lot of citronella grass by the entrance to repel mosquitoes, so there weren't many.
The two sat there in silence.
Meng Jingwei's mind was filled with the forty thousand yuan Xiao Meiyan had given her earlier, and she was lost in the joy of it.
Seeing her silent for a long time, Qing Muye asked, "Why aren't you talking?"
"Hmm?"
Meng Jingwei was dazed. "About what?"
"What exactly happened between you and Li Yun'er?"
Qing Muye asked the question that had been bothering him for a long time.
"No, nothing."
Meng Jingwei didn't want to tell Qing Muye, nor did she know how to answer his question.
The matters between her and Li Yun'er couldn't be explained in a few words.
And the deep hatred she held for the Li family was something Meng Jingwei definitely wouldn't tell Qing Muye.
To her, Qing Muye was of the same ilk as Li Yun'er.
She was an outsider and had to guard against him at all times.
"I simply don't like her."
Meng Jingwei lied.
"Is that all?"
"Mm."
"You didn't say that on the mountain that day."
Qing Muye said.
Meng Jingwei thought back to that day on the mountain when she had said Li Yun'er would kill her.
Thinking about it now, she felt her mind must have been clouded to speak so carelessly to Qing Muye.
It was foolish!
She truly magnified the slightest bit of kindness from Qing Muye, even letting down her guard around him!
It shouldn't have been like this.
"Yes, I was worried. I told you before that the Li family wanted me to donate bone marrow to Li Zirui. I was afraid that if I refused, the Li family might force me and kill me."
She spoke with a straight face, fabricating a story.
Qing Muye, being as intelligent as he was, naturally knew Meng Jingwei was lying, but he didn't expose her, merely remaining silent.
Silence fell between them.
Meng Jingwei sighed, "I wonder what my parents are doing now. I miss them quite a lot."