In the living room, Han Yu and Qing Muye were discussing work. Meng Jingwei didn't want to disturb them, so she went upstairs to the study.
She had been busy with film sets and personal matters recently, so she hadn't paid much attention to work. She wanted to have a video conference with people from the company.
However, as she sat down at the desk in the study and opened her computer, her phone, which was on the desk, rang.
A familiar phone number flashed on the screen. Even without a name saved, Meng Jingwei clearly remembered who it belonged to.
Her brows furrowed slightly. After a moment's hesitation, she picked up the phone, slid the answer button with her thumb, and held the phone to her ear.
"Meng Jingwei, I'm asking you one last time, you really aren't willing to leave Ye, are you?" Tang Wanxing questioned with forceful conviction.
For a moment, Meng Jingwei felt that Tang Wanxing was excessively persistent. Qing Muye had already clearly stated that he didn't like Tang Wanxing, yet she still refused to give up.
"I think, in this life, people should learn to be clear-headed. And you, you're not clear-headed enough," Meng Jingwei replied patiently.
"I'm not clear-headed enough?"
Suddenly, the woman's voice on the other end grew louder. Even through the phone, Meng Jingwei could sense her face contorted with rage. Where was the gentle image of a classical beauty?
Before Meng Jingwei could speak, Tang Wanxing continued, "It was you! To stop me from being with Ye, you sent people to cut off one of my fingers! Meng Jingwei, I'm telling you, I will never let you go, absolutely never!"
After being kidnapped, Tang Wanxing had a finger severed. When she woke up, her father, Tang Nian, told her that her finger was cut off by people sent by Qing Muye. Hearing this, Tang Wanxing found it incredibly laughable; she simply didn't believe it. How could someone who had faced life and death with her inflict such a cruel blow? She naively believed that her father must have fabricated the lie to prevent her from being with Qing Muye.
"You had a finger cut off?" Meng Jingwei was taken aback.
That night, people arranged by the Tang family had intended to stage a car accident to push her off a bridge. However, Meng Jingwei had parked her car on the roadside, avoiding the 'accident.' But the people sent by the Tang family got out of their car and intended to kill her. Meng Jingwei, relying on her own strength, incapacitated everyone. Shortly after, people arranged by Qing Muye arrived in time and surrounded those individuals. Meng Jingwei ordered one of them to have a finger severed as a warning. However, the person whose finger was cut off was not Tang Wanxing.
A moment of confusion crossed her mind, and then she had a sudden realization. It was likely… Qing Muye who had done it.
"Don't play dumb when you know everything. Do you think I don't know what you're thinking? Meng Jingwei, since you refuse to eat the offered toast and insist on drinking the forfeit wine, don't blame me for being impolite. Remember this, from today onwards, as long as I, Tang Wanxing, am still breathing, I will definitely make you disappear." She spoke each word clearly, her voice filled with hatred and disgust. Finally, she added four words, "Until death do us part!"
"Tang… *bbb-bbb-bbb*…"
Meng Jingwei wanted to say more, but the other party had already hung up. She leaned back in the executive chair, her slender fingers gripping the phone, feeling a profound sense of melancholy. Her mind replayed Tang Wanxing's words, still finding them unbelievable. On that day, when she encountered danger, Qing Muye had rushed over that night. Meng Jingwei had thought that Qing Muye might do nothing because the other party was Tang Wanxing, but she hadn't expected him to actually send someone to cut off Tang Wanxing's finger. While she felt deeply gratified, she was also filled with worry. The Tang family was the foremost of the four major families in the capital, immensely wealthy and deeply entrenched in power. Qing Muye taking action against the Tang family's only daughter was tantamount to declaring war on the entire Tang family, and indeed, the entire capital.