"What are you doing?" Yu He frowned and asked.
A low, slightly hoarse voice from the other end of the phone came, "When I miss you."
Yu He was stunned, and suddenly recalled Qin Beiting holding her clothes and doing… her cheeks flushed, and she quickly said, "You… no way! You can't take any of my things!"
After speaking, she hung up the phone directly.
Qin Beiting, on the other end of the phone, looked at the hung-up call, chuckled twice, turned around, and packed Yu He's favorite black silk nightgown into his suitcase.
Ruan Tianxin took a bottle of Romanée-Conti wine and two wine glasses from the wine rack, placed them on the coffee table, and poured the wine.
"What's going on between you two? I saw that all the headlines on the news were dominated by you. Your secret identity just doesn't fall, and when it does, it's like an atomic bomb, exploding earth-shatteringly. Has Lord Qin given up?"
Yu He picked up her wine and took a sip. Then, she simply recounted what had happened that evening.
At the end, she did not forget to admonish, "Regarding your identity, you just need to know it yourself. Don't tell anyone else."
Ruan Tianxin listened, quickly drank three glasses to calm her nerves, and then almost shrieked, "Lord Qin is actually the Hall Master of Xing Que Palace?! He…唔…"
Yu He quickly covered her mouth, "You are not allowed to say this out loud. Keep it to yourself."
"Mmph mmph." Ruan Tianxin nodded frantically and made a vow gesture with her fingers. Only then did Yu He release her.
Ruan Tianxin took a deep breath, "Qin Beiting is too much! He let you spend 880 million to buy the Black Spirit Pearl, and in the end, he used the Black Spirit Pearl and took the money. That's equivalent to him skimming 1.76 billion from you with just one sentence!"
"1.76 billion, you could buy ten Muzayef red diamonds. You only bought me one back then, and he actually took ten from you at once! He's truly not human!
"No wonder the Hall Master of Xing Que Palace was so easy to give you the Black Spirit Pearl! So it was planned long ago! He wanted to compete with me for your heart!"
Yu He: "…"
Is that the point?
The point isn't that he deceived me?
"You don't need to be jealous. I'll make him move out tonight!" Yu He took another sip of red wine.
"But if you think about it carefully, is this really a breakup? Are you sure it's not just a little playful banter between lovers?" Ruan Tianxin asked suspiciously.
"We really broke up!" Yu He confirmed, clinking her wine glass with Ruan Tianxin's, "Let's celebrate my return to singlehood."
"The courtyard is still under his name, right? He can always find an excuse to move back, can't he?"
Ruan Tianxin saw her chugging half a glass of red wine like plain water, and quickly put down her glass to stop her, "Don't drink so fast. Your alcohol tolerance isn't great to begin with. Drinking so fast will make you drunk even faster."
Yu He was already slightly tipsy, and her words were slurring, "If he wants to move back, I'll just move out. I'll pay him rent for the clinic."
"No! That would be too easy for him! You cured him, after all. The money for just the Black Spirit Pearl is enough to buy that courtyard!" Ruan Tianxin immediately said.
Yu He didn't say anything more, and poured herself another glass. Ruan Tianxin wanted to stop her but was pushed away.
"Let me drink a little more. I'll feel better after drinking."
Seeing this, Ruan Tianxin hugged her sympathetically. Although Xiao He Miao always appeared cold and indifferent, she actually suppressed all her emotions deep down and didn't express them easily.
In Yu He's eyes, if she didn't care, others couldn't sway her emotions, so she wasn't someone who would easily entrust her feelings to others. Even with Ruan Tianxin, it took a long time for them to develop their current close friendship.
But Qin Beiting had made Yu He like this in less than a year, which showed that she had truly invested herself in this relationship.
"Okay, okay, don't be sad. It's just a man. I'll find you a better one in the future. I have several cousins who are single and good-looking. I'll introduce them to you later." Ruan Tianxin comforted her.
Yu He drank another large glass of red wine, her consciousness already wandering. She let out a burp, "Are any of them more handsome than Qin Beiting?"
"Uh…" Ruan Tianxin thought for a moment, thinking to herself that she was drunk but still cared about looks. With Lord Qin's outrageously handsome appearance, there probably wasn't a man born yet in this world who could surpass him.
At this moment, the phone that had been discarded rang again. Yu He fumbled for it groggily and answered.
Qin Beiting's voice came from the other end of the phone, "Baby, how do we divide the tiramisu?"
Yu He was stunned when she heard the familiar male voice, and then angrily said, "We're not dividing it! It's mine! It's a gift you gave me. You can't take back a gift you've given away!"
Qin Beiting heard that her voice was wrong, "Are you drunk?"
Yu He was already drunk and couldn't listen to him at all. She continued on her own, "The courtyard is also a gift from you. You can't take it back either! And the golden needles, you can't take them back either. They are all gifts from you. They are all mine now, and you can't take them back…"
Qin Beiting patiently listened to her ramble on. Imagining her drunk and dazed appearance, he suddenly found her somewhat cute.
"What about me? Am I yours too?" he asked.
At the same time, he used his shoulder to clip the phone, his hands quickly opened his laptop, and he rapidly typed a string of code, opening the positioning system and locating Yu He's position.
Yu He was drunk and incoherent, "You, *hic*, you are not mine. You already agreed to the breakup… You are not mine… You don't love me anymore, *hic*… You agreed to the breakup, which means you don't love me anymore… I don't want to love you anymore…"
Qin Beiting paused while reaching for the car keys. Something in his heart suddenly clenched. The little girl had seemed indifferent just now, but he didn't expect her to be so heartbroken.
"I'm sorry, I love you. Can we not break up? I'll come to pick you up now." Qin Beiting immediately got up, went out, got into the car, and started it. The other end of the phone was silent.
He thought the call had been hung up. He glanced at it, still connected. After a while, Ruan Tianxin's voice came from the other end:
"Hello? Lord Qin, Xiao He Miao is asleep. She's at my place, so don't worry. I'll take care of her and let her sleep."
"I'll come to pick her up now," Qin Beiting said.
"Ah? No need, right? Xiao He Miao is quite upset. She probably doesn't want to see you right now…"
Qin Beiting directly hung up the phone, turned the car around, and drove away.
Halfway there, the phone rang again. The caller ID was an unsaved number, but Qin Beiting glanced at it and knew it was Bei Ming.
"Brother Ting, the elders know about your Vulcan codename from the anniversary party tonight. We need you to deal with it urgently."
Qin Beiting frowned, replied, "I know," hung up the phone, turned the car in another direction, and called Ruan Tianxin, instructing, "Take good care of Yu He."