"Lian Chen, don't worry. I only found out the truth in the morning. This contract cannot be canceled because the higher-ups will have to pay liquidated damages if they breach the contract."

"I'll pay."

Fang Xiaosu had long expected that Lian Chen would say this. She sighed, "I have troubled you too much in the past. I can't let you pay so much for me anymore. These things are my own business, and I will do the same." Solve it yourself."

"Xiao Su, don't you know why I am willing to pay so much for you? Five years later, are you still unwilling to open the window in your heart?"

"Lian Chen, we have always been very good friends."

Fang Xiaosu had a premonition of what Lian Chen would say next, but she didn't want to continue listening.

Lian Chen had never thought that he would confess his feelings to Fang Xiaosu in this situation, but what she said made him change his mind.

"Xiao Su, I don't regard you as a friend. I have already fallen in love with you from the first moment I saw you."

Fang Xiaosu's eyelashes trembled slightly, but Lian Chen still said it. The relationship between the two of them could not return to the past.

"Five years ago, because you were with Gu Qingyan, I thought you would be happy by his side. But what happened next made me realize that my thinking was wrong. He was overbearing and selfish and had no worries at all. How you feel.

That’s why I want to take you away from him. I want to see you happy. I thought I could convince myself not to like you, but in the past five years, I know that my feelings for you are getting deeper and deeper. I also thought about burying this feeling in my heart, but this time I saw you come back. "

Lian Chen paused as he spoke, remembering what Fang Xiaosu had said to him when he and Gu Qingyan left together that day, and smiled sarcastically, "When I see you and Gu Qingyan together, I lose control of my emotions. I feel very uncomfortable, and I know that if I weren’t afraid of speaking out my feelings for you, I might never have the chance.”

Fang Xiaosu was silent, listening to Lian Chen finish what was in his heart in one breath. His face turned slightly red, not sure whether it was because of shyness or because he was angry.

She turned around and faced him, her face full of guilt.

"Lian Chen, I'm sorry."

Knowing that Fang Xiaosu would say this, and having lived with her for five years, Lian Chen knew Fang Xiaosu's character very well.

He twitched his lips and asked, "Why are you sorry for me? Is it because you still have Gu Qingyan in your heart, or because you don't like me?"

"I……"

Fang Xiaosu wanted to explain, but it felt like something was stuck in his throat and he couldn't say a word.

Lian Chen knew he was right, so he closed his eyes slightly and opened them again, his eyes filled with sullenness, "You still want to go back to him, right?"

Fang Xiaosu knew who Lian Chen was talking about and shook his head, "It's impossible for me and him."

"Whether what you said is true or false, you should know very well. If you really want to break up with him, why do you have to cooperate with him again and again."

Lian Chen recalled that Fang Xiaosu and Gu Qingyan had been almost inseparable these days, and the jealousy in his heart surged even more fiercely.

"You say it's because of me, but is that really the case?"

Fang Xiaosu was overwhelmed by Lian Chen's questions one after another. Her mind was in a mess now. One reason was that Lian Chen was very unfamiliar at the moment. He had never forced her like this before and always wanted to push her to a desperate situation.

The other reason was because of what Lian Chen said, whether she didn't want to trouble him or because she simply didn't want to break up with Gu Qingyan.

"Don't you have the answer in your heart?"

Seeing that Fang Xiaosu didn't respond, Lian Chen continued to ask.

"Lian Chen, don't force me. I just want to live a good life alone. I don't want to talk about relationships anymore. Can you just be my good friend?"

Fang Xiaosu knew that her request was selfish and unfair to Lian Chen, but she really couldn't get entangled with Lian Chen when she still had Gu Qingyan in her heart.

She knew that she was destined to be sorry for Lian Chen, so in order not to cause more harm to him, she absolutely could not accept him.

When Lian Chen heard Fang Xiaosu's humble request, a mocking smile appeared on his lips. He closed his eyes slightly and opened them again, his eyes full of frustration.

"Forever friends? Ha, it turns out that the relationship between you and me can only go so far."

He seemed very tired, and after speaking, he turned around and walked out of the kitchen.

Fang Xiaosu followed him out and saw him walking straight towards the door.

"Lian Chen, where are you going?"

Fang Xiaosu asked aloud.

He stopped placing his hand on the doorknob, turned his back to Fang Xiaosu, and said in a very low voice, "As your friend, how can I have the nerve to stay and eat your meal."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was the sound of the doorknob turning, and then the door closed again, and the living room returned to silence.

Fang Xiaosu's crystal tears streaked down her cheeks. She knew that Lian Chen was angry, but her feet seemed to be heavy and her throat seemed to be unable to make a sound. It was in vain to try to save him.

Lian Chen went downstairs, and a little rain fell on his shoulders. He raised his head and looked up. The weather that had been clear and clear just now suddenly turned lifeless, and his face quickly got wet. But he didn't want to get in the car, he just wanted to let the rain fall. Wash away all his unhappiness.

Early the next morning, Huang Kaiwen came to take Fang Xiaosu to Gu's, and also told her in the car the reason why he suddenly asked her to go.

So Fang Xiaosu still held out hope, hoping that the rightful owner would show up and she wouldn't have to go back to the Gu family.

But the more you hope, the more God seems to be against you. Youli never shows up, which means that Fang Xiaosu must play in her place.

It wasn't until she finished filming the commercial that Fang Xiaosu felt like her whole body was falling apart. This was the first time that she had been tossed around by so many people. One moment she was dissatisfied with the posture, and the next they said her expression was not good. She was like It was an emotionless puppet, being pulled back and forth by them.

Now that she could finally rest, she felt alive again. As soon as the makeup artist took off her makeup, the door was opened.

She looked at the person who appeared in the mirror, and a trace of surprise flashed in her eyes, but it was fleeting.

Yu Wanqiu said hello to the makeup artist, "Can I say a few words to Miss Celine?"

The makeup artist probably knew Yu Wanqiu, so he nodded respectfully to her, "Okay, Miss Yu."

Then he left the room, not forgetting to close the door when he left.

There were only two of them in the huge dressing room. This was the first contact between the two after Fang Xiaosu returned to China. For a while, Fang Xiaosu didn't know what to say.

But it was Yu Wanqiu who spoke first, as if she had been prepared, "Miss Celine, should I follow others in calling you that, or should I call you Fang Xiaosu?"

Fang Xiaosu heard Yu Wanqiu's weirdness and didn't know why she was acting like this, but she still replied, "Wanqiu, just call me Xiaosu. We are still friends like we were five years ago."

Hearing Fang Xiaosu's words, Yu Wanqiu sneered, "Friend? Fang Xiaosu, you are so funny. Didn't you promise me back then that if you could escape, you would never appear in Brother Qingyan again?" Why are you back now?"

Unexpectedly, Yu Wanqiu's demeanor changed so quickly, which surprised Fang Xiaosu. There was no such side of Yu Wanqiu in his memory.

"Wanqiu, are you angry because of this?"

Yu Wanqiu had already walked up to Fang Xiaosu and looked at her condescendingly, "Are you asking questions knowingly? You know what I care about most, but you still show up in my life unscrupulously."

"I know you like Gu Qingyan, but my appearance will not cause any disturbance between the two of you. Even if I don't come back, Gu Qingyan will not be with you."

In fact, Fang Xiaosu didn't want to say such hurtful words. It was because Yu Wanqiu's face of asking questions made her extremely uncomfortable, so she couldn't help but say such words.

Yu Wanqiu seemed to be scratched by her, and glared at her in anger, "Fang Xiaosu, I originally thought you were a friend I haven't seen for many years, so I didn't want to say it so harshly, but now you provoke me first."

Fang Xiaosu blinked, his face very calm.

"What did you promise me when you asked me to help you leave? Have you forgotten it?"

Yu Wanqiu was aggressive, and when Fang Xiaosu heard her talking about what happened five years ago, Fang Xiaosu felt unusually irritable.

She said so at the time, but coming to Qincheng this time was an accident. She never thought that she would be discovered by Gu Qingyan, and he would threaten her not to leave.

But she didn't want to explain too much. Too many things had changed in the past five years, and Yu Wanqiu was no longer the knowledgeable person she remembered.

"Yu Wanqiu, is it useful for you to come here now to ask me to accuse you? I'm not sorry for you, am I? Do you think I want to stay here? If it weren't for Gu Qingyan, I would have left long ago. Since you are so angry, why are you Why don’t you go directly to Gu Qingyan?”

Fang Xiaosu is not someone to be trifled with. Since Yu Wanqiu refuses to talk nicely, there is no need for her to give Yu Wanqiu face.

She never thought that she and Yu Wanqiu could be friends again, maybe she never regarded Yu Wanqiu as a friend in her heart.

So even if she said these unpleasant things, Fang Xiaosu would not be angry, but he would not let her find trouble.

"Fang Xiaosu, you are so shameless. I thought you felt a little guilty and would at least say sorry to me."

Yu Wanqiu looked at Fang Xiaosu with very strange eyes and her tone was full of ridicule.

"Five years is neither long nor short, but you have indeed changed a lot, Yu Wanqiu. I used to think that these words would never come out of your mouth. But I was quite surprised when I heard them today. Strange, how do you behave in front of Gu Qingyan?"

This was the first time that Fang Xiaosu felt that she did not understand Yu Wanqiu. Her expression at the moment made it impossible for her to associate Yu Wanqiu with five years ago.

"You don't have to worry about how Brother Qingyan and I are doing, Fang Xiaosu, I'm warning you, you were the one who let go of Brother Qingyan five years ago. Don't try to snatch him away now. What do you think he is? What do you want?" Is it something you can throw away if you don’t want to?”