After their confessions were rejected, they regretted it for the rest of their lives.

9:00 PM, Qingcheng Geopark

Xia Weichan sat alone on an empty bench, with a barn owl perched on her shoulder.

Xia Weichan and Cangxiao stared at the shiny square iron shell.

Looking at the phone screen, Zhou Juzi's chat interface displayed "Typing..."

This display has been flashing below the girl's ID ever since Xia Weichan opened her phone two minutes ago.

"What's wrong with this guy?"

Is there something you want to say, but you can't find a topic and are too embarrassed to speak?

Xia Weichan didn't think Zhou Juzi's favorability was high enough to make the girl take the initiative to have long online phone conversations with him.

It probably happened during the day...

He put his phone away; he had no desire to chat with anyone on his phone...

After logging out of WeChat, Xia Weichan categorized the bird photos she had taken that day, adding them to the photos in her camera. Today, in this place, she relied on the ability [Nature's Dew], which was a reward from the system.

It was a very fruitful experience.

With slightly unclean hands, he plucked a feather that was about to fall out naturally from the owl beside him.

Gently shoo away the birds around you.

The celebration of his successful confession is over; tomorrow he will officially begin the initial training of Azusa Tachibana.

He could almost see a successful future beckoning to him.

On his way home alone, Xia Weichan's phone suddenly rang.

It's not Azusa Tachibana...

Instead, it was another unfamiliar call. The phone number displayed on the screen made Xia Weichan pause slightly.

That was a phone number he had once saved in his contacts, but to Xia Weichan now, it was just an unfamiliar number.

He parked his car on the side of the road and answered the phone.

Hello.

"..."

There was a brief silence on the other end of the phone, followed by the faint sound of fingers tapping on the table, indicating that the other person was organizing their thoughts.

The next moment, Xia Weichan could hear a soft voice coming from the other end of the phone.

Her voice was like it was wrapped in a layer of soft cotton, but the tone was different from what Xia Weichan remembered.

"Summer's End, right?"

"Who are you?"

"Ke Yuexuan, you should recognize me. Haven't you always wanted to take things from me?"

Ke Yuexuan?

From the moment he heard the voice, Xia Weichan could indeed recall the girl he was bound to in his second playthrough.

But it gave people a strange feeling, like a complete stranger... speaking in a voice that he used to know very well.

The voices are the same, but the tones are completely different...

Xia Weichan frowned:

"That's not how it works, is it? I don't want to take anything from you, Miss Ke; I simply want to reclaim my brother's inheritance."

"I see. Indeed, Xia Weiyu was very lucky. At a particular time, he stole what belonged to me like a rat. At that time, I had no time to care, but now it's different."

Ke Yuexuan's voice was calm, but exceptionally clear.

"What I'm saying may be a bit harsh, but it's the truth. Your brother was able to inherit things that didn't belong to him, which was entirely due to luck, while you clearly didn't have that kind of luck."

This person is not Ke Yuexuan.

Xia Weichan instinctively felt doubt.

The girl on the other end of the phone was a completely different person from the timid young lady I remembered.

Ke Yuexuan could never say something so obviously declaring war on him.

The other party's tone was really tough, so Xia Weichan also became serious.

"...Ms. Ke Yuexuan, all my inheritances are legal and compliant. They are not theft or robbery as you claim. As for matters involving this, I should have dealt with your group's lawyers or specialists who handle such matters."

"I called you out of respect. I need to handle the inheritance matters personally to put my mind at ease."

The tone on the other end of the phone carried a subtle hint of coercion from someone in a superior position, but the voice was calm:

"Besides, you don't have a responsible lawyer on your side."

"..."

It seems this guy was the one who put pressure on the law firm she had hired.

"I'm sorry, I probably won't let go, but if Miss Ke, you're more accommodating, I might entrust my assets to your management."

"Please be careful, and I hope you can inherit those assets intact."

"Don't worry, I'll go to the notary office tonight. If anything happens to me, all the shares and funds that belong to me in the group will be automatically handed over and become state-owned."

"You!?" came an incredulous voice from the other end of the phone.

"Go to bed early, Miss Ke."

Xia Weichan hung up the phone.

When faced with such capitalist creatures, this method is indeed the only way.

In the second playthrough, Xia Weichan had a whole set of experience in dealing with things.

Among these threats to his personal safety, how could he, as Duan Rong, not have experienced them before?

However, this surprised Xia Weichan somewhat.

He never expected that even a pure and innocent girl like Ke Yuexuan...

Spending half a year in that kind of environment can also corrupt someone into that repulsive persona.

Even though I had seen Ke Yuexuan in the news before and knew that she was involved in business,

Even though Xia Weichan was already anticipated, encountering her again was still somewhat unbelievable and hard to accept.

Was it really because of his death that the girl's personality changed?

Xia Weichan shook her head and restarted the vehicle.

.......

After the call was disconnected, her right hand, adorned with a ring on her ring finger, gripped the phone tightly before gently placing it on the bedside table, beneath a photo frame.

"It's both troublesome and tiring."

The girl's soft voice was somewhat dull.

Beneath the soft white gauze nightgown, her fair legs slowly crossed, and the slipper on her right foot dangled gently from her delicate little toe.

After a busy day, I had just finished showering, dried my hair, and changed into my nightgown when I called Xia Weichan.

Due to recent internal changes within the group, she has been dealing with a lot of busy affairs. After finishing those, she also has to deal with the inheritance that she simply cannot obtain through normal means.

There was no resentment, as one might have imagined, because someone else had taken possession of the belongings of a deceased loved one.

The girl's gentle face was filled with helplessness and distress.

It's like being a beast of burden, constantly urged by your boss to complete important tasks...

The room was exquisitely decorated and cozy, like a wedding chamber, beautifully arranged by someone.

The girl was sitting on a double bed, with an extra blanket behind her covering a cushion.

The girl was the only one sleeping here from beginning to end.

Her eyes, as clear as autumn water, moved to the photo album on the bedside table.

That was a photo of "her" with a deceased person.

She leaned against his shoulder like a little bird.

With a sweet, squinting smile that reveals her teeth, the girl's smile in the photo album is enough to touch anyone's heart and warm their soul.

If a wedding photo of the two of them in wedding attire could be hung above the bed, then it would truly become a newlywed couple's bridal chamber.

"Pat, pat."

The girl, with a complex expression, kicked off her slippers and lay down on the edge of the bed.

On the other side was a cushion, hand-sewn by someone from a boy's clothes...

Ke Yueci was merely an outsider who couldn't comprehend that kind of emotion...

"...Is it really worth doing so much for a dead person?"

Still hopelessly in love with a dead person.

You must regret it now,

When faced with a confession of love, he insists on completely breaking away from his family and eloping with the other person...