Cry louder, I can't hear you.

Yun Qiao forced a stiff smile, trying to bluff her way out:

"...Why should I ask Li Ruoyan? I have no relationship with him whatsoever."

But Shen Suwei wasn't buying it. "Is it okay that he's holding you so tightly?"

"Then what does it have to do with me that he hugged me?" Yun Qiao looked aggrieved and raised her bound hands. "You saw it too, I was tied up like this, and I couldn't refuse."

She paused, then adopted a fawning tone as she looked at Shen Suwei, "Mr. Shen, could you please untie the rope for me?"

Fearing he would refuse, Yun Qiao quickly added, "I was being tossed around by them, and my whole body ached! My hands and feet are still tied, and my stomach hurts so much..."

Before she could finish speaking, Shen Suwei had already reached out to help her untie the rope.

Whether it was a misperception or not, Yun Qiao seemed to see a fleeting sense of guilt in his eyes as he lowered his gaze.

Just as he was wondering if he had misread it, he heard him say irritably:

"Serves him right for courting death."

Yunqiao pouted.

She felt really aggrieved about this.

It wasn't her idea.

It's all this lousy system's fault; now she's caught in the middle...

The ropes were untied, and Yunqiao regained her freedom of wrists and ankles.

She moved her hands and feet, and the skin where she was tied had a faint red mark from the bindings, which hurt a little.

Shen Suwei's gaze fell on the red marks and paused for a moment.

But the next second, confusion appeared between his brows.

Why did you drug Shen Shiyu?

Yun Qiao tensed up.

Sure enough, they started settling accounts.

It's not that I don't care, it's just that the time hasn't come yet.

Now is her "death day"...

But this is really hard to explain.

She couldn't reveal the system.

If he says he was forced into it, given Shen Suwei's personality, he will definitely press for details about who forced him.

Where will she find someone like that for him?

"Would you believe me if I said it was an accident?"

Do you think I should believe it?

"...Then just consider me to have a bad heart."

Shen Suwei frowned.

He looked at her, his eyes deep and unfathomable, as if he were looking at a mystery he could never understand.

Yun Qiao lowered her eyes dejectedly, her voice muffled: "Anyway, this should be the last time."

Once she fails her mission and dies, she'll have no more chances to do evil.

"What, the last time?"

System: [Host, with the mission rewards, you have thirteen days left. Don't give up!]

Yun Qiao thought to herself with a sneer.

He's still thinking of playing tricks on her.

It seemed like they were encouraging her, but actually they just felt that if she gave up, there would be no one left to tease.

Despite her anger, Yunqiao was still unwilling to give up.

She wanted to live.

She had worked hard for five years, and she really didn't want to give up like this...

There was a long silence.

Yun Qiao took a deep breath, raised her face again, and looked at Shen Suwei with a smile:

"Shiyu and Chizhou have always had misunderstandings, and neither of them was willing to take that step. I just wanted to push them a little, to create an opportunity for them to reconcile. See, they've made up now, haven't they?"

"You're really that kind?"

"...Can't you just trust me this once?" Yun Qiao's eyes were almost pleading.

Shen Suwei looked at her silently.

My gaze slowly shifted from her forced smile to her injured body.

Chi Zhou must have been quite ruthless; besides these external injuries, there must have been other unseen internal injuries as well.

But she didn't say it.

She acted as if nothing was wrong, laughing and joking with him.

Is it a habit of keeping everything bottled up inside, or is it simply a lack of trust in him?

If Li Ruoyan were standing here right now, would she still be the same?

With a thousand thoughts swirling in his mind, the more he pondered, the less he found himself able to accept the other answer.

His brows furrowed even deeper.

"Yunqiao".

His voice was somewhat low, as if he was suppressing something.

Yun Qiao was a little nervous. "President Shen, please speak."

Do you really like me?

Yun Qiao's heart skipped a beat. Asking that question again so suddenly must mean he didn't believe her anymore.

"Mr. Shen, I really like you. Someone as outstanding as you, it's not surprising that I like you, is it?"

How will you prove you like me?

"...Haven't I been proving that to you all this time?"

All that afternoon tea was fed to the dogs...

"That's not enough."

What's not enough?

Was afternoon tea not enough?

Hmm... probably not, Shen Suwei isn't that greedy.

Yun Qiao tried to look at him sincerely:

"Then what do you want me to do, Mr. Shen? Just tell me, and I'll do anything for you."

Shen Suwei frowned. "I've already said, you have to figure that out yourself."

"But I've done everything I can think of, and you still don't believe me. I really don't know what else to do..."

"Are you sure you've done everything you could?"

Yun Qiao hesitated, trying hard to think of what else she hadn't done.

But in the end, she couldn't remember. She looked at Shen Suwei innocently, with a hint of ingratiating probing:

"Could you give me a hint?"

Shen Suwei noticed something churning in her eyes.

She seemed angry, but there was something else in it too; she couldn't understand it.

It's somewhat complicated.

"When you like someone, don't you feel desire for them?"

"Cough cough..."

Yun Qiao was so startled by his words that she choked and subconsciously looked at the driver in front of her.

The driver didn't move an inch, silently pressed the button, and slowly pulled the partition inside the car up.

"..." Wait, what does this driver mean? Does he think she and Shen Suwei are going to have an affair?

Does she look like someone who's affecting the city's appearance?!

Yun Qiao awkwardly turned to look at Shen Suwei, only to find that he was staring intently at her. Yun Qiao became even more flustered.

Her gaze drifted away. "Mr. Shen, you haven't agreed to date me. Even if I have feelings for you, I wouldn't dare say or do it..."

Oh God, what is she saying?

"I allow you to do it."

"?"

Yun Qiao turned to look at him in shock.

I was afraid I had misheard or misunderstood.

But he glanced at the watch on his wrist, his voice remaining calm and unhurried:

"I'll give you only one minute to think about it."

Consider...what?

You've never even dated them, yet you're allowing them to...do that?

Isn't this just being a scoundrel?!

Yun Qiao wanted to reprimand Shen Suwei, but when he suddenly turned to look at her, she met his deep eyes and chickened out. The words that were about to come out of her mouth changed her mind:

"I can do anything?"

Ugh! Yun Qiao despised herself for the nth time.

They'll stop at nothing to survive...

"You can do whatever you want."

"You can kiss me too?"

Shen Suwei looked at her intently, his calm voice tinged with a hint of hoarseness:

"Can."

Yun Qiao was dumbfounded.

Has Shen Suwei gone mad today?

Is the bottom line really that low?

"...Are you Shen Suwei?"

"You have half a minute left. After half a minute, I won't give you any more chances, Yunqiao."

Finally, I made a point of calling her name one last time.

Yun Qiao's heart started beating even faster.

She felt as if an invisible hand was pushing her onto the log bridge.

She couldn't turn back; she either had to jump or walk forward.

But a tiger was waiting for her ahead...