The transmigrated villain turned the effeminate female protagonist into a yandere.

"You haven't answered my question yet."

Ye Anran countered with a question,

"What kind of answer do you want? Do I need to report my arrival in Liancheng to you?"

"Some time ago, your parents called me and said you went to another city, asking if I knew anything about you."

"And then? What did you answer them?"

I said I didn't know.

Ye Anran sneered, "Of course you don't know, I can go wherever I want, just like some bastard who leaves a lousy letter and disappears without a trace."

Qin Shiyu paused for a moment, then continued, "I'm just resigning normally."

"Did you get my permission? I'm your boss, what right do you have to just leave?"

Ye Anran became angrier as she spoke, "You used to control me every day. If you want to leave, I'll have to slap you twice first."

Qin Shiyu remained indifferent.

"I was hired by the master and mistress, and they pay my salary. If I want to resign, I should only do so with their consent."

Seeing his nonchalant attitude, Ye Anran was furious. "So you're just their dog, you have to follow them around and sniff their farts."

"Miss Ye, please watch your words. After all, we are no longer in a master-servant relationship, so I have no obligation to accept your insults."

Ye Anran's chest heaved violently.

She picked up the wine glass on the table, tilted her head back, and drank it all in one gulp, the spicy sting spreading in her throat.

"Qin Xiaogou, you're such a bastard."

Ye Anran showed no sign of stopping, drinking one cup after another, her face gradually turning as red as an apple.

Qin Shiyu frowned.

Unable to bear it any longer, I snatched the wine glass from her hand.

Ye Anran, displeased, bared her teeth and roared, "What are you doing?!"

"Stop drinking, you can't handle that kind of alcohol."

Ye Anran, her voice slurred with drunkenness, retorted sarcastically, "What's it to you? You're not my employee anymore, so why are you telling me what to do?"

The same words were spoken, but the person saying them was someone else.

Qin Shiyu gripped the wine glass tightly.

"As the owner of this tavern, I have the right to decide whether or not to sell you the wine."

"You have quite the airs of an official."

Ignoring his words, Ye Anran took another unopened bottle of wine and started drinking it by herself.

She was already slightly tipsy, but now she felt even more intoxicated.

"Qin Shiyu, don't you think you're not a bastard?"

Then tell me, what am I to you? What do all these years of being together mean? Something you can just throw away?

She was clearly drunk.

Her words were disjointed and incoherent, yet she had already begun to cry and vent her frustrations.

Qin Shiyu sighed, put the wine away, and poured her a glass of water.

He silently watched the girl slumped over the table in front of him.

His eyes were full of complexity.

Ye Anran was still the same as before, with a pair of beautiful big eyes and a proud and pretty face, but a sensitive heart was hidden beneath.

...

"So what? Why did you just run away without a word?"

Xia Ningqi walked over from the side and sat down next to Ye Anran.

Qin Shiyu wiped the cup in her hand. "With me here, I will only become an obstacle to her future progress."

"And now? She came to Liancheng without telling her parents. Doesn't that show her true feelings?"

Qin Shiyu adjusted her glasses frame with one hand.

"To the Ye family, I'm just an ordinary butler. I have neither a powerful background nor abundant wealth. Right now, I just want to start my own business and develop something of my own. Is there anything wrong with that?"

Faced with Qin Shiyu's question, Xia Ningqi fell into deep thought.

Just now, she had a brief chat with Song Jing and learned that opening a tavern here was her idea, and Qin Shiyu had hesitated for a long time before finally agreeing to it.

"Perhaps what you say makes sense, and that's your own reasoning, but in my opinion, you're just avoiding the problem."

Qin Shiyu said slowly, "Do you know? Liancheng is like a safe haven, taking in many heartbroken and disillusioned people, and you and I are among them."

His observations are very keen.

Xia Ningqi felt as if she had been pricked by a needle in her heart.

The atmosphere was heavy.

She silently finished the plum wine, then hailed a car and helped Ye Anran into it.

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