Pure Love Imprisoned: My Ex-Boyfriend, Who Blamed Me, Imprisoned Me in Love

Lin Mian returned to her room. Despite being exhausted from working all week, she couldn't fall asleep. She played on her phone for half the night before finally drowsiness set in and she drifted off to sleep.

She had a nightmare.

I dreamt that I was driving a car with He Duoye on the way. Suddenly, we had a car accident. The car crashed several times. Just as we stabilized the car, several men in black appeared behind us, all holding guns.

The dark muzzle of the gun was pointed directly at her and He Duoye.

Before the gun was fired in her dream, a loud bang startled Lin Mian awake. She opened her eyes, turned over, and looked at the ceiling.

Something fell from upstairs and hit the floor with a loud thud.

She took a deep breath and reached for her phone under her pillow. It was only a little past six in the morning, but He Duoye had replied to her message around four in the morning.

Three words: "Trying to seduce me?"

Lin Mian: "..."

She asked, "What did you do last night?"

After a while, He Duoye actually replied: "I have something to take care of. You weren't waiting for my message the whole time, were you? Do you love me that much?"

Lin Mian replied with a choking emoji.

She stubbornly insisted, "It was the noise from upstairs that woke me up."

He Duoye: "Okay, I understand."

"..."

He Duoye: "Sleep a little longer, I still have things to do."

After putting away her phone, Lin Mian felt much more at ease. She wanted to go back to sleep, but her sleepiness had already been dispelled by the noise, and she couldn't fall asleep no matter what she did. So she simply got up early, washed up, and went downstairs to buy breakfast.

She and Meili planned to visit some tourist attractions in the afternoon, and if they weren't too tired, they would find a place in the evening for Lin Mian to practice driving.

Unexpectedly, the weather suddenly changed in the afternoon and it started to rain, so they had to turn back home. As soon as they got home, the rain stopped.

But I'm already home, and I'm too lazy to go out again.

After taking a shower and leaning back on the sofa, Lin Mian opened WeChat. After hesitating for a moment, she sent a message to her cousin, asking how things were at her uncle's house lately.

Although Zhang Zhiwen's talk about the possible car accident was most likely just scare tactics, Lin Mian was still worried.

My cousin replied quickly: "Everything's fine, but I've been talking about you. I wanted to invite you back for dinner and talk to you about your husband. They saw some short videos and suspect he's involved in fraud and drug trafficking or something."

Lin Mian: "...He didn't do those things."

Cousin: "I don't think my brother-in-law would do something so idiotic. He must be committing more sophisticated crimes, like the gangster bosses in those 'Young and Dangerous' movies."

Lin Mian didn't talk much about these things with her cousin, who then changed the subject: "By the way, it seems that Zhang Zhiwen owes a lot of money, and debt collectors have come to his door."

"How did he end up owing money?" Lin Mian asked, puzzled.

"It seems like he borrowed a lot of money from online loans."

My uncle's house is close to the Zhang family's neighborhood. My aunt heard about it from other older women when she went for a walk in the evening.

The debt collectors blocked Zhang's mother on the road while she was buying groceries. Zhang's mother was a kind-hearted and easy-going person. When she heard that her son owed money, she wanted to pay it back on the road. However, when she looked, she found that her son owed hundreds of thousands of yuan.

Zhang's mother didn't repay the debt, so the debt collectors would block the door of the house every day, preventing the Zhang family from leaving unless the money was paid.

After chatting with her cousin, Lin Mian scrolled through her WeChat friend request history. She had already blocked Zhang Zhiwen's number. Later, when Zhang Zhiwen called her from a different number, she hung up as soon as she heard his voice.

So Zhang Zhiwen changed his friend request to something like wanting to reconcile with Lin Mian. When Lin Mian ignored him, he gradually changed it to threats like he would come to her door to confront her.

At the time, Lin Mian thought he was up to some kind of trick again, but now she thinks he might be trying to extort money from her or something.

Fortunately, he was blocked at home by debt collectors and couldn't leave.

Friday arrived in the blink of an eye. This week, Lin Mian didn't have to run around doing fieldwork. She spent her days idly at the company, taking care of the two new interns.

The company held an impromptu meeting that day, and the leader talked on and on until after six o'clock before finally letting everyone go home.

Lin Mian packed her things and was about to leave when the intern made a mistake at work, and her supervisor caught Lin Mian and scolded her.

By the time we got into the elevator, it was already seven o'clock.

Lin Mian leaned against the elevator wall, unlocked her phone and glanced at the messages. He Duoye had been very busy lately, and his replies to messages were always late and short.

She was looking at the chat history when the screen suddenly switched to the incoming call page. It was her father, whom she hadn't contacted for a very long time.

She straightened up, waited until she got out of the elevator, and found a quiet corner in the parking garage before answering the phone.

"Dad," Lin Mian said.

Her father's voice was as awkward and distant as hers: "Yes, it's me. How have you been lately?"

Lin Mian said, "I'm fine. How are you?"

"Me too, your aunt's daughter is on summer vacation, so she took me on a trip." Mentioning this, the father's voice suddenly became lively.

Lin Mian replied in agreement, "Really? That's great."

The father hummed twice, paused for two seconds, and then his voice became awkward and distant: "I heard from your uncle that you're going to marry that He Duoye? I also heard that he's doing some business abroad."

Lin Mian leaned against the wall: "Yes, I'm planning to marry him."

The father was silent for a few seconds, then stammered, "It might not be safe abroad. Have you thought it through?"

Lin Mian asked directly, "Do you disagree?"

The father hesitated again: "Whether I agree or not, well... you're all grown up now, I can't control you anymore, it's just that your uncle... well, he's just worried about you."

Lin Mian looked down at the dirty garage floor and suddenly said, "How about I go to your aunt's house to find you? Since you're worried, we can have a good talk."

The father immediately said, "Well, your aunt hasn't been feeling well lately..."

Lin Mian said, "Oh, okay, then maybe next time."

"Okay, sure." The father hung up the phone.

Lin Mian looked at the page, thought for a moment, then found her father's WeChat account at the bottom of the list and transferred some money to him as a way of visiting her father and aunt.

The father refused the money, saying only, "Just take care of yourself."

Lin Mian replied, "Okay."

She found the SUV that Meili was driving, got in, and the two went back together.

These past few days, Meili hasn't cooked much; they've been eating out at restaurants and small eateries.

It started raining again halfway there, and the wind was blowing very hard. Lin Mian glanced at the weather forecast and saw that there would be thunderstorms that night.

They randomly picked a restaurant, packed their dinner, and made it home before the rain got heavier.

Lightning flashed, followed by thunder.

Lin Mian glanced at the heavy rain outside; the thunder was so loud it made her heart pound.

Another bolt of lightning streaked across the night sky, and thunder was about to strike. Lin Mian instinctively tensed up, and the next instant, a huge clap of thunder indeed exploded, interspersed with the sound of someone falling down.

It's Meili.

She somehow fell over by the coffee table, spilling her dinner and the soup running straight onto the carpet.

Lin Mian quickly went over to help her: "What's wrong?"

Mei Li clutched her lower abdomen, her face pale, and said, "My stomach suddenly hurts, it hurts so much."