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

"Take her upstairs for a look around." He Duoye let go of her hand, looked at Li Mingshao and said, "Keep an eye on her."

Li Mingshao paused briefly, then immediately agreed and left with Lin Mian.

As Lin Mian reached the door, she couldn't help but turn back for a glance.

He Duoye didn't look at her, but stared at the old man, Uncle Kangnuo.

He didn't look injured.

Li Mingshao closed the door, blocking Lin Mian's view, but the next second, painful screams continued to come from inside.

Lin Mian turned her head away and wrapped her arms around herself once again.

Li Mingshao scrutinized Lin Mian, his gaze now filled with serious inquiry and contemplation. His tone remained unchanged as he explained to Lin Mian, "The man and woman in the house are traitors. They betrayed us, causing Brother Ye to lose goods worth over a hundred million."

Lin Mian asked, "What kind of goods?"

"Gemstones, gold, jade, and a whole piece of imperial green," Li Mingshao said. "We went through a lot of trouble to get all these things together, but we never expected that they would be robbed halfway through the shipment... Those traitors deserve to die."

Li Mingshao especially hated traitors; it was because of traitors that he and He Duoye had almost been killed several times. But these kinds of people are like cockroaches in a sewer; if you have a little greed, they will keep multiplying.

What's more, there are always people trying to plant traitors around them.

Among that group of middle and high-ranking officials who were standing in the room just now, there might still be traitors, or people who are about to become traitors. That's why they were arranged to stand there and witness the fate of traitors.

This process will be very long, so that it will leave a deep impression on them that they will never forget it. When they want to betray their cause, the first thought that comes to mind will not be how much money they have gained, but the bloody end they will suffer.

The clean corridor was long and quiet. Lin Mian lowered her head slightly, looking at the clean floor. But in her mind, the fleeting image of the bloody drag mark floated up.

She thought this trick would definitely work, because even she remembered it perfectly.

The pitiful sounds, the oppressive images, the bright red color, the smell of blood... and the warmth of He Duoye's hand.

Lin Mian touched the back of her neck and asked, "Is He Duoye injured?"

Li Mingshao nodded, not particularly concerned: "Just a minor abrasion on my arm."

No wonder I couldn't tell.

Stepping outside the elevator, Lin Mian asked, "Why did Uncle Kang Nuo insist on bringing me to see him? Was it necessary?"

He Duoye wasn't seriously injured to the point of death.

In Lin Mian's view, Uncle Kang Nuo's act of bringing her here seemed like a threat to intimidate her. But this was even more unnecessary; she was just a nobody who had been accidentally abducted here, of no value and posing no threat to anyone.

Li Mingshao's eyes darted around Lin Mian's face, his own expression full of confusion: "Yeah, I don't understand either... You and Ye-ge, were you two very close before?"

Lin Mian looked at her reflection in the elevator wall. The silvery metal with white decorative patterns made the mirror blurry and discontinuous, cutting her reflection into segments that were indistinct.

It's like her memory.

Were they in a good relationship before?

Lin Mian herself couldn't explain it clearly; it seemed good, yet it also seemed like just her own delusion.

If the feelings were truly good and deep enough, would He Duoye disappear without a trace as soon as he mentioned breaking up?

Li Mingshao asked curiously, "You two were dating in your youth, right? How many years have you been together?"

This question triggered Lin Mian's memory of being frightened by a snake, and she immediately became defensive: "Why do you keep asking me these things? Are you so curious about He Duoye's past? Do you have a crush on him?"

Li Mingshao was so startled he almost tripped and fell: "I'm straight!"

He took a breath and said, "I was just curious. I've been hanging out with Brother Ye for over four years, and I've followed him ever since he came here. But in all these four years, I've never heard him mention you... That's why I scared you when you were first brought to the manor. I thought you were a fake first love."

Lin Mian responded with an "oh".

That's what scumbags are like; after breaking up, they never mention their ex-girlfriends again.

Stepping out of the elevator, Li Mingshao, leaning on his crutch, asked, "Just tell me a little something, when did you two start dating, and why did you break up? Did you really kick him?"

Lin Mian looked at him suspiciously: "Are you really not secretly in love with him?"

Li Mingshao: "..."

He was amused by Lin Mian's clumsy but very effective evasion tactics, but he still had to clarify his sexual orientation: "It's really not true, I'm straight as a rock, as straight as it gets."

However, he abandoned his plan to get information out of her and, as he led Lin Mian outside, said, "Brother Ye asked me to show you around. Where would you like to go? Or maybe like Mei Li, get some SAP beauty treatments or something."

Stepping out of that somewhat secluded corridor, you enter the imposing and magnificent lobby of the Pearl Building.

Beside two rows of tall, lush, and neatly arranged potted plants are six golden elevators facing each other, where well-dressed guests from all over the world frequently come and go.

Lin Mian looked over and said, "I'd like to visit the casino here."

*

Inside a car.

A woman with short hair is looking at a message on her phone, a photo taken secretly from a distance.

She zoomed in and looked at it for a moment, then couldn't help but smile slightly: "The photo of your first love has been sent."

He Jingjun tapped the phone screen and showed the photo to her half-brother, He Zhengchuan.

The photo was taken from a distance in the lobby of the Mingzhu Building. Through the blurry shadows of customers, only a distant profile was captured. Inside, Li Mingshao was leaning on a cane, with a girl in a shirt and jeans beside him.

The lobby lights were bright and clear, illuminating the girl's soft and delicate profile. She had a straight nose, large eyes, and long eyelashes, and a very pure and beautiful appearance.

Judging from the photo, the girl was not very tall, but had a slender figure and long, straight legs, which immediately caught He Zhengchuan's attention.

He Zhengchuan had a face with the same well-defined features as He Duoye, but his features were much more ordinary, barely qualifying him as handsome. Due to his indulgence in smoking, drinking, and women, there was a weak and tired look in his eyes.

But now, that fatigue has been replaced by excitement.

"She does look very innocent. I never thought that bastard would like this kind of woman. I should have known better than to send her the one with the big breasts."

He Jingjun put her phone away, zoomed in on the picture, and looked closely at the girl in it.

She also had the same face shape as He Duoye, with a pair of sharp phoenix eyes, beautiful and shrewd, full of ambitious spirit.

He Zhengchuan thought about the girl's slender figure in the photo. He preferred tall and voluptuous women, but now he was curious about He Duoye's woman.

He licked his lips and asked, "What do you think of your first love when she sleeps?"

He Jingjun frowned in disgust: "You'd better watch your lower body. This girl is not someone you can touch."

He Zhengchuan knew that this first love had already attracted his father's attention, so it wasn't something he could just sleep with casually, at least not right now. But he didn't like He Jingjun's critical tone, which hurt his self-esteem.

"She's just a woman. He Duoye will get tired of her sooner or later." He Zhengchuan's last words were sincere. "I don't understand why you guys think she's important."

He Jingjun did not correct the speculation, and hoped that this first love was important.

Suppressing her impatience, she asked He Zhengchuan, "When that guy was first brought back, did you see him sleeping with women?"

He Zhengchuan was taken aback, then remembered.

When He Duoye was first brought back, he was like an untamed wolf, fierce and wary, distrustful of everyone. Only his father, who held his mother's life in his hands, could suppress him and make him barely obey.

That bastard grew very quickly; in just six months, it transformed from a wild wolf that only knew how to bite people indiscriminately into a smiling tiger hiding a knife.

Over the next year and a half, he rapidly expanded his power, seizing territory, power, resources, and money like a wolf.

But there was something strange about him; he didn't touch either men or women. At first, everyone thought he was just being overly cautious and suspicious, afraid of being taken advantage of in bed. Later, people began to suspect that he might have something else going on.

Then, one day, a pair of beautiful and hot twins suddenly appeared beside him.

He Jingjun looked at the girl in the photo and smiled, saying, "Do you think this first love is important to him?"