Quick Transmigration: Drama Queen's Daily Life Chapter 1379 - 1368: Refusing to Be an Abuse Novel Heroine

"How is it, do you feel uncomfortable at all? Just relax here." Although Cheng Ruiting was a mild-mannered person, it was rare to see him talking to a woman in such a close, easy way, so they drew a lot of glances from the people around.

"No, I’m fine. I was even thinking, if I get lucky later, maybe I can win a prize!" Ye Qiu showed him her wristband. It was a special one made by Cheng Group—whenever someone won a prize, the light would come on, in case they forgot to look at the big screen on stage.

Cheng Ruiting smiled. "You’ll get used to it. Where are your younger brother and Youhuan?"

"The little girl got some ice cream on her clothes and went to clean it up."

"Ahem..." Zhang Xianwei had been standing there for two minutes already. Seeing the two of them chatting away happily without anyone noticing him, his face turned dark and he gave a light cough.

Hearing the sound, Ye Qiu looked over, and her expression immediately went cold. She hadn’t expected to run into Zhang Xianwei here at this exact time. On second thought, though, it wasn’t surprising: the Zhang Family and the Cheng Family were both top-tier clans, and it was perfectly normal for them to have business dealings.

"Oh, let me introduce you. This is Mr. Zhang, the president of Zhang Group. Mr. Zhang, this is..."

"I know. Ye Qiu." Before Cheng Ruiting could finish, he was cut off by Zhang Xianwei, and Cheng Ruiting’s gaze turned chilly.

"Long time no see, Miss Ye. Held it in for three years and finally couldn’t hold it anymore, huh?" Zhang Xianwei sneered. "You went to such lengths to track my movements. Planning to rekindle our old romance?"

Disgust was written all over Ye Qiu’s eyes as she looked at him. She curled her lip. "Mr. Zhang, do me a favor and stop being so narcissistic. I’m here because Ruiting invited me. If I’d known you were coming tonight, I wouldn’t have come at all."

"Stop putting on an act. Back then you were climbing into my bed pretty diligently, weren’t you? If you apologize to me now and obediently come back to Ming City with me, I can let bygones be bygones." Zhang Xianwei was as arrogant as ever, speaking without the slightest regard for anyone’s feelings.

He didn’t notice that Cheng Ruiting’s expression had darkened further, nor that Ye Qiu’s face had turned even colder. "Zhang Xianwei, stop spouting nonsense here. You and I both know exactly what happened back then. Ming City is your personal fiefdom. Even if I called the police, nothing would come of it. I have nothing to say about that. But this is Luocheng. Watch your mouth when you speak and stop slandering my reputation."

"Luocheng? You think just because you came to Luocheng I can’t touch you anymore?" Zhang Xianwei was furious at her rejection. In his mind, Ye Qiu was still playing games. He felt he was already giving her a lot of face, yet she was still pulling this tired ’hard to get’ routine with no originality at all.

"Mr. Zhang, I won’t boast about anything else, but in Luocheng, I do have enough standing to protect one person." Cheng Ruiting said with a cold face. He didn’t know what exactly had happened between Ye Qiu and Zhang Xianwei in the past, but the Ye Qiu he knew was nothing like the woman Zhang was describing. It was obvious Zhang was just making trouble.

"You’re protecting her?" Zhang Xianwei’s brows furrowed deeply. "What’s your relationship now?"

After asking that, the more he thought about it, the more unsettled he felt. No wonder he had sensed earlier that the two seemed close. Could it be that Ye Qiu had latched onto Cheng Ruiting now?

"What does that have to do with you?" Ye Qiu shot back expressionlessly.

Zhang Xianwei gave a derisive laugh. "No wonder you refuse to come back with me. So you’ve already found another target."

The anger in Ye Qiu’s eyes flared higher. "Zhang Xianwei, if this weren’t Ruiting’s company’s annual party tonight, I would’ve already taken a swing at you."

"You..." Her words made Zhang Xianwei so angry that his face flushed crimson. "So I was right. But Mr. Cheng, I have to warn you, this Ye Qiu is no good woman. She once..."

"Mr. Zhang." Cheng Ruiting raised his voice slightly and looked at him sternly. "Is this what passes for family upbringing in the Zhang Family?"

Seeing Cheng Ruiting speak up for Ye Qiu only made Zhang Xianwei angrier. "You’re being ungrateful," he snapped.

"The one who’s blindly arrogant and doesn’t know his place is you." Ye Qiu wished he would just disappear into thin air. "The ’relationship’ between us was nothing more than you accidentally helping me once, then I went to repay the favor and you forced yourself on me, and then I was driven out of Ming City, that’s all. If it weren’t for the Zhang Family having your hand over the sky in Ming City, what you did back then would’ve landed you in prison. Let me repeat this one last time: I have never liked you, and I’ve never wanted to climb the Zhang Family’s high branches. Stop making up your own fantasies in your head, and don’t ever appear in front of me again."

"When did I ever drive you out of Ming City?"

"Weren’t you the one who said you’d take revenge on me and my family? You wield so much power in Ming City—how could my family and I dare to stay?" Ye Qiu’s face was full of mockery. Anyone could see she truly held him in contempt, but he himself insisted on misunderstanding.

Maybe that’s what comes from being pathologically self-absorbed: convinced that no one in the world could possibly dislike you, convinced that whatever people say or do is just to attract your attention.

"Big Sis, is he bullying you?" A childish voice cut in. Then, when she saw Zhang Xianwei, her pupils shrank sharply. She had already heard his voice just now, but seeing him in the flesh still left her a bit dazed.

She hadn’t expected Dad to talk to Mom like this. She’d long known he’d always treated Mom badly—saying he loved her, but only regretting it every time he was about to lose her. What was the use of that? The damage was already done.

And in this life, it wasn’t as if Dad and Mom had never crossed paths. Turned out he had even forced himself on Mom, driven her to call the police and move away.

In her previous life, after Mom died, Ye Youhuan had already found it hard to forgive Dad. In this life, seeing him wrong her mother so baselessly with her own eyes only made her anger spike higher.

"Sis." Ye Guo was holding Ye Youhuan as they stood by Ye Qiu’s side, the three siblings confronting Zhang Xianwei together.

"Go tell the host to arrange two interactive raffle games." Seeing more and more people gathering around, Cheng Ruiting instructed his assistant, then swept his gaze around. The crowd scattered like startled birds at once—some went back to drinking, some to dancing—and the nearest people were now four or five meters away from them.

"Big Sis, is someone bullying you? Youhuan will help you go beat him up." Ye Youhuan glared angrily at Zhang Xianwei.

Ye Qiu shot her a look. "If a dog bites you, are you planning to bite it back?"

"You!" Being likened to a dog infuriated Zhang Xianwei to the point of bursting. If real life had special effects, Ye Youhuan felt a dark cloud hanging over his head would suit him perfectly.

She had never understood it. If you love someone, shouldn’t you put everything into cherishing them? Why did it become all kinds of torment in her dad’s case? Who did that benefit in the end? Didn’t it just leave both sides wounded?