'Fine. If he won't see the serpent, I'll have to be the guard dog.'
She knew her strategy was sound: maximize the clinginess, monopolize the affection, and physically block the pursuer. The only way Xu Meilin could kill Huaijin or marry Yuanfeng was if she could successfully separate the daughter from the father. And Huaijin, the reborn executive with the fiercely loyal heart, would ensure that never happened.
She would be his anchor, his shadow, his constant, loving, inconvenient presence, a perpetual, unbreakable barrier against the venomous schemes of the mini-boss villainess.
The closing of the apartment door, signaling the abrupt departure of Chi Yuantian and the sinister Xu Meilin, left the small apartment ringing with a silence that felt heavy and complex.
