In this battle between love and hate, no one is the eternal winner.

Three days later, the police officially announced that Yang Jianye's company needed to be thoroughly investigated for false accounting and other issues, and 18 other people in the company were also suspected of being involved in the case. Jing Zhuoran was also arrested by the police for hit-and-run and finding someone to take the blame.
These were undoubtedly three devastating days for Yang Xingxue.
The mother stayed in the room alone and did not come out, while she watched the police go in and out of her home. In just two days, the company's stock price fell to the bottom. On the third day, those employees who lost their jobs due to the company's bankruptcy ran to the outside of their villa to ask for an explanation. Yang Xingxue hid in a corner alone, not daring to say a word.
She called the Jing family, but the Jing family was also in a state of panic and had no time to pay attention to her.
She called Le You again, but her call was transferred to the call mailbox.
Yes, Le Chengyu's attitude was so obvious, how could the Le family help at this time? It was not until this time that she realized that no one would come to help her except herself.
No father, no boyfriend, no money, no home, no friends, nothing, everything is destroyed.
She could no longer cry and sat numbly on the cold floor, not knowing when today would end and how tomorrow would begin.
At the same time, Lu Aicao was not having as good a time as he had imagined.
She had thought that these three days would be the most liberating three days for her. But she just hid in her room alone, numbly refreshing the news about Jing Zhuoran and Yang Jianye on the Internet.
During this period, she logged into the school's BBS once.
She didn't know what was wrong with her, but she went to take a look. As she thought, most of the comments were condemning her. After all, in their eyes, she was the one who destroyed other people's families. They would never care about how wrong Jing Zhuoran and Yang Jianye had done in Lu Aicao's life.
One made her a burden from the moment she was born, and the other made her lose the closest person to her in the world.
I feel a little disappointed, a little aggrieved, and more of aggrieved that I have brought .
She didn't dare go home, didn't dare to face Xu Yuan, because her emotions were still a mess. She didn't handle the matter well, and she didn't want to see Xu Yuan like this.
After Le Chengyu came back from his mother's company, he saw Lv Aicao staying in the room silently. In fact, he had expected her to be like this. Revenge does not give people more pleasure. In this contest of love and hate, no one is the eternal winner.
So, Le Chengyu decided to take her out for a walk.
Lu Aicao naturally knew that he wanted to make her happy, and she really wanted to relax, so she simply put on a black coat and followed him out.
I don't know if it was her subconscious mind that was playing tricks on her, but when the car was about to reach the city center, Lv Aicao suddenly wanted to go to the cemetery to see her mother. She wanted to go after everything was over, but she suddenly felt so confused that she just wanted to go and see her mother.
Le Chengyu respected her, bought a bouquet of flowers from a roadside flower shop, took it in the car, and headed to the cemetery in the city.
When we arrived, light snow began to fall from the already gloomy sky.
Lv Aicao held the white flowers in her hand, and held Le Chengyu's hand tightly with her other hand. Perhaps it was the real person next to her that made Lv Aicao's mood a little more lively. She suddenly felt a little awkward in her heart. After all, this was also the first time Le Chengyu met his mother.
What should I say? How should I even introduce it to my mother?
These little thoughts were playing around in her mind, temporarily putting her originally troubled mood to rest. But at this moment, a scream from a distance broke all her thoughts.
"Let me go, I'm going to make her die without peace!"
"Mom, the dead are the greatest, please don't do this again!"
"Get out of the way, get out of the way—"
It’s Yang Xingxue and Shen Ping!
Lu Aicao looked in the direction of the sound and, sure enough, saw the mother and daughter arguing in front of their mother's tombstone.
Le Chengyu rushed forward, snatched the paint bucket from Shen Ping without hesitation, and then put it aside fiercely. Lu Aicao also ran over. The arrival of the two people calmed down the crazy Shen Ping.
"What are you doing!" Looking at the scattered red paint on the ground, Lv Aicao's anger suddenly flared up. She could not care less about Shen Ping finding someone to beat her up and threaten her, but she could not come to her mother's grave to cause trouble.
"Little bitch! Little bitch, do you think I'm afraid of you?" At this moment, Shen Ping seemed to be out of her mind. She wanted to pounce on him, but was stopped by Yang Xingxue.
Le Chengyu blocked Lu Aicao tightly.
Lv Aicao knew that Shen Ping was provoked. She endured it and said to Yang Xingxue, "Take her away, or I will call the police."
Yang Xingxue pulled her mother, who was grumbling and cursing, and felt so aggrieved that she seemed about to cry.
At this moment, Yang Xingxue found that she had nothing but her crazy mother. But Le Chengyu stood in front of Lu Aicao, who was like a mountain blocking the wind and rain for her and letting her do everything she wanted.
The question finally jumped out of her chest, with a voice that seemed to be crying blood: "Lv Aicao, how can you be so calm after ruining someone's life?"
It's not that I didn't think that Yang Xingxue would come to question me, but I didn't expect Yang Xingxue to say to me, "I ruined someone else's life?" This is really a big joke. Lu Aicao laughed in anger. She walked around Le Chengyu and stood in front of Yang Xingxue with her head held high.
"Yang Xingxue, I think you still don't understand your position." Her face was full of arrogance that Yang Xingxue had never seen before. "It was your fiancé who hit and killed my mother, and he refused to take responsibility and fled the scene. If you want to trace who ruined your life, you should question him instead of questioning me, who has nothing!"
"If you want revenge, just go find him. Why do you want to involve us? My father is also your father. How can you bear to see him go to jail at such an old age?"
"How could I bear it? Your father cheated on my mother and got her pregnant, then abandoned her. How could he bear it? Are all of you Yangs so shameless?"
"You--" Yang Xingxue was speechless and could only breathe heavily.
"Lv Aicao, Lv Aicao, I won't let you have an easy time!" Shen Ping started to scream again, "Hahaha, I've known about your mother for a long time, but I didn't care at all! Jianye loved me so much, she was just a cheap thing he played with when I wasn't around. I didn't expect that she was so stupid to give birth to a little bastard like you, hahaha, she's so stupid!"
Lu Aicao clenched her fists to prevent herself from breaking down. She had felt a little guilty about her actions, but now that guilt was completely driven away by Yang Xingxue's self-righteousness and Shen Ping's curse.
"If you don't leave, I'll call the police right away," Le Chengyu protected her behind him again and said to Yang Xingxue very seriously, "I think a lot of people are wondering where you are."
Hearing this, Yang Xingxue showed a trace of fear. She gently said to Shen Ping: "Let's go, let's go." But Shen Ping continued to nag and curse.
Before leaving, she suddenly burst into laughter, so much so that tears rolled out of her eyes: "Lv Aicao, I will let you taste the feeling of losing your loved ones again! Just wait, just wait!"
Lu Aicao covered her ears and closed her eyes tightly, trying not to hear or see, but she couldn't help but burst into tears.
Le Chengyu hugged her gently but firmly, and gently rested her head on his chest.
But this made her cry even harder.
She didn't know whether what she did was right or wrong, but she felt like her heart was hollow and could never be filled.
After Christmas, New Year's Day comes.
Le Chengyu thought that Lv Aicao would stay and celebrate the holiday with him, so he bought a lot of ingredients and wanted to make a candlelight dinner for her, but when he got home, he saw her packing her luggage. Le Chengyu tried to stop her without thinking, but she refused.
"I have to go back to accompany Xu Yuan. I'm really worried about her safety." Lu Aicao smiled apologetically. She hadn't slept well in the past few days, and she always heard Shen Ping's screams in her dreams.
Le Chengyu also knew this, so he sighed and said, "Okay, you should go back and take a look. It's just that I'm so sad that you can't be completely mine."
Lu Aicao tilted her head to look at him and couldn't help but smile sweetly.
"I've always been yours," she said softly.
At Lu Aicao's suggestion, Le Chengyu finally decided to bring the ingredients and go back with her to cook for Liang Bo and Xu Yuan.
Speaking of which, apart from chatting with Xu Yuan for a while last time, Le Chengyu had no detailed communication with her, and he had not said anything to Liang Bo. And Lu Aicao also wanted to take this opportunity to let the three most important people in her life get to know each other well.
After getting off the car, Lu Aicao and Le Chengyu walked hand in hand on the way home.
The street lights were dim, and small snowflakes were flying under them. For the first time, she felt that happiness was so close to her. She could touch it, or even hold it tightly.
Later, you can let Le Chengyu show off his cooking skills. He can cook many of Xu Yuan’s favorite dishes.
Liang Bo and he both like playing basketball, and the two can have a lot of fun chatting.
Finally, I could give her the scarf and gloves I knitted for Xuyuan in my spare time. They were light pink, her favorite color.
I'm so sorry for neglecting her so much during this period. I will definitely stay by her side in the future.
Thinking of this, Lu Aicao and Le Chengyu stopped on the fifth floor. The light was broken, and in the dark corridor, she reached for the key.
only--
This time, before she could take out the key, the door of her house opened a crack automatically.
Le Chengyu turned around swiftly and protected her behind him, and habitually leaned against the door in a posture ready to attack.
Lu Aicao, who was protected behind him, was stunned. The smile on her face gradually faded, and she suddenly had a bad premonition.
"Someone at home ?"
Staring at the faint light coming through, Le Chengyu directly opened the door.
Like a torn wound suddenly exposed to the sun, the living room of less than ten square meters was in a mess. Liang Bo lay on the ground, the bright red blood blooming a flower of despair on his back, his right hand stretched forward, as if to grab something for the last time. The arm that could easily carry a wish was now spread out powerlessly in front of Ai Cao's eyes.
The tragic scene was like a dagger stabbing into the heart of the unsuspecting Lu Aicao, and the bag in her hand fell to the ground with a "pop".
"Liang Bo——" Lu Aicao burst into tears and rushed in screaming.
Le Chengyu followed and helped Liang Bo up, then checked his breathing.
"Aicao, he's still alive!" Le Chengyu took out his cell phone and called an ambulance.
Lv Aicao hugged Liang Bo's arm tightly and cried heartbreakingly. Her mind was completely confused now, and she couldn't even tell whether this was reality or a nightmare.
The bright red blood stained Lv Aicao's sleeves. Liang Bo struggled to open his eyes, then used all his strength to whisper into Lv Aicao's ear: "Make a wish..."
Make a wish.
Make a wish!
The huge bell in her head was struck hard, making a deafening sound, like the first note of a funeral song, which made Lu Aicao's heart sink suddenly and almost suffocate. The next second, she stood up suddenly, and before she could tell Le Chengyu, she rushed out like crazy.
Tears flowed freely on her face, and the cold night wind whistled past. She ran madly, not even noticing that one of her shoes had fallen off. The cold snow condensed on the soles of her feet, and she only felt extremely numb. She couldn't stop, because that was her hope to find a wish.
She ran all the roads around her, but couldn't find any trace of making a wish.
Where? Where is she?
There was a buzzing in her ears, and Lu Aicao's mind went blank. She covered her ears, and her vision was spinning.
Where is the wish? Where exactly is it? Who is it? Who did this?
Nothing can go wrong with making a wish!
Never let anything happen to her!
Just then the cell phone rang.
Lu Aicao picked up the phone immediately, and the first second she heard the voice on the other end of the line, she ran back quickly.
Le Chengyu found Xuyuan.
She was in the alley behind the community.
Then, there was no sound.
Lu Aicao didn't know whether she hung up accidentally or Le Chengyu took the initiative to hang up. She didn't care about that, she just ran faster, as if chasing the last second of her life.
However, what she could never have imagined was that the police were faster than her.
At this moment, there were many people in police uniforms standing in the narrow alley. They pulled up a yellow tape to isolate the area.
Lu Aicao walked forward step by step like a distraught fool.
Why... do we need to use yellow tape to separate them?
She felt her vision blurry, big tears rolled out of her eyes, and the world became blurry to her.
Lv Aicao tried to focus her eyes until she saw the shoes on the feet of the person lying in the yellow area. Suddenly, her world became quiet. It was as quiet as when her mother left, so quiet that she felt particularly scared.
That pair of shoes was the first pair of brand-name shoes she bought for Xuyuan with her scholarship.
That was the first time Xuyuan asked her for a gift in the past ten years. She said, "Girls in my class like to wear this brand of shoes recently. If you must give me a gift, buy this. Remember to buy the most basic one, not the expensive one."
Lu Aicao didn't know how she walked into the yellow area. Many people came up to stop her, including Le Chengyu, but no one could stop her. She only knew that she wanted to see Xu Yuan for the last time, and she wanted to help Xu Yuan put on the clothes that had been taken off his body.
It’s too cold. I’ll catch a cold.
Kneeling down in front of Xuyuan, Lv Aicao took off her down jacket and tried to cover her with it, but her trembling hands could not pull it out of the sleeves. She felt like she was entangled in the down jacket, trapped in a cage that she could not escape from.
Why can't I put clothes on her? If I don't hurry up, Xuyuan will catch a cold. She's not in good health. Why can't I put clothes on her?
The clothes on her body were getting tighter and tighter, as if someone was tightly grasping her heart. Lv Aicao finally let out an extremely shrill scream, and her heart-wrenching cry and hot tears rushed out together. She knew that she might scare the people around her, but she couldn't control herself. At this moment, she felt that her soul was torn in two.
Attached to the flesh and dripping with blood.
She gave up struggling, and picked up the clothes on the ground in a disheveled state, and covered Xu Yuan with them one by one, buttoning and zipping up her clothes. She hugged Xu Yuan, whose body had already gone cold, tightly. She only knew that Xu Yuan was afraid of the cold, and if she didn't give her warmth, she would catch a cold.
Those who tried to stop her rushed up again and tried to pull her away from Xuyuan.
There seemed to be countless hands pulling her around, but she couldn't take her eyes off Xu Yuan, for fear that if she glanced away she would miss Xu Yuan who opened his eyes and mischievously told her that it was just a prank.
Make a wish. As long as you open your eyes, I will definitely not blame you.
Make a wish, as long as you wake up, sister will stay by your side and will not go anywhere.
Xuyuan, wake up and look at your sister again, okay?
But Xuyuan never opened his eyes .
Gradually, those voices entered Lu Aicao's ears again.
"Family member, please calm down and don't disrupt the scene!"
"Wormwood, wormwood, wake up, wormwood!"
…
Lu Aicao didn't remember when she fainted. She only remembered Xu Yuan's cold, naked body and tightly closed eyes.
It must be a nightmare. As long as I open my eyes, everything is still the same as before.
She closed her eyes and opened them again, but there was nothing in front of her except the IV bottle hanging on the shelf.
Ai Cao let out a long sigh, her eyes were so dry that no tears remained. Her internal organs seemed to be soaked in despair and helplessness, and she was in uncontrollable pain.
She heard a low but continuous cry, and she looked over with her peripheral vision. It was Le You crying. Le Chengyu hugged her and patted her back gently.
Her nose couldn't help but feel sore. Lu Aicao sat up, pulled out the needle on the back of her hand, endured the pain all over her body, and got out of bed.
Le Chengyu and Le You turned their heads and saw Lu Aicao, whose face was as pale as death, standing in front of them with a numb look in her eyes like a wandering ghost.
"Why did you get out of bed? The drip hasn't finished yet." Le Chengyu's brows were furrowed as if they were tied into a knot.
"I want... I want to see her." Lu Aicao's voice was hoarse like an old man in his twilight years.
Seeing her like this, Le Chengyu felt so heartbroken that he couldn't express it in words. He held her hand tightly, but found that her hand was so cold that it had no temperature at all.
"Aicao..." Le You burst into tears when she saw Ai Cao. She went forward and hugged Lu Aicao tightly. In this world, Lu Aicao and she were probably the only ones who were almost suffocated by this kind of pain.
Such a kind and pure wish, the wish that never looked at people with tinted glasses, the wish that would make her feel wrong if she lost her temper in front of her...
Lu Aicao patted Le You, and she slowly stopped crying.
"Did the police tell me what happened?"
Le Chengyu's expression was very ugly: "It should be done by a group of people. The police detected...different DNA on her body."
Lu Aicao gasped, her knuckles turned white and her lower lip was bleeding from biting herself.
"Although Liang Bo is out of danger, he has fallen into a coma due to excessive blood loss and is now in the hospital." Le Chengyu wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and then hugged her tightly in his arms.
"Cry, cry it out. I'm scared if you do this." His chin rested on the top of her head, and his voice was trembling. He was trying hard to control his emotions and not let Lu Aicao know that he was also on the verge of collapse.
Lu Aicao didn't say anything, nor did she cry. She just stood there motionlessly, letting Le Chengyu hold her in his arms, like an emotionless stone Buddha.
Le Chengyu carried her to the bed, then told Le You that he would stay with her well and hoped that she could take good care of herself and go home first.
Although Le You was heartbroken, he also understood that the person who needed care the most now was Lu Aicao, so he nodded and followed the driver back home.
On the narrow bed, Le Chengyu held Lu Aicao gently in his arms, rubbing her cold hands and talking to her in a low voice.
But Lu Aicao leaned on his chest and still didn't say a word.
Le Chengyu didn't know that at this moment Lu Aicao's mind was working fast. She was only thinking about how to find out who harmed Xu Yuan and Liang Bo.
Later, Lv Aicao often recalled this moment, when Le Chengyu held her and gave her all his love and tenderness. She thought that if she could do it again, she would not want anything but to be with him until the end of time.
But at that time, she didn't know that she would never have such an opportunity again.
The next morning, at dawn, Le Chengyu woke up and found that the person next to him was gone.
He looked panickingly at the half-empty bed beside him. The scent of her hair still lingered on his body, but he had an absurd illusion that he was about to lose her forever.
He didn't know that after he fell asleep due to exhaustion, Lv Aicao secretly left the hospital alone. She went to the next door to take a look at the sleeping Liang Bo, and sent a message to Le You, asking her to help take good care of Liang Bo. After all, the only people she trusted now were Le You and Le Chengyu.
Then she turned off her phone, took a bottle of wine and a pack of cigarettes, and ran to the cemetery alone.
She sat quietly in front of her mother's grave, opened the bottle of wine, and lit a cigarette. She didn't know how to smoke or drink, but at this moment, she seemed to have learned it by herself, puffing out smoke and pouring wine into her throat.
Only in this way would she not feel as if every cell in her body was screaming at her for pain.
She extinguished and lit countless cigarettes, smashed bottles of wine, and before she knew it, it was daybreak. Looking at the rising sun, she felt that it was time to meet those evil spirits.
Lu Aicao went to the school where she made the wish, found her familiar classmates and asked about her recent situation, then went to gather Liang Bo's usual friends and sat in a cafe for an hour.
Finally, she returned to the broken home, took a shower, changed into a set of black casual clothes, put on a baseball cap, put the switchblade that Liang Bo carried with him in her pocket, and went out again .
It's another dark night.
Lu Aicao walked alone in the cold wind and entered a bar called Muzi according to the address given by Liang Bo's brother.
This bar is a small bar near the school. Now that the students are on vacation, most of the people in it are old and dirty uncles with little money. So when she saw Yang Xingxue, who was dressed in a bunny girl outfit, being groped by a dirty uncle, she was not surprised. What surprised her was that Yang Xingxue did not lose her temper, but took the dirty money with a fake smile. That money was not even as much as the price of her original pair of shoes.
It seems that she doesn't need any guidance from fate, she has learned it all by herself.
Lu Aicao sneered, walked through the crowd, grabbed Yang Xingxue's arm, and the moment she turned around, Lu Aicao pressed the switchblade tightly against her back.
At this moment, she looked like a demon crawling out of hell, and even her voice was filled with danger: "Either follow me, or die together."