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Regarding Autumn Wind being a crybaby, Qiu Ruolan had heard Grandma and Qiu Mowen mention it countless times, but she never believed it because Autumn Wind had never shed a tear in front of her.
In Qiu Ruolan's eyes, Autumn Wind was stubborn yet strong, and tears could never appear on her. However, this sudden outburst of crying from Autumn Wind completely overturned her perception of her.
She suddenly realized that she truly did not understand Autumn Wind at all.
Qiu Ruolan stood there with her arms outstretched, the air filled with immense sorrow, helplessness, bitterness, and grievance.
Noticing that Autumn Wind had no intention of coming closer, Qiu Ruolan slowly approached her and gently placed her hand on her shoulder, but Autumn Wind jumped back as if pricked by a needle.
Before Qiu Ruolan appeared the face of Autumn Wind, which she had always felt sorry for: reddened eyes, chapped lips, and tear stains streaming down from the corners of her eyes as she sobbed continuously.
“Autumn Wind, you have to let me explain…”
“I don’t want to hear it…” Autumn Wind covered her ears and slowly retreated towards the balcony. “You have so many houses… why here! I know I’m causing you trouble by being here; I’ll leave… is that okay?” Autumn Wind shouted, then ran onto the balcony.
Then, in a flash, she opened two suitcases and took out all the new clothes that Qiu Ruolan had bought for her. She packed her old clothes into one suitcase, quickly zipped it up, grabbed the suitcase, and rushed to the door.
Standing at the door, she bit her dry lip and said fiercely, “Don’t worry… I won’t trouble you again! Never!”
With that, Autumn Wind opened the door and walked out with her suitcase. But just as she stepped outside, she hesitated. It felt like she had forgotten something. What was it? She couldn’t remember! She stopped crying and turned around to glare resentfully at the panicked Qiu Ruolan, then slowly closed the door.
As the scenery inside Qiu Ruolan’s house gradually disappeared from view, Autumn Wind's heart felt hollow.
Qiu Ruolan stood rigidly in the living room. After a few seconds, she reacted and opened the door to chase after her. But when she ran out of the house, the elevator display showed it had already reached the first floor.
Qiu Ruolan stood numbly at the elevator entrance, watching the numbers change incessantly. The corridor was very cold, and soon Qiu Ruolan couldn't help but wrap herself up tightly; she shivered involuntarily.
At that moment, her phone in her pocket vibrated; it was a call from Qiu Mowen.
She sniffed, slightly calming her tone, afraid that Qiu Mowen would detect her emotions. Once she felt ready, she answered the call, "Hello... Ervin, what's up? Um... I'm fine, nothing's wrong. You asked about Autumn Wind? Yeah, she came by! It's just that she..."
She paused, hesitating.
On the other end, Qiu Mowen's voice remained steady, hoarse yet magnetic. "What happened with Autumn Wind? Did you two argue again? Aren't you supposed to meet her later? Did she go?"
Qiu Ruolan tightly gripped the phone and adjusted her breathing again. "Um, she came... just left... She... we..."
Qiu Ruolan couldn't continue discussing Autumn Wind any longer, so she paused again. After a brief moment of contemplation, she quickly changed the subject. "By the way, I'm moving to Dazhi... That place has been vacant for a long time. I'm moving tomorrow; can you help me? The moving company will take care of putting everything in, but I have a video recording tomorrow; you should come!"
As Qiu Ruolan spoke while heading home, when one leg crossed the threshold of her door, Qiu Mowen asked about Autumn Wind again.
Qiu Mowen stuttered, "You and Autumn Wind... are you really okay?"
It felt like a heavy stick had struck Qiu Ruolan's head. She froze, her legs suddenly weak. She leaned against the door and took a deep breath. "Autumn Wind? We're fine... It's just that she seems to have misunderstood something? She doesn't want to live here... Ugh, I foolishly packed away everything related to me! Ugh... it seems like she'll have to stay with you for now!"
This time it was Qiu Mowen who fell silent. There was a pause of several seconds on his end before he responded: "Well... we also had an unpleasant incident. How about this? I'll give her a call and ask!"
"You two argued too? No wonder! Hurry and call her! Okay, never mind! Just ask her where she's staying? Why is it me? We just had a fight! This way she won't have an easy way out! Hurry up!" Qiu Ruolan straightened herself and said seriously, "Tell Autumn Wind that I'm leaving this for her!"
Suddenly, Qiu Ruolan regained her spirit as she walked into her home. However, what she didn't know was that all her recent behavior had been witnessed by Autumn Wind.
Autumn Wind actually hadn't gone down with the elevator. When she rushed out to the busy elevator entrance, the elevator had just arrived at the next floor. Upon hearing Qiu Ruolan open the door, she hurriedly pulled up her suitcase and hid in a corner of the stairs.
Qiu Ruolan's phone call to Qiu Mowen was clear to her; it turned out that Qiu Ruolan wasn't trying to drive her away. Knowing this made Autumn Wind feel both happy and angry.
She was happy that Qiu Ruolan did not intend to abandon her, but angry at herself for making herself homeless.
When she emerged from the stairwell pulling her suitcase, Qiu Mowen's call came in. Looking at the flashing name, Chen Shanni's hand that had retracted from the air and the dazzling light of Casio sprang back to her mind.
After thinking for a moment, she hung up the phone, pressed the elevator button, and stepped inside. Seeing the tear stains on Autumn Wind's face, Administrator Grandma didn’t say much and simply watched as Autumn Wind walked out.
Where to go now? She really was homeless. She placed her suitcase on the steps at the entrance of the building and sat on it, her fingers sliding across the screen continuously. Should she go to the Fish Store? No way, if the fish knew she was going back to be Qiu Feng's assistant, they would probably eat her!
Should she go to Qiu Feng's house? No, Xiao Yuan had been home all this time, and just thinking about Xiao Yuan's relationship with Wang Jiaru made Autumn Wind feel nauseous.
Stay in a hotel? That would be a death sentence!
Suddenly, Liu Jian's name popped into her mind. At first, Autumn Wind thought she had accidentally tapped it from her contacts, but when her noisy ringtone rang out, she realized it was actually a call from Liu Jian.
“Hello, Wendy, where are you? Are you off work? Can I come pick you up?” Liu Jian's cheerful voice came through.
“I... sure, come pick me up! I'm at...” Autumn Wind almost blurted out Qiu Ruolan's address. “Uh, just come to the company to pick me up. Okay! See you soon!”
After hanging up with Liu Jian, Autumn Wind felt a pang of guilt and began to panic. She grabbed her suitcase and rushed to the intersection, quickly hailing a taxi and instructing the driver to head to the company.
She soon regretted it; why didn’t she just go directly to find Liu Jian, instead of choosing to go around to the company and have him pick her up? What a fool.
When she arrived at the company and had just paid the driver while struggling to get her luggage down, Liu Jian called again. “Hello, Wendy, I’m at your company! Come down!”
"Are you here?" Autumn Wind said, looking around and indeed seeing Liu Jian parking not far away. Oh no, how do I explain that I'm getting out of a taxi with luggage? Autumn Wind thought to herself.
Fortunately, Liu Jian did not see Autumn Wind. Her mind raced as she quickly set up a scenario for herself: Qiu Feng asked me to go to her house to pick up my old clothes! I just got back!
That's right, that's it, that's my excuse!
With that thought, Autumn Wind took a deep breath. "Really? Just a moment, let me find Sister Zhao! I'll be quick!"
With that, Autumn Wind grabbed her suitcase and hurried toward the company lobby. However, instead of going upstairs, she hid in a corner of the lobby where she couldn't be seen and quietly waited for three minutes before changing her appearance and stepping out.
As soon as she exited the lobby, she saw Liu Jian leaning out of his car. Autumn Wind waved vigorously at Liu Jian, who opened the trunk and helped her put her suitcase inside.
Once Autumn Wind sat in the passenger seat, Liu Jian kindly fastened her seatbelt for her and asked, "Are you busy today? You look like you've been sweating!"
"Yeah!" Before Liu Jian could finish his sentence, Autumn Wind interrupted him. She was really afraid he would ask too many questions, so she quickly added, "I just came back from Qiu Feng's place. Did you see that big bag of clothes? I just picked it up; it exhausted me!"
"Hehe!" Liu Jian only chuckled in response.
"What are you laughing at? Is it that funny? You and Sister Zhao are really strange; it's just some clothes! I have to go pick her up anyway; why do I have to go get them today?"
"Are they performance costumes?"
"If they were performance costumes, I wouldn't be complaining! They're my clothes! Just some clothes I left at their place! Wait a minute, why are you asking so many questions? Are you playing detective or something?"
"Nothing," Liu Jian said as he started the car. He turned his face to look at Autumn Wind and then seriously added, "Actually, I just saw you get out of the taxi! I was really worried you were lying to me!"
Liu Jian's tone was very sincere, and his eyes reflected a passionate light, like a magnet inexplicably attracting Autumn Wind's random words. "Why would I lie to you? If you don't believe me, you can stay at your place at 4 o'clock! You can keep an eye on me!"
"What?" The car hadn't driven far when Liu Jian suddenly slammed on the brakes, causing Autumn Wind's body to lurch forward before she heavily leaned back against the seat.
"Nothing at all!"
"You can keep an eye on me!"
"In the previous sentence, you, you!" Liu Jian's eyes sparkled brightly. "I can take care of you forever!" Liu Jian reached out and held Autumn Wind's hand, filled with affection.
Autumn Wind surprisingly felt dazed as well; at that moment, she only had one thought: Wow, I finally have a place to stay tonight!
Then, almost unconsciously, she nodded.
Liu Jian took Autumn Wind to his home, and from that moment on, Autumn Wind began living at Liu Jian's house.
And all of this was captured by the camera entrusted to Qiu Mowen.
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