Tang Xiaomin stood by with an innocent expression.
If it weren't for the two main characters bringing her up, she wouldn't have had any presence at all.
Tang Xiaomin said with a calm face, "Nangong Shanshan, you've truly put on a good show."
"Ye Die and I already had a conflict, and we'd avoid each other if possible. Yet, you threw a singles party and invited both of us at the same time. We all know what your intentions were."
"Now that Ye Die has seen through it, you're trying to pin the blame on me. You're something else."
Ultimately, the mess was caused by Nangong Shanshan's singles party.
At this moment, everyone started whispering amongst themselves, speculating about Nangong Shanshan's ill intentions.
"I heard that President Ye has always liked Tang Xiaomin. Perhaps Nangong Shanshan couldn't stand Tang Xiaomin and deliberately invited Ye Die to trouble her."
"The more they have nothing, the more they show off. If she were truly confident in this marriage, why would she flaunt it in front of us?" Su Dan Novel Network
"A woman with a wicked heart deserves what she gets."
"Such a show-off, who else would she get hit if not her."
...
Soon, Nangong Shanshan was the target of everyone's criticism, enduring their spitting words.
Meanwhile, Tang Xiaomin made a successful exit. If not now, when?
She had anticipated this from the start. No matter how clueless Ye Die was, after being used a few times, she should have realized by now.
She left the banquet with light steps, like a little bird after watching a good show.
As she stepped out of the hotel, she bumped into Ye Fengxing.
Ye Fengxing had come alone, dressed in a shirt and slacks, his face a terrifyingly grim expression, clearly not to be trifled with.
Previously, Ye Fengxing's demeanor was that of a noble young master.
Now, he was a vengeful soul filled with hatred and ferocity.
Their eyes met, and they stood still, silently observing each other.
Before, they coexisted peacefully.
Now, things had changed, and they were enemies.
Ye Fengxing scanned Tang Xiaomin from head to toe and uttered the same unchanging line he always said to her.
"You're still beautiful today."
With those words, time seemed to rewind.
Tang Xiaomin remained silent, standing still.
Ye Fengxing took a step and stopped two meters away from her.
"If I had known from the start that you were not human, I would never have gone to the Tang family to propose, and countless things wouldn't have happened because of you."
Ye Fengxing blamed Tang Xiaomin for everything.
"I treated you well, why did you bring the Ye family to such a state?"
Tang Xiaomin raised her eyes and silently looked at Ye Fengxing. She saw deep regret and hatred for her in his eyes.
Tang Xiaomin didn't understand, truly didn't understand.
How had she become the sinner he spoke of? Weren't they the ones who relentlessly pushed her? What had she done wrong?
"Why don't you ask how I died in my previous life?"
As soon as the words left her mouth, Tang Xiaomin regretted them.
"Why am I telling you this? It's meaningless anyway."
After all, they were enemies now, and they couldn't coexist peacefully as they once did.
Tang Xiaomin had taken a few steps when Ye Fengxing suddenly asked her.
"How I died in my previous life, does it have anything to do with me?"
Recalling her previous life, Tang Xiaomin's only thought was to break off the engagement.
Perhaps if she broke off the engagement, she wouldn't have to die.
"Even until my death, you wouldn't agree to break off the engagement with me. You weren't wrong; you just did nothing."
Ye Fengxing suddenly turned around.
"How could I have done nothing? You must be lying to me, right?"
Tang Xiaomin also turned around and looked at Ye Fengxing with a cold sneer.
"You have power and influence. If you wanted to, how could you not even protect one person like me?"
"Your inaction allowed them to kill me smoothly. It's meaningless to say any of that now. I quite like myself as I am."
"Our hatred for each other should not harm innocent people. When you're ready to settle this, let's find a secluded place."
A familiar car stopped at the hotel entrance.
Tang Xiaomin quickened her pace, pulled open the car door, and got in.
She held onto the car door tightly, preventing Yan Jue from getting out.
Yan Jue was already red-eyed with anger.
"Get out of the way, I'm going to kill him!"
"There are too many people here..."
"Get out of the way!"
His tone grew heavier, and Tang Xiaomin, being yelled at, looked at him intently.
"You yelled at me?"
Tang Xiaomin's wronged and disappointed gaze flustered Yan Jue. In that moment, it felt as if he had committed a grave error.
"Minmin, I..."
"You dare to yell at me!"
"I was wrong, I didn't mean to."
"You yelled at me."
She repeated the sentence, as if she had suffered a devastating blow.
Yan Jue pulled her into his arms. At this moment, all he wanted was to comfort and appease her.
The angry scene he had just witnessed of Tang Xiaomin talking to Ye Fengxing had been completely forgotten.
"Minmin, hit me, okay? Hit me hard to vent your anger, don't hold it in."
...
"Minmin, let's go home. You can do whatever you want to me."
...
"What are you waiting for! Drive!"
Zhong Li was inexplicably yelled at and drove away sheepishly.
While comforting her, Yan Jue suddenly realized something was amiss.
Especially since the head in his arms was buried so deeply that he couldn't see Tang Xiaomin's expression.
She wasn't pretending to be angry just to trick him, was she?
He slightly lifted the hand that held her chin, and Tang Xiaomin's eyes were closed.
He knew she was feigning sleep but didn't expose her little trick.
Ironically, he had actually believed her just now and was so anxious that he had forgotten everything.
"Don't play such jokes on me anymore, because I take every single one of them seriously."
Tang Xiaomin's soft murmur reached his ears, "You fool."
In front of her, he had no authority at all.
He was very reluctant to admit that he had been completely controlled by her, that she even dictated his emotions.
He had thought he was the one wanting to cry or laugh.
The slightest disagreement vanished completely the next day.
...
Tang Xiaomin was invited by Mr. Pan to travel to Country M to attend the shareholder meeting of Meihuan Company.
Upon disembarking the plane, a beautiful woman with blonde hair, blue eyes, and a fiery figure greeted her at the airport.
"Hello, I am Pan Jie. My brother asked me to pick you up. We'll go to the hotel to rest for a night, and the shareholder meeting will commence promptly at nine o'clock tomorrow morning."
Tang Xiaomin shook hands with Pan Jie, but Pan Jie enthusiastically gave her a big hug, holding on a bit too tightly.
Whether it was an illusion or not, Tang Xiaomin felt Pan Jie was a little too enthusiastic.
Under her arrangement, they got into the car together.
Pan Jie's admiring gaze surveyed Tang Xiaomin.
"You're even younger and more beautiful than I imagined. Your eyes are stunning, like a black hole, once you fall in, you can't get out."
Tang Xiaomin subconsciously turned her face away. Her eyes, like Yan Jue's, lacked focus. She didn't want anyone to notice anything unusual and cause unnecessary trouble.