Hearing the sound of the door opening, Ou Yunchen immediately put down his phone.
Ou Yunchen: "You're back? Wash up and eat."
Mo Qingyun clearly returned with something on her mind. She looked at the table full of food, then at the clothes drying on the balcony. She truly didn't know how to express what was in her heart.
Ou Yunchen: "What's wrong? Did someone bully you?"
Mo Qingyun took Ou Yunchen's hand and led him to the living room.
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "I have something to tell you."
Ou Yunchen: "Let's talk after dinner."
Mo Qingyun shook her head, insistent on speaking first.
Ou Yunchen: "What's making you so serious?"
Ou Yunchen smoothed Mo Qingyun's unconsciously furrowed brow, then embraced her with a smile.
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "Xie Youlin is being investigated again."
Ou Yunchen: "I know."
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "And he was photographed living with a deaf-mute couple."
Ou Yunchen: "Oh."
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "Did you do it?"
Ou Yunchen pursed his lips and smiled. His demeanor was not serious, making it impossible to tell how much was genuine and how much was feigned.
Ou Yunchen: "I'm with you all day. How could I possibly sneak photos of him?"
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "You went to the welfare home and peeked at his files, didn't you?"
Ou Yunchen stopped smiling. He had been exposed.
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "It really was you? Why did you do that? You'll make him lose the Xie family."
Ou Yunchen: "And what about me? Did you ever think about me? How he treated me, how he ruined AtL and forced it to close. Am I not miserable enough already?"
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "What you're doing is immoral!"
Ou Yunchen: "Immoral? He targeted me first, remember?"
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "I told you, you'll never lose me no matter what. Why are you still opposing him?"
Ou Yunchen: "The word 'surrender' is not in my dictionary!"
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "I believe he's not the kind of person you say he is. He wouldn't have killed Mrs. Xie. Even if he's not Xie family's biological son, he would inherit the Xie family. Just stop adding fuel to the fire and tormenting him. You can't win."
Ou Yunchen: "Are you doubting me or don't you want me to win?"
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "I don't want anything. I just want to help you. Give up competing with him!"
Ou Yunchen: "He made me lose everything, and you're asking me to be at peace?"
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "What do you have to fight him with now? He has the entire Xie family. What do you have?"
Ou Yunchen: "He doesn't have the Xie family. He has what's in his hands, and he used that to threaten others to target me!"
Ou Yunchen finally revealed this secret. No matter how pitiful he had pretended to be these past few days, there was no suitable opportunity. But today, with this unintentional deliberate moment, it might have become the perfect time.
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "What does he have in his hands? You said he threatened whom?"
Ou Yunchen: "It has nothing to do with you."
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "Tell me, what does he have that made you become like this?"
Ou Yunchen looked into Mo Qingyun's eyes. He hesitated, but Mo Qingyun held his hand and insisted he speak.
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "If you don't tell me, how can I believe you?"
Ou Yunchen then told Mo Qingyun about Xie Youlin possessing a file and also about Xie Youlin threatening Zhou Shenghua.
Mo Qingyun covered her mouth. At first, she couldn't believe it. But the more impossible something seemed, the more it felt like the truth. Otherwise, why would a well-established company be repeatedly investigated by higher authorities without ever being convicted?
Ou Yunchen: "AtL didn't shut down because it did something wrong. It was due to continuous fund supervision, which prevented projects from proceeding. With client contracts in hand, AtL couldn't pay on time, leading to doubled compensation and thus the closure."
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "That USB drive is with him, and it could threaten many people?"
Ou Yunchen: "I won't be the last."
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "If he really did this, wouldn't it harm him?"
Ou Yunchen: "It would. I thought about destroying the USB drive, but I don't know where he keeps it."
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "On the computer in his office."
Ou Yunchen: "You saw it?"
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "A few times when I went to his office to find him, I always saw him covering the USB drive with something. At first, I wondered why a USB drive needed to be hidden. Now it seems it's the contents of the USB drive that he wants to conceal."
Ou Yunchen: "Only by getting that USB drive can all of this end."
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "When you go to find him, the USB drive might be moved by then."
Ou Yunchen: "He doesn't carry it with him?"
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "Then I don't know. But when he's at work, the USB drive is definitely plugged into his computer. At least, that's what I saw the few times I went."
Ou Yunchen: "Then I'll have to steal it from his office."
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "You can't get in. His security has been upgraded. Even his secretary needs facial recognition to enter his office."
Ou Yunchen sighed.
Mo Qingyun slowly held Ou Yunchen's hand, her eyes telling him that she could try.
Ou Yunchen: "It's too risky. If Xie Youlin finds out, I'm afraid he'll hurt you."
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "Besides me, you have no one else to help you."
Ou Yunchen: "Xiao Yun..."
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "But can you promise me, if I get the USB drive, you'll destroy it immediately? And promise me, you won't continue to hurt Xie Youlin?"
Ou Yunchen: "I..."
Mo Qingyun's sign language: "Promise me!"
Ou Yunchen: "I..."
Ou Yunchen lowered his head, as if facing an extremely difficult choice. In the end, he compromised for Mo Qingyun.
As they embraced, the heavy stone in Mo Qingyun's heart finally lifted. As for what Ou Yunchen was thinking...
The show had only just begun!