Due to jetlag, Ning Shu was out of it for several days. Once she recovered, she made plans to head to T City.

  When Mother Xu heard that her son was going to T City, she hastily asked, “Are you going to go see Xia Xiaoman?”


  Ning Shu’s face filled with sudden realization. “Mom, if you didn’t bring it up, I wouldn’t have remembered. I’m just going back to see my old boss and some colleagues. Even if I see Xia Xiaoman, it doesn’t really matter.”


  While she was overseas, she hadn’t really paid attention to what was going on between Chu Xiaoran and Xia Xiaoman, but then again, she didn’t have any way to get information. The main reason she had come back to T City this time was to see how the two were doing.

  After a couple hours by car, Ning Shu got to T City. She first visited the boss of the firm she used to work at and the two even went to have a meal together. The boss asked Ning Shu, “What plans do you have now that you’re back?”


  Ning Shu saw that he didn’t intend to invite her back to his firm. It was clear that he still had apprehensions.

  Ning Shu said, “I have some money on hand right now, so I plan to start a law firm.”


  The boss nodded. He seemed a bit disappointed. “You’re a good lawyer, it’s such a shame. Forget it, let’s not talk about these things. Where do you plan to open your firm?”


  “T City,” said Ning Shu.

  The boss immediately frowned. “You won’t be able to move about in T City. And if you do this, we’ll become enemies of the same trade.”


  “We can collaborate,” said Ning Shu.

  “Wenlang, someone had exerted pressure to get you to resign last time, so why are you still staying in T City? Things would be the same if you start your firm in another city,” said the boss. On one hand, it was because there really was someone that was making things hard for Xu Wenlang. On the other hand, he didn’t want to have another competitor.

  Ning Shu just shook her head without speaking.

  After the meal, Ning Shu went to learn about Chu Xiaoran and Xia Xiaoman’s situation.

  Over these past three years, Chu Xiaoran and Xia Xiaoman’s sado-maso love had gradually became public. Xia Xiaoman’s status changed from that of mistress to girlfriend. Chu Xiaoran would even occasionally bring Xia Xiaoman along to parties.

  However, there were still a lot of problems between the two. Chu Xiaoran was the type of man that women all wanted to gain a connection to, so there was always plenty of butterflies hovering around him. It was practically a harem-scheming scene. These women set up and insulted Chu Xiaoran’s official girlfriend, Xia Xiaoman, in all sorts of ways.

  These women purposefully got very close to Chu Xiaoran and even slept with him, causing Xia Xiaoman to be very hurt.

  Xia Xiaoman was the type that wouldn’t voice the grievances she felt and would just wallow in her own hurt. She’d ignore Chu Xiaoran until Chu Xiaoran got angry with her attitude and forcefully pushed her down to start a passionate exercise.

  Xia Xiaoman would then be even more hurt. Chu Xiaoran had already slept with another woman, but now he was still plundering her body. Such pain and despair!

  In any case, their relationship was extremely twisted. They seemed to have feelings for each other, but they kept hurting each other. Actually, no, it was more that Chu Xiaoran was hurting Xia Xiaoman both emotionally and physically.

  However, despite the fact that things were like this, Xia Xiaoman still stayed with Chu Xiaoran for three years. Every time she was hurt and decided to leave, Chu Xiaoran would pull her back and start a round of OOXX.

  It was like there was nothing that a round of tumbling couldn’t resolve. If there was, then it just called for two rounds. This was how Xia Xiaoman and Chu Xiaoran interacted.

  Afterwards, they’d start another honeysweet period until some more women jumped out and made Xia Xiaoman feel hurt again.

  This cycle continued nonstop. It was seriously endless.

  Ning Shu let out a long breath. The fudge? She felt tired just hearing about it. Could it be that those two didn’t get tired at all?

  She shook her head. She felt no sympathy for Xia Xiaoman despite the fact that she was hurt like this. She couldn’t bear to leave Chu Xiaoran even though he hurt her like this, so who else would Chu Xiaoran hurt if not her?

  Xu Wenlang was really pretty pitiful. Every time Xia Xiaoman got hurt, she’d come to Xu Wenlang to cry and ask him to take her away. Whenever she couldn’t take things anymore, she’d come to Xu Wenlang for healing.

  Then once she recovered, she’d head right back to Chu Xiaoran’s side.

  After hearing about these things, Ning Shu paid no more attention to these two. She was pretty happy to see them hurt each other like this.