Chapter 1901 (1/2)

Chapter 1901

Warning

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Admittedly, the whole affair felt like a bad dream, one that she desperately wanted to wake up fro to wake up fromThis house detention was real, as real as that electronic ankle bracelet she'd been fitted with after her last interrogation session with Detective wangShe was now officially a criminal suspect, not of murder, but of perjury and obstruction of justiceThe cops clearly thought she was covering up for Li Yundong, which, of course, she wasThere was, however, a silver liningSo wasn't like the rest of his colleaguesHer gut told her that Detective wang was starting to believe her story about He Shao being struck down by a bolt of lightning froainst the entire police force?

Detective wang ht be different from the rest, but he was still just a homicide detectiveThe police co what to do with her

Hence the house arrest

Her father had been furious and extremely disappointed in herNot that his reaction surprised herAs far as she could tell, this was just another day in the Zhou householdAfter all, when had her father ever looked at her with anything other than disappoint cared about her well-being? To hioal that had driven him to the point of madnessEven when he was disappointed in her, it wasn't because he cared; it was only because he thought she had done so to desecrate the name of the Zhou family

So much for familial ties

Over the past feeeks, Zhou Qin had a lot of ti, sleepless hours of self-reflection and soul-searching, Zhou Qin found herself constantly returning to one si this to herself? Why was she putting everything on the line for Li Yundong, aherself that she was doing this because of hors for Li YundongBut deep down, she knew that wasn't the case at all

The fact was that she had changedEver since she'd gotten to know the real Li Yundong, her entire worldview had changedHer friendshi+p with Li Yundong had ht she knew about lifeAnd as a result, she had begun to see that there really are things in life worth ful, things that are worth protecting

While her father believed in wealth and status, Li Yundong believed in peopleHe valued a person's inherent goodness more than their wealth and statusMost people in Zhou Qin's circle picked friends and allies based onpicked his friends based on their internal qualities

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And then there was Su Chan

GodThat girl was so else entirelyThe nature of Su Chan's character was so that she couldn't for the life of her fathomFor one, her character was riddled with contradictions: meek and compliant, yet fiercely assertive and protective when it cas or people she cared about; sily coht processes; blessed with a disproportionately huge appetite, yet possessing a figure that most women would die for

But of course, the one aspect about Su Chan's character that baffled Zhou Qin the most was her childlike innocence

Good Lord

That girl was innocent to point of hilarity, not to norant to the ways of the worldAnd yet, despite her innocence, that girl also possessed far greater wisdoht than any wo from the very startWhen everyone—sadly, even Zhou Qin herself—saw Li Yundong as just another loser, Su Chan saw a great man hidden behind his mediocre exteriorFor sohts into the hu that had allowed her to see past the shallow nonsense and focus on the things that truly matter

Zhou Qin would rather die than ade between Li Yundong and Su Chan shortly after He Shao was struck to death had moved Zhou Qin to tearsIt was clear to Zhou Qin then that Li Yundong and Su Chan loved each other deeplyIn fact, their love for each other ran so deep that either one of them would die for the other

How a love that pure could exist in this world was beyond Zhou Qin

Regardless, the pure love between Li Yundong and Su Chan : it is people, not wealth, that brings true happiness

You could have all the wealth and status in the world, yet be surrounded by people ould backstab you any chance they getIndeed, how could happiness ste in fear because you're surrounded by people ould bring destruction upon you the uard doouldn't hesitate to throw you under the bus to save their own skin? How could anyone be happy by living ast sharks and blood-thirsty wolves? Zhou Qin had seen such a lifeNoShe hadn't just seen itShe had experienced itBecause that was exactly the kind of life that her father had chosen for her

On the other hand, you could lead a simple life but be surrounded by people who cherish you for who you are, not how deep your pocket is or how your last naiven Zhou Qin a gliful life looks like

Indeed, a simple, hos and allowed her to finally understand theof true happiness

After she came to that realization, Zhou Qin had spent quite a while wondering if she would ever experience such happinessIt wasn't until three weeks ago that she realized so else: she'd already experienced such happiness

Oh yes, she did, back at Li Yundong's aparter participant of la casa de Yundong's daily Food WarGodWhat a hed until her cheeks hurt every tiue out at Zhou Qin after she had beaten Zhou Qin to a piece of duck meatAnd then when it was the other way round, when Zhou Qin had beaten Su Chan to a piece, the poor girl would showcase her ”chipmunk” pouches in an entirely different capacity—in the forhed until her sto her father would never understandHe wouldn't understand because he never really had people he cared deeply about

Zhou Keqiang cared about no one

Not even his own daughter

Zhou Qin wouldn't allow herself to go down that pathShe didn't want that kind of lifeShe'd never wanted it in the first placeBefore, she had let herself be controlled because she had no idea what happiness truly meantShe hadn't seen the other side, so to speakBack then, her life consisted of nothing other than less parties and petty political randeurNot toattempts to find theto look forward to, nothing worth fight for