But what I saw… was Meng Bao kissing another woman.

I was astonished when I saw Meng Bao\'s lips smacked against that woman\'s lips. The woman I\'ve met once and threatened the whole office because of her arrogant and crazy antics.

The woman circled her hand on Meng Bao\'s neck and pushed Meng Bao\'s head towards her, deepening the kiss.

She glanced at me, who was standing in silence and smirked.

"Oh? Is this the bridesmaid that you\'re talking about? Well, she is covered in mud and sweat. I don\'t think I want her to be my bridesmaid," she said.

I bit my lips the moment she opened her mouth. I knew it wouldn\'t be pleasant to hear.

Meng Bao was still stunned silly, but when he darted his eyes at me, his face paled immediately, like a husband that had been caught red-handed.

I felt a sharp sting in my heart. I was so shocked to the point that I was speechless. I stared at Meng Bao, demanding an explanation, because, for some reason, I really hoped that Meng Bao would stand alone, waiting for me to arrive as he revealed that he was Mengmeng, and I was his Batman-Jie.

Turned out, the woman was Li Daiyu. It was her who kissed Meng Bao in the end.

I felt tears welled up in my eyes, but I didn\'t want to cry, at least not in front of Meng Bao.

"Y—Ying Jie, this is not—"

"BASTARD, YOU FUCKING BASTARD!" I threw the rose bouquet on his face and turned my back. I left as soon as I could.

"YING JIE!!"

I ran as fast as I could through the muddy land. I could hear Meng Bao chasing me from behind, and when he got close to me. I immediately climbed a tree in front of me. I jumped from one tree to another, going deeper to the forest instead of the main road, living up to my name as the Tarzan Girl.

"NO, YING JIE!!" I could hear his cry, calling me over and over, but I kept leaping from one tree to another until he was unable to catch up.

I leaped as fast as I could, not wanting him to catch up to me. When I looked back, I saw no sign of him anymore. But when I was about to jump again, my wet feed made it slippery. I slipped and fell from the branch.

"WAAA!!"

…

After a spurt, I could feel my body was covered in mud. Turned out I fell in a muddy pond.

"Ugh, my tree leaping skill has gone rusty…." I complained. I looked at my hands and found that I was fully covered in mud, accidentally ruining my light purple qipao dress.

I got up from the muddy pond and looked around, trying to identify my current location. Because all I did was going deeper into the forest.

…

"Okay, I got this," I said. I was quite well-versed going in and out of the forest back then because I helped my dad hunting for wild boar if we were desperate for food or finding some mushroom deep in the woods.

I walked, following my instinct. I had lost my high heels, so I walked barefooted, trailing in the deep forest. Lucky that it was still noon, so the sun was enough as a guide.

For some reason, I had no urge to cry anymore after that dramatic Tarzan leap through the trees. I didn\'t have the mood to shed tears anyway. I am a strong woman.

But I was still shocked by what I saw on the hill. Meng Bao was kissing Li Daiyu…

When Li Daiyu first came, I really thought that Meng Bao disliked her, based on the call from Mr. Yang to Meng Bao before.

But apparently, all Meng Bao did was inviting me to watch him kissing Li Daiyu and turned me into an actual bridesmaid.

…

It\'s not his fault, I knew. I was told to be the bridesmaid, but I got my hopes up, thinking that Meng Bao was trying to surprise me, while in fact, I was his beloved childhood sweetheart.

…

Well, it was my fault for being too hopeful. Now I wasted my chance to be the richest lady on the planet ah. I doubted Meng Bao would pay me for ruining his proposal with Li Daiyu.

…

"Oh we,, Shi Ying, you\'re a strong woman! Don\'t cry, and continue working! Remember that you want to be a rich aunty in your retirement days!

I could feel a drop of tear wetting my cheek after saying that, but I ignored it and continued walking to leave the woods. Maybe I should treat myself to a warm bowl of hotpot with my whole family to celebrate my freedom from a slag man!

"ROARRRH!" I could hear the sound of a big cat near me. I looked around and then found a tiger growling at me, showing its sharp fangs.

"Ah, nice, I need a ride anyway," I rolled my qipao even higher to make sure it wouldn\'t disturb me and then prepared my stance. "Okay, big Miao, come to Jie."

The tiger sensed the provocation, and it jumped to me with its sharp fangs and claws, ready to tear me to death.

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[Yang Menghuo POV]

"NOOO! YING JIE!!!" Yang Menghuo screamed as loud as he could. He tried chasing Ying Jie who jumped from one branch to another like a Tarzan Girl.

Yang Menghuo found himself unable to chase her and fell to the ground after he slipped.

He desperately tried to get up, but Ying Jie went further and further until he lost sight of her.

"GODDAMN IT!" Yang Menghuo slammed the ground with his fist. He already prepared everything perfectly, but that which suddenly appeared out of nowhere and pulled him, kissing him on the lips right at the moment when Ying Jie came.

The timing couldn\'t be worse, and now everything was ruined.

"Honestly, why are you chasing after her anyway?" Li Daiyu walked towards Yang Menghuo and shrugged nonchalantly. "You\'re wasting your time. That\'s why I helped you. Well, based on your mom\'s order, of course."

Li Daiyu got a call from Madam Yang, telling her to come and kiss Yang Menghuo to ruin the whole proposal he had with an ugly woman from a village. So she went with a helicopter and arrived at the right time to kiss Meng Bao.

Apparently, Madam Yang traced the information of Yang Menghuo retrieving the ultra-expensive ring for his childhood sweetheart, so she got all the information from there.

"She is your childhood sweetheart, right? Wow, I don\'t know that you have a taste for an ugly woman—Urk!"

Li Daiyu was startled when Yang Menghuo suddenly grabbed her neck, putting pressure on it. His eyes were a bit strange as well.

Yang Menghuo often had an icy gaze, as if he didn\'t care about whatever happened in front of him unless it was about money or that mysterious childhood sweetheart of his, which turned out to be that woman, Mr. Yang Zhuhuo\'s secretary.

But Li Daiyu was shocked and scared the moment Yang Menghuo stared at her with the eyes of a beast. Something that she thought was impossible for Menghuo.

Yang Menghuo growled as he tightened his grip on Li Daiyu\'s neck, "Listen, you bitch. I have been patient enough to you, and I\'ve tolerated my mother enough. But Ying Jie is the love of my life, and she will not be replaced by trash like you."

"She is alone in the forest right now, and her life is in danger. If something happened to my Jie, then I will not forgive you. I will skin you alive, alongside my wretched mother and everyone who dares to stop me."

"I will slice your head slowly so you will feel everything, every pain imaginable," Yang Menghuo said in a low voice. "Understand?"

Li Daiyu could barely breathe. Yang Menghuo really wasn\'t joking around. His eyes already said it all.

It was deranged, cold, and dangerous, like a beast who had concealed his darkest side for so long.

Li Daiyu nodded weakly because she could feel like her life was slowly floating away.

"Good," Yang Menghuo flung Li Daiyu to the side as if throwing a rag doll.

"Ugh!" Li Daiyu coughed many times and desperately trying to inhale as much oxygen as possible.

"GATHER!" Yang Menghuo ordered. The remaining guards whom he hired to protect the forest finally showed up in front of Yang Menghuo. Only half of them showed because the other half was still searching for Ying Jie.

"Listen, all of you, search for my beloved Jie in the forest. I will personally throw all of you to a tiger den if you fail to find her."

Everyone was too scared to raise an objection because they knew that Young Master wasn\'t joking. He was well known to be so heartless against his enemies, he didn\'t even bother sparing them.

"Yes, Young Master!" Everyone rushed out immediately, trying to find Shi Ying.

"You, stay," Yang Menghuo pointed to one man who was about to leave.

"Y—Yes, Young Master."

"Go and hold that bitch for me. I want you to break her neck if something happened to my Jie," Yang Menghuo said.

"Y—Yang Menghuo, how could you!?" Li Daiyu struggled when Menghuo\'s man twisted her hand behind her back. "Your mom will get angry at this!"

"I will also kill her if something happened to my Jie," Yang Menghuo replied coldly.

"I will make sure you will suffer a fate worse than death if my Jie got hurt, no one will be spared, even myself."