"I will find Alex, and I will send his head to his mother. I will always love you and forgive you, but there is no way I will let another man touch you…."

"There is no way…."

Meng Bao slammed the door and left me petrified alone in this apartment.

It took a while for me to process everything. When I finally realized the severity that could happen between Meng Bao and Alex, I immediately rushed out to catch Meng Bao.

"BAO!"

I slammed the door open to stop him, but it was all empty when I saw the corridor. There was no sign of Meng Bao anywhere as if he just disappeared.

"Oh no, this is bad," I took out my phone and then started calling Meng Bao.. But even after few beeps, there was no answer from him.

I tried calling him over and over to no avail. I gritted my teeth and then rushed out to the parking lot while calling Alex.

Alex picked up the call after a while. He was hesitating when he picked it up, "H—Hello? Is this Ying Jie?"

"Alex, hide now! Just hide!" I warned him as I rushed out to the parking lot. I didn\'t know where Meng Bao was going, but I didn\'t want him to kill Alex.

I just didn\'t want him to kill someone he deemed his family member because Alex and Meng Bao were brothers. I didn\'t want to be the source of all problems for Bao.

"W—What? What happened?!" Alex asked anxiously.

"Meng Bao is going to kill you! You need to run now! Hide somewhere. Just don\'t get caught by him!"

Alex\'s voice was shaking after I informed him about that. I could hear few things dropped from Alex\'s side, probably he was busy rushing around his room to escape Meng Bao\'s wrath.

"I—I will fly to another country now. Stay safe, Jie!" Alex said, then he hung up the call.

I didn\'t know where I would go next, but I had someone to call right now. I needed to calm Meng Bao. Seriously, that guy could do something stupid sometimes.

I called Meng Bao\'s old trusted driver, and after few beeps, the old man picked up the call, "Hello, Miss Shi Ying…."

"U—Uncle, do you know where Yang Menghuo\'s location now? I need to find him before he does something stupid!"

The old Uncle Driver was silenced for a moment, and then he replied, "I can take you to him."

"Please do!"

"Stay at the parking lot. I will be there in ten minutes," the Old driver said.

I hung up the call and waited for ten minutes. The night wind was a bit cold, but I held it because there was no time to waste right now. I needed to find Meng Bao and calm him down.

Ten minutes later, a black Rolls Royce drove in front of me, and the Old driver rolled the window down, "Come in, I will bring you to Young Master."

I went in, and the car drove reasonably high speed to a location quite far from the city. I asked the Old driver, "Meng Bao—I mean, Yang Menghuo… he hasn\'t done anything stupid, right?"

"He didn\'t do anything, Miss…." The old driver said.

"Huh?"

…

"He went to a villa near the mountain. He said that he wanted to calm himself down. Miss, what happened between you and Young Master? He looked so hurt…."

"There was a misunderstanding, but it\'s really just a misunderstanding! He didn\'t let me speak at all, and in the end, things turned like this…."

The old driver took a deep breath and then nodded, "This is the first time Young Master tried to hold himself, Miss. Usually, when he was angry at someone, usually his business enemy, he would end them as quickly as possible."

"But this time, he holds himself…."

The old driver\'s words permeated my brain as I remember how scary Meng Bao was. He only showed his gentle side to me… and I made him cracked his well-put disguise.

The car stopped on a villa at the top of a hill. The villa was beautiful, but it had a sense of loneliness in it.

"Young Master is inside," the old driver said.

I braced myself and went to the villa. I knocked on the door, but nobody was answering, so I just pushed it open.

The villa was dark, with only one lamp on the balcony. I could see Meng Bao sitting on a chair on the balcony with Mountain View. Though, the view was now obstructed because it was already dark.

I approached him slowly, like a beast tamer approaching a lion, "Meng Bao?"

…

Meng Bao was smoking a cigarette, something that was so rare for him to do. He gave me a side glance and then continued watching the dark mountain and smoking.

"I walked towards him and snatched the cigarette from his lips. I put it off and chided, "It\'s not good for your health, Bao…."

Meng Bao looked at me, irritated. He laughed mirthlessly and said, "Looking at you kissing that man is also not good for my health, you know that, right?"

I sighed. I knew that Meng Bao still had a suspicion in his heart. It was normal. If I was in his position, I would also do the same. I just didn\'t want Meng Bao to do anything stupid, especially when it was near our marriage.

I sat on the chair beside him and asked. "Bao… what did you see before?"

"… I saw you kissing that bastard. I saw you kissing his cheek, Jie…." Meng Bao replied. He clenched his fist, "If I knew that things would turn like this, I would kill him first, and I should\'ve locked you—"

Meng Bao wanted to continue his sentence, but maybe he realized that it would sound wrong, so he took back his words.

"Nothing, Jie… you should leave now before things went wrong. I didn\'t want to hurt you. And I know that you don\'t want me to hurt Alex, right?" Meng Bao scoffed, full of mockery. "I didn\'t know that your type is someone like him. I should\'ve guessed that you like someone like him…."

"Tell me, do you like him just because of his appearance? Am I not good enough for you, Jie?"

I took a deep breath. He really believed that I had something with Alex.

"Baobao, do you think that my love to you is that shallow?" I gently reached for his hand. He tried to pull his hand, but I gripped it with my full strength, making him winced in pain.

Well, it\'s still gentle in my dictionary.

"I\'ve heard some people said that Alex looks better than me… that must be the reason, right?" Meng Bao said. He cast his eyes down, refused to look at me straight in the eyes.

"Am I not good enough for you?"

"Baobao, you\'re making things worse than it really is. Nothing happened between Alex and me. We just had dinner—"

"YOU HAD DINNER WITH HIM!?" Meng Bao snarled immediately. As if I had just said something so crazy.

"Hey, hey, relax!" I tried to pacify him.

"HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO RELAX?! YOU ARE HAVING DINNER WITH HIM. DAMN IT, LET ME GO. I WILL SABOTAGE HIS PLANE BEFORE HE LEAVES!" Meng Bao yelled.

"I will kill—" before he could do something even worse than this, I stroked his jaw like stroking a cat. He was stunned for a while, then he stared at me, who still stroked his jaw, and then I caressed his hair like caressing a cat.

Meng Bao looked confused, but it seemed that he enjoyed it, so he sat obediently. He still stared at me, asking for an answer. He sulked like a kid if he acted like this.

I pinched his cheek gently and then told him, "Listen to me first, okay? You\'ve been emotional for the whole time."

"I will give you one chance before I sabotage his plane, Jie…." Meng Bao said, and he didn\'t seem to be joking at all.

"So, just like what your mother said before, I will be fired from my job as the secretary in your dad\'s company, right?"

"It came true as your dad, Mr. Yang, fired me yesterday. Alex is the new manager in your office, so I asked him if he could find me a job, and he got me one."

"We went to the new office for the interview, and after that, we went for dinner together. Nothing happened between us before…."

"Well, he did confess with me, but I said that I already have someone that I love…."

"And that person is?" Meng Bao asked. He already knew the answer. He must be craving some validation.

I chuckled and said, "Let me reenact the scene when I whisper to his ear about my beloved one."

I pushed his shoulder, so Meng Bao would be on my level. I drew near his face and whispered, words by words, just like what I said to Alex before,

\'Yang Menghuo, Meng Bao, Mengmeng… he is the childhood sweetheart of mine. And he is the same Mengmeng that you always think as your little brother.\'