Chapter 58: This woman cannot stay

  If love hadn't met you, then please let love meet you first.

  Cinderella's magic dissolves at midnight, not because Cinderella doesn't know how to cherish it, nor is it that she doesn't know how to enjoy it. It's just that she has self-awareness and knows that even if it's a fleeting romance, it can still bloom into a sea of radiant flowers, waiting for the prince to step on again.

  When the distant bell tolls to open the night curtain, when neon lights illuminate the world's prosperity, filth and ugliness also bloom into flowers of sin.

  The Long family's ancestral home, in the midst of a fashionable metropolis where every inch of land is worth its weight in gold, it's unlikely that anyone would think that such an ancient and elegant residence exists. It doesn't belong to any administrative region, but is instead an independent villa estate. Moreover, ordinary people are almost completely unaware of the origins of the people living within this ancient mansion.

  The night was as black as ink, the sky was like a brocade, and the starry lights shone brightly on the windows of the ancient mansion. A woman's figure was slender and elegant, her long hair was like lacquer, falling down her weak back like a waterfall.

  The door was knocked and the maid's voice, Yizhu, clearly excited, fell into her ears. "Miss, Yizhu has something to report!"

  Gong Zizi's body shook, and then her face spread out with an anxious expression: "Quickly come in!"

  Yi Zhu walked into the room, quietly closing the door and locking it, then walked towards Gongzi Ji without stopping, but the words she wanted to say were replaced with evasive glances.

  Gong Ziji's heart skipped a beat, her face already showing a ferocious expression. She hastily pulled Yi Zhu into the screen behind the room and grasped her shoulder, "Quickly speak, what is the latest news from the person I sent to monitor?"

  Without waiting for Bamboo's response, Gongzi Ji had already clenched her fists tightly, her fingertips feeling cold as she said: "Zheng hasn't looked for me in a long time. Doesn't he want any news from my side anymore? If it were like before, he should have found me by now. What's going on? Could it be that there's another woman who's more useful than me?"

  She muttered to herself, turned around and saw Yu Zhu still standing there, hesitating, so she urged him impatiently with an angry gaze: "Can't you speak quickly? Don't you see that I'm in a hurry?"

  "Miss, I must warn you, don't get angry after I've finished speaking!"

  Gong Ziji heard this sentence, her heart shook with a flurry of ripples, and she urged again, "I know, speak quickly!"

  Yi Zhu finally stammered out the truth: "Indeed, just as Miss guessed, a woman has indeed appeared by Young Master Ye's side."

  "What?!?!" Miyako almost fainted, luckily she was caught in time by Yizhu. She guessed that a woman must have appeared beside him, but never thought that her guess would be true. Miyako patted the back of Yizhu's hand, indicating that she was fine, and let her continue speaking.

  "Miss, the most hateful thing is this. If it were said that a woman who could help Ye Shao become successful appeared by his side, it would be fine. But that woman not only can't help Ye Shao, but also always hinders him. And to make matters worse, she's only 18 years old! I just can't understand why Ye Shao would like a girl who is almost ten years younger than him? What's even more infuriating is that Ye Shao loves this woman to death, and in order to pursue her, he didn't hesitate to use Yang Shao's connections. For that woman, he even set off an entire hour of fireworks on Sanxia Road!"

  "Is everything you said true?" Gongzi Ji's eyes widened instantly, asking uncontrollably. Her face, which was originally as white as snow, turned even paler at this moment.

  She smiled self-deprecatingly, with a hint of dead stillness in her eyes that were as vast and flowing as water. "He actually used government power to set off an hour-long fireworks display on Sanxia Road just to chase after a woman?"

  He had never treated her like that before, even though she had followed him for so many years, even though she had been his spy for so many years to help him, even though she loved him and helped him so much. A sense of desolation rose in Gongzi Ji's heart, a tear suddenly rolled down from the corner of her eye, fell on her lip, she tasted the salty and astringent flavor of the tear.

  She didn't turn around and asked Yizhu behind her in a sarcastic tone, "Yizhu, do you think Yesong understands how to love someone?"

  Yi Zhu heard Ye Shao's full name and uneasily lowered his head.

  Gong Ziji smiled, her lips slowly parted and spread to the corners of her mouth. "You say, will Ye Shengge also fall in love?"

  "Everywhere is sentimental, everywhere leaves sentiment, the elegant vagabond Ye Sheng Ge, will he fall in love?" She continued to ask, the smile on her lips grew bigger and spread across her entire face, but didn't reach her eyes.

  "Do you know that all these years, so many women have come and gone by his side, I've never been afraid before, but this time, I'm scared!"

  She floated out like a ghost, gazing at the circle of night by the window, slowly stretching her hand out of the windowsill. "Xiao Sheng, have you finally understood what it's like to love someone?" She closed her eyes, quietly feeling the air kiss her fingertips until they were icy cold.

  When she opened her eyes, Gongzi Ji's face was full of ferocity, and her voice was as cold as the night air. "This woman cannot be spared!"