She recalled the past few years when she had become an outcast to Katherine. In everyone's eyes, she was nothing more than a childhood playmate of Katherine's, and everyone believed she should not deprive her sister of happiness by persistently interfering with him...
Her father said, "Even if you and Qian Chu used to be close, that was just a child's matter. He has grown up now, and even without amnesia, he knows what he wants is your sister!"
Her mother said, "Jane", I really wish I had never adopted you. You leave, and don't come back except for the New Year."
Don't go back anymore.
Even for the New Year, she wouldn't be able to return.
She thought, if she really disappeared like this, everyone would heave a sigh of relief that together...
Outside the forest, on the balcony, Alexander leaned against the white balcony, basking in the bright sunlight, pressing an earphone against his ear and making a phone call, "Just have any director attend the press conference after the acquisition, don't bother me again."
After scolding his subordinates, Alexander hung up the phone and glanced towards the forest.
He looked down at his hands, holding a state-of-the-art tablet computer which showed the scene in the forest.
There, Hailey was sitting in front of the broken tree, not caring whether the grass was dirty or not.
Dirty woman.
Alexander looked at the screen with disdain but did not turn it off, still staring straight at it.
Since Hailey entered the forest, he had been staring at the surveillance, not feeling at all that his behavior was like a peeping tom.
In that forest, paper was scattered all over the ground.
Sunlight fell through the mottled tree leaves, breaking into vertical rays, falling on her somewhat dirty long skirt, beautiful and extraordinary.
She had not slept all night and had been writing and drawing on the paper.
Boring woman.
All she knows to do is do these things before death.
Suddenly, Hailey put down her pencil, pressed her hand to her stomach, and her face showed an expression of unbearable pain...
Finally, she heard pain, it seemed that she would soon cry and beg for mercy.
Alexander frowned, feeling inexplicably upset, and only then turned off the tablet computer, no longer looking at the scene on it.
On the third day in the forest,
Hailey did not plead for mercy.
Her body, along with her spirit, collapsed bit by bit, her stomach was so hungry that it was numb, her lips were cracked and injured...
It is said that without water for three days, one will die.
Has her time come?
Hailey thought to herself, she could barely sit up, leaning against the broken tree, a lock of long hair falling down, covering her eyes, she couldn't even muster the strength to comb it.
So tired...
The taste of waiting for death is really not good.
Her body collapsed bit by bit, the paper and pencil slipped from her body, she lay on the ground, her head against the broken tree, her long hair scattered chaotically...
Hailey slightly opened her eyes, the light above her head refracted at different angles, sometimes transparent, sometimes colorful, with birds flying by, their sounds clear...
So beautiful.
As beautiful as when she was a child, standing at the door of her home, looking at the sunlight through a small piece of glass candy paper, and then, the taller Katherine appeared in her line of sight.
Such a dazzling young man.
Such dazzling sunlight.
Vaguely, she saw a vague figure slowly walking towards her, a young man. He smiled and held out his hand to her, "Xiao Nian, be my guide stick, take me out for a walk."
His smile was still so beautiful, full of trust and dependence on her.
"Qian Chu..."
She weakly uttered this name with her cracked lips.
No more, Qian Chu.
You have seen the whole world and no longer need me.
"Qian Chu... goodbye..."
She murmured, with all her helplessness and despair, her long eyelashes quivering like the wings of an injured butterfly, very slowly.
Slowly, her eyes closed, tightly shut.
The light in front of her eyes was completely gone, leaving only endless darkness, her thoughts gradually drifting away.
Her hand resting on her waist slowly fell, landing on the ground...
After meeting Alexander, a period of Hailey's life was spent in a cycle of fainting and waking up.
She woke up in a daze, her eyes opening a slit, and the gorgeously ostentatious ceiling high above reflected in her eyes.
Dizzy, it made her unable to distinguish between dreams and reality...
Uncomfortable.
Her whole body felt like it was falling apart. Hailey slowly turned her eyes and saw an IV tube hanging from above, then vaguely realized that she was not dead.
She survived? How could this be?
This place was no longer the forest, but a bedroom so large that it felt empty.
"Ugh—"
Hailey struggled to sit up on the huge bed. She was extremely weak and moving was very difficult. As soon as she moved her head, she saw a tall and slender figure standing at the foot of the bed.
To be precise, standing on the bed.
She saw Alexander standing with his hands behind his back, his bare feet stepping on the quilt, his gray trousers wrapping his straight legs, and his light-colored shirt worn casually, with three buttons undone, revealing his sexy collarbones.
He was looking down, his handsome face tightly drawn, his deep black eyes staring at her furiously, all anger.
If he had hair, it would all be standing on end at the moment.
Seeing a big live person standing on the bed, Hailey was startled for a moment, and the next second she was speechless.
She hated Alexander to death, but suddenly seeing him standing on the bed in such a posture, with his eyes staring like a lion, she didn't know whether to be angry or to laugh...
Perhaps it was because she had died once. Seeing Alexander again, she surprisingly felt that he was not so disgusting anymore, but hadn't she died? Why was she lying there again?
Seeing her wake up, the anger on Alexander's face intensified, almost hysterically shouting, "Hailey! Do you have a disease?"
The one with a disease... wasn't it him? He was the one with paranoid personality disorder.
Hailey had just regained consciousness and was scolded, a bit dazed, unable to make the correct response, and could only stare blankly at the man in front of her.
"I told you to die, and you died! Are you that obedient? I told you to be my woman, why didn't you?" Alexander roared angrily, looking down at her, almost trying to stare holes through her, "You don't even know how to beg for mercy when you're about to die!"
The bodyguards on the edge of the forest had clearly been withdrawn, and by the third day, he no longer allowed the bodyguards to stop her from eating, and she still didn't know anything, nor did she know how to walk out...
So stupid.
If it weren't for him noticing her fainting in the surveillance and rushing in to save her, she would already be dead.
She doesn't even struggle when facing death!
Hailey was scolded and confused.
It seems... the one who wanted her to die was him, and now he turns around and scolds her?
"Idiot! Fool! A stupid woman who doesn't even know how to survive!" Alexander scolded her, his originally sexy voice already distorted and hoarse.
Just scolding her wasn't satisfying enough. Alexander kicked her quilt as if to vent, kicking the quilt to the side.
When the quilt left her body, Hailey looked down and saw an IV needle inserted in the back of her hand, and she was changed into a dress, a nightgown.
"What are you looking at, I changed it!" Alexander growled, arrogantly, "I've seen and touched every part of you."
Hailey looked at him speechlessly and said weakly, "Don't go too far..."
She wasn't entangled in the matter of changing clothes. Anyway, her innocence had been completely destroyed by him.
Moreover, she had died once and really didn't want to care about these things anymore.
She just couldn't stand that it was this man who wanted to kill her, but now he scolded as if all were her fault, making trouble out of nothing to the point where it almost made her start to doubt her own memory.
"Excessive? I didn't sleep with you when you were dehydrated. That's my restraint."
Alexander glared at her, stamping his foot on the bed. The whole person was extremely irritable.
He stomped very hard. If it weren't for the good quality of the bed in the Alexander family, she would have been shaken off by now.
Hailey surrendered to his vulgar words and had no energy to bicker with him anymore, so she leaned against the head of the bed in silence, her eyelids slightly drooping.
Let him do as he pleases.
No matter how he tosses and turns, she only has one life... she's too lazy to struggle.
"Pretending to be dead!"
Seeing her indifferent, Alexander became more angry, and kicked her leg.
Hailey winced in pain, looking at the tall man helplessly.