She hid in her blankets. She even breathed carefully. Her large eyes kept looking around, waiting to see how her Brother Mo would appear.

She waited like that for half an hour.

The room was completely silent. Zhong Bingyuan was growing rather impatient.

Soon, there was a soft noise at her window. Tap, tap, tap, as if someone was knocking on it.

She paused and pulled open the curtain a little, only to find Mo Chengxi sitting on her window ledge, smiling at her.

Zhong Bingyuan’s eyes widened. She was so frightened she forgot to respond. This was the third floor. Her room was on the third floor.

“Open up.”

Mo Chengxi lightly tapped on the window again to indicate that she was to open it.

Zhong Bingyuan recovered her senses and immediately opened the window.

Mo Chengxi jumped in through the window. The moment he entered, he pounced on her and pulled her into his arms. Zhong Bingyuan got a fright, but he propelled her backwards until she bumped against the bed and fell onto it.

The room was very quiet, and the light was very dim. He held her, crushing her under him as he gazed at the girl in his arms.

Her eyes were rather red. It was clear that she had been crying. Her cheek looked red and swollen, and he could still see the marks of five fingers on it. Clearly, Zheng Lin had hit her very hard.

Mo Chengxi reached out and gently caressed her swollen cheek. His eyes grew cold. “Does it still hurt? Did you apply any medication?”

Zhong Bingyuan saw his frosty expression and hurriedly said, “It… it doesn’t hurt anymore. Brother Mo, don’t worry. I…”

“Yuan Yuan, are you afraid I will get the Zhong family to do something to your mother?”

Zhong Bingyuan choked. “I… I… I don’t…”

But as she spoke, her voice grew softer and more uncertain.

Brother Mo was very good to her, and everyone in her family approved of them being together. To be honest, it would be her good fortune to be able to marry into the Mo family.

But her mother objected, and she was completely unreasonable about it.

Over the years, Mother had done many absurd things to Brother Mo. Everyone’s patience was limited. She was worried that, one day, her mother would provoke Brother Mo and he would retaliate.

He was the Mo family’s Young Master. As Zhong Bingyuan well knew, the head of the Mo family, Mo Beihan, was very protective. Her mother treated Mo Chengxi so badly. All it took was a word from Mo Beihan, and her mother would be forced out of the Zhong family.

Mo Chengxi sighed. He looked quizzically at the girl in his arms. “Tell me, I’ve doted on you ever since you were a young girl. No matter what you wanted, I’ve always managed to get it for you. Be it your studies, your life, or your career, I have planned everything properly for you so that you don’t need to worry at all. You should be a carefree girl, pampered by me. But why are you beset with worries?”

Zhong Bingyuan was startled. She immediately felt sad!

That’s right!

Why was she allowing herself to become like this?

She was the Zhong family’s only granddaughter. Her uncles, aunts, grandfather and father all loved her. Her boyfriend, Mo Chengxi, had been by her side since she was young, helping her with her studies and planning out her life, guiding her in everything. Now he was even worrying over her career.

Her path in life should be very smooth. She should be an innocent, pure, and adorable young girl!

Why had she become like this?

Zhong Bingyuan immediately grew teary. “Brother Mo, I’m sorry!”

Mo Chengxi sighed and said, “You should not bother too much about your mother. It’s no use. The more outstanding you are and the more others dote on you, the more she will feel unable to control you. And that will increase her desire to control you. Yuan Yuan, you can’t change the way she thinks.”