Now, the biggest trouble was undoubtedly her ex-husband, Tang Zhengfeng, and the historical remnant, Tang Man, was obviously also considered Yang Qing’s trouble in the past. But as time passed, the side effects of this remnant gradually disappeared.

In fact, when Tang Man was young, Hu Haiying was worried about her because from childhood, Tang Man was the most beautiful little girl within a hundred miles. Whenever they took her out, the surrounding aunties and sisters who saw her couldn’t help but exclaim. This beauty was too similar to the young Yang Qing.

Yang Qing was also beautiful when she was young. The key was that she had a sweet mouth and loved to smile. There was no one in the alley who didn’t like her. Several families lived in that alley, and the childhood crushes of the boys at home were none other than Yang Qing.

It could be said that because of her beauty, Yang Qing enjoyed many privileges. Unlike Tang Man’s cold and aloof temperament, she could talk, loved to laugh, and could socialize. She had many friends, mostly male friends, and also female friends, but not many sincere ones.

Because overly beautiful women naturally create a sense of oppression around the same sex. Similarly, too many men around an overly beautiful woman is not a good thing, but many disasters. It’s just that the young Yang Qing didn’t understand this principle.

She spent most of her life being the center of attention, which arose because of men and would make her deeply entangled in various romantic affairs throughout her life.

As they talked, they entered the apartment building. Pei Ling waited until he couldn’t see them before preparing to leave. However, when he started the car, he noticed a car that had been parked not far away. He didn’t pay attention to it and was about to lower his head to turn the key. At this moment, that car suddenly turned on its high beams, and the dazzling light hit his face. He instantly closed his eyes, and the physiological pain in his eyes made his eye sockets a little moist.

After a while, the light dimmed. A car drove past him. Pei Ling turned to look, but due to the glare from the light just now, he could only vaguely make out a license plate number in the dark night. It seemed familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

There must have been some special reason that made him feel familiar with it, because he wasn’t the kind of person who would remember useless numbers.

But before he could recall, the car had already disappeared into the night. The familiarity from that moment just now seemed to become his illusion again.

He thought for a while but really had no clue, so he was about to put this matter behind him.

Although Pei Ling felt that the driver who turned on the high beams just now was not very polite, his upbringing and personality since childhood would not make him quibble over such a small matter and hold onto it. So, after his eyes recovered, he sent a message to Tang Man and drove away from there.

However, that departing car slowly pulled over again on a deserted street not far away, quietly parking under a long row of shady trees, with a few leaves occasionally blown off by the wind and settling on the windshield.

The car lights also went out.

The darkness enveloped the pitch-black car, blending into an obscure and heavy chaos.

The man in the car sat for a long time. He couldn’t help but want to loosen his collar. His hand reached up and fumbled a few times, but he found that he wasn’t wearing a suit now. The suffocating tie didn’t exist either. It was all his illusion. But why did he still feel difficult to breathe for a moment just now?

Xie Li’s hand fiddled with his clothes and dropped from the collar. His mind was filled with the scene of Tang Man getting out of that man’s car, supporting Hu Haiying, standing in front of the car and smiling at Pei Ling while talking. Even in the dim night, he could imagine that man’s expression.

It must have been a smile, and then he responded to Tang Man’s words with a calm attitude, hiding all the unspeakable emotions under a layer of eyelashes on his eyes.

He remembered that he sent a message to Tang Man in the afternoon, saying that they would go out for dinner together in the evening. Tang Man’s reply was that she didn’t have time.

He couldn’t help but guess whether this lack of time was because she was with Pei Ling and even brought her grandmother along.

He knew that for Tang Man, Hu Haiying, this relative, had a different existence. In her heart, perhaps the weight of her grandparents far exceeded the status of Tang Zhengfeng and Yang Qing.

For some reason, Pei Ling always gave him a very strong sense of threat. This feeling should be caused by the impression Pei Ling gave him. This man was too much like the type of person Tang Man would like.

He knew about one of Tang Man’s theories. In one’s life, one may like many people and fall in love with many people. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be marriage and divorce, first love but also breakups, pure love and also passion. Even after marriage, there would be cheating and hiring prostitutes.

She devoutly didn’t believe in love, thinking that what one loved in life was actually just liking a specific type.

For example, in their youth, most girls like mature men who are older than themselves. In their twenties, they like clean and bright peers. In their thirties, they may start to think that little puppies who cry and make a fuss in bed are not bad either.

And Pei Ling was undoubtedly the type that Tang Man would like at this age. The key was that his eyebrows and eyes also had an indescribable clear and transparent quality, very clean. Tang Man seemed to always have an obsession with clean things or images.

The boyfriend she dated in high school was like that. Si Jiahe was like that at the beginning. Even Du Henian initially had a bit of the aloofness of a high and mighty flower. But after dating for a long time, possessiveness grew in the heart, and distracting thoughts increased. Even a god would fall from the altar and become a mortal.

And when he first appeared by Tang Man’s side, the cleanliness and clarity on him had already been polished away by life, leaving only a ground of gloom and shadow.

After a long silence, Xie Li picked up the phone beside him and turned on the screen. His chat record with Tang Man was still quite old, four or five hours ago.

Perhaps Tang Man and Hu Haiying coincidentally met Pei Ling on the way back and conveniently got a ride home, or maybe it was some other coincidence. Xie Li made many guesses, but there was still a possibility that Tang Man’s rejection of their date was actually because she was with Pei Ling and even brought Madam Hu Haiying along.

He looked at the phone screen for a long time, until the screen lit up and went dark countless times. Xie Li finally lowered his eyelids and, under the long and tormented heart, uttered a sentence.