As night falls, the afterglow of the sunset gradually dissipates from where the sea and sky meet. The long calls of seagulls echo with the whistles of ships, rippling in this dark sea for a long time...

Eton College of Santa Fe, as the only aristocratic college in the entire city of Santa Fe, is still brightly lit at the moment. At the beginning of the new school year, except for a few rich children who can live outside the college and still study day, almost all the other students are

I chose to live and study. While the freshmen were tidying up their dormitories, the girls' dormitory 3-402 was surprisingly quiet.

"Yating, what happened today is actually Teacher Chang Qing's intention. I see, don't blame Beibei. She didn't even say that you pulled her. We are all roommates in the same dormitory now. Don't blame her.

You are so fussy about it, it hurts your friendship." At this time, a girl sitting in the corner couldn't stand the depressing atmosphere anymore, so she first looked at Tang Yating.

"Which of your eyes saw that I blamed her? It's okay, that's not why I'm angry." After another moment of silence, Tang Yating suddenly stood up and sat next to Tong Beibei.

"You really didn't blame me? Oh, Yating, I knew you were the best. Look, I also provided you with a chance to be alone with Yun Xiao. In fact, I was the one who wanted to go out." Tong Beibei

After hearing this, her aggrieved expression immediately returned to its original state, and she smiled at Tang Yating with a face filled with flesh.

"What? I might as well die if I stay with that alien creature! What I don't understand is why the teacher is so dissatisfied with my attitude and says that I am the same as that alien creature? I think, I

Are you just defending yourself?" Tang Yating asked the three roommates around her in confusion.

"Yating, that's because you don't understand Teacher Chang Qing. In fact, he just came from his student days, and he is also a top student specially hired by the principal to study abroad. So in fact, Teacher Chang is a very proud person. You and I

Yun Xiao talked back to him like that, and of course he felt unhappy. Anyway, from now on, I will just sleep in Teacher Chang Qing’s class. It’s absolutely safe, hehe.” The girl who spoke first just answered.

"So that's it... However, I can't sleep in class. I have to study harder in his class. My goal is to be like the girl from the business school and get the first place in every subject!" Tang

After Yating finished speaking, she clenched her fists and smiled.

"Oh, Yating, I've seen that schoolgirl from the business school you mentioned. Not only did she have top grades, she was also recognized as a 'campus beauty' by the school. When she first entered the school last year, she caused a lot of competition among the boys in the school.

It's a big battle, I'm so envious. Her name seems to be, um, Liu Qingyi." Tong Beibei looked at the ceiling, her eyes shining with envy.

"Liu Qingyi...could it be the girl I saw today?" Tang Yating frowned slightly, thinking in her heart.

"Hey, I heard that when she first came to the academy, although she had excellent grades, she had a very bad temper, and she had a lot of conflicts with Yun Xiao. Hey, this is quite similar to you, Yating, but I don't know what happened later.

What happened? Qingyi suddenly became very quiet, as if she was a different person." The girl sitting in the corner took over the words in a low voice.

"Shh, you don't want to hang out here anymore? Have you forgotten that the principal said that even if you know about it, you are not allowed to mention what happened last year, otherwise you will be expelled from the college?" One of the remaining girls interrupted at this time.

"Oh, yes, let's not talk about this and let's change the topic." Tong Beibei suggested.

"Let's talk, I'm tired and going to bed." Tang Yating turned around at this time.

"Ah, do you want to be such a spoiler, Tang Yating? How can you come to school on your first day and not chat all night long?" The girl sitting next to her looked dissatisfied.

"I'm sorry, I'll chat with you next time." After saying that, he lay down on his side on his bed, leaving Tong Beibei and the three of them still chatting excitedly.

"Why is what Beibei and the others said completely different from what I saw today? What happened between Liu Qingyi and that 'alien creature' before..."

Santa Fe Eton College Complex, Principal's Office.

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"Bang bang bang..." A knock on the door came.

"Come in, the door is open." Liu Cen responded with his head bent, holding a file in his hand and reading it.

The visitor walked into the office and stood in front of Principal Liu Cen, but said nothing.

"Qingyi, haven't you gone home? It's so late, why are you back at school? Why don't you just call me if you have anything?" Principal Liu looked up and saw that the person standing in front of him was his daughter Liu Qingyi.

"Dad, I would like to ask your permission to let me stay on campus." Liu Qingyi looked at Liu Cen.

"Why do you want to stay on campus?" Liu Cen frowned slightly.

"You should know the reason, Dad."

"Is it because of your mother? Qingyi, you still can't accept her?" Liu Cen looked slightly unhappy.

"She is not my mother. Since my mother died of illness the year you were on a business trip, I have no mother." Liu Qingyi looked sad but with a hint of determination.

"I know you are still blaming me, blaming me for not being able to come back to see your mother for the last time, blaming me for remarrying, blaming me for not agreeing with you and Nalan Yunxiao at that time. But dad also has his own reasons. You understand these.

"?" Liu Cen looked at her daughter seriously.

"I don't understand!" Tears have begun to fall from Liu Qingyi's cheeks. "You said you have difficulties. I can forgive you about your mother, but why did you marry that woman again? Just because she is the president of the company and she is rich.

Is it powerful? Or, in your heart, your mother is not important to you at all? "

"That's enough!" Liu Cen suddenly stood up and stared at his daughter, "Qingyi, is this how you see your father?"

"Then how do you want me to see you? I really want to forgive you, dad, but you never explain to me, how do you want me to understand you?" Liu Qingyi cried with resentment.

"You are still young and you don't understand emotional matters. You will understand dad's painstaking efforts in the future." Liu Cen softened his expression and tried to persuade.

"Okay, I don't want to talk about this anymore. In short, if you don't agree with me staying on campus, then I will go live with my classmates." Liu Qingyi wiped her tears with a determined expression.

"Qingyi..." Liu Cen wanted to persuade her again.

"Okay, it seems I should go live with my classmates." Liu Qingyi wanted to threaten her father.

"Okay, I allow you to live on campus, but you have to go home on weekends. I will give you a single bedroom. If you change your mind, just go home and I will help you prepare your things." Liu Cen reluctantly made the final decision.

Decide.

"No, I will find a dormitory by myself. You don't need to give me any special treatment. I am different from Yun Xiao. I don't need to rely on my family." Liu Qingyi said calmly, then turned and left.

Liu Cen looked at his daughter's back, and a feeling of loneliness quietly emerged from the bottom of his heart.

"Dad, you are not in good health either. Don't be too tired. Get some rest early." Liu Qingyi walked to the door, suddenly turned her head and murmured softly, then closed the door and left.

When Liu Cen heard this, a bitter smile finally appeared on his tired face: "Qingyi, dad didn't tell you because he didn't want to hurt you or damage your mother's image in your heart;

But one day, you will understand dad..."

In room 3-406 of the women's dormitory of Eton College of Business in Santa Fe.

It was already one o'clock in the morning. The three girls in the dormitory had already fallen asleep, but the remaining bedside lamp was on. Under the lamp, Liu Qingyi was wearing a light blue pajamas, with her long hair hanging casually.

On my shoulders, I brushed the broken hair in front of my forehead from time to time, and then used a colored pen to write in my diary under the lamp.

"Today is the first day of school. I have officially become a second-year student at Eton Business School in Santa Fe. I am actually not happy going to school at my father's school. I live on campus because I don't want to go home or see

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I can’t find any reason to accept the person I should call ‘stepmother’.”

Liu Qingyi looked at the jade necklace in front of her desk. The diamond on the top of the necklace was engraved with the word "peach lock". Qingyi's eyes filled with tears, and then she gently picked it up and held it to her heart, but her face remained blank.

With a sweet smile...

"Yun Xiao, I remember you said that if I feel uncomfortable and want to cry, and you are not around me, just let me make a wish on this jade necklace, and you will appear by my side like an angel. I used to always

I am laughing at your narcissism and not believing in it. Now, I make a wish to it for the first time. I hope that one day you can remember me. I really need your comfort now. I can rely on your shoulders. I only have...

This is my only wish."

Liu Qingyi closed her eyes and let her tears fall one by one on the jade necklace she held in her hand, shining with a starry crystal luster...

In a luxurious villa in Santa Fe Modern City, bursts of rumbling sounds suddenly came from the bedroom on the second floor. People in several rooms next door woke up and turned on the lights one after another.

"Hey, what do you think the young master is doing in the room? Is he sick again?" A nanny walked out of her room and looked at the other nanny who was also awakened in the next room.

"Shh, don't talk nonsense. The young master has been in trouble for so long and has already recovered." Another nanny answered in a low voice.

"What's wrong? What are you doing?" a middle-aged lady's voice suddenly came.

"Oh, hello, madam. It's the young master. He didn't know what he was doing in the room and made the noise very loud. We were woken up." The two nannies responded at the same time.

"I know, you guys go ahead and sleep, I'll go up and take a look." After saying that, the middle-aged woman went upstairs.

"Hmph, Tang Yating, with this, let's see how I punish you tomorrow, you damn witch!" Nalan Yunxiao smiled evilly in his bedroom, holding a particularly strange box in his hand.

"Yunxiao, why aren't you asleep? What are you doing?" The middle-aged woman pushed the door open and asked with a smile.

"Mom, you... why are you here? Did I wake you up?" When Nalan Yunxiao saw his mother suddenly come in, she was so frightened that she quickly put the box behind her.

"You didn't wake me up? Tell mom what are you doing? What are you hiding behind your back?" The middle-aged woman walked to Nalan Yunxiao's bed and sat down, then went to get the box behind him with a smile.

"Hey Mom, I can't show it to you! This is my secret." Nalan Yunxiao looked at Han Xin, his mother, with a smile.

"Okay. Actually, even if you don't tell me, your mother also knows that you used this thing to tease Qingyi before, but who knows, Qingyi was not afraid of this at all, and ended up making you very angry..."

Han Xin looked at Nalan Yunxiao with a hint of aftertaste in her tone.

"Ah? It's really boring. Mom guessed it like this. But have I ever teased Qingyi like this before? Why don't I remember?" Yun Xiao curled her lips and scratched her head, thinking.

"Yun Xiao, you really don't remember what happened between you and Qingyi? At least, you should be able to tell that Qingyi likes you very much, right?" Han Xin gently touched Yun Xiao's shoulder.

"Hmm, I don't remember. But I know this. He treats me as an older brother. Don't worry, Mom, I won't let anyone bully my sister in school." Yun Xiao patted her chest and started to push Han Xin up.

, "Oh, okay, Mom, go to bed quickly, I won't disturb you again, good night."

"Okay, then you should go to bed early and don't be late for the first day of class tomorrow." After Han Xin finished speaking, she got up and went downstairs.

Seeing his mother coming downstairs, Yun Xiao was stunned for a moment, then murmured a few words, and patted his head hard with his hands, as if he wanted to recall something from his memory, but in the end he couldn't think of anything.

Can't get up.

"Forget it, don't think about it, go to sleep. Damn witch, hehe..."
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