Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

When Zhuang Susu saw Xirong Ziye, she also felt that he was no longer the same person he was before. However, as a friend, she wanted to give some advice and persuade him.

 She came to find him this time because she felt guilty and uneasy in her heart, so she wanted to explain the incident last year clearly.

 Xirong Ziye's EQ was a bit low to begin with. She was even afraid that he would be blinded and tricked by that scheming woman.

 “Susu, tell me. Will what I have missed be gone forever? Is there no way to make up for it?”

 Seeing Xirong Ziye acting like this, Zhuang Susu felt that he was totally behaving like a child. She said with a hint of sadness in her voice, “Xirong Ziye, I don't want to lie to you. I want to tell you the truth about our relations.h.i.+p when we were young. A woman's heart is the most fragile. Once the hurt is too deep, the heart will break, and it cannot be fixed back. If the hurt was minor, her heart might still soften if you treat her well. However, if she has been hurt too deeply, it would be too late.”

Given Zhuang Susu's understanding of Xirong Ziye, she felt that Xirong Ziye could probably have hurt Bai Yaoyao too deeply, probably deeper than she expected.

 Seeing the pain Xirong Ziye was in from hearing that, Zhuang Susu wanted to say some comforting words, but she was at a loss of what to say.

 After a while, she said in a gentle voice, “Xirong Ziye, you can think of it from another point of view. If you were Yaoyao, and Yaoyao was you and she treated you like that, would you still like her and love her?”

 Xirong Ziye was stunned. His face was very pale, and his heart tightened.

 “So, you should come to terms with it. You should open your heart and mind and forgive your heart. Time will help you walk out of your past. When you meet a good lady next time, you must remember to cherish her.”

 Zhuang Susu talked to Xirong Ziye for a while. When she had said what she needed to say, she bade him farewell and stood up.

When Zhuang Susu was about to leave, Xirong Ziye said a word of thanks to her.

 Zhuang Susu shook her head. “Xirong Ziye, you don't have to thank me. I had no choice but to hold you back last year. As long as you don't hate me for it, it will be enough for me.”

 “Susu, you're a good woman. I won't hate you. Everything started because of me. If not for me, Xiamu Qingyan would not come to find you either.”

 After Zhuang Susu left, Xirong Ziye instructed his men to arrange for his discharge.

 As soon as Xirong Ziye was discharged from the hospital, he began to deal with the Xiamu family.

 This time, he was utterly ruthless in his methods. He did not give the Xiamu family a single chance to retaliate.

 He held a secret state meeting to task all the officials to search for and gather evidence on the Xiamu family's unlawful practices. Every detail was to be reported no matter how minor it seemed.

He also ordered the justice department to specifically investigate the Xiamu family.

 Within two days, enough evidence had been gathered. The whole Xiamu family was sequestrated, and all the evidence was published publicly.

 Everyone in the Xiamu family was condemned by the public within a short span of time. All the citizens in the country berated and beat them up as if they were the rats on the streets.

When Xiamu Qingyan was arrested, she was still a little confused. She kept screaming and making a scene as she said, “What are you all doing? You guys dare to capture me? The President will not let you all off.”

 “Sorry, it is precisely the President who ordered us to come and capture you.”

 “That's impossible. Xirong Ziye would not treat me like this.” Xiamu Qingyan did not believe it. She could not believe it at all. She was still immersed in her own illusions!

 Seeing how Xiamu Qingyan was behaving, the police officer who came to arrest her said in a fierce tone, “Miss Xiamu, please cooperate with us. If you did not implicate your whole family in this, then they would not have been sequestrated.”

 A few people from the Xiamu family, who had been arrested as well, heard this and reached out their hands to tear at Xiamu Qingyan in a fit of rage.

 “It's all because of you! You s.l.u.t! If not for you, why would our family become like this?”