Break This Engagment

24th Break: Visitor

At Huichen.

"Boss." Qiu Shisi knelt and bowed as Qiu Yi served Meng Xing. "I finally found something in the Meng family." He spoke.

"Was the poison from them?" Meng Xing asked. His face is extremely pale.

"No." Qiu Shisi answered.

"What?!" Meng Xing's brows knitted.

Qiu Shisi looked at Meng Xing. He was about to speak when Meng Xing suddenly raised his hand.

"What happened to your cheek?" Meng Xing asked and pointed at the cut in Qiu Shisi's cheek.

Qiu Shisi wryly smiled. "This is because I finally discovered something strange, boss." He said. "The Meng family is really normal, boss, that is why I can't find anything from them all these years." He really wanted to cry. But, they also wronged the Meng family ah! "But, until today, boss, when someone arrived in the Meng residence." He said as his face turned serious.

Meng Xing's eyes narrowed. "A visitor?" he said.

Qiu Shisi shook his head. "It was your... ehem, Meng Ruyan's younger sister's friend." He answered.

"Meng Zixin?" Qiu Yi's brows raised and frowned in dislike.

Meng Zixin was the one that they suspected who poisoned Meng Ruyan because they found that Meng Zixin likes Lin Ze. But, Meng Ruyan announced that he was a cut-sleeve, and Meng Zonghe – Meng Ruyan's grandfather, proposed a marriage between Meng Ruyan and Lin Ze. So, Meng Zixin must have been resentful and poisoned Meng Ruyan out of jealousy. It happened the same day, and they guessed that Meng Zixin must have poisoned Meng Ruyan out of impulse.

So, Qiu Shisi was closely monitoring Meng Zixin. He was looking for the bottle of poison that Meng Zixin used to identify what poison did she use on Meng Ruyan. But, it was already five years and Qiu Shisi and his team can't find a shadow of the poison in Meng Zixin's room!

Now, they found out that it might not be Meng Zixin, but actually her friend who visited her five years ago – on the same day that Meng Ruyan came out to his family that he is a cut-sleeve, as well as the same day that Meng Zonghe announced that he would propose an engagement between Meng Ruyan and Lin Ze!

"She was there on that day?" Meng Xing was surprised.

"En. Qiu Ya, who is acting as Meng Zixin's maid, heard Meng Zixin said that it has been so long since her friend last visited her, so she is very excited." Qiu Shisi answered. "Meng Zixin asked her friend where she went these past five years, and her friend answered vaguely." He said. "When she left, I followed her, and I confirmed that she was from jianghu." He told Meng Xing.

"It is Jianghu again..." Meng Xing frowned.

Qiu Yi's expression is not good, either. "How could Meng Zixin know someone from jianghu?" he asked, feeling suspicious. "And even friends with her?" he added.

Qiu Shisi shook his head. "I don't know, either." He answered, feeling puzzled, too. "But, I am sure that this Meng Zixin doesn't know qigong. Maybe, she also doesn't know that her friend is someone from jianghu." He said. "After all, she..." he looked at Meng Xing.

"En. A love-filled brain idiot." Meng Xing.

Qiu Yi and Qiu Shisi grimaced at how Meng Xing evaluated 'his' own sister.

"But, why would this person from jianghu befriend Meng Zixin?" Qiu Yi asked.

"When I fought with her, she cursed that she was unlucky." Qiu Shisi spoke as he recalled what happened. "It was like, she was afraid that she was discovered. I continued to follow her, but she was very slippery." He said as his eyes narrowed. "She must have mistaken me for someone, and she should already figure out by now that she has mistaken me for someone else." He grinned.

Qiu Yi looked away when he saw Qiu Shisi's perverse smile. This guy who looked playful and gossipy actually is hiding his perverseness!

"So, we can deduce that she approached Meng Zixin for something." Meng Xing spoke, acting like he didn't see Qiu Shisi's perverse smile. "As for what that 'something' is..." his face turned gloomy.

Qiu Yi and Qiu Shisi fell silent as they looked at their boss. Obviously, it was Meng Ruyan who that woman is after for thus she approached Meng Zixin, who is an idiot, and acted like her friend. Then, she secretly poisoned Meng Ruyan.

As to why is she after Meng Ruyan...

"Boss..." Qiu Yi called as he looked at their boss worriedly.

When he first met their boss, he was gobbling the food that he picked up from a trash bin. Meng Xing approached him and exposed him who, instead of stealing from a poor family, chose to endure hunger and look for a dirty food. Meng Xing then said that he can be his subordinate, and he will never let him, or the poor families, be hungry and cold.

Qiu Yi thought that Meng Xing, who is even younger than him, is just talking big. But, after a year, he saw how his hometown improved due to Meng Xing. Meng Xing even set up a school and paid for the teachers to teach the children. He also set up a clinic to treat the ill, including the pregnant women. Meng Xing shouldn't have actually cared about Qiu Yi's hometown, since Qiu Yi is just a beggar. He isn't even sure if it was his hometown.

But, Meng Xing proved to Qiu Yi his words. And so, Qiu Yi wholeheartedly served Meng Xing, becoming his first subordinate. Meng Xing didn't even enslave him and gave him many free times, instead. But, it was Qiu Yi who decided to stick with Meng Xing all the time. Thus, he fell in love with Meng Xing, becoming Meng Xing's most loyal friend, as well as subordinate.

As for how Meng Xing became this powerful even if he is just a youth, Qiu Yi didn't dare look into it. But, now that they finally found a clue as to who poisoned Meng Ruyan... Qiu Yi is afraid that they have to look into Meng Ruyan's life.

"Boss, you..." Qiu Shisi muttered, hesitating whether to continue.

Meng Xing looked at him.

Qiu Shisi sighed. "You are entangled with jianghu, surprisingly..." he said. "Are you really JUST the second young master of the Meng family?" he asked. He is really suspicious of Meng Xing after he was shocked of Huichen, an intelligence agency that Meng Xing single-handedly created.

Meng Xing didn't answer, since he also doesn't know. Was Meng Ruyan just simply a second young master of a wealthy family?

The author has something to say:

Meng Xing: I thought this identity that I have is just a shut-in but extremely beautiful introvert.

Lin Ze: no wonder I found you very suspicious when I met you!

Qiu Shisi: *rolls eyes. That's because the boss is your ex-fiancee!