The dry throat was soaked, Huang Yaqian regained her spirits, she readjusted her posture, and said, "Nannan, you listen to me!" There are too many talented people in this world, and if they don't have the background and resources, they will at best become lawyers, doctors, or professional managers in the future. As I have already investigated, William was born into a farming family in Texas, and his family was very poor, and in addition to his parents, he also had two minor sisters. Counting up three generations, there has never been anyone with a head or face, and if it weren't for that meager stipend, he wouldn't have dreamed of finishing four years of Harvard ......."

Bai Xinrui narrowed her eyes and looked at this person who was both an opponent and a mother she called, with a mocking smile in her eyes. No wonder she spoke so confidently, it turned out that she came prepared! Even William's family background has been investigated!

Although William couldn't understand a word, he had a vague sense that the Chekhovian tragedy on Highway 1 in California was repeating itself that morning.

Huang Yaqian held her forehead with her hands, and her slender fingers with crystal nails tapped lightly on the temples on both sides, still continuing to chatter: "...... What if you graduate from Harvard? You see, the flow of privilege may never be the turn of families like them......"

Yes, William did come from humble backgrounds. I'm afraid this is the fundamental reason why Huang Yaqian has such a big temper today.

She had every reason to believe that if her mother had opened the door and saw Kevin instead of William, the script would have been completely different today.

Bai Xinrui felt a sudden pain in her heart, what true love? What girl's innocence? What is a lifetime of happiness? Quan Te is nonsense, Huang Yaqian only cares about how to continue the family's privileges and wealth!

Just like her and her father, a big star and a rich man, they are the right people and take what they need. No wonder the four words "true love" have become the biggest joke I have ever heard in my life in Huang Yaqian's mouth!

Huang Yaqian took her hand off her forehead and spread it out in the air, Casey understood, and hurriedly handed the phone to her finely textured white palm.

She swiped the touch screen with her index finger, searched in the phone book, and then began to dial the phone, Bai Xinrui's eyes slipped and saw the words "Lawyer Zhang United States" displayed on the wide screen.

"If this matter goes to court, aren't you afraid that your daughter will be ruined?" Bai Xinrui's voice was as cold as the wind blowing snow.

Huang Yaqian didn't even bother to raise her eyelids, and said: "You are underage, you can apply for a closed trial, as long as you get that kid in, when he is released from prison, your children will probably have graduated from college." ”

Bai Xinrui's face turned pale, her lips trembled, and she was speechless for a while.

After the two rings of "Didi ......", the man on the other end of the phone replied enthusiastically: "Madam, do you have anything to look for me......

Bai Xinrui seemed to have lost her mind, slashed the phone, pressed the red button at the bottom of the touch screen, and the phone was disconnected.

She threw the phone on the ground with her hand, and with lightning speed, she picked up a sharp fruit knife in the fruit bowl and placed it between her slender and smooth neck......

The room was stunned, and in an instant, the air froze.

Everyone looked at Bai Xinrui with wide eyes, only to see that her plain white hand was trembling slightly, and the tip of the knife was less than a centimeter away from her neck. Nervousness and agitation caused her blood flow to accelerate, and blue arteries were clearly visible through the fine, white, silky skin of her neck.

No one dared to move, let alone speak, for fear that the slightest movement would trigger the butterfly effect and cause Bai Xinrui to do something stupid.

Her tearful eyes flashed with desperate anger, her face was pale, even her lips were purple, and she screamed, "Let William go!" Otherwise, I'll die for you!" ”

William wanted to hug the impulsive Bai Xinrui, but his body was already stiff, he tried to calm his emotions and said in a voice as calm as possible: "Stella, don't be impulsive!" ”

This move was obviously unexpected by Huang Yaqian, she could no longer maintain her cold elegance, the blood on her face faded, her hands were spread in front of her chest helplessly, and she said in a trembling voice: "Put down the knife...... Let's talk slowly......"

Bai Xinrui said word by word: "Unless you promise to let William go!" ”

Huang Yaqian's face was full of regret, and she reluctantly said, "I promise".

"Write!"

Huang Yaqian looked at her daughter with surprised eyes. Bai Xinrui's hand was closer to her neck, and she said, "I don't believe what you said, write it!" ”

Huang Yaqian looked at her daughter's resolute appearance, frowned, and the two confronted each other like that.

The aunt whispered to the maid to fetch a pen and paper and spread it on the coffee table.

Huang Yaqian looked at her daughter meaningfully, and said five words with difficulty: "You will regret it." ”

"No, it won't." Bai Xinrui's answer was unusually resolute.

Huang Yaqian let out a dejected breath and wrote bits and pieces on the paper.

Bai Xinrui motioned to William to put away the paper with her eyes, and watched William fold the paper and put it in her jacket pocket, she sneered and said, "I know that this piece of paper is just a gentleman's agreement." However, if your words don't count, my life is in my own hands, when and how it will end, I have the final say! ”

At this time, the phone rang again, Bai Xinrui was nervous for a while, thinking that it was lawyer Zhang calling, compared to the knife on the neck, she didn't dare to put it down at all, so she looked at Huang Yaqian coldly.

Casey trotted around the coffee table, picked up the phone that fell at Bai Xinrui's feet, wiped it, and handed it to Huang Yaqian.

Pressing the answer button, Huang Yaqian first said "um" twice, listened for a while, and said, "What? Is the message accurate? Okay, I'll be right back! ...... to the

Hanging up the phone, Huang Yaqian seemed to have completely forgotten Bai Xinrui and William in the house, and hurriedly instructed Casey: "Buy a ticket back to Shanghai immediately, and ask for the earliest flight." ”

When Bai Xinrui heard this, she put down the knife in her hand and looked suspicious.

Mom's current state is obviously more panicked than when she opened the door of Bai Xinrui and William's room at Xin Shao's house. She didn't understand what was going on, the only thing she knew for sure was that the call had nothing to do with today's events.

Huang Yaqian twisted her eyebrows with her hands, blue tendons erupted on her fair and smooth forehead, and she gasped and said, "Something important happened, I'll go back first." The anger in her tone was gone, replaced by an anxious look like an arrow.

What's going on? Just halfway through his play, his partner quit halfway, how can he continue to perform the next play! Bai Xinrui thought indignantly, just won inexplicably? What about the challenge?

What the hell is going on? Someone is looking for Huang Yaqian to shoot a new drama? Dad's company was audited? The junior came to the door?

After guessing nonsense in her heart, she came to a conclusion: The matter that Huang Yaqian wants to go back to deal with must not be a trivial matter, otherwise, with her Bai Xinrui's three-legged cat trick of crying, making trouble and hanging, it is impossible to deal with this difficult woman so easily.

***

At the turn of spring and summer this year, William will end his four-year study life at School A and graduate from here. Before that, he was busy like a spinning top that couldn't stop.

He will plan and preside over a new round of student union president elections; The semi-finals of the National Youth Chess Competition are imminent, and it is also his responsibility to organize teammates to train and take the team to other schools for exchanges and exchanges; The rehearsal of "The Butcher" has come to an end, and it takes the most time to run in and improve the details; In addition, as one of the editors of the school magazine, the final review of the submission of the Yearbook was not easy......

He originally liked to arrange a full schedule for himself, which did not change in the slightest because of the addition of a girlfriend like Bai Xinrui.

Maybe he didn't realize it himself, but in the eyes of his classmates, after returning to school during spring break, William seemed to be a different person.

He is deep, no longer acting as an opinion leader, and talks like an aggressive peacock, ready to attack dissent from all sides with eloquent eloquence; His hearty and charming laughter has been rare lately, replaced by the solemnity, melancholy, and occasional distraction of contemplation that often appear on his face.

Late at night, William lay on the bed in the dormitory tossing and turning, under his head, the feather pillow wrapped in chemical fiber fabric, every time he turned over, he would make a rustling sound, which could be heard very clearly in the quiet late night in a room alone.

The moonlight shone through the cracks in the blinds, and William did not feel the slightest sleep, and his golden brown eyes widened in the dark night.

Looking at the thick copy of Catch-22 piled on the shelves, which was supposed to be returned to the library on Monday, he was so distraught that he completely forgot about it, and this was the first time in his four years of school that he had overdue a book.

Once again, William remembered the hard slap that Mrs. White had thrown, and it was the first time in his life that he had been slapped by someone else. He didn't complain too much about this, everything was his own fault.

The burning sensation was still fresh in his mind, and he grew up overnight, realizing like an epiphany that life was all about not just meeting academic challenges, competitions, campaigns, theater and art in ivory towers, but also a lot of the coldness and reality that he had seen in fiction before.

On that day, he went from being a teenager to an adult man.

The drunken impulsiveness of that day left William with great regret. To him, Stella is like the most precious treasure in the counter, which should not be out of reach.

In fact, he shouldn't have provoked her easily in the first place, and later, he shouldn't have been too accommodating and indulgent to the little pampered girl, causing her to rush to move their relationship forward.

She was a child after all, and he was eighteen years old, as a leader cultivated under the elite education system, as a devout Christian, he should have enough judgment on right and wrong, grasp principles, and abide by the bottom line, however, he failed to control his most primitive instincts and made unforgivable mistakes.