"No."
Qin Beiting immediately denied it. "Look, you can find these small problems, which shows you're very capable. Your master might not even notice them."
When hackers are truly competing, who pays attention to whether the other side is deliberately going easy? Everyone seizes the loophole and invades.
"Stop with your sweet talk. You're just looking down on me! You deliberately went easy." Yu He picked through the code he wrote.
But the code and logical thinking he wrote were indeed better than hers, an undeniable fact. If he hadn't deliberately gone easy, she wouldn't have been able to defeat vulcan.
Yet, the more he was like this, the more the fire in Yu He's heart burned, even making her suspect...
"Did you deliberately let me have the Black Spirit Bead back then too?"
Yu He stood up, shoving the laptop back at Qin Beiting, and stared at him with suspicion.
Qin Beiting's heart sank. He had thought that deliberately losing to the young girl would allow her to vent her frustration, but he hadn't expected her to connect it to this.
"Yes, the price we bid was the same then," he admitted truthfully.
Just as she thought!
Yu He felt an indescribable anger and annoyance. From the very beginning, she had been schemed against and played with in the palm of his hand.
Seeing her displeased expression, Qin Beiting quickly explained, "Baby, I'm sorry. I admit I recognized you back then and didn't say anything. I also used my privileged position to trick you into doing some things..."
"This was all because you said that after you cured me, we would have no more connection. I didn't want you to leave me, so I played a little trick."
Just a little trick?
It was no different from fraud and deception!
Yu He suppressed the anger in her heart, nodded, and said, "Is there anything else you've been hiding from me? Tell me everything at once."
Looking at her like this, Qin Beiting felt very guilty and distressed. There shouldn't be any deception in this relationship.
Seeing that he remained silent for a long time, Yu He thought he was unwilling to speak and said, "If you don't want to say it, then..."
Before she could finish the words "forget it," she heard Qin Beiting utter a sentence:
"XS Group is actually mine."
Yu He was shocked. Didn't XS Group always oppose Qin's Financial Group?
She knew Qin Beiting disliked the Qin family, but she hadn't expected his dislike to be so deep that he secretly opposed them.
If the head of the Qin family found out, according to the family rules, Qin Beiting's actions would definitely result in him being expelled from the family!
He was too...
No wonder they used an XS Group plane when they went to Lucheng last time. Why hadn't she thought of it then...
"When you used to come to work with me at Shengda Venture Capital, I wasn't usually there. I usually went to Xing Que or came here," Qin Beiting continued. "Also, the investment in the Ye family was also a setup by me."
Yu He felt her heart pounding heavily, "What else?"
"When I had dinner with Qi Yuanyuan before, I did it on purpose to make you jealous. Also, the time my leg was injured, I wanted to see you, so they sent me back. The flowers weren't dropped accidentally; I dropped them on purpose. My hand wasn't incapable of eating; I just wanted you to feed me, so I pretended."
"..."
As Yu He listened, she felt the content seemed to be drifting off track.
"Oh, and that photo wasn't sent by mistake; I deliberately pretended to send it by mistake. I saw that you seemed to quite like my body, so I..."
Yu He's cheeks flushed as she remembered the awkwardness of that photo. "Who told you to talk about these things!"
"These don't count?" Qin Beiting countered.
"..." Yu He was afraid he would go further astray, so she said, "They don't count."
"If they don't count, then there's nothing else..." Qin Beiting said. His gaze inadvertently fell on the conch bead bracelet on her wrist, and he added, "No, there's one more thing."
Yu He raised an eyebrow, signaling him to continue.
Qin Beiting knew that revealing this fact might upset her, but he still said, "The bracelet you're wearing wasn't given to you by Sister Yun'er; I had her give it to you."
Yu He lifted her right hand and looked at the bracelet on her wrist, a little dazed.
This bracelet, which she had always cherished as a lucky charm, wasn't it her adoptive mother's heirloom?
She suddenly found it hard to accept, as this bracelet carried so many of her emotions.
Qin Beiting hesitated, "This doesn't count as me deceiving you, right? You misunderstood it yourself..."
Yu He looked up at him, her expression hard to describe. That's right, he had said that he had feelings for her since he was young... She suddenly felt like prey, surrounded by the hunter's inescapable net, trapped by his side. Although this hunter hadn't done anything that physically harmed her, this feeling of being controlled truly bothered her.
"Let's break up."
When Qin Beiting said all these things, he had already prepared for the worst outcome, but he hadn't expected the young girl to be so heartless.
He took a deep breath and nodded, "Okay, I respect your decision."
"..."
When we were in bed, why didn't you show such respect and stop?!
He agreed to break up so readily!
Yu He felt like she was about to explode with anger. This kind of emotion felt terrifying. She had always felt she had good control over her emotions, but ever since she met this man, her emotions had repeatedly spun out of her control.
Having proposed the breakup, her pride wouldn't allow her to backtrack.
She nodded, her voice stubborn, "Fine! Then you go back to Beijing tonight and move all your things out of the siheyuan!"
Qin Beiting frowned, "Do we have to be so soon?"
"What, do you want to stay for the New Year?" Yu He asked coldly.
"It's just that the procedures for transferring the property ownership of the siheyuan to your name will take a few more days to complete."
"............"
Yu He felt like she was going crazy with anger, "I can move out!"
"No need. That siheyuan is a birthday gift for you, and it's what you deserve for curing my illness. Don't be angry, I'll go back and pack my things later."
Qin Beiting stood up, clasped her shoulders, and said earnestly, "Baby, I'm sorry for what happened before, but I don't regret deceiving you. If I had to do it again, I would still do the same."
Yu He: "..."
What kind of terrible man is this!
"After all, the person I searched for for eleven years has finally appeared. I couldn't remain indifferent, and I don't want to lose you again," Qin Beiting added.
Yu He was stunned, her mind reeling from his words. She subconsciously asked, "If I never had it, how can I lose it?"
"You said you would marry me when you grew up, so you belong to me!" Qin Beiting looked at her deeply.
Yu He wanted to ask when she had ever said that. She suddenly remembered her naive and romantic childhood self. Perhaps she had really said it; she just didn't remember.
How could words spoken by a child be taken seriously?
No, that's not the point now. Even if he had taken it seriously, wouldn't he agree to break up so quickly now?
Yu He pushed his hands away, "Heh, men! I don't trust you anymore!"
Qin Beiting wasn't angry and continued, "It's okay, it's my fault, so if you want to break up, I respect your wishes."