The pendant was a birthday present given to him by his aunt when he was six years old. He has never left his body for more than ten years, and he will never take it off even when he takes a bath.

Therefore, Yan Qiu's first reaction was whether the rope broke and fell somewhere.

But even if he moved the bed away, there was no trace of the pendant.

If you are not in your own room, there is only one possibility.

So he ran out of the room and asked the servants in the villa one by one if anyone had entered his room last night.

However, the servants all looked blank, shaking their heads to express their ignorance.

Only when she asked about the little girl cleaning the corridor, she hesitated.

In the end, she told him that she was on duty last night and saw the second young master entering his room.

The second young master of the Fu family is naturally not him, but Fu Shuangchi.

Yan Qiu felt bad when he heard this name.

In this family, he always avoided Fu Shuangchi whenever he could. If it was something else, he would take it away, but not the pendant, which was the only thing his aunt left him.

So Yan Qiu hesitated downstairs for a long time, but still walked to the second floor.

Fu Shuangchi was sitting on the balcony reading a book, she didn't seem surprised to see him coming, she just lazily raised her eyes to look at him and then looked away.

Then knowingly asked: "Why are you here?"

Saying that, he put down the book and raised his wrist, intentionally revealing the gauze wrapped in the injury, and asked, "Are you here to apologize?"

Yan Qiu instantly remembered what happened at the birthday party a few days ago.

It's fine for the others not to know, but the two of them knew what happened that day, so Yan Qiu knew very well that he did it on purpose.

The unhealed scar behind the ear seemed to feel something, and it hurt suddenly.

Yan Qiu subconsciously wanted to raise his hand and press it behind his ear, but he quickly realized it and held it back.

Although he was rude to Fu Shuangchi's request, his attitude just showed that the pendant was indeed with him.

For the pendant, Yan Qiu could only endure his reluctance, nodded and replied: "Yes."

"Then apologize." Fu Shuangchi stroked his wrist lightly, and answered without hesitation.

Yan Qiu lowered his eyelashes, covering the emotions in his eyes, and said word by word: "I'm sorry about what happened that day."

Fu Shuangchi smiled when he heard the words, like a general who has won a battle, smiling complacently.

After he had laughed enough, he picked up the book on the table again contentedly, and waved his hand at him as if to repel flies, "I forgive you."

After finishing speaking, he deliberately added a sentence at the end, "Second brother."

How sarcastic the second brother's sarcasm was, but Yan Qiu didn't have the time to argue with him, so he just asked, "Can you return the pendant to me?"

"Pendant?" Fu Shuangchi put on a dazed look and asked in confusion, "What pendant?"

"It's the one I wear around my neck all the time." Yan Qiu touched his neck subconsciously as he spoke, but it was empty and there was nothing there.

"Oh——" Fu Shuangchi just remembered, and suddenly realized, "That one."

Yan Qiu looked at him nervously, waiting for his next words.

However, he only heard him ask back: "Shouldn't your pendant be on your neck? Why are you asking me?"

Yan Qiu was a little annoyed by his attitude, he couldn't help clenching his fingers, and subconsciously took a step forward, "You entered my room last night, and you disappeared when I woke up."

"So? I took it?" Fu Shuangchi said, his eyes turned cold a little bit, "Also, who told you that I entered your room?"

Yan Qiu was choked, he knew that Fu Shuangchi was narrow-minded, so he didn't want to involve that servant.

Unexpectedly, when Fu Shuangchi saw this, she became aggressive instead, "Why didn't you say anything? Still can't say it? You can't just cheat me without evidence, right? You came to me early in the morning to ask for something, and you still spewed blood.Yan Qiu, are you going too far?"

The Yan word bit down extremely hard, as if it was going to eat him alive.

Looking into his eyes, Yan Qiu knew that this was just something the two of them knew very well.

But he was afraid that he would destroy the pendant directly if he would anger Fu Shuangchi, so he softened his tone and said, "I never thought of arguing with you, I just want my pendant."

"Oh?" Fu Shuangchi snorted, stood up and asked, "I never wanted to fight for anything? Then why did you come back?"

Yan Qiu was stunned when he heard this, and looked at him in disbelief.

Fu Shuang approached him step by step, with undisguised hatred in his tone, "Why did you come back? Don't you understand that you are totally out of tune with this family, you can't fit in, your life in the first twenty years is too earlyJust decide your life, you should rot there with your parents who set up a stall, why do you want to come back?"

"I am the second young master of the Fu family! So what if there is no blood relationship? I have lived here for twenty years, and my parents and I have been in love for twenty years. They have called me the second young master for twenty years. What do you have?"? Why did everything change as soon as you came back?"

"I lived like this for the first twenty years. Why did I become a thief who took over the magpie's nest when you came back? Anyone can look down on me, anyone can mock me? I have to work hard to maintain my parentsFor my love, I didn't use it at all before."

"But..." Yan Qiu interrupted him, "Did you forget that everything you have now should belong to me?"

"I haven't forgotten." Fu Shuangchi looked at him, "But you also said that it should be, but the reality is... all of this belongs to me."

"My parents' love belongs to me, my elder brother's love belongs to me, and the position of the second young master of the Fu family also belongs to me."

"Can't you understand? Even if you are related by blood? The only son and brother in their eyes is me."

For a moment Yan Qiu wondered if he hadn't woken up yet, otherwise how could the reality be so absurd.

But all these are desperately reminding him that everything in front of him is indeed reality.

Yan Qiu didn't want to say any more, but said with difficulty: "Give me back the pendant."

Fu Shuangchi also calmed down, didn't say any more, just gave him a meaningful look, and said, "If you ask me, you might as well ask Qin Mu, maybe you will gain something."

Yan Qiu came out of Fu Shuangchi's room, struggled in the living room for a long time, and finally released Qin Mu's phone number from the blacklist.

Then he pressed the call button.

It took a long time to get through, and the voice was filled with feigned surprise, and he pretended to be concerned like before: "Yan Qiu? What happened?"

Yan Qiu's throat rolled a few times, and then he asked with difficulty, and said straight to the point: "Is my pendant with you?"

"Pendant, just for this?" Qin Mu admitted frankly.

"Yes." Yan Qiu spoke concisely and didn't want to say a word.

The opposite party smiled slightly, and replied: "Okay, then you can go and get it."

After speaking, hung up the phone.

Soon, a text message was sent with an address on it.

Looking at the address on the phone, Yan Qiu always felt that things were not that simple, but the pendant was the only relic left to him by his aunt, and he had to take it back.

So looked for it according to the address.

The address Qin Mu gave him was a river whose real face could no longer be seen clearly. Weeds were overgrown beside the river, and it was obvious that no one had been there for a long time.

There are several pond firs planted in the middle of the river.

Qin Mu only sent an address saying that there was no news from here, and the call would no longer work.

So Yan Qiu could only find it by himself.

He first searched around along the river bank, and his fingers were scratched several times by the weeds and dead branches on the bank, but he had no time to take care of it.

However, until he searched both sides of the river, he did not find any clues about the pendant.

The sky darkened a little bit.

Just when he was thinking about whether he was played by Fu Shuangchi and Qin Mu, he raised his head and his eyes fell on the few pool firs in the middle of the river.

He had already searched all around the river, only there he hadn't found it yet, so Yan Qiu stepped into the cold river without even thinking about it.

It was almost December at this time, winter had already started, and with the temperature at night, as soon as he stepped in, the icy cold river water seemed to turn into dense needles, piercing his body.

Yan Qiu couldn't help coughing immediately, but he had no time to take care of it. Some dirty river water came under the pool fir, then he took out his phone to light it up and looked up.

The branches and leaves of the pool fir are not too dense, so as soon as he found the second tree, he saw the pendant hanging on the branch.

He grew up in the countryside, and climbing trees was nothing to him, so Yan Qiu climbed up while biting the phone in his mouth to illuminate it.

The trunk of the tree was smeared with something, and it slipped so badly that Yan Qiu could only slow down and climb up a little bit, his nails almost sank into the trunk.

After some difficulty, he climbed up and held the lost and recovered pendant.

However, before he had time to be happy, his feet slipped and he fell straight down, falling straight into the stagnant water under the tree.

This river is not too deep, and there is no danger to life, but because it does not flow all year round, various sewage and garbage are deposited in it. Needless to say, the smell, and it is winter now, the river water is soaked in coldness, and it looks like a sharp knife.The blade scraped his skin, and his body lost all warmth in an instant.

Even though Yan Qiu stood up quickly, the soaked clothes clung to his body limply, and the biting coldness continued to penetrate into his body as if consciously.

Yan Qiu was so cold that he seemed to be unable to breathe for a moment, and it took him a long time to take in a breath. Then, as if his body had reacted, he began to cough uncontrollably.

After finally landing on the shore, Yan Qiu found that his teeth had started to fight at some point, and his whole body was shaking violently.

Yan Qiu knew that not only would he not get any attention when he went back with his body, but instead he would be looked at and ridiculed, so he planned to find a hotel first to take a shower and change his clothes before going back.

It's just that this is a suburb, far from the city center, the best way is to call a car.

But Yan Qiu looked at the filth all over the cheat book and guessed that no driver would be willing to pull him, so he walked back step by step.

Fortunately, he came across a farmhouse hotel not long after.

The hotel owner thought he had been robbed, so he quickly opened a room for him to take a bath, and brought him hot water and clothes.

Yan Qiu thanked him gratefully, quickly tidied himself up, sat in the hotel for a long time, and then prepared to go back, but the hotel owner saw that his face was pale, and he looked like he was going to collapse at any time, and said with concern:"Why don't you rest here for the night, I don't think you look very well."

Hearing this, Yan Qiu lowered his head and looked at the phone. Although it was submerged in water just now, it was still able to turn on. The screen was blank, and there was no call or message.

But he still smiled wryly, and said to himself, "No, I'll go back first, and my family will be worried."

The innkeeper didn't insist on hearing the words, but just stuffed him with a bottle of hot water.

Yan Qiu hailed a car this time, and quickly returned to the Fu family's villa.

It was early morning at this time, Yan Qiu thought they had already gone to bed, but unexpectedly the villa was brightly lit.

The butler and servants were standing at the door, seemingly waiting for him.

Yan Qiu didn't expect that they would really wait for him, his heart warmed up, he hurriedly paid the money, got out of the car and walked towards the gate, wanting to explain to them the reason why he came back late.

However, as soon as he reached the gate, he bumped into Fu Chenze who came out of the villa after hearing the sound.

"Big..." Before Yan Qiu could finish his sentence, there was a "slap", and Fu Chenze's slap fell heavily on his face.

There was a sharp chirping sound, as if an unknown bird was screaming at his ears, and the wind passed through his body. For a moment, his whole body seemed to be empty.

Yan Qiu subconsciously covered his left ear, and when the tinnitus finally stopped, he raised his head to look at Fu Chenze, and called out blankly, "Brother?"

Fu Chenze's complexion seemed to drip water, his eyes were cruel and gloomy.

He didn't ask Yan Qiu why he came back so late?I didn't find the dense wounds on his fingers, and didn't see him limping when he walked.

He just looked at Yan Qiu, his tone full of anger and disappointment.

"Yan Qiu." Fu Chenze looked at him word by word and asked, "Where did you take Shuangchi?"