Xiao Ruoyi realized what He Yuzhe was going to do next, so she quickly ran to stop him. "He Yuzhe! Stop!"

However, she was late. The brown cinerary casket was hurled and made a turn in the air. Her father's bone ashes were scattered on the floor.

Xiao Ruoyi looked at everything happened in front of her in despair. Looking at the ashes scattered on the ground, she felt brokenhearted. She felt her kneels got weak, and she could hardly stand. In the end, she fell down on the floor facing her father's ashes.

The breeze passed slowly, taking away the ashes. She wanted to grasp them with her hands, but there was nothing she could do. What passed between her fingers was like the last hope in her heart.

He Yuzhe stood there and looked down at Xiao Ruoyi. His eyes were full of nonchalance and indifference. He snorted disdainfully. "I told you, don't disobey me. You asked for it."

Then he looked away and went to look around the carefully decorated auditorium.

Bai Yichen ran over in a hurry and bent down to try to help Xiao Ruoyi up. However, she flung his hand away. She opened her mouth slightly, but could not say a word out of the grief in her heart.

The moment when the cinerary casket fell to the ground, she knew that her love to the man she was once obsessed with had gone. All their past memories vanished. All she had in her heart was nothing but hatred when she looked at him.

It's painful for her to hate someone she once loved, while she had to let herself remember what he had done to her, even sheding tears over it.

Xiao Ruoyi held the last ashes on the ground and carefully placed them in the urn. She gently wiped the dust off her father's photo and stood up slowly after finishing everything.

There were no tears in her eyes, but her face was still marked with grief.

Looking at Xiao Ruoyi's eyes which were filled with hatred, He Yuzhe's eyes brightened for a moment, but he soon became haughty again. He spoke contemptuously. "I hope you can remember your identity, and you should be clear about the consequences of disobeying me."

Hearing his words, Xiao Ruoyi clenched her fists. "You schemed everything just to ruin the Xiao family, but you didn't benefit from this. So why on earth did you do this?"

Xiao Ruoyi knew that the bankruptcy of the Xiao family would not bring any benefits to the He corporation, but He Yuzhe had spent a whole month by her side just for this plan. He had done it only to see the Xiao family going broke? She didn't believe it.

"You don't need to know why. You just need to know that you belong to me this year. You are the one to pay back everything that Xiao Haotian owed."

He Yuzhe narrowed his eyes. Every time he mentioned Xiao Haotian, a dangerous gleam would appear in his eyes. He walked to Xiao Ruoyi and grabbed her arm tightly, taking her to the entrance of the auditorium.

"He Yuzhe, are you a man or not? How could you treat a girl like this?" Bai Yichen looked at He Yuzhe holding Xiao Ruoyi's wrist, and the pain on Xiao Ruoyi's face made his heart tighten.

To follow He Yuzhe's pace, Xiao Ruoyi had to walk faster to relieve the pain on the wrist.

No matter what happened, she had to face it alone. She only needed to be by his side for a year.

Thinking of that, she lowered her head and no longer struggled.

Seeing they walked gradually out of his sight, Bai Yichen clenched his fist, and the blue veins showed the anger in his heart.

On the way to the company, Xiao Ruoyi did not say a word. She just quietly looked out of the window. He Yuzhe in the driver's seat looked straight ahead and did not look at her at all.

Looking out of the window, she felt the fleeting of the scenery, and the city suddenly became totally strange to her. She thought about her father's words. "Ruoyi, when I die, don't be sad. Scatter my ashes to the sea. I will accompany you in another way."

But now, she couldn't even have this last chance to show filial piety to her dearest father, but helplessly watched everything happened and did nothing.

The Xiao group company had been ruined by He Yuzhe, and the only real estate in the Xiao family was snatched by her so-called aunt.

Xiao Ruoyi closed her eyes tiredly, letting the cold wind blow her face and brush her hair. The exhaustion made Xiao Ruoyi lean her head on the back of the car chair and fall asleep.

When she opened her eyes, the car was already parked in front of the He group. It was a familiar sight for her, a bustling crowd, and the busy street.

"Wait for me in the conference room on the third floor and get everyone's coffee ready." He Yuzhe walked in front of Xiao Ruoyi and told her, without slowing down his stride.

The meeting was already delayed because of Xiao Ruoyi. When he saw the anonymous photo of Bai Yichen and Xiao Ruoyi in the company, he felt nervous, so he postponed the meeting and rushed over.

But he did not expect that they were holding a funeral for Xiao Haotian.

He glanced at Xiao Ruoyi, who was walking closely beside him, and then looked away. He did not understand why he was so upset every time he saw her. Every time he thought that she was the daughter of the Xiao family, he felt even more irritable.

Maybe, it's just because he took it seriously.

He Yuzhe dispelled the thoughts in his mind and walked faster to the end of the corridor.

Xiao Ruoyi, on the other hand, rushed into pushing the door of the conference room open with the coffee in her hand. She saw all the staff members sit in their seats. Everyone sat properly as if they were waiting for someone to arrive.

The first one she saw was Bai Muya, who was sitting next to the main seat, chatting and laughing with the staff beside her. She glanced at Xiao Ruoyi.

Xiao Ruoyi tried to avoid her eye contact with Bai Muya.

"Some people are different. We work hard for a whole month only to earn a little. They can live a wealthy life only through flirtation. They don't even have to care about work time."

A woman in the corner of the conference table spoke. Xiao Ruoyi looked up and realized that it was the woman in the red dress who was in the corridor back then. Her name was Su Yuxin, also the minister of her department.

In the quiet room, her words could be listened clearly. People immediately laughed at Xiao Ruoyi. Some of them even agreed and pointed at her openly.

She held the coffee cup tighter and placed the last cup in front of Su Yuxin. Although she couldn't resist on hearing those unbearable words, all Xiao Ruoyi wanted was to lower her head and leave as soon as possible.

She knew that in the comoany, Su Yuxin was not someone she could provoke. If she wanted to spend this year safe and sound, she had to know how to avoid troubles.