Half an hour later, Lou Xi came downstairs wearing a black wool coat.

The winter in the Capital is very cold, and the north wind blows against the cheeks like knives scraping, making it unbearable. Lou Xi tightened her coat, then stepped out of the hotel, walking towards Xi Siwei’s car.

Xi Siwei was sitting in the driver’s seat; he had driven here himself.

Seeing Lou Xi approaching, he got out of the car and opened the passenger-side door.

Lou Xi frowned slightly, not getting into the passenger seat he opened, but went straight to the back seat and got in.

The passenger seat of a single man’s car is a very sensitive position. Lou Xi is now a widow, and Xi Siwei is a single man with a fiancée.

Although they are relatives in name, who knows if someone with an agenda might write nonsense?

The car door closed with a bang, making Xi Siwei twitch at the corner of his eye. He could only close the passenger door and then walk around the car to the driver’s seat.

Xi Siwei got into the car and started it.

"Where are we going? Can’t we talk here?" When she saw Xi Siwei start the car, Lou Xi got a bit nervous and asked.

"Do you think it’s convenient here?"

Lou Xi glanced at the surroundings here, the hotel entrance—there’s nothing inconvenient about it.

After all, letting Xi Siwei drive, who knows where he might take her.

"If you don’t want to talk, you can get out now." Xi Siwei actually threatened Lou Xi!

"Drive." Lou Xi leaned back in the seat and said in a deep voice.

If it weren’t for the inexplicable evidence he had in his hand, Lou Xi wouldn’t have gotten into Xi Siwei’s car.

She recalled Qin Mobai’s words that Xi Siwei wouldn’t harm her, but those words needed verification.

Xi Siwei is someone who could even harm his cousin; would he spare her just because she is Shen Youran’s daughter?

There must be another reason.

That other reason is...

Lou Xi suddenly remembered that Xi Siwei had clearly expressed his fondness for her before!

Could this man still be thinking about that now? Believing that with Qin Mobai ’dead,’ he could have her?

Ridiculous! Even if Qin Mobai were really dead, even if Lou Xi were to be with another man, that man could never be Xi Siwei!

With that in mind, the car stopped by the riverbank, surrounded by silence and darkness—an ideal place for a crime.

Xi Siwei placed one hand on the back of the seat, turning to look at Lou Xi in the backseat.

The lighting inside the car was dim, and seeing Xi Siwei’s expression, Lou Xi instinctively leaned back a bit.

But she was already pressed against the backseat; where else could she retreat?

Seeing Lou Xi’s frightened expression, Xi Siwei didn’t feel good about it.

When a woman likes a man, she hopes to see admiration in her eyes, not fear.

"Are you afraid of me?" Xi Siwei asked, his voice low.

Actually, the men of the Qin Family are all very handsome, but Lou Xi was first attracted by Qin Mobai, and after him, no other man, no matter how handsome, could catch Lou Xi’s eye.

Xi Siwei was precisely such a presence.

"Why should I be afraid of you?"

"You’re trembling."

"It’s cold."

Xi Siwei didn’t expose her rebuttal.

"Lou Xi, I want to ask you a question." Seeing, after Qin Mobai ’died,’ Xi Siwei didn’t even address her as ’sister-in-law’ anymore, directly calling her by name.

"I don’t want to answer."

"If you don’t answer, those things, I’ll hand them over to the reporters, letting Qin Mobai die a disgraceful death!"

"You—" Why would such cruel-hearted people exist in this world? "What do you want to ask?"

"Without Qin Mobai, would you have loved me?"