Chapter 116: Cleaning Up Trash_1

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When he came back from dinner, he found that the sketch had been crumpled into a ball and thrown into the trashcan.

After that, the house somehow acquired many more books on portrait sketching, as well as a small study that was kept locked.

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Ye Che's gaze slowly became distant, watching the girl in the Lake Pavilion grow up, standing tall and graceful, stunningly beautiful, captivating his heart and soul.

But she wasn't as obedient and sensible as she had been in her childhood, when she liked to cling to him, to rely on him.

Especially after Xu Ziliang's death two years ago, which completely shattered the close-knit relationship between the two of them; when she faced him, she couldn't even bother to pretend.

It wasn't to the point of outright hostility, but their interactions were icy and estranged, uncaring; yet it was this very indifference that forced Ye Che to mask his own misery with a life of debauchery.