Chapter 725: The Appearance of Li Yijia

"Rest assured, I am someone who has already died once." Li Yijia took a deep breath: "In his hands, I will not fall a second time..."

Chen Yu took Yu Sichen and headed straight out the door. Her mother, Wang Ling, had always kept bodyguards watching her in secret. Sure enough, not long after they stepped out, two men in black stepped forward to intercept them.

"Miss, please come back with us," the two said, bowing slightly.

Yu Sichen did not answer; she glanced at Chen Yu, waiting for his next move.

"Your miss is treating me to a meal. Go back and tell your mistress that I will send her home before eleven," Chen Yu said with a smile.

"Sorry, I don't know you. The madam has given instructions that she is not allowed to leave with anyone," the bodyguard said coldly.

"I am informing you, not asking for your opinion." Chen Yu smiled. He grabbed Yu Sichen's hand and started walking forward.

The bodyguards were furious and moved in together, intending to take action, but their bodies stiffened, and they could not move at all.

The two were shocked and struggled desperately, but they seemed to be frozen in place, unable to move a muscle.

"Let's go." Chen Yu pulled Yu Sichen along, turned his head, and got into Ye Qinglong's Bugatti.

Chen Yu started the car, the Bugatti's arrogant engine roar thundering as it quickly left the scene.

He took Yu Sichen to a snack street. The street was not large, and the road was very narrow, but this alleyway was filled with the bustle of everyday life.

Yu Sichen held Chen Yu's hand tightly. The two of them moved through the street like a couple, and by the time they had walked the length of it, they were carrying many snacks in their hands.

Only when she was with Chen Yu did Yu Sichen feel that she was alive. After strolling along, the two sat at the entrance of an open-air bistro by the street, sipping cocktails and watching a singer with a weary expression sing on stage.

"Chen Yu, only when I am with you do I feel that I am alive." Yu Sichen was drunk; she had only taken a small sip of her cocktail, yet she was drunk. She leaned slowly against Chen Yu's shoulder, her charming eyes filled with tenderness.

"You must learn to live for yourself," Chen Yu said. "Along this journey, you carry too much on your shoulders. You must remember that you are not their tool; you are a person, a living, breathing person of flesh and blood."

"You are also their daughter, not a tool that exists to revitalize the Yu Family," Chen Yu said. "You are not the only person in the Yu Family; why must the burden of restoring the Yu Clan be forced upon you?"

"Chen Yu, I don't want to talk about this." Yu Sichen's cheeks were slightly flushed. With her tipsiness, her hair was a little messy, and that dazed look in her eyes made her appear even more alluring.

"Fine, we won't talk about this." Chen Yu nodded slightly. "Let's keep having fun, keep being happy."

Yu Sichen stretched out her arm, wrapping it around Chen Yu's neck, and murmured: "Do you know, Chen Yu, the thing I want to do most right now is to lie in your arms and be with you forever. I cannot escape my own fate, but I can hide one person in my heart."

"That person is you." Yu Sichen was already somewhat intoxicated and infatuated: "Chen Yu, I want to give myself to you."

As she spoke, Yu Sichen closed her eyes slightly, her red lips slowly approaching Chen Yu, waiting for him to kiss her. She looked like a delicate, dew-kissed rose, waiting for Chen Yu to pluck it.

"You've had too much to drink." Chen Yu gave a wry smile. Protection was one thing, but he still had his reason.

"Am I... pretty?" Yu Sichen was slightly disappointed.

"Pretty, very pretty, and you can easily stir a man's desire to protect, which is why I have helped you time and time again," Chen Yu said.

"You help me only because I can stir a man's desire to protect, and not because you like me?" Yu Sichen gazed into Chen Yu's eyes.

"You really have had too much to drink." Chen Yu did not answer her question directly.

"You are avoiding the question." Yu Sichen smiled and murmured: "Chen Yu, you are very outstanding; there must be many outstanding girls around you. Don't worry, I just want to give my most Precious thing completely to a man I like. I won't ask you to take responsibility."

"Or..." Yu Sichen leaned into Chen Yu's ear, her breath like orchids: "I can be your canary, kept in a cage by you forever. I don't ask for a title, I don't ask for too much of your affection; as long as I can stay by your side, I will be content."

"Will you take me away? I know you have the ability to do so."

"That would be too unfair to you." Chen Yu sighed and said: "Sichen, actually, you are fully capable of controlling your own fate. You..."

"You don't agree, right?" Yu Sichen's eyes were veiled with a trace of sorrow: "Chen Yu, in my world, there is only you left..."

"I said, this is unfair to you." Chen Yu gave a wry smile and shook his head.

"I know, I'm sorry." Yu Sichen sat up straight and looked Chen Yu directly in the eye: "Since you say I can control my own fate, then I will work hard for it."

"You say this is unfair to me, so I will go back and tell them that I have fallen in love with you. I don't want to marry into a wealthy family; I want to be with you. From today on, I, Yu Sichen, will live for myself." Yu Sichen's eyes were firm, and her tone was resolute.

Three o'clock in the morning, Yu Family residence.

Yu Sichen returned home to see her mother, Wang Ling, sitting in the living room, and her father, Yu Qiang, sitting to the side with a dark face. The couple both looked terrible.

Seeing Yu Sichen return, Wang Ling stood up abruptly and screamed at her: "You still know how to come back? Why did you come back? Why didn't you just go off with that wild man? Do you still have this family, your father, and me?"

Yu Sichen stood still in the living room, her expression normal, saying nothing.

"Where did you go? And you've been drinking?" Yu Qiang stood up and roared in anger: "Your grandfather and I have been telling everyone how good your upbringing is, and you? You just walked off with another man in front of so many people at the banquet? Yu Sichen, you've really done it now."

"Speak! Why aren't you saying anything? What were you doing with that bastard Chen Yu?" Seeing her remain silent, Wang Ling became even angrier.

"He and I went to the snack street and ate a lot of things—fried skewers, grilled sausages, stinky tofu—and I was also at a bar with him. I leaned on him for a long time," Yu Sichen said. A sweet smile appeared on her face.

"You wretch, you still have the nerve to say that? Shameless!" The couple was practically bursting with rage.

"I like Chen Yu, and I want to be with him." Yu Sichen suddenly blurted out these words.

"What did you say? Say that again if you dare!" The couple was stunned.

"I like Chen Yu, and I want to be his woman." Yu Sichen raised her head abruptly, her gaze firm.