Ah Zhong looked at the girl, and a ripple of emotion stirred within him.

Seeing that he hadn't spoken for a long time and was just staring blankly at her, Pei Nian felt a little strange. After thinking for a moment, she helped him to a less crowded place and bought him a bottle of water.

"Uncle, did you fall somewhere?"

Ah Zhong chuckled softly, "I'm fine, but you... no one else is willing to come forward to help me, why are you the only one willing?"

Pei Nian was taken aback. "You fell down, isn't it only right that I help you up?"

"Aren't you afraid I'll try to blackmail you?" Ah Zhong gave her a meaningful look. "Didn't you see? The people around here don't dare to, and someone is even recording it as evidence."

“Perhaps there are some disrespectful elders in society who have corrupted the social atmosphere,” Pei Nian chuckled. “But that doesn’t mean that people’s hearts are all bad.”

Do you believe in human nature?

"I didn't believe it before."

Pei Nian sat down next to Ah Zhong and looked up at the sky.

From this perspective, she looks remarkably like Pei Hong.

Ah Zhong's heart tightened, and his brows trembled slightly.

"I didn't believe it before, but then I met two people..."

Ah Zhong thought she would say she met someone, and that it was a man, because girls her age are always moved by love.

"Oh? What kind of person?"

“One is my sister,” Pei Nian laughed. “And the other… is my boyfriend.”

Ah Zhong recalled the information he had gathered from his investigation.

Her boyfriend is definitely Huo Jingnan, the young master of the Huo family. And her older sister should be Jiang Mianmian.

Pei Shasha asked him to capture Pei Nian, and at the same time, she wanted to take Pei Nian's identity so that there would only be one of the twins in the world.

Ah Zhong frowned. He saw the light in Pei Nian's eyes, a radiant light that shone from the heart, completely different from the light in Pei Shasha's eyes.

Does he really want this light to disappear from the world?

However, Pei Shasha was, after all, someone he had raised himself. From childhood, he had spoiled and pampered her, treating her like his own daughter. He would do anything to get her what she wanted…

Ah Zhong shook his head violently, his expression changing slightly.

"Uncle, are you feeling unwell?" Pei Nian hurriedly looked at him. "I was so busy talking that I didn't even ask how you were doing!"

"I'm fine." Ah Zhong stood up. "Thank you. We'll see each other again in the future."

"What?" Pei Nian was taken aback.

“You’re a kind-hearted girl.” Ah Zhong’s gaze was complicated. “If anything unpleasant happens in the future, I hope you can keep this smile and… believe in people’s hearts.”

After saying that, he turned and left, leaving Pei Nian standing there in a daze.

"Niannian!" Huo Jingnan's voice came from not far away.

Pei Nian snapped out of her reverie and remembered that she had arranged to meet him at the hospital to visit Qin Nuan.

"What's wrong? You've been spacing out. What happened?"

"No." Pei Nian smiled and shook her head. "Let's go to the ward quickly."

“By the way,” Huo Jingnan told her, “our visits these past few times seem to have been quite effective; Nuannuan doesn’t seem to be too resistant to you anymore.”

"Jingnan, I always have a question in my mind."

"Okay, go ahead."

"Was Nuan Nuan so resistant to me before really just because she was sick and in a bad mood? I don't think it's that simple."

“We’re on the same page!” Huo Jingnan blurted out. “Some strange things have happened recently… For example, one day at the hospital, Xiaoyouzi said she had seen you, but you hadn’t actually seen her, right?”