Chapter 217 He and Yu Yan are now in the past.

Shao Muyan put Yu Yan down and left the room first to give them some space.

Xiang Jingheng was somewhat surprised that Shao Muyan left so readily.

Yu Yan noticed this and said calmly, "He is more generous than you and has always respected me."

"..." Xiang Jingheng's face darkened.

"Besides, with the child here, I'm not afraid of what you might do to me."

Yu Yan sat on the edge of the bed, glanced at Xiang Chu, and then turned her gaze to Xiang Jingheng. "What do you want to talk to me about? Tell me."

Xiang Jingheng looked at Yu Yan.

In the past six months, every time I see Yu Yan, she has undergone some new changes. From her sharp and outspoken nature when she first returned to China to her current composure and depth, her growth has been remarkable.

Xiang Jingheng kept a steady expression on his face, not wanting to be looked down upon by her.

He pulled up a chair and sat down, speaking softly so as not to wake the child: "Third Master told me the truth about what happened back then, but there's still one thing I don't understand."

Yu Yan looked up, waiting for him to continue.

"Mei Nan, why did you switch the baby?"

Xiang Jingheng frowned. "I know she likes me, but if she likes me, wouldn't it be easier for her to use a child to climb the social ladder?"

"As the mother of the child, she actually dared to entrust Xiang Chu to your side, while abandoning Shao Yun in the orphanage and arranging for Shao Yun to return to the Shao family."

His eyes were deep and thoughtful. "This move is too risky. It doesn't seem like Mei Nan's steady and methodical approach at all."

You're wrong.

Yu Yan gently shook her head, "Mei Nan is much bolder and more ruthless than you imagine. For someone who has been monitored since childhood and is not even afraid of death, these things are nothing to her."

Xiang Jingheng's brow furrowed.

He neither expected Mei Nan to be that kind of person, nor did he expect Yu Yan to make such an evaluation of Mei Nan.

"You seem to know Mei Nan better than I do."

Yu Yan shook her head again, "I just understand women better than you do."

She looked at Xiang Jingheng and said, "Mei Nan really likes you. She likes you so much that even after drugging you, she doesn't want you to sleep with other women. She switched the children because of her own selfish reasons. I think she wanted to have a child like you, but she also knew that if she didn't send the child to me, Xiang Chu wouldn't be able to hide at all. She would definitely be found by those people and become a pawn of Mei's father, just like her."

“As for Shao Yun,” Yu Yan’s heart skipped a beat, “I don’t think it was her arrangement. It’s very likely that it was her mother, Aunt Mei, or Dean Xia who deliberately sent Shao Yun to Shao Min.”

Given the similarity between Shao Yun and Shao Muyan, it's impossible for Shao Min not to be tempted to adopt the child.

But as Xiang Jingheng said, this move was too risky.

That's definitely not Mei Nan's style.

Yu Yan pondered Dean Xia's words and reasonably suspected that she knew what Mei Nan had done, so she chose to turn a blind eye.

However, unable to bear seeing Shao Yun's brilliant talent go to waste in the orphanage, they secretly orchestrated this scheme.

Of course, these are all her deductions, and only the parties involved probably know the truth.

Xiang Jingheng lowered his eyes and pondered for a long time.

"Don't you hate Mei Nan?" he asked.

Yu Yan countered with, "What do you think?"

Xiang Jingheng: "..."

“I am a human being, I also have emotions and desires. I am not as magnanimous as you think, able to forgive a woman who has played me for so many years and even took my child away.”

Yu Yan sneered, "Tell me, what's the difference between Mei Nan's actions and those of a human trafficker?"

She even wanted to capture her and execute her!

Hearing Yu Yan say this, Xiang Jingheng felt somewhat relieved.

Not to mention Yu Yan and Shao Muyan, he was so angry that he trembled after learning the truth.

That woman was incredibly audacious; she completely outsmarted him!

The memory of how she pretended to be well-behaved in front of me made me even angrier!

"However, she is currently in purgatory, and I'm afraid she is living a life worse than death."

Yu Yan looked at Xiang Jingheng and said in a deep voice, "What are your thoughts on Mei Nan being asked to exchange the chip for her father's?"

"Change."

Xiang Jingheng did so almost without hesitation.

Yu Yan raised an eyebrow. "So quick?"

"This chip was originally developed by Mei Nan and her team. Without her, this chip wouldn't exist. It's just a chip; how could it be more important than a human life?"

Xiang Jingheng said in a low voice, "Besides, she is Xiao Chu's biological mother."

"Moreover," Xiang Jingheng gritted his teeth, "I have to see her and make her tell me all these things in person!"

Yu Yan paused for a moment.

"You'd better look for any important clues Mei Nan left behind."

Yu Yan: "Based on my understanding of Mei Nan, she would definitely think that Mei's father would threaten you with her life, so she should leave you a backup plan to help you get out of trouble."

"Help me get out of this predicament?"

Xiang Jingheng was taken aback. "She's the one who's trapped now. How could she possibly care about me?"

Looking at Xiang Jingheng's astonished expression, Yu Yan was at a loss for words.

That's how love is; it's utterly unfair.

Some people can love someone to the point of life and death, loving them so much that they would rather be in hell themselves than let the person they love suffer even the slightest hardship, while others simply cannot feel that way.

Love is sometimes a matter between two people, but most of the time, it's a matter between one person.

"Go ahead and look for it," Yu Yan said, not wanting to say more, only adding, "What if you find it?"

Xiang Jingheng nodded with a conflicted expression.

"Is there anything else?" Yu Yan stood up. "If not, we'll leave."

Xiang Jingheng also stood up and called out to her again, "Yu Yan."

Yu Yan turned to look at him, her eyes calm.

Xiang Jingheng's throat tightened, "I have one last question."

"How did you feel when you found out it wasn't me that night?"

Yu Yan met Xiang Jingheng's eyes, and scenes from the past flowed between their gazes.

Once upon a time, they woke up in the same bed, looked at each other in panic, and that was their first impression.

She noticed his surprise and impatience and said, "It was just an accident, you don't need to feel guilty."

Unexpectedly, she found out she was pregnant a month later.

In the coffee shop on the first floor of Xiangshi Technology, Xiang Jingheng went out for two cigarettes. When he came back, he said:

"Yu Yan, I want to marry you. Will you marry me?"

After that, married life became a mess.

Yu Yan had doubts, disappointments, and even hatred, but in the end, she completely gave up.

The only thing I never considered was that it wasn't him.

Xiang Jingheng didn't know what he was still expecting. Perhaps he was just unwilling to accept that in the end, it was all just a misunderstanding.

A joke.

He looked at Yu Yan with a nervous expression, but Yu Yan smiled slightly at him: "It's all in the past. Xiang Jingheng, the past cannot be retrieved, but the future is still promising. Let's all look forward."

Xiang Jingheng felt his heart skip a beat.

As Yu Yan's figure gradually disappeared from his sight, he finally realized that he and Yu Yan had become a thing of the past.