Chapter 84 Snow on the Eaves (7) The lives of people in this world are not as important as yours...

"Are you crazy?"

Yan Huinan remained silent. He only silently responded in his heart: Yes, Yanyan, I've been crazy for a long time. I'm so crazy, I'm out of my mind. Apart from you, I'm not afraid of anything, and I want nothing.

"Do you want it?" He looked extremely serious.

Xie Yun turned her face away from his burning gaze, "What do you want?"

Yan Huinan pondered Xie Yun's words for a moment. Suddenly, he gently put down Xie Yun's ankle, moved over to lie down beside Xie Yun, and said in an ambiguous and tender tone, "What do you want?"

The atmosphere suddenly became charming, and Xie Yun immediately realized what he was talking about.

He said angrily, "Get out of here."

Yan Huinan propped up his head and tilted his head to look at Xie Yun lying beside him. His Yanyan amused him. He couldn't help but laugh, a smile as bright and innocent as when he was little. "What are you thinking about, Yanyan? I mean, do you want me to kill Wen Rui?"

Xie Yun hurriedly said, "Of course not, what nonsense are you talking about!"

Yan Huinan's smile froze. He lowered his eyes and asked aggrievedly, "Is it because she's Wen Yao's sister that you won't allow it? Is she that important to you? Is she more important to you than me and my son?"

He really didn't talk so much before.

She kept muttering to herself... as if she owed him tens of thousands of taels of silver.

"What's so good about Wen Yao? Is it just because he's younger and stronger than me? What's better about him than me?" Yan Huinan became increasingly shameless. He hugged Xie Yun, "Yan Yan, I just look unwell, but actually..."

"Yan Huinan, if you don't shut up, I'll cut off your tongue and feed it to the dogs."

Yan Huinan immediately stopped and huddled into the quilt, covering both him and Xie Yun with the quilt, as if he had found a treasure and wanted to protect it tightly.

"What exactly do you think human life is?" Xie Yun asked. "Do you have to kill people to solve everything? You should be the one who knows the value of life the most."

Her voice was low, filled with a sense of pity and sadness. In fact, this was a deliberate boundary she drew between herself and Yan Huinan.

She knew what she was saying would hit Yan Huinan hardest. She knew Yan Huinan's weaknesses best. So she deliberately used these words to sting Yan Huinan, to make him think there was an insurmountable difference between them.

She met Yan Huinan's surprised and uncomfortable eyes, her eyes firm and stubborn, as if saying to him: Look, I don't understand anything you do now, even if what you say or do seems to be for my good, I don't understand it either.

Don't come near me anymore, Yan Huinan.

Let’s not have any more contact, Yan Huinan.

But Yan Huinan just closed his eyes and slowly hugged her.

He said to her, "You know, I'm the worst person, the most selfish, and the most unreasonable. Don't try to reason with me, Yanyan. In my eyes, all the lives in this world are not as valuable as yours. I just said that as a joke, but if the Wen family really hurts you, I will do what I say."

He was clearly just holding Xie Yun gently and tenderly in his arms, and speaking in such a calm tone, but it seemed to have an unstoppable force, violently knocking down the high wall in Xie Yun's heart, rushing in savagely, and telling her.

You are the most important person in the world, no one can compare to you.

Xie Yun was so shocked that she couldn't muster up the heart to say anything for a moment.

But she suddenly wanted to ask, Yan Huinan, what were you doing six years ago?

Why weren't you like this six years ago?

Do you have to lose something before you can gain something? Or is it just because you feel that after revenge, you have nothing to worry about, and I become the most important thing?

So actually I am not the most precious one, it’s just that at this moment, you seem to need me more, and what you promised happens to be what you can easily give within your power, so that’s why you said that, right?

Xie Yun had countless questions in her mind that she wanted to ask, but if she asked them at this moment, would she be able to get the most sincere answer from Yan Huinan?

On the other side, Yan Huinan closed his eyes peacefully. He was worried that Xie Yun would struggle again, so he said to her, "Don't worry, Yanyan, I won't do anything to you tonight. I just want to hug you tightly."

He was really sleepy. He hadn't rested for too long. His tense nerves and body finally relaxed at this moment.

Seeing him fall asleep, Xie Yun tried to break free, but even if he fell asleep, Xie Yun couldn't open his arms.

After trying hard but to no avail, she gave up struggling. She was too tired and eventually fell into a deep sleep.

It wasn't until Yan Huinan clearly heard Xie Yun's shallow and regular breathing after she fell asleep that he gently opened his eyes. He looked at her deeply, gazing at her peaceful sleeping face in silence.

He is only this well behaved when he is asleep.

I won't say anything that will hurt him.

Human life was precious, of course, but what did the lives of others have to do with him? He didn't really care. Everyone had their own destiny, and heaven hadn't shown mercy to him. He just wanted to tie his heart to this stubborn tree.

Even in the harshest weather, he only wanted to stay by her side, guarding this tree. Through the years, he was determined to stay here for the rest of his life. Being by her side was the last piece of pure land in his life.

The night was dark. He leaned over gently and placed a kiss on Xie Yun's forehead before he fell asleep contentedly holding her in his arms.

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When she woke up, she opened her eyes and saw Yan Huinan looking at her with a smile.

After Xie Yun regained consciousness, she realized that she was in Wen Yao's yard! Outside the house were all the Wen family's servants!

She sat up suddenly and checked her clothes. Fortunately, they were all intact.

I only heard the person behind me laugh and say, "Are you so worried about me? Yanyan, I said I won't do anything to you, and I will keep my word. To you, I am the most trustworthy person."

Xie Yun rolled his eyes in his heart and started talking nonsense.

She warned him, "You'd better know how to get out of this yard quietly."

Yan Huinan couldn't help coughing twice, then immediately put on his rogue look and said, "I'm a human, not a god. There are so many people outside, I really don't know how to sneak out."

After saying that, he also sat up, moved closer to Xie Yun, and asked in a low voice: "Besides, am I someone who is shady? After all, I was once the God of War of the Great Zhou, and now the Regent. The whole Great Zhou should thank me for keeping the Great Zhou safe and sound for so many years. I have been upright and honest since I was young. Why should I be so secretive? Hmm? Yanyan, tell me..."

Xie Yun looked at him as a rogue at this moment, with her brows deeply furrowed. She had never seen anyone so shameless.

She was thinking about how to fight back when she heard someone talking outside.

A childish voice came, "Sister, is my father here?"

The maid in this courtyard didn't recognize the little kid who suddenly appeared, so she asked, "Who is your father?"

It’s Yan Lang!

The corners of Yan Huinan's lips curled up, and just as he was about to speak, Xie Yun covered his mouth with her hand. She gritted her teeth and said, "Don't make a sound!"

As she spoke, she randomly found a box that was brought in to store her clothes, but not all of her clothes had been brought in, so the box was almost empty.

She opened the box and ordered Yan Huinan to go in.

Yan Huinan was about to open his mouth to argue when Xie Yun glared back at him.

Finally, he looked at his son through the window with heartache, looked at Xie Yun with grievance, and finally looked at the narrow and cramped box helplessly, and reluctantly stepped in.

It is unbelievable that he, the regent, who used to sneer at the throne offered to him, now has to squeeze into such a small box.

Just as he was about to cough, Xie Yun's warning look forced him back. He could only cover his mouth with his hands and coughed twice with great restraint.

"Yan Yan..."

Before he could finish his words, Xie Yun mercilessly closed the box. To prevent him from escaping, she even locked the box, and simply pulled out one of her own wooden hairpins and pressed it against the edge of the box, leaving a gap for air to pass through.

"You stay inside first."

Yan Huinan's voice came through the box. It was muffled, with a heavy sense of barrier, and even felt a little distant: "Then don't forget to come back and let me out."

After Xie Yun finished speaking, he turned around and walked out, glancing back at the box as he left.

After sending everyone away, she would come and open the box and let him out. It should be fine in a short while.

The box was actually very big, and Yan Huinan had no problem sitting inside and sleeping against the box.

As soon as Xie Yun left, Yan Lang spotted her and rushed over to hug her in surprise, "Boss Yun, does your leg still hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt anymore. Thank you for last night. Lang'er was like a little hero~" Xie Yun picked him up.

She had never held a child before, and although Yan Lang didn't look fat, he felt heavy to her. But holding him also gave her a sense of security.

Sure enough, Yan Lang smiled happily when he heard this. He looked into the room again and asked Xie Yun doubtfully, "Is my father here?"

Xie Yun denied it without even thinking, "Your father? No, he's not here."

Yan Lang frowned, "But father is not in our yard either. Where did he go?"

"Maybe your father went out for something."

Yan Lang continued, "But in the past, father would always tell Lang'er where he was going. If he couldn't tell her in person, he would leave a letter for her. But father didn't tell her last night. Lang'er couldn't find him..."

As he spoke, Yan Lang began to panic. The more he thought about it, the more serious it became. He curled his lips and looked like he was about to cry. "...But, but where is father? Doesn't he want Lang'er anymore?"

Xie Yun quickly said, "No, no."

"Will you take me to find my father?"

Xie Yun originally wanted to trick Lang'er over, then dismiss the servants, and then let Yan return to the south.

But now Lang'er refused to leave. If she took him here to find Yan Huinan, and lied to her son and was exposed, wouldn't that be very bad?

Xie Yun had no choice but to ask the servants not to go in to clean up, and she took Yan Lang for a walk outside. She would find an excuse to come back and let Yan Huinan out.

Yan Lang was happy to be with his mother, and he also felt that something must be wrong with his father. Sometimes when he was at home, his father would go to the secret room without telling him.

Because every time my father came out of the secret room, he was in great pain.

Lang'er knew that his father didn't want him to worry about him.

So he kept talking to Xie Yun along the way, telling her about the interesting things he had done when he went out to play, and the times when he was in school and was praised by the teacher for his good grades, and he was showing off to Xie Yun.

Xie Yun was also very curious about what happened during Lang'er's growth.

Until I walked into the garden and heard the servants gossiping.

"I heard that the eldest son was beaten in prison?"

"It seems so. Madam and Master are at the county government office right now. I wonder if money alone can bring him back."

"County Lieutenant Cao is truly greedy. Half of his purse is supported by our Wen family, yet now he is so ungrateful! He is truly a fallen tiger being bullied by a dog!"

Xie Yun walked up and asked, "What did you say? Who told you?"

The two servants shook their heads quickly and said, "No, no, we didn't say anything." Then they fled.

Xie Yun immediately ordered someone to prepare a sedan chair and rushed to the county government office.

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