Ye Ningwan said.

"Because I really want to slap that woman!"

Jiang Yinglin opened his mouth, but couldn't utter a single word for a long time.

Ye Ningwan ignored his reaction and turned to continue walking forward.

After an unknown amount of time, Jiang Yinglin finally spoke with difficulty from behind.

"As expected of you."

Ye Ningwan's lips twitched, and for a moment she didn't know whether Jiang Yinglin was scolding her or praising her.

Ye Ningwan arrived at the bedroom and had just placed her hand on the doorknob when she suddenly turned her head and glanced at Jiang Yinglin, who was following closely behind her, raising an eyebrow.

What are you doing?

Jiang Yinglin pointed to himself, then to Ye Ningwan.

"I'll bring you back."

Ye Ningwan leaned against the door frame with one hand and said irritably.

"Now that you've delivered it, you can go."

After saying that, Ye Ningwan pushed open the bedroom door.

Jiang Yinglin reached out his hand.

"Hello……"

His response was the relentless slamming of the door by Ye Ningwan.

Bang!

The closed door nearly hit Jiang Yinglin's nose.

He covered his nose, pounded on the closed door a few times, and called out twice to Ye Ningwan inside.

"Ye Ningwan, you stay put! Don't cause any trouble for Ninth Master!"

Ye Ningwan stood in the bedroom, glanced back, rolled her eyes, and wondered when she had ever caused any trouble.

...

In the pitch-black solitary confinement cell, surrounded by walls on all four sides, the cramped space was filled with a faint smell of blood mixed with the musty odor caused by the extreme dampness.

Pei Fengzhi sat quietly in the confinement room, his eyes closed, his face calm and composed. He gently rolled each bead of the Buddhist prayer beads in his hand, one by one, at a very slow pace.

Suddenly, the door behind him creaked open.

A ray of light shone into the dark and silent confinement room, followed by the sound of light footsteps.

A figure walked in.

"Feng Zhi."

Grandpa Pei looked at Pei Fengzhi's thin, straight hand and sighed with a hint of helplessness.

Pei Fengzhi finally opened his eyes in the darkness, slowly turned his wheelchair, and met the old man Pei's aged yet warm face.

He showed no surprise, as if everything was under his control.

"You've arrived."

Grandpa Pei stood there, looking down at his youngest son sitting in a wheelchair, his half-cloudy eyes filled with a hint of confusion.

"What exactly do you want? You're not the kind of person who would suffer for a woman."

"Have you thought this through? If this happens today, it won't be long before everyone in the family hears about it. Don't you know how they'll look down on you then?"

After all, he was his precious son; how could Old Master Pei bear to see him suffer?

But Pei Fengzhi gently shook his head and said calmly.

"Since we're going to put on an act, we might as well go all the way and make people think that I'm really finished and can never make a comeback. That way, they'll feel at ease."

Old Master Pei sighed and looked at Pei Fengzhi.

“Although I’m an old man, I can still protect you. With me here, no one in the Pei family will dare to do anything to you, and you don’t need to…”

Pei Fengzhi chuckled softly.

“You know I’m not talking about the Pei family.”

Old Master Pei finally stopped talking, waved his hand at Pei Fengzhi with some disgust, and said in a low voice.

"Fine, fine, do whatever you want. You've always done whatever you wanted since you were a child. When have I ever been able to stop you?"

After saying this, Old Master Pei looked Pei Fengzhi up and down again, and said in an annoyed tone.

"It's damp here, I'll have someone bring you a blanket in a bit..."

Almost simultaneously, Pei Fengzhi's voice rang out.

"After we get out, I want to move out with Wanwan."

Before Old Master Pei could finish speaking, he was suddenly struck by this bolt from the blue and was caught off guard, so he roared angrily with a fierce expression.

"What did you say?"

“Pei Fengzhi, do you know what your situation is right now? You have just woken up from a vegetative state, and there are countless people outside who are eyeing your life.”

Do you know how much your head is worth on the dark web right now?

"You still dare to run away and live elsewhere? Are you out of your mind?!"

"..."

Pei Fengzhi did not refute, but waited for Old Master Pei to finish venting his anger on him before speaking.

"Don't worry, I'm lucky, I won't die."

Old Master Pei was furious at Pei Fengzhi's bachelor-like appearance and wanted to kick him, but when he saw Pei Fengzhi sitting in a wheelchair, he suddenly couldn't bring himself to do it and could only swallow all his anger.

He panted for a long time before giving Pei Fengzhi a disapproving look and saying something irritating.

"Even if you don't care about your own life, what about Wanwan? Don't you care about her even a little bit?"

Although he was reluctant to admit it, his son's feelings for Ye Ningwan were different from those of any other person before. Others might not be able to see it, but how could he, as her father, not see it?

But to everyone's surprise, Pei Fengzhi was completely unmoved this time.

"Wanwan probably doesn't like living in the main house either, and there are too many people and too much attention in the main house, so it's better to live outside where there are fewer people and less closeness."

"Have you forgotten about the assassination attempt a few days ago? Although that maid still refuses to tell the truth, you and I both know that her background is definitely not simple."

“If I stay in the main house, I will be surrounded by enemies. It would be safer for people to think that I have been exiled.”

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