“No, my dear wife, it’s my fault. The Guo family has treated you badly. I’m your husband, and I should protect you. They got to this point because of their own actions. I can’t sympathize with them in front of you; that wouldn’t be fair to you.”
Qin Zheng hurriedly explained.
He was afraid Ye Yun would be angry, so while explaining, he held Ye Yun's small hand tightly in his large palm.
Ye Yun leaned on his shoulder and could even hear his heartbeat quickening with nervousness, which made her laugh out loud again.
"Look how scared you are."
She couldn't help but reach out and touch the back of Qin Zheng's head, sighed, and leaned completely into his arms.
"Qin Zheng, I wouldn't be angry if you went to help Guo Lili..."
From the perspective of her past life, Guo Lili always added fuel to the fire when Li Xiuying bullied her; she was indeed not a good person.
Looking back now, Guo Lili's adding fuel to the fire was nothing more than a young woman's petty squabbles.
Li Xiuying's bullying and cowardly nature meant that even without Guo Lili's instigation, no one would have a shred of kindness towards her.
She didn't know Guo Lili's final fate in her previous life. She only remembered that when she first married Qin Zheng, Guo Lili stayed at home for a while before returning to school.
Whether she went back to school or hung out with Wang Dong remains unknown.
In this life, Guo Lili hadn't had a chance to cause her any real harm. The only time she tried to steal her dress was when Qin Zheng caught her and gave her a beating.
From a woman's perspective, she didn't want to see a young girl being tricked into a dangerous situation by thugs.
"..."
Qin Zheng fell silent.
Perhaps he was also hesitant, wondering if that willful, ignorant girl was still the same little girl who used to follow him around calling him "brother," and whether she was worthy of him risking getting himself tainted to pull her out of the swamp.
If he ever interferes in Guo Lili's affairs, then he'll never be able to escape the Guo family's influence again.
Li Xiuying is such a shameless person. If she finds out that Qin Zheng can't let go of Guo Lili, she might use Guo Lili to try and get on Qin Zheng's good side.
Then Li Xiuying will become a pest again.
They had finally managed to sever ties with Li Xiuying, and this time when they returned home, Li Xiuying didn't try to curry favor with them for the first time.
He remained silent, and so did Ye Yun.
She simply lay quietly in the man's arms, leaning on his shoulder, listening to his strong heartbeat, playing with her long hair, and merging into silence with him.
Just then, there was a knock on the door.
Knock knock—
"Who is it?" Ye Yun lifted her head from Qin Zheng's arms and called out towards the door.
Through the door, Qin Xiang'e's voice came from outside: "Xiao Yun, I cut some fruit for you, shall I bring it in?"
Previously, Qin Xiang'e always called Ye Yun "wife" using the term from their hometown. After moving to the city, Mu Jingsheng disliked the term for Ye Yun and made Qin Xiang'e call her by Ye Yun's name along with them.
Mu Jingsheng thought that his daughter had her own name, so what kind of behavior was it to keep calling someone else's daughter-in-law?
"Oh, here it comes."
Ye Yun felt it was inappropriate to remain sitting in Qin Zheng's lap any longer, so she got up to open the door for Qin Xiang'e.
Qin Xiang'e carried the fruit platter into the room.
"These are apples that your father had specially sent back from outside. It's not the season for fruit to ripen now. I heard that off-season fruit is quite expensive. You should try them."
Ye Yun replied, "Okay."
After putting down the fruit plate, Qin Xiang'e did not leave. Instead, she looked at Qin Zheng, who was still thinking about something on the balcony, with a hint of worry that she could not hide.
"Xiaoyun, can I say a few words to Zhengzi?" She smiled gently, looking at Ye Yun with a questioning gaze.
Ye Yun knew what she wanted to say.
Hearing the commotion, Qin Zheng turned to look in this direction. Ye Yun nodded and made way for Qin Xiang'e to go to the balcony.
"Zhengzi, are you still thinking about the Guo family's affairs?"
Qin Xiang'e rushed onto the balcony, her steps hurried, as if she were anxious to stop something from happening.
"Aunt," Qin Zheng called out.
Qin Xiang'e nodded quickly, pulled up a stool and sat down opposite Qin Zheng, a gentle smile on her face: "Are you thinking about that girl from the Guo family? Do you want to help her?"
Qin Zheng pursed his lips.
His silence suggested that he hadn't thought things through yet, but he would most likely help, since he didn't deny it immediately.
Qin Xiang'e naturally noticed this as well.
The smile gradually faded from her face. She sighed and said, "Zhengzi, it's not that I'm heartless, but I really don't want you to get involved in this matter. You and your wife finally managed to get rid of Li Xiuying. If you get entangled with that Guo family girl again, your lives will be very difficult."
"Besides, the Guo family's little girl is not even twenty yet. If she really clings to you, she could pester you for the rest of her life."
Qin Xiang'e's face grew increasingly worried as she spoke, and she continued, "And her biological father and those two brothers, they all went to prison because of you and your wife. Her twin brother has now become a scoundrel. She doesn't hate you now because of your status, but who can guarantee that one day someone will instigate her and she will hate you and your wife? What if that threatens your safety?"
"Like your wife's younger sister, she's not even twenty years old yet, but she already has such ruthless methods and thoughts. How dangerous is that?"
Qin Xiang'e used to think that teenagers couldn't cause any real trouble, but after witnessing Ye Xue's ruthlessness, she realized that teenagers already had the potential to become demons.
Qin Zheng lowered his head and remained silent.
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