Chapter 152 An Ning is Jiang Zhi?
The ancient city by the sea is dotted with colorful little lanterns, twinkling like the twinkling stars in the sky. On the steps are rows of bamboo and rattan chairs for watching the sea and drinking tea.
An Ning and Lu Xiyan sat side by side. She held a cup of local specialty milk tea and looked at a small boat on the sparkling sea in the distance that was about to disappear in the darkness, as if she saw the lonely and helpless self she once was.
She spoke softly, "Xi Yan, there is something I have never told you."
Lu Xiyan turned to look at her. The evening breeze blew her long hair, and her fair and delicate profile looked particularly beautiful in the flickering lights.
"On that rainy night six years ago, you held an umbrella for me and I asked you if you could marry me. That was the first time I desperately wanted to hold on to someone, one of the few people in my life who had given me warmth and tenderness."
An Ning had a faint smile on her lips. She turned her head and met Lu Xiyan's gentle eyes. "My life at that time was a bottomless abyss, but you appeared and saved me. The unrestrained and youthful spirit in you was the light that I could not touch in my stagnant life."
Her gentle voice penetrated into Lu Xiyan's heart bit by bit. He certainly knew how difficult her life was at that time.
She is like a very tenacious grass, struggling tenaciously to take root in the wind and rain.
It was this tenacity that allowed him to see the diversity of life.
"On the day we got our marriage certificate, you asked me why I wanted to marry you. I told you that my parents were urging me to get married and arranged blind dates for me to get married, but I didn't want to get married, so I chose to marry you to avoid this matter." An Ning smiled lightly, "Actually, I lied to you."
Lu Xiyan looked at her smile. It was clearly a smile, but there was an indescribable bitterness in it.
"The real reason is that they forced me to get married for the 200,000 yuan betrothal gift." An Ning's eyes dimmed slightly, but a smile still appeared on the corner of her mouth.
Six years ago, she didn't tell Lu Xiyan about this because of her deep-seated pride and fear that the other party would look down on her.
She looked into Lu Xiyan's deep eyes, her voice trembling, "Because I'm not their biological child, they bought me for three thousand yuan, so they think I should sell myself to repay their kindness."
Hearing this, Lu Xiyan's expression froze, with undisguised surprise in his eyes.
In addition, there is heartache.
"I'm not from the An family. Maybe my real name isn't even An Ning." An Ning smiled bitterly, "But I don't know what my real name is either."
An Ning never talked about these things, not even when they were in love six years ago.
Lu Xiyan only knew that her family atmosphere was not healthy, and was even abnormal.
He had been back with her several times and had dealt with both Li Chunfang and An Tianhua. Although he had not yet entered the business world, he had been influenced by them since childhood and had the ability to judge people at a glance.
Especially for someone like An Tianhua who is addicted to gambling and drinking, the interests in his eyes are clearly written behind the laughter and greetings.
But Lu Xiyan never cared at that time. He had only one idea, which was to take An Ning out of that home and give her a complete home again.
I thought about it and did it.
Therefore, An Tianhua asked him for money several times in the name of his daughter, ranging from 100,000 to 200,000, and Lu Xiyan gave them all. Later, he asked for 2 million.
At that time, Lu Xiyan left the Lu family and made money by racing. When he used the two million he won from the racing to pay off An Tianhua's gambling debts, he said to him: Considering that you are An Ning's biological father, this is the last time, don't look for her again.
And An Ning never knew these things.
Lu Xiyan only now realized that it was only because they spent three thousand yuan to buy her that they felt at ease becoming vampires.
He looked into An Ning's eyes, his heartache almost overflowing.
He stood up, walked over to her, squatted down, took her wrist and looked up at her.
His fingertips gently rubbed the small, black mole on the inside of her left wrist. After a moment's silence, he asked, "Where did your parents buy you? When and where?"
An Ning lowered her eyes and met his, and the loneliness in her heart seemed to have found a point of support.
She said, "Twenty-three years ago, in Jinghai, a man sold me to them."
Speaking of this, she breathed heavily, "My mother just called me and said she met that man. The man said he picked me up in Dianhai. Maybe I am from Dianhai."
"Xiyan." She looked at Lu Xiyan, "Is this really my hometown? But I don't know anything. I don't even remember whether I got lost on my own or whether my biological parents didn't want me."
In the dark night, she seemed to be surrounded by a thick cloud of uneasiness and sadness.
Lu Xiyan kept his head raised, his deep gaze fixed on her fair face. He held her wrists with both hands, slightly increasing the strength.
"Ningning."
He spoke, and his usually clear and cold voice had a hint of indescribable hoarseness.
"Um?"
As soon as An Ning responded, he pulled her up and held her in his arms. His kiss fell on her earlobe, and he saw the bright red mole at a glance.
An Ning was a little dazed, not knowing why he suddenly kissed her, and thought he felt sorry for her.
The next second, a warm palm pressed against her lower back, and slender fingers caressed the area just above her waist through her thin clothes.
His hoarse voice rang in her ears, "Ningning, there's a faint crescent mark here on you. Do you know how it got there?"
He was more familiar with the marks on An Ning's body than she was herself, which did not surprise her at all. What surprised her was why he suddenly asked this.
"I don't remember." An Ning raised her head and rested her chin on his shoulder. "My mom said I had it when I was a child. It was like a birthmark, light in color and not very obvious, so I never asked about it in detail."
After An Ning finished speaking, she heard Lu Xiyan's heavy and powerful heartbeat, which was very different from usual.
"What's wrong? Why are you asking this suddenly?" Her hands gently climbed onto his back and patted him gently.
“Ningning.
Lu Xiyan hugged her tightly and said in a low voice, "Have you ever thought that you might be the daughter of the Jiang couple?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the person in his arms suddenly stiffened.
An Ning's breathing and heartbeat seemed to stop, and the color on her face quickly faded.
Lu Xiyan hugged her tighter. "Aunt Jiang told me about the missing girl's characteristics, and you have every one of them."
He originally thought it was a coincidence, until he heard her say that she was bought by the An family. He became more certain that the daughter who was lost by the Jiang couple 23 years ago was most likely An Ning!
If Lu Xiyan hadn't been holding her, An Ning's legs would have been so weak that she would have been unable to stand.
Twenty-three years ago, Dianhai people, a lost girl...
It seems that she meets all these conditions and is the daughter of the Jiang couple.
But she never thought that the biological parents she was looking for were Professor Jiang Pei and Professor Kong Yiyun!
But she did have an inexplicable sense of familiarity with this place, and some vague images in her subconscious told her that she seemed to have been to Qichuan.
She suddenly remembered the fragmented dream she had on the first night she arrived in Qichuan City.
The woman in the dream, the man talking...
The experiment done...
And that "Xiaozhi"?
"That, that..." An Ning started, choking and stuttering inexplicably, "What's that girl's name?"
"Jiang Zhi." Lu Xiyan whispered in her ear, "Ningning, your name is Jiang Zhi."
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