"ah?"
"Assistant Zhao..."
Wen Jingyi hesitated for a moment, opened her mouth and silently looked away.
The two were speechless. She pinched her palms guiltily, regretting that she was caught off guard and failed to react immediately.
Since I'm Mo Yunfan's girlfriend, it's okay for me to get closer to his assistant...
But having missed the initial opportunity, explaining it now would only make the matter more obvious.
She coughed lightly and asked, "Why do you ask that? Am I affecting your work?"
"nothing."
Mo Yunfan looked at her deeply and said calmly, "I saw him grab a cup of coffee and asked casually."
Upon hearing this, Wen Jingyi said "hmm" slowly and thoughtfully, and lightly bit the soft flesh in her mouth.
Why did it sound so wrong when Mo Yunfan said it...
She was clearly bribing Assistant Zhao in a legitimate way, but when her real boyfriend Mo Yunfan said it out loud, she felt something was amiss.
It seems that it is not a bribe, but he was caught cheating.
Wen Jingyi quickly became serious and shook off the strange thoughts in her mind. She was so upset by herself that her face turned black.
It's just contact with his assistant, there's nothing to feel guilty about.
Wen Jingyi's expression remained normal, and she smiled slightly as she said, "It's just that I don't know how to ask you directly about some things, so I'm going to ask your assistant for your opinion first."
"What are you talking about?" Mo Yunfan asked in a deep voice, his dark and deep eyes falling on Wen Jingyi's eyes.
"After all, my adoptive parents died a violent death. I don't know if you would mind this."
She spoke sternly, pursed her lips, and looked directly into Mo Yunfan's eyes, her tone firm: "Although I was adopted, they are the most important people to me. I will not allow anyone to say anything bad about my adoptive parents."
"If," Wen Jingyi paused and said seriously, "I mean if."
"If I knew that there were people who were involved in the truth behind my parents' death, or cared about their existence, I would not let my adoptive parents down for these people."
If she found out that Mo Yunfan was really the one who killed his adoptive parents...
Wen Jingyi will definitely avenge the two of them personally.
She was frightened by her own guess, but quickly calmed down and looked at Mo Yunfan with cold and distant eyes, as if the distance between them was suddenly widened.
Mo Yunfan continued to look at Wen Jingyi deeply with an incomprehensible gaze.
Finally, he sighed silently, raised his hand to cover Wen Jingyi's eyes, blocking her increasingly hostile gaze.
"alright."
"If you want to know what I know about this matter, you can just ask me directly."
Through his palm, Wen Jingyi couldn't tell whether he was sincere.
Her eyelids trembled, and her eyelashes scraped against Mo Yunfan's palm like a small fan.
Wen Jingyi was surprised: "What do you really know?"
Mo Yunfan's tone suddenly softened. The corners of his lips curved slightly, and he quickly withdrew his hand. He sighed and said, "Come have dinner with me this afternoon. Then I'll tell you everything you want to know."
"Really!" Hope lit up in Wen Jingyi's eyes.
She looked at the time. It was still noon. She had never been so excited as today and was eager to see the afternoon.
But at the same time, after the initial excitement wore off, Wen Jingyi's mood took a sharp turn for the worse like a roller coaster.
The truth of the matter...
Can I really accept it?
If it wasn't Mo Yunfan, who else could it be?
Or maybe... Zhou Jingrui had lied to her at the beginning, and Mo Yunfan had never appeared at all.
But no matter who says it, it is only one-sided.
There is neither evidence nor any clues left. Even if Mo Yunfan is about to say today, he cannot believe it completely.
A great sense of hopelessness enveloped Wen Jingyi.
The cause of death of my adoptive parents remains a mystery, and I can only fight alone. Can I really find the murderer by doing this alone?
Time passes by every second.
After arriving at the restaurant, Wen Jingyi was still uneasy.
The waiter brought the dishes one by one, and Wen Jingyi lowered her head and ate silently.
She didn't have much of an appetite, but needed to eat to digest and organize her thoughts. Before she knew it, the seafood feast had come to an end.
"This is today's dessert. The chef has developed a new dish that combines seafood fish roe and a little bit of salted egg yolk. Please enjoy your meal."
A bright and colorful dessert that looks very appetizing is served on the table.
Wen Jingyi took a deep breath and prepared to accept the truth from Mo Yunfan's mouth.
She raised her eyes and looked at Mo Yunfan seriously, but her gaze suddenly paused and fell on his clean tableware.
The warm water at hand is now mostly gone.
"Don't you like to eat?" she asked subconsciously.
Mo Yunfan didn't hide it. He looked up and said, "I'm allergic to seafood. I've hardly eaten seafood since I was a child."
"Can……"
"I know you like it."
He smiled and soothed her, "Don't feel guilty, it's just a meal. I hope you're happy."
"Then you," Wen Jingyi put down the dessert and said hesitantly, "Let's go out and eat something else first. We can talk after you finish eating."
“No need.”
He lowered his eyes to look into Wen Jingyi's and repeated, "It's just a meal. What's important to me is not the meal, but who I'm with."
Wen Jingyi's heart suddenly felt upset.
She lowered her head, pursed her lips and looked at the dessert in front of her, took a deep breath silently, and her palms clenched.
It has been a long time since my heart felt this warm.
In fact, after being together for so long, Wen Jingyi has never told Mo Yunfan anything about her preferences.
What's more, the other party didn't ask.
But unexpectedly, Mo Yunfan would discover this matter at some point and keep it in mind.
Wen Jingyi had long been accustomed to her previous life in the Wen family.
Being ignored was common there, and she understood one thing very early on: she could not hold anyone responsible for her preferences.
The Wen family didn't even know that Wen Jingyi was severely allergic to nuts.
Even every dessert at home would be topped with chopped nuts to cater to Bai Mengqiu's "preferences".
However, Wen Jingyi clearly remembered that when she first arrived at the Wen family, Bai Mengqiu never ate high-calorie foods such as nuts. He would even laugh at others eating melon seeds, saying that they had vulgar taste and looked like the aunties at the village entrance.
As for why I suddenly "liked" eating...
That was after Bai Mengqiu discovered that she was allergic to nuts.
That's ridiculous.
The only person in the Wen family who remembered this incident was Bai Mengqiu.
Wen Jingyi's eyes were sore. She chuckled softly, then suddenly looked up at Mo Yunfan and said with relief, "You're not saying this just to change the subject, are you?"
Mo Yunfan chuckled silently and said helplessly, "Okay, I'll tell you now, I did meet your adoptive parents back then."
He watched the color drain from Wen Jingyi's face in an instant.
Then he said slowly: "Back then, your adoptive parents saved me."
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