Chapter 129 Pei Jingyan's Scheming Exposed
Hearing this, Shen Lai blinked, "Old man?"
Butler Sun nodded and said, "The car to pick you up is already outside."
Shen Lai turned his head and saw a black Bentley parked outside the yard.
Why did the old man suddenly want to see her?
Although Shen Lai was confused, she didn't think too much about it. She went upstairs to change her clothes and followed the bodyguards waiting outside out.
Arriving at the old house, Mr. Pei was planting vegetables in the yard. Shen Lai took the initiative to call out, "Grandpa."
Hearing the sound, Mr. Pei turned around and saw Shen Lai. He smiled and put down the hoe in his hand, "The girl from the Shen family is here."
Shen Lai smiled and said, "I heard you were looking for me, is there something wrong?"
Mr. Pei took the handkerchief handed to him by the housekeeper and wiped his hands. "What else could it be? I heard that something happened to you some time ago, and they kept it a secret from me. If your mother-in-law hadn't accidentally let it slip yesterday, I would still be in the dark."
At that time, Shen Lai was surprised that the old man did not come to visit Pei Jingyan when he was injured. It turned out that the people in the Pei family did not tell the old man Pei.
She tried to smooth things over, "Mom and Dad didn't tell you because they were worried you'd get upset."
Mr. Pei snorted lightly, obviously not buying it. "How are you? Are you seriously injured?"
Shen Lai smiled and said, "I'm fine, just a little injured."
"I heard that Jing Yan was seriously injured?"
Hearing this, Shen Lai's back stiffened. She bit her lip and said with self-blame, "He ended up like that just to save me."
Mr. Pei didn't take it to heart: "He's a grown man, if he can't even protect his own wife, he will be laughed at if the news gets out."
Seeing Shen Lai lowering his eyes with a guilty expression, Mr. Pei comforted him: "You don't have to blame yourself. He is your husband and it is his duty to protect you."
Shen Lai couldn't help but think of what Pei Jingyan said in the warehouse.
Pei Jingyan was not doing this for her, but for the baby in her belly.
If she hadn't been pregnant at the time, Pei Jingyan might not have come at all.
At this time, Mr. Pei looked around and said, "By the way, that kid didn't come with you?"
Shen Lai came back to his senses and explained, "Pei Jingyan is on a business trip."
"No wonder he didn't follow you this time." Old Master Pei joked, "If it were any other time, that guy would have come to kill us long ago."
Shen Lai felt a little guilty.
Her relationship with Pei Jingyan was not as good as Mr. Pei imagined.
Looking at Mr. Pei drinking tea leisurely, Shen Lai hesitated for a moment and said, “Grandpa, do you mind the situation in my family?”
Even Pei Jingyan's parents had some complaints, let alone someone like Old Master Pei, who should have been even more opposed.
Old Master Pei waved his hand and said, "I'm old and can't care so much. As long as Jing Yan likes it, that's all that matters."
Shen Lai's palms tightened, "What if he doesn't like me?"
Old Master Pei laughed heartily. "How could he not like you? He wanted me to help him get past his parents when he wanted to marry you."
Shen Lai's body suddenly stiffened, and he slowly raised his head to look at Mr. Pei, "What?"
Mr. Pei didn't notice her strange expression and continued, "That guy said he's liked you for a long time, and now that he finally has the chance, he told me to help him marry you."
"Look, when he heard about your family's trouble, he immediately dropped out of school and came back from abroad. Before that, no matter how I called him, he refused to come back."
Shen Lai's head was buzzing. Mr. Pei's words were like a rolling snowball that hit her heart without warning, and even her breathing stopped.
Pei Jingyan has liked her for a long time?
How is that possible?
At this moment, Shen Lai's mind suddenly flashed with what Huo Chilin said that night, "Pei Jingyan admitted it himself. He has liked you for a long time, and he had planned to marry you all along!"
Thinking about what Mr. Pei said, Shen Lai felt the blood in his body coagulate little by little, and his whole body was cold.
She couldn't help but think about why Pei Jingyan appeared in the hotel so coincidentally on the night she was drugged, and why he saved her so coincidentally?
Maybe it wasn't a coincidence, Pei Jingyan had been following her all the time.
Shen Lai slowly raised his head and looked at Mr. Pei, his lips trembling uncontrollably, "Grandpa, can I ask you something?"
Mr. Pei waved his palm-leaf fan and said, "Ask."
Shen Lai's throat rolled, "You said that you would give Pei Jingyan the position of heir after he got married. Is this true?"
Mr. Pei looked at her doubtfully, "Heir?"
Shen Lai clenched his fingertips and nodded.
Mr. Pei looked at her with a strange look in his eyes. "That guy took over the Pei Group a long time ago. Didn't he tell you?"
There was a "boom" in Shen Lai's ears and his body froze in place.
In other words, Pei Jingyan had already obtained the inheritance rights, but he had been deceiving himself.
Shen Lai could no longer hear the rest of the words. She didn't know how she got out of the old house. She returned to the villa as if she had lost her soul.
When Butler Sun saw her come back, he took the initiative to ask, "Miss Shen, are we having dinner now?"
Shen Lai acted as if he didn't hear anything, walked straight past Butler Sun and went upstairs.
Butler Sun looked puzzled as he watched Shen Lai's figure disappear around the corner of the stairs, scratching his head curiously.
Shen Lai returned to the room and fell on the bed exhausted. The words that Grandpa Pei said kept ringing in his ears. It felt like countless things were squeezed together in his head, and it was about to explode.
Pei Jingyan has liked her for a long time.
Then why didn’t Pei Jingyan confess when she asked him last time?
In a trance, Shen Lai seemed to be struck by lightning. Suddenly she remembered something and sat up suddenly from the bed. Without even having time to put on her slippers, she hurried out of the room.
A minute later, Shen Lai came to the bottom of the attic panting.
She raised her head and looked at the closed door in front of her, her eyes filled with complexity.
She remembered that when she first moved here, Butler Sun specifically reminded her that Pei Jingyan would not allow anyone to enter this room.
And the last time she almost accidentally broke into the attic, Pei Jingyan's reaction was also very strange.
What kind of shameful things are inside that even an old man like Butler Sun, who has been with Pei Jingyan for so long, cannot enter?
Shen Lai clenched his fingertips and turned to go to Pei Jingyan's room.
Since Pei Jingyan didn't let anyone approach the attic, the room key could only be in his hands.
After searching the room for a while, Shen Lai finally found the key in the drawer.
It was a single key, lying quietly in an exquisite velvet box.
This is enough to show how much importance Pei Jingyan attaches to it.
Shen Lai returned to the attic with the key. She mustered up the courage to walk up the stairs and stopped at the door.
Looking at the closed door in front of him, Shen Lai took a deep breath and inserted the key.
As the key turned to the right, the door opened with a click.
Shen Lai reached out, pushed open the door, and slowly walked into the room.
The light in the attic was dim and nothing could be seen clearly. The only sound one could hear was the slight rustling sound of corners colliding with each other.
Shen Lai subconsciously turned on the light on the wall, and the sudden glare of the light made her subconsciously close her eyes.
After finally getting used to the light, Shen Lai slowly lowered her arms. When she saw what was in front of her clearly, her eyes widened in shock.
This place looks like a large photo room, with densely packed photos of Shen Lai hanging on the walls on all sides.
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