The old lady fainted, without any warning.
The exclamations from Jiang An, the voices of Shen Yu and Xi Yuan in the living room made Shen Lin stop in his tracks once again.
He wanted to chase after Ye Xinning, but the person who fainted was his grandmother, one of the most important people in his life. How could he abandon his grandmother?
Shen Lin told himself that Ye Xinning was furious at the moment, and chasing after her would not make any difference.
He decided to let her calm down first. He took his grandmother to the hospital and waited until she was feeling better before going to see her. By then, she would have calmed down.
They can also sit down and have a calm and peaceful conversation.
That was the best time.
At that moment, Shen Lin thought he had made the right decision, but what he didn't know was that this decision would later cause him to regret it for the rest of his life.
...
After leaving the Shen family, Ye Xinning did not drive; she walked alone on the street outside.
The thought of her cherished bracelet, which she had kept in her heart for so many years, being broken caused her unbearable heartache.
What she found even more unacceptable was Shen Lin's attitude. She cared so much about the bracelet because it was a gift from him, but Shen Lin's attitude just now showed no concern whatsoever.
Thinking of the insulting words that Grandma Chen Lin said, the pain intensified.
To say that Shen Lin was protecting her is an overstatement; just now in the living room, he let his grandmother say those nasty things.
To say that Shen Lin didn't protect her is an overstatement; however, his harsh words to the old lady later on were undeniably true.
Ye Xinning didn't know how to think about her relationship with Shen Lin, but she just felt uneasy, and she couldn't control it.
Shen Lin only thinks about her and slanders her from her own perspective, even though that person is clearly Shen Lin herself, Shen Lin still can't believe her.
Light snow was falling from the sky. Ye Xinning looked up at the boundless sky and felt only sorrow in her heart.
A sense of bewilderment she had never felt before was brewing within her. She didn't know what to do at that moment. For the first time, she felt that no matter how hard she tried, some things were destined to be.
The snow in the sky was getting heavier and heavier, and Ye Xinning's hair was gradually turned white by the heavy snow.
She walked along the road as if she had no intuition, like a soulless corpse.
She had been walking for an unknown amount of time when a car stopped in front of her.
She stopped in her tracks. In that instant, Ye Xinning felt a surge of anticipation, hoping that this person was Shen Lin.
Although she was very disappointed in Shen Lin, if Shen Lin caught up with her at this moment, it would mean that Shen Lin still wanted to continue with her, so she still had to consider it.
But the truth is often unexpected; the person who got out of the car was not Shen Lin.
Instead...
Huo Yanzhi.
Ye Xinning hadn't expected Huo Yanzhi to appear here. Looking at the person who had suddenly appeared, all the hope she had just had vanished completely, leaving her with nothing.
She continued walking, but after walking for so long in the snowy night, her body had long since lost all warmth. She had only been dressed lightly when she came out, and in just a short while, she began to cough several times in a row.
Huo Yanzhi strode forward and grasped her hand in a few steps.
"Where are you going? I'll take you."
Ye Xinning flung her hand away.
"I don't need you to deliver it." Her voice was extremely cold.
Huo Yanzhi frowned.
Why are you here?
She was not so foolish as to think that Huo Yanzhi was just taking a stroll here for no reason, given that this area was full of villas and she was appearing near the Shen family's residence so late at night.
"During the day, Shen Lin went to the Ye family."
Shen Lin went to the Ye family. The content of their conversation made Huo Yanzhi very worried about Ye Xinning, so after dinner he came to wait near the Shen family. After waiting for a while, he saw Ye Xinning come out of the Shen family alone.
Such despair, such unbearable grief.
He didn't know what Shen Lin had done to Ye Xinning, but from the moment Ye Xinning left the Shen family alone, he felt that his chance had come.
Upon hearing Huo Yanzhi say that Shen Lin had gone to the Ye family during the day, Ye Xinning knew without much thought what Shen Lin had gone to the Ye family to verify.
What did you say to him?
“I didn’t say anything; it was all his own speculation.”
Ye Xinning pursed her lips, her face devoid of any smile. "Do you think I would believe you if you said something like that to me? Huo Yanzhi, others may not know what kind of person you are, but do you think I don't? Even if you didn't say anything, you deliberately led Shen Lin to think in the worst possible direction. But that was your goal all along. Shen Lin will find out about me. You must have put in a lot of effort in that."
Huo Yanzhi's gaze gradually deepened. Shen Lin had said something similar, and at that moment he saw the exact same light in Ye Xinning's eyes as Shen Lin had.
"Get in the car first."
This is not the time to talk about these things, Huo Yanzhi took her hand again.
Ye Xinning still refused. She opened her mouth, her voice growing colder with each word, "How could you possibly think I would get in your car? Huo Yanzhi, I've said it before, there's no way we can ever reconcile in this lifetime. You killed my child."
She ignored him, and Huo Yanzhi didn't care either, simply picking her up in his arms without a second thought.
Ye Xinning was startled as her body dangled in mid-air.
"Huo Yanzhi, you're insane! Put me down!"
No matter how much she hit or made a scene, Huo Yanzhi seemed completely unaffected.
After leaving the person in the car, Huo Yanzhi got into the driver's seat and locked the car instantly.
Ye Xinning didn't even have a chance to open the car door and get out.
“If you don’t want to go to the Ye family’s house or stay in a hotel, then I’ll take you to your father’s house,” Huo Yanzhi said as he started the car.
Ye Xinning couldn't listen to anything anyone said. She just clutched the bag tightly in her hand, her cool gaze fixed on Huo Yanzhi.
"Huo Yanzhi, where I go is none of your business. I'll say it one last time: put me down."
Huo Yanzhi ignored what she said and drove the car toward the intended destination.
Seeing that he remained unmoved, Ye Xinning was completely discouraged.
She sat in the passenger seat, clutching the bag tightly in her hand. Huo Yanzhi wouldn't give up, and she had no way to leave.
Rather than struggling here, she'd rather wait for Huo Yanzhi to put her down.
As the car drove along, the passenger in the front seat suddenly fell silent, and Huo Yanzhi turned his head to look in that direction.
Ye Xinning lowered her head, her gaze fixed on the bag in her hand; it was clear that the contents were very important to her.
Huo Yanzhi suddenly became curious. From the moment he saw her, he had been clutching the bag tightly in her hand.
What's in that bag?
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