"Don't you want to talk about it?" she asked quietly. Compared to her previous agitation and loss of control, she was much calmer and had analyzed the situation a lot.
"Ningning, don't you know what kind of person I am? Why would I lie to you?"
Huo Yanzhi was smiling, his tone was gentle, and his words even carried a hint of doting. But Ye Xinning knew that this man was never gentle; the word "gentle" was not associated with him at all.
Her gaze was even colder than before. "Huo Yanzhi, do you think I wouldn't know if you didn't tell me?"
Huo Yanzhi remained remarkably calm, seemingly unmoved by anything she said.
Ye Xinning took a long breath and felt at ease.
"Fine, you don't want to tell me, right? Then I'll go ask Mu Yinjing. Compared to you, I think I have some ways to get her to talk."
After she finished speaking, she turned to leave, and behind her, Huo Yanzhi's voice rang out.
Are those past experiences important to you?
"I need to know whether it's important or not."
"I understand. But can this change the situation? Do you think Chen Lin will remember you?"
Huo Yanzhi's hatred for Shen Lin could be felt from the somber tone in his voice when he said those words.
He didn't understand why Shen Lin could win Ye Xinning's love. If we're talking about the order of events, he met Ye Xinning first. They were high school classmates, and Shen Lin only appeared in Ye Xinning's life later. Why did an unexpected encounter allow Shen Lin to reside in Ye Xinning's heart?
No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't win Ye Xinning's affections.
Everyone was telling him it was fate; from the moment Huo Qijun and Ye Rouxin got together, it was destined that he and Ye Xinning would never be together.
But what is fate? Huo Qijun has never believed in fate.
Thinking of this, Huo Yanzhi's gaze became even more somber than before.
Shen Lin is nothing more than a mortal; neither then nor now could he be a match for him.
Even if Shen Lin hadn't lost his memory before, it couldn't change anything, and it's even more impossible now.
Ye Xinning didn't pause because of Huo Yanzhi's words. She left the study without stopping. Huo Yanzhi was in a state of extreme madness and perversion, and she couldn't get any answers from him. Since that was the case, she would find Mu Yinjing. No matter what, she had to find out what really happened back then.
Thinking this, Ye Xinning walked straight downstairs, not expecting anything to happen, but unexpectedly she ran into Ye Rouxin and Huo Qijun in the living room.
Huo Qijun put his arm around Ye Rouxin as the two of them entered from outside. Their intimate and affectionate appearance stung Ye Xinning's eyes.
She stared intently at Ye Rouxin and Huo Qijun. This used to be her home; the person who walked in with her, standing beside her mother, wasn't Huo Qijun, but her father. Now, the same scene evoked completely different feelings. Now, she only felt…
Satire.
She didn't want to deal with the two of them and was about to leave when Ye Rouxin shouted, "Stop!"
Ye Xinning knew Ye Rouxin would act this way. Every time she was in front of Huo Qijun, Ye Rouxin always put her own imposing presence first.
She stopped, looked at Ye Rouxin, her gaze indifferent, and spoke almost emotionlessly, "May I ask, is there something you need?"
When Ye Rouxin came in, she was happy to see Ye Xinning had returned, but she was deeply hurt when she saw that Ye Xinning was leaving without saying a word to her.
"Don't you have any manners? Can't you even greet people when you see them?"
If you see someone, won't you call out?
Ye Xinning pondered the sentence repeatedly, finding it utterly ridiculous.
She looked up, her gaze falling on Ye Rouxin, but her words were directed at Huo Qijun, "Does Chairman Huo also think I'm impolite?"
As always, Huo Qijun smiled and smoothed things over, persuading Ye Rouxin not to be angry while telling her that Ye Rouxin did this because she missed her so much.
Seeing him trying so hard to mend the relationship between the mother and daughter, everyone would call him a model of a good stepfather.
Ye Xinning just smiled and said meaningfully, "I know I'm a little emotional, but there's nothing I can do. I really can't accept that a person with ulterior motives has taken away the happiness that belongs to me and my father."
No sooner had Ye Xinning finished speaking than Ye Rouxin's furious voice rang out from the living room, "Ye Xinning, shut up!"
Ye Xinning glanced at Ye Rouxin. She had experienced this scene countless times, but each time, she didn't want to hold back, and she couldn't truly keep quiet.
She spoke again, and her words were even harsher than before.
“Am I wrong? Isn’t he the one who destroyed my family? If it weren’t for him, would my father have left? If it weren’t for him, would so many random people have come to my house? If it weren’t for him, would I be in this situation now? What do you expect me to do? Respect him? Love him? Or call him Dad? Ha, I could never accept such a person as my father in this lifetime, unless I die.”
"Smack."
As Ye Xinning finished speaking, the sound of Ye Rouxin's slap echoed throughout the living room.
Ye Xinning stood there, stunned. At that moment, her most genuine reaction was one of bewilderment. She even forgot to cover her face. Ye Rouxin's slap was very hard, and her face swelled up instantly, but she just smiled gently.
As for Huo Qijun, after Ye Rouxin slapped her, Huo Qijun was first surprised, then came to her with concern, comforting her word by word, while pretending to talk about Ye Rouxin.
"You too, the child doesn't know any better, how could you hit her? Ningning, how are you? Are you alright?"
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