"Are you afraid that I will tell her?" He Chengzhi suddenly raised his eyebrows and smiled, and said to Zhong Mingwei sarcastically, "Are you afraid that she will know that there is such a grudge between you and she will stop loving you from now on?"
"She won't." Zhong Mingwei said slowly, "She knows me best and naturally knows the cause of that feud. Even if she feels bad, she will never leave me."
"If that's the case, then why did you hide it from her?" He Chengzhi laughed even more sarcastically. "You may sound tough on the outside, but I'm sure you must be panicking inside, right?"
"I hid it from her because she has suffered too much over the years. From now on, I don't want her to experience any more hardships and sufferings," Zhong Mingwei said slowly. "Now, she is pregnant with my child. She spends the whole day thinking about what name to give the child and what soup to drink to nourish her. This peaceful and quiet life is what she has always longed for. I will not allow anyone to disrupt this peaceful life."
"What if I insist on telling her?" He Chengzhi said in a deep voice.
"I am destined to owe you all this life." Zhong Mingwei said slowly, looking He Chengzhi up and down. Then he continued, "So, I don't mind owing you one more thing."
He Chengzhi was startled, then he laughed: "Then why did you let me know? If you don't tell me, I will be kept in the dark for the rest of my life. Why bother telling me this?"
Yes, why do you have to tell He Chengzhi all this?
Zhong Mingwei was also shaken and thought about taking the secret into the coffin, but he still couldn't help it and told He Chengzhi.
Maybe He Chengzhi also has something he wants to know.
"I want to know the girl's birthday," Zhong Mingwei said suddenly after a pause, "The date of birth on the record has been soaked by water and I can't see anything."
He Chengzhi looked surprised: "Just because of this?"
"I've never celebrated her birthday. She said she doesn't mind as long as I treat her with my heart, but I do mind," Zhong Mingwei smiled while saying this, but somehow, the smile was very bitter. "It would be great if I could make her a bowl of noodles on her birthday every year, even if... even if she never knows that it is actually longevity noodles."
He Chengzhi looked at the dry smile on Zhong Mingwei's face and said in a deep voice after a while: "The tenth day of the ninth month of the sixteenth year of Jiasheng."
"Thank you very much," Zhong Mingwei kowtowed to He Chengzhi as he spoke. When he looked up again, his expression looked much better. "Chengzhi, you can ask me for anything."
He Chengzhi looked at him, sighed for a long time and said, "Please help me add an extra fried egg to her longevity noodles every year. She loved fried eggs the most when she was a child."
"Okay, I remember." Zhong Mingwei was stunned for a moment, then he smiled, patted He Chengzhi on the shoulder, and helped He Chengzhi sit down.
"When did you know...her background?" He Chengzhi asked with a frown.
"If you hadn't been summoned to the palace that day, I would have never known it in my lifetime," Zhong Mingwei sighed. "I originally wanted to check her background for her, but she repeatedly told me not to. She didn't want people to know that she was the descendant of a criminal, so as to avoid causing more trouble. Later, I listened to her and didn't investigate further. I didn't know that she, the descendant of a criminal, actually had such a connection with me."
He Chengzhi looked at Zhong Mingwei's self-deprecating smile, feeling a little complicated. He took a sip of tea and asked, "If you knew her identity early on, would you... would you still marry her?"
"I don't know." After a long silence, Zhong Mingwei shook his head.
He was telling the truth. He really didn't know. When he found out that Mei Ya was the one who saved him from the fire and destroyed his appearance, he felt extremely remorseful and guilty. If he had known Mei Ya's true identity earlier, would he still marry her? Zhong Mingwei had never thought about this question, and he couldn't answer it at all.
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