Chapter 103: The Fruit of Time
“Crack.”
Just as she was in a daze, the sound of a key being inserted into the lock and opening the door came from the living room outside the study. Ye Jing suddenly came back to her senses and froze in place. It was not until the sound of a door closing outside was heard that she raised her wrist with trembling hands to check the time.
About a quarter to eleven.
At this time, Qiu Min should have returned from buying groceries, but it is not ruled out that Ye Shimian happened to go home for dinner today.
When Ye Jing thought of Ye Shimian, her heart suddenly lifted. She quietly clenched the photo album in her hand, held her breath and listened carefully to the movements outside.
The man was walking around the room. Maybe because he had changed into slippers, it was hard to tell who it was from the footsteps. Ye Jing's heart was pounding, and her eyes were fixed on the door of the study.
Just as she watched, she suddenly felt something was wrong.
Ye Jing frowned and thought carefully about what was wrong. The next moment, she looked at the wide-open door and her eyes widened. She actually forgot to close the door!
Ye Shimian's study was closed all year round and had never been opened like this.
Ye Jing cursed herself inwardly for being so careless, and clutched her sleeve with one hand, praying that the person outside the study wouldn't notice. However, things did not go as planned. The person outside seemed to have noticed something was wrong, and footsteps were heard in the room again. The sound was not loud, but it was obvious that they were coming towards the study.
Tick-tick-tick.
Step by step, slowly, getting closer and closer.
Ye Jing shuddered, and the sound of her heartbeat in her chest "boomed" along with the man's footsteps, one after another, like exploding in her ears. Her legs felt a little weak, and she leaned slightly on the desk, staring at the door without blinking.
After about ten seconds, a human silhouette was cast on the smooth floor tiles, faint and not very clear.
Ye Jing took a deep breath to calm herself, but her hand unconsciously grasped the decorative wood carving on the corner of the table. She looked at the door of the study, and a thin layer of sweat seeped out of her palms.
Then a person appeared in her sight.
It was her mother, Qiu Min.
At this moment, Ye Jing's heart dropped for a moment. She looked at Qiu Min and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Oh, it's you." Qiu Min blinked in surprise when she saw her, then sneered, "Why are you back? Aren't you supposed to be in school today?"
Ye Jing opened her mouth, but couldn't find a suitable reason in her mind for a moment, so she finally just said "yeah" softly as an answer.
Qiu Min didn't seem to expect an answer from her. She looked around the study room calmly, then looked at Ye Jing with a cold smile on her face and asked, "What are you doing in the study room?"
Hearing her question, Ye Jing shook her head subconsciously, and moved her hands holding the photo album to her back, mumbling, "No, nothing..."
Before she finished her words, Ye Jing saw Qiu Min holding onto the door frame and bursting into laughter.
Ye Jing's hand paused for a moment, and she looked at her blankly. Qiu Min ignored her gaze and turned to look at the photo album tightly held in her hand. A strange smile appeared on her face. After a long time, she gradually stopped laughing and sneered, "What are you hiding? I saw that photo album seven years ago. Over the years, this secret has tortured me day and night. Whenever I see your face, I feel extremely disgusted."
She actually knew about this so early? !
However, she never told herself this. Not only did she keep it a secret from herself, she even mocked herself more!
Is this what a mother should do?
Ye Jing opened her mouth slightly and looked at Qiu Min in disbelief.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Qiu Min gave Ye Jing a cold look. A ferocious smile suddenly broke out on her well-maintained face, and her eyes shone with a captivating light. "The thing I regret most in my life is that I didn't strangle you to death. I shouldn't have listened to your dead father and spared your life. You are the evildoer who came to collect a debt from me. I don't know what I owed you in my last life, but you have ruined everything in this life!"
Her tone was unexpectedly calm, but her voice was exceptionally cold and gloomy. Ye Jing just watched her gradually fall into madness.
"Do you know what kind of life I have been living these years? It looks beautiful, but it is actually painful, and this is all caused by you!" Qiu Min looked at Ye Jing grimly, her face twisted unconsciously. She screamed with bloodshot eyes, "You shameless bitch! It was you who stole Shi Mian's love and made him miss you day and night. And what about me! I can only cry alone while hugging the quilt... Yes, he and I have been husband and wife for so many years, and it was all an illusion. He hugged me but shouted your name!"
Hearing this, Ye Jing's body trembled, and goose bumps appeared on her exposed skin.
Disgusting, extremely disgusting.
Ye Jing frowned in disgust, looked at Qiu Min and said calmly: "He is a pervert, and I think you are almost the same."
"Pervert?" Qiu Min laughed softly, with a mysterious madness on her face. "Aren't you a pervert too? You are so young, your body hasn't developed yet, but you have already learned how to seduce men. This man is your stepfather. There are probably not many people in this world who have such a skill as you, little bitch?"
Ye Jing looked at Qiu Min in horror. This was not the first time she had gone mad, but it was the first time she had said such vicious words so bluntly.
Although Ye Jing had always known that her mother hated her, she couldn't help but feel a little sad when she heard these words.
"I shouldn't have expected anything from you, not even a little bit." Ye Jing suddenly laughed, looking sad. "When I was doubting Ye Shimian, I was still wondering if your sudden change of attitude towards me was to remind and protect me. Now it seems that I was really ridiculous."
Ye Jing wiped the tears from her face, paused, and walked out the door with the photo album, saying expressionlessly: "I don't want to live with you guys anymore. You are too scary, you are simply demons."
Unexpectedly, she had just taken two steps when Qiu Min ran up to stop her, glaring at her and saying, "No, you can't leave! Since you know this secret, I can't let you leave. Otherwise, when Shi Mian comes back, how can I explain to him?"
"That's your business!" Ye Jing said coldly, avoiding her and continuing to walk forward.
Qiu Min, however, was like a madman, holding her waist tightly with both hands from behind, and said hastily: "No, you can't leave!"
Ye Jing struggled to pry her hands away: "Let me go, let me go."
Seeing that she was determined to leave, Qiu Min panicked. She didn't care about the pain of having her fingers plucked, and just held her tighter: "Ye Jing, Ye Jing... I was wrong, I shouldn't be angry with you, let's just pretend nothing happened, okay? Don't leave, I beg you not to leave, my happiness depends on you. Shi Mian said that as long as I help him get you on the day of your 18th birthday, I won't have to stay alone in the empty room and be Mrs. Ye in name only. Ye Jing, mom is begging you, please help me, okay?"
Ye Jing was struck by lightning when she heard this. She opened her mouth in surprise, only to feel waves of nausea. The hoarse female voice seemed to come to her mind again. She gasped rapidly, trying her best to suppress the anger and hatred that was surging in her heart.
She closed her eyes, then opened them again, and mercilessly stabbed Qiu Min with her elbow.
Qiu Min screamed in pain and let go. Ye Jing turned to look at her, frowned and said coldly: "You really make me sick."
Seeing her leave after she finished speaking, Qiu Min was so angry that she started shaking all over. She pointed at her back and cursed, "Okay, you are so nice. You are such a heartless thing. You are not willing to help me with even a small matter. I am your mother, and this is how you treat me? If you want to leave, just go ahead. Let's see how far you can go. I'll call Shi Mian now—"
Before Qiu Min could finish her words, Ye Jing came back. Just as she was about to rejoice, the decorative wooden sculpture in the living room that Ye Jing was holding in her hand hit her hard on the neck.
…
After tying up the unconscious Qiu Min with a bed sheet in the bedroom, Ye Jing returned to her room, quickly packed up some important things, transferred some money to herself using Qiu Min's mobile phone, and immediately returned to school.
Around seven o'clock in the evening, Ye Jing was attending evening self-study when the cell phone in her pocket began to vibrate. She took it out and saw that it was Ye Shimian calling. She put it back in her pocket and ignored it.
Around 9:30 in the evening, Ye Shimian called again and asked her why she ran away from home without even saying hello. Ye Jing now felt sick when she heard his voice. She was too lazy to even respond perfunctorily and directly said that she found him and Qiu Min disgusting and asked him not to call her again and not to care about her anymore, as if they had never met.
After saying that, she hung up the phone. As for Ye Shimian's reaction and thoughts, she didn't care at all.
Ye Shimian really didn't call again in the next few days. Ye Jing thought he listened to her words. She was relieved but also felt a little uneasy. However, she really didn't know where this feeling came from.
Saturday came in a blink of an eye, and the students went home one after another.
After having dinner outside the school, Xie Fei and Ye Jing walked slowly towards the dormitory building hand in hand.
The final exams were held last week. The junior high school and first and second year high school students had already gone on vacation. Now the third year students who lived on campus have all gone home. Except for the guard at the school gate and the dormitory manager who manages the third year dormitories, the entire school is empty and deserted.
Downstairs in the dormitory, Xie Fei held the plump Ye Jing in his arms and asked, "Are you really not going to live with me? There aren't many people in the school, aren't you afraid?"
Ye Jing buried her head in his shoulder and shook her head, saying, "No, I won't go. You're sharing a house with Wang Wei and the others, so it's not good for me to go. Besides, we've only been dating for less than a month, and I'm not even 18 yet, so let's talk about living together later."
Xie Fei smiled, held her face and kissed her, a vague voice slowly drifting out between his lips and teeth: "It's the same sooner or later, anyway, I will not marry anyone but you."
The two of them stayed together for a while, and only when the dormitory manager began to urge her impatiently did Xie Fei let her go. He waited until the light in her dormitory came on before turning around and leaving.
The dormitory was quiet. There were gusts of cold wind outside the window. The big trees not far from the window were blown to and fro. From time to time, the rustling sound of leaves being blown down could be heard.
Ye Jing was brushing her teeth on the balcony. The light in the house shone on the swaying trees outside the window. The surroundings were pitch black, like a wisp of faint fire being swallowed by the darkness bit by bit, accompanied by the whistling sound of the wind, eerily revealing a bit of eerie and dull feeling.
After shuddering, Ye Jing quickly washed up and then snuggled into the warm quilt to sleep.
The author has something to say: ??I stayed up late last night and watched "My ID is Gangnam Beauty". I was so attracted by Cha Eun-woo~~I hugged the quilt and screamed like crazy!
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