Fortunately, neither Ye Ningwan nor Pei Fengzhi knew what Grizzly was really thinking. Otherwise, they probably would have hung him up and given him a good beating to teach him a lesson in love and to bring him to his senses.
Ye Ningwan did not hide anything from Pei Fengzhi; she answered honestly.
"I'm going to find Zhang Qin."
Pei Fengzhi stared at Ye Ningwan with a pair of phoenix eyes that seemed to be both smiling and not smiling, without saying a word, as if he was encouraging Ye Ningwan to continue speaking.
Ye Ningwan had a feeling that Pei Fengzhi actually knew what he wanted to do, but this man didn't expose her. It seemed that he was waiting for her to honestly tell him everything, including her past.
He seemed to enjoy the feeling of peeling away a person's layers, like peeling away tightly wrapped petals until each petal unfolds, revealing the most delicate and beautiful stamen, artificially intervening to make a flower bloom in the way he liked best.
Ye Ningwan frowned subconsciously, but after a moment her brows relaxed, and she still spoke to Pei Fengzhi.
"Could you raise the barrier?"
Pei Fengzhi raised the barrier as she requested, separating the view and sound from those in front and behind.
In the slightly dark back seat, there were only Ye Ningwan and Pei Fengzhi. The air seemed to freeze at that moment, and the space seemed to shrink without limit, making the distance between the two seem to narrow slowly.
Pei Fengzhi spoke gently to Ye Ningwan.
"Now you can tell me."
"Ye Ningwan, I've been waiting for you to tell me the truth, and this time I hope everything I hear is true."
Ye Ningwan swallowed hard, her throat dry and her voice hoarse, like a traveler who had been walking alone in the desert for three days without drinking a drop of water.
Pei Fengzhi unscrewed a bottle of water, but didn't give it to Ye Ningwan. Instead, he waited quietly for her to continue.
Then Ye Ningwan said in a hoarse voice.
You should know about my past, right?
Ye Ningwan stared intently into Pei Fengzhi's eyes, her dark pupils reflecting his current appearance, and she said with certainty.
Even if you have amnesia, you should still have heard people around you mention it to some extent.
"So, don't say I'm hiding things from you; actually, you've been hiding a lot of things from me too, honey!"
Pei Fengzhi pursed his thin lips and remained silent, his gaze fixed intently on Ye Ningwan's eyes.
He didn't agree with Ye Ningwan's statement, but he wouldn't be foolish enough to refute her at this time.
"I know a little bit, but I don't want to hear about you from other people; I only want to hear it from you."
Pei Fengzhi's gaze held a touch of tender sincerity as he looked at Ye Ningwan with solemnity, her image reflected in his dark pupils.
Ye Ningwan's eyes flickered in his pupils, as if she were somewhat moved.
After a moment, Ye Ningwan finally spoke to Pei Fengzhi.
"Whether you know it or not, I will tell you everything about my past."
Ye Ningwan took a deep breath as if preparing herself, and slowly exhaled after a moment. Without any hesitation, she took the bottle of mineral water with the cap already unscrewed from Pei Fengzhi's hand, tilted her head back and drank more than half of the bottle. Only when the mineral water wet the corners of her lips did Ye Ningwan casually wipe her lips with her sleeve.
"Actually, I am not the Ye family's biological daughter. I was adopted by the Ye family from an orphanage. I was a child that no one wanted."
In the last few words, Pei Fengzhi heard a hint of lonely self-mockery in Ye Ningwan's voice.
His heart ached, and he gripped Ye Ningwan's hand tightly, whispering something.
“You are not an unwanted child. At least, no matter what happens, I will always stay by your side and will never abandon you.”
Ye Ningwan raised her slightly lowered eyelids, her long, thick eyelashes trembled slightly, and a smile that seemed both mocking and indifferent curled at the corners of her lips.
She smiled as she looked at Pei Fengzhi in front of her, and warned him half-seriously and half-jokingly.
“Ninth Master Pei, you can’t just say sweet words to anyone. Just look at what happened to Pei Minghan. Women are a terrifying species that can take sweet words seriously.”
Pei Fengzhi also laughed, but his smile was like a knife, coldly scraping against Ye Ningwan's face.
"Really? Then tell me properly now, what sweet words did Pei Minghan say to you?"
Ye Ningwan seemed to be deliberately trying to provoke him.
"There are so many, both those I remember and those I don't, it would probably take three days and three nights to finish talking about them all. What are we going to do?"
Pei Fengzhi's deep and chilling warning voice reached his ears.
"Wanwan, sometimes you can't provoke a man like that, or you'll get killed..."
These words were spoken so gently and softly, yet they made Ye Ningwan shudder involuntarily.
Ye Ningwan clicked her tongue softly and raised her hands in a gesture of surrender.
"Alright, alright, Ninth Master Pei, please forgive me. I've already planned to tell you everything. Please, have mercy and don't hold my past against me. I promise I'll only listen to your sweet words from now on."
Pei Fengzhi pursed her lips and remained silent.
This clearly indicates that they intend to observe Ye Ningwan's performance before making a decision.
Ye Ningwan had no choice but to perform well.
She sighed softly.
"Although the Ye family adopted me, they didn't really treat me as their daughter. At that time, Mei Aiqing's mental state was not good. Sometimes she could recognize people, and sometimes she couldn't. So sometimes she was nice to me, but when she had an episode, she ignored me. This made the Ye family treat me like a servant."
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