"I don't want to be anyone's substitute anymore."
Tears welled up in Ye Ningwan's eyes.
Even though she no longer had any feelings for those people, Ye Ningwan still felt incredibly wronged whenever these things were brought up.
A finger touched the corner of her eye, gently wiping away her tears, and whispered something.
"You are not a substitute for anyone; you are simply yourself."
Ye Ningwan looked at Pei Fengzhi with her cat-like eyes blurry with tears. Her pupils, stained with tears, could not see the world clearly, and the man in front of her was completely blurred, with only a rough outline. However, she could hear Pei Fengzhi's voice more clearly in her ears.
Ye Ningwan smiled.
"Okay, I believe you. I will never be a substitute for you."
But in her heart, she sneered, repeating the same words to herself and to Pei Fengzhi over and over again.
"You're a guy who doesn't even have any memories, what right do you have to say such things? I don't believe you!"
Pei Fengzhi reached out to wipe away Ye Ningwan's tears, but Ye Ningwan turned her head away, dodging Pei Fengzhi's outstretched hand.
She hastily wiped her eyes with her sleeve, then gulped down the remaining half of the mineral water. Her dry throat was soothed, and her heart calmed down, though her voice was slightly hoarse.
"It was under these circumstances that I accepted Pei Minghan's confession and got together with him. However, we were both still in school at the time, and Pei Minghan and I discussed not going public with it. Firstly, we were worried that the Ye family would disturb my studies, and secondly, our teachers had high hopes for me and didn't want them to know about my early romance and thus interfere with my normal relationship with Pei Minghan."
This is just a little girl's scheming; it's simple and logical.
"Those two years were actually pretty good. I graduated from high school smoothly and got into the school I wanted, which was in Jiangcheng, very close to Pei Minghan who had already graduated. Although the academic pressure in university was high, it was still manageable for me, and I was able to find time to meet with Pei Minghan."
"However, the Pei family eventually found out about our relationship."
"Madam Pei would never agree to let an adopted daughter like me with an unknown background enter the Pei family. She doesn't even like Ye Ruoxin, let alone me. But at that time, Pei Minghan insisted on marrying me, even though he was determined to defy the whole world. To be honest, I was really touched."
"At that time, I thought that maybe there was someone who would accompany me to grow old, and we would support each other through thick and thin. No matter if he was a young master from a big family or not, I would be happy to do it. I don't know if it was love, but I am sure that I have feelings for Pei Minghan."
"In the end, Madam Pei compromised. After all, she couldn't live without her son, on whom she had placed such high hopes."
"What I didn't know was that someone could change their mind so quickly. It was just a few seductions from Ye Ruoxin, just her gentle advances, and Pei Minghan was able to immerse himself in her tender embrace."
"It's one thing for him to fall for someone else, I can walk away. I've been dumped too many times in my life, I don't mind being dumped again. We can break up and go our separate ways, but Pei Minghan just won't agree. He's holding onto Ye Ruoxin, hesitating to break up with me, and then he's blaming me for it!"
"Everyone thought that I was clinging to Pei Minghan, that I was vain and coveted the position of the eldest daughter-in-law of the Pei family, so that I was willing to serve two husbands with my own sister."
As Ye Ningwan spoke, the tears in her eyes had disappeared, replaced by an unusually resolute mockery.
She scoffed.
"Ha, Pei Minghan? He's not worthy of it!"
Upon hearing this, Pei Fengzhi smiled and nodded in agreement.
He doesn't deserve it.
Ye Ningwan continued.
"For the next six months, my relationship with Pei Minghan was not good. Every time he asked me to meet, I didn't even want to meet him. Both the Ye family and the Pei family put a lot of pressure on me, basically saying that they hoped I would know my place and that a woman like me could never enter the Pei family."
"But I never bothered Pei Minghan; it was he who shamelessly wouldn't let go!"
"Then that incident happened..."
Ye Ningwan gritted her teeth and finally decided to tell Pei Fengzhi about it, regardless of whether Pei Fengzhi had heard about it before.
"That night was a business banquet hosted by the Ye Group. I don't know how Ye Zhenning managed to do it, but a lot of important people came that day, and Ye Zhenning asked me to help with the reception. The so-called reception was just toasting, which is very common in the business world, so I agreed. I drank a lot that day and got very drunk, so I hid in a corner to rest."
"Then I remember Ye Ruoxin came over and brought me a cup of hangover soup, saying that Ye Zhenning had ordered it. At that time, Ye Zhenning was used to using me for socializing, and it was very common for him to bring me hangover soup during the banquet, so I didn't think much of it and drank it."
"I really can't remember what happened after that. When I woke up, it was already late at night, or more precisely, around 2 a.m. the next day. I was caught in bed with someone else. Although the person next to me was gone, the marks on my body could prove everything."
"Pei Minghan finally agreed to break off the engagement with me, and the Ye family naturally no longer wanted me, this discarded pawn, so I left Jiangcheng."
When Ye Ningwan said the last sentence, she let out a long sigh of relief, as if she had been liberated.
Everything that needed to be said has been said; now it's up to Pei Fengzhi to make his own decision.
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