Chapter 123 Invite Him to Play Chess
"So I'm a substitute?" Ning Yan asked directly, without any euphemism, staring straight into the man's sad eyes.
"Yeah?"
He asked again.
But not impatient, not angry, and without any excessive emotional ups and downs.
Yu Chengbai was silent for a long time, so long that the petals on the table seemed to feel the strong emotions and fell down one by one.
Falling on an open book, falling on a line of poetry:
Watching the clouds rising from other peaks, I didn't realize I was also in the clouds.
Yu Chengbai gently closed his eyes, sighed, and said with a wry smile: "Aren't you just willing to be my substitute?"
Ning Yan was stunned. It was an unexpected answer, an answer he had never thought of.
Yet it seemed natural, because Yu Chengbai had said before that he knew of his deliberate approach, knew of his ill intentions, knew of his ulterior motives...
"Why do you think I'm willing to be your substitute?" Ning Yan asked him.
"Because your name is Evie."
Ning Yan was slightly distracted and frowned, saying, "When they asked me to approach you, they originally needed a fake name. Ning Yan used this name to save you. It's not right for me to use this name to gain sympathy..."
"I don't believe he would let you approach me with this name without telling you the origin of this name. He wouldn't do such a thing."
“…”
Yes, Ning Yan really couldn’t do it.
If he and Moros really found a woman using Evie's name and a child named Beibei, it was definitely to gain trust and sympathy by being used as a substitute. He couldn't have failed to make it clear.
First, it would be unacceptable not to explain clearly, and second, it would be easy to cause problems if it is not explained clearly.
So what Yu Chengbai said was right. Yiwei must have approached him knowing that she would be used as a substitute.
However, he had lost his memory, and no matter whether he was Yiwei or Ning Yan, he had completely forgotten his original plan and purpose.
He didn't know why he came here to be his substitute.
Ning Yan raised her eyes, looked at him, and asked again: "Then you married me, treated me well, and said you liked me, all because of him?"
Yu Chengbai was silent.
The right hand holding his wrist slid down to his face, gently stroking it, and said seriously, "Weiwei, maybe our meeting was not pure, but loving you has nothing to do with anything else. We loved each other before, and we have our own memories. Everyone has preferences for joy and hate in life, and people don't necessarily have only one lover in this life. Your similarities are only part of the reason why we love each other."
"So you don't like me because of him?"
"We met because of him, but I don't like you. There are so many people in the world, and there are more than one or two with similar personalities. But if it weren't for you, there wouldn't necessarily be anyone else."
"We were in love? Before I lost my memory? So I'm special to you?"
"Well, you are my only love."
"What about Ning Yan?"
"..." Yu Chengbai lowered his head and kissed his forehead, saying softly, "The bright moon hangs high in the sky. I once looked up at it, but it does not belong to me."
Ning Yan looked at him with complicated eyes, but his mood was even more complicated than his eyes.
He was 100% sure that Yu Chengbai was lying to him back then, and that he had fallen in love with this man.
Otherwise, he would not remember his words, would not buy Ilok Manor, and replicate everything he wanted in it.
Then why doesn't he admit it?
Is it because you can't accept that you like men?
This person likes herself but cannot accept men, so when she is Evie, he can accept her.
He even wanted to go to bed with me on the first night back at Ilok Manor.
Why does it have to be a woman? Gu Jiujing, Gu Chenyu, Li Shiming and even Lin Fang, none of them liked men originally. Isn't it enough to just truly like them? If the gender is wrong, everything is wrong?
Even when Gu Jiujing didn't like Yu Li at first, it was just because he didn't like his way of doing things, and he never did anything because he was a man.
Why is Yu Chengbai even more pedantic than Gu Jiujing?
"Yu Chengbai."
Ning Yan's expression gradually became more serious. The look in his eyes became unfamiliar and cold, but he smiled and asked him, "Do you want a child?"
Yu Chengbai was stunned. He didn't expect him to suddenly mention this.
Ning Yan held his face affectionately, her smile brighter and sweeter: "Have you wanted to have a child with me for a long time?"
Yu Chengbai looked into his eyes, as if trying to confirm the truth in his words.
Not answering often means that one wants something, but due to certain factors one cannot and has to say one thing and mean another.
Ning Yan stared into his eyes and asked again: "Do you want a child?"
Yu Chengbai hesitated and said, "We already have Beibei."
"It's okay." Ning Yan said immediately, "Beibei has grown up. I asked her before, and she said she also wanted a brother or sister."
"Why... do you suddenly want a child?"
"I guess you want a baby."
I guess that's the biggest reason you marry a woman.
"Do you want it?" Ning Yan stared into his eyes, with an earnest and persuasive look, a gentle and kind smile, but a tone of pressure that pressed on him. "Yu Chengbai, do you dream of me giving birth to a child for you?"
"Yes, I want to have a baby with you."
“…”
Ning Yan let go of his face, sat up straight, sat with her back to him for a while, and said, "Didn't you ask me before why I didn't want to sleep with you? It's not because I hate men, nor because of Cheng Zhengze."
He turned around, put one hand on the back of the chair, rested the back of his hand on his chin, tilted his head and looked at him with a smile: "It's because I'm pregnant."
Yu Chengbai's pupils shrank slightly and he frowned a little. In the end, the surprise was greater than the joy.
Or perhaps it was because Ning Yan's tone was too casual, sounding more like a joke to tease him than a serious matter, and Yu Chengbai's face was filled with more surprise and suspicion.
Ning Yan also knew that he would not believe it easily, so he said directly: "If you don't believe it, you can ask Aya, ask the doctor in your manor, they all know that if we slept together before you returned home, then the child would be yours without any accidents."
He just mentioned it casually, but he didn't expect Yu Chengbai to actually turn around and go out to make a phone call. Ning Yan sat behind the desk with his bare feet on the table.
A pair of slender and straight legs stretched out from the loose trouser legs, smooth and delicate, with a jade-like luster.
He seemed to be born less afraid of the cold than most people. Even though it was already winter, he was still wearing thin and loose clothes.
The neckline is low and slanted, and if you move a little, even your shoulders will be exposed.
While I was stretching, Yu Chengbai came back.
Ning Yan looked up and saw him, smiled, and continued to do what he was doing, and asked him, "How is it?"
He has a natural charm, but he looks young. His hands are stained with countless blood, but when he smiles, his eyes always look innocent.
This may be the reason why many men are obsessed with him. Even if they die under his dagger, they are reluctant to take their eyes off his face.
Ning Yan has always known his own strengths, but he rarely seduces Yu Chengbai like this.
Maybe she hopes that the person she likes likes her true self, rather than the thighs that are faintly visible under his skirt.
But now, it doesn't matter.
I was worried that I would become the rotten white moonlight, but now it seems that Yu Chengbai is the rotten white moonlight.
"Are we...really having a child?" Yu Chengbai stood beside him, bent down, and placed his hand on his flat abdomen. "How many months?"
"I have lost my memory, can you calculate it?"
"It should be more than two months."
Ning Yan didn't say anything. She looked down at the man squatting in front of her. As she watched him carefully stroking her belly, her eyes grew colder by the second.
In the evening, after getting his phone back, Ning Yan called Moros.
Before Moros could question why he hadn't followed the plan, Ning Yan asked directly, "In our plan, is Yiwei just me, or is there another woman?"
Moros was puzzled by his sudden question. Frowning, he said matter-of-factly, "You can handle it on your own, so why bother finding another woman?"
"Because I told Yu Chengbai that I was pregnant, he not only believed it, but also thought I was more than two months pregnant."
“…”
"Won't you explain?"
Moros frowned, "You guys slept together over two months ago?"
Ning Yan said coldly: "Is this the point? Shouldn't you be concerned about why he thinks I can get pregnant?"
"So why are you able to get pregnant?"
"No."
"Then why did you tell him you were pregnant?"
"..." Ning Yan said expressionlessly, "How can dying one be as satisfying as dying two? Not only will I tell him I'm pregnant, I'll also sew clothes for the baby myself and let him name it. He'll definitely be looking forward to the baby's arrival."
Moros noticed that something was wrong with him today and tried to stop him: "Have you ever thought about what you would do if he recognized you in the future?"
"I don't think he would recognize it."
A week later, Evie died.
He died on the night Yu Chengbai happened to be out.
That night, Ning Yan said that his gay bar had reopened and invited him to play chess there.
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PS:
Sorry, I was stuck last night. I spent the whole night working on the outline, but it won't be available tonight. No need to wait.
There should be three or four updates tomorrow~
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