Thinking of this, Shen Lin looked at Ye Xinning with complicated eyes and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Ye Xinning didn't know what he was thinking, but her most anxious thing now was to find Huo Yanzhi.
She wanted to know what happened back then, and before that, what she needed was to get rid of Shen Lin.
She thought for a while and asked Shen Lin.
"You came here, do you have something to talk about?"
He was obviously surprised that she would ask him something, "Want to come with me?" He put his hand on her waist and spoke in a low voice.
"Xiao Chen and I have work to do. You go handle your matters and go back together in the evening?"
"Aren't you going to let Xiao Chen send you back?"
Ye Xinning heard something else from these words. Her eyes sparkled, and she approached Shen Lin and asked in a low voice, "Are you jealous?"
He lowered his head, showing no emotion in his eyes, and said nothing.
Ye Xinning felt a little bored. She already knew what he was thinking.
This default attitude no longer requires him to say anything.
She waved her hand, "We'll talk about it later, I'm leaving first."
She took a step to leave calmly, but the person who was still smiling a second ago turned around, and his eyes turned completely cold.
She was going to find Huo Yanzhi. She needed an explanation about what happened back then, and she also needed to know what else happened back then.
After separating from Shen Lin, Ye Xinning sent a message to Xiao Chen, telling Xiao Chen that she had something to do and left first.
Xiao Chen had no objection and only told her to pay attention to safety.
After leaving the banquet, Ye Xinning drove directly to Ye's house. The servant was very happy when he saw her coming back. This was the first time Ye Xinning came back to Ye's house after the incident with Mu Yingjing.
"Miss, you are back, have you eaten?"
Ye Xinning nodded, "I've eaten."
"Director Ye has something to do and he hasn't come back yet. Miss, please..."
Just when the servant asked Ye Xinning to sit down and wait, Ye Xinning spoke first, "Is Huo Yanzhi back?"
"Mr. Huo?"
"Um."
"In the study room upstairs, the eldest lady is back to see Mr. Huo."
Ye Xinning got the answer he wanted and walked upstairs without hesitation.
At the door of the study room upstairs, Ye Xinning opened the door and went in. Huo Yanzhi was wearing home clothes and was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window making a phone call.
Seeing her coming back, Huo Yanzhi raised his eyebrows and said, "Back."
Ye Xinning walked over and stood in front of Huo Yanzhi, "Don't you give me an explanation for what happened back then?"
Huo Yanzhi remained calm and was not affected by her words at all.
"whats the matter?"
Ye Xinning would feel unbearable pain whenever she thought of some memories. But Huo Yanzhi's pretense of whitewashing the situation only made her feel extremely sick.
Regarding the past, she didn't want to recall it, nor did she want to bring it up again to make herself more painful, but in this current situation, it seemed that she had to mention it.
"I met Mu Yinjing today, and she mentioned the scar on my wrist that you forcibly removed."
"Oh, really? I'm just helping you wash away some less important things, and..."
After Huo Yanzhi finished speaking, he looked at her wrist meaningfully and said, "Scars don't look good on girls. I thought you would thank me."
Ye Xinning clenched her hands. Only such external venting could allow her to try to control her emotions and not be too impulsive and slap Huo Yanzhi.
"You clearly knew what that scar meant to me, but you still removed it regardless of my wishes."
That scar is a testimony of her relationship with Shen Lin, and it is also a way for her to prove the existence of her relationship with Shen Lin.
But back then...
Thinking of that gloomy experience, Ye Xinning felt trembling all over and unable to control his emotions.
"Huo Yanzhi, you have given me endless torture and added a lingering haze in my life. After so many years, I know there is nothing I can do to you, but are you not willing to give me the truth? " She said this with a painful expression on her face. This feeling of powerlessness at being deceived and concealed swallowed her whole body.
Huo Yanzhi stood up from his position. He stepped in front of Ye Xinning and looked at her condescendingly. He saw that her pain was all because of that memory. In other words, it was because of Shen Lin...
His eyes were full of storm, and the suppressed anger made his eyes scarlet, looking scary and sinister.
"So you want to know?"
"Can you tell me?" Ye Xinning looked at him.
Huo Yanzhi lifted his lips with a strange smile on his face. At this moment, if his appearance was seen by outsiders, they would definitely feel fear and think that he was crazy.
He lifted Ye Xinning's hair, his voice was very low, but seemed a little careless.
"Ning Ning trusts others too easily. Mu Yinjing doesn't like you. Her purpose is to lie to you and make you unhappy. Can't you see that she is using this method to sow discord between me and you?"
Ye Xinning took some of her hair from Huo Yanzhi's hand and took a few steps back, keeping a long distance from him. "You mean, Mu Yinjing is lying to me?"
"She is lying to you. Wouldn't Ning Ning believe what an outsider says rather than what I say?"
Ye Xinning could tell something was wrong every time he listened a little further.
Huo Yanzhi tried so hard to hide it, but he was not really naive enough to think that what he said was true.
Compared to Mu Yinjing, Huo Yanzhi was the one she couldn't see through. This man had been dark, terrifying and calculating for ten years.
"Don't you want to say it?" She said quietly. Compared with the previous excitement and loss of control, at this moment, she was much calmer and analyzed a lot.
"Ning Ning still doesn't know what kind of person I am? How could I lie to you?"
Huo Yanzhi was smiling, his tone was shallow, and his words were even endearing, but Ye Xinning knew that this man had never been gentle, and the word gentle could not be associated with him.
Her eyes were colder than before, "Huo Yanzhi, do you think there is no way for me to know if you don't tell me?"
Huo Yanzhi was surprisingly calm, and it seemed that no matter what she said, nothing could shake her mood.
Ye Xinning took a long breath and felt calm.
"Okay, you don't want to tell me, right? Then I'll ask Mu Yinjing. Compared to you, I think I still have some ways to get her to talk."
After she finished speaking, she turned to leave when Huo Yanzhi's voice sounded behind her.
"Are those past important to you?"
"Whether it's important or not, I have to know."
"I know, can you change the status quo? Do you think Shen Lin can think of you?"
Huo Yanzhi's hatred for Shen Lin can be felt from his gloomy tone when he said this.
He didn't understand why Shen Lin could get Ye Xinning's love. In terms of order, he met Ye Xinning first. He and Ye Xinning were high school classmates, and Shen Lin only appeared in Ye Xinning's life later. Why? An unexpected encounter allowed Shen Lin to live in Ye Xinning's heart.
But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get Ye Xinning's affection.
Everyone was telling him that it was fate. From the moment Huo Qijun and Ye Rouxin got together, it was destined that he and Ye Xinning would not be together.
But what is fate? Huo Qijun has never believed in fate.
Thinking of this, Huo Yanzhi's eyes became darker than before.
It's just Shen Lin, who can't be his opponent either then or now.
In the past, Shen Lin's amnesia could not change anything, and now it is even more impossible.
Ye Xinning didn't stop at Huo Yanzhi's words. She left the study without stopping. Huo Yanzhi was extremely crazy and perverted. She couldn't get any answers from him. In this case , she found Mu Yinjing, no matter what, she must know what happened back then.
With this thought, Ye Xinning walked straight downstairs. She originally thought nothing would happen, but she didn't expect to meet Ye Rouxin and Huo Qijun in the living room.
Huo Qijun held Ye Rouxin in his arms, and the two came in from the outside together. The look of intimacy and affection stung Ye Xinning's eyes.
She stared at Ye Rouxin and Huo Qijun. Once upon a time, this was her home. The person who walked in here together and stood beside her mother was not Huo Qijun but her father. Now the same scene is completely different. Mood, now she only feels that...
Satire.
She didn't want to talk to the two of them and was about to leave, but Ye Rouxin yelled, "Stop."
Ye Xinning knew that Ye Rouxin would be like this. When in front of Huo Qijun, Ye Rouxin did not put his own pressure first.
She stopped, looked at Ye Rouxin, her eyes were very indifferent, and she said almost without emotion, "May I ask, do you have something?"
Ye Rouxin saw Ye Xinning coming back when she came in. She was originally very happy, but she didn't expect that Ye Xinning came back and left without even saying a word to her. She felt particularly hurt.
"Do you still have any manners? Don't you bark when you see someone?"
Don’t you bark when you see someone?
Ye Xinning chewed on this sentence over and over again and found it extremely funny.
She raised her eyes and landed on Ye Rouxin, but her words were directed to Huo Qijun, "Does Mr. Huo also think I'm rude?"
Huo Qijun tried to smooth things over with a smile as always, and while trying to persuade Ye Rouxin not to be angry, he told her that Ye Rouxin did this because he missed her so much.
With such a look of trying to ease the relationship between mother and daughter, who wouldn't say that he is a good stepfather?
But Ye Xinning just smiled and said meaningfully, "I know I am a little emotional, but there is no way. I really can't accept that someone with ulterior motives takes away the happiness that belongs to me and my father."
As soon as Ye Xinning finished speaking, Ye Rouxin's furious voice came from the living room, "Ye Xinning, shut up."
Ye Xinning glanced at Ye Rouxin. She had experienced this scene countless times, but every time, she didn't want to restrain herself, let alone keep silent.
She still spoke, even worse than what she said just now.
"Am I wrong? Isn't he the one who destroyed my family? If it weren't for him, would my father leave? If it weren't for him, would there be so many inexplicable people coming to my home? If it weren't for him, would I As for what it is like now? What do you want me to do, respect him and love him? Or call him daddy, haha, I will never recognize such a person as my dad in this life, unless I die."
"Snapped."
As Ye Xinning finished her last words, Ye Rouxin's slaps echoed throughout the living room.
Ye Xinning was stunned on the spot. At that moment, her most real reaction was to be stunned. She even forgot to cover her face. Ye Rouxin's slap was very hard. Her face became red and swollen in an instant, but she
Just smiled softly.
Let's talk about Huo Qijun, after she was slapped by Ye Rouxin, Huo Qijun was surprised at first, and then came to her with concern, comforting her word by word, while pretending to talk about Ye Rouxin.
"You too, the child is ignorant, how can you do anything? Ningning, how are you, are you okay?"
Ye Rouxin also looked at Ye Xinning with worry and annoyance.
"Ning Ning, are you okay?"
She regretted the slap when she slapped him. She didn't want to solve the problem in this way, but at that moment, she was really angry at Ye Xinning's words, so she slapped him impulsively.
Ye Xinning remained motionless from beginning to end, whether it was Ye Rouxin's apology after beating her or Huo Qijun's false concern.
"In the past, I only heard that if you have a stepmother, you will have a stepfather. Now it seems that it is the same if you have a stepfather. I, Ye Xinning, have really experienced this feeling myself. Yes, it is another one that people will never forget.
A night I dare to forget.”
When Ye Xinning said this, he was obviously smiling, but there was no warmth at all in his eyes.
Ye Rouxin knew her well and knew that this was how she behaved when she was extremely angry. By suppressing her anger in this way, she kept her emotions in a more stable state.
"I'm sorry, Ning Ning, mom is really..."
She really wanted to say something, but before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by Ye Xinning's cold voice.
"Director Ye, that's it. Do you want to give me another candy after the slap? In your eyes, am I one of your business partners? Give me some benefits and forget about the pain."
"No, I really didn't mean to hit you. Mom was just too angry."
Ye Xinning was really disappointed to the extreme. It would have been better if Ye Rouxin didn't say this, but every time Ye Rouxin said a word, she felt her heart sinking a little deeper.
There was disappointment in her eyes, and there was no warmth at all when she looked at Huo Qijun, "In the past, you asked me to leave Nancheng just for this man. Now that I'm back, you can't see me like this. If that's the case, then why let me come back?
I have been staying abroad and will never come back for the rest of my life, isn’t that what you want?”
Ye Rouxin pointed to her lips and wanted to say something else, but before she could speak, she was interrupted by a sudden male voice.
"Did I come too late and miss something? Why are there so many people standing at the door?"
Ye Xinning froze when he heard the sound.
She turned around and saw Shen Lin.
The man was still wearing the same clothes as at the banquet, but at this time, he was more relaxed and his tone was colder than at the banquet.