"So, what is your relationship with Tong Zhitong?" An Nuan asked.
After telling her about his physical condition, she asked him directly.
"Miss An, I'm not a casual man," Ye Jinghuai enunciated word for word.
An Nuan knitted her brows.
What does it mean to say you're not a casual man? If you're casual, does that make you not human?!
"Tong Zhitong and I have no relationship," Ye Jinghuai supplemented.
An Nuan rolled over to look at him.
In the darkness.
The two looked into each other's eyes.
She didn't know why.
But in that moment, she just believed it.
Believed that Ye Jinghuai and Tong Zhitong had no relationship.
No intimate relationship.
She said, "Ye Jinghuai, can you tell me who you really are?"
"Do you want to know?"
An Nuan hesitated for a moment.
She said, "Yes."
Even if.
She was a little afraid.
Because Ye Jinghuai's world and her world were clearly different.
She didn't know if she could accept it.
"I'm sorry," Ye Jinghuai's eyes moved slightly, "I can't tell you."
An Nuan was visibly a little disappointed.
"It's not that I don't trust you, it's that I don't want it to affect your life."
An Nuan nibbled lightly on her lip.
She said, "Ye Jinghuai, are you a bad person?"
Like, an extremely evil bad person?!
Ye Jinghuai answered. He said, "I'm not a good person."
Not a good person.
Nor a bad person.
So.
What kind of person was Ye Jinghuai exactly?
"But I won't harm you," Ye Jinghuai enunciated word for word.
It seemed like he was making a promise to her.
She stared intently at Ye Jinghuai's eyes.
She didn't know if she should believe him or not.
That night.
They each had thoughts on their minds.
Obviously, they opened their hearts to each other.
But didn't dare to easily indulge themselves.
Early the next morning.
When An Nuan woke up, the place beside her was already empty.
Had Ye Jinghuai gotten up so early?
Usually, didn't he always sleep in?
Especially during this period recovering from his leg injury at home.
She didn't even know when his leg would heal.
Last night when he came to rescue her, there was no sign of injury at all. He even carried her all the way back here.
Her whole heart seemed to have been warmed by him.
An Nuan got up.
Although her body was wrapped up like a mummy, in fact most of the wounds were superficial and much better after a night of recuperation.
She went downstairs.
Downstairs, Zhongshu was busy.
Seeing her get up, he hurried over, "Mistress."
"Where's Ye Jinghuai?"
"The young master has already left."
An Nuan was stunned. "Where did he go?"
"To the capital."
An Nuan's expression was visibly somewhat ugly.
That Ye Jinghuai, he left without even saying goodbye?!
Last night they were intimate and affectionate. This morning at the crack of dawn he comes and goes as he pleases.
"The young master had something to take care of." Seeing An Nuan's expression, Zhongshu quickly explained.
"It's got nothing to do with me." An Nuan seemed very cold.
Zhongshu smiled.
The mistress was obviously pretending indifference.
He respectfully asked, "Would the mistress like breakfast?"
"Thank you."
An Nuan walked directly to the dining table.
Zhongshu served breakfast, then went to do his own thing.
He knew the mistress didn't like having people accompany her.
While eating breakfast, An Nuan was also reading the news.
Her eyes suddenly stopped.
She clicked open and saw the breaking news saying "Early this morning, a female corpse was discovered in the old Wenlan Street warehouse. Outside the warehouse, two male corpses were discovered, one of which had its lower body mutilated horribly."
An Nuan quickly clicked to see the censored photo.
Although they were all pixelated.
An Nuan recognized at a glance that the woman in the photo was obviously Tong Zhitong. Those two male corpses were clearly the men who were following Tong Zhitong last night.
Deep down.
She still shuddered a little.
Had it all been done by Ye Jinghuai?!
Tong Zhitong probably wasn't killed by Ye Jinghuai.
If Ye Jinghuai wanted to kill, he wouldn't make such a spectacle.
So Tong Zhitong must have committed suicide.
An Nuan's whole body stiffened a little.
The ring of the phone at that moment really frightened her badly.
Seeing Ye Jinghuai's incoming call, it took her quite a while before answering, "Ye Jinghuai."
"Are you up?"
"Mm." An Nuan murmured in reply.
"I came back urgently last night, things haven't been taken care of here yet." It seemed like he was explaining why he left so early.
"Oh." An Nuan still just lightly murmured.
"What's wrong, unhappy?" The other side was clearly laughing.
Yes.
She had been very unhappy the moment he left.
But now.
All her emotions were drawn to the news she just saw.
She secretly adjusted her own mood and asked in the calmest voice, "Ye Jinghuai, I saw...Tong Zhitong died."
There was some silence over there.
"And the two men with Tong Zhitong also died." An Nuan said.
Saying it out loud.
Was still quite shocking.
She didn't know what kind of mood she should have when facing such a fact.
It was completely different from her original perception of this world.
It was a long time before Ye Jinghuai spoke.
He said, "Are you scared?"
An Nuan was startled.
She didn't know.
She had gone through many tragic things in her past life.
She was just afraid of repeating the same mistakes.
"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you." Ye Jinghuai's magnetic voice was clearly very nice to hear.
But at that moment, An Nuan didn't know how to accept it.
Such a somewhat awkward phone call.
When Ye Jinghuai was about to hang up.
"When are you coming back?" An Nuan suddenly asked him.
Changing the subject.
Sometimes when you don't want to face something, you choose to avoid it.
"Do you want me to come back?" The voice over there was clearly self-deprecating.
"The Guangming Building reopens the day after tomorrow. I want you to come back and attend the ribbon cutting with me."
"Alright." The other side readily agreed.
An Nuan was visibly a little incredulous. "You can come back the day after tomorrow?"
"Miss An misses me, even if I have to crawl back I will."
Who said I missed you!
"See you the day after tomorrow." Ye Jinghuai's mouth curled up slightly.
"Mm."
After hanging up, An Nuan was still a little silent.
She looked again at the news content.
Slowly.
She put it down.
She felt that since she had gotten to this point with Ye Jinghuai, there was no reason to easily go back on it.
She believed she had made the right choice!
After breakfast.
An Nuan still went to work.
Most of her wounds were on her body. Her face was fine. She could cover it up with some makeup and it wouldn't show much.
The person driving her to work today wasn't Hu Feng, but someone arranged by Ye Jinghuai.
Ye Jinghuai probably guessed she would go out, so arranged someone for her temporarily.
She was often moved by these kinds of actions from Ye Jinghuai.
It's just.
Ye Jinghuai's mouth wasn't kind, but everything he did was to pamper her.
It formed a stark contrast with Gu Yan Sheng in the past.
Gu Yan Sheng only made empty promises, saying flowery words to make her feel like he loved her very much.
But in reality, he never took any action at all.
So.
Ye Jinghuai and Gu Yan Sheng were different.
She shouldn't doubt other men's feelings for her because of Gu Yan Sheng.
