Chapter 288:
Realizing what she had just been thinking, Xie Wanning blushed and held his face, saying seriously: “You misunderstood. I didn’t live together with Ji Chengfeng. We met by a misunderstanding.”
“Is that so?” Lu Ziyan lowered his gaze and looked at her for a long time, not knowing what he was thinking. He didn’t dwell on the issue anymore and instead asked her, “Will you come back with me?”
He said calmly: “As long as you come back with me, I’ll let everything slide. I can let Pei Yuqing and Ji Chengfeng go too.”
Xie Wanning was shocked.
After five years apart, had this man changed so much?
Whether Pei Yuqing or Ji Chengfeng, they were probably both thorns in his side.
He had just seen Ji Chengfeng ‘holding’ her…
In such a situation, if it had been five years ago, she could have talked until her mouth went dry and still wouldn’t have quelled his killing intent.
Yet, she hadn’t even explained anything, and he had so calmly said ‘let go.’
Xie Wanning breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time felt some inexplicable complexity.
Probably heartache.
How strong this man’s possessiveness toward her was, Xie Wanning had experienced firsthand.
Back then, when she had married Pei Yuqing with the proper betrothal gifts and ceremonies, becoming the legitimate wife of the Pei Family, he had still harbored jealousy and hatred toward Pei Yuqing, unable to hide his killing intent several times.
Now, he was lightly saying he would let go of Ji Chengfeng, with whom she had been holding and alone for several years.
Xie Wanning felt a slight pang in her heart. If five years ago he had been like this, how could she have abandoned everything and escaped.
He wouldn’t have become this lifeless shell he was now.
She sniffled and said softly: “Of course I’ll go back with you.”
As she spoke, she tilted her head up, held his face, leaned in and kissed his jaw. “Even if you hadn’t come looking, I was already planning to return to the capital.”
Afraid he wouldn’t believe her, she pointed to the two trunks in the room. “See, I’ve even packed my luggage.”
No sooner had she said it than she herself thought it was quite a coincidence.
She had decided today to return to the capital to find him, and today he had come looking.
Lu Ziyan obligingly smiled, pinched her jaw, and kissed her for a while longer. When their breaths became disordered again, he suddenly pulled her up. “Then let’s go.”
Clearly, he didn’t want to stay here a moment longer.
He couldn’t wait to carry her out of this courtyard right now.
“Wait!”
Xie Wanning was startled and slapped away his reaching hand. “I can’t leave yet.”
Lu Ziyan had already stood up. Hearing this, he lowered his gaze and glanced over, his expression instantly turning cold.
…His speed at changing faces hadn’t changed at all.
Xie Wanning grumbled inwardly but said softly: “…I gave birth to a child. You know that, right?”
Giving birth to a child behind the child’s father’s back, and raising him for four years…
It really wasn’t very proper.
She blinked and squeezed out a smile at him: “Ran’er is still at the academy right now. By my calculations, he should be back soon.”
He had found this place, so it was impossible he hadn’t investigated the matter of the child, right?
Lu Ziyan’s lowered gaze paused slightly.
Of course he knew.
He knew that four years ago, the postpartum woman he had never met but whose birth had made his heart race uncontrollably was her.
He also knew that the Xie Family had known early on that she wasn’t dead and knew her whereabouts.
So, outside the delivery room that day, Xie Yanyu had been so anxious.
Because the one giving birth inside was his own beloved little sister.
All the clues had been so obvious, yet he had missed them for four whole years.
A sweet, metallic taste surged in his throat. Lu Ziyan gave a bleak smile. Still unable to resign himself, he said bitterly: “Following that pretty boy, who couldn’t even give you a proper title, making you hole up in this small town, giving birth to a child but not even stepping through the Xie Family’s door—what did you get out of it!”
No update yesterday. As a token of apology, there will be another chapter later to make up for it. Sorry, dear ones. The editor is urging me too. I’ll mend my ways and update steadily!!
