Night Fire Lingering

"What did she say to you?" Gu Yanci asked, his expression somewhat strange when he saw Wen Yan return.

Wen Yan kept hearing Ji Chang's words:

——He doesn’t love you.

Why is Ji Chang so certain that Gu Yanci doesn't love her?

What is Gu Yanci's attitude towards her now?

If you don't love someone, how can you like them?

If you like it, is it one point, three points, or five points?

"Wen Yan!" Wen Yan's silence made Gu Yanci inexplicably uneasy.

Wen Yan looked away from him, gazing at the sky outside the window. "It's nothing."

"Wen Zhizhi!" Gu Yanci said seriously, then realized he sounded a bit harsh. He paused for two seconds before saying, "I'm not being harsh with you."

Wen Yan looked at the man in surprise, then glanced out the window, wondering why it hadn't rained blood today.

Wen Yan replied dismissively, "I just feel like I made Aunt Ji Chang angry."

"If she gets angry, who can stop her?" This statement is practically an open accusation that there's something wrong with Ji Chang.

Gu Yanci asked again, "What exactly did she say to you?"

Wen Yan looked at him and asked, "Gu Yanci, what are you so nervous about?"

If he didn't care, he wouldn't have asked again and again.

Was he worried about what Ji Chang was telling her?

Is there anything she can't know?

Wen Yan thought Gu Yanci wouldn't speak again, but the man spoke up again: "She told you to leave me, didn't she?"

"How...how did you know?" Wen Yan asked in shock.

Gu Yanci's face darkened as he stared at Wen Yan.

Even though he had been married to Wen Yan for three years, his kind mother never gave up the idea!

Wen Yan waited for a while, but Gu Yanci did not speak again.

She tilted her head to look at him closely, but saw that the man's expression was inscrutable, and she couldn't tell what he was thinking.

"Actually, I've never understood why Auntie doesn't like me anymore." Wen Yan looked at the glass of water on the bedside table. "She used to like me a lot. Was I really that bad as her daughter-in-law?"

Gu Yanci could not give her an answer.

It's not that Ji Chang didn't want Wen Yan to be her daughter-in-law.

Rather, she didn't want Wen Yan to be her daughter-in-law.

Gu Yanci raised his hand, gesturing for Wen Yan to come to his side: "Come here and I'll tell you."

"?"

Wen Yan had a gut feeling that something was amiss.

She stared at him suspiciously for a few seconds, but finally couldn't resist her curiosity and went over.

As soon as I walked over, the man grabbed my hand.

Just as Wen Yan was about to pull her hand away and leave, she heard the man say, "Wen Zhizhi, you are you. No matter what your identity is, you don't need her approval."

-

Perhaps because she was anxious to save her daughter, Wan Ying arrived very quickly.

She originally thought it was Wen Yan who was seeing her alone, but she didn't expect that Gu Yanci was also in the ward.

Her daughter was devoted to Gu Yanci, yet Gu Yanci was actually helping that little bitch Wen Yan. The more enthusiastic Wan Ying was towards Gu Yanci before, the more indifferent she became now.

"Whether Wen Muzhi will end up in jail or not is up to me, the person involved." Wen Yan glanced at her watch. "You only have half an hour. Speak your mind."

Stop rambling.

Wan Ying glanced at Gu Yanci lying on the hospital bed and asked Wen Yan sarcastically, "Are you sure you want him to listen in too?"

"Yes." Wen Yan replied without hesitation.

Wan Ying dropped a bombshell: "Wen Yan, your mother might not be dead."

"What...what did you say?" Wen Yan asked incredulously, her voice trembling with shock.

Gu Yanci narrowed his eyes.

Wan Ying was very satisfied with Wen Yan's reaction and asked, "When your mother committed suicide, did you see her body?"

Wen Yan pursed her lips.

She didn't.

It was because I didn't see my mother's body, and her diary showed no indication that she intended to commit suicide, that I began to suspect the truth behind her death.

She had considered that her mother might have been murdered, but she never considered that she might not be dead!

"Where is she now? Where has she been all these years?" Wen Yan's voice was frighteningly suppressed, like a tightly strung bowstring.

"Then I have no idea!" Wan Ying touched her curly hair, as if telling a joke, "You met me when you were little. Given how often your dad and I met, why didn't your mom notice?"

"...Why?" Wen Yan didn't want to speculate; she knew Wan Ying had the answer.

The ward had a temperature control system, but Wen Yan inexplicably felt cold all over and was shivering.

Wan Ying enjoyed watching Wen Yan's panicked expression.

Wen Yan grabbed Wan Ying by the collar, pinned her against the wall, and said in a sinister tone, "Aunt Wan, I don't have much patience. I advise you not to keep me in suspense, otherwise, you'll only be able to visit your daughter in prison in the future."

“Because—” Wan Ying said maliciously, “your mother’s heart isn’t with your father. She has someone else outside!”

Wen Yan's eyes widened in shock: "You...you lied to me!"

“Wen Yan, you come to the capital every summer and winter vacation. What mother would feel at ease letting her daughter leave her at such a young age to go to another city? Because Nan Yun will go to Europe when you leave, or there will be a Spanish-Chinese woman from Hong Kong to accompany your mother.”

Wen Yan always thought that her mother had sent her to the capital to accompany her father, who was doing business...

But if it's about companionship, why didn't the mother come along?

Wen Yan let go in a daze and staggered back two steps.

"Wen Yan!"

Wen Yan's back bumped into a warm embrace. Gu Yanci got off the bed at some point and caught her steadily in his arms. The warmth from his back made her feel a sense of comfort.

Wen Yan turned her head and saw the man's eyes full of worry.

"Hahahaha!" Wan Ying laughed loudly, full of triumphant pleasure. "Wen Yan, all these years, you've thought it was my existence that drove your mother to her death, haven't you? Hahaha! It was your mother who didn't want you and abandoned you!"

Wan Ying then looked at Gu Yanci: "Young Master Gu, like mother, like daughter. Wen Yan's mother, Nan Yun, is a fickle woman who doesn't care about her children or her family. What kind of good person is Wen Yan? Open your eyes and see clearly!"

"Is that so?" Gu Yanci looked coldly at Wan Ying, his thin lips parted slightly, "Coincidentally, I'm not a good person either."

……

Wen Yan didn't know when Wan Ying left. When she came to her senses, only she and Gu Yanci were left in the ward.

"You, why are you out of bed again!" Wen Yan exclaimed in surprise and immediately went to help Gu Yanci.

Gu Yanci was both amused and exasperated; he had been downstairs for quite some time.

As soon as the man sat back on the hospital bed, Wen Yan immediately said, "I'll call the doctor for you."

"No need, I'm fine." Gu Yanci pressed Wen Yan's hand down.

The next moment, he took it and held it in his hand.

Wen Yan tried to pull her hand away, but he held it firmly and she couldn't move.

The news Wan Ying gave was too shocking; Wen Yan didn't have the energy to deal with Gu Yanci right now.

At that moment, she finally understood why Wan Ying had said, "Are you sure you want him to listen too?"

Wen Yan unconsciously looked at Gu Yanci, the only person she could confide in at the moment: "Do you think... she's lying to me?"