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"..."

Qin Song blinked blankly, and without understanding what was going on, he raised his hand and gently patted Pei's mother's back.

"Mom, what's wrong with you?"

Pei's mother let go of her, her eyes already red and moist.

"Xiao Song, are you alright?"

Qin Song shook his head: "I'm fine, I'm perfectly fine."

“…That’s fine, that’s fine.” Mother Pei only repeated this sentence and didn’t say anything else.

Qin Song saw her secretly wiping away tears and knew she had seen the news.

Although that incident was false, it was still disgraceful for it to get out. Pei's mother must have heard a lot of gossip about Qin Song on her way back.

Qin Song bit his lip, feeling that he should explain something now.

But Pei's mother didn't seem to care.

"Come sit down, Mom bought you milk tea." She reached out and took Qin Song's wrist, leading him to the sofa to sit down. Then she put a straw in the milk tea she had just bought and fed it to Qin Song's mouth herself.

Qin Song paused for a moment, then took a big gulp of hot milk tea through the straw.

"It's delicious," she said with a smile.

Pei's mother put down the milk tea and chatted with her casually as if nothing had happened: "The milk tea shop at the entrance of the community is having some kind of autumn promotion. They say that if you buy a certain drink from them, you can get one free. I thought you haven't had milk tea in a long time, so I bought you a cup."

"Xiaoxuan got off work early today, so I can give her the cup I gave her. That way she won't keep complaining that I don't buy her anything anymore."

Qin Song: "Yes, thank you, Mom."

Pei's mother patted her head, her loving gaze unchanged.

"You haven't had lunch yet, have you? How about Mom makes you a bowl of noodles?"

Qin Song nodded: "Okay, I want to eat Mom's beef noodles, the kind with lots of beef!"

Pei's mother immediately got up from the sofa: "Wait, Mom will make it for you right now."

Qin Song: "Thank you, Mom!"

"Wow—"

The kitchen tap was turned on, and Pei's mother put on an apron and busied herself inside.

Qin Song took a few more sips of the milk tea, but finally couldn't resist dawdling and went into the kitchen.

"Why did you come here?" Pei's mother glanced at her and asked gently.

After thinking about it, she decided to be more tactful in her approach.

"Mom, don't you have anything you want to ask me?"

Upon hearing this, Pei's mother paused for a moment while cutting the beef, but only for a moment.

"I have nothing to ask." She knew what Qin Song meant, so she didn't play dumb with her.

“Xiaoxuan has already told me about that matter, and we all believe you.”

Qin Song: "But you never asked me directly, and I never explained anything to you."

“You don’t need to explain anything to me.” Pei’s mother said with a smile as she cut the beef. “We are family. If family says no, then no.”

"Mom..." Qin Song had prepared a lot of things to say, but now he was speechless because of Pei's mother.

Pei's mother urged her, "Go back and sit down quickly, Mom will be done soon."

Qin Song remained motionless, still standing blankly behind her: "Mom, why do you trust me so much? I've clearly done so many wrong things before."

Pei's mother focused intently on cutting the beef, as if Qin Song's question was as mundane as "what to eat later."

"The past is the past, it's all gone. Things from the past are just dust in the wind, we can't judge a person's present based on the past."

"To me, Qin Song is a very good girl right now, and she is worthy of my trust."

As she spoke, Pei's mother turned back to look at Qin Song again: "Go back and sit down to drink your milk tea. Mom will cook the noodles soon."

"..."

Qin Song stared blankly at her, feeling as if he had lost his ability to speak.

Every time she faced such a sincere and passionate heart, she could never find the words to express her feelings.

Because she hadn't experienced much love growing up, she felt lost and confused when faced with love.

She touched her belly, lingered and left the kitchen, obediently sat on the sofa and waited patiently for her noodles.

Pei Lingxuan was delayed for quite a while before returning, just in time for the beef noodles to be ready.

"Xiao Xuan," Pei's mother called from the kitchen.

She first gave Qin Song a reassuring gesture, and then replied, "Yes!"

Pei's mother: "Come and serve the noodles, Mom is going to take a shower."

"Now!" Pei Lingxuan turned and walked into the kitchen.

Pei's mother had already eaten lunch at her workplace, so after cooking the noodles, she went straight into the bathroom to take a shower.

Suddenly, only Qin Song and Pei Lingxuan remained in the living room.

The two of them sat at the table eating noodles. For the first minute, neither of them spoke, and the only sound in the air was the soft slurping of noodles.

But a minute later, Pei Lingxuan spoke first.

"Don't worry, sister-in-law. My brother went to his studio to take care of some things. Ye Ci just texted me saying that he has been picked up and is safe."

"Okay." Qin Song nodded, a slight smile playing on his lips.

Pei Lingxuan glanced at her and asked cautiously, "Sister-in-law, what happened between you and my brother? Why did you suddenly start arguing?"

Qin Song: "...It's not that we're having a fight. It's that I'm hiding something from him, and he's angry."

"Are you hiding something from him?" Pei Lingxuan sensed the gossip and immediately put down her chopsticks. "What is it? Can you tell me?"

Qin Song replied firmly, "No."

"Ah..." Pei Lingxuan grabbed her arm and shook it playfully, "Why? Are you even keeping this from me?"

Qin Song: "Yes, we must keep this from you and me for the time being."

“…Okay.” Pei Lingxuan could tell that Qin Song really didn’t want to talk about it, so she didn’t keep pressing her for details.

Qin Song pondered for a moment, then suddenly asked her, "Xiao Xuan, were you angry when I refused to tell you my secret?"

Pei Lingxuan frowned and thought for a moment: "No way. Everyone has their own secrets. If you don't want to tell me, you don't have to. Besides, you just emphasized that you're only keeping it from me temporarily, not for the rest of your life. It's okay if I find out later."

Qin Song put down his chopsticks, looking distressed: "Then why was your brother angry? And so angry that he just left?"

Pei Lingxuan laughed: "Because my brother's status is different. I'm just your sister-in-law, while my brother is your husband. A husband is someone you'll spend your life with, so of course he wants to be the first to share your secrets."

"However, this kind of sharing is different from gossip... Well, I've never been married, so I don't know how to describe this feeling. Anyway, for me, I feel very safe being able to share secrets with my partner."

"A sense of security..." Qin Song studied the word carefully, and a strong sense of guilt unconsciously spread through his heart.