“How should I talk to you then? Why don’t you teach me?”
The woman’s eyes were distant and cold, filled with undisguised disdain.
Shu Linyuan tried to reach out to grab her and explain, but she dodged him directly.
“Xiao Yi, I know you’re still blaming me… all these years, your room has always been there. No one can drive you out. That place will always be your home.”
“Shu Linyuan, don’t put on a fake act to test me. I’m not going to ruin your happy family reunion. That place—just getting a little closer to it makes me sick.”
“Xiao Yi, you’re still blaming me, aren’t you? But back then, I was young and impulsive, that’s why I… At the time, I didn’t know how to face you. I didn’t mean to leave you and run away. I didn’t know how my mom found out, nor that she misunderstood you as seducing me. I also didn’t know she would send you abroad. If I had known earlier, I would never have let you face it alone…” Shu Linyuan looked at the Shu Yi before him, finding her more and more captivating. Unconsciously, he recalled that he had once held her waist—one hand was enough to encircle it.
Shu Yi let out a cold laugh, her nails digging deeply into her palm. “Shu Linyuan, you’re just like your mother—hypocritical.”
She flagged down a taxi and left without looking back.
Through the rearview mirror, she glanced at the man behind her, the disgust in her eyes deepening.
At some point, heavy rain had begun pouring outside.
When she was eighteen, the day she was dragged out of the Shu family home, the rain had fallen just as fiercely.
“Shu Yi, I know you hate me and think I ruined your family, but your father and I truly love each other. I didn’t interfere in your parents’ relationship. Ever since your mother passed away, I’ve treated you like my own daughter. What have I done wrong to you, for you to seduce your own brother? How can you be so shameless! Linyuan is my only son—he’s my life! How is he supposed to live here in the future? In matters like this, people will only blame the man. Are you planning to make him bear the burden of—”
“I didn’t!”
“Then what are these confession letters? And these? Don’t tell me they’re all fake? Shu Yi, you just want to ruin Linyuan. You resent us for taking your father! How can you be so vicious!”
The windshield wipers scraped sharply across the glass, like the red marks Shu Linyuan’s mother once scratched across her face with her nails.
“Miss, where to?” the driver interrupted Shu Yi’s thoughts.
“18 Xinghe Road.”
Her phone vibrated.
[Xiao Yi, at least let me make it up to you. This time, I won’t run away. Now that Dad doesn’t interfere anymore…]
She directly blocked the number.
Make it up to her?
How much was Shu Linyuan’s “compensation” worth?
She thought of that university admission letter, and the way those people had pointed at her and hurled insults. Her face turned a little paler.
She hated this place. She didn’t want to stay here for even a minute.
Once she got pregnant, she would never come back again.
At the pharmacy near her home, Shu Yi bought seven pregnancy test kits in one go.
Although she had been pregnant before, she was still inexperienced.
After all, the first time she found out, she was already five months along.
Five minutes later, Shu Yi saw the red line on the test.
At the same time, she received a call from Pei Yanli.
“Come to the old residence tomorrow to pick me up.”
The old residence?
Wouldn’t that mean seeing Old Master Pei?
Three years ago, Old Master Pei had warned her not to appear in front of Pei Yanli again.
Shu Yi was lost in thought when suddenly, the sound of someone picking the lock came from the door.