Chapter 35: The Truth
Blackness gradually swallowed the entire sky. There was no more light, not even a single star in the night sky. Dark clouds pressed down heavily, and the damp, sticky air clung to people’s exposed skin like a thin film.
In the bedroom, Fei Jing leaned against the wall with his arms crossed, his head lowered. His light golden hair was lifted by the wind blowing in from the window, and under the white light, he was as beautiful as an angel who had fallen to the mortal world.
But the only audience in the room had no intention of appreciating it.
Fei Han slowly closed his book, put it back on the bookshelf, and only spoke when he turned around. “Fei Jing, when did you find out?”
Fei Jing just curled his lip and let out a soft scoff. “Why should I tell you? Didn’t you also know long ago but never told us?”
Fei Han frowned slightly, but he didn’t dwell on the issue and sat back down in his chair.
“Fei Jing, use your brain. Do you really think I would have let that woman run away?”
Although Fei Han didn’t particularly like Nuonuo at the time, he wouldn’t have been so impulsive as to let go of a person full of suspicious points.
Fei Jing had also just been impulsive. After calming down, he understood Fei Han’s meaning.
That woman, Wen Yuan, was both crazy and strange. Even if they caught her, they probably couldn’t do anything to her. It was better to just monitor her completely. Wen Yuan seemed to be afraid of being alone. Whenever she had time, she would almost always be in crowded places.
Using violence to combat violence, accurately hitting the other’s weakness—that was the best torture.
It was just that Fei Jing was not as rational as Fei Han. He had always acted on a whim and would not consider long-term plans.
Tilting his chin up slightly, Fei Jing thought of something, and his lips couldn’t help but curl up. He didn’t say anything more and just walked out.
Fei Han, on the other hand, saw that Fei Jing hadn’t caused a fuss and frowned slightly, feeling that something was not right.
Wen Yuan’s situation was indeed as Fei Jing had thought, on the verge of a breakdown.
She disliked being in dark, enclosed spaces. In her previous life, she had spent most of her time in the small house Fei Nuo had arranged for her. Although it was safe, it was also torturous. Especially in the last few years, the internet had been completely cut off, and Fei Nuo was always busy. Besides the maid who brought her meals, Wen Yuan didn’t even have anyone to talk to.
Wen Yuan even once felt that perhaps her soul had already decayed long before her death, and what was left was just a walking corpse.
So after coming back, Wen Yuan didn’t even go back to her own home to sleep at night, but found an internet cafe to stay in overnight.
Listening to the sound of people around her vigorously typing on their keyboards and occasionally cursing their “pig teammates,” Wen Yuan not only didn’t find it noisy, but actually felt particularly at ease.
Only in the hustle and bustle of a crowd did Wen Yuan feel that she was alive.
Tonight, just as Wen Yuan was about to walk into an internet cafe as she had yesterday, something unexpected happened on the way.
A small, thin vine shot out from the shadows of a street corner and, before Wen Yuan could react, wrapped itself around her ankle…
Wen Yuan wanted to scream, but she was not a very courageous person. Under the threatening coercion of the vine, she could only lean against the corner of the wall, her shoulders trembling helplessly.
How could this be?!
Wen Yuan couldn’t understand why the first one to find her was Fei Jing?! She had thought of many consequences, but no matter how she thought about it, she had always thought it would be Fei Zhiyan who came looking for her…
It was like this in her previous life. Wen Yuan had already walked this path once and thought she could handle it better this time, which was why she had fought for Fei Nuo.
Wen Yuan had originally been just a small secretary at a company. At a certain cocktail party, she was pulled by her short-staffed boss to be a “face.” But she never expected to be drugged and have an encounter with Fei Zhiyan, who was also in a compromised state.
When she woke up that night and saw Fei Zhiyan’s face next to her, besides panic, there was also a huge surprise in her heart.
Fei Zhiyan, the highest council president of Yunzhou. Wen Yuan thought in a daze at the time. This is like a pie falling from the sky, right?
But soon, she calmed down, considered her current situation, and still put on her clothes and left. This one-night stand certainly meant nothing to Fei Zhiyan, but for Wen Yuan, it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. She had to hold onto this leverage and go to Fei Zhiyan at the most critical moment to cash it in.
But what she never expected was that she was pregnant!
Wen Yuan thought at the time that this was probably what it felt like to reach the sky in a single step. But she still held back, patiently waiting for the child to be born. As long as the child was in her hands, wealth and glory would be within her grasp!
But who would have thought she would give birth to a little monster, with a human body and a fishtail, who crawled out of her stomach at just over six months, scaring Wen Yuan so much she almost went crazy.
She didn’t understand which step had gone wrong and even suspected that perhaps she had never even slept with Fei Zhiyan in the first place…
After struggling in pain for more than a year, Wen Yuan still chose to throw the increasingly ferocious Fei Nuo into the sea and planned to bury this secret forever.
Another two years passed. When Fei Nuo was about three years old, Fei Zhiyan found her with his men and had her sign an agreement.
It was only later that Wen Yuan learned that Fei Zhiyan had originally wanted her to disappear from this world completely. It was Fei Nuo’s plea that had made Fei Zhiyan let her go.
But at that time, Wen Yuan didn’t think too much about it. She took the money from the signed agreement and lived a lavish life for several decades, until the apocalypse came, and she saw Fei Nuo again.
Wen Yuan had long since forgotten the fear she felt when the zombies broke down her door. She only remembered that the teenage Fei Nuo had a gloomy look in his eyes, and with a wave of his hand, he had crushed those zombies to pieces and asked her with a grim face if she wanted to go back with him.
From then on, Wen Yuan’s future was inseparable from Fei Nuo’s protection.
That was why she was so crazy, so desperate to keep Fei Nuo by her side again.
Wen Yuan’s spirit had long since become a little crazed. She had put a shackle on herself and on Fei Nuo, tightly imprisoning each other.
Wen Yuan also knew that when Fei Zhiyan first discovered Fei Nuo in her previous life, he didn’t want to raise him. It was only because Fei Nuo’s spiritual power was too high that Fei Zhiyan had changed his mind and kept the little cub.
That was why Wen Yuan had been so eager to go to the villa. At this point in time, she was not at all afraid that Fei Zhiyan would find out. In fact, she wanted him to know of her existence and then come and negotiate with her. This time, Wen Yuan had already thought it through. She wouldn’t take the money that was enough for her to squander for a lifetime, but would keep Fei Nuo.
But she never expected that the first to arrive would be Fei Jing’s blood-sucking vine.
Even though it was such a hot day, Wen Yuan’s fingers were starting to turn cold, her lips had long since lost their color. She watched in horror as the blood-sucking vine tightened around her ankle, turning it purple and blue, but her body was paralyzed and she couldn’t move at all.
She knew clearly that Fei Jing was just threatening and playing with her and wouldn’t cause her any real harm, but it was enough to deal a considerable blow to Wen Yuan’s spirit.
It wasn’t until a gentle breeze started to blow and the sound of a few young people laughing and joking came from the alley entrance that Wen Yuan dragged her leg, which felt as if it had been drained of blood, and limped out.
She couldn’t understand. She really couldn’t understand why it was Fei Jing who had come to intimidate her?!
Weren’t Fei Jing and Fei Nuo’s relationship extremely bad? Knowing that Fei Nuo was going to be taken away by her, he should have been clapping his hands in joy, right? Why would he go to such trouble?! It was as if he were warning Wen Yuan not to touch Fei Nuo in the future.
This was simply illogical!
Was Fei Jing and Fei Nuo’s relationship that good at this time?
Wen Yuan’s confusion gradually took over her panic. She refused the few young students who were concerned about her and leaned against the wall of the street, letting out a soft breath.
It’s okay. After all, this is a matter from my previous life. It’s normal for my memory to be biased.
Just as Wen Yuan was comforting herself, the light of the streetlight in front of her was blocked by a girl’s shadow. “Wen Yuan? Do you want to cooperate with us?”
Yingying lowered her head slightly and looked at the pale and dazed Wen Yuan.
Hearing this, Wen Yuan just let out a scoff, thinking the other person was crazy. “Who are you? Why should I cooperate with you? Are you from that old woman’s rival company? Let me tell you, I’m not planning to work as a secretary anymore, and I don’t have any information on that woman.”
Yingying knew that Wen Yuan had misunderstood. She raised an eyebrow and said, “It’s not that kind of cooperation, but cooperation to help you successfully move into Fei Zhiyan’s home. How about it? By then, you’ll be the wife of the Yunzhou Council President.”
Hearing this, Wen Yuan couldn’t help but laugh out loud, her tears streaming down her face. At the same time, her eyes showed a hint of defensiveness. “Little girl, you just graduated from university, right? You still have such foolish delusions. I don’t want to be any council president’s wife!”
Although she didn’t know where this girl had heard that she had had an encounter with Fei Zhiyan, Wen Yuan would not be fooled! In her previous life, it wasn’t that she hadn’t thought of making Fei Zhiyan fall in love with her, but after experiencing being choked by his spiritual power and thrown out of a second-floor window to feed the zombies, Wen Yuan had never dared to have such a thought again.
Anyway, whoever wants to be the council president’s wife can be. I, for one, cherish my life very much!
Being mocked to her face like this, a hint of annoyance and disdain appeared on Yingying’s face. So timid. I don’t know how she got so lucky as to give birth to Fei Zhiyan’s child. If it were me, I would have definitely used this opportunity to cultivate a relationship with Fei Zhiyan!
Solving the problem from the source of the villain is much faster than others working themselves to death to oppose Fei Zhiyan!
After leaving Fei Zhiyan’s house, Yingying had seen Dan Ran’s miserable state in the hospital and had indeed been panicked for a while, not daring to show her face. But later, she and Dan Ran had made a new plan. Since it was risky for her to do it herself, why not find someone else to do it!
And Wen Yuan, the only woman in the plot who had had an encounter with Fei Zhiyan, became their target.
But who would have thought that after she had gone to so much trouble to find Wen Yuan, the other person would not even appreciate it!
No wonder she was just cannon fodder until she died! She doesn’t even have the determination or courage to climb up! Yingying thought with a hint of disdain.
Wen Yuan also clearly saw the sarcasm on Yingying’s face. Her already not-so-good-looking face turned even darker, and she directly told her to leave. “If you have nothing to do, don’t block my way. I still have to find a place to rest.”
Yingying closed her eyes to calm herself down and not argue with this stupid woman. “Even if you don’t like Fei Zhiyan, don’t you miss your son, Fei Nuo? Even for the sake of the child, you should try to get in touch with Fei Zhiyan, right?”
At these words, Wen Yuan suddenly looked up, her eyes staring at Yingying warily.
“How do you know Nuonuo is my and Fei Zhiyan’s child?!”
On the street with endless traffic, inside a low-key black luxury car, Fei Zhiyan heard these words, and his originally closed eyes instantly flew open.
