Reborn in the 80s: My Whole Family Secretly Hears My Thoughts and Goes Wild with Success! - Chapter 122

Chen Can walked straight into a specific house.

An hour later, a woman saw him out. She held onto his hand reluctantly, looking at him with pleading eyes. “When will you come see me again?”

“Work’s been a bit busy lately. I’ll come more often once things calm down.”

Chen Can pinched the woman’s cheek, his smile flirtatious and dismissive. “I just satisfied you, and you’re already wanting more, hmm?”

“You’re awful~”

The woman swatted his hand away, her tone coquettish. “I’m being serious with you. My parents know I’m seeing someone. They’re pressuring me to bring you home.”

Chen Can’s face instantly darkened, his brows furrowing tightly. “Why did you tell your parents about us?”

“I didn’t! They saw the things you gave me and started asking questions.”

The woman sensed something was wrong and let go of his hand. “You never actually planned to be with me, did you? You’ve been lying to me all along, haven’t you?”

“Silly girl, how could you think that of me?”

Chen Can forcefully pulled the woman into his embrace. “Look, I found a rare break in my schedule and came straight to see you.”
“What I mean is, I have too much on my plate right now. I don’t have time to meet your parents. I’m just worried they’ll get a bad impression of me if I go empty-handed.”
“From now on, keep the things I give you hidden. If your parents ask again, just tell them we didn’t work out and broke up. Once I’m less busy, I’ll buy proper gifts and go home with you, alright? We’ll give your parents a nice surprise then.”

Chen Can kissed the woman on the cheek. “Be good and listen to me. Next time I come, I’ll buy you that dress you’ve always wanted.”
“Also, don’t bring this up again. I have my own plans.”
“I come to you to relax. If you make me feel more stressed, I won’t want to come anymore. Understand?”

The woman immediately panicked and clung tightly to Chen Can. “I was wrong. Please don’t stop coming.”

“That’s more like it.”

Chen Can tapped the tip of her nose, then pushed her away. “I have to go. There’s a meeting I need to attend. Be good.”

Not long after leaving the alley, Chen Can was ambushed. A sack was thrown over his head, he was knocked unconscious, and dumped at an abandoned hospital in the suburbs.

“Young Master.”

A man crouched beside Huo Jiusi, whispering a report into his ear. “The woman’s identity has been confirmed. Her name is Huang Jing, she’s a worker at the garment factory. She met Chen Can at a dance hall.”

“Proceed with the original plan, but make him suffer more. Hurt him. Make it painful.”

“Yes, Young Master!”

The Huo Jiusi present now was neither the gentle, tsundere man he was with Yaya, nor the sensible and well-behaved youth he appeared to be around elders. Instead, he was utterly cold and ruthless.

Though his voice still carried a hint of youthful softness, his words were like a biting wind laden with snow, causing the men behind him to bow their heads even lower, not daring to show the slightest hint of disrespect.

The night was as cool as water. Meanwhile, elsewhere…

Ye Zhiqiu tossed and turned in bed, the words she had heard from Yaya’s thoughts that afternoon echoing incessantly in her mind: “Papa loves Mama so much, how could he ever bully her…”

In that instant, it felt like she had been struck by lightning. She was completely stunned.

Yue Mingyuan… loved her?

How was that possible? Didn’t he have a girl he liked?

Had he stopped liking that girl and developed feelings for her instead? Or had she been mistaken all along, and there never was another girl?

Ye Zhiqiu sat up, her heart a tangled mess of confusion. She couldn’t help but turn her gaze to the family portrait on the bedside table.

She desperately wanted to call Yue Mingyuan and ask him what was really going on. But after a glance at the clock on the wall, she forced herself to suppress that impulse and got up to pour a glass of water.

She hadn’t been sleepy to begin with, and after drinking the water, she felt even more awake. She couldn’t stop herself from recalling bits and pieces of their two years of marriage.

After the incident in the reed marshes, Shen Daqiang felt she had shamed the family and wanted to marry her off to an old widower who would fly into drunken rages.

She naturally refused. So he tied her up, locked her in a room, and withheld food and water to force her submission.

Just when she thought she was going to join her mother in the afterlife, Yue Mingyuan appeared before her like a deity descended from heaven.

He was backlit, his features unclear, but his eyes were exceptionally bright. She recognized him instantly.

By the time she was discharged from the hospital, Shen Daqiang had already accepted the betrothal gifts from the Yue family, setting the wedding date for her and Yue Mingyuan.

Given the circumstances, she had no choice but to marry Yue Mingyuan.

Yet, she could never understand why a son of heaven like Yue Mingyuan would insist on marrying a woman like her, whose reputation was ruined.

She soon learned the answer from Shen Liya: Yue Mingyuan had been injured, potentially crippled for life, and the girl he liked had abandoned him because of it.

Even so, she still didn’t understand why he wanted to marry her. Given his status, he clearly had many better options.

She had never asked Yue Mingyuan this question, and he had never volunteered the information.

Their married life was spent more apart than together. When they were together, they treated each other with formal respect, feeling an invisible, intangible barrier between them. Neither knew how to break it down.

Not long after, she became pregnant with their first child.

Then, not long after that, she lost the first child during training.

This event became a shared pain in both her and Yue Mingyuan’s hearts. It even made her consider divorce.

But every time she tried to bring it up, he seemed to know what she was going to say and would change the subject, leaving her no opportunity to speak.

After that, their phone calls became less and less frequent. Coupled with Yue Mingyuan being assigned tasks, things were delayed for over half a year.

When he came home during the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, she wanted to talk to him about it, but somehow they ended up in bed together.

In that awkward situation, she naturally couldn’t bring it up. By the time she wanted to broach the subject again, she discovered she was pregnant once more.

She cherished this new life deeply and could see that Yue Mingyuan was overjoyed.

They took careful care together, but another accident still occurred. It was only then that she learned someone had been scheming behind their backs.

If it weren’t for Wang Fengqin and Shen Liya’s interference, she and Yue Mingyuan wouldn’t have had so many misunderstandings, and she wouldn’t have built layer upon layer of emotional defenses against him.

Now that the truth about many things had come to light, Yaya’s words made her begin to doubt the things Shen Liya had told her back then.

But she had also personally heard Yue Mingyuan admit to Ling Hang that there indeed was a girl he liked.

After turning it over and over in her mind, Ye Zhiqiu decided she would ask Yue Mingyuan about this clearly and directly when she went to see him.

Originally, she thought she might just be accustomed to his care. Perhaps if they separated, her feelings for him would revert to how they were before—not completely absent, but not very significant.

Unexpectedly, this time was different. Not only did her feelings for him not fade, they grew even stronger.

Whenever she had a free moment, she would think of him—wondering what he was doing, wondering if he was thinking of her.

She knew she should control her heart, knowing he loved someone else. But her heart simply wouldn’t obey.