When Li Yin fell down drunk and Ms. Zhang started to walk out the door, Ye Kong, who had been eavesdropping and peeping, did not hide, but stood there very openly and confidently.

He was clearly an eavesdropper, but he allowed himself to be parked in Ms. Zhang's path like a roadblock.

"You... Miss Ye, Miss Ye San!"

As you can imagine, Ms. Zhang, who was already timid, was very frightened. She kept wanting to turn around and look at her son in the house, but she was trying hard to suppress this impulse.

He looked panicked, as if his son would die if he was discovered.

"Miss Ye San, did you see everything?"

Ye Kong didn't say anything. She panicked even more and even pleaded with the younger generation: "Can you please not tell others that Li Yin is here? He will be beaten when he gets home!"

But Ye Kong still didn't say anything.

The girl in front of him was as beautiful as a portrait, but at the same time, she was very cold when her face was expressionless, making people afraid to approach her.

Those who don’t know her would think that she grew up in the clouds and was a native and arrogant aristocrat - the type of person that Ms. Zhang fears the most.

But at this moment she forgot about her fear, and even rushed forward with such a cold face and grabbed Ye Kong's arm.

"Please, Miss Ye San! I know there are some unpleasant things between you and Li Yin. As his mother, I apologize to you on his behalf, okay? Just pretend that you didn't see or hear anything - or, if there is anything you want, I can try my best to give it to you..."

"..."

She chattered on and on for a long time, but the girl in front of her was still as cold as ever, looking at her as if she were looking at a new and strange thing.

A little bit of inquiry and scrutiny, and a little bit of cold curiosity.

Just when Ms. Zhang was about to despair and was ready to throw the jar into chaos, she finally spoke without warning.

"You seem to love him." She tilted her head, "But why didn't you take his flowers? Why did you refuse to leave the Li family with him?"

She was a little taller than Ms. Zhang, so she leaned forward slightly, pinched her chin with her fingers, looked into her eyes, and asked curiously: "Everything you did just now made me judge that you are a person who can be happy as long as you have a child by your side. You are willing to give everything for him, but why...you don't go with him? Is it because you don't believe that your son can support you?"

"..." Perhaps she didn't expect that she would ask such a question after being silent for a long time. Ms. Zhang's pupils trembled for a long time, and finally she slowly smiled bitterly, "Let's go?"

"I've heard that Miss Ye San just returned to Yuzhou not long ago, and I didn't take it seriously at first, but now it seems that you don't even know what a wealthy family is." She raised her head and looked at Ye Kong, with a sad smile on her face that had always been patient. "I know that the Ye family is very good, and Mr. Ye and Mrs. Ye are also considered a famous model couple in the circle - Miss Ye San is really lucky to be born in such a family."

She said: "But Li Yin was very unlucky. He was born from my belly. I have no family background and no ability, so I couldn't keep his father. Li Yin thought he only had two half-siblings, but in fact there were far more than that..."

"Leave?" She shook her head. "The moment he leaves the Li family and gives up his identity as Young Master Li, he will be torn to pieces by his brothers and sisters, and his father will definitely not care about him at that time."

As the woman spoke, she finally couldn't help but cover her face and burst into tears: "I regret it too, I also want to leave, but I have no choice... He had an accident when he was a child. At that time, his father and I had a good relationship. The woman who did it disappeared afterwards. Now that he has grown up, I dare not..."

After she had cried enough, she raised her head and said to Ye Kong, "Miss Ye San, you haven't been in Yuzhou for long, so you don't know that the richer people are, the more likely they are to become crazy for money. Don't be fooled by the fact that these people appear to be respectable and well-dressed on the surface, but when it comes to fighting for power and status, they can even fight uglier than any shrew in the vegetable market."

She paused and suddenly laughed ridiculously: "Of course, after it's over, they will pretend nothing happened and continue to act elegant and reserved."

After saying this, Ms. Zhang seemed to remember that the parents of the man in front of her were also native Yuzhou nobles, and a hint of despair and regret appeared on her face again.

But Ye Kong didn't react at all.

She just looked at the woman and said slowly, "So, your son would break up with the woman he has always pursued for you, and would do his best to take you away from the Li family. But for the sake of your son's safety, you would rather swallow your anger and continue to stay in the Li family despite the humiliation - and even hide the fact from your son that he has many brothers and sisters?"

"What?" Ms. Zhang didn't understand what she wanted to say and looked at her timidly, "You mean..."

"What I mean is..." Ye Kong suddenly laughed, "I won't tell anyone."

She stepped aside: "You go."

Ms. Zhang was a little bit unbelieving. She confirmed it several times before she walked away, looking back every few steps.

Ye Kong watched her back until she disappeared, then he turned around and looked at Li Yin who had fallen to the ground in the house through the floor-to-ceiling window.

She stood there, not knowing what she was thinking. Finally, she took a deep breath and looked up at the high sky.

"Just consider it as a reward for the good show you put on for me."

She walked in, stepped over the young man's body lying on the ground, went to the kitchen to turn off the boiling fire, then came back, picked up the bouquet of flowers, and half-knelt in front of Li Yin.

"Hey, Li Yin, let's make a deal."

She fiddled with the petals and lowered her head with a wicked smile.

·

It’s the same way home.

Mr. Li leaned back in his chair with his eyes closed, while Ms. Zhang dared not even breathe beside him. On her other side, Li Yin propped up his face and looked out the window, his whole body submerged in the shadows, with no expression visible.

The car had been driving for an unknown amount of time when Mr. Li suddenly asked, "What did the Ye family give you?"

"what?"

"I'm talking to that little bastard Ye Kong!" Mr. Li turned around and glared at her, saying angrily, "Take out the gift she gave you and show it to me!"

"..."

"…Why are you looking at me?" Mr. Li glared at Li Yin who turned his head silently and said, "What are you looking at? Is this the way you should look at your own father?"

"Okay, okay, take a look." Ms. Zhang quickly took out the gift that she had carefully kept in her pocket and handed it to Li Xuelai, "But I haven't seen it yet..."

She was a little hesitant, but Mr. Li snatched it away roughly.

It was a small box.

When they had shone the light on it at the banquet, they had thought it was a wooden box with exquisite relief carvings. But when they held it in their hands, Mr. Li realized that something was wrong.

“Is this a paper box?”

He studied it for a moment, frowned, and asked, "What's on it? A painting?"

As he spoke, he seriously rubbed off a lot of marks left by the black pen.

Mr. Li:......

Ms. Zhang looked distressed and whispered, "Don't rub it, don't make it smeared..."

Mr. Li impatiently tore the box open, and the flower relief that was almost lifelike broke into several pieces.

Ms. Zhang's face twitched slightly, and she just stared at the opened box.

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