Chapter 313: Even with a Mouth Full of Tongues, It

He turned his head and gave Jian Yixin a bitter smile: "It's nothing. I know you mean well. I will go on the day you and Ze Rong get married, and I wish you both happiness."

"Thank you for your well wishes. About the past, I am very sorry. I apologize."

Many years later, Jian Yixin finally added that long-overdue apology, and after saying it, she felt completely at ease.

Sheng Hanyu said: "Let the past be the past. Neither of us should bring it up again in the future; after all, life must always look forward."

"You don't hate me?" Jian Yining was a bit surprised.

She felt that Sheng Hanyu should hate her, after all, it was she who caused him to lose his wife and child.

For so many years, she had lived in self-reproach and guilt, until she learned the news that Shi Youxuan was still alive.

Shi Youxuan was alive, and the child was also alive.

In fact, when Jian Yixin learned that they were both alive, her joy was no less than Sheng Hanyu's.

It was also because she knew they were alive that Jian Yixin let go of her inner knot and accepted Sheng Zerong's love!

Otherwise, she always felt as if a heavy stone was pressing on her heart, feeling that she was not worthy of receiving love.

"I don't hate you."

Sheng Hanyu said: "If I were to hate anyone, I should hate myself. I hate that I didn't see things clearly and didn't arrange things well for you all. It was all my fault."

"No, it was my fault."

Jian Yixin choked up, but this time it was not an act, but genuine feelings from the heart: "Hanyu, thank you for not holding a grudge against me. I will go find Shi Youxuan tomorrow and explain the events of that year to her clearly. I cannot let you two continue to misunderstand each other like this..."

A car pulled up, and the owner was making a phone call while getting out.

The car hadn't been parked securely and began to slide automatically toward the two of them. At first, the speed was slow, but gradually the slope became steeper, and it accelerated, charging straight at them!

"Yixin, get out of the way!"

Sheng Hanyu saw the car coming and shouted for her to dodge.

But Jian Yixin was still immersed in her own emotions and couldn't pull herself out; she didn't even hear what he was saying.

"Huh? What did you say?"

It was too late; the car was about to hit her. Sheng Hanyu grabbed Jian Yixin and pulled her into his arms. The car "whooshed" past them and plunged into the green belt on the side.

"Are you alright?" Sheng Hanyu asked.

Jian Yixin broke out in a cold sweat, her heart pounding violently.

She clutched her chest, feeling lucky that if Sheng Hanyu hadn't pulled her just now, she would already be lying under the wheels.

"I'm fine, I'm fine, thank you..."

"Uncle, what are you doing?"

Shi Youxuan had returned with the child. She had left her bag on the dining table when she left, so she came back to get it. She hadn't expected to see Jian Yixin snuggled in Sheng Hanyu's arms, the two of them talking intimately!

When the car came just now, the two of them hadn't seen it, but when Sheng Hanyu pulled Jian Yixin into his arms, the two of them had seen it.

They quickly separated. Jian Yixin realized it was bad; the misunderstanding was deepening.

She hurriedly explained: "We weren't doing anything, we weren't doing anything just now, it was..."

"Let's go, don't be a busybody."

Shi Youxuan tugged at Shi Ran and didn't even give Jian Yixin a glance out of the corner of her eye, pulling the child away.

"Shi Youxuan, stop right there! Things are not what you see!"

Jian Yixin wanted to chase after them, but as soon as she took a step, a sharp pain shot through her right ankle—she had sprained it!

Shi Youxuan would not stop. Did she think it was still six years ago?

She believed Jian Yixin was trying to put on a show in front of Sheng Hanyu again. If you want to act, go ahead and act by yourself; I won't be your supporting character!

Along the way, Shi Ran kept asking: "Mom, who was that auntie just now? Why was she being held by Uncle?"

"I don't know, I don't recognize her. Probably Uncle's girlfriend," Shi Youxuan said offhandedly.

Shi Ran was not very happy: "Mom, I don't like Uncle's girlfriend."

Shi Youxuan: "What a coincidence, me neither."

Shi Ran: "Mom, I like Uncle."

Shi Youxuan's heart skipped a beat, but she reacted quickly: "I don't like him, not even a little bit." In reality, she didn't want to admit what she was thinking, but she knew it clearly.

The bag had been safely kept by the waiter. Seeing her return, he handed it back to her. After thanking him, Shi Youxuan took a few banknotes from the bag to thank the waiter.

The waiter refused, but she insisted that he must accept it, saying that if doing a good deed goes unrewarded, fewer and fewer people will do good deeds in the future.

So the waiter accepted it.

She then asked if the restaurant had a back door and if they could leave through it.

The restaurant did have a back door, which the chefs used for deliveries. So the mother and daughter went out through the back door. Shi Youxuan hadn't driven there anyway, so she hailed a taxi to go home.

At the restaurant entrance.

Sheng Hanyu and Jian Yixin were still waiting there, and the driver who had caused the accident was also waiting with them.

Jian Yixin asked him to write her a statement, and she wouldn't pursue the driver's liability.

The driver had witnessed the near-disaster just now, so he was willing to testify for her!

However, the mother and daughter went inside and were slow to come back out.

"I'll go in and check." Sheng Hanyu couldn't help it and went inside to look for them.

No one was there.

He asked the waiter, who said they had left through the back door and had been gone for a while.

Sheng Hanyu came out, looking a bit listless.

Jian Yixin asked: "Where are they?"

"They left through the back door."

Sheng Hanyu felt a strong sense of frustration now, because Shi Youxuan had no reaction at all.

If she could have been sarcastic, mocking, or done something even more extreme, he would have been especially happy.

However, she did not.

She had no reaction at all, and just took the child and left like that.

Sheng Hanyu got into the car, didn't even greet Jian Yixin, and went straight home.

Jian Yixin was incredibly annoyed; the misunderstanding was huge now, so she got the contact information from the car owner and went directly to find Shi Youxuan.

She knew where Shi Youxuan's home was; all these years when Shi Youxuan was not at home, she had been the one hiring people to clean and maintain it regularly.

"Ding-dong—"

"Uncle is here." The little one ran over with a pitter-patter, preparing to open the door.

"Come back."

Shi Youxuan grabbed her daughter and carried her back to the bedroom.

She put her index finger to her lips to make a shushing gesture and whispered to her daughter, "It might not be Uncle; it could also be a bad person. Mommy will go take a look."

"I want to go too."

"You stay here."

"I won't!"

The mother and daughter were still arguing in the room when Jian Yixin already said from outside, "Shi Youxuan, Shi Youxuan, I want to talk to you."

The little girl immediately put her index finger to her lips as well, imitating her mother's gesture, and whispered, "Don't go out, there's a bad person outside."

"Right, let's pretend we aren't home."

The mother and daughter hid in the bedroom, playing hide-and-seek with Jian Yixin.

Jian Yixin pressed the doorbell for a while without a response, but she guessed that Shi Youxuan must be home, just unwilling to pay her any mind.

So, she took out the paper and Hallucinogenic Pen she had prepared, wrote down what had just happened, slid it through the crack in the door, and then left in disappointment.

Shi Youxuan discovered the note, didn't even look at it, crumpled it into a ball, and threw it into the trash can.

She thought to herself, do you think it's still six years ago?

No matter what you say now, I won't be fooled.

Shi Youxuan thought Jian Yixin was trying to provoke her, but she missed the chance to learn the truth.

She acted as if nothing had happened in front of her daughter, doing whatever she needed to do, but she did not feel well inside.

The image of Sheng Hanyu holding Jian Yixin in his arms kept appearing before her eyes; she couldn't drive it away, couldn't shake it off.

Originally, she thought those two had nothing to do with her, and whatever they did was none of her business, but she didn't know why—

Her heart still ached and felt very uncomfortable.