Chapter 2261: Five Thunderbolts Striking the Top

Liu Manqiong did not know why, but the moment she saw Ye Chen, all the resentment and blame in her heart instantly vanished.

And the moment Ye Chen apologized to her, she even felt a bit ashamed.

The shame was because Ye Chen had traveled so far to save Chen Zhaozhong, while her father had wanted Chen Zhaozhong's life for the sake of his own face.

Here, who was right and who was wrong was clear at a glance.

Ye Chen, who never liked to owe anyone anything, now saw that they had cleared things up, and felt much more relaxed in his heart. So, he said to Liu Manqiong: "Miss Manqiong, since this matter has passed, let's just turn the page from now on."

"Okay." Liu Manqiong nodded gently. Remembering Ye Chen mentioning the snack street to her father this afternoon, she asked curiously: "Mr. Ye, why did you suddenly mention the snack street to my dad this afternoon? Could it be that he had other plans?"

"Yes." Ye Chen said: "Mr. Liu wanted to redevelop this place into a commercial center."

Liu Manqiong asked in surprise: "He told you?"

"Yes." Ye Chen nodded and said: "He was very excited when describing this part. I saw that he had made up his mind eight or nine times out of ten, so I took this opportunity to let him transfer this snack street directly to you. Whether it stays or goes in the future will be up to you."

Liu Manqiong looked at Ye Chen with eyes as warm as water and asked softly: "Why did you do that?"

Ye Chen said casually: "This snack street has an extraordinary meaning to you, so it should be preserved in terms of reason and emotion. Moreover, your dad is not short of money at all. Actually, even if the land price here rises a lot, he has no need to tear it down for redevelopment."

Speaking of this, Ye Chen sighed: "But you should know the thinking of the rich. They never look at money as enough, but are addicted to making money. So if I didn't ask him, I was afraid he would really tear it down. By then, if you wanted to find the memories here again, I'm afraid it would never be possible."

Liu Manqiong was grateful in her heart. Looking at Ye Chen, her voice was soft and gentle: "Thank you..."

Ye Chen smiled slightly: "You're welcome. I can empathize with this feeling of yours. After my parents passed away, I also often went to see the old house where we used to live. Sometimes when I was moving bricks at a construction site far away, I would ride my bicycle to take a look after work. If that place were torn down, I wouldn't be able to accept it either."

Liu Manqiong asked in surprise: "Mr. Ye has also moved bricks at a construction site?!"

Ye Chen nodded and said: "After I graduated from high school at eighteen, I started working at various construction sites. I worked at civil engineering sites and also at decoration and renovation sites. I did it for six years."

Liu Manqiong was incredibly shocked and also asked with great confusion: "But your family background is so prominent, why did you go to a construction site? Whether it's your grandfather or your maternal grandfather, they are both super-rich, especially your maternal grandfather, who my dad said could rank in the top three in the world. Why did you go to move bricks at a construction site after graduating from high school?"

Ye Chen said indifferently: "Their money is theirs. I told you before, ever since my parents passed away when I was eight, I have been living in an orphanage, from eight to eighteen when I graduated from high school. After I came out of the orphanage at eighteen, I started working at construction sites to earn money."

Hearing this, Liu Manqiong nodded gently and whispered: "When I was angry with you, I felt that everything you did was lying to me, but now looking back, it seems that everything you told me was the truth. Even for some things that were inconvenient to say directly, you just chose to say a part of it, and didn't lie to me."

As she spoke, Liu Manqiong asked Ye Chen: "By the way, how long did you work at the construction site?"

"Four years." Ye Chen said: "I did it from eighteen to twenty-two."

Liu Manqiong was incredibly surprised. She knew Ye Chen was twenty-eight this year, so she could not help but widen her eyes and ask: "You were still at a construction site six years ago?!"

"Yes." Ye Chen explained: "Six years ago, the engineering team I was in took on a new site. At the site, I accidentally gained the appreciation of the boss of the party of the first part. He insisted on arranging for me to study at a university for more than a year, and then wanted to marry his most beloved granddaughter to me..."

Liu Manqiong looked at Ye Chen, dumbfounded, and blurted out: "You're not joking with me, are you? Why would that boss treat you so well and even want to marry his granddaughter to you?"

Ye Chen smiled lightly and said: "It was a coincidence. His ancestors had always been servants of the Ye family, so he recognized my identity. Although I had nothing at the time, he still wanted to give me a home in the true sense."

Liu Manqiong looked at Ye Chen's knowing smile and felt her heartbeat accelerate suddenly. She asked Ye Chen somewhat uneasily: "You... you didn't agree, did you?"

"Yes, I agreed." Ye Chen said lightly: "At that time, I had nothing, and I had had enough of a life of drifting. I also longed to have a home."

At this moment, Liu Manqiong only felt like five thunderbolts striking the top!

She endured the sharp pain in her heart and asked Ye Chen: "So you are already married, right?"

"Yes." Ye Chen said as a matter of course: "He arranged for me to go to university at that time, actually to accompany my wife until she graduated from university. After my wife graduated, we held the wedding."

Liu Manqiong only felt her eyes instantly heat up, and her vision suddenly blurred.

She never imagined that Ye Chen was already married.

And she was even more surprised that her heart would ache so much when she heard this news.

She had thought that she was just curious about Ye Chen, at most having a little bit of good feeling, but the heartache at this moment made her realize that she had actually fallen deeply into it and could not extricate herself in just two or three days.

At this moment, she felt her tears were about to burst out.

In order not to let Ye Chen discover it, she deliberately used her arm to knock her phone off, and after the phone fell, she immediately bent down to pick it up.

Relying on the cover of the table, big tears burst out from her eyes.

Liu Manqiong did not dare to let Ye Chen discover her abnormality, so she deliberately spent a few more seconds under the table. After barely controlling her tears, she picked up her phone.

As a result, when she picked up the phone, she found that because it had hit a hard little sand stone on the ground, the glass back cover had cracked.

At this time, she could not care about the damage to the phone. The grievance and loss in her heart made her tears, which she had been struggling to hold back, roll down again.

Ye Chen did not expect Liu Manqiong to start crying while picking up the phone, so he hurriedly asked her: "Miss Manqiong, why are you crying? What happened?"

Liu Manqiong looked at him with blurred eyes, unable to control her tears, and simply burst into tears, choking: "My... my phone is broken..." ===== CHAPTER 2262 =====