Chapter 30.1: His Heart

Cen Ning sat in the passenger seat, watching the neon lights of the buildings flash backwards into a blur of light.

It was late at night. However, the city was still noisy and bustling with people. Looking from a distance, the noisy lights rendered the night colourful. Through the car window, she saw the twinkling lights and her eyes showed silent panic.

Yan Xingzhi suddenly broke the silence in the car. “What’s the matter with your colleague?”

“I know she doesn’t like me, but I didn’t know she didn’t like me that much.” Cen Ning muttered.

She finished speaking and glanced at Yan Xingzhi. “What she said just now is all false.”

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Yan Xingzhi sneered. “I wouldn’t know. I watched you grow up as if I wouldn’t know what kind of temperament you have.”

“You didn’t watch me grow up.” said Cen Ning under her breath.

Yan Xingzhi glanced at her. Oh, she’s quite fussy about that.

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Uld Lkdt rwaple bla zkrp yde pvsrrle vyzjkdt.

Zyd Dkdtgbk zssjle cynj yv vbl asye. “Psd’v cl vss rszkvl vs svblap usw yald’v qyxkzkya okvb, svblaokpl lhlausdl okzz vbkdj usw yal y psqv rlapkxxsd.” (MNL: Fsxlsdl vbyv nyd lypkzu cl cwzzkle)

Gzvbswtb, bla vlxrlayxldv oyp saktkdyzzu zkjl vbyv sq y psqv rlapkxxsd.

“Qsv kv.” Uld Lkdt blpkvyvle. “R’x dsv vbyv lypu vs cwzzu…”

“Slyzzu.”

Tl alrzkle kd y vsdl sq nsxrzlvl ekpclzklq.

Uld Lkdt: “…”

Mbl nya oyp pweeldzu qkzzle okvb pkzldnl. Zyd Dkdtgbk tzydnle yv bla swv sq vbl nsadla sq bkp lul, sdzu vs pll bla zsola bla blye yde vwt yv bla qkdtlap, zssjkdt yttaklhle.

“Cen Ning.”

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“Mhm?”

“Is it so difficult for you to say the word boyfriend?” Yan Xingzhi looked forward with a bitter expression. “If you said so earlier, there wouldn’t have been much trouble.”

Cen Ning’s heart tightened, and the veins at her temples jumped nervously. “But… you’re not.”

Yan Xingzhi’s hands on the steering wheel tightened. “Why, you don’t want to tell a lie?”

Cen Ning glanced at him secretly. “I’m afraid, plus others will misunderstand.”

“Why do you care about their misunderstanding?”

Cen Ning bit her lip, not knowing what to say.

She never thought about the level of who would misunderstand. However, this matter was so important in her heart that she didn’t dare to say such nonsense at all.

Her temperament was not the kind who would casually gloat and say, “Yan Xingzhi is my boyfriend” all day long, and she wouldn’t be able to say it as a joke either.

The car continued to move forward, and the topic seemed to end with the question, “Why do you care about their misunderstanding”. One didn’t answer, and one didn’t continue to ask.

One was a little angry because he already had his answer in his heart, and the other didn’t dare to approach because she was too cautious.

Sometimes, when liking someone, it was like this. Approaching with fear of hurting yourself, not approaching and thinking about each other all the time.

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The car stopped in front of a private kitchen restaurant with lanterns hanging at the entrance. The lanterns were unique. Time seemed to go back thousands of years when they stepped into the doorway.

Speechless along the way, Cen Ning followed Yan Xingzhi, looking at the dim lights and the unique ink paintings on the walls of the corridor as they walked.

She was really afraid of indigestion when she came to such a place for dinner.

“Mr Yan.” Turning a corner, a waiter who was waiting by the door helped open the door.

Yan Xingzhi thanked the waiter and walked into the private room. Cen Ning followed and obediently found a place to sit down.

“Look at the menu and order what you want to eat.” Yan Xingzhi’s tone was indifferent, and the breath of strangers prohibited was very obvious.

Cen Ning was always afraid of him when he was like this, but she didn’t know what made him angry.

“Oh.” She took the menu, ordered two vegetarian dishes, and then pushed the menu to Yan Xingzhi.

After looking at the dishes she ordered, he added some dishes and handed them over to the waiter.

There weren’t many people, so the food arrived quickly.

Cen Ning ate quietly with her head lowered, Yan Xingzhi got up and went to the bathroom outside. Cen Ning was left alone in the room. She chewed the contents in her mouth slowly, and suddenly felt that the food in her mouth was tasteless.

She wasn’t too hungry.

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Putting down her chopsticks, Cen Ning took a sip of juice and leaned on the cushion to look at the sparkling river view outside the wooden window frame.

It was so beautiful here.

When Yan Xingzhi was heading back, the phone rang.

He glanced down, and he saw the name “Meng Peiyan” displayed on the screen.

His footsteps stopped, and he stopped directly at the end of the corridor. “Hello.”

“Where are you?”

Yan Xingzhi didn’t answer that question, only briskly asking something in return. “What’s the matter?”

Meng Peiyan: “I heard from people in Tianying that Bai Yi went to shoot at night to fill for my photos that disappeared?”

“Mhm.”

“You arranged it.”

“Okay?”

“Why didn’t you call me? If you called me, I would have gone.”

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Yan Xingzhi absentmindedly listened to the phone and gazed at the scenery of the river outside the window. His mind wandered off and wondered why the girl in the private room had such a small appetite. She sat there eating such a small bowl of rice for so long, yet she still didn’t finish it. No wonder she was so thin.

“They should have called you.” Yan Xingzhi replied. “Since you were not going, I will naturally find someone else who was free.”

Meng Peiyan: “It was outsiders who called me. You know that if it was you, I would—”

“I don’t need you to do anything special for me.”

“…”

“Peiyan, you know what I mean.”

Meng Peiyan smiled coldly. “I will protect Cen Ning for you, but you didn’t come to me for Cen Ning…”

Yan Xingzhi said lightly, “I’ll hang up if there is nothing else.”

“Doesn’t she have a boyfriend?”

Yan Xingzhi: “…”

“That boy, we’ve all met him, right?” Meng Peiyan tried her best to calm down. “Brother Xingzhi, Cen Ning has someone else she likes.”

There was a moment of silence, just when Meng Peiyan thought Yan Xingzhi would not respond, she suddenly heard Yan Xingzhi’s slow voice from the receiver.

The voice was divided into three parts lazy and seven parts calm, obviously not harsh, but Meng Peiyan’s heart froze when she heard it.

“But everyone knows she’s mine,” he stated.

After Yan Xingzhi returned to the private room, he saw the little girl lying on the dining table.

He stepped forward and glanced at her cheek facing the river, only to realize that her eyes were closed, and she was already asleep.

Yan Xingzhi didn’t wake her up. She had been busy all day today, her body and spirit were tense, and she was probably extremely tired now.