After being given the order to leave, Yan Zhen had absolutely no idea how he left the study or how he walked downstairs.
When he reached the first floor, Yuan Ya'er was just leaving the bathroom.
In the bathroom, Yuan Ya'er had already come up with a plan. Seeing Yan Zhen's figure, she walked up cheerfully, reached out affectionately to hook his arm, and asked with a smile,
"Brother Yan Zhen, have you finished talking with Grandpa?"
Noticing a small scabbed wound on Yan Zhen's face, Yuan Ya'er said in surprise, "Brother Yan Zhen, how did you hurt your face?" As she spoke, she reached out her hand to touch the wound on his face.
Yan Zhen suddenly came to his senses and saw Yuan Ya'er's little face full of worry.
Before he came, she was so sweet and lovely that it made his heart melt. But now the grip on his arm and her hand so close at hand were like a hissing viper, making his whole body shiver with cold.
He instinctively broke free from Yuan Ya'er and strode out as if fleeing for his life.
Yuan Ya'er didn't expect him to shake her off. Her heart skipped a beat, and she thought something was wrong. Without even having time to say goodbye to Yin Shulan behind her, she hurriedly chased after him, using her signature coquettish offensive as usual.
"Brother Yan Zhen, did you quarrel with Grandpa just now?"
"Don't be angry! Grandpa is old, and his temper is always a bit stubborn. Just give in to him~"
"Smile! Today is the first day of our new marriage! You don't look handsome at all with a straight face."
"You said you would take me out for a stroll. Don't go back on your word~"
But Yan Zhen didn't even look at her. He got in the car directly and said to Liang Zuo, "Drive."
Liang Zuo asked, "Young Master, where do you and the Young Mistress plan to go next?"
Yan Zhen forced out two words with difficulty, "Go home."
"Brother Yan Zhen, what's wrong with you? Are you in a bad mood? What on earth did Grandpa say to you?"
On the way back to their newlywed house, Yan Zhen remained silent all the time. No matter what Yuan Ya'er beside him said, he didn't respond at all.
However, it was precisely because of his lack of response that made Yuan Ya'er inexplicably flustered.
Before they came, they were so affectionate. How could Yan Zhen change like this when they were leaving? This was not what she had expected! They had just gotten married. No matter what, Yan Zhen shouldn't ignore her!
Yan Zhen must have known something in the study, and these things were closely related to her!
In that case, instead of hiding it, it would be better to take the initiative!
It had to be said that Yuan Ya'er's mind really worked fast. She immediately came up with a countermeasure.
Because of Yan Zhen's indifference, Yuan Ya'er pretended to be very angry. She turned her face away and ignored him. She picked up her phone and pretended to browse through it. She even "accidentally" played a video posted on Ji Xinyue's social account.
"Four years ago, I gave him two million yuan to help me photoshop Yuan Xi's nude photos and send them out to completely ruin Yuan Xi!"
"Yuan Xi? The adopted daughter of the Yuan family? Why did you go after her?"
...
The conversation in the video finally made the silent Yan Zhen react.
When he turned his head to look, Yuan Ya'er hurriedly turned off the video and said in surprise, "How could this be? Ji Xinyue actually revealed that the photo of Sister Xiaoxi four years ago was photoshopped?"
Yan Zhen stared at her fixedly and gritted his teeth,
"Really? I remember clearly that that morning you and I saw her lying with someone else with our own eyes."
Yuan Ya'er said with a puzzled look on her face, "Yes, how could this be? That video just now actually sounded a bit edited. Could it be that Uncle asked Ji Xinyue to cooperate to clear Sister Xiaoxi's name?"
"I didn't expect Uncle to be able to do this for Sister Xiaoxi. It seems that Uncle really likes Sister Xiaoxi. If that's the case, it's really the best choice for Sister Xiaoxi to marry him. It's much better than that Mr. Guan who showed up outside our house this morning."
After saying that, she lowered her head aggrievedly, "Actually, it's good for Sister Xiaoxi to marry Uncle. If Sister Xiaoxi can be happy, I'm happy for her too. Thinking about it this way, it doesn't seem so hard to call her Auntie."
Then she raised her head again and smiled happily and full of energy as usual,
"Brother Yan Zhen, you're right. As long as I try my best to show kindness to Sister Xiaoxi, one day we can go back to how we used to be! Sister Xiaoxi will definitely understand me!"
She knew Yan Zhen's weakness very well. Yan Zhen was actually very arrogant. He had always been secretly competing with his uncle and would never accept that his former lover was being doted on by his uncle like this.
Therefore, every word she said was like stabbing a knife into Yan Zhen's heart.
Stabbing deeply and forcefully.
But her expression was so innocent, and her tone was so understanding, as if these words were really from the bottom of her heart and she was really sincerely blessing "Yuan Xi".
Yan Zhen observed Yuan Ya'er carefully, trying to see something, but he couldn't see anything wrong from her expression.
Instead, because of her words, his emotions began to churn violently again.
The unwillingness towards the title of "Auntie" and the jealousy and hatred towards his uncle kept torturing and gnawing at his heart. Fortunately, Yan Haikun's words suddenly popped up at this moment and gave him a hard slap in the face.
— It was you who joined hands with others to ruin Yuan Xi with your own hands. It was you who personally handed her into the hands of the devil!
— What do you have to compare with your uncle? Your shamelessness?
He suddenly came to his senses from this despicable emotion. When he looked at the wife who had been intimately entangled with him last night again, a cold sweat had unknowingly broken out on his back.
At this moment, the memory that he had deliberately hidden four years ago emerged in his mind again.
Four years ago, on Yuan Xi's eighteenth birthday, Yan Zhen rented out a bar for Yuan Xi and invited many of her classmates and friends to come and celebrate her coming-of-age ceremony.
But what he didn't tell others was that he wanted to propose to her in front of everyone on this day and tell her that even if she wasn't the biological daughter of the Yuan family, he would definitely marry her.
His parents divorced when he was very young. Since then, he had been taught by his grandfather personally. But his grandfather was very strict with him, and his words always carried a condescending tone of scolding. His step-grandma was cold by nature and would only nod slightly to say hello when she saw him. In his limited life, he had never felt any warmth from his family.
Therefore, he had always been eager to build his own family, eager to have a perfect wife who met his inner imagination, and eager to get the care he wanted from his wife.
He also always thought that Yuan Xi was the one who would accompany him for the rest of his life, and he was full of expectations for their future days.
But when he was on his way to the bar, because he was not very skilled in driving as he had just gotten his driver's license, he accidentally scraped a passerby when turning.
Afraid of causing trouble, he wanted to step on the accelerator and drive away. But he couldn't bear the condemnation of his conscience, so he still got out of the car to check. Only then did he find that the person he had hit was actually Yuan Ya'er.