Chapter 297: Chapter 297: Sorry, I Lied to You Chapter 297: Chapter 297: Sorry, I Lied to You Ye Chuyi mocked herself, “I’m also just so-so in terms of character, aren’t I? If I were truly virtuous, would I pretend to be the Ye Family’s daughter to deceive Sheng Tingyuan into marriage?”
“Yet you’re already enduring agony inside, and you feel it’s unfair to Sheng Tingyuan, but actually, I don’t see anything wrong with it. You don’t need to be so hard on yourself. There’s no need for such a strong sense of morality in life—if it’s too strong, it only wears you out,” he said.
Ye Chuyi looked at him in surprise, “Why do you seem different today, and how come you’re comforting me now?”
“Maybe… I think you’re quite pitiable!” he said.
Ye Chuyi was even more astonished. How could the scion of a wealthy family suddenly overflow with sympathy? Just a few days ago, he was still sarcastically mocking her!
Frowning, Ye Chuyi asked him, “Have the DNA test results with your father come out?”
“Yes, they have. How did you know they were out?”
“Am I really his daughter?”
Ye Ziran paused before answering, “No, you’re not.”
“Then why are you suddenly being nice to me?”
“Ye Chuyi.”
“Yes?”
“Were you treated badly in the past, with no one ever being kind to you?”
Ye Ziran said with a serious expression, “So now, once someone is kind to you, you feel uncomfortable, and you look for all sorts of reasons to make their kindness seem justified. You never dare to think that people might be good to you just because you are good, not because of something else.”
Ye Chuyi didn’t feel that she was exceptionally uncomfortable with others being kind to her, but she was extremely uncomfortable with Ye Ziran’s earnest demeanor now.
Wasn’t he the carefree young master? How did he suddenly transform into a master psychologist? This was too weird!
“Ye Ziran, how come I remember that you didn’t study psychology?”
“That’s correct.”
“Then stop acting like a psychologist here. Please leave, I’m quite busy, I have a surgery to perform soon.”
Ye Ziran touched his nose awkwardly. Could it be that his guess was incorrect? He had intended to play the part a bit longer, but it seemed Ye Chuyi wasn’t buying what he was selling.
She was really resistant to persuasion…
“Fine, I’ll leave. Don’t forget to come home tonight.”
After Ye Ziran spoke, he opened the door to the office.
As he opened it, he stopped in his tracks, “Sheng Tingyuan?”
Sheng Tingyuan didn’t even glance at him but strode into the office.
His assistant pulled Ye Ziran out and then closed the door.
In the office, only Sheng Tingyuan and Ye Chuyi remained.
Ye Chuyi, looking at his icy demeanor, had a bad feeling. It was work hours, and Sheng Tingyuan shouldn’t have been there to find her.
“Ye Chuyi.”
His voice was as deep and pleasant as always, but today, anger tinged his lovely voice.
“Did you play me again?”
Ye Chuyi felt her heart sink, “President Sheng, what’s the matter? What do you want to say…”
“Ye Shuangyin just came to see me.”
Ye Chuyi’s face turned pale, the heart she hoped against hope had finally died.
She hadn’t managed to be the first one to tell him the truth, to anticipate the day when she could confess her wrongdoing. Ye Shuangyin had taken the lead and exposed her.
Her apology now seemed so pale and powerless, “I’m sorry, President Sheng, I deceived you.”
Sheng Tingyuan stepped forward, forcing her to retreat until there was nowhere left to go, cornering her against the wall.
His eyes were red, his voice cold, “No wonder you kept calling me President Sheng, not even willing to utter ‘Tingyuan.’ It turns out you never intended to live a life with me.”
“While I was planning our future, you were thinking about how to deceive me, about leaving!”
“I left you alone all these days, thinking maybe you were too tired from work or perhaps in a bad mood, so I never pressed you. I gave you freedom, space!”
“What did I get in return? Ye Chuyi, tell me, what did I get!”
Ye Chuyi, head bowed and eyelashes fluttering, her voice trembling slightly, “It’s deception… I’m sorry.”
Unwilling to look up at him, Sheng Tingyuan pinched her chin, forcing her to raise her head and meet his eyes, “Do you think a simple apology can solve everything? Or do you believe that avoiding me will resolve the issues? So many have tried to deceive me, why were you the one who succeeded? Do you really think your trickery is that clever?”