Ye Ning stood there with her head down for a long time before she finally lowered her gaze to the fruit platter before her and said, "I should."
That was all she said, just those three words, and then there was silence.
Lin Yebai had been busy getting food for the child beside him. He didn’t dare to look at her, fearing she would once again refuse to speak to him and refuse to look at him.
Until those three words fell upon his ears...
Had she finally spoken to him? Had she really spoken to him?
His fingers trembled momentarily, and something seemed to surge up from the bottom of his heart—a mix of excitement and ecstasy almost made his heart burst out of his chest.
He had never known that her willingness to say a single word to him could make him so happy.
"No, you don’t know, I never celebrate my mother’s birthday either. It was yesterday when Xiaoyu said you would come, that’s why I came."
Ye Ning paused with the pastry fork in her hand!
He never celebrates his mother’s birthday? Why? And what does her coming today have to do with him?
She didn’t quite understand...
Lin Yebai saw her fall silent again, her hands poking at the fruit with irregular jabs. He stepped forward and picked up a cherry tomato she hadn’t managed to skewer and placed it on her plate.
"My mother left me and my father when I was very young. She said she didn’t want to live with my father in fear anymore, and so she left when I was six. Since then, I grew up with a friend of my father’s."
That seemed to be the first time he had told her about his past. After all these years, she had never heard him mention it; she had thought he would never want anyone to know what he had gone through as a child.
Ye Ning picked up a cherry tomato and slowly put it in her mouth.
"After my mother left, it wasn’t long before my father angered someone during a tomb raid, and that person came to his friend’s house to kill me. That year, I was thirteen. Later, his friend died protecting me and something my father had left behind, and his family was killed along with him."
The man’s family was killed too?
Ye Ning’s face paled as she said, "Were they all killed?"
Lin Yebai’s eyes narrowed with a pained expression that swept over his entire being. Standing there, he looked up at the dazzling lights above for a long time, suppressing the sourness in his eyes before his lips barely moved, "No, there was one survivor..."
There was one who survived?
Ye Ning oddly felt relieved, "And what happened after that? What became of you all?"
She had finally been drawn in by his story and began to ask questions.
Lin Yebai blinked and took a deep breath, turning his gaze towards her, his eyes soft in a way she had never seen before, "After that, I was rescued, and my father found me. Since then, I’ve never left my father again. As for my mother, she never appeared from beginning to end, so you might understand now why I’ve always been cold towards her, right?"
His shift in topic was so rapid that she hadn’t recovered from the tension of his assassination story, and he had already moved on to his mother.
And what about the other survivor?
Ye Ning slowly chewed the round little fruit in her hand, feeling an inexplicable discomfort in her heart.
Ps: I recommend my friend Long Jiuyue’s thrilling supernatural rebirth novel "Regimental Leader’s Pet Wife: The Strongest Military Spouse’s Rebirth," for those who are interested ^_^ ^_^ ^_^