Chapter 80
“Huo Youcheng chuckled, “You didn’t? Didn’t you give all your savings to your useless father? If he asks you again, are you sure you won’t?”
“I won’t!” Ye Zhi said firmly once again.
His tone was resolute once more, which even made Huo Youcheng feel a sense of dissonance. He felt that Ye Zhi shouldn’t be like this.
Emotions surged in Huo Youcheng’s heart, sensing something that shouldn’t have been there spreading. It was something he wasn’t accustomed to. He gestured for the salesgirl to take Huo Ran to play nearby. When the surroundings were empty, he casually spoke up, “Ye Mu has contacted me.”
This news didn’t surprise Ye Zhi much. He had known for a long time that his family had no bottom line when it came to power. It was because of this reason that the current situation had come to be. If it weren’t for Ye Wan’s rush to have her youngest son climb the “tall branch” and have Ye Mu prematurely marked by An Yongnan, a middle-aged wealthy businessman, the Ye family might have truly lived the life they dreamed of.
At that time, Huo Youcheng truly loved Ye Mu. If they had gotten married normally, he would have treated him very well.
“He’s quite something, isn’t he? As soon as his husband went bankrupt, he couldn’t wait to ask for a divorce to wash away the mark, and then he found me.” Huo Youcheng smirked. “He’s quite confident. He thought I had feelings for him just because I had retaliated against your family. As soon as we met, he indicated that he could do anything for me.”
Ye Zhi’s face showed embarrassment and absurdity, but he still didn’t feel the bitterness and sadness that he would have in the past.
This made Huo Youcheng somewhat displeased, so he intentionally leaned closer and lowered his voice to ask, “Guess whether I slept with him or not?”
After buying the clothes, Huo Youcheng had no intention of leaving. He still followed them, even going with them to buy hair accessories for Huo Ran.
Feeling uncomfortable, coupled with the fact that he couldn’t figure out Huo Youcheng’s mentality, Ye Zhi ignored his presence after a moment of nervousness.
Outside, he wouldn’t go too far.
There were many styles of hair accessories for little girls, and even though Ye Zhi had done his homework beforehand, he still felt overwhelmed. Huo Ran exclaimed in surprise, grabbing Ye Zhi’s hand. “They’re all so pretty!”
Because they were self-selecting items, they picked them one by one like picking fruit, inadvertently forgetting about Huo Youcheng’s presence.
Huo Youcheng hadn’t walked far away. Although his temperament didn’t match the atmosphere of the store, for some unknown reason, he didn’t leave.
Then he saw Ye Zhi’s smile.
The big and small figures squatting in front of a row of small items were chatting about something, and then Ye Zhi smiled. Huo Youcheng happened to be not far away, watching, and he caught sight of that smile.
In his memory, he rarely saw Ye Zhi smile.
The young man always had his head down. At the beginning, when he got to know him, the expressions he showed were either shy or timid, or flustered. His features weren’t extraordinary, just a bit less delicate than his brother’s, but among male betas, he had a refreshing and comfortable appearance, even his temperament seemed gentle.
Such a person, without strong characteristics, without aggressiveness, didn’t stand out, making it difficult for people to pay attention to him.
But during the time when he was dating Ye Mu, Huo Youcheng didn’t dislike Ye Zhi. He even helped out a few times when Ye Mu complained about his brother.
But once he also became an “accomplice,” Huo Youcheng harbored resentment towards him.
And so he enjoyed the feeling of “tormenting” him.
Over time, the fact that the other party never resisted didn’t make him lose interest. Occasionally, when he went too far, his mood would become quite complicated.
Clearing that he didn’t love him, didn’t like him, and even felt repulsed by him, he never once thought of ending this absurd marriage. Even when the other party didn’t contact him actively for a long time, there would be a kind of irritable emotion surging up, and then he would deliberately go back to pick a fight, or deliberately write the delivery address back home, finding an excuse to let Ye Zhi contact him actively.
He thought that this kind of life would never change, his hatred towards the Ye family would not diminish, and Ye Zhi’s personality would not change.
But today, he saw the change in Ye Zhi.
