Chapter 16

After that day, I realized that Pei Huai was nothing more than ordinary to Zhao Yao, even somewhat cold.

But I could no longer tell if he was just putting on an act again.

I couldn’t be bothered to think about these things anymore.

Zhier saw how listless I was every day, so she coaxed me to walk a bit farther.

Before long, we reached the pond.

At that moment, Pei Mingnan suddenly rushed in front of me.

I was startled and nearly fell to the ground.

Seeing Zhier support me, Pei Mingnan looked disappointed, but he bared his teeth and said hatefully, “You wicked woman, you bully my mother, steal my father, the child in your belly will never have a good end!”

Those words exploded in my mind like a bomb.

No one dares to curse a mother’s child in front of her.

My blood surged, and I lost all reason.

I just wanted this person dead!

“Niaoniao, what are you doing!”

It wasn’t until Pei Huai suddenly pulled me away.

That I snapped back to my senses.

There were ten tear-streaked marks from my fingers on Pei Mingnan’s neck, tinged with bluish-purple.

They were from my own hands.

“I-”

I was trembling all over, my gaze panicked as I looked at Pei Huai: “Pei Huai, he cursed my child-”

Pei Mingnan lay in Pei Huai’s arms, sobbing softly: “Father, I didn’t, I was just saying a few words to Madam, and she tried to strangle me, I was so scared.”

As he spoke, he began to cough violently, his voice hoarse, looking utterly pitiful.

Pei Huai patted his back gently with heartache, then turned to look at me, his eyes full of disappointment.

“Niaoniao, I know you’re angry with me, but how could you try to kill a child? When did you become so vicious?”

At this moment, the sun was blazing overhead.

Yet I only felt cold, a chill seeping from my heart to every corner of my body.

“You don’t believe me, Pei Huai, you don’t believe me…”

Pei Huai turned his head away, refusing to look at me, his voice icy cold.

“All these years, I have truly kept my promise of a lifetime together, only staying by your side. But I am already twenty-five, and you have not conceived for a long time. As the Marquis’s Estate’s legitimate son, I must have an heir to put the family at ease. Why can’t you understand me?”

“Pei Huai, how long have you kept these words in your heart?”

I gave a desolate laugh: “I never knew, so this is what you think, this is what you think of me…”

So that’s how it is.

So everything was just my own wishful thinking.

I misunderstood his intentions, misjudged the person.

With trembling hands, I wandered back in a daze.

Behind me, Pei Huai must have realized something was wrong and tried to catch up.

“Niaoniao, I’m sorry, I said the wrong thing in a moment of panic-”

But the next second, Zhao Yao called out to him.

“Marquis, come quickly and look at Nan’er.”

He looked at me, then at Pei Mingnan, and finally stopped in his tracks, picking up Pei Mingnan.