Extreme Pampering-Chapter 64 - If she knew the truth

Chapter 64: If she knew the truth.

Chapter 64: If she knew the truth.

Xu Xia returned home, distraught. A while later, Huo Heng, who received her call, rushed over. “Why the sudden request to see me?”

The two were still in a secret relationship, and they were very careful about keeping in touch in private. They generally wouldn’t visit each other’s residences, so tonight was an exception.

Xu Xia had already taken a bath and was sitting on the sofa smoking, looking dejected. “I saw Shen Zhiyi today.”

“What?” Huo Heng was puzzled. “Why bring her up all of a sudden?”

“I saw her at Minghua,” Xu Xia lifted her head. “I saw her with a man.”

Gleaning something from her words, Huo Heng frowned. “It really wasn’t Qin Fangru?”

He had always thought that the person backing Shen Zhiyi was Qin Fangru.

“No,” Xu Xia passed her phone to him. “I took a photo; see for yourself.”

The blurry photo from a rainy night clearly showed the man helping Shen Zhiyi with her umbrella did not resemble Qin Fangru. However, Huo Heng’s focus was on Shen Zhiyi herself.

She was looking up slightly, her gaze fixed on the person next to her, seemingly smiling, her expression soft. The two of them sharing one umbrella, so close yet she showed no sign of resistance.

Taking a deep breath, trying to suppress some emotion, Huo Heng asked, “Who is this person?”

The ash from the cigarette fell as Xu Xia looked down, her expression unreadable. “Pei Yu, the Pei from Pei’s.”

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The name Pei Yu might not be familiar to outsiders, but “Pei’s” was well-known.

Huo Heng froze in shock, as he had heard this name before. He muttered to himself uncertainly, “Pei Yu?”

Could it be the same person he knew?

Many years ago, he took Shen Zhiyi, who was severely injured at the time, from a young boy. Back then, he had heard someone calling the boy by that name. Huo Heng wasn’t sure if they were the same person.

Xu Xia didn’t notice his reaction, as she was still lost in her own thoughts, unable to comprehend how Shen Zhiyi could surpass her. How could Pei Yu be interested in her?

“I’m going to find Shen Zhiyi.”

Huo Heng left with those words, his heart in turmoil. He kept guessing if the man called Pei Yu was the young man he had met back then. If he was, does Shen Zhiyi now know that the person who saved her wasn’t him?

Before, when she didn’t know, she had already been drawing lines with him. If she now knew that he had been deceiving her all along… Huo Heng didn’t dare to continue the thought.

He went to find another woman in the dead of night. Xu Xia watched him with cold eyes, showing no emotion and even hoping that he could have a good talk with Shen Zhiyi, preferably to make her change her mind.

Compared to Pei Yu, what was Huo Heng? She would rather give up this man for a chance to get closer to Pei Yu.

When Huo Heng called using a new number, Shen Zhiyi was blow-drying her hair. Unrecognized, she answered casually.

“Zhiyi, where are you right now?”

Recognizing his voice, Shen Zhiyi frowned. “What are you trying to do?”

Huo Heng’s tone softened as he brought up the past out of nowhere. “Zhiyi, do you still remember the time when you were hospitalized as a child?”

That was the time when Shen Zhiyi was most severely injured, provoked by some trivial matter, her drunken father beat her mercilessly as if trying to kill her. Shen Zhiyi thought she would die, but when she opened her eyes again, she was in the hospital, saved by Huo Heng.

This was the moment Shen Zhiyi truly started to see him as family, the reason behind countless times of compromise and concession in the future.

Shen Zhiyi listened quietly as he brought up the past again, and because of this, she could never truly hate him.

“What are you trying to say?”

Why bring up old stories? She didn’t understand. Wasn’t it good the way they were gradually drifting apart? He had never cared about her that much before, so why did it seem like he couldn’t bear to let go now?

Her voice was calm, tinged with resignation towards him. Huo Heng couldn’t detect anything off, and his tightly strung nerves relaxed a bit.

It seemed she still didn’t know.

Huo Heng switched the topic abruptly, “I mean to say, Zhiyi, I really do care about you a lot. Even if you don’t like me now, we are still each other’s only family. I want to see you happy.”

“I’m doing very well now,” Shen Zhiyi said with resignation and a touch of being moved, just as he had said, for a long time they had relied on each other, “I will make myself happy.”

“Then—” Huo Heng felt uneasy and still asked, “Are you still with that person? I heard his name is Pei Yu… How did you meet him?”

He was very worried that this Pei Yu was the same person he knew, extremely worried that Shen Zhiyi would learn everything from him.

Right now, Shen Zhiyi was just clearly defining her boundaries with him. If she knew the truth, she might expose everything for revenge—his secret love affair, his true identity…

“Why do you know about Pei Yu?”

Shen Zhiyi frowned, her tone growing colder with a guard she hadn’t realized she had put up.

“I heard about it. Is it really him? Zhiyi, you don’t need to trade yourself for anything. Tell me what you need, and I will surely help you,” he said.

The steam in the bathroom hadn’t completely cleared, and Shen Zhiyi wiped away the fog on the mirror, seeing her own half-reflected face with furrowed brows, looking unhappy.

Huo Heng had said something similar before, and at that time she had been too lazy to care, but now it sounded even more grating. She couldn’t help but retort, “What’s between us is not a transaction.”

After speaking, she stunned herself.

Huo Heng was also taken aback, and after a long moment found his voice again, incredulous, “You, what do you mean by that? What does ‘not a transaction’ mean? Are you saying you actually like him?”

It was absurd, far too absurd. Huo Heng spoke faster, “Zhiyi, don’t be foolish. If it’s just each taking what they need, that’s one thing, but if you really like him… aren’t you just throwing yourself away? You know what kind of people they are. Tired of playing and they’re done, I’m really worried about you.”

“I didn’t say that,” Shen Zhiyi denied stiffly, not wanting to continue the conversation, “Whatever it is, it’s none of your business.”

Did she not understand the things they had been discussing? She didn’t need to hear it over and over again.

No sooner had the phone call ended than there was a knock on the bathroom door. Pei Yu glanced at the still-lit phone screen beside him, his expression darkened discreetly, “Whose call was it?”

Her hair was still damp, but Shen Zhiyi didn’t want to stay any longer. She didn’t answer but instead went over and hugged him, saying nothing.

Holding her close, Pei Yu lifted her face to look into her eyes, “Are you unhappy?”

Everything had been fine just a moment ago.

Zhiyi said nothing as he examined her, and she also looked intently back at him, as if trying to see something clear through his eyes before giving up. She whispered, “I’m not unhappy.”

All at once, she was lifted into the air, causing Shen Zhiyi to startle and hurriedly grab onto Pei Yu’s shoulders, the next second she found herself sitting on the washbasin.

Pei Yu trapped her there, not allowing her to move about.

“Lying?”