Chapter 617 - Don’t You Miss Me? (2/2)

Her instincts told her that he had changed.

If it was the him in the past, the first thing he would do after returning would definitely to hug her tightly before kissing her ruthlessly.

And not act like he was now, not even glancing at her before he left immediately.

Nan Zhi’s heart hurt a little.

More than a little.

“Pretty Zhizhi, what’s wrong with Daddy? He doesn’t seem to like me and you as much as before.”

Nan Zhi found it strange too.

Although he was never one to show his emotions often, he was an especially overbearing person, and he would never be stingy with showing his emotions and feelings towards the people and things that he cared for.

“Pretty Zhizhi, Daddy might be too busy! I noticed that he even had dark eye circles now, he must have not been able to sleep properly for a very long time.” Xiaojie ran in front of Nan Zhi, grabbing her slender hand with his soft hand. “Pretty Zhizhi, let’s stay at the Palace tonight. I want to keep Daddy company!”

Xiaojie also knew that his Daddy had gone to war these past few months. He was not only the people’s hero, but also the biggest hero to him.

Nan Zhi glanced upstairs. She did not want to leave just like that before she found out about why he was so aloof towards her.

Xiaojie was still a child after all. After taking a shower, he lay on his bed, waiting for his Daddy to come until nearly midnight. By then, he was so sleepy that he could not take it anymore and fell asleep.

Nan Zhi was not sleepy at all.

Walking out from Xiaojie’s room, Nan Zhi went down when she saw that the lights in Mu Sihan’s study were still on.

At the stairs, she met Yi Fan, who was bringing supper to Mu Sihan.

Yi Fan froze slightly when he saw Nan Zhi.

“Miss Nan?”

Nan Zhi nodded, glancing at the supper Yi Fan was holding. “Is that for Mu Sihan?”

“Yes.”

Nan Zhi walked forward, reaching out. “I’ll bring it to him!”

Yi Fan hesitated, “This…”

“Butler Yi, when you were fighting in the war, did something happen to him?”

Yi Fan pondered for a while, before he pa.s.sed the tray in his hands to Nan Zhi. He did not answer her question, merely saying, “Then I’ll trouble Miss Nan.”

Nan Zhi stared as Yi Fan went downstairs, furrowing her exquisite eyebrows tightly.

They must be hiding something from her!

Nan Zhi took the tray and headed towards the study.

The doors to the study were not shut tightly, with a small gap shown between. Nan Zhi lifted her hand, about to knock on the door when she suddenly heard the man say hoa.r.s.ely and coldly, “I’m busy right now and I can’t excuse myself… Must you be like this? Alright, you can wait for it.”

Before Nan Zhi had the chance to move away, the man suddenly pulled the door open from inside.

His expression was cold, the man standing in front of her like he was exuding a freezing mist.

He probably did not expect to see her standing in front of the door, as a flash of a series of complicated emotions appeared in the man’s dark eyes when he saw her.

“Where are you going?” Nan Zhi did not want to be courteous to him. The two of them had never been that distant from each other, and she did not want to keep the things that she wanted to ask about inside her.

If he really had ideas about other woman because of this war, or that he fell out of love with her, she could let go.

She was never one to pester another person!

She just needed to know.

Hearing her words, the man stared at her. His eyes were so deep that she could not see the end in them, as if they were black holes that could swallow everything. “I’m going out to settle something.”

When he spoke to her, his tone was indifferent and very normal.

Nan Zhi immediately felt an indescribable sadness.