Chapter 245 Xia Yuhang’s Doub (1/2)

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A man in a cyan robe was sitting there. Although he was not gorgeous, he looked both graceful and mild.

Xia Yuhang had always waited for her here before, but later, he had met her at Ning Ziyan’s courtyard instead. Therefore, Xia Yuhang had only come here the first year Ning Xueyan came to the manor, and in the following two years, only Ning Ziying had occasionally come here to read and relax.

This man had waited for her here gently before. Now he looked up at Ning Xueyan and smiled, just as he had done to Ning Ziying several years ago.

“Why don’t you come here and sit for a while?” His words were ambiguous. For Ning Xueyan, she would feel a little surprised and offensive at the words, but when it came to Ning Ziying, she would take it as the tenderness from the man she was so familiar with.

It was as if she had returned to her last life—at the same place, the same man had spoken the same words to her with the same gentle smile.

His handsome face and the deep affection in his eyes had added a trace of mildness in his gentleness and made people could not help trusting in him.

But what had he done to her? He had watched her being drowned in the lotus pool without doing anything!

She had given him everything she had and followed everything he said, taking him as the man who would wholeheartedly spend his rest life with her. However, he had not only played around with Chen Hexiang outside the manor, but had an affair with Ning Ziyan in the manor and caused Ning Ziyan’s pregnancy. Finally, he had watched Ning Ziying being murdered by Madam Ling and her daughter!

She had totally trusted in him in her last life and thought that he loved her from the bottom of his heart, but now…

When she looked back, she only felt what he said was ridiculous, so ridiculous! “Who does he think I am? The silly girl Ning Ziying who loved him so much? How dare he speak this to me now?”

The blood of all her body flushed to the top of her head. All this man’s gentleness in her memory had turned to terrible scheme and hypocrisy. At the thought her helpless death in the lotus pool and her rebirth for revenge, she felt her heart broken and full of hatred.

“Greetings, Eldest Brother-in-law. Whom are you waiting for?” Ning Xueyan walked over at ease and stopped in front of Xia Yuhang calmly. She raised her head, a coldness in her jet-black eyes.

Xia Yuhang looked at Ning Xueyan doubtfully. After a while, he let out a long sigh and said, as if mocking himself, “I’m not waiting for anyone. I’m missing an old friend.” He then lifted the tea pot on the stone table and poured the tea into an empty cup. “Fifth Sister, have some tea!” he said gently.

“Eldest Brother-in-law, are you talking about my eldest sister? Since you miss her, why didn’t you ask her to come here with you?” Ning Xueyan asked curiously. Ning Xueyan seemed to have thought of something, she smiled faintly and sat down on the stone stool gracefully.

Her long eye-lashes shivered and no one could saw the sarcasm in her eyes.

An old friend? How ridiculous! They used to be the closest unmarried couple, but now he only called her ‘old friend’. Maybe she should thank Xia Yuhang. At least, he did not regard her as a b*tch and would miss her, his ‘old friend’ occasionally.

“I’m not talking about your eldest sister. Fifth Sister, do you still remember Ning Ziying of Cloud Reflection Courtyard?” Xia Yuhang raised his head and fixed his eyes on Ning Xueyan, looking a little emotional. People who were not familiar with Xia Yuhang would not notice much change in Xia Yuhang’s expression.

Ning Ziying would have taken such a look and expression and the trace of gentleness in his eyes as his affection for her. However, after rebirth and becoming Ning Xueyan, she would only mock him for his hypocrisy. “He is really good at pretending! He acted like it was real!” she thought.

Xia Yuhang was a hypocritical and selfish person. He always looked affectionate when his interests were not involved.

“I have heard of Sister Ziying of Cloud Reflection Courtyard, but I have never seen her. It’s said Sister Ziying died unnaturally, and the rumors said that she was murdered. Eldest Brother-in-law, do you know what happened?” Ning Xueyan asked with a slight smile. She said quickly, as if she was really very curious. An indifferent and cold smile appeared in her beautiful eyes when she raised her head, expressing her surprise naturally.

Her performance was just right, neither exaggerated nor inadequate!

Her finger which hooked on the handle of the cup kept on touching the cup gently when she was talking.

Only very few people of the manor had discussed it before, and now the rumors had almost disappeared. After all, Ning Ziying was only an orphan who had left her home and stayed at the manor. Since none of the masters had mentioned this matter and nobody had complained about her death, who would care such a trifle? So the influence of this matter had been kept to a minimum by Madam Ling.

Xia Yuhang shifted his gaze from Ning Xueyan’s emotionless face to her finger. He suddenly widened his eyes and unconsciously reached out to grab Ning Xueyan’s hand. “Ying’er!” he muttered.

Everyone’s heart would be softened when they saw such a gentle movement. In addition to Ning Ziying, nobody would have such a habitual action.