Night Fire Lingering

Chapter 234 Do you really think Gu Yanci loves you?

Ultimately, it was the school bell that made Song Yudie leave the classroom.

The atmosphere was unusually subtle throughout the entire class.

As soon as the bell rang, the students, who usually chatted in twos and threes, all left the classroom quickly. Jiang Xing was in a hurry to report to the professor, and soon only Wen Yan and Nan Zhiyi were left in the classroom.

"You and Jiang Xing set a trap for me from the very beginning!" Nan Zhiyi's tone was almost accusatory.

Wen Yan calmly put the book into her canvas bag and reminded her, "Nan Zhiyi, you said yourself that the fireworks were for you. Nobody forced you."

Blame Nan Zhiyi's vanity.

Nan Zhiyi looked at Wen Yan with tears in her eyes, as if she had suffered a great injustice.

Wen Yan had just put her bag on when she put it down again: "Nan Zhiyi, I'm actually very curious why you did this. You shouldn't be so ignorant as to be able to analyze those research data on your own. At the very least, hiring a ghostwriter would be safer than me copying my work."

Wen Yan originally had a good impression of Nan Zhiyi, a talented European woman. Unfortunately, this positive impression shattered completely after they got to know each other.

Nan Zhiyi remained silent, only staring stubbornly at Wen Yan—even though there were only two of them present, she would never admit to plagiarism.

“Let me think,” Wen Yan said, “or you’re trying to kill two birds with one stone: plagiarize my work, disgust me, and ruin my reputation.”

Nan Zhiyi's pupils widened slightly.

This is a sign of shock and guilt.

"Is it necessary, Nan Zhiyi?"

"Of course it's necessary!" Nan Zhiyi exclaimed excitedly.

The sound was somewhat jarring in the empty, quiet classroom.

Wen Yan stood on the bottom floor of the lecture hall, while Nan Zhiyi stood on the third floor. However, Nan Zhiyi still could not feel any comfort from the physical height difference.

"Wen Yan, you don't understand at all. I'm not like you!" Nan Zhiyi knew very well that she wasn't the smartest kind of person. All her achievements and brilliance were the result of spending many times more time!

But Wen Yan does everything with ease!

Her childhood achievements, the innate love of her mother, and her good husband—these are all things that Wen Yan obtained effortlessly, but which she had to work hard to obtain!

Wen Yan felt that these words sounded familiar.

It seems that Wen Muzhi once said something similar that she couldn't understand?

She hadn't thought of Wen Muzhi for a long time since he was sent abroad by Wen Yonghai.

"Zhizhi—Zhiyi, what's wrong? Why are you crying?" Someone suddenly appeared at the classroom door.

When Nan Zhiyi saw Nan Yun, tears of resentment welled up in her eyes and burst forth.

She ran to Nan Yun at the door, threw herself into Nan Yun's arms, and cried out in distress, "Mommy... Mommy..."

"Oh dear, what's wrong with my Zhiyi? Has she been wronged?" Nan Yun asked with concern.

Wen Yan narrowed her eyes wearily, deeply regretting that she hadn't left immediately after class.

Teachers teach children from a young age not to linger on their way home from school, and there's a reason for that!

"Zhizhi!" Nan Yun called out to Wen Yan, who was about to leave through another door, "Mommy wants to talk to you!"

Nan Zhiyi paused, her sad expression momentarily stunned. She hadn't expected Nan Yun to have come looking for Wen Yan.

"I don't want to." Wen Yan's attitude was resolute.

Nan Yun persisted, patting Nan Zhiyi in an attempt to calm her down before going to find Wen Yan, but Nan Zhiyi hugged her, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

"Mommy..."

Nan Zhiyi's face was still wet with tears as she looked pitifully at Nan Yun.

Nan Yun couldn't bring herself to be ruthless for a moment, so she could only stand there and look at Wen Yan from a distance of a few meters away: "Zhi Zhi, Mommy really didn't mean what happened the day before yesterday. Mommy came back to China this time for you!"

Wen Yan lowered her eyes and remained silent.

Nan Yun thought she had persuaded Wen Yan and was overjoyed. She continued, "Zhizhi, Mommy wants to make it up to you. Mommy has missed you so much all these years! Will you give Mommy a chance?"

Wen Yan raised her eyes again, but her eyes were indifferent, so cold that Nan Yun was taken aback.

Wen Yan's gaze shifted from Nan Yun to Nan Zhiyi: "You're the one who spread the news that I stayed in a mental hospital, aren't you, Nan Zhiyi?"

Nan Zhiyi was stunned, completely unexpected that Wen Yan would suddenly bring this up.

She quickly realized what was happening: "Yan, what... what are you saying?"

Nan Yun naturally remembered this incident. Back then, after learning that Wen Yan had been slandered and locked up in a mental hospital, she had regretted leaving him.

She turned her head and saw Nan Zhiyi looking confused. She said, "Zhiyi, Zhiyi has only been back in the country for a short time. She doesn't know anything about these things. How could she have done it?"

Wen Yan chuckled lightly, "Look, I raised a point of view, and you refuted me for your daughter without any investigation or research. What kind of compensation do you have to offer?"

Wen Yan didn't care how this matter was handled. At first, she suspected it was Wen Muzhi's last-ditch effort, but then she suddenly realized that Nan Zhiyi and Wen Muzhi had been in contact during that time, so perhaps Nan Zhiyi was the mastermind behind it all.

Nan Yun's eyes widened slightly, her face turning deathly pale, as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over her head, making her feel ashamed and her whole body ice-cold.

She tried to explain, her voice trembling: "Zhizhi, I..."

Wen Yan interrupted her: "I have a new family now. You weren't there when I needed you the most, and I don't need you anymore. You don't need to feel sorry for me. My current husband has been by my side all these years. I have his love for me now, and that's enough."

She now has a new home; she is no longer a child seeking her mother's protection.

She doesn't care for the love others give her.

She doesn't care for the love that others settle for as a second choice!

"Yan, do you really think Gu Yanci loves you?" Nan Zhiyi, who had been silent until now, suddenly asked.

Wen Yan's heart skipped a beat, but she quickly calmed down and smiled as she told Nan Zhiyi, "Anyway, he doesn't love you."

Wen Yan showed no hesitation and turned to leave.

"Zhiyi, what did Zhizhi mean by what she just said?" Nan Yun asked her daughter beside her with a serious expression.