“By the way, when you came in earlier, did you see Ye Moxuan? He wasn’t downstairs?” Han Muzi could not help but ask.
She still felt that something was not right.
Suddenly Yan became somehow evasive. She bit her lower lip and said, “Yes, he was downstairs.”
“He was?”
Han Muzi’s eyebrows frowned. “Didn’t you say he wasn’t earlier?”
“I… I was in shock earlier, so… I answered wrongly.” Yan began to ramble.
But Han Muzi stared at her with her sharp eyes.
“What actually happened? Why are you being hesitant? Did he find out?”
Yan’s face changed, and she kept shaking her head.
“No. He didn’t. If he did, how is it possible that you still have the pills? It’s just that… I did bump into him earlier when I came in, and he asked me what I was doing here. So I told him I was here to send you some documents… That was how he let me in. It’s just that he did not look quite good and his tone sounded a little furious. I am still a little terrified.”
As Yan spoke, she couldn’t look at Han Muzi’s eyes. She was afraid that the moment she saw her eyes she would know that she was lying.
She stared at her toes with her jaw tightly clenched.
Initially, when she first entered the door, she thought no one was home, so she was thinking to quickly run up to the bedroom to find Han Muzi.
But who knew, the moment she stepped onto the stairs, a cold male voice called out to her.
Of course Yan knew who that was, and that was precisely why she was afraid to look into that person’s eyes. She was even shivering when she turned around.
“President, President Ye…”
A cold glance fell on her face, and then it moved to the bag in her hands.
Even the soles of her feet felt cold as she was being stared at by that pair of sharp eyes. She was drenched in a pile of cold sweat and almost passed out.
“Are you here to look for Muzi?” He asked her unemotionally.
Yan kept nodding her head, feeling like her jaw was coming off.
Even though she was the previous resident of this place, standing in front of Ye Moxuan made her feel as if she was the intruder in this house, and that made her feel really uneasy.
“Why are you looking for her?” Ye Moxuan continued to question her.
Yan recalled the voicemail Muzi left on her phone, so she softly opened her mouth and whispered, “The comp… company has a document that needs to be signed so… I am here to bring it to Muzi for her to have a look.”
She was all prepared before she came. Right after she finished the sentence, she quickly took out a document from her bag. “It’s this one.”
Ye Moxuan did not take that document from her hands.
Seeing that he had no intention to find out if that document was real, Yan then put the document away and slowly muttered, “President Ye, s-since you have no other matters, then… I shall head upstairs to find Muzi.”
After finishing that sentence, Yan turned away to prepare to quickly head upstairs.
“Hold on.” All of a sudden Ye Moxuan stopped her, and Yan froze her steps and stayed put at where she was. Agony and distress flashed on her face while her back faced Ye Moxuan.
It was difficult for her to put up a show in front of this unemotional person as to the real reason why she was there to send Muzi the pills. She was still trying to hold that a little longer, but if the questioning continued, she thought she might really pass out.
“President, President Ye?” Yan turned around and looked at Ye Moxuan carefully with a curious face.
Ye Moxuan stretched out his hand and opened his palm.
“Give me that thing.”
Yan stopped breathing at that moment. She felt that all the blood in her body was drained from her. After being stunned for ten seconds, Yan took the risk and gave that document to Ye Moxuan and pretended not to know anything. “President, President Ye, do you mean this? There, there you go.”
“Not this one.” Ye Moxuan looked up and stared into her eyes. “You know what I am asking for.”
Yan didn’t know what to say.
She thought of what Han Muzi said to her and continued to pretend to be clueless. Instead, she put on a mindless smile.
“President Ye, I really don’t know what you are talking about.”
“The morning-after pills.”
Ye Moxuan hit it directly and clearly the next second.
Yan was appalled and she just stood there.
“I will never let her have the pills again.” Once again, he put out his hand toward her. Now his voice and eyes seemed to have become colder. “Don’t let me repeat that.”
After that Yan decided to give in. Her lips were pale and hands trembled while holding her phone as she took out the newly purchased morning-after pills from her pocket.
She had really considered it through—just in case Ye Moxuan would search her bag, she had left the pills on her, but with just one sentence from Ye Moxuan, she had willingly given the pills up.
How did this happen…
How was she supposed to explain to Han Muzi now that she had given the pills to Ye Moxuan?
To her surprise, Ye Moxuan passed her a small bottle instead after taking the pills from her.
“Please give this to her. Otherwise she would not give up.”
Probably only after taking those pills would that woman completely stop. If no pills were given, what happened today could possibly happen many more times in the future.
“What, what is this?” Yan hesitated for a couple of seconds. She did not reach to take that bottle from his hands.
Ye Moxuan’s eyes turned. “Vitamin.”
Yan took a deep breath. What Ye Moxuan meant was for her to switch the morning-after pills to vitamin and give them to Muzi.
“But, but if this is the case, she will not…”
Ye Moxuan looked up and, for the first time, he looked into her eyes gravely. “Do you want her to take these morning-after pills?”
“I…” Deep within her heart, Yan surely did not want Muzi to take the morning-after pills. She had been good friends with Muzi for so many years that she knew her well.
She was still in love with Ye Moxuan, no matter how much she denied it.
What if, what if she got pregnant? Would that… give her a closure in her heart to be with Ye Moxuan, as there would be no more suffering?
It was difficult to get rid of this thought the moment it came up in her mind.
Yan felt conflicted as she looked at that small bottle. Her lips moved. “But I do not wish to lie to her.”
“You have no idea.” Ye Moxuan’s eyes dimmed. “I switched these pills when you were not paying attention. You have no idea.”
As she heard it, Yan instantly lifted her head and looked at him.
“How can I not know? You gave her those pills in front of me. I…”
“Do you think… I will let her have the morning-after pills?”
Yan bit her lower lip as she knew naturally that Ye Moxuan would definitely live up to his promise. Since he said he would not let Muzi have those pills, that definitely meant he would never let her have them or even a second glance at them.
She had been in a dilemma for a couple of days, but she now subconsciously took that bottle of vitamin from Ye Moxuan’s hand.
The bottle belonged to the morning-after pills, but… the pills had already been switched to vitamins.
Yan closed her eyes and took that bottle upstairs.
The pair of eyes that were behind her followed her closely and disappeared only at the turn.
Yan stopped her steps and peeped from the corner at the tall body figure downstairs.
Forget it. She took that as a favor for Ye Moxuan, and also for Muzi.
After all, it had already been so many years. She should be letting go.
