After leaving the Jiang residence, Ye Yanxi walked around helplessly and aimlessly, not caring where she was going. Her mind was in a complete mess. She just wanted to be alone and didn't want anyone to disturb her.
As soon as she stepped out of the Jiang family's gate, Ye Yanxi felt those two dedicated bodyguards following her all the time.
The bodyguards sent by Xiao Yu behind her made her feel irritated. She was Jiang Pinzhen's real daughter, but she had been kept in the dark all along. Now, out of the blue, she even felt hostile towards Xiao Yu.
Maybe Xiao Yu was also an accomplice. He might have known about this a long time ago. Otherwise, he wouldn't have told her not to meet He Zhenhua.
After thinking for a while, Ye Yanxi stopped and hid in a secluded place. She watched as the two bodyguards passed by in front of her. She didn't want anyone to find her now.
She didn't know how long she had been hiding in the corner. She just felt that what had happened today made her feel dazed and ridiculous about the past twenty - odd years.
Jiang Pinzhen was really her mother. If so, why did she recognize He Man instead of her back then? Ye Junze clearly knew that she was Jiang Pinzhen's real daughter, but still insisted on keeping her as an adopted daughter.
One didn't recognize her sixteen years ago, and the other never wanted to tell her the truth. But today, they suddenly wanted her to recognize them.
She had an indescribable feeling towards Jiang Pinzhen. Even if Jiang Pinzhen admitted that she was her mother, Ye Yanxi didn't have the slightest longing for the mother - daughter relationship. After sixteen years of separation, they were like strangers. It was impossible for her to suddenly call Jiang Pinzhen mom.
She was already used to being an orphan, without parents.
Once in the hotel, when Jiang Pinzhen slapped her, she was already very sad. Today, when Yan Zhen told Jiang Pinzhen that she was her daughter, the skeptical look in Jiang Pinzhen's eyes made her feel a sharp pain in her heart.
Suddenly, her phone rang. It was a call from Xiao Yu.
Maybe Xiao Yu had heard about her situation and was just calling to ask.
But this call from Xiao Yu made Ye Yanxi even more certain that Xiao Yu had known all this for a long time and had been hiding it from her.
All of them, even the closest people, had been deceiving her. Now she just felt weak and exhausted.
Maybe only Du Guo and He Chuyan were trustworthy at this time. She took out her phone and wanted to call He Chuyan, but suddenly thought that if she did, Xiao Yu would be able to find her soon. So she put down the phone.
Xiao Yu had just hung up the phone and now called again. Ye Yanxi frowned and looked at the caller ID. Then, she turned off the phone with determination.
As long as she turned off the phone, no one could find her, and no one would disturb her.
She couldn't stay here for long. Those bodyguards would come back if they couldn't find her. But in the huge S City, she didn't know where to go.
Finally, taking advantage of the fact that the bodyguards hadn't come back yet, she quickly left the place and walked onto the road.
She knew that once Xiao Yu's bodyguards lost track of her, they would immediately send someone to look for her. Maybe Jiang Ye would also be involved. This was Jiang Ye's territory, and it would be easy for him to find her hiding place. She had to go to a place where no one could find her.
After leaving the Jiang residence and walking towards the city center for a long time, she finally reached a street. She hailed a taxi. When the driver asked her where she was going, she didn't even have an address to give.
Now she just wanted to escape from this place where she had lived for more than a decade. Maybe only the place where she had grown up initially was her eternal haven.
When Ye Yanxi skillfully reported that string of place names, even she was a little surprised. She didn't know why such an address popped up in her mind.
After hearing it, the driver turned his head and gave her a rather strange look. Then the car gradually drove out of the bustling street.
This was the suburbs. It looked desolate. Many high - rise buildings were still under construction, and the car stopped in front of an abandoned orphanage.
After paying the fare, the driver glanced at the orphanage outside the window and quickly turned the car around and left.
After getting off the car, Ye Yanxi walked towards the orphanage along the desolate path.
The iron gate was already rusty, and the mottled walls were shedding ash. After entering the gate, Ye Yanxi felt as if she had passed through time. This was the first place she remembered.
Not far from the orphanage gate, there was a small garden. In the past, there were well - arranged rockeries and all kinds of flowers and plants. There was also a small swing between the Chinese parasol trees. When she was a child, she liked to sit on it and sway gently.
It was a pity that now the iron chains on the swing were also rusty, and the ground was full of weeds half a person's height. Ye Yanxi walked over and gently shook the swing. The wooden board made a "creak" sound, as if it was going to fall apart at any moment.
Leaving the small garden, she walked towards the dormitory where she used to live. On this gravel path, it was hard to recognize the original appearance. The weeds had covered many of the gravels.
Rows of dormitories stood neatly, but the walls were covered with unknown vines, with small red and yellow flowers dotted among them.
It had to be said that a house would have a soul only when someone lived in it. Once people left, the soul of the house was gone, so it aged very quickly within half a year.
In the corridor, spider webs and dust could be seen everywhere. The wooden door was in a terrible state of disrepair. In the room where she used to live, the burnt marks were still faintly visible.
She still remembered that on the Lantern Festival, the room they lived in caught fire, and she was rescued by a person whose face she couldn't see clearly. Although the room was renovated later, with a new wooden door and window screens, now everything was in a dilapidated state.
She pushed open the half - broken wooden door, and immediately ash fell from the eaves, choking her and making her cough continuously. Ye Yanxi waited for a while before walking into the room.
She had deep memories of this place from her childhood. Every table and chair here made her feel indescribably familiar. There were still many colored papers pasted on the pink walls. There were two small beds on each side of the window, and the small stools were still there.
Those stickers were all pasted by her. When she was a child, she especially liked these colorful papers. Once, when the dean came to check the hygiene, some of them were confiscated.
Nevertheless, pasting these colored papers was the happiest thing for her at that time. She was carefree and didn't think about anything.
But now...
She walked in, picked up a faded and yellowed colored paper and spread it on the small bed, then leaned against the wooden frame of the small bed and stared blankly at the floor of the room.
Now she felt as if she had been abandoned again. She just wanted to stay here quietly. What was happening in the outside world had nothing to do with her.
But during the time when she was hiding, she didn't know that the people outside were almost going crazy looking for her.
She had found a corner to hide and turned off her phone. No one knew where she was, and even the positioning didn't work. She really seemed to disappear like a raindrop merging into the sea.
Jiang Ye was looking for her secretly. He didn't make a big fuss about it, so the people in the Jiang family didn't know. In fact, if the people in the Jiang family knew the news of her disappearance, they would be more worried. So in order not to cause more trouble and make others anxious, Jiang Ye didn't tell his family.
Jiang Ye had searched every corner in the area near the Jiang residence, but there was no sign of Ye Yanxi. So he had to expand the search scope. As the sky was getting darker and darker, Jiang Ye was so anxious that he sent people to search every street and alley carefully, but they found nothing.
Somehow, He Man got to know about this.
Now He Man had nowhere to go, so she had to go back to the Chu family obediently and be Mrs. Chu. Because He Man was at home, Chu Beize ate and lived in the company.
Although He Man was also very dissatisfied with Chu Beize, now he was her only hope. Even if she was not satisfied, she could only stay in the Chu family.
When she heard the news that Ye Yanxi was missing, He Man was sitting leisurely in the garden of the Chu family villa, basking in the sun.
It was the bodyguard who told her.
"Are you telling the truth?" He Man's eyes lit up. Then she stared straight at the bodyguard, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help rising.
"Absolutely true."
He Man immediately stood up, took a few steps, and then said to the bodyguard, "Go and find out more clearly. I want to know what happened."
"Okay, I'll go and find out later." The bodyguard looked at He Man and suddenly leaned over. One of his hands casually rested on He Man's waist. "Before that, shall we..."
"No!" He Man was startled and looked around. Then she pushed the bodyguard away. "This is the Chu family. If the people in the Chu family find out, do you think I can still be Mrs. Chu?"
"No one's around right now, and Chu Beize isn't coming back. Don't you want to?"
He Man frowned in disgust. When she looked up, there was a flirtatious smile on her lips. "It's not impossible if you want to. But before that, you'd better find out everything for me. Otherwise, don't even think about it!"
"Okay, then I'll go first."
When He Man saw the bodyguard walking out, her eyes dimmed.
She had now fallen to the point where everyone could bully her. Even a bodyguard dared to be presumptuous with her.
But just thinking that Ye Yanxi was really missing, her mood involuntarily improved. Now was the best opportunity to take action.
If Ye Yanxi disappeared completely this time, so what if she was the eldest miss of the Ye family now? Who would care about a dead person then?
Moreover, she had married into the Chu family as the daughter of the He Group. If Ye Yanxi was gone, everything she had before would remain intact.
So this time, Ye Yanxi must disappear completely.
There would only be her in this world. She, He Man, was the real young lady.
Soon, the bodyguard brought back definite news. Ye Yanxi had run out of the Jiang family.
There was an excited and strange light in He Man's eyes.
Ye Yanxi, this time it's not anyone else's fault. You were just being so stupid as to go to the Jiang family. And the people in the Jiang family were also to blame. They secretly recognized Ye Yanxi behind her back.
She didn't quite understand why Ye Yanxi had left the Jiang family and disappeared after knowing the truth. But she did know that if no one could find Ye Yanxi now, the only place she might go...
was the orphanage!