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Chapter 216

  His words made Pei Dongyang speechless.

  He stood there silently, feeling powerless.

  "Look, that's how you are. You don't even want to tell me such a simple lie."

  Yushan Ye's tears streaked across her pale face.

  In the morning light, the tears seemed to carry the edge of a sharp blade.

  "Lil' Ye, let's not talk about this, shall we?

  I'm going to have a check-up with you today. Let's eat first."

  Pei Linjiang lowered his head and didn't look at the Jade Mountain leaves.

  He rubbed the sesame-and-scent rice with sesame seed and added more soup to it.

  Watching him as he busied himself in the kitchen, Yushan Ye couldn't bring himself to say the vicious words that he had long since planned out.

  She didn't want to waste any more time on him. She implored her father to tell her that Pei Dongyang had brought her to China because he wanted to free Pei Dongyang.

  He had done enough in all these years.