Chapter 32

After the fat man left, Wu Xinghua's anger gradually subsided, and the onlookers around her dispersed. Ye Feng finally completed his promise to her.

Ye Feng accidentally tripped her, but he also helped her once, which balanced things out.

Looking at his phone, he estimated that Qin Yan would be arriving soon. He nodded to her and smiled, saying, "Ms. Wu, I've finished helping you. If there's nothing else, I'll be on my way."

However, Wu Xinghua just stared at him blankly, not speaking, clearly still not recovered from what had just happened.

Ye Feng said another sentence to her, but seeing that she still didn't respond, he decided not to say anything more. He handed the empty soda bottle to the boss and walked towards the street, planning to wait for Qin Yan there.

But before he could take two steps, Wu Xinghua called out to him from behind.

"Ye Feng, wait a moment."

She walked up to Ye Feng, her previous angry expression gone, and smiled at him, saying, "Ye Feng, I'm sorry, I was a bit distracted just now. Although you tripped me, I'm fine, and I believe you didn't do it on purpose. So no matter what, I have to thank you for helping me just now. I'm really embarrassed that you had to see that."

Ye Feng wanted to say something polite, but before he could speak, the familiar "ding" sound in his mind rang again, indicating that he had gained 20 points of virtue.

Ye Feng knew that the sudden gain of virtue points might be because he had helped Wu Xinghua with a "small favor," but he never expected that just nodding and saying a few words would earn him 20 points, 10 more than the last time he indirectly caused Dao Ge's death.

Could just a small favor like standing there make such a deep impression on Wu Xinghua, whom he barely knew?

It wasn't until Wu Xinghua called his name twice that his mind fully returned to reality.

"Ye Feng, you pretended to be my boyfriend and helped me get rid of a big trouble. Sigh! I overestimated that fat man. If I had known, I would have confronted him directly. Ye Feng, you don't need to worry about him causing trouble for you. Although he is rich and powerful, he is not from this area and will be returning to Jiangsu tomorrow. Besides, even if he wants to find you, he has to find you first, right? Oh, by the way, Ye Feng, do you live in this neighborhood?"

Ye Feng shook his head and smiled, "No, I'm just waiting for a friend here."

"Oh, I see. Then, Ye Feng, thank you again. I'll be going home now."

"Okay, you should go home quickly. Goodbye."

Watching Wu Xinghua's slender figure gradually disappear into the neighborhood entrance, Ye Feng felt an unusual sense of relief. He had met her by chance, and their paths had crossed unexpectedly. He never thought that the first time he gained virtue points after being released from the detention center would be from such a beautiful woman. Was this a kind of mysterious fate?

Just as he was musing, he heard two car honks. Turning his head, he saw a red car parked behind him, with Qin Yan's beautiful face visible through the open window.

"Ye Feng, come over and get in the car," Qin Yan called out to him.

Ye Feng walked over, intending to get into the back seat, but Qin Yan had already opened the passenger door for him.

Sitting in the car, he smelled a refreshing fragrance, unsure if it was from the car's perfume or Qin Yan's scent, but it was very pleasant.

Qin Yan started the car, turned around, and looked at him, saying, "Ye Feng, I'm sorry for making you wait so long."

Ye Feng smiled awkwardly, "It's not long. I've already gotten used to waiting during my time in the detention center."

Qin Yan's expression turned serious, "Ye Feng, did you suffer a lot in the detention center?"

Ye Feng laughed, "Do I look like I suffered a lot? You know, anyone who wanted to make me suffer has already had their arms and legs broken by me."

Qin Yan giggled, "That's true, but I really didn't see it coming. You look so gentle and weak, yet you can break someone's leg. Where do you get such strength? Do you have a violent tendency?"

Ye Feng knew Qin Yan was joking, so he just smiled and didn't say anything more.

After a moment of silence, the car sped up on the fast lane. Qin Yan turned her head to look at Ye Feng several times, then turned back, her expression clearly showing that she wanted to say something but held back.

Ye Feng said straightforwardly, "Lawyer Qin, do you have something you want to ask me?"

"Yes, you noticed," Qin Yan smiled, "I've actually wanted to ask you this for a long time, but I never found the right opportunity. Now that you are completely free, I decided to formally ask you. Ye Feng, tell me, why were you so sure that Liu Yong and Liu Meimei would confess everything in court? I've always been puzzled by this. It's simply unbelievable. They looked like they were hypnotized, and their behavior was very strange. Ye Feng, do you know that your case has become the biggest mystery in our legal community?"

Ye Feng knew Qin Yan would eventually ask him this question, but he was absolutely not going to tell her the real reason. So he spread his hands and smiled helplessly, "Lawyer Qin, when I said that, it was more of an emotional release. I don't know why they confessed in court and admitted to being the real culprits. Perhaps it was a sign from heaven, or perhaps they were under too much psychological pressure after framing me and finally broke down in public."

Qin Yan slowed down the car, turned to look at Ye Feng, and asked, "Ye Feng, this case is the strangest, most bizarre, and most dramatic one I've encountered in my legal career. If you really don't have an answer, I can only say that your fate and luck are truly remarkable. But I've always been puzzled about why you wanted to make that bet with me back then."

Ye Feng continued to evade, "In that situation, making a bet with you was a way to balance my mindset. I had been suppressing my emotions for a long time and had no way to release them, so I used the seemingly absurd but highly effective method of making a bet to achieve that balance. That's the situation."

Qin Yan sighed and didn't ask Ye Feng any more questions, falling silent.

Ye Feng knew that Qin Yan still had many questions in her mind, but there were some things he could never give her the right answers to.

Qin Yan lived in a high-end neighborhood in Xia Hui District of Mingzhu City. The entire neighborhood consisted of high-rise buildings, and it was called Century Garden. Coincidentally, when Ye Feng first came to Mingzhu City to work, the first large construction site he worked on was Century Garden. At that time, it was just a bunch of unfinished buildings, but now, after a few years, it was almost fully occupied.

Life can be quite mysterious. After all the twists and turns, Ye Feng found himself back at the starting point of his journey in Mingzhu City.

Ye Feng wondered if this also meant that his life was about to embark on a new beginning.

Qin Yan's home was on the sixth floor of Building 6, a large apartment, estimated to be nearly 200 square meters. When Ye Feng first came to Mingzhu City to work, he was just a laborer, carrying bricks and sand. He wondered if his sweat was mixed in with the concrete and steel of Qin Yan's home.

When Ye Feng and Qin Yan returned, his mother came out to greet them. As Qin Yan had said, she had been worried about Ye Feng all night.

That night, Ye Feng and his mother slept in the same room. He didn't sleep for the first half of the night, as his mother had many questions to ask him, and he had many thoughts and hardships to share with her.

That night, Ye Feng didn't practice or collect souls. He lay next to his mother, holding her hand, counting the white hairs on her head, and listening to her endless chatter.

Only at that moment did Ye Feng truly understand the meaning of the saying, "A mother worries about her child no matter how far away he is."

His mother's words conveyed one message: she wanted Ye Feng to return to their hometown, to settle down and live a stable life, even if it meant hard work in the fields, which would be better than the various hardships he faced in the big city.

Ye Feng politely declined his mother's wishes. He told her that to support the family, he had to work outside.

In the end, his mother didn't try to persuade him to return, as she understood that without his income, their family would struggle to make ends meet.

In the second half of the night, his mother fell asleep, but Ye Feng couldn't sleep. He got up and went to the window, looking at the dimly lit night outside. He decided to send his mother home the next day. Since Qin Yan was not related to them, he couldn't keep troubling her. He also needed to find a place to rent and a job to start a new life.