Overnight Hit: Vicious Stepmother and Genius Son
Chapter 533 - 530 (In the dead of night~)

Chapter 533: 530 (In the dead of night~)

Song Jinze leaned back, his gaze deep and gentle. After taking a deep breath, he countered with a question, "You want to hear the truth?"

Ye Zhenzhen nodded, "Yes, the truth. Not half a lie is allowed."

The man lowered his eyes as if seriously recalling when he first started to notice the woman in his arms...

At that moment, the vast office was extremely quiet. Ye Zhenzhen’s gaze was fixed on the man’s features without blinking. There was anticipation in her heart, but also unease.

What if he had already... before she came back in time?

"As for when I started liking you, I think it was probably after our many interactions later on. There were actually many moments when my heart fluttered, but I can be certain that my attention to you began after you went on the variety show with Xiao Chen."

All her thoughts came to an abrupt halt.

Ye Zhenzhen’s phoenix eyes lifted slightly at the corners, and the unease in her eyes quickly dissipated, giving way to a hint of a smile.

"Is that so? So before that, you had no thoughts about me whatsoever?"

Song Jinze tightened his arms around the woman’s waist, looking into her eyes with utmost seriousness, "Almost none.

In the first half year, I married you with a certificate just to avoid making Grandpa angry. After all, I didn’t feel I had found the right person to marry, and marrying you had one advantage, which was that Grandpa would be very happy."

"But Grandpa being happy didn’t mean I was happy. At that time, your relationship with Xiao Chen and all your various actions gave me quite a headache, so in that half-year, I was disappointed in you."

Ye Zhenzhen pressed her lips together, feigning disappointment, she sighed, "Ah~ So that’s what you really thought of me."

Song Jinze raised his hand to gently brush away the hair by her ear, his Adam’s apple moving, and he said with a deep look, "Didn’t you ask me to tell the truth? Why, are you unhappy to hear it now?"

As their eyes met, Ye Zhenzhen got the answer she wanted, and naturally, she was happy inside, yet she could still sense the layer of worry in the man’s eyes.

Intuition told her that he was hiding something related to her in his heart.

She turned the conversation back to the earlier question, "Let’s go back to that question. Tell me, why have you been sulky with me these past few days? Why the cold attitude toward me?"

"..."

"Speak up, you’re not allowed to stay silent."

It was a moment for confessions; whatever it was, had to be made clear, whether for herself or for the man in front of her.

Song Jinze hesitated for a moment, then coaxed her softly, "Zhenzhen, the one I love is the current you."

No matter at what time and in what place the other person appeared, he was sure that most of the time, and with most heartfelt matters, it was definitely the person in front of him.

Ye Zhenzhen once again lifted her hands to the man’s handsome face, her brows slightly furrowed as she said, "Song Jinze, don’t evade the important matter. What exactly are you worried about? You better confess honestly, otherwise..."

"Otherwise what?"

Ye Zhenzhen huffed, "Otherwise I’ll also not tell you anything in the future. I’ll just sulk with you silently and treat you with a cold attitude too."

Song Jinze smiled helplessly, then went on to share some of the things he had found out these past two days.

Ye Zhenzhen’s facial expression gradually turned to surprise, even looking at him with an incredulous gaze.

After the man finished speaking, she blinked and asked, "So, you’ve been cold to me these past few days because both the doctor and you suspected that I have a split personality?"

Dual personalities, in her understanding, wasn’t that just schizophrenia, a mental disorder?

To put it less pleasantly, it might even be considered a mental illness, even though it’s not actually a disease.

Song Jinze coaxed gently, "I haven’t been very cold, have I? I’m just a bit worried, and a little unable to accept it. I didn’t mention it before when I didn’t know, but once I became aware, I was very afraid of what I could do to you if it turned out to be another person..."

Seeing the always aloof and chilly Song Jinze speaking in such a tone, Ye Zhenzhen suddenly thought of the word Su Xi used to describe him, innocent.

"Pfft~" Ye Zhenzhen couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

The man’s hand resting on her waist gave a light pinch as if to punish, "What are you laughing at?"

"I’m laughing at President Song’s innocence!"

Song Jinze: ...

Ye Zhenzhen composed herself, her face straightening as she said seriously, "Song Jinze, I don’t have a dual personality, but I am indeed not the original Ye Zhenzhen..."

Song Jinze’s dark eyes deepened, his heartbeat skipped half a beat, then suddenly tightened, "Then you..."

"As for who I am, I’ll explain it to you now."

She wouldn’t do as he did, keeping the problem to herself and secretly investigating it on her own. If there’s something to say, say it, if it can be accepted, accept it; if not, then forget it.

Song Jinze said no more, listening quietly as she spoke.

For some reason, after the initial tension had passed, he felt both relieved and delighted. He was able to accept a replacement person; as long as it wasn’t a dual personality, that was fine.

After all, the Ye Zhenzhen he had thought of and liked had always been the one after she participated in the variety show, and he could be certain that the change occurred after she participated in the show.

However, his delight didn’t last long, not until he patiently listened to Ye Zhenzhen roughly describe her past life and how she transmigrated here, and that in her heart, they were just characters from a book at that moment.

The man’s handsome face visibly darkened as he asked softly, "What you meant just now is that your arrival was sudden, so you also don’t know when you might suddenly disappear?"

Ye Zhenzhen, still with her head down, immersed in the personal experience she had just recounted, didn’t notice the peculiarity in the man’s question. She simply nodded lightly, "Mhm."

She continued earnestly, "Because in the world I lived in before, I watched those time-travel series or movies, and those people who traveled to another time and space would later travel back again."

"But when I came here, I was already dead, so I feel that if I were to travel back, it would actually make more sense if I just disappeared."

After she finished speaking, Ye Zhenzhen did not get a response. She looked up to see the man staring at her with a solemn and serious expression, "Why are you..."

Before she could finish her sentence, she felt her waist tighten as the man embraced her closely, "I forbid you to go back, I don’t permit you to disappear."

Ye Zhenzhen felt the warmth in the man’s embrace and the pleasant cool fragrance of his scent. She smiled, "I said ’if.’ Logically, I think I shouldn’t disappear."

"Not even if!"

After Song Jinze said that, as if feeling it was not enough, he let go of the woman in his arms and repeated, "Not even if, there are no ifs."

Ye Zhenzhen’s lips curled up slightly as she replied, "Alright, not even if."

In the man’s profound gaze, his dark eyes churned with domineering yet doting affection. He raised his hand to gently stroke the back of her head, and his burning lips followed his breath to cover hers...