diskusbooks Chapter 324 I am innocent!
Chapter 324 I am innocent!
Ye Feiran bit his lip. He had indeed been very foolish before, but during this time with Ye Qing'an, he had learned a few things and was no longer as clueless as before...
"After what happened yesterday, although the healer gave me that medicine and made me a little confused, I still remember what happened yesterday when I woke up."
Ye Feiran raised her eyes, her vision blurred with tears, and looked at Ye Qinghao: "Father, I always thought that Mother was very good to me, that she doted on me, that she gave me whatever I wanted, and that no matter what I did or what mistakes I made, she always indulged me and never scolded me. When my older brother and second sister did something wrong, she would scold and punish them, but she never did that to me..."
“I always thought she was the best mother in the world. But after what happened yesterday, I realized that indulging someone without question is not necessarily love.”
“Yesterday in that bustling market, facing the defeat of losing the cockfight, and then being provoked by the Sixth Prince and those two from the Li and Gu families, I said those words almost without thinking, subconsciously. Because I had indeed spoken like that before at the manor, and my mother had heard it many times, but no one told me that what I said was wrong.”
Ye Feiran gripped the hem of her dress hanging to her side tightly: "Ye Qing'an did say that, but I disliked her a lot before. I thought she was just a shameless countrywoman who was sent to the manor by her parents and got pregnant out of wedlock. She doesn't understand anything, so why should I listen to her?"
"But when I woke up earlier and recalled what happened yesterday, I suddenly realized that my habitual words and actions almost killed me. If it weren't for Ye Qing'an and that medical cultivator named Xu Mo helping me clean up the mess, I might have lost my life. Even my father and the Ye family would probably have been implicated by me."
Ye Feiran choked back tears, sobbing and crying, "I almost made a terrible mistake..."
Ye Qinghao looked at Ye Feiran without the slightest ripple in his eyes. Ye Feiran was his child, and had lived in the Ye family mansion all these years. He knew what kind of person Ye Feiran had been before.
Because of Su Wan's matter and Ye Qing'an's matter, he was almost indifferent to this legitimate son and hardly ever asked about him. Therefore, he didn't care how Liu Xueying taught or treated him.
But not caring doesn't mean you don't know.
As Ye Feiran himself said, he was indeed impulsive, so it was only natural that he would cause such a mess.
And given his personality, he probably wouldn't be very good at lying.
Ye Qinghao lowered his head and glanced at the note in his hand. He remained silent for a while before speaking again: "I understand about this..."
Seeing Ye Qinghao's tone as if he wanted to drive him away, Ye Feiran quickly crawled to his knees and hugged his leg, saying, "Father, this whole thing is my fault. Punish me however you like. I did dislike Ye Qing'an before, looked down on her, didn't listen to her, and always went against her..."
“Yesterday when we went to the lantern festival, Ye Qing’an repeatedly told me to stay close to her, but not only did I not listen, I even went to crowded places to spite her. Father, please don’t blame her…”
Ye Qinghao glanced at Ye Feiran: "I have my own considerations for this matter, you don't need to worry about it."
After Ye Qinghao finished speaking, he lowered his head again and carefully looked at Ye Feiran's upturned face. His brows furrowed slightly. Ye Feiran seemed to have lost a lot of weight, and his face didn't look as unpleasant as before.
"So, are you planning to stay with your sister and let her teach you properly, or go back to your mother?"
Ye Feiran gritted her teeth: "I will follow Ye Qing'an's side from now on and listen to her."
Ye Qinghao nodded: "Alright, then you can continue to stay by her side. Okay, go back now. Since your sister is now in charge of teaching you, let her decide how to punish you."
"Yes……"
Ye Feiran retreated, sobbing uncontrollably.
After Ye Feiran had walked away, Ye Qinghao's face suddenly turned cold. He turned to look at a corner of the room that couldn't be seen from the doorway: "Did you hear everything? Do you have anything to say?"
The person who had been standing silently in the corner finally moved, quickly walking to a spot two steps away from Ye Qinghao and kneeling down: "Master, I am truly innocent."
"Although Feiran is not my biological son, over the past few years, Master has placed Feiran under my care and raised him with utmost care. I can honestly say that I have done my best. Precisely because Feiran is not my own child, I am always afraid of mistreating him, and I love him even more than my own children..."
"I was afraid he would get cold. Other children only had six sets of clothes per quarter, but I made twelve sets for him every quarter. I was afraid he would go hungry, so I specially instructed the kitchen to prepare different kinds of food for him every day. I was afraid he would get tired, so I would ask the servants around him from time to time if he was too tired every day, and I was always concerned about him. I was afraid he would be unhappy, so I would grant him any request he made."
Tears welled up in Liu Xueying's eyes: "My lord, I sincerely want to be good to him, but I don't know that what I thought was good for him has become a weapon to harm him in Qing'an's eyes and in Fei Ran's eyes, and has become a sign of ulterior motives."
Ye Qinghao looked at Liu Xueying's pitiful and tearful appearance, his eyes remaining calm. He simply threw the note in his hand to the ground and asked, "Then what about this thing? How do you plan to explain that?"
Liu Xueying raised her hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes before picking up the note from the ground. She lowered her eyes and examined it closely: "This...this is just an ordinary note. The handwriting is also ordinary. There's nothing suspicious about it. To conclude that this note was secretly sent by me to Feiran, instructing him to follow me closely last night in an attempt to scheme against him, based solely on this one note, is a bit too much..."
Liu Xueying's tears fell again: "If someone wants to find fault, they can always find a reason. I'm not stupid. Even if I really wanted to use Fei Ran to scheme against Qing An, I would never leave a single trace..."
"Wei Lan's marriage to the Fifth Prince is currently being prepared. Even if I were truly an utterly wicked person, I would never do something like this at this time, dragging the Ye family into this mess. What good would that do for me or for Wei Lan?"