Chapter 1553


    The wintry winds howled.


    Ye Fan''s icy words were torn into shreds by the iing wind.


    He did not linger. Having spoken his piece, he turned and left, his slim form disappearing from Tang Yun''s vision within moments,


    leaving her standing alone, all by herself, between the vast heaven and earth.


    The wind swept across the vastnds, whipping her long dark hair into a frenzy.


    Tang Yun stood in silence. Ye Fan''s words lingered in her head and filled her ears. He never wished to see her again.


    Those few curt words were like a thousand daggers piercing Tang Yun''s heart.


    It hurt so much.


    So, this was what it felt like to have one''s heart ripped into shreds.


    There had been a moment when Tang Yun had been seized by the impulse to tell Ye


    Fan everything.


    She had wanted to tell him why she hade to Jingzhou and to tell him that they now had a child.


    But in the end, she hadn''t said a single word.


    When she had heard Ye Fan utter those final, cruel words, she had been struck by a sudden realization. It wouldn’t have


    mattered.


    She didn''t want Ye Fan''s pity. She didn''t need to use their child to hold him hostage.Text ? 2024 N?velDrama.Org.


    What she longed for was a person who truly cared for her.


    She didn''t need someone who showed her care or concern out of obligation or any other reasons.


    Perhaps the dejection or the sorrow was too much for her.


    Tears slowly streamed down Tang Yun''s cheeks, breaking into separate droplets as they slid off her chin. They were pearls


    strung by an invisible thread that glittered sharply in the sunlight and elicited a stabbing pain in one''s heart.


    Meanwhile, in the Ye family mansion in Jingzhou.


    It was night. The mansion was brightly lit with lights.


    Ye Yu-Yan and the rest of the Ye family were gathered around the table, sharing dinner.


    They wouldn''t stop ying with the baby in Ye Xi-Mei''s arms as they ate.


    “Look at his smooth cheeks. He looks adorable! Sis, are you sure this isn''t Fan''s child? Look at his eyes and his chin. They''re


    Fan''s eyes and chin! They look so alike," said Ye Fan''s aunt, Ye Xi-Lan, merrily as she pinched the baby''s rosy cheeks.


    Ye Xi-Mei sighed. "That''s what | think too.


    This child looks so much like Fan when he was a kid. But he should know better than us whether this is his kid. He didn''t seem


    like he was lying. Besides, Mu-Cheng isn’t here and we''re all family. If this was some illegitimate child that was a result of an


    affair, he wouldn''t hide it from his own mother."


    Ye Xi-Mei was in her forties. Many married women her age were now grandmothers.


    She had asked Qiu Mu-Cheng subtly if the young woman had ns to have children.


    The answer that she had gotten had been disappointing.


    Ye Fan and Qiu Mu-Cheng had been married for years but Qiu Mu-Cheng had shown no signs of pregnancy for so long. No one


    was more anxious than Ye Xi-Mei.


    However, if Qiu Mu-Cheng had no ns to have children, there wasn''t anything that Ye Xi-Mei could do but keep her


    unhappiness to herself.


    The arrival of this child had undoubtedly kept Ye Xi-Mei in good cheer for quite some time.


    She had thought that she was now a grandmother.


    But the happiness bubbling inside her had burst upon hearing Ye Fan''s denial.


    Her happiness had been for nothing.


    "Don''t get too upset, sister. Fan might have forgotten. We''ll ask him again when hees back. He might have been drunk then.


    It could have been an ident. It makes sense that he''d forgotten all about it," Ye Xi-Lan said as she tried tofort her sister.


    Their father nodded in agreement.


    "| suppose all we can do is ask him about it again. If this isn''t Fan''s child, we have to find a way to locate his parents and return


    him to his family. His family must be worried sick," murmured Ye Xi-Mei dispiritedly.


    It was obvious that this young and new arrival to the Ye family had given them much joy. Everyone was in love with the baby.


    But it didn''t matter how much they liked the child. They had to return him to his parents.


    They were parents too and knew how much a child meant to his parents.


    Ye Fan had appeared in the Ye family mansion while the rest of the family were still caught up in their conversation.


    Moonlight spilled across the young man, casting a dark shadow on the ground that moved slowly as the young man trudged


    across the mansion with an expressionless look on his face.


    “What''s wrong with Brother Fan? He looks down. Someone who doesn''t know better might think he''s just been dumped," Ye Jian


    said with a note of puzzlement and a raised eyebrow as he eyed Ye Fan.


    "That’s utter nonsense! Fan''s a man of influence and status now. Plenty of young women are dying to marry him. They''d kill to


    get themselves into the Ye family and enjoy the status and wealth thate along with it. Only Fan gets to dump women.


    There''s no women out there who would dump him!" Ye Xi-Lan said smugly.


    The stature of everyone in the family, from the pet dog to the family rooster, rose with that of a single man.


    Because of Ye Fan, the entire Ye family had be the most influential family in Jiangdong.


    In the past, Ye Xi-Lan, Ye Tian and Ye Ya wouldn’t have been able to get an audience with Lei San even if they had groveled and


    plied numerous generous gifts onto thetter.