A Villainous Childhood Sweetheart At Four And A Half - Chapter 15

Looking at Ning Song crouching there, Pei Hanying moved closer after a while too.

She poked the little villain’s shoulder with her fingertip and knowingly asked, “Ning Song, you don’t want to talk to me anymore?”

Ning Song shifted her body and turned the back of her head toward her without speaking.

Pei Hanying followed her and moved to another spot too, asking in a very annoying way, “You really won’t talk to me anymore?”

After saying this, she stood up and deliberately sighed sadly.

“It’s been so long and you still haven’t answered. Looks like you really don’t want to talk to me anymore. I’m so sad, but no one cares about my feelings at all.”

Miss Pei was sad. How could no one care?

The dozen or so people in the Pei family, from top to bottom, would all have to think of ways to coax her happy.

So Pei Hanying’s statement did not hold up at all.

But hearing the girl’s deliberately dejected voice, Ning Song also could not bear to keep sulking.

She grabbed the corner of Pei Hanying’s clothes and said softly, “I’m not ignoring you.”

Lifting her head to look at the girl, under Pei Hanying’s gaze, the heat in Ning Song’s ears had not faded. Somewhat unhappy, she said, “It’s just that Yingying is a little bad.”

Pei Hanying bent down and pulled the little girl up by the hand.

Hearing this, she gave a little hum. “Praising you for being cute is also bad? You might as well wrong me to death.”

Ning Song was thin-skinned. Truly, even praising her would make her embarrassed.

Pei Hanying could only say that if Ning Song stayed this easy to tease, then in the future, there would be plenty of chances to tease her.

Ning Song pursed her lips. It was not that she disliked being praised as cute.

On the contrary, when Pei Hanying praised her, she was very happy. But while feeling overwhelmed by the favor, she also felt shy.

Her eyes grew moist. After being looked at by Pei Hanying for a while, she slowly changed her words.

“Yingying isn’t bad at all.”

Only then was Pei Hanying satisfied. Holding her hand, she introduced the different flowers and plants in the flower room to her.

She knew these plants like the back of her hand and explained them to Ning Song one by one.

“This is pennywort. This is spider plant, hibiscus, and lantana.”

After introducing all the different kinds of flowers and plants in the flower room, she suddenly remembered Ning Song’s extraordinary memory and curiously asked, “Little Cat, did you remember all of these?”

Ning Song gently nodded and pointed at the different flowers and plants, reciting their names one by one.

Not a single one was wrong.

This memory of hers—Pei Hanying was a little envious.

She said sourly in a low voice, “This memory is practically a cheating tool.”

As expected of a villain. Even the halos on her body were different from ordinary people’s.

Only, what use were these halos? In the original book, Ning Song had still lived terribly the whole time.

Thinking of this, she tightened her hold on Ning Song’s hand.

After thinking for a while, she said with some frustration at Ning Song’s failure to live up to expectations, “In the future, you’d better go to school properly.”

Ning Song felt the grip on her hand grow stronger. After hearing what Pei Hanying said, she became somewhat puzzled.

She revealed a faint smile and said in a small voice, “Daddy said he’ll let me go to school next semester.”

After hearing her words, Pei Hanying’s mood became even more complicated.

If she remembered correctly, in the original timeline, Ning Song had only finished elementary school.

Her grades were excellent, but Ning Cheng refused to let her continue studying. Instead, he made her work odd jobs at a young age to earn money for the family, while Ning Cheng only stayed at home eating, drinking, whoring, and gambling, constantly beating and scolding Ning Song.

She suddenly felt a little regretful. Before deciding whether or not to raise Ning Song, she should not have suddenly said something like this.

The moment she thought of the experiences Ning Song might face in the future, the scale in her heart once again gained weight on the other side, leaning continuously in Ning Song’s direction.

She really was about to lose hold of herself.

But if she let these factors influence her decision, it also did not feel very prudent.

She let out a soft sigh. It was not obvious, yet Ning Song noticed it keenly.

Pei Hanying was unhappy.

Ning Song felt somewhat uneasy. She did not know whether she had said something wrong just now, or whether it was because of the earlier topic about whether she was “cute” or not.

It seemed she had gotten carried away. Clearly, she was living under someone else’s roof, yet she had still stubbornly refused to go along with Pei Hanying’s words.

Clearly, whatever Pei Hanying said, she only needed to agree. Why had she insisted on saying that extra sentence?

Ning Song regretted it so much now.

After a while, she apologized to Pei Hanying.

“Yingying, I’m sorry.”

Hearing the soft, delicate voice beside her ear, Pei Hanying came back to herself.

After hearing her apology, she was completely confused.

What was this little idiot apologizing for now?

After staring at the little girl’s face in silence for several seconds, Pei Hanying held back the urge to helplessly rub her forehead.

She asked, “Why are you saying sorry?”

Ning Song’s hands were behind her back, her nails digging into her palms, pinching hard.

Pain spread in waves along the marks she had pinched into herself. She listed her crime in a low voice. “I shouldn’t have made you angry.”

Pei Hanying continued asking, “When did I ever say I was angry?”

For no reason at all, the little villain had dumped a black pot on Pei Hanying’s head. Pei Hanying did not feel bitter or tired at all.

Ning Song did not know how to answer this question. She stood there at a loss for a while and looked at Pei Hanying.

The girl was also looking at her. The emotions on her face seemed very faint, and Ning Song could not tell whether she was still angry or not.

Compared to Ning Cheng, Pei Hanying’s thoughts were so hard to guess. Ning Song felt troubled and dejected inside.

She lowered her head and stopped looking at her, then said the reason she had guessed just now.

“I heard you sigh just now. I made you angry.”

Pei Hanying: “…”

She did not even know what to say.

Ning Song’s sensitivity toward the emotions of people around her really was sharp.

She said helplessly, “I never said you were the one who made me angry.”

It was only a sigh. Who knew how she had arrived at the conclusion that Pei Hanying was angry?

After thinking for a moment, Pei Hanying added, “If I’m angry with you, I’ll tell you. If I don’t tell you, then I’m not. You’re not allowed to randomly guess in the future.”

Ning Song suddenly lifted her eyes to look at her. A bit of broken light filled her jade-green cat eyes. She asked, “Really?”

She really was not angry because of her?

Being looked at by her, Pei Hanying nodded lightly.

She curved her lips, her expression softening slightly. “I don’t lie to children.”

Ning Song looked at her and gently took her hand.

Before Pei Hanying could react, the little girl stood on tiptoe and kissed her on the cheek.

Her voice was soft, carrying a trace of sweetness so faint it was difficult to notice.

“Thank you, Yingying.”

Caught off guard by this kiss, Pei Hanying’s body instantly stiffened.

She covered her cheek with her small hand. Even after a few seconds, she could still feel the soft touch that had landed beside her cheek, leaving her dazed for a moment.

She felt somewhat hopeless.

As a lesbian, in her previous life, never mind dating a girl, Pei Hanying had not even kissed anyone.

How could she have expected that after turning into a child, Ning Song would suddenly kiss her?

Her ears felt a little hot. She could not help reaching out to pinch her earlobe, and in the end, barely managed to maintain her composure.

It was only a kiss from a child. It was not a big deal. Was this not just the way children expressed affection for each other?

After hypnotizing herself like this in her heart, Pei Hanying finally calmed down a little.

Her tone was calm, like a half-dead fish. “It’s fine.”

She had just been about to pull her hand out of Ning Song’s when she met Ning Song’s somewhat puzzled and cautious eyes again.

Pei Hanying had no choice but to stuff her hand back.

Hold it, then. Hold it. It was not like holding hands would make a piece of flesh fall off.

She sighed in her heart and had no intention of continuing to stay in the flower room, so she returned indoors with Ning Song.

At night, the family doctor came to the house again to take a look at Ning Song. Seeing that the injuries on her body were gradually improving and that her fever also seemed to be completely subsiding, he said to Xia Ting and the others,

“Miss Ning’s body is much better now. Her wounds should completely recover in a few more days. If there are no accidents, her fever should also go down in the next two days.”

“Make sure she stays warm. She absolutely must not catch a cold.”

Pei Hanying had truly never seen any child so physically weak that a fever could last two or three days. After hearing what the doctor said, she finally let out a breath of relief.

Because of that, she did not notice the unease that flashed through Ning Song’s eyes after she heard the doctor’s words.

Ning Song unconsciously wrinkled the hem of Pei Hanying’s clothes in her grip, her face somewhat pale.

The doctor said her illness was almost better, yet she was not happy.

Once she recovered, did that mean she would be driven out of the Pei family?

Ning Song felt she was so despicable.

She had actually begun thinking about what method she could use to keep staying in the Pei family.