NOVPUBAfter returning to her room, Lin Ling lay there but couldn’t fall asleep.
The behavior of Ye Fei and her mother during the day had left her very puzzled.
Although Ye Fei had given her an explanation later, it didn’t convince her.
Instead, it made her even more convinced that they must have had some kind of disagreement.
Tossing and turning until nearly eleven at night, Lin Ling still couldn’t sleep.
Feeling restless, she decided to get up, put on her pajamas, and head to Ye Fei’s bedroom to get some answers. However, when she reached the door to Ye Fei’s room, she hesitated.
Showing up at his bedroom in the middle of the night could easily lead to misunderstandings.
Would he think she was a girl with no self-respect?
Maybe she should wait until tomorrow to ask him.
Back in her room, Lin Ling lay down again, but sleep still eluded her. She wasn’t the type to keep things bottled up, but now she was dealing with the two most important people in her life, the ones she loved the most.
If there was truly a conflict between them, she wouldn’t be happy for the rest of her life. How could she not be extremely conflicted?
She got up and picked up her phone from the bedside table, hoping to play a game to distract herself and temporarily forget about this troubling issue.
But when she opened her phone to find a game, she discovered that all the games had been deleted, and her memory card was filled with several large video files. Shaking her head with a mix of frustration and amusement, she muttered to herself, "Yunqi, how did she manage to put these on my phone?"
During the days when Ye Fei was away, Ye Yunqi, for reasons unknown, would always pull Lin Ling into the classroom during lunch breaks to secretly watch what she called "good stuff."
Since there weren’t many people in the classroom at noon besides the two of them, and Ye Yunqi had even more assertively driven out the few who were there, including Xiao Fei, who seemed to look down on everyone.
The "good stuff" that Ye Yunqi showed Lin Ling immediately made her blush when she saw it. They were several very passionate videos, and they were shot so clearly that they took up a lot of memory space on her phone.
Lin Ling would never have watched such content under normal circumstances, but Ye Yunqi’s words changed her mind.
Ye Yunqi said, "You’ll be married to my brother in just a few years. It’s good to familiarize yourself now so you’ll know how to make him happy later."
Deeply in love with Ye Fei, Lin Ling was easily persuaded by Ye Yunqi.
At sixteen, she couldn’t possibly have no curiosity about such things.
So, she watched the videos with Ye Yunqi. There were four videos on Ye Yunqi’s phone.
The first three were of a man and a woman, but the last one added another woman, much more voluptuous than the first, to the mix.
Although the faces of the three people were blurred and there was no sound, just watching their bodies was enough to make Lin Ling’s heart race. She even overlooked the fact that two of them seemed somewhat familiar to her and didn’t think about why Ye Yunqi would be so bold as to watch such content.
Lost in memories of the past few days, Lin Ling couldn’t help but recall those thrilling scenes and opened the last video again.
It started with the man and the voluptuous woman together, seemingly filmed from outside a window.
Later, the camera angle shifted inside the room, and the original woman joined in. The three of them were having a great time together.
While watching the passionate scenes, Lin Ling’s hand unconsciously slipped inside her pajamas. She mimicked the actions of the three people in the video, gently massaging one of her own breasts, which, though not as voluptuous as the woman in the video, was still larger than the other woman’s.
A tingling, pleasurable sensation almost made her let out a soft moan.
Seeing how much the two women seemed to be enjoying themselves, Lin Ling couldn’t help but feel a twinge of envy deep inside.
Normally, she wouldn’t have any feelings for any man other than Ye Fei, but for some reason, seeing the man’s body in the video, she felt a stirring in her heart. She even had an urge to take the place of those two women.
Troubled by this thought, she attributed it to the man’s physique being very similar to Ye Fei’s.
As for whether they were truly the same, she had no way of comparing since she had never seen Ye Fei naked after growing up.
"What if I hadn’t turned back just now and had gone into his room? Would he have done the same to me?"
Lin Ling thought to herself, feeling a bit regretful that she hadn’t gone in.
But now, it seemed, it probably wasn’t too late.
On a whim, Lin Ling got out of bed again.
After psyching herself up several times behind the door, she blushed and walked out, intending to knock on Ye Fei’s door once more. But she hadn’t taken more than a few steps when she stopped. She had suddenly heard a strange noise coming from her mother’s bedroom.
Wondering why her mother hadn’t gone to sleep yet, Lin Ling quietly approached and listened at the door of Xiao Hanyue’s bedroom.
This time, being closer, she could hear the sounds very clearly.
A few days ago, Lin Ling wouldn’t have known what these sounds were and might have even thought her mother was sick.
But now, things were different.
Although the videos Ye Yunqi had shown her had no sound, Lin Ling had sometimes recalled the scenes while sleeping and had taken care of herself twice. She always couldn’t help but make these sounds at her happiest moments.
Hearing them now, how could she not know what they were?
Could it be that her mother was taking care of herself too?
At this thought, Lin Ling felt a pang of sadness.
As one of the top beauties in Wang Hai City, her mother had always had many suitors.
Yet, she had chosen to remain single and raise Lin Ling on her own.
Ever since Lin Ling had taken care of herself a couple of times, she had realized how pleasurable it was and had even become somewhat addicted.
What about her mother, who was more experienced? Moreover, Lin Ling had Ye Fei in her future, but what about her mother?
At this moment, Lin Ling even felt an urge to find a stepfather for herself.
But after thinking it through, she couldn’t think of any man who would be worthy of her mother, except for Ye Fei.
Could she possibly share Ye Fei with her mother?
Before this thought could fully form, Lin Ling’s attention was grabbed by the somewhat indecent conversation coming from the room.
She realized that there was a man in her mother’s room, and she recognized his voice very well—it was Ye Fei, the very person she had just been thinking about sharing with her mother. If the voices alone hadn’t been enough to confirm it, the teasing terms "mother-in-law" and "son-in-law" used in their conversation left no doubt.
In an instant, Lin Ling felt the world spinning around her.
She staggered a few steps and finally couldn’t keep her balance, falling forward and leaning against the bedroom door.
Unfortunately, Ye Fei hadn’t closed the door properly when he went in.
With the force from outside, the door swung open, and Lin Ling, who was supposed to be standing by the door, tumbled right in.
This sudden turn of events left both Ye Fei and Xiao Hanyue, who were immersed in their pleasure, stunned.
Even Ye Fei, who was usually quick-witted, was taken aback and forgot to withdraw the part of him that was still inside Xiao Hanyue. Xiao Hanyue, seeing her daughter, was equally shocked and forgot about the situation.
Lin Ling lifted her head from the floor and saw a sight that was hard to accept. Her mother was kneeling on the bed in a very provocative pose, and Ye Fei was kneeling behind her, with a part of him still inside her mother.
She had seen this position in the video before and hadn’t thought much of it then.
But now, seeing her always dignified and noble mother in such a position, she couldn’t bear it. She wanted to stand up and scold them loudly, but then she thought about how hard her mother had worked all these years and felt a pang of sorrow.
Without saying a word, she quietly got up from the floor and quickly left her mother’s room.
Lin Ling’s sudden departure jolted Ye Fei and Xiao Hanyue out of their daze.
Ye Fei quickly pulled back, withdrawing from Xiao Hanyue, while Xiao Hanyue hastily grabbed a thin blanket to cover herself.
She turned to Ye Fei, her face filled with anxiety, and asked, "What should we do?"
Ye Fei had been caught off guard by Lin Ling’s unexpected entrance and inwardly regretted not telling her everything sooner.
He had planned to gradually let her accept the situation, but now it seemed his plans needed to change.
However, he wasn’t as panicked as Xiao Hanyue. He believed he could definitely make Lin Ling understand and accept everything. He knew Lin Ling well, having grown up together since childhood.
So, Ye Fei smiled reassuringly at Xiao Hanyue and said, "Don’t worry. I’ll go talk to Ling now. I promise that by tomorrow morning, she’ll be back to her usual cheerful self."
"I’ll go with you," Xiao Hanyue insisted.
Although she trusted Ye Fei, as a mother who felt she had wronged her daughter, she wanted to do her part.
Ye Fei had other plans, intending to eventually bring Lin Ling into their relationship as well, so he couldn’t let Xiao Hanyue come along. However, he didn’t want to hide anything from her either.
He shook his head and said, "It’s better if you don’t. You’ve just been through a lot, and you need to rest. Besides, with you there, Ling might not feel comfortable opening up."
Xiao Hanyue understood what he was implying. She knew his intentions but didn’t have the heart to focus on that right now.
As long as Lin Ling didn’t hold a grudge against her in the future, she would be satisfied.
In fact, she had already made a painful decision in her heart: for the sake of her daughter, she would have to end her relationship with Ye Fei.
Seeing the look of distress on Xiao Hanyue’s face, Ye Fei thought she was doubting his ability to handle the situation.
He quickly ran back to his room, grabbed his phone, called Xiao Hanyue, and then returned to her side.
He spoke softly, "You stay here and listen. Once I make sure Ling is okay, you need to rest properly, understand?"
"Okay," Xiao Hanyue replied, feeling a mix of gratitude and sorrow.
