Intimate Trial Chapter 20

Chapter 20

The car stopped steadily below the old-fashioned apartment Shen Silin rented.The street was quiet, with only a few windows still lit. The dim light from the street lamps filtered through the branches and leaves of the sycamore tree, casting mottled and swaying shadows on the car body.

The engine sound was extinguished, and a subtle silence filled the car.There was only the low hum of the air conditioner and the shallow breathing sounds of the two of them close at hand.

“Thank you, Mr. Ye.” Shen Shenlin unbuckled her seat belt and whispered.The sound seemed a bit restrained in the closed space.She reached for the door handle.

“Si Shen Lin.” Ye Chang’s voice suddenly sounded. It was not loud, but it made Shen Shen Lin’s movements pause.

She turned her head.Ye Chang didn’t look at her, his eyes fell on the deserted street in front of him, illuminated by street lights. His profile appeared clear-cut and somewhat elusive in the interlaced light of light and dark.

“Tonight’s porridge,” Ye Chang’s tone was very calm, as if stating an insignificant fact, “it tastes really good.”

Silin’s heartbeat skipped a beat for no apparent reason.She didn’t know why Ye Chang mentioned this specifically.

“Yes… it’s delicious.” She followed the words and curled up her fingers unconsciously.

Ye Chang then turned his face slightly and looked at her.Those deep eyes seemed to absorb all the night outside the window in the dim light, and were so calm that it was disturbing.

“Occasionally deviating from the established track and feeling a little different ‘temperature’ is not necessarily a bad thing.” She said slowly, each word clear and calm.

Shen Shenlin froze outside the car door. The night wind was cold, but it could not dissipate the sudden suspicion and…a secret throbbing in her heart.

“Occasionally deviating from the established track and experiencing a slightly different ‘temperature’ is not necessarily a bad thing.”

The words echoed repeatedly in her ears.Off track?What is the established track?Is it her plan to sneak into Ye’s family as a “down-and-out avenger” and plan every step of the way?Or is it the increasingly complicated feelings she has towards Ye Chang deep in her heart that frighten her?

Temperature… Everything tonight, the late-night snack that satisfies the stomach, the relaxing conversation, and even Ye Chang’s seemingly casual “admonishment” at this moment, all contain an almost personal “temperature” that is completely different from usual.

What does Ye Chang mean?

Do you want me to… accept this “difference”?

This thought made Shen Silin’s heart tighten suddenly.Could it be that Ye Chang was aware of her unwanted thoughts?So in this way… give tacit approval, even encouragement?Encourage her to put aside her status as a “subordinate” or “potential avenger” and “get a feel” for another possible relationship?

Are you implying that I don’t have to hold on to the revenge string all the time?

After all, Ye Chang doesn’t seem to know her true revenge intentions.From Ye Chang’s perspective, Shen Shenlin might just be a subordinate who was “desperate, perhaps still had a vague fondness for him, and was reused because of his good abilities.”Then, it seems to make sense for the boss to give some humane care and guidance to his subordinates when they see that they are too tense.Advising her to relax and feel the “temperature” once in a while, maybe it’s just out of a kind of… the superior’s sympathy for the capable person, or even a more subtle “solicitation” and “comfort”, to make her more devoted?

Two possibilities intertwined in Shen Silin’s mind, and either one made her confused.

If Ye Chang was responding to her feelings… then this sudden “possibility” made her feel a sense of panic and desire that was almost dizzy under her hatred.She despised herself like this, but she couldn’t completely stop her heartbeat from accelerating.

If Ye Chang was just using the art of controlling his subordinates… then the calculation and precision of this “temperature” would also make her feel chilly.Ye Changtai knows how to manipulate people’s hearts, knows when to give what kind of “sweetness”, and can win over or control a person to the maximum extent.

She couldn’t see through Ye Chang.

This is what makes her most powerless.She came with clear hatred and goals, but found that her opponent was not on the battlefield she had planned.Sometimes Ye Chang is as cold as a blade, sometimes as unpredictable as an abyss, and sometimes like this moment, he throws out a little specious warmth, which makes all her defenses and calculations seem to be hit on cotton, and instead makes herself fall into deeper self-doubt and emotional tearing.

The car window was raised, and Ye Chang’s profile disappeared behind the dark glass, leaving her no chance to question or confirm.It was as if those words were just a pebble thrown into the middle of the lake. It was up to her to experience the ripples and bear the consequences.

Silin stood alone in the cold night wind, watching the car drive away silently.

She felt more isolated than ever.

Her hatred has nowhere to go, because Ye Chang seems to be “unknowing” and “treating her well”. Her emotions are dangerous and absurd, and she is attracted by her “enemy”. Her goal, to bring down the Ye family, begins to appear twisted and difficult in the face of the “trust” and “warmth” Ye Chang increasingly gives.

Maybe Ye Chang knows everything?Know her hatred, her disguise, and even her ridiculous heartbeat?That’s why he was so able to use a little “warmth” to make her chaos?

No, not possible.Silin immediately denied it.If Ye Chang knew her purpose, with Ye Chang’s methods, it would never be like this.

So… maybe Ye Chang really treats her a little bit differently?Not just to subordinates, not just to “old acquaintances”?

The trembling that this assumption brought about frightened her far more than her hatred.

Because she found that she actually longed for this hypothesis to be established.

Shen Shenlin closed her eyes suddenly and pinched her arm hard. The pain temporarily cleared her chaotic thoughts.

She can’t be messy.No matter what Ye Chang meant, whether it was true love or false intention, whether it was to win over or to test… she could not forget who she was and why she came.

That “temperature”, if it is true, is a sugar-coated shell that she needs to be wary of; if it is false, it is a hypocritical mask that she needs to expose.

But before that, she must protect her out-of-control heart.

She turned around and walked step by step towards the dark corridor, her back stretched thin and lonely under the street lamp.

The night swallowed up her, and also swallowed up all the unanswered questions and quietly deteriorating emotions of the night.