Chapter 1457: Have Some Candy

It seems that little girl knows something, but she’s not as pitiful as Duan Xiaohua described her family.

Who knows what the family did to this gifted child?

Ning Yan calmly spoke: "Next question."

He didn’t even want to bother.

Duan Mingyue, the elder cousin, was escorted out by the staff, and the murmuring continued until a professor took the microphone, finally halting the discussions.

Ning Yan obediently handed the microphone to the elderly professor beside him, raised his eyes, and his gaze met with the Ning Yan on the stage. She smiled and waved at him, her smile breathtakingly beautiful.

Who knew the youth’s gaze would shift away, falling on the elderly professor beside him.

Oh, this Uncle Ning is quite tough to deal with—such a shame she tried to speak for him.

Of course, she wasn’t foolish enough to expose the Ning Family’s matters in the audience; it would make Ning Yan’s situation difficult.

He is a genius, and a family skilled enough to raise a genius isn’t simple.

The Ning Family is wealthy, although not as much as the Feng Family in An City or as affluent as her ma-ma, but still among the wealthiest.

The father is away all year, purportedly on business trips abroad, but actually has a family overseas, with both a son and a daughter.

The mother blamed her father’s faults on him, and beatings had become a routine affair.

Feng Yi’s impression of his mother was of a very sick woman; ridicule and insults were commonplace, yet once her son left her sight, she would madly search for him, possessing a pathological desire to control.

Feng Yi felt that Uncle Ning, not being psychologically deranged, had made such significant contributions to the Hua Country in the future, which was quite impressive.

She was raised under the love of her parents and brother; Uncle Ning had never experienced what family felt like. She always felt that in such a family, any normal person would want to escape, right?

So, he escaped, applied to enter the Research Institute, and never returned home.

No one is qualified to accuse him; there is no such thing as "common sympathy" in this world!

Feng Yi watched the youth on stage attentively answering the professor’s questions, and sighed inwardly. Indeed, such a person should be handed over to the country. Her uncle really is impressive!

Duan Mingyue was but a minor episode, and the ensuing questions were normal. This youth could always immediately answer their queries.

After a twenty-minute Q&A session, the lecture came to a close, and the students, in small groups, reluctantly left for outside.

Ning Yan stood alone on the stage, organizing the lecture materials he brought.

Feng Yiyi spotted him and quickly went up, "Uncle Ning."

As usual, he directly ignored her.

Feng Yi gripped her pocket, suddenly taking out a mint candy and offered it to him: "You’ve talked for so long, here’s one for your throat."

She sat with the professor in the VIP seats, prepared not just with mineral water but also with candy, and that’s where the mint candy came from.

He lifted his eyelids and looked at her with a slightly complex expression.

Just when Feng Yi thought he was going to reject it again, that cold pale hand reached out, took the mint from her palm, unwrapped it, and ate it.

Feng Yi was directly stunned; he ate it??!

She was so moved she almost cried. Wasn’t Uncle Ning a stubborn stone who completely ignored her ten years ago? And now he actually ate the candy she offered.

"Don’t you avoid eating anything outside the Research Institute?"

Ning Yan put away the materials, his tone indifferent: "The candy was packaged."

Feng Yi: ??????

Packaged? Isn’t he afraid she might poison it?