Chapter 30 She almost died back then.

Assistant Xiao Qi drove, while Ye Yu sat in the back seat with his eyes closed, taking a short rest.

"Haha, Mr. Ye, you were so cool and awesome when you were negotiating!"

Recalling Xie Aojiao's humiliation, Xiao Qi was in a great mood. "If only I could record Xie Jinghuai's embarrassed look, I could watch it when I have trouble pooping in the morning. It would definitely make me feel incredibly smooth afterwards!"

Ye Yu thought the metaphor was crude, but it was apt.

"The awesome person isn't me, it's Nora."

Ye Yu narrowed his eyes with pleasure, his gaze gentle as water, "I am just a gun in Nora's hand. She is the one who turned the tide and struck Xie Jinghuai in the heart."

Xiao Qi couldn't help but sigh, "The only woman who could make the most prestigious young master in Beijing, the head of the Xie Group, chase after her and try to keep her is Nora, right?"

I'm so curious! I really want to see her face for myself!

"There's plenty of time ahead, and I don't think that day is too far off."

At that time, it will blind the eyes of that damned dog!

Ye Yu smiled with satisfaction, his eyes deep and dark. "After you return to the law firm, draft a statement for Nora to release to me. It needs to be done quickly; we can't let the Xie family gain the upper hand."

Xiao Qi: "Understood!"

Ye Yu's phone rang; it was Jiang Shiyuan calling. He immediately straightened up, abandoning his relaxed demeanor.

"Ah Yuan, what's wrong?"

Xiao Qi glanced at the rearview mirror and chuckled: Ah~Yuan~what's~wrong~~?

It's not even spring yet, so why can I smell the scent of mating?

Jiang Shiyuan's voice came softly, "Senior brother, if you're not busy after get off work, come to my place. I'll treat you to dinner."

"You made this yourself? Not at a restaurant? Takeout?!" Ye Yu straightened his back and his eyes lit up.

Jiang Shiyuan asked earnestly, "Senior brother, do you like ordering takeout? I can order for you. What would you like to eat?"

"No, no, no! I want you to cook for me yourself!" A warm feeling welled up in Ye Yu's heart, and a bright smile appeared on his lips.

He eats takeout every day when he gets home, and he feels like throwing up just looking at the plastic containers!

If you keep eating, the corpse will be preserved!

...

As evening fell, Ye Yu arrived as promised at Juyue Garden, where Jiang Shiyuan lived.

Jiang Shiyuan had already prepared five or six delicious dishes, perfectly matching the flavors and appearance of her senior brother, based on her memory of his tastes.

"Ah Yuan, did you go to New Oriental? I feel like I'm eating at a state banquet!" Ye Yu's fingers were moving, and he put one dish after another into his mouth.

Jiang Shiyuan looked at him with a smile, her memory returning to her childhood, when Ye Yu often came to her mother's house for meals.

Looking back now, those were probably some of the few beautiful times in her life.

"I learned it little by little after I got married." Jiang Shiyuan paused, then stopped talking.

In the soft light, the woman's fair skin glowed with a lustrous, jade-like sheen, and her long eyelashes were serenely lowered, casting two soft, breathtaking shadows.

Ye Yu chuckled, his gaze obscure, and murmured softly:

“That guy Diao Jinghuai… he’s been eating really well these past five years.”

A double entendre.

Jiang Shiyuan was slightly taken aback. "Senior brother, what did you just say?"

"Just thinking about Xie Jinghuai's panicked and furious expression when he learned about Nora's contract termination today makes me feel refreshed and relaxed," Ye Yurui said, her phoenix eyes crinkling with pleasure.

His slender fingers skillfully peeled the shrimp shells and placed the tender shrimp meat into Jiang Shiyuan's bowl.

Just like when I was young.

Jiang Shiyuan pursed her lips and said gently, "Senior brother, I am very grateful to you for what happened today. I will repay you the fifty million you lent me as soon as possible."

Ye Yu said casually, "If you really consider me your brother, your family, then don't give it back to me."

Jiang Shiyuan quickly shook her head, "Absolutely not, one thing at a time!"

"Ah Yuan, I can never repay Ms. Jiang's kindness to me in this lifetime. What is a mere fifty million?"

Ye Yu looked at her intently, a lump forming in his throat. “When Ms. Jiang passed away, I was unable to be by her side or help her. That’s a hurdle I can never overcome in my heart, and it’s a regret I’ll carry for the rest of my life.”

Jiang Shiyuan lowered her eyes, her heart breaking into waves of pain that spread throughout her body.

When her mother died, she was filled with resentment and could not close her eyes in peace. It was she who closed her cloudy eyes with her own hands.

She always felt that she was unfilial.

He neither achieved the happiness his mother wished for, nor completed the unfinished business his mother had left behind, nor did he enable Yongheng Technology to successfully go public and surpass Yuntu Dongfang to become one of the leading enterprises in Beijing.

In the past, due to her lack of ability and the constraints imposed by the Xie family, she could not interfere much in matters of eternity and could only watch it decline day by day, eventually becoming a third-rate enterprise.

Now, she has escaped the prison of the Xie family and is all alone.

She wanted to fill in her mother's regrets little by little, making them all complete.

Ye Yu looked at her intently, his voice low and hoarse, almost pleading:

"So, A-Yuan, if you don't want me to be tormented by my conscience and unable to eat or sleep, then please don't give it back to me, okay?"

Although Jiang Shiyuan no longer mentioned repaying the money, he secretly resolved to pay him back as soon as he had the money.

After finishing their meal, the two discussed the follow-up matters regarding the termination of the contract, and then Ye Yu got up to go back.

Even though he longed to spend more time alone with her.

Jiang Shiyuan escorted Ye Yu to the entrance. As he bent down to put on his shoes, his gaze suddenly stopped on the trash can a few steps away—

Inside were several empty medicine boxes that hadn't been thrown away yet, and a crumpled medical report.

Jiang Shiyuan was startled and was about to go over to cover it up when Ye Yu strode over, picked up the report, and unfolded it.

The word "miscarriage" was like two cold, sharp nails, cruelly piercing Ye Yu's eyes!

"A-Yuan... miscarriage? You miscarried?!" Ye Yu's voice and body trembled.

"It's all in the past, everything's fine now."

Jiang Shiyuan's smile froze as she hurriedly tried to snatch the report, but Ye Yu had his hands behind his back, and she missed.

"You can still laugh?!"

Ye Yu gripped her shoulders with both hands, his fingers almost digging into her skin. "Jiang Shiyuan! Why didn't you tell me about something this big?! Don't you even trust me?!"

Jiang Shiyuan stared at him in a daze. She had never seen him like this before and was a little frightened.

"Or do you think that handling things yourself, bearing the burden, and swallowing all the pain is a great and remarkable thing to do?!"

The emotions in Ye Yu's eyes were incredibly intense, a pain that reached its deepest point, a pain that shattered him completely. "Don't you know what kind of body you have? Can you really take this kind of abuse?! What if you die?!"

Jiang Shiyuan frowned and chuckled, "It's not that exaggerated..."

Ye Yu's eyes were bloodshot as he roared, for the first time ever towards her:

"Of course you did! You almost died when you were cooking that piece of char siu!"

Jiang Shiyuan's back stiffened, and his heart sank deeply.

Back then, when she gave birth to Tongtong, it was a difficult labor. She had contractions in the occiput posterior position, and the pain was so intense that even anesthesia couldn't suppress it.

Not a single person from her family came to the delivery room.

Grandma was also hospitalized at the time, but Madam Xie did come. She could hear Madam Xie's complaints clearly as she stood outside the delivery room:

"It took her so long to give birth? How can she be so stupid? She can't even give birth properly!"

The doctor couldn't stand it anymore and said indignantly, "Madam, the pregnant woman had a difficult childbirth. Everyone's situation is different. You shouldn't say that. She had a very hard time."

"A difficult birth?! Will my grandson be in danger?!" Madam Xie exclaimed from outside.

"We will do everything in our power..."

"I don't care, I want the bloodline of the Xie family to be born safely!"

Jiang Shiyuan will never forget Madam Xie's cold voice at that time, and will never be able to get over it: "If it comes to the absolute worst, then save the child!"

After calming down, the two sat back down on the sofa in the living room.

Jiang Shiyuan hung her head, feeling like a child who had made a mistake, even though she was the one who had suffered so much.

"Does Xie Jinghuai know about your miscarriage?" Ye Yu was furious, and his voice became completely hoarse.

She gently shook her head.

At that time, Xie Jinghuai was accompanying Lin Zhixin to see a doctor abroad, and Madam Xie concealed the fact that she had a difficult childbirth from him and the old lady.

She had a brush with death, but afterwards Madam Xie only made a brief phone call to Xie Jinghuai to report that "mother and child are safe."

She will always remember that time, when everyone in the Xie family was laughing.

She was the only one crying secretly.

"Did you marry a husband?"

Ye Yu's chest heaved with anger as he gritted his teeth, "You don't let him know anything? Are you raising him like a giant baby?"

Jiang Shiyuan smiled calmly. She spent five years licking her wounds in solitude, and gradually, it seemed to hurt less.

It could also be that the pain has caused numbness.

"Actually, it's a good thing that the child was lost at this critical juncture."

She slowly turned her gaze, her eyes fixed on the cold, hazy moon outside the window. "Since I'm divorcing Xie Jinghuai, I can't have too much to do with him. I finally made up my mind to leave him and his son, and I don't want to add any more entanglements."

I was not meant to be with that child, but sometimes being apart is a form of fulfillment.