Chapter 90 Ring

"Going out for a while?"

I looked at Jiang Ruohe in confusion. The Chinese New Year was just a few days away, so why did he have to go on such a long trip? We wouldn't be able to see each other for such a long time. Why did I feel that...

Jiang Ruohe supported himself with his hands, nodded, and said that he would be going out in a few days.

"I'm going to Africa and it will probably take one or two months for me to come back. I just feel that this separation is too long, so I want to..." There was a smile in his eyes.

I hummed, thinking about something. When I came to my senses, Jiang Ruohe's hands had become restless and he kissed my lips again.

But when I remembered how brutal he had been to me before, I did feel a little panicked and at a loss.

I was upset. I had watched the short video with Huang Minwei when I was in college, but now I really don’t know...

After thinking for a while, I took the initiative to hug his neck. Jiang Ruohe stopped, looked at me in a daze, and lowered his head again.

This was the first time Jiang Ruohe and I were honest with each other, which made me feel a little embarrassed.

After the passion, Jiang Ruohe held me, who was tired, in his arms, walked out of the basement and into the room where I slept.

He put me in the bathtub, filled it with water, jumped in himself, and patted and wiped me with a towel.

Half an hour later, we were snuggling in bed. I was so sleepy that I fell asleep.

Maybe because I felt too guilty, I dreamed of Xiao Shi. I was startled and woke up. I saw Jiang Ruohe's sleeping face with his hand still on my waist.

I closed my eyes again, but I couldn't fall asleep. I moved his hand away, lifted the quilt, quietly got up, and stood in front of the window.

I don’t know how long I stood there before a pair of hands put their arms around my waist. Jiang Ruohe put his head on my shoulder and asked me what I was thinking about.

I didn't say anything, and he turned me around to face him.

"Xiao Wan, sometimes, love and gratitude cannot be confused."

I understand what Jiang Ruohe said, but Xiao Shi almost lost his life to save me. If I tell him, will he be very sad?

But I also know that dragging it on like this might cause him more harm.

I looked up at Jiang Ruohe, nodded, and said that I would talk to Xiao Shi when he came back tomorrow.

"Come back tomorrow? I estimate it will take him three or four days to come back." Jiang Ruohe muttered softly.

"What are you talking about?" I looked at him puzzled.

Jiang Ruohe put his hand on my shoulder, shook his head and said it was okay.

"It's cold, and you're wearing so little. Go to bed early."

Lying on the bed, Jiang Ruohe hugged him tightly, feeling a little touched. She leaned her head on his chest, listened to his strong heartbeat, and slowly fell asleep.

When I opened my eyes in the morning, I saw Jiang Ruohe beside me. He supported his head with his right hand, put his left hand on my waist, and looked at me with a smile on his face.

I asked him how long he had been awake.

"About an hour."

"You haven't been looking at me like this for the past hour, have you?"

Jiang Ruohe nodded, put his right hand on me, and pressed me close. Something touched me, and my face flushed. I looked up at him and said I should get up. But he held me back and refused to let me get up.

"Jiang Ruohe, what do you want to do?"

Jiang Ruohe raised a smile and said, "What do you think?"

Before I could react, he once again...

An hour later, the guy was taking a shower in the bathroom. I sat in front of the makeup mirror, looking at the closed bathroom door in the mirror with a sad face. My legs were so sore...

Jiang Ruohe came out of the shower, holding a towel and wiping his wet hair. Seeing my sad look, he walked over with a somewhat amused look.

I told Jiang Ruohe that my legs hurt, and he told me to try it a few times and I would get used to it.

"Jiang Ruohe." I stood up and glared at him.

"Okay, okay, don't be angry. I asked Aunt Liu to make you some nourishing soup. Drink it later."

I nodded and said yes. At this moment, Jiang Ruohe's cell phone rang. Jiang Ruohe took the phone and walked to the balcony.

"Hey, I get it. Just hold him back and don't take any action. Of course. He can set such a big trap for me, so why can't I fight back? I get it and I've already started preparing."

I looked at Jiang Ruohe in confusion, a little curious about who the "he" Jiang Ruohe was talking about.

Jiang Ruohe hung up the arc and walked over to me. I looked up at him.

"Who did you just say set you up?"

"Just a competitor. Come on, let's go downstairs and have breakfast."

After Jiang Ruohe pulled me downstairs, I found that Yan Yun and Han Liang had come at some point and were already sitting on the dining table, eating breakfast.

"Why are you here?" Jiang Ruohe raised his eyebrows and looked at the two of them.

Yan Yun looked up at the two of us and told us about Cai Qing and Mu Yan's situation.

"Hey, Xiaowan, what's wrong with your neck?" Yan Yun asked, looking at my neck.

My face turned red and I quickly pulled up the collar of my cotton coat. Han Liang glanced at Jiang Ruohe and me, a smile flashed across his eyes. When Yan Yun wanted to ask something, he picked up a piece of bread and stuffed it into Yan Yun's mouth.

"Don't ask questions you shouldn't ask."

Jiang Ruohe pulled me to sit opposite them. Aunt Liu, who was standing at the kitchen door, was very happy to see us like this. She immediately turned around, brought up a bowl of nourishing soup and placed it in front of me.

Han Liang looked at the soup in my bowl and glanced at Liu Ma.

"Mother Liu, you are too partial."

Liu Ma said that when Yan Yun and Han Liang have girlfriends, she will make soup for them.

After breakfast, Han Liang told me about Mu Yan and Cai Qing. With Jiang Ruohe's recorder as evidence, it proved that Mu Yan had replaced my pregnancy-preserving medicine. After the new year, the police will prosecute Mu Yan according to the law.

As for Cai Qing, she will be sent to a mental hospital for treatment and custody this afternoon.

"When we detained Caiqing last night, her second personality popped out again. Even though she had a leg injury, she actually beat up the two colleagues who were guarding her. Fortunately, we used tranquilizers to control her in the end." Han Liang looked at me and knew.

"I understand. It's just a small matter, and you two still come here. Wouldn't it be better to just talk on the phone?" Jiang Ruohe looked at them with some displeasure.

"Hehe, I just want to see how you two are progressing." Han Liang teased and pulled Han Liang away.

After a while, my cell phone rang. It was Xiao Shi calling. When I saw the caller ID, there was a complicated look in my eyes. I looked up at Jiang Ruohe, and seeing that he had no expression, I walked into the kitchen with the phone and answered it.

Xiao Shi asked me where I was, and I said I was at home.

"Are you coming back today?" I asked.

He said, "Something happened. I can't come back today. I have to wait for a few days."

"Okay, when you come back, give me a call and I'll come find you."

After hanging up the phone, I turned and walked out of the kitchen, walked up to Jiang Ruohe, and said that Xiao Shi would have to wait a few days before coming back.

"Well, I just happen to be going out for a few days. I'll stay with you during these days."

I nodded and said yes. After a while, Jiang Ruohe's phone rang. It was Mu Yan's father calling. Jiang Ruohe picked up the phone and called out "Uncle Mu".

Mu Yan's father begged Jiang Ruohe on the phone, asking Jiang Ruohe to release Mu Yan for his sake. The old man cried uncontrollably on the phone. It was probably difficult for him to accept what happened between Mu Yan and Cai Qing.

"I'm sorry, I can't promise you that. Mu Yan murdered my child, and that's a life. I really can't forgive him. People are like this. Once they do something wrong, they have to pay for their mistakes. Uncle Mu, I know you are an upright person."

Jiang Ruohe hung up the phone, hugged me in his arms, and whispered sorry to me.

"I failed to protect our child."

I was also very sad. If I hadn't been so willful and told him about my pregnancy, Mu Yan might not have had the chance to take action.

The two of them snuggled on the sofa, silent with each other.

After a while, his phone rang again. This time it was Jiang Yichen calling.

Jiang Ruohe answered the phone, stood up, and asked me to go with him to the Jiang family's old house. I looked at him and asked him if I could not go.

He asked me why, and I said that with our status, it was not suitable for us to be together. Also, Tian Rong and Jiang Nianhao were at the Jiang family's old house these days. When we were together, Tian Rong would definitely take advantage of this to make a fuss.

Jiang Ruohe said, "They are both in the hospital and won't be back for the next few days."

I looked at Jiang Ruohe in confusion and asked them why they were in the hospital.

He said that Tian Rong was frightened while shopping last night and showed signs of miscarriage, so Jiang Nianhao sent her to the hospital.

"Scared?" I looked at Jiang Ruohe suspiciously, and seeing the smile on his face, I asked if he had someone do it.

Jiang Ruohe didn't answer me, but just pulled me into the car.

After arriving at the Jiang family's old house, Jiang Yichen saw Jiang Ruohe and I coming together, and there was not much surprise in his eyes.

At this moment, Jiang Ting was kneeling on the ground, and her grandfather was sitting on the sofa sulking.

"Dad, I really know I was wrong. I don't want to go to that place. Please don't send me there." Jiang Ting begged her grandfather.

"If I don't send you there, will you continue to make mistakes like this?" Grandpa looked at Jiang Ting coldly.

"Mom, what Grandpa said makes sense. You're in this condition now, and the only way to get over your drug addiction is to go to a drug rehabilitation center."

Jiang Ting looked up at Jiang Yichen, her eyes showing a hint of anger.

"Even you do this to me."

"Mom, I'm doing this for your own good. That's a harmful thing. Look at you, just to pursue that illusory excitement, you transferred the North City branch. That was Grandpa's hard work."

Jiang Yichen looked at her mother uncomfortably.

Jiang Ting slumped to the ground and said that she knew it was a harmful thing, but once you get addicted, it is really hard to let go.

"Only when I smoke that stuff can I feel happy. If you send me to that kind of place, what will Wang Chuan think of me? I won't go, even if you kill me. I would rather die than go."

Jiang Ting stood up and tried to hit the wall, but Jiang Ruohe quickly grabbed her hand.

"Aunt, have you had enough of making trouble? You and uncle divorced a long time ago. No matter what you do, he won't care." Jiang Ruohe looked at Jiang Ting.

Jiang Ting looked at Jiang Ruohe, and her eyes instantly turned red.

"Why? He doesn't care about all the things I do. Even when I made Yi Chen look annoying, he didn't come to argue with me. Even now, he still doesn't come to me. Ruohe, tell me, what should I do so that he will realize my existence, even if it means he hates me."

"Aunt, because he has never loved you, no matter what you do, he won't care, let alone hate you." Jiang Ruohe looked at Jiang Ting and said.

"Mom, please wake up. My dad has told me what happened back then. Don't be so stubborn." Jiang Yichen also said from the side.

Jiang Ting stopped talking and just shed tears silently. At this time, grandpa's cell phone rang. Grandpa looked up at Jiang Ruohe and asked Jiang Ruohe to pick someone up.

After a while, Jiang Ruohe came in with his men. Turning around, he saw that it was the director of Qingshan Orphanage. The director glanced at Jiang Ting, and a complicated look flashed across his eyes.

Grandpa stood up from the sofa with the help of a crutch and asked Jiang Ruohe to take Jiang Ting upstairs to talk.

Jiang Yichen and I were the only ones left in the living room. Jiang Yichen sat uncomfortably on the sofa. I took a tissue and handed it to her. After wiping herself, Jiang Yichen looked up at me.

"I never thought my mom did all this just to get my dad's attention. She's really too persistent."

Jiang Yichen told me the story of Jiang Ting and Wang Chuan. At that time, Wang Chuan was just an ordinary poor boy with a girlfriend he loved. But one day, because he helped Jiang Ting catch a thief, Jiang Ting fell in love with him.

She started pursuing Wang Chuan, but was clearly rejected by Wang Chuan. However, Jiang Ting did not give up. Later, she went to find Wang Chuan's girlfriend, but was also rejected by her.

People are often like this. The more they can't get something, the more they want it. So Jiang Ting was very unwilling to accept this. She used some means to make Wang Chuan lose his job and made it impossible for him to find a job in Nancheng again.

Wang Chuan did not compromise and opened a small shop with his girlfriend. Jiang Ting hired someone to smash Wang Chuan's shop, causing Wang Chuan to suffer heavy losses. Finally, Wang Chuan was forced to go to the bar to drink. When Jiang Ting found out, she rushed over. Later, Wang Chuan got drunk and mistook Jiang Ting for his girlfriend. When he woke up, he was caught by his girlfriend and broke up with her.

There was no choice, Wang Chuan was forced to marry Jiang Ting.

At that time, grandpa did not agree with Jiang Ting's approach. He worked on her for a long time, asking her not to pursue things that did not belong to her, but Jiang Ting was stubborn and refused to listen.

During the first three years of their marriage, Wang Chuan slept in separate rooms from Jiang Ting because he held a grudge against her. The night she became pregnant with Jiang Yichen, his girlfriend died in a car accident. Once again, Wang Chuan, drunk, mistook Jiang Ting for someone else.

Jiang Ting, who had been waiting for three years, finally wavered when she saw that she had not yet entered Wang Chuan's heart and that Wang Chuan still had his ex-girlfriend in his heart. Wang Chuan no longer wanted to be entangled in this loveless marriage and filed for divorce.

Although Jiang Ting was shaken at that time, she did not choose to let go. She believed that as long as she worked hard enough, she would be able to win Wang Chuan's heart. Even if she had to wait for another five or ten years, she was willing to do so.

Jiang Ting was unwilling to divorce, so Wang Chuan went abroad alone. After two years of separation, Wang Chuan filed for divorce in court. At that time, Wang Chuan did not know that Jiang Ting had given birth to a daughter for him.

Jiang Ting refused to divorce at that time, but her grandfather couldn't stand it anymore. He felt that such a marriage should not have started, so he stepped in to get them divorced. After the divorce, Wang Chuan found out that he still had a daughter.

Originally, he wanted to see his daughter, but Jiang Ting hated Wang Chuan so much that she had not allowed Jiang Yichen to see Wang Chuan for more than 20 years.

"Actually, my mother was conflicted. She wanted my father to come find her, but she also hated him. She had been living in hatred and pain for so many years."

Jiang Yichen said that although Jiang Ting had many faults, she was still her mother after all.

"So no matter what, I have to convince my mother not to live in pain and let her go to a drug rehabilitation center to quit drugs."

For a moment, I didn't know how to comfort her, so I just patted her back gently. After a while, Jiang Ting came down the stairs. Jiang Yichen hurriedly got up and walked over, calling her.

Jiang Ting stopped and hugged Jiang Yichen on the stairs, tears streaming down her face.

"Yi Chen, I was mean to you and almost hurt you. I know I was wrong. Will you forgive me?"

"Of course. You're my mother. No matter what you do, I will forgive you. Mom, just listen to me and get over this addiction."

Jiang Ting agreed this time. Jiang Yichen took Jiang Ting's hand, walked down and was about to leave. Jiang Ting saw me and stopped. She let go of Jiang Yichen's hand and walked towards me.

"Aunt." I called her.

Jiang Ting looked at me.

"I'm really sorry for what happened before. I'm here to say sorry to you."

"It's okay, it's all over."

Jiang Ting put her arm around me and whispered something in my ear. I was startled and looked up at Jiang Ting. She glanced at me and followed Jiang Yichen away.

After a while, Jiang Ruohe came down with the director. Jiang Ruohe told me that he would send the director back to the orphanage first and come to see me later. I nodded and agreed.

After Jiang Ruohe left, I sat on the sofa, took out my cell phone, found someone's phone number, but didn't dial it in the end.

When Jiang Ruohe came back, I was still in a daze. He walked over to me and asked me what was wrong. I quickly came to my senses and looked up at him.

"I'm just a little curious about what the dean said to my aunt that made her suddenly come to her senses and agree to go to the drug rehabilitation center."

Jiang Ruohe sat down next to me and put his hand on my shoulder.

"Want to know?"

I nodded.

"Call me husband."

I rolled my eyes at Jiang Ruohe and said, "After all, they are divorced now, so if I have to call him that, I should call him my ex-husband."

Jiang Ruohe chuckled and told me a secret. The secret was that Jiang Ting was not my grandfather's daughter, but the daughter of the dean who had just arrived.

I looked at Jiang Ruohe in surprise, a little bit unconvinced. Jiang Ruohe said that when his grandmother was young, she and the dean were best friends. But the dean liked grandpa.

For the sake of grandpa, the dean did many things that hurt grandma. Later, he almost separated grandpa and grandma by using her pregnancy as an excuse. In fact, the child was conceived overnight by the dean and someone else.

Fortunately, grandpa and grandma had a good relationship, which eventually made the director give up. The director wanted to sincerely repent, so he opened an orphanage. When Jiang Ting was young, she suffered from a serious heart disease, and her grandpa and grandma funded Jiang Ting's surgery.

Later, the director was so focused on taking care of the children in the orphanage that he neglected Jiang Ting. So the grandmother took Jiang Ting back and raised her as her own child. When the director wanted to take her own child back, she told Jiang Ting the truth.

The dean never wanted to take the child back, so Jiang Ting never knew what was going on. Until now, when Jiang Ting got into trouble, the dean came forward and told her the truth of the past, not wanting Jiang Ting to make the same mistake again.

After a while, grandpa came down and saw Jiang Ruohe holding my hand.

"You little brat, Grandpa has good taste, right? When I first saw Xiaowan, I felt she was right for you. Now you won't scold me behind my back for taking the initiative, will you?"

Jiang Ruohe shook his head hurriedly.

"I can't thank Grandpa enough."

Grandpa hummed, looked at my lower abdomen, a trace of loneliness flashed across his eyes, and turned to ask Jiang Ruohe how he planned to deal with Mu Yan.

Jiang Ruohe said: "After the New Year, the police will handle it according to the law."

"Well, let's give them a heads up. We absolutely cannot let the Mu family find a way to rescue them."

"Yeah. I've already made arrangements. Uncle Mu called me to plead for mercy, but I didn't agree."

Grandpa's face darkened.

"His son caused the death of my great-grandson, and he still has the nerve to beg you for mercy. If it weren't for Old Man Mu, I would never let the Mu family go so easily."

Seeing his grandfather so excited, Jiang Ruohe told his grandfather not to be angry and to wait until he recovered and then have another child.

At noon, I had lunch with my grandfather at the Jiang family's old house. Jiang Ruohe said he would take me hiking in the afternoon and asked me if I wanted to go. I nodded and said yes.

The two changed into sportswear and went out.

Jiang Ruohe took me to the isolated island I had been to before. Standing on the island and looking at the isolated mountain not far away, I suddenly remembered that time when my grandfather brought Jiang Ruohe and me here in order to promote the relationship between us, and asked Song Yan to release a snake to bite him. In the end, the two of us spent a night on this deserted island.

"I don't know when I fell in love with you. I just remember that at that time, I started to feel conflicted. I was afraid that I would waver, so I even told Grandpa that I wanted a divorce. Now that I think about it, I really have to thank Grandpa."

Jiang Ruohe turned to look at me, took my hand, and climbed up the mountain step by step. An hour later, we reached the top. I took some snacks and water from my schoolbag and placed them on the newspaper. I reached out to give Jiang Ruohe a glass of water, but he grabbed my right hand and put something on my ring finger.

It was a ring. She was a little confused at the time. She looked up at Jiang Ruohe and smiled.

"Is there a way to propose marriage? It's not romantic at all."

"Just think of it as a deposit."

He said that when he came back, he would give me a grand proposal ceremony and a grand wedding ceremony.

"It's just that it's been a while, and I'm afraid you'll have run away with someone when I come back, so I want to use this ring to trap you first."

I looked at the ring in my hand happily and said that I didn't care about the ceremony at all. I leaned my head on his shoulder and thought to myself, when he comes back, I will drag him to remarry.

Jiang Ruohe smiled at me and asked me if I thought there were something more interesting to do here...

In the following days, Jiang Ruohe and I stayed together almost every day. Finally, on the morning of the Little New Year, Jiang Ruohe packed his things and planned to go to Africa. I sent him to the door with some reluctance.

He put down the suitcase, kissed my forehead and asked me to wait for him to come back.

"Okay, I'll wait for you to come back."

After Jiang Ruohe drove away, I couldn't help but shed tears. I really don't like the feeling of sudden separation.

Ten minutes later, Yang Ru sent me a text message, saying that she was going to take a bus to find Yan Yun and act as Yan Yun's girlfriend. She followed Yan Yun back to her hometown.

I sent her a text message asking her to be careful.

After a while, she sent another text message saying that when she was passing Minghua by car, she saw Xiao Shi coming back.

Xiao Shi is back, why didn’t Xiao Shi tell me?

I put my phone in my bag, took a scarf, and planned to go find Xiao Shi. This time, no matter how much Xiao Shi hated me, I wanted to talk it through with him.

When I entered the company, there was no one there. I glanced at the notice on the bulletin board and saw that Minghua's employees had already started their annual leave yesterday. There were only a few security guards on duty. However, it was still early and the security guards had not yet come to work.

I took the stairs upstairs and just as I reached the door of Xiao Shi's office, I heard someone talking inside.

"That person just called and said Jiang Ruohe is on his way to the airport. Our people have already made arrangements to ensure that Jiang Ruohe won't escape like he did in Qingcheng. This time, Jiang Ruohe will definitely not be able to escape."

The person who said this was Han Ming.

I was stunned where I was. They actually wanted to deal with Jiang Ruohe.

"I understand. After Jiang Ruohe dies, we will have shares in Beicheng. Combined with Yu Xiaowan holding half of Jiang's shares, it will be easy to defeat Jiang by then. But Yu Xiaowan must never know about these things." Xiao Shi's cold voice came over.