Chapter 98 I Don’t Want to Make Things Difficult for You

I looked at the phone and hesitated for a few seconds, then finally picked it up.

"Xiao Wan, how are you doing recently?"

"Um."

"I missed you so much."

Xiao Shi asked me where I was, but I didn't tell him. I heard a bitter laugh from him over the phone.

"If I had insisted on taking you away at that time, it would have been great. At least I could see you every day."

The two of them fell into silence. I thought about it and called him.

"sorry."

As for Xiao Shi, even if he did something to hurt Jiang Ruohe, I owe him for what happened between him and me. Although he may have had ulterior motives when he approached me because I was Jiang Ruohe's wife, he was truly good to me and he almost lost his life for me.

There was silence on the other end of the line.

After a while, he called me.

"It would have been great if I had met you before Jiang Ruohe met you."

Just like that, Xiao Shi hung up the phone.

I put down my phone and looked up. I didn't know when Jiang Ruohe was standing at the kitchen door. Jiang Ruohe looked at me, smiled faintly, walked over and gave me a hug.

I asked, "Has Han Liang had breakfast?"

Jiang Ruohe hummed.

"But the boy was in a bad mood. He ate two bites of his sandwich and went to sleep."

Jiang Ruohe let go of me, sighed, and said that love is really a tormenting thing.

"Who were you talking to on the phone just now?"

I answered honestly, saying it was Xiao Shi, and just said a few simple words.

Jiang Ruohe reached out and hugged me again.

"Xiao Wan, tell me, we're obviously together again, so why am I worried that you'll be snatched away by someone else? When I heard Xiao Shi talking to you on the phone, I felt really uncomfortable."

I burst out laughing. I hadn't expected that he would have such a little worry. This kind of worry is only common among girls. I was actually quite touched when he said it.

I looked up and kissed him, saying that since I had forgotten all the unhappy past, he was the only one in my heart.

"Of course, I also hope that I am the only one in your heart. From now on, we will love each other well and not worry about things that don't exist."

Jiang Ruohe nodded and said yes, saying that he had to go out for something today.

"Well, be careful then," I warned.

After Jiang Ruohe left, he felt a little bored at home, so he opened the basement door and went down to the basement.

Han Liang looked at the ceiling with a somewhat empty look in his eyes. When he heard me coming, he just turned his head and glanced at me, then continued to look at the ceiling.

Judging from his expression, he probably couldn't accept that the person he liked would shoot him so heartlessly.

I sighed, moved the chair away and sat down, saying nothing, just quietly accompanying him.

More than twenty minutes later, Han Liang turned to look at me again, his eyes a little red.

"Xiao Wan, tell me, how can there be such a heartless woman?"

I really didn't know how to answer the question Han Liang asked me. After a while, he told me about him and Yu Meng.

The two were classmates in high school. Because Han Liang's father had high expectations for him, Han Liang has always been a top student in the class. As for Yu Meng, she was a little rebellious at first, but she liked Han Liang and started pursuing him since her freshman year in high school.

Han Liang didn't want to fall in love too early at that time, so he said that he would agree to her when Yu Meng's grades were as good as his.

"I thought this would be difficult for her to do, but I didn't expect..." Han Liang's thoughts glanced back to a long time ago, and there was a hint of joy in his eyes.

Unexpectedly, Yu Meng's grades were the same as his when she was in her second year of high school. This surprised Han Liang and moved him a lot, and the two of them got together.

"During our senior year of high school, we agreed to apply to the police academy. But a month before the exam, something happened in her family. Her parents were murdered, and then she disappeared."

"At that time, I searched for her for a long time but couldn't find her. I even used my father's connections. No one who went to look for her could find her. It wasn't until five days before the college entrance examination that I received a text message."

Han Liang said that there were only three short words on the text message: "Let's break up." Han Liang called the phone number at that time, but found that it was an invalid number.

"At that time, I didn't feel like taking the college entrance exam, but I felt sorry for my parents, so I took it anyway. After the exam, I hid by the river and cried."

Han Liang said that Yu Meng was his first love and the only girlfriend he had ever had.

Later, Han Liang put his mind at ease and studied at the police academy for four years, and later began his career as a police officer.

Three years ago, when Han Liang was participating in an operation, he met Yu Meng, whom he had not seen for a long time, and the two became rivals. Han Liang was negligent for a moment and let Yu Meng go. In that operation, Han Liang's comrade-in-arms died to save him. Han Liang felt very guilty about his comrade-in-arms and felt that he had let his father down. He took the initiative to apply for a transfer to another city and worked as an ordinary policeman in a very small town.

Han Liang sighed and turned to look at me.

“Do you know why I studied psychology?”

"I just want to see if she is really so heartless."

At the beginning, Han Liang didn't believe it. He always felt that Yu Meng had gone astray or was forced. But this time he believed it.

"Yesterday, when she pointed a gun at me and asked my father's men to retreat, I was still thinking about playing psychological tactics with her, but she is now a completely different person from seven years ago. She is so cold that I feel that she is not Yu Meng."

"Even when he shot me, he didn't show any expression." Han Liang said worriedly.

I looked at Han Liang with some sympathy and said that since that was the case, he should stop being so obsessed and just live his life well.

"But for some reason, I still have a tiny glimmer of hope in my heart, hoping that she can turn over a new leaf."

“Maybe I’m too committed to commitment.”

Han Liang said that when they were dating, they even planted a paulownia tree.

"At that time, Yu Meng told me that the Wutong tree symbolizes love that lasts until death."

A trace of sadness flashed across Han Liang's eyes again, and I felt uncomfortable with him.

"It's hard to say about feelings."

I thought of Chen Xi. We dated for three years, and I thought he was the one for me. But in the end, he secretly got together with Tian Rong. To find a good reason to break up, he even drugged me and made me end up with Jiang Ruohe. And then he died in a car accident.

"Thinking back to the beginning, I also had a boyfriend who I thought loved me very much. He made many promises, but in the end..."

I told Han Liang what happened between Chen Xi and me, and Han Liang sat up from the bed.

"I didn't expect that you and Jiang Ruohe would be together like this?"

I smiled, leaned back, and said I didn't expect it either.

"When I first married him, he didn't like me at all. He was so cold and icy. At that time, I sold my grandfather's supplements, and he asked me to pay him back. He also told me to sell my body without worrying about the Jiang family's reputation..."

"There is actually such a thing. I didn't expect Jiang Ruohe to be such a person." Han Liang felt a little unfair for me.

I smiled.

"When I think about these things now, I don't feel angry anymore. Instead, I find it quite funny. Two people who disliked each other actually ended up together..."

I told Han Liang that since things had come to this, his fate with Yu Meng was naturally over, and there was no need to be so persistent.

"You don't even know how angry and anxious Chief Han was last night. He said he wanted to shoot you to death. The worry in his eyes was really..."

"Han Liang. I'm not saying anything bad about you, but you have to remember that you still have your parents who care and love you."

"You envy me and Jiang Ruohe, but I envy you too. Until now, I still don't know who my biological parents are, and my adoptive father, Tian Rong and Shen Xiuting, killed me. Look at your parents, how much they love you."

"Are you adopted?" Han Liang asked me.

I nodded and said, "If Shen Xiuting hadn't come to me and told me about this last time, I really wouldn't have known about it. I was adopted by my father."

"So do you want to find your biological parents? Do you want my help?"

I shook my head and said that my father adopted me from an orphanage. I was an abandoned child, not abducted, so there was nothing to look for.

"If I go looking for him, I will feel that I have let my father down for all the years of raising me."

Han Liang looked at me and said thank you to me.

"It's time to let go. If we meet again in the future, I will definitely not show mercy."

"Then you rest, I'll go upstairs." I moved the chair away, stood up and went upstairs.

After returning to the living room, I checked the time. It was 9:30 in the morning. It was a little early to cook, so I planned to go upstairs. Just as I reached the stairs, Yin Jian sent a message saying that Tian Rong had gone out again.

I asked Yin Jian to track me first, and then send me his location so that I can go find him immediately.

After hanging up the phone, I changed into sportswear, put on the baseball cap that Jiang Ruohe had worn before, put on a mask, and hurried out the door.

Half an hour later, I met up with Yin Jian, who was standing by the road with a depressed look on his face. I asked him about Tian Rong.

"Lost him again."

"The last time I went to this place with Tian Rong, there was a cleaner who said that my car had hit him. When we dealt with the cleaner, Tian Rong didn't even see a hair. This time, my car was scratched by a guy riding an electric scooter in this area again. The owner of the electric scooter fell to the ground. It was clearly him who was driving on the motor vehicle lane and scratched my car. He even asked me to give him a thousand dollars." Yin Jian looked at his scratched car with some heartache.

"I'm so unlucky, Xiaowan. I have to ask you for the money to repair the car." He looked up at me.

I lowered my head and thought about what he just said, and murmured, how come it is such a coincidence every time, I followed Tian Rong and lost her twice, and both times it was around here.

"I guess someone knew that I was following Tian Rong and deliberately asked someone to stop me. Otherwise, it wouldn't be such a coincidence." Yin Jian said.

I said, "Indeed, someone must be helping Tian Rong, and they know you are following her."

I was wondering if the person who helped Tian Rong could be Xiao Shi. I thought about it and looked up at Yin Jian.

"Forget it, you should first find Tian Wu's whereabouts. Don't keep an eye on Tian Rong for the next two days. When the people helping Tian Rong relax their vigilance, I will go and keep an eye on them myself."

Since we think there is something wrong with Tian Rong, we naturally cannot give up this clue.

"That's all I can do. By the way, I asked about something a few days ago at the place where your father used to live."

Yin Jian asked me if I knew someone named Xiu'er, and I nodded.

"But he's not a good person either. He's like a fence-sitter, the kind who helps whoever pays him. Did she say anything to you?" I looked up at him.

Yin Jian said that Xiu'er told her that a year ago, she saw a man come to see Shen Xiuting, and Shen Xiuting had a few arguments with him.

"Could that person be Tian Wu?" I asked.

"But the person she described doesn't look like Tian Wu."

I thought about it. Eight years ago, the three people who committed the crime with Tian Wu all died in the sea of ​​fire. I looked up at Yin Jian.

"It's hard to say. He escaped with a disfigured face in the fire, and perhaps had plastic surgery to evade the police? If Tian Wu is still alive, then we haven't found any trace of him in the past eight years. Does that mean he's changed his appearance and name?"

"That makes sense." Yin Jian took out his cell phone and flipped through a sketch he had taken from the album.

"It's been a while, and I don't remember the girl named Xiu'er very clearly. Based on what she said, this is the only picture I can give."

I looked carefully.

"Wow, your painting is very good, it looks very realistic." I looked up and smiled at him, praising him.

Yin Jian said that he graduated from an art academy, but no one appreciated his paintings, so he couldn't make money and had to work as a detective.

"This sketch is only about 80% like. I'll send you the photo. Maybe one day you'll be lucky enough to see him in person."

I nodded and said yes. I told Yin Jian that this matter was indeed a bit difficult. But I still hoped that he could find Tian Wu quickly. Only when he found Tian Wu could we know who was behind the bullying of Lan Yan eight years ago, making Xiao Shi hate the Jiang family so much. Perhaps that person behind the scenes was still secretly eyeing the Jiang family.

"I understand. Now everyone in South City thinks you are dead, and you are still a murder suspect. Be more careful when you go back." Yin Jian looked at me.

"good."

After Yin Jian drove off, I checked the time. It was almost eleven o'clock. Thinking we were running out of vegetables at home, I happened to find a vegetable market nearby, so I bought some and went home.

Just as I was about to open the door, my cell phone rang. Just as I was about to reach into my pocket for the phone, the door opened and Jiang Ruohe came out anxiously with his cell phone in his hand. Seeing me standing outside the door, he hung up the phone and pulled me in.

"Xiaowan, where have you been? I was so worried." Jiang Ruohe hugged me tightly.

I said I was going to buy some vegetables and didn't tell him that I was looking for Yin Jian to investigate Tian Wu's matter. If he knew, he would definitely not let me get involved in this matter, but I am a person who can't sit still. I really can't rely on Jiang Ruohe to support everything.

Jiang Ruohe let me go.

"You can just call me to talk about buying groceries. There's no need to go out alone. You know how anxious I am when I come back and don't see you. Xiaowan, I love you. If I hadn't been busy these past two days, I wouldn't want to be apart from you for even a minute."

Hearing Jiang Ruohe say this, I felt a little sweet in my heart. I told him that if I go out next time, I will definitely tell him first and won't let him worry anymore.

"Don't go out these days. Things haven't been resolved yet, and I'm afraid of losing you." Jiang Ruohe hugged me tightly again.

"Okay, okay, I'm going to cook." I said with a smile.

Jiang Ruohe kissed me on the face before letting me go. I was cooking in the kitchen while Jiang Ruohe was talking on the phone with Song Yan in the living room, preparing for the board meeting on the eighth day of the new year.

There are only two days left, and I am still a little worried. If Xiao Shi knows that Jiang Ruohe knows that Xiao Shi is not dead, will he kill Jiang Ruohe again?

After a while, Jiang Ruohe got up and walked into the kitchen. He put his arm around my waist, leaned his head on my shoulder, and asked me what I was thinking about.

"I'm a little worried about you."

"It's okay. I've made sufficient preparations this time. I don't think he'll have another chance to succeed. Xiaowan, have you gone to Yin Jian to check on Tian Wu?"

I turned to him and asked him how he knew that.

"I just called that guy. When he heard my voice, he was so scared that he dropped his phone. Later I asked him how his investigation was going, and he said you were asking him to look into this as well."

I laughed and said I hadn't told Yin Jian he was still alive. Naturally, he would be scared.

"Xiao Wan."

Jiang Ruohe turned my body around and took my hands in his.

"From now on, just leave these things to me. I'm your husband, and I should do these things."

I looked up at him.

"Everything is handed over to you, so what should I do?"

"Of course, just serve me well."

I chuckled and was about to say something when Jiang Ruohe hung a crystal necklace around my neck. Looking at the beautiful pendant, I felt happy and asked him why he thought of giving me a gift.

"Didn't you lose your ring last time? Now you can buy a necklace to replace it. After a few days, when everything is settled, we can go and have the wedding." Jiang Ruohe took my hand and said that on that day, he would put on the ring he had specially customized for me.

"good."

Jiang Ruohe moved his mouth closer and was about to kiss her when he heard Han Liang coughing lightly at the kitchen door.

"The fish is mushy."

My face turned red and I quickly pushed Jiang Ruohe away and turned down the fire.

"You two, don't even bother to consider me, a wounded soldier." Han Liang glanced at us and teased.

I quickly pushed Jiang Ruohe out of the kitchen and cooked in peace.

After dinner, the three of us chatted on the sofa for a while. Han Liang yawned and went to the basement. Jiang Ruohe and I went upstairs. When I came out of the shower, Jiang Ruohe took me to the study, turned on the computer, and told me that my grandfather had just sent him a video.

After opening the video, I saw Xiao Shi and Jiang Nianhao sitting on the sofa. It seemed that neither of them knew that there were surveillance cameras in the Jiang family's old house.

"Let me show you something..." Xiao Shi took out his cell phone and handed it to Jiang Nianhao. I thought it should be the video of Jiang Nianhao trying to kill me.

Jiang Nianhao's face turned pale after seeing this.

"He's really cruel. He even hired someone to kill his own daughter-in-law. When the time comes, send this video to the police..." Xiao Shi said calmly. Jiang Nianhao turned around and looked at Xiao Shi coldly.

"Yu Xiaowan killed Xiaorong's mother and also caused my child to be gone. How could I not kill her? She asked for it."

"Dad, is Tian Rong's child so important to you?" Xiao Shi asked.

"Of course."

A hint of self-mockery flashed across Xiao Shi's eyes.

"What do you want?"

"It's simple, don't compete with me for the Jiang family." Xiao Shi returned to his previous indifferent expression.

Jiang Nianhao glanced at Xiao Shi and snorted coldly.

"I'm your father, and you want to argue with me about this?"

Xiao Shi looked up at him.

"But you don't treat me as your son, and I don't want to be your son."

"You..." Jiang Nianhao stood up from the sofa angrily and stared at Xiao Shi.

Xiao Shi also stood up, ignoring the anger in Jiang Nianhao's eyes.

"On the eighth day of the lunar year, you should know what to do."

After saying that, he went upstairs. Jiang Nianhao looked at Xiao Shi's back, and a hint of cruelty flashed across his eyes.

After watching the video, I asked Jiang Ruohe whether Jiang Nianhao would hire someone to assassinate Xiao Shi.

"Are you worried?" Jiang Ruohe looked at me.

"I'm not worried, I just feel that if he attacks Xiao Shi at this time, then on the eighth day of the new year, you will have to face your father head-on."

After all, they are father and son. When the time comes, really...

Jiang Ruohe said that Xiao Shi had been prepared for Jiang Nianhao, otherwise he would not have confronted him directly.

Come to think of it, Xiao Shi is a very cunning man, and he should be on guard against Jiang Nianhao. I looked up at Jiang Ruohe.

"Then when are you going to look for Xiao Shi?"

"On the seventh night."

I reached out and hugged Jiang Ruohe tightly, saying it would be tomorrow. I was a little worried that Xiao Shi would take the opportunity to attack him again.

"When the time comes, I'll go with you, okay? I won't get you into trouble."

"You stay home and wait for me to come back. It's just a negotiation. Don't worry too much." Jiang Ruohe comforted me.

I nodded and said yes, but in fact I already had other plans in my mind.

The next afternoon, before Jiang Ruohe was about to contact Xiao Shi, I poured him a cup of tea. After a while, he fell asleep on the sofa. I covered him with a blanket and said sorry.

I am sure that if Xiao Shi knew that Jiang Ruohe was not dead, especially after he held Xiao Shi's big secret, Xiao Shi would definitely attack him again. Even if Jiang Ruohe won back Jiang Group from him this time, Xiao Shi would still attack Jiang Group before Tian Wu was found. So I think it would be better for me to go to this negotiation.

"Have you really thought it through?" Han Liang asked behind me.

I nodded. I took the bug from him and put it in my ear. I wasn't someone who didn't think about the consequences, so I had to be prepared before meeting Xiao Shi.

"I've installed a tracker in my phone and have notified Yan Yun. If you encounter any difficulties, Yan Yun will bring people to support you."

I nodded, took out my phone and called Xiao Shi. Xiao Shi was very happy after receiving the call. I said I wanted to meet him, and Xiao Shi agreed. I arranged a place. It was right by the river.

Xiao Shi was silent for a while and agreed.

Fifteen minutes later, Xiao Shi and I met by the river.

"Xiao Wan, what do you want to talk to me about?"

"Give up Jiang's." I got straight to the point.

Xiao Shi's face darkened.

"What happened to Aunt Lan back then wasn't done by Wang Yingzhi. When Grandpa knew she had gone to cause trouble for Aunt Lan, he sent someone to keep an eye on Wang Yingzhi. And when she woke up, I asked her, and she really didn't send anyone to bully Aunt Lan."

Xiao Shi looked at me and said he didn't believe it.

"Those four people clearly admitted it back then. Xiaowan, don't you know what kind of person Wang Yingzhi is? Why would you believe her and not me?"

Xiao Shi looked at me with some disappointment.

"If you're here to talk to me about this, there's no need for us to discuss this, Xiaowan. I don't want to embarrass you."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and prepared to leave.

"Xiao Shi, let's talk about other things, like Zuo Wei."

Xiao Shi shuddered and turned to look at me.