Chapter 196 Jing and Wei

Fu Shenyuan only turned his gaze away when Wen Qingrang and Jiang Ranxing's car drove away and completely disappeared from his sight.

Tan Shen had been watching from a distance. When he saw this, he drove his car over and stopped in front of Fu Shenyuan, opening the car door for him.

"Mr. Fu, please go back first. Miss Lin is looking for you," Tan Shen reminded him.

Tan Shen's words successfully brought Fu Shenyuan back to his senses. After his eyes gradually cleared of those unnecessary emotions, he got into the car.

In the car, Fu Shenyuan asked, "What's going on with Xue Sha?"

While driving, Tan Shen replied, "Miss Lin went back to the hotel first. Her mood... I guess she's not in a good mood."

Tan Shen hesitated, not going into too much detail about Lin Xuesha's condition to Fu Shenyuan.

He could only say that Lin Xuesha wasn't in a good mood. He couldn't very well say that she went back and threw a tantrum, smashing up almost the entire hotel room. If he said that, it would be tantamount to exacerbating the existing conflict between the two of them.

So Tan Shen chose to remain silent, but as clever as Fu Shenyuan was, how could he not understand the meaning behind Tan Shen's words?

"She got angry after she went back, didn't she? What did she say?" Fu Shenyuan continued to ask.

Tan Shen could no longer hide the truth, so he said, "Miss Lin is not satisfied with what happened at the venue today. She thinks that Madam Jiang deliberately embarrassed her. We have tried to persuade Miss Lin, but it was no use. Miss Lin seems to be angry and is not willing to listen to us."

Fu Shenyuan's eyes darkened slightly: "Let's go back, I'll go take a look."

"Okay," the eyes replied.

Tan Shen escorted Fu Shenyuan back to the hotel. When Fu Shenyuan arrived upstairs and reached Lin Xuesha's room, he heard her dissatisfied voice coming from inside.

Lin Xuesha's assistant, Xiao Yu, stood timidly to the side, not daring to speak.

"Why didn't you investigate that woman's background thoroughly! If I had known she was Ember, I wouldn't have participated at all! Didn't you say Ember wouldn't come? Besides, why would Jiang Ranxing be Ember! How could someone like her achieve such success!"

Assistant Xiao Yu could only apologize to Lin Xuesha one sentence at a time. As soon as Xiao Yu looked up, she saw Fu Shenyuan come in, so she went to remind Lin Xuesha: "President Lin, President Fu is here. Please calm down."

Lin Xuesha's eyes widened instantly. She rolled her eyes at Xiao Yu and scolded him for not telling her earlier that Fu Shenyuan was coming.

Lin Xuesha waved her hand, letting Xiao Yu leave first, before turning to Fu Shenyuan with a smile.

She walked over and took Fu Shenyuan's arm, leaning against him sweetly, and said in a coquettish voice, "Shenyuan, you're finally back! I thought I'd have to wait for you for a long time."

Looking at Lin Xuesha's transformation in such a short time, Fu Shenyuan also had a strange feeling that the person he had seen at a certain moment was not the same person as the one he was seeing now.

Fu Shenyuan silently pulled his arm out of Lin Xuesha's grasp.

Fu Shenyuan said calmly, "Something came up, I'm sorry."

Lin Xuesha pressed on, "What is it? Is it about Jiang Ranxing?"

Fu Shenyuan looked at him and nodded.

Lin Xuesha's temper flared up again immediately: "Shen Yuan, you saw how Jiang Ranxing humiliated me today, why did you go to her? Shouldn't you have come back to comfort me! I'm the one who got hurt!"

Lin Xuesha was only reluctant to argue with Fu Shenyuan, otherwise she would have had a different attitude. But Fu Shenyuan's attitude was gradually becoming unbearable for her.

Fu Shenyuan frowned, seemingly in a bad mood, and said, "Xue Sha, don't talk about her behind her back. She didn't do anything to you."

When Lin Xuesha heard that he was still defending Jiang Ranxing, she became even angrier.

"Don't you care about me at all, Shen Yuan? Ever since I came abroad to find you, you haven't paid much attention to me. On the contrary, you've been paying attention to Jiang Ranxing. Do you think I don't know what you're thinking just because I don't say anything? Shen Yuan, I'm your fiancée. Don't get me wrong. Jiang Ranxing and you have nothing to do with each other anymore. You're divorced, you know that!"

In a fit of anger, Lin Xuesha said everything she wanted to say in one breath.

“I don’t care if you still have feelings for her. I know you’re just having trouble adjusting to the sudden divorce, but we are the ones who truly love each other. Have you forgotten, Shen Yuan? We were destined to be together since we were very young. You shouldn’t give up our relationship for Jiang Ranxing!”

Lin Xuesha deliberately brought up the time she saved Fu Shenyuan at the beach, knowing that Fu Shenyuan would fall for it.

Sure enough, Fu Shenyuan's eyes darkened.

Lin Xuesha smiled, thinking that Fu Shenyuan had softened his heart, but she didn't expect that this time, Fu Shenyuan was no longer so sensitive to this matter.

Fu Shenyuan calmly walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, looked down at the tiny world below, and then let out a long breath.

Fu Shenyuan turned to Lin Xuesha and said, "Since you've brought this up, I think it's time for us to have a talk."

"Xue Sha, I will always be grateful to you. If you hadn't risked your life to save me back then, I wouldn't have had everything I have now. So, whatever you want, I should repay you rightfully. Of course, that's what I've always done."

“I gave you all the support I could, and I have no regrets about it. I even feel that it is not enough to repay your kindness. At that time, I always thought that I must love you, otherwise why would I be so attached to you? I told myself that I would only ever love one person, and that is Lin Xuesha.”

"Because of this self-imposed obsession, I ignored everything I had at the time, and my marriage with her became a victim of this obsession. Xue Sha, do you know that when Ran Xing and I were together, there were never any happy moments in our marriage because I never paid attention to her, and I never fulfilled my marriage vows."

At this point, Fu Shenyuan lowered his head and chuckled twice, his laughter filled with endless bitterness.

“We didn’t even make any marriage vows.”

He didn't attend the wedding because he went abroad for Lin Xuesha, so it seemed like there were no romantic or solemn vows between them.

Thinking about this, Fu Shenyuan realized that they had missed out on far too much.

Fu Shenyuan continued, "In the six years that followed, I kept looking for you. My obsession only grew stronger. I didn't even realize that I had become accustomed to her presence in my life. It's like some things that always exist, like air and water. You don't realize how important they are when they're around, but you only realize how hard it is to live well without them after you lose them."

Fu Shenyuan slowly turned around and looked earnestly at the still beautiful Lin Xuesha in front of him. He said seriously, "I only realized how important she was to me after I lost her."

After listening to Fu Shenyuan say so much, Lin Xuesha felt even more resentful towards Jiang Ranxing.

Why is it that Jiang Ranxing gets Fu Shenyuan's attention and love, and can so easily take away everything from her?

Lin Xuesha's anger grew stronger and stronger. With tears in her eyes, she looked at Fu Shenyuan and reached out to grab his hand.

"Shen Yuan, you're wrong! You don't love her! You're just used to her presence. I shouldn't have left you in the country. Six years is too long, long enough for you to have developed a delusion, you know that!" Lin Xuesha tried to "wake up" Fu Shenyuan.

But Fu Shenyuan eventually let go of her hand: "Xue Sha, these past six years, it wasn't you who kept me in the country, it was you who abandoned me. You married another man and had a child. Six years ago, I went to find you, but I still couldn't stop you. Back then, you really didn't want to be with me, right?"

Lin Xuesha's body stiffened, and she shivered.

She never expected that Fu Shenyuan would be so serious about Jiang Ranxing.

For a moment, Lin Xuesha didn't know how to tell Fu Shenyuan.

Six years ago, she was the one who refused to marry Fu Shenyuan. At that time, she believed that Fu Shenyuan could not gain a foothold in the Fu family and could not compete with the other elders of the Fu family. She thought that it would be useless for her to marry such a person, so she abandoned Fu Shenyuan and turned to Zhou Mozheng, who was then at the height of his power and influence.

If Zhou Mozheng's business hadn't run into problems and gradually collapsed to the brink of disaster, she wouldn't have contacted Fu Shenyuan so quickly to reconcile.

She thought Fu Shenyuan wouldn't care about this, but she didn't expect that although he just kept quiet, he was still bothered by it.

Lin Xuesha quickly made up an excuse and said, "I was just deceived by Zhou Mozheng's sweet talk at the time. We were both young then, only in our twenties. I couldn't tell what was real and what was fake, so I was fooled. Later I realized that my heart has always belonged only to you, Shen Yuan. You have to believe me."

Fu Shenyuan just smiled when he heard this. Lin Xuesha's words sounded far too childish to him, but there was no point in dwelling on them anymore.

Fu Shenyuan said, "Just assume I believe you, Xue Sha. Let's not discuss those things anymore. As for what happened later, I don't think you want me to investigate in too much detail, so let's leave it at that for now."

Fu Shenyuan gave Lin Xuesha a final smile, a simple, meaningless polite smile, before leaving Lin Xuesha's room.

Lin Xuesha stood there dumbfounded until she heard the door close, then she glared fiercely at the hotel room door.

Assistant Xiao Yu saw Fu Shenyuan leave from outside the door, then swiped her card and entered the hotel room. Looking at Lin Xuesha standing there, she felt a little apprehensive.

However, Xiao Yu still slowly approached Lin Xuesha, until Lin Xuesha came to her senses and looked at him. A loud slap landed on his cheek, and the burning pain instantly spread.

"Sister Xue Sha, you..." Xiao Yu didn't dare to question Lin Xue Sha too loudly, but he didn't understand what had happened to make Lin Xue Sha his opponent.

Lin Xuesha's eyes were filled with undisguised resentment: "Jiang Ranxing! It's all that bitch Jiang Ranxing's fault for stealing everything that belongs to me! She wants to take my career and my man from me! Why doesn't she just die! Why isn't she dead yet! She survived a car accident, how come she's so lucky!"

Xiao Yu asked in a panic, "Sister Xue Sha, what car accident are you talking about? Could it be that you were in that car accident...?"

Lin Xuesha sneered, her expression frantic and terrifying: "So what if I orchestrated the car accident? So what if I paid someone to run over Jiang Ranxing? She deserves to die. She's just here to get in my way. Why should I keep her alive?"

Xiao Yu felt that Lin Xuesha's mental state was very strange, so she advised, "Sister Xuesha, don't be like this. You're just angry for a moment. You didn't do these things at all, so why are you saying such things? I saw President Fu leave just now. You two must have had a disagreement, which is why you're like this. Sister Xuesha, calm down first, and then talk to President Fu properly after you've calmed down."

Lin Xuesha was no longer listening to any of this. Seeing the newly replaced cups and vases in front of her, she picked them up and smashed them on the ground.

Lin Xuesha seemed to find a certain pleasure in this instinctive venting, and in the end, all she could think about were vicious words directed at Jiang Ranxing.

Xiao Yu felt really sorry for her, but he had no reason to stop her. He could only stay by Lin Xuesha's side to prevent her from doing anything rash. Finally, Lin Xuesha was exhausted from venting and fell asleep on the sofa.

After leaving Lin Xuesha's room, Fu Shenyuan did not stay at the hotel any longer, but went to the company.

He reviewed the surveillance video of Zhan Shuo and Ember's conversation at the time, and the person in that video was indeed Jiang Ranxing.

Fu Shenyuan was filled with remorse.

Tan Shen, who was standing nearby, also saw this. He could tell from Fu Shenyuan's expression that he must be feeling uncomfortable. So he said, "President Fu, we can't blame you for this. When you first took office here, you didn't have time to look into the surveillance footage."

Fu Shenyuan chuckled self-deprecatingly: "Perhaps our relationship will always be this mismatched, it's fate."

Otherwise, how could they have missed every single thing so perfectly?

Their love for each other wasn't reciprocated at the same time, which caused them heartbreak. Even at work, Ember initially chose to work with him, but due to unforeseen circumstances, he lost her.

He is now increasingly convinced of the existence of fate.

It was as if fate had been playing tricks on him and Jiang Ranxing. Fu Shenyuan truly hoped that there would never be such missed opportunities and regrets again.

"Go and prepare an apology and send it to SR as an apology for today. Also, send Ember a separate gift."

After regaining his senses, Fu Shenyuan gave instructions to Tan Shen.

Tan Shen understood the business etiquette involved and knew what to choose, but Jiang Ranxing's situation was somewhat special.

So Tan Shen asked, "President Fu, what are your thoughts on the apology to Ember?"

Fu Shenyuan pondered for a while, but found that he really didn't know Jiang Ranxing's preferences. This thought was like a sharp knife, constantly torturing his heart.

He really knew very little about Jiang Ranxing; he was so clueless about her.

Fu Shenyuan sighed and said, "Let's choose a suitable set of high-end jewelry and send it over. She should be able to use it in her work."

Fu Shenyuan couldn't find any information in his mind about what Jiang Ranxing liked or disliked.

Logically, after six years of getting to know each other, he should know these things, but Fu Shenyuan simply didn't pay attention, so he couldn't find the answer.

He could only try to please her by giving her design-related gifts, hoping she wouldn't reject him.