Ultimately, unable to bear watching someone die without offering help, Cheng Ran turned around and saw that it was indeed Ye Luo. He sighed silently and did not turn back.
Seeing that he was ignoring her fall, Ye Luo panicked and immediately shouted.
"Comrade Cheng! Is this how you treat an ordinary citizen like me?! You're a soldier! Even if you want to settle things and clear things up, you should at least come and see me!"
She had already disregarded her image and collapsed in the mud. She, who usually wouldn't even touch pots and pans, was now supporting herself on the dirty ground with her hands. If this didn't elicit any pity from him, she would break down.
Fortunately, she watched as he hesitated for a moment before parking his bicycle on the side of the road. However, when he walked over, he didn't offer to help her; instead, he seemed quite impatient.
"Comrade Ye, what exactly do you want? I don't have time to mess around with you. We've already made things very clear. I only helped you out back then. You don't need to keep holding a grudge. Isn't that clear enough?"
Cheng Ran was trying to save face for her as a girl by not saying anything too harsh, but she seemed not to understand, and kept getting hung up on it. He wasn't stupid; he knew what she meant, but he would never respond.
Ye Luo's palms were scratched by the sand and throbbed with pain. She just craned her neck to look at him, her eyes brimming with tears.
"Can't you even help me up?"
"Get up yourself!"
He quickly lost his patience and didn't want to give her any more attention. Seeing this, Ye Luo was sad, but seeing that passersby were laughing at her, she finally couldn't bring herself to do it and slowly stood up, supporting herself on the ground.
As she finally stood up, she deliberately stumbled into Cheng Ran's arms and lunged forward.
"Ouch! I think I twisted my ankle, it hurts so much..."
Cheng Ran only supported her arm, his body instinctively leaning back. Once she regained her balance, he quickly pushed her away.
"I have other things to do, you can go now." He frowned.
To his surprise, she clung tightly to his sleeve, looking at him with teary eyes.
"Does it have to be like this? You've already trampled on my dignity, don't you even give me a shred of respect? Comrade Cheng, you weren't like this before. I don't believe that someone who jumped into the water without hesitation to save someone could be so cold-hearted and callous. We clearly... we clearly had physical intimacy, didn't we? I gave you my first kiss, you have to give me an explanation!"
He thought the woman in front of him was a bit crazy. If it weren't for the fact that he had to save her life in a moment of panic back then, why would he need to perform artificial respiration?
So, he did indeed roll his eyes in a moment of embarrassment, turned his head away, and pulled his hand back.
"So, according to you, all couples in the world are probably doctors and patients, is that what you mean?"
Using her own words against her, Cheng Ran put his hands in his pockets, not giving her any chance to get close, and even took two steps back, his intention to avoid suspicion and his dislike were very obvious.
She bit her lip, tears welling up in her eyes. The weather wasn't cold, but her heart felt cold.
At that moment, the female worker pulled Jiang Wanqing out and stood at the corner, pointing in their direction.
"Comrade Jiang, look! I told you I wasn't mistaken! Your wife and that vixen are all arguing and pulling each other in the street. If I hadn't pulled you over here, you would have been kept in the dark!"
This female worker perfectly embodied the character's love of gossip and backbiting.
Jiang Wanqing frowned and glanced at the back of the female worker's neck.
"Who sent you to find me?"
"Huh? Who..." The female worker swallowed hard, nervously clutching her clothes, "No one asked me to come find you. I just couldn't bear to see you being deceived, so..."
"Alright, go back and tell Jiang Xiu that you've achieved your goal. I won't make things difficult for you, and you shouldn't force me to make things difficult for you either. Do I look like someone who's easy to fool?"
She stared sternly at the female worker. Someone who didn't even bother to say goodbye or blink when changing jobs was understandable, but don't expect her to be kind. She was probably just there for the money.
As for the scene before her, she could judge for herself whether it was real or fake, and she didn't need anyone to stir things up in her ear.
"I……"
"Aren't you leaving yet?"
"Okay, okay, I'll go..." The female worker trembled in fright, and as she walked away, she turned back and said, "Comrade Jiang, I'm sincerely reminding you that no matter how good a man is, he's bound to have affairs. You must keep your eyes open!"
After saying that, she ran off. She had the money, the job done, and had even done a good deed. She was quite pleased with herself and didn't think she had done anything wrong. Humming a little tune, she returned to Xiuli Factory to report back to Jiang Xiu.
Jiang Wanqing didn't want to hide in the shadows and speculate about all that nonsense. Just as she was about to step out, she saw Ye Luo suddenly approach Cheng Ran and stand on tiptoe...
"Comrade Cheng, I already know the truth about your marriage to Jiang Wanqing. You don't love her, do you? You only fulfilled your duties as a husband to her. Then why can you protect someone as scheming as her, but I can't? What do I lack compared to her? If you spend more time with me, you'll find that I'm a thousand times better than her!"
Ye Luo tiptoed, glancing back out of the corner of her eye. She thought she had just heard a sound, and the timing was perfect...
She keenly noticed the look of disgust on Cheng Ran's face. Before he could back away again, she buried herself in his arms and held him tightly, refusing to let go.
"Hold me tight. What she can give you, I can give you too. What she can't give you, I can give you!"
"Let go!"
Cheng Ran pushed her away forcefully, feeling as if he had been filthy all over. The mud on him was secondary; it was the nauseating discomfort that made his face darken.
He patted his sleeves, about to turn and walk away, when Jiang Wanqing emerged from around the corner not far away, and he froze...
"Wanqing..." He rushed over, "You saw it all just now? It wasn't like that..."
"It's all over! My innocence has been tainted by this woman, Ye Luo!" Cheng Ran thought with intense hatred.
But Jiang Wanqing simply brushed his hand away, showing no other unusual behavior.
She walked up to Ye Luo and looked her up and down: "Forcibly hugging another woman's husband in the street, does your mother know that the woman she is so proud of is this kind of person?"
Her tone was calm, without even a hint of sarcasm, but Ye Luo's eyes reddened, and she looked at Cheng Ran with a wronged expression, while he was only focused on Jiang Wanqing.
She gritted her teeth. Since she had already done it, she might as well go all the way. Giving up Cheng Ran was impossible!
After mentally preparing herself, she raised her head, her neck stiff, looking like she was trying to argue even when she was being unreasonable.
"Everything you have was taken from others, what right do you have to talk to me! Stop keeping Comrade Cheng trapped, he deserves better."
"Better, you mean..." Jiang Wanqing pouted, pointed her index finger around her head, and clicked her tongue: "Oh, sorry, I really didn't see that coming. You said I was trapping him, did he tell you that? I only see you pestering him. Honey, what do you say?"
She deliberately took Cheng Ran's arm to assert her dominance, and he took her hand in return, his eyes filled with love as he looked at her.
“I have a family. You didn’t hold me back because I love you too much. No one else would understand.”
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