Chapter 64 Breakup "But I want to break up with you."
"I don't want to marry you."
Qiao Ruoying...actually doesn't want to marry him?
She slowly brushed away his hand that was holding her shoulder: "We are not very suitable."
"What's wrong?"
Before Qiao Ruoying could answer, the cell phone she placed on the sofa rang rapidly.
The sounds were sharp, one faster than the last, one more urgent than the last.
"Ignore it." Jiang Zong didn't even look at it and wanted to flick the phone further away.
He was still waiting for Qiao Ruoying to tell him why the two of them were not suitable.
But this time the call was very determined, as if it had to be made until the owner of the phone answered.
Qiao Ruoying turned her head and saw that the contact displayed on the phone screen was "Mom". She hit him on the shoulder twice and cried:
"My mother's calling. I need to answer it."
Jiang Zong also heard this and let her go.
His eyes seemed to be stained with a layer of dark, transparent ink, appearing even deeper and more obscure. He stared at her with a heavy gaze, noticing that her lips were red and swollen from being bitten by him.
The bell rang twice and then stopped.
Qiao Ruoying was anxious to return her mother's call. Her mother rarely called her unless it was something urgent, and usually sent her messages on WeChat.
She opened her lips slightly and took deep breaths, trying to breathe back the oxygen that had been plundered by Jiang Zongye into her lungs.
Only when her breathing calmed down and her voice became steady did she take her cell phone, go to the balcony, and call her mother.
Jiang Zongye tugged at his bow tie with his slender fingers, loosening his collar. He couldn't help but smile bitterly when he saw the girl holding her cell phone, going to the balcony, and closing the glass sliding door.
Look, she was still wary of him and didn't let him listen to her mother's phone call.
If it were any other time, Jiang Zong would definitely care. He would definitely chase her and ask, "Why didn't you let me know when you and your mother were on the phone? What were you trying to say behind my back?"
But this time, since Qiao Ruoying complained to him about how overbearing he was and how he had taken up all her private space and time, Jiang Zong endured it.
He told himself over and over again in his heart that he should give her some space and freedom.
Even if he had to build a golden house for her to hide her, he would leave enough space for her in this golden house.
He looked toward the balcony. Through the clear glass sliding door, he could see her with her back to him, leaving him only a thin and slender silhouette.
He didn't know what her mother said to her, but he saw Qiao Ruoying raise her hand and wipe her face.
Is she wiping her tears? Why is she crying again out of the blue?
Unconsciously, he raised his hand, wanting to touch her back and wipe away her tears. He wanted to stand by the sliding door and wait for her, but he was worried that she would feel pressured by his presence, so he had to continue sitting on the sofa.
But I'm already feeling very uncomfortable.
The call ended. The sliding door opened, and Qiao Ruoying walked in, wiping her face with her hands. Jiang Zong also looked up. The girl stood in front of him, against the light, the traces of tears in her eyes more obvious than before.
Outside the blue glass windows of the balcony, a few slender sycamore trees look like black silhouettes against the backdrop of the crimson sky.
Looking at her red eyes from crying and her dazed expression, Jiang Zongye felt a slight pang in his heart.
The whole person was like standing on the edge of a cliff, stepping on empty air and falling down.
Because of crying, Qiao Ruoying's pair of dark lychee eyes became more lustrous and bright, as if they could speak.
From the initial pain and confused look, it changed and became filled with melancholy, sadness, sorrow and determination that he could not understand.
Her voice seemed to come from far away, soft but firm.
"Jiang Zongye, let's break up."
It's Jiang Zong.
This was the second time she called his name in full voice.
The first time he called her that, he was taking her to a mountain villa. They hugged each other tightly in the swimming pool, watching the thin white snow fluttering outside the glass. At that time, he had a faint hope in his heart, thinking that if they watched the snow together, they would be able to grow old together.
But this time, she called his name but said she wanted to break up with him.
It's wrong, there must be something wrong.
Jiang Zongye's ears were filled with strange and noisy noises, as if his ears were covered by a conch shell, and he could only hear the faint swirling sounds inside the conch shell. His real life was drifting away from him.
What went wrong?
He never thought about breaking up with Qiao Ruoying.
"No difference." He uttered two words from his thin lips.
“…”
A line of clear tears slowly flowed down Qiao Ruoying's cheek, and her eyes were bright and chilling.
He wanted to grab her wrist, but she dodged and stepped back.
Did she want to break up with him from the beginning? No, she didn't. It must have been her mother who said something that made her want to break up with him.
"Yingying, what did your mother say? I will change everything I can."
"Don't break up with me, okay?"
Qiao Ruoying looked at him, her eyes like broken glass, as if something had shattered completely.
"My mom asked me to break up with you, okay?"
But in fact, her mother did not tell her that. Her mother did not ask her to break up with Jiang Zongye, but only told her that the Jiang family was investigating them.
Five minutes ago, she was on the balcony, calling her mother back.
"Hello? Mom."
Qiao Ruoying tried her best to swallow the kiss forced by Jiang Zongye, and her voice contained a hint of hoarseness, making her tone seem calm and cheerful.
"Yingying, do you have a boyfriend? Does he have a powerful background?"
"Yes, Mom."
Since her mother asked her, Qiao Ruoying could only admit it honestly.
At the same time, she was also very curious: How did her mother know?
She kept her love affair a secret from her family, not even her younger sister Qiao Ruoqi.
"This afternoon, Mom was called over by Aunt Ma from the Human Resources Department," Ms. Qiao Li began, her voice slow and measured. "A detective wearing sunglasses left Aunt Ma's office. I just learned that your boyfriend's family is... investigating our family."
The Jiang family sent detectives to investigate their Qiao family?
Qiao Ruoying's head buzzed and she almost couldn't hear what her mother was going to say next.
At this time, the microphone was snatched away, and Qiao Ruoqi's voice sounded, both aggrieved and angry.
"Sister, it's all thanks to this investigation. Mom knows everything... including the real reason why Link and I broke up. Aunt Ma also wanted to ask about the details of Mom and Dad's divorce, so... all these things have been brought up again."
Even the fact that my parents were divorced was brought up?
Her heart shrank into a ball, and she wished she could get through the telephone line to her mother and hug her tightly.
The fact that she met her scumbag father, fell in love with him, gave birth to two daughters and then got divorced has always been an unhealable scar in her mother's heart.
It is hard to imagine that an investigation by the Jiang family would tear off the scar alive, causing the wound to bleed again.
"Sister, you're dating the wrong person." Qiao Ruoqi said softly on the other end of the phone.
Qiao Ruoying also felt that she had dated the wrong person.
She had originally wanted to break up with Jiang Zongye, but she never expected that this breakup would turn out so badly.
"Xiaoqi, don't talk to your sister like that." Ms. Qiao Li's voice was soft but stern.
She knew that her eldest daughter already felt guilty, and that her younger sister's words would only make her feel even more guilty.
"Mom hopes you will think it over and decide whether or not you want to be with him, okay?"
Ms. Jolly hesitated to speak.
What worries Ms. Qiao Li more than being investigated by detectives and reopening the scars is that she is afraid that her daughter's boyfriend's family will treat her daughter harshly.
The saying "marrying someone and swallowing a needle" is no joke. Many women who marry someone else have to endure and be considerate in their marriages in exchange for a little superficial glory.
Ms. Qiao Li does not want her daughters to have only superficial glory. She wants her daughters to find a home that loves them, respects them, and cares for them for the rest of their lives.
"I know, Mom."
When she hung up the phone, Qiao Ruoying choked up.
After hanging up the call, her phone kept vibrating. It was Qiao Ruoqi who was still sending her messages.
"Not only was my mother's past investigated, but also what happened between me and Link. My friends, Xiaohui and Xiuxiu, are still in school. They were called in by the counselor and told to tell the truth. No lies were allowed, otherwise it would affect their evaluation.
Huihui and Xiuxiu were both very nervous, thinking they'd broken the law. But then the person asked them a lot of questions about me, asking, "Is Qiao Ruoqi looking for a boyfriend to pay for her study abroad?" Those questions made it sound like I was a gold digger, which really pissed me off.
Looking at the confusing message sent by Qiao Ruoqi, her hands and feet were shaking and cold. Every breath she took seemed to inhale countless gravel into her chest, causing pain in her heart and lungs.
At first she thought it was Jiang Zongye.
Later, after thinking about it carefully, it should not be him, but his family, the Jiang family who did this.
But no matter who did it, the damage was done.
The Jiang family labeled her family as "clinging to the powerful" and "gold diggers" in such a high-sounding manner, which deeply hurt her most cherished relatives.
It also broke her heart.
We have to break up.
...
The word "break up" was like a needle that pricked Jiang Zongye's nerves and caused him to feel pain in his solar plexus.
He forced himself to calm down and wanted to hold her hand, but Qiao Ruoying stepped back, as if she didn't want to have physical contact with him.
Jiang Zong also covered her with his gaze, and his dignity was temporarily thrown aside.
"I don't want to break up with you."
Break up? No, no, there was no way he would break up with Qiao Ruoying. He had never thought of breaking up with her, not even if he saw her dancing with another boy.
He just wanted to use the quarrel to express all the dissatisfaction accumulated in his heart and communicate with each other honestly.
"But I want to break up with you."
Qiao Ruoying suppressed the trembling of her chin, fearing that she would burst into tears if she said one more word.
She could only use all her strength to search for the resolute hatred in her heart, hating them for hurting her family like this.
Hatred turned into a dark cloud in her heart, and then into a fishbone stuck in her throat, making her feel like it was stuck in her throat.
"Why? Why do you want to break up with me? I can - I can change all the bad things you said."
Jiang Zong fell silent. This time, he truly felt that Qiao Ruoying was moving away from him, like a handful of quicksand in his hand. The more he tried to hold on tightly, the less he could hold on, and he could only let it slip through his fingers.
"Is it because we started so informally? Because I didn't give you flowers? I'm sorry, Yingying, I can make it more formal. I'll give you flowers right now."
Jiang Zongye said this as he was about to take out the cell phone from his suit pocket, his fingers were shaking.
He wanted to call Li Zheng and ask him to order flowers. Order a beautiful bouquet of flowers for Qiao Ruoying.
“…”
Qiao Ruoying just shook her head.
No matter how many flowers he sends, it's useless.
Jiang Zong also thought about it for a moment and grasped the key point. He almost wanted to walk up to her, hold her shoulders and shake them.
"So, is it your mother who wants us to break up? Why does she want us to break up? What are my bad qualities? I can change them."
He almost groveled when he said the last sentence.
He had never begged anyone like this in his life.
"No, I wanted to break up with you anyway," Qiao Ruoying said. Even if the investigation hadn't happened so opportunely, she would have broken up with him sooner or later.
Whether it was the failure of Mina, Qiao Ruoqi or Lily's love, it seemed as if they were telling her nakedly: Look, people from two different worlds are destined not to go far.
"..." He was a little bit unbelievable after hearing what she said.
He always thought that the friction between them was just a minor one, how could it possibly lead to a breakup?
There was a problem in his relationship with Qiao Ruoying. He wanted to fix it and make it work again. But Qiao Ruoying just wanted to get rid of it.
"Don't joke, there's no way we're breaking up." He said firmly.
"I don't want to talk to you anymore, okay?"
As if she could no longer bear it, Qiao Ruoying raised her voice. Her usually sweet and gentle voice had a slightly imperceptible hoarseness and sadness, as well as a hint of aggressiveness.
The tears in her eyes seemed to be unable to be held back any longer and fell like a spring. Her eyes felt so sore and painful.
But no matter how sore or painful it is, it can't compare to the pain in my heart.
All that was beautiful in the past had to have such a tainted ending.
Seeing that Jiang Zong was about to say something to stop her, Qiao Ruoying sniffed and shot out those words like bullets, letting the shells explode in the middle of them, blowing both of them all over.
"You're right, I just don't like you that much, and I don't want to marry you."
"I just always treated you as my boss. Everything I said was just to deal with you and make you happy."
"We shouldn't be in love."
"Since you didn't send me flowers, let's just pretend our relationship never started and we've always been friends with benefits."
"Let's end this friendship now."
Every word she spoke was like a thorn growing out of her chest. When he was about to come over and hug her, this thorn would pierce deep into their hearts, leaving them bloody and mangled.
This was equivalent to her denying their entire past.
He denied that they had ever put plum branches in a vase together, and discussed whether to use a bronze vase or a pastel porcelain vase. He denied that they had ever watched snow together, and denied the happiness they had when they were together.
She sniffed and smiled, tears glistening in her eyes, but she still looked at him stubbornly and expressed her true thoughts:
"I really regret it. If I could do it again, no matter how much money you gave me, I would never mess with you."
She was telling the truth.
If she knew that dating Jiang Zongye would cause such a great blow to her mother and sister, she would rather not date him and would rather miss him.
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The author has something to say: Oh, that final tirade is so heartbreaking. [Helpless][Helpless] Xiaoying is truly hurt, and her words are so hurtful. [Please][Please] Guys, don't be so harsh on Xiaoying. This is all Lao Jiang's family's fault. Let Lao Jiang sort out his family affairs first.
Now it seems that Mrs. Chiang is very good at breaking up the couple. I will spend some time writing about her perspective later to let everyone understand her thoughts.
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