Chapter 123 She won't reopen Huo Zhizhou's wounds
Thinking this way, he did just that.
His gaze fell directly on Jiang Ruan, meeting her eyes, and he said slowly, "Knowing that I have ulterior motives, you still chose to talk to me frankly. Can I interpret this as you also wanting to use this matter to deal with Huo Zhizhou?"
Jiang Ruan: "Yes."
Huo Sinian was somewhat surprised.
I didn't expect her to be so blunt.
I've met all sorts of people in this circle, including some who are even more innocent and straightforward than Jiang Ruan.
But to maintain this mindset after five whole years by Huo Zhizhou's side, it's either because she herself is strong enough and hasn't been corrupted by worldly affairs, or because Huo Zhizhou has protected her extremely well. Either way, it makes people look at her differently.
"I did save you for a reason," Huo Sinian confessed. "I wanted to use you to unsettle Huo Zhizhou and achieve my own goals."
Jiang Ruan: "?"
Jiang Ruan frowned slightly.
Huo Sinian crossed his arms on the blanket covering him: "You don't believe me?"
“You’re a businessman.” Jiang Ruan didn’t believe him at all and told him the reason, “A businessman’s greatest skill is weighing the pros and cons. You risked your life just to disturb Huo Zhizhou’s mind?”
She wouldn't do something like that.
Moreover, Huo Sinian is Huo Zhizhou's rival.
How stupid could that be?
“There’s a mechanism I had installed in advance on the chandelier,” Huo Sinian said slowly. “I’m sure I’ll only suffer minor injuries.”
"But so much blood was lost?" Jiang Ruan saw it with her own eyes; the blood wasn't from blood packs, it was real blood.
"If I didn't bleed so much, how could I make you believe I was really saving you?" Huo Sinian considered for a moment and then told you everything. "If I didn't make you believe me, how could I create a rift between you and Zhizhou?"
Jiang Ruan became more and more confused as she listened.
Was Huo Sinian's scheme too sophisticated for her to understand, or had he simply complicated a simple matter?
"Still don't understand?" Huo Sinian noticed her expression.
Jiang Ruan shook her head.
It's really hard to understand.
“Even if you suspect I had ulterior motives for saving you, without concrete evidence, you’ll only see me as your savior,” Huo Sinian said. “As time goes by, your suspicions about me will gradually disappear as I show concern for both of you.”
Jiang Ruan raised her eyes.
Just as he was about to retort, Huo Sinian continued, "As for Zhizhou, he's convinced I was behind this, and he'll definitely try to persuade you to stay away from me. You, on the other hand, spoke up for me because I saved you, and even unintentionally said some things that provoked him..."
“You’re wrong,” Jiang Ruan interrupted him.
She knew what he was going to say without even hearing what he was going to say next.
Huo Sinian raised his eyes slightly: "Wrong?"
"Do you think that in this situation, Huo Zhizhou feels that I don't trust him, that I'm being unreasonable, and that he's lost his basic humanity in the face of interests and power?" Jiang Ruan said very calmly, "and thus an emotional crisis erupted."
Huo Sinian's thin lips were pressed together.
Isn't that so?
But he didn't say it aloud; Jiang Ran's expression clearly showed that there was a problem with his plan.
“You were wrong from the very first word you said.” Jiang Ruan never expected her resourceful older brother to have devised such a terrible scheme. “No matter how much time passes, my suspicions about you will never disappear.”
"Why?" Huo Sinian asked, puzzled.
He saved her, and in the few times he met her, he didn't show any ulterior motives or calculations. He always acted as an older brother, thinking of them as if they were his own brother. There was no reason for her to be suspicious.
Jiang Ruan put it bluntly: "Huo Zhizhou said you can't be trusted."
Huo Sinian: "Is that all?"
Jiang Ruan: "That's all."
Huo Sinian tried to see any signs of lying on her face, but everything about her seemed too real, which made him more suspicious: "He's openly with someone else, and you still believe him?"
"Whether he believes you or not has no causal relationship with whether he's with someone else or not," Jiang Ruan said simply.
"So you're just joking about divorcing him?" Huo Sinian asked.
Jiang Ruan: "No."
Huo Sinian: "?"
This was the first time Huo Sinian had ever been so confused about something. He thought he had some understanding of relationships, but everything Jiang Ruan said today overturned his previous knowledge.
“I will cooperate with your plan and continue to act.” Jiang Ruan said the rest before he could figure it out, “but I can’t guarantee that I will achieve your goal. I’m not sure if Huo Zhizhou will see through my cooperation with you.”
Between them.
Each gets what they need.
Huo Sinian paused for a moment, then realized what she meant by her words and asked, "Why?"
"Because I want a divorce." Jiang Ruan wasn't afraid for him to know this. "By not trusting him, I can make him disappointed in me, and thus facilitate the divorce."
These words were overheard by the three people on Huo Zhizhou's side.
Gu Shixi wanted to escape countless times.
This melon is so easy to cause diarrhea!
"Tsk tsk tsk." Si Ning sighed, resting her chin on her hand. "You'd rather play the villain than be with you. Looks like you're a terrible husband."
Gu Shixi gave her a wink.
Can you please stop making sarcastic remarks?
He was almost frozen to death by the air conditioning!
Huo Zhizhou pursed his lips and remained silent, his dark eyes fixed on the computer screen, a deep, suppressed calm beneath.
Just then, Huo Sinian's voice came from the computer again. He looked at Jiang Ruan and pointed her in another direction: "If you want him to be disappointed in you, you can start with his childhood. It will be much easier than this path."
"I still want to be a human being." Jiang Ruan said this and prepared to leave.
She can deal with Huo Zhizhou in any way she wants.
But in any way, it should absolutely not involve reopening his old wounds.
Huo Sinian called out to her, "Wait a minute."
Jiang Ruan paused, glancing sideways at the scene.
Huo Sinian had never met someone like Jiang Ruan who was so clear about love and hate, so much so that he was quite curious about some questions: "You don't believe me, is it really just because Huo Zhizhou said I'm untrustworthy?"
"That's the main reason." Jiang Ruan knew she couldn't outmaneuver those cunning and calculating people in the industry, so throughout their marriage she had always trusted Huo Zhizhou, because he was the person closest to her.
Others might harm her, but he wouldn't in these matters.
Huo Sinian pressed further: "What about the secondary reasons?"
Jiang Ruan's gaze fell on him.
Huo Sinian looked at her with a puzzled expression and raised his hand to push up his silver-rimmed glasses.
“You don’t treat Huo Zhizhou like a younger brother.” Jiang Ruan saw through these things. “The way you look at him is all you’re doing: you’re determined to take him down completely.”
"Zhizhou is very lucky to have met you." Huo Sinian did not refute, and his usual calmness returned to his refined and gentle face.
Jiang Ruan didn't answer, but said to him as she left, "You can just say what your plans are. There's no need to go through all this trouble to do something wrong."
After saying that, he left without waiting for Huo Sinian's reaction.
Watching her figure recede into the distance, a hint of coldness appeared on Huo Sinian's gentle face, and his eyes surged with a deep and complex emotion he hadn't felt in a long time.
Huo Zhizhou has such trust in Jiang Ruan.
What about him?
That person never believed him.
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