Chapter 69 It started, it started
Chapter Sixty-Nine: The Fight Begins
Wang Xi had been unable to contact Shen Tang for almost half a month. At first, when she went to visit the Duke's mansion, the gatekeeper told her that the Crown Princess was busy and it was inconvenient.
At first, she didn't pay attention, thinking that Shen Tang was really busy. But after she didn't get a reply to the letters she wrote to him, and was turned away by the doorman several times with the excuse that he was busy, she finally began to realize that something was wrong.
Previously, even when Shen Tang was very busy, he would reply to her letters, instead of remaining silent like this now.
Considering He Jinzhou's sudden engagement and Shen Tang's previous statement that she had been held captive by Meng Huaiyan, this is quite surprising.
Wang Xi's heart clenched instantly.
However, she couldn't find out any news about Shen Tang. The Duke's mansion was heavily guarded, and her martial arts skills were at most only enough for ordinary self-defense. It was simply impossible for her to break into the Duke's mansion alone.
Wang Xi was so anxious that she was like an ant on a hot pan, and she didn't even have an appetite.
Upon seeing this, Jiang Congyu quickly asked her what had happened.
Wang Xi didn't want to tell him, after all, he and Meng Huaiyan were good brothers, practically inseparable, and she didn't want to expect him to help her.
But now she really had no other choice, and after hesitating for a moment, she told him anyway.
Jiang Congyu breathed a sigh of relief. He had thought something terrible had happened to make her so anxious, and he was worried sick.
I didn't expect that he was in such a hurry just because he couldn't find out where Shen Tang was. It's so simple, he just needs to go to the Duke's mansion.
Jiang Congyu knew that Wang Xi was anxious, so he didn't linger and hurried towards the Duke's mansion.
The gatekeeper didn't stop Jiang Congyu, and when he learned that he was there to see the young master, he let him in directly.
Meng Huaiyan was somewhat surprised to see him. Since Jiang Congyu got married, he had become much more settled and spent all his time with Wang Xi.
They hadn't seen each other since their last wedding.
Now he suddenly appeared, as if he had no reason to come. Meng Huaiyan glanced at him and asked, "What do you want?"
"It's nothing, just asking about Shen Tang's situation."
Meng Huaiyan's face suddenly darkened, and his gaze towards Jiang Congyu was as cold as a knife: "Why would you suddenly care about Shen Tang?"
Jiang Congyu shuddered at Meng Huaiyan's icy gaze. He knew that Meng Huaiyan was a bit crazy and neurotic about Shen Tang, but he never expected that he would be treated as a potential enemy just for asking a question.
"Jealous men are the most terrifying," Jiang Congyu said hastily, not wanting to suffer any undeserved trouble.
"Can you not be so sensitive? Although Shen Tang is beautiful, there's no need to be so wary of me too. I have a wife."
Meng Huaiyan didn't say anything, just stared at him coldly.
Jiang Congyu was truly afraid of his behavior and quickly raised his hand to beg for mercy: "Wang Xi asked me to ask. She hasn't been able to contact Shen Tang for a long time and is a little worried."
"So what's the situation with Shen Tang?"
Meng Huaiyan looked away, not answering his question directly, but only saying, "Let Wang Xi take care of herself and mind her own business."
Hearing that he was so rude to Wang Xi, Jiang Congyu was a little unhappy: "Don't go too far. Wang Xi and Shen Tang are good sisters. It's not wrong for good sisters to care about each other."
"Besides, she was just asking what you were worried about."
Meng Huaiyan, however, kept his head down, busy with official business, and did not answer.
Seeing his expression, Jiang Congyu scratched his head in frustration. He had thought that asking about Shen Tang's situation today would go smoothly, but he hadn't expected that Meng Huaiyan would even be wary of him, leaving him with a closed door.
But when he thought of Wang Xi's anxious and agitated appearance, he realized that if he couldn't even handle this simple matter and just went back like this, who knows what she might do to him.
Undeterred, Jiang Congyu asked again, but this time Meng Huaiyan didn't even glance at him.
"......"
Jiang Congyu sighed helplessly, found a chair and sat down by himself. He was going to waste the day here and wouldn't go back until he found out the truth.
Meng Huaiyan glanced at him coldly, ignoring him but not saying anything to send him away.
Qingyang quickly brewed a pot of tea and brought it in. Jiang Congyu drank the tea while secretly observing Meng Huaiyan, trying to find some clues from his cold face.
Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind, and he remembered the time he imprisoned He Jinzhou and forced Shen Tang to break off her engagement and marry him.
This time, He Jinzhou suddenly got engaged again, and then Shen Tang disappeared without a trace. When these things were connected, based on what he knew about Meng Huaiyan's nature,
A terrifying thought suddenly flashed through Jiang Congyu's mind...
He suddenly stood up, looking at him in disbelief, and tentatively asked, "You...you didn't lock Shen Tang up, did you?"
Meng Huaiyan paused in his writing, then continued with his official duties as if he hadn't heard the question.
Jiang Congyu understood everything now; he had actually locked Shen Tang up!
He rushed to Meng Huaiyan in a panic, looking at him with disapproval: "How could you do this?!"
"Shen Tang is your wife, not your prisoner. Your actions will only push her further away!"
Meng Huaiyan put down his pen, looked at him with an inscrutable expression for a while, and then sneered: "It's none of your business how I conduct myself."
Jiang Congyu grew up with Meng Huaiyan and knew that he was somewhat obsessive and crazy at heart, but he never expected that he would go so crazy now.
Jiang Congyu took a deep breath: "There's a limit to your madness. Shen Tang is a living, breathing person, not some object. You're keeping her locked up like this, preventing her from contacting the outside world."
"How are you any different from those beasts?"
"Me, a beast? Do you think you're some kind of saint? What are you doing here pretending to be a good person?"
Meng Huaiyan looked at him with a sinister gaze: "Wang Xi was originally engaged to Zeng Pei. The two of them grew up together and were childhood sweethearts."
"Didn't your Jiang family use all sorts of means to coerce and threaten her into breaking off the engagement and marrying you? Now you come to me talking about respect. Don't you think you're ridiculous?"
When Jiang Congyu heard him mention Zeng Pei, his fists clenched unconsciously.
At first, he thought that Zeng Pei was just a son-in-law who wanted the Wang family's wealth and status, and that he was an insignificant person. He didn't take him seriously at all.
Later I learned that the two of them had grown up together since childhood, were childhood sweethearts, and had a very deep relationship.
Once he learned about this relationship, whenever he saw Zeng Pei's ambiguous gaze towards Wang Xi, it felt like a thorn was stuck in his heart, causing him great distress whenever he thought about it.
Not to mention that Wang Xi always spoke coldly to him, but was very kind to Zeng Pei.
This differential treatment made him even more resentful of Zeng Pei.
He had been mindful of Wang Xi's pregnancy and had been holding back, but now that Meng Huaiyan had exposed it to the public, Jiang Congyu's face instantly turned ugly.
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