Chapter 1278: Cheated Many People
Tonight, there were two more people at the dinner table, He Tian and Zhou Yi. Jiang Yun sat next to Li Jinxing and ate in silence. No one spoke at the table, and the four of them each had their own thoughts.
When it was time to go to bed at night, He Tian and Zhou Yi didn't need to do it themselves. Li Jinxing took the restraint belt on his own initiative. It was the one that Gu Wanqiu had used before and had kept there. It was just right to use to tie him up.
"It must be very uncomfortable to sleep tied like this all night," He Tian said worriedly, but his hand quickly took the rope, looking a little impatient.
"But sleeping tied up is better than sleepwalking outside and digging a hole." As he spoke, he directed Zhou Yi to come over to help. Together, they tied Li Jinxing to the bed. "You should have tied yourself up like this a long time ago. Look at what you've done to yourself these past seven days."
Li Jinxing didn't say anything. He moved his body and tried to get up, but the restraints were very strong and he couldn't break free.
Being tied to the bed like this was not comfortable. Although he slept peacefully, he could not maintain the same position all night long. His muscles and bones could not bear it.
He suddenly recalled that when Gu Wanqiu was sick, she also wore a restraint belt to prevent her from hurting herself.
Only by experiencing it yourself can you know how uncomfortable it is.
Such a soft rope is uncomfortable when it is tied around the body, and Gu Wanqiu, who had her neck and feet tied with iron chains, would only feel more pain than now.
Thinking of Gu Wanqiu...
He would think of her face almost every day, her proud and complacent face before she had plastic surgery, like a little swan.
There are also those who are terrified after her plastic surgery, like a butterfly trapped in a spider web.
The image that lingered most in Li Jinxing's mind was indeed the dream he had on September 30th.
The Gu Wanqiu in the dream looked the weakest he had ever seen. She seemed to have suffered a serious illness. She was even thinner than when she was here. She even had difficulty breathing. Her eyes were dull and she was spitting bright red blood from her mouth. He felt a heart-wrenching pain just looking at her.
Li Jinxing was slightly distracted when he thought about this, until He Tian beside him called him.
"Boss, let's stay here and watch over you."
"No."
"But it's very inconvenient for you. What if you wake up in the middle of the night and need to go to the bathroom, and there's no one to untie you?"
"With Jiang Yun here, nothing will happen."
"..." He Tian glanced at Jiang Yun beside him, "You actually chose her instead of us..."
Zhou Yi grabbed him and said, "Forget it, let Miss Jiang help. She has lived here for more than a day or two, and the boss is used to it. Let's not stay here and worry about her."
He Tian wanted to say something, but was pulled out by Zhou Yi. When he reached the door and closed it, he told Jiang Yun to take good care of Li Jinxing.
Jiang Yun naturally nodded in agreement.
As soon as the door closed, Zhou Yi let go of his hand.
"Why did you bring me out here? I haven't finished what I was saying... I'm worried about Jiang Yun."
"What's there to worry about with a woman? The boss is interested in a woman now, you should be happy. This proves that he will soon forget Gu Wanqiu."
"But I hate her, even more than I hate Gu Wanqiu." He Tian frowned and spoke with impatience.
Zhou Yi stared at him with amusement: "Why? Jiang Yun shouldn't have done anything, at least she didn't hurt the boss like Gu Wanqiu did. She also seems to be quite nice to the boss. What are you dissatisfied with?"
"She gives me the feeling of a fake person. Her face is fake, and her personality is fake. Anyway, I don't feel comfortable leaving her with the boss. Now that the boss can't move, what if she..."
He Tian was halfway through his words when Zhou Yi raised his hand and knocked on his head: "Alright, stop thinking about it. Here, she doesn't dare to do anything to hurt the boss. I know what you are worried about, but you think the boss doesn't think about anything. You underestimate him too much. The boss thinks more than us."
"What's the meaning?"
Zhou Yi's eyes were deep: "Play the long game and catch the big fish."
"You mean..." He Tian looked surprised and his eyes widened.
Zhou Yi put his index finger to his lips, signaling him not to make any noise.
A person who looks like Gu Wanqiu has appeared next to Li Jinxing many times by coincidence. It is impossible to say that she has no ulterior motives.
Most women wouldn't dare to do this, so it's very likely that she was sent by someone.
Li Jinxing has many enemies, and many of them want him dead... So, is he trying to lure out the person behind Jiang Yun?
A good hunter often appears as prey.
It is too dangerous for Li Jinxing to do this. What if he loses control and gets injured?
But this also proves the logic of all this. Li Jinxing originally wanted to use Jiang Yun to save face in front of Gu Wanqiu, or he also wanted to use her to temporarily replace Gu Wanqiu. But he forgot that Li Jinxing himself was a suspicious person. How could he let down his guard against Jiang Yun who suddenly appeared?
No wonder, after Gu Wanqiu left, he frequently took her to various events to show her up, for the purpose of showing off to outsiders.
Li Jinxing had deceived him.
He Tian stopped talking.
"Do you understand?"
"I understand." He Tian nodded. "But I'm still a little worried. I'm afraid the boss will get caught up in it. What if he even deceives himself... then what should I do?"
"You mean the fake becomes real?" Zhou Yi chuckled. "Then you underestimate the boss too much. If he could really be replaced that easily, he would have been replaced ten years ago. Don't worry, the main concern now is his sleepwalking. If it doesn't get better, it will consume a lot of his energy and he won't have the energy to fight these foreign enemies."
"It seems that we have something to be busy these days."
"Be careful."
Jiang Yun lay quietly on the sofa, glancing towards the bed from time to time.
The room was so quiet that you could hear even the slightest movement.
Jiang Yun didn't sleep well last night and started feeling sleepy early today. She knelt on the sofa, supporting herself with her hands on the back of the chair and looking at the bed. Li Jinxing had already closed his eyes and she didn't know whether he was asleep or not.
Li Jinxing, who was thought to have fallen asleep, suddenly said, "Jiang Yun, are you asleep?"
Jiang Yun was stunned: "Not yet, what's wrong?"
"I have sleeping pills in the drawer of my bedside table. Feed me two."
"Okay." Jiang Yun quickly got up, opened the drawer and found the sleeping pills. Looking at Li Jinxing who was tied up with restraints, she took a look and wanted to untie them.
"No need to untie it, just feed me the water."
Usually, Li Jinxing also has the habit of taking sleeping pills, but he didn't take them today. He couldn't fall asleep no matter how hard he lay in bed. A big reason for this was that he was tied up with restraints and felt unwell.
Jiang Yun fed Li Jinxing some sleeping pills and then returned to the sofa.
As I closed my eyes, I couldn't help but wonder what Mr. Liu wanted that painting for. Also, was he asking her to stay with Li Jinxing to seduce him and make him fall in love with her? Or was he keeping her so he could continue to steal secrets?
It’s not that easy to steal secrets. She doesn’t even know where they are.
Thinking about this, Jiang Yun felt a headache and fell asleep in a daze. She slept until dawn, until Li Jinxing called her from the bed.
She quickly got up and untied the restraints for Li Jinxing. With the restraints on, Li Jinxing naturally wouldn't sleepwalk. He took a look at the place where the restraints were on and saw some red marks.
He woke up in the middle of the night last night and felt unwell, but it was better than sleepwalking.
It seems that I have to use this method tonight. A few days passed in a flash.
Jiang Yun accompanied Li Jinxing out almost every day and also went to the Li Group. Everyone in the company knew her and called her Miss Jiang when they met her. Their attitude was very respectful, as if they had already treated her as the chairman's wife.
If it weren't for those past events, she would be able to enjoy all this with peace of mind.
She enjoys the feeling of being praised to the sky and likes the envious looks from those around her.
It would be fine if she was a little stupid, but she was too clear-headed and knew that no matter how good the things in front of her were, they were fake. Li Jinxing would not like her, and even if he did, he would not let her go. The happiness in her hands could be taken away easily.
She couldn't help but think that Li Jinxing could still use her to resist the resentment of not being able to get Gu Wanqiu.
But if he knew... Gu Wanqiu was already dead... would he still have this falsely nice attitude towards her?
…
The email showed that the painting she sent had been signed for.
…
The beginning of winter is Jiang Yun’s birthday.
Winter begins a few days after the 31st day of the ninth lunar month. There are no customs for the beginning of winter, unlike the winter solstice when some places have mutton soup and dumplings.
The onset of winter is just a transition of seasons, from late autumn to early winter.
But on this day, Jiang Yun was going to eat dumplings. No matter how busy she was, she would make a bowl of dumplings by herself.
Because today is her birthday, it is a habit she left behind when her grandmother was still alive.
Jiang Yun was raised by his grandmother since he was a child. His family was poor and they rarely ate meat, let alone cakes. Every winter, his grandmother would make dumplings. One of the dumplings was filled with sugar, which represented blessing. Whoever could eat this sugar dumpling would be blessed with good fortune throughout the year.
Every year, Jiang Yun is lucky enough to eat sugar dumplings, and her grandmother even says she is a lucky star.
It wasn't until he grew up that Jiang Yun discovered this.
It wasn't that she was lucky enough to eat the blessed sugar dumplings, but that her grandmother marked the dumplings and secretly put them in her bowl.
She wanted her little grandson to enjoy eating dumplings on his birthday, and she also hoped that she would be blessed year after year.
Before her grandmother fell ill, Jiang Yun felt that she was really lucky to have a grandmother who loved her. Although the family was poor, her grandmother never treated her badly in terms of food, clothing and other expenses. She really thought that she was blessed by eating the sugar dumplings.
When I was eighteen, my grandmother fell ill and was admitted to the hospital. It was winter, but this time no one made dumplings for her.
She made dumplings by herself, and again filled one of them with sugar. This time, she secretly scooped the sugar dumpling into her grandmother's bowl, hoping that she would get some blessings and recover soon.
Grandma, who had taken too many medicines, didn’t notice the sweetness of the dumplings at first bite, and it was Jiang Yun who reminded her.
Grandma smiled cheerfully, her face wrinkled. "This year I ate the lucky dumplings that my little Fubao made for me. It seems that I will have good luck and be blessed this year."
Unfortunately, good fortune did not favor her. Facts have proven that eating sugar dumplings does not bring good fortune to people...
My grandmother's illness became more and more serious. In order to raise the exorbitant surgery fee, she embarked on a path of no return and sacrificed her own body.
She chose to be kept by someone and use her body to collect money. If the money was thrown on the ground, she would crawl on her knees to pick it up.
Misfortune favors the unfortunate, and a hemp rope tends to break at the thinnest part. Jiang Yun accepted her fate, but... her grandmother still died.
When she finally managed to scrape together the money for the surgery and was on her way to the hospital, the hospital called her and told her that her grandmother had died.
She didn't even get to see her grandmother for the last time.
But in fact, her grandmother called her last night and said she wanted to see her. What was she doing at that time? She was lying in the man's bed.
It’s just one night left, just a few hours, but grandma is gone... Why can’t we wait for her?
It was a long-ago memory. Now when Jiang Yun recalled it, his heart ached suddenly and his hands turned cold.
Is there anything more despairing than putting in all your efforts and getting nothing in the end?
Jiang Yun doesn't like her biological mother because she never raised her for a single day.
She got pregnant before marriage, and because she had no money to raise the child, she was left to be raised by the elderly in the family.
It’s good to be able to come back once a year.
Grandma scolded her mother for being useless, but in her heart she always hoped that her mother would come back, and told her not to resent her mother.
Grandma often took out the old photo album, showed it to her, and said, "This is your mother, don't forget her."
After her grandmother died, she became independent and worked hard in the dirty world alone. She wanted to put on clothes and be clean again, but could a shrimp living in mud and sand survive after being thrown into clean sea water?
Her mother was caught and her life was threatened.
Jiang Yun didn't have much affection for her mother, and she didn't want to care about her, but that person was her grandmother's daughter, the daughter her grandmother longed to see return home until her death.
She was raised by her grandmother, but before she could repay her grandmother, her grandmother died... She had no choice but to accept the threats. To be honest, it was all her fault.
Jiang Yun was reminiscing about the past while making dumplings. Before she knew it, she had made thirty dumplings. The dumplings she made were of various kinds. The lucky dumplings with sugar were in the shape of gold ingots.
The servants refused to help her, and at night, she asked the chef not to cook her dinner.
At six o'clock, when Li Jinxing came back, Jiang Yunhao was wearing an apron with some flour on it.
"How about eating dumplings tonight?" Jiang Yun looked at Li Jinxing anxiously.
Li Jinxing paused, glanced at her apron, and said "hmm" as his answer.
Jiang Yun breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously, and felt a little happy. You know, ever since her grandmother passed away, she had been making and eating dumplings alone on this day every year, with no one to celebrate her birthday with her.
After she became an actress, she gained more fans, and more and more people would celebrate her birthday online, but not on this day.
It has been sixteen years... Jiang Yun steamed the dumplings, put them into bowls, and gave the only dumpling that represented good fortune to Li Jinxing.
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