Chapter 49 Chapter 49 How Good
Ever since she discovered that Ruan Fu was cheating on her, Ruan Xiangyi ran to Ruan's house whenever she had time. Lin Manshu always thought that she had quarreled with Zhao Qingshi and was worried for a long time. This time, when Zhao Qingshi came back with her, she finally put her worries to rest.
Ruan Lingyu had rolled her eyes when she saw Ruan Xiangyi walk into the house, but when Zhao Qingshi walked in right after her, she immediately changed her tone to something sweet: "Brother Qingshi, you're here."
Lin Manshu was unhappy to expose her behavior and said in a accusatory tone: "Be careful, he is your brother-in-law."
Ruan Lingyu looked at her in disbelief. She couldn't believe that Lin Manshu dared to speak to her like that.
She stood there in a daze, watching them talking and laughing.
Ruan Xiangyi brought a gift this time. Lin Manshu handed it to her aunt and pulled her to sit down, smiling from ear to ear. "Your Uncle Ruan has been busy lately and may be back late. We can eat first and don't have to wait for him."
"Is Uncle Ruan's company very busy recently?" Ruan Xiangyi asked after taking a sip of water.
"I guess so."
Zhao Qingshi sat aside, feeling a little uncomfortable. She didn't know when to find an opportunity to talk about that matter. Although she had an average relationship with Ruan Fu, he was her stepfather after all. How could she accept it?
Before leaving that day, he specifically told Gu Suyan to keep his mouth shut and not tell anyone else. He then asked a private detective to investigate Ruan Fu and discovered that the woman was actually Ruan Shuyu's biological mother.
Is Ruan Fu planning to kick Lin Manshu out?
Zhao Qingshi was actually used to things like this, but it just happened to his mother-in-law.
"Mom, how is your beauty salon going?" Zhao Qingshi interrupted and asked.
"It's great." Lin Manshu said with a smile, "Thanks to you for running around, otherwise I really don't know what to do. I didn't realize that opening a beauty salon is so troublesome before, but now I finally understand."
Ruan Lingyu went upstairs and the three of them were alone in the living room. Ruan Xiangyi took off her scarf and put it aside. She said casually, "Mom, did Uncle Ruan say when he would be back?"
"It's okay, we don't have to wait for him."
"I have something I want to talk to him about."
She never took the initiative to look for Ruan Fu, which made Lin Manshu wonder: "Why are you looking for him?"
"I want to do a special news report about entrepreneurs, and I want to ask Uncle Ruan if he has time." Ruan Xiangyi blinked her eyelashes.
Zhao Qingshi took a sip of water. He knew Xiangyi was lying. When she lied, she would lower her eyes and blink her eyelashes.
"Of course I support my daughter's career," Lin Manshu said without a doubt. "I'll call him later and ask him to come back early for dinner today."
Lin Manshu's words to her were full of pride. Ruan Xiangyi could feel that her marriage had given Lin Manshu complete confidence. She would never have spoken to Ruan Lingyu in that tone before.
"I want to talk to you, too." Ruan Xiangyi hadn't planned to come in vain this time; she planned to tell Lin Manshu the truth. The choice she made was her own.
Ruan Xiangyi wanted to talk to Lin Manshu alone.
"So mysterious?"
"Um."
When Ruan Xiangyi looked at Zhao Qing, she heard him say, "I'll wait for you in your room."
"I don't want to talk to your stepsister." He was annoyed.
The first time Ruan Xiangyi took him to open the door of her room, the furnishings in the room had not changed much. After she moved out, Lin Manshu would ask her aunt to clean the room at least once a week.
Clean enough to rest right away.
Her room was simple, consisting of a desk, wardrobe, bed, and a separate bathroom. It was cramped, not as spacious as the master bedroom at Xiangshan No. 1. Zhao Qingshi sat on her bed, suddenly taking up a third of it, and looked past her to the bookcase behind her.
There was a picture of her on it.
She looked even more shy than she does now, with rounder cheeks, crescent-shaped eyes, and a ponytail. She looked pure and cute.
That was a side he had never seen.
After Ruan Xiangyi left, Zhao Qingshi picked up the photo and looked at it carefully, calculating the time and wondering what he was doing when she was in high school.
He should have been abroad at that time...
But he was quite a mess at that time.
The door of the room was open, and Ruan Lingyu walked in. Zhao Qingshi thought it was Ruan Xiangyi, so he turned around, and the moment he saw the person, his smile gradually disappeared.
"Brother Qingshi, Ruan Xiangyi won't like you." Ruan Lingyu said when she saw the photo in his hand, "Don't waste your energy on her."
Zhao Qingshi put down the photo, glanced at her coldly, picked up a book at random, and said nothing.
"Have you read the letter I sent you last time?" Ruan Lingyu stepped forward. "She's a very loyal person. She's loved Chen Huaimeng for so many years. Do you think she'll fall in love with you so easily? She's only with you because she wants you to give her a better life. She's not sincere. My family has taken her in for so many years. Do you think she even cares about me, her sister?"
After a few seconds, Zhao Qingshi slammed the book in his hand shut, and said in a calm tone, "I guessed it was you."
To Ruan Lingyu, it sounded like a compliment and she smiled with pride.
"I can't think of anyone else who would enter the room and look through other people's things without permission, except you."
"I just came in to take a look and saw it accidentally." Her smile froze as she argued.
"Then how did those letters end up in my hands?" Zhao Qingshi sneered and questioned, "Did your brain not develop well when you were little? You think you can destroy other people's families with such despicable methods. You are so stupid, do you think everyone in the world is the same as you?"
Ruan Lingyu was ashamed and angry, gritting her teeth and saying, "Zhao Qingshi, I'm telling you the truth out of kindness, why are you saying this to me?"
Zhao Qingshi raised his eyes. The man in front of him was simply ridiculous. "Do I need you to meddle in my business? Who do you think you are?"
"You! You!" Ruan Lingyu was almost scolded by him and cried. She said the word "you" several times but couldn't utter the next sentence. She rushed out of the room wiping her tears.
The door slammed shut, and with the annoying person gone, Zhao Qingshi calmly continued to tour her room. He saw a yellowed sticky note stuck in her book, which contained her biggest dream from her senior year of high school.
——Admitted to Yitong University.
These words were written with great force, and the strokes even penetrated the paper. One could imagine the determination she had at that time.
After the visit, I put the book aside, sat on the bed and began to think about what opportunity I could find to tell her about that.
After a while, the door was pushed open again, and this time it was Ruan Xiangyi who came in. Zhao Qingshi raised his eyelids slightly, and his anger subsided by half: "Are you done talking?"
Ruan Xiangyi nodded: "Yeah."
She sat down: "Did Ruan Lingyu come here just now?"
"Um?"
"I smell her perfume."
Seeing her wrinkled nose, Zhao Qingshi asked, "Aren't you happy that she's close to me?"
Ruan Xiangyi revealed this feeling to him for the first time, "It's a bit uncomfortable. Every time she looks at you, her eyes tell you that she wants to possess you."
“…”
She rarely said such things. Was this considered jealousy? Thinking of this, Zhao Qingshi was very happy.
"Don't worry." Zhao Qingshi held her hand and placed it on his chest. "I can only be possessed by you."
Ruan Xiangyi pulled her hand back, then realized what she had said and felt embarrassed.
Zhao Qingshi laughed and changed the subject, pointing to the photo frame behind her: "When was that photo taken?"
Ruan Xiangyi looked over, at the picture of herself in school uniform. Her face flushed, and she walked over to block his view: "Why are you still looking at other people's photos?"
Zhao Qingshi: “?”
"Xiangyi, you're being unreasonable, but it's right there, and it's hard for me not to notice it."
Ruan Xiangyi refused to listen and hid the photo.
Zhao Qingshi said lazily and deliberately, "Then you have to hide it well. It would be bad if something else was revealed. Like a love letter or something like that."
Hearing this, Ruan Xiangyi's hands trembled.
I feel a little uneasy.
Did he see something?
Looking at her eyes, he knew what she was thinking.
Are you kidding me?
"Xiangyi, don't look at me like that. Even if you hid a love letter, I wouldn't go through your things."
Ruan Xiangyi also believed that he would not rummage through other people's things. Thinking of burning all those things when she came back another day, she stood up calmly and said, "A good student like me would not have things like love letters."
Hearing this, Zhao Qingshi curled his lips imperceptibly. He grabbed her waist and sat her on his lap: "Good student? How good is that?"
"This is at Ruan's house. Be careful or my mom will see us later."
"Mom always hopes that our relationship is sweet, so she won't come to disturb us at this time."
She was not convinced: "Study hard and you're not good. My grades when I was in school never worried my mother."
"We are so compatible." He praised.
Hearing the praise coming out of his mouth, my scalp felt tingling.
At this time, a quarrel was heard downstairs.
Ruan Lingyu's voice, and the other woman's voice, sounded familiar. When Ruan Xiangyi walked downstairs and saw the person sitting opposite Ruan Lingyu, not only was the voice familiar, but the face was familiar too.
That person was Ruan Fu’s cheating partner.
"I just want to see Shuyu. I don't have any other intentions." Su Shunyi begged, "Lingyu, can you just let me see Shuyu?"
"Aunt Su, while I can still talk to you properly, I advise you not to mess with me." Ruan Lingyu sneered, "I remember before my mother passed away, you were my father's secretary. How come after not seeing him for so many years, you gave birth to a son for my father?"
"Lingyu, listen to me and let me explain."
"I don't want to hear your fucking explanation! My mom was so good to you when she was alive. Aren't you ashamed of doing something like this?"
Su Shun had no choice but to turn her gaze to Lin Manshu behind her. This was not the first time they met. Ruan Fu had taken her to meet Lin Manshu before.
"Sister, I really don't want to argue with you, I just want to see my son."
"Shuyu is not at home today. Grandma and aunt took him out." Lin Manshu answered her calmly.
"Did they say when they would be back?"
"No."
"Sister, can you please call them?" Su Shunyi cried, "I'm on a flight tomorrow morning, and I may never come back in this lifetime. This is the last time I'll see him."
"I can't make the decision," Lin Manshu said. "Go find Ruan Fu."
"Sister, I beg you!"
"Didn't I tell you not to come here again!" Lin Manshu suddenly shouted, and Su Shunyi was so scared that she stopped crying.
Lin Manshu closed her eyes, took a deep breath to suppress her temper, and said in a low voice, "Are you really on tomorrow's flight? You deliberately exposed these scandals in front of my daughter and son-in-law. You just want my daughter to lose face in her husband's family, so that I can't stand your dirty laundry and divorce Ruan Fu. That way, you have the chance to move in. Do you think I can't see through your thoughts?"
"No, I really don't have such thoughts!" Su Shunyi said weakly, "Sister, you really misunderstood!"
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