Chapter 64 Have you ever hated me?
I looked at my pale face in the mirror and sighed. It seemed that I couldn't tell him about my pregnancy.
I came out of the bathroom and sat in front of the makeup mirror, staring there for a long time. I don't know why, but I always felt a sense of panic in my heart.
When Jiang Ruohe entered the room, he was still smiling. When he saw me in the room, he was stunned and asked me when I came back.
Looking at his eyes, it seems that he really wants to get a divorce. I rolled my eyes at him and ignored him.
Seeing that I was angry, Jiang Ruohe came over and stood behind me.
"I'm really sorry about what happened just now. I thought we had experienced life and death, and you were treating me..." Jiang Ruohe stopped talking halfway.
"I won't be so impulsive in the future."
I stood up and turned to look at Jiang Ruohe. I don’t know why, but now when I look at him, I find him a bit annoying.
I cursed myself in my heart for being so contradictory. Jiang Ruohe also wanted a divorce, and I also wanted a divorce. It was a good thing. Why should I be angry?
Thinking of this, I felt more favorable towards Jiang Ruohe. I said that everything that happened before was in the past, and we should spend the last three days in peace.
A complicated look flashed across Jiang Ruohe's eyes as he looked up at me.
"Wait, I'll treat you to a meal. Thank you for saving me."
Just then, my cell phone rang. I hurriedly took it out of my bag and saw that it was Xiao Shi calling. Jiang Ruohe, who was next to me, looked at the incoming call display on my phone and his face looked a little gloomy.
"Mr. Xiao."
Xiao Shi asked me if I had returned to Nancheng, and I said yes.
"The company is holding a party tonight at 6pm. Are you free?"
I was stunned. Although I didn't really want to have dinner with Jiang Ruohe, I was pregnant now. If I went to the banquet, I would have to wear a dress and high heels, and more importantly, I would have to drink.
"Oh, I probably can't come. I have something else to do." I replied apologetically.
"Is that so? Fine then."
After hanging up the phone with Xiao Shi, he looked up at Jiang Ruohe. He had a smile on his face and said that he had called to book a restaurant and asked me what I wanted to eat.
I snorted, thinking to myself that I hadn't promised him, but I was hungry and really wanted to eat something.
I felt a little depressed. I had eaten half a dessert when I just came back. It’s only been a short time, so why am I hungry again?
I told Jiang Ruohe that I wanted to eat everything. Jiang Ruohe smiled and said there was a good Chinese restaurant nearby. I nodded and agreed.
When I was leaving the room, I met Jiang Mingzhe. Seeing Jiang Ruohe and I coming out together, he looked very happy and asked me where I was going.
I said Jiang Ruohe was planning to take me out to dinner and asked grandpa to go with us.
Jiang Mingzhe hurriedly shook his head and said no, he had already asked Wang Ma to prepare it.
We entered the restaurant together, found a seat and sat down. The waiter brought the menu and Jiang Ruohe asked me to order. I ordered a few dishes at random.
When the two were halfway through their meal, they suddenly heard someone calling Jiang Ruohe. They looked up and saw a strange man who was about the same age as Jiang Ruohe.
"I just heard about you and Gu Bei. I was planning to go to Jiang's house to see you, but I didn't expect to meet you here. How are you now?" The man looked at Jiang Ruohe.
"It's nothing serious." Jiang Ruohe replied.
"I've told you before that Gu Bei is unreliable. You don't need to be so nice to him. Look at you now..."
Seeing that Jiang Ruohe didn't say anything, the man stopped talking.
Suddenly he looked at me with a smile in his eyes.
"This is my sister-in-law, my name is Mu Yan, and I'm Jiang Ruohe's friend."
"Hello, my name is Yu Xiaowan." I responded politely.
"Then I won't disturb you from eating, Ruohe. When I'm free, I'll come to your company to find you."
Mu Yan turned around and took two steps, then stopped and turned to look at Jiang Ruohe.
"I forgot to tell you, Caiqing heard about your kidnapping today. She immediately bought a plane ticket and plans to return home. She will arrive tomorrow."
Cai Qing, this name sounds like a woman's name. I glanced at Jiang Ruohe and thought that she must be a woman who likes Jiang Ruohe. Otherwise, she would not have come back from so far away after knowing that Jiang Ruohe was kidnapped.
Jiang Ruohe nodded lightly, and Mu Yan left. When he saw me looking at him, he stopped eating with the chopsticks in his hand and looked up at me.
"Just a friend."
Jiang Ruohe said that Mu Yan was his playmate since childhood. His parents had a good relationship with Mu Yan's parents and they often played together when they were young. As for Cai Qing, Cai Qing was Mu Yan's sister, but not his biological sister. She was an adopted child by Mu Yan's parents.
Jiang Ruohe also said that Caiqing had a boyish personality and they had always been brothers, except that three years ago, Caiqing went abroad to study.
I glanced at Jiang Ruohe and said, why did he have to explain so much to me.
Jiang Ruohe didn't say anything, just smiled faintly, put two pieces of braised pork in my bowl, and said that I was too thin and asked me to eat more meat to make up for it.
Looking at the braised pork in the bowl, I used to love it, but now...
I suddenly felt nauseous and wanted to vomit. I didn't want Jiang Ruohe to notice anything, so I forced myself to suppress the uncomfortable feeling.
I got up and went to the bathroom. As soon as I entered the bathroom, I started retching into the trash can and tears of pain fell.
After washing my face, I took out my phone and searched on Baidu for ways to alleviate morning sickness. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to go to work for the next two days.
There are many answers on Baidu, and I chose one, which is to eat alkaline biscuits. I thought that when I go back with Jiang Ruohe, I will go to the mall to buy more alkaline biscuits.
I just came out of the bathroom and suddenly saw Shen Xiuting, whom I hadn't seen for a few days. She was walking towards the bathroom while talking on the phone.
"Xiao Yu, tomorrow at noon at Tan Hai Hotel, don't worry, as long as you serve me well, I will definitely give you a big tip."
Shen Xiuting is really shameless. When I saw her coming in, I quickly hid in the bathroom and closed the door.
Shen Xiuting happened to be next to me, and she seemed to be talking to someone on the phone.
"Hey, daughter. When will you return to South City?"
"There are still two days left. How is Jiang Nianhao treating you? Oh, not bad, that's the way it should be. Play hard to get. Then, you will definitely make a fortune."
"Oh, I have to tell you something. Huang Minwei and Jiang Ruohe broke up. You know what happened? Huang Minwei is so stupid. She was defeated by Yu Xiaowan so quickly. It's really infuriating."
"Huang Minwei came to me crying, saying that Jiang Ruohe must have fallen in love with Yu Xiaowan, and asked me what to do. I didn't have any good ideas, but I did warn her that you were on a business trip and asked her not to call you, so as not to let Jiang Nianhao know."
"What, you have a good idea? Tell me about it. I'll tell Huang Minwei and let her deal with Yu Xiaowan. I don't believe that Yu Xiaowan will be so lucky."
I walked out of the bathroom with a cold face and returned to my seat. Jiang Ruohe saw that I looked unhappy and asked me what was wrong. I shook my head and said nothing was wrong.
When Shen Xiuting came out of the bathroom, I called her, pretending to be surprised, and asked her why she was here.
When Shen Xiuting saw me, she was still a little panicked, afraid that I would treat her like I did last time in the KTV. I smiled faintly, stood up, walked to Shen Xiuting, and took her hand.
"Auntie Shen, have you eaten? If not, let's eat together."
When I said this to her, Shen Xiuting's eyes flashed with suspicion. After seeing Jiang Ruohe, she smiled and shook her head and said no.
"Oh, your sister is on a business trip, and I was alone at home. I felt so lonely, so I was planning to go out for dinner, but I didn't expect to run into you guys."
"Then Aunt Shen, please sit down quickly."
I pulled her to sit next to me, and Jiang Ruohe called her politely.
“Ruohe, you talk to Aunt Shen first, I’ll go order the food.”
Jiang Ruohe said to just call the waiter over, I shook my head and said no, the waiter was busy now, I could go and talk to them myself.
I stood up and walked to the service desk with a smile in my eyes, because I was holding Shen Xiuting's mobile phone in my hand. I quickly looked through her call records and wrote down the number of the person named Xiaoyu.
I deliberately ordered a few of Shen Xiuting's favorite dishes, thinking that if I let her eat well today, she would be in trouble tomorrow.
When we returned to our seats, Shen Xiuting and Jiang Ruohe were having a great chat. Jiang Ruohe asked how Shen Xiuting had been doing recently. Shen Xiuting was about to say that she hadn't been doing well, but when she saw me coming over, she was afraid that I would expose her past, so she didn't say much, just saying that my father had passed away. She was very sad.
"Auntie Shen, don't be sad." While comforting her, I put the phone back into her pocket.
"I think my father in heaven must miss you very much..." He raised his voice unconsciously.
Shen Xiuting trembled, and a trace of annoyance flashed across my eyes. I reminded myself to stay calm and hurriedly said that the food was here and asked Shen Xiuting to eat more.
After dinner, I planned to ask Jiang Ruohe to drive Shen Xiuting home. Shen Xiuting hurriedly shook her head and said no, and asked Jiang Ruohe to take me home quickly.
Sitting in the car, looking at the scenery outside the window and thinking about how to arrange tomorrow's affairs, Jiang Ruohe asked me if the food today was not tasty.
I shook my head and said the food was delicious, but I was not in a good mood.
Shen Xiuting and Tian Rong murdered my father. They pretended to be good people while using all means to deal with me. How could I feel good? To be honest, these days, I still can't accept that Tian Rong would be that kind of person.
I don't understand why she treats me like this. I really treat her as my own sister.
Maybe some people are like this, like Gu Bei. Jiang Ruohe was so good to Gu Bei, but Gu Bei didn't appreciate it at all. Instead, he hated Jiang Ruohe and wanted to get rid of Jiang Ruohe to prove himself. I think Tian Rong probably had the same idea.
I turned around and looked at Jiang Ruohe, and said that we were in the same boat.
Jiang Ruohe looked at me with some confusion and asked me why I suddenly said that.
I shook my head and said it was okay.
After I got back, I took a shower first. While Jiang Ruohe was showering, I called Xiaoyu, the guy Shen Xiuting had an appointment with.
"30,000 yuan, are you willing?"
The other party readily agreed.
I put my phone on the bedside table, a hint of coldness flashed across my eyes. While Tian Rong is not back yet, I have to teach Shen Xiuting a lesson.
Tian Rong, you won't be able to be so proud for too long.
Jiang Ruohe came out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel. His upper body was exposed. Looking at the scars all over his body, I remembered what the doctor had told me. I hurriedly opened the drawer, took out the medicine the doctor had prescribed, found a cotton swab, and asked Jiang Ruohe to lie on the bed.
"I can do it myself." Jiang Ruohe walked towards me.
I glanced at him and asked him if he could wipe his whole body.
I reached out and asked him to lie down on the bed first. I wiped his back and left the rest to him.
I carefully helped Jiang Ruohe apply the medicine, and remembered that I was injured. Jiang Ruohe had also treated me so carefully. I glanced at Jiang Ruohe and thought that he was not a bad person. All the unpleasant things between us were just because of a deep misunderstanding.
"Xiaowan, have you ever hated me?" Jiang Ruohe suddenly asked me while lying on the bed.
I was stunned for a moment and thought about it. I did hate Jiang Ruohe, especially the night before my father died. If it weren't for that time, I wouldn't have gotten pregnant.
But there is no point in talking about this now.
"It's all over."
I said no more and continued to apply medicine to Jiang Ruohe.
"Okay, you can do the rest yourself."
Jiang Ruohe got up, took out the medicine in his hand, wiped his chest, and unbuttoned his bathrobe. I saw scars between his legs, and I felt distressed. I thought that Gu Bei was too cruel. Except for his face, there was not a single good spot on his body.
I looked at him and suddenly wondered if he was injured there too.
I shuddered all over and cursed myself for having such a dirty mind and thinking about such unhealthy questions.
Jiang Ruohe looked up at me and asked me why my face was red. I hurriedly shook my head, got up and went to the bathroom. Looking at myself in the mirror, my face was as red as an apple.
"Yu Xiaowan, how can you have such thoughts?"
I quickly washed my face and left the bathroom. After Jiang Ruohe applied the medicine, he took a quilt from the closet and spread it on the floor.
"Go to bed early." He looked at me.
After turning off the lights, perhaps because I was too sleepy, I fell asleep.
In the middle of the night, I had another nightmare. I dreamed that Jiang Ruohe raped me and there was blood flowing between my legs. I felt like I was about to collapse and shouted "No" in my dream.
He shuddered and woke up in shock. With the help of the moonlight outside the window, he turned to look at Jiang Ruohe and found that Jiang Ruohe was not in the room. At this moment, Jiang Ruohe's voice came from the balcony.
"How's the investigation going?"
"Can't find out? Impossible. There's definitely something wrong with him, it's just that he's hiding it too deeply. We must investigate thoroughly. But we can't let him find out."
I wondered who Jiang Ruohe was investigating again. Soon I heard Jiang Ruohe enter the room and quickly closed my eyes.
I heard Jiang Ruohe's footsteps and he stopped in front of my bed. I wondered why this guy was standing by my bed instead of sleeping.
He stood there motionless, and I became a little nervous. I didn't dare to fall asleep. Fortunately, after waiting for a while, Jiang Ruohe returned to his bed.
As soon as he left, the tension disappeared. I turned over and went back to sleep.
The next morning, Jiang Ruohe went to work early. I rested at home for half a day. At eleven o'clock, I took my bag and went out to the Tanhai Hotel that Shen Xiuting mentioned.
Not long after I arrived, Shen Xiuting appeared in my sight. I smiled coldly. She was almost fifty years old, but she still dressed herself up and put a lot of foundation on her face, which was really scary.
After Shen Xiuting went in, the man named Xiaoyu came in a short while later. After seeing me in the car, he smiled faintly and walked in.
Soon, Xiaoyu sent me the room number where the two of them were staying. After a while, four young women came and hurried into the hotel.
A smile flashed across my eyes. After waiting for more than twenty minutes, the four women came down and made an OK gesture to me when passing in front of my car. I understood and hurriedly took out my cell phone.
"Hello, is this the police station? I want to report someone soliciting prostitution."
Five minutes later, the police arrived and quickly pinned down the injured Shen Xiuting and Xiaoyu. When they were about to get into the van, I took out my cell phone and took a photo of Shen Xiuting being arrested.
After the police took Shen Xiuting away, I opened the video that Xiaoyu had someone send me.
I saw Shen Xiuting taking off all her clothes and standing in the bathroom calling Xiaoyu, asking Xiaoyu to come quickly. When Xiaoyu was entering the bathroom, he heard someone knocking on the door. Someone said that it might be the love and fun props he asked his friend to deliver, so he hurried to open the door.
The four women rushed in, cursing Xiaoyu for being an ungrateful man. They rushed into the bathroom and pulled Shen Xiuting out, beating her violently. Xiaoyu pretended to try to stop them but was stopped by a slightly plump woman. The other three punched and kicked Shen Xiuting.
"You old woman, you actually still want to sleep with my boyfriend. You simply don't want to live anymore. You are so old and look like a ghost. Sisters, fight with me."
The three of them fought like this for more than ten minutes. During this time, Xiaoyu kept defending Shen Xiuting and asked them to stop.
The women left only after they had enough of the fight.
After the four of them left, Xiaoyu hurriedly helped Shen Xiuting up and hugged the naked Shen Xiuting, saying that he had broken up with that woman a long time ago, but she and her group of little sisters often pestered him.
Xiaoyu sincerely apologized to Shen Xiuting and hugged her tighter. Shen Xiuting comforted Xiaoyu and said that it was okay and that she would find someone to deal with those women when her daughter came back.
Maybe because Shen Xiuting had already paid the money, even though she looked hurt, she still wanted to do that with Xiaoyu, but the police kicked the door open.
At first, the police thought Xiaoyu was soliciting prostitution, but when they found out it was Shen Xiuting, they were stunned and looked at her with disgust and contempt.
After watching the video, I sent the photo and video to the person who helped me expose the information, and asked her to blur the image of Xiaoyu and the four people who beat him in the video.
After explaining these things, I looked at my bank card information and found that I only had pocket money left. I thought that I had to go to work tomorrow, and only when I earned enough money could I deal with the mother and daughter properly.
In the afternoon, I was sitting on the sofa and talking to Jiang Mingzhe when Jiang Nianhao came back with a suitcase.
"Didn't you say you would be back in two days? Why are you back suddenly?" Jiang Mingzhe asked.
Presumably something happened to Shen Xiuting, and Tian Rong had to come back to pay the ransom, so Jiang Nianhao followed her back.
"I came back after the contract was signed."
Jiang Nianhao finished speaking and looked up at me.
“Xiao Wan, is there anything serious going on between you and Ruo He?”
I shook my head and said no.
"Then I'll go upstairs and rest."
When Jiang Nianhao went upstairs, I saw a little lipstick mark on his collar. I turned my head to look at Jiang Mingzhe and found that Jiang Mingzhe was also staring at Jiang Nianhao who was going up the stairs, and sighed.
"He really is unrepentant."
I was stunned for a moment. It seemed that my grandfather knew about it.
When Jiang Mingzhe saw me looking at him, he told me without hesitation that he had always known what kind of person Jiang Nianhao was, so over the years, he had never handed over the sovereignty of the Jiang family to his son, but instead handed it directly to his grandson.
"It's all my fault. When I was young, I was relatively poor, while my wife's family was relatively wealthy. I didn't want to be looked down upon by her family, and I also wanted to give her a better life. So, although I worked hard at that time, I neglected the education of our two children. My husband is an only child, and he doted on Nian Hao and Xiao Ting. By the time I wanted to educate them, the two children had already grown up."
"One was a playboy, always flirting with other women, and the other was too persistent, pursuing happiness that didn't belong to her. As a result, she turned herself into a completely different person. The children are grown up, and no amount of persuasion can stop them. Plus, I'm old, so even if I wanted to get involved, it was pointless. Now that I think about it, I've really failed."
"Fortunately, Ruohe is a good kid. Although he has his shortcomings, he is much better than his father."
After chatting with Jiang Mingzhe for a while, I helped him go upstairs to rest. When I returned to the living room on the first floor, my cell phone rang. It was a text message from someone saying that the matter had been settled.
I quickly opened the news and saw the video of Shen Xiuting being beaten naked and the photo of her being arrested. There was a lot of cursing below, and some people said that Shen Xiuting was the one who had sex with the pretty boy in the KTV toilet last time.
I have to say that the power of the masses is great. Soon Shen Xiuting's home address was dug out, and the news that my father had died not long ago, Shen Xiuting had already aroused public outrage at this moment.
Of course, I involved myself in this as well. They knew that Shen Xiuting was my stepmother. Fortunately, the public was rational and did not attack me. They also said that as her stepdaughter, I must have suffered a lot from this woman.
I exited the news interface with satisfaction. Just then, Tian Rong called me.
"Sister, I was just about to look for you. I just watched the news and found news about Aunt Chen. Someone also found out my identity as the young lady of the Jiang family." I asked anxiously.
Tian Rong forgot what she was going to say for a moment.
"Sister, what do you say we should do now? We have to suppress this matter."
"I was just about to talk to you about this. My mom is really going too far. Now she's even dug up my workplace. Can you help me find a solution..."
I didn't agree to Tian Rong immediately because Tian Rong is a very suspicious person. If I agreed readily, it would arouse her suspicion.
"Sister, I want to help you, but I don't know how."
"You can find Jiang Ruohe." Tian Rong said.
I know she won't go to Jiang Nianhao at this moment, because she wants Jiang Nianhao to feel that she is the kind of person who can handle everything by herself. If she relies on a man for everything, I'm afraid Jiang Nianhao will get bored quickly.
"But Jiang Ruohe and I are about to get divorced."
"Aren't you still divorced? I beg you..."
I thought about it for a while before agreeing.
After hanging up the phone with Tian Rong, I was about to call Jiang Ruohe when I found the door opened and Jiang Ruohe just came back. I stood up from the sofa and was about to walk towards him, but I found that there was a woman following behind Jiang Ruohe. The woman held Jiang Ruohe's wrist in a somewhat intimate manner.
I stopped and looked at the woman. If I was not mistaken, this woman should be Mu Yan's sister Cai Qing.
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