Chapter 52 What are you sorry for?
Gu Bei pulled me aside.
"Yu Xiaowan, I'm telling you, don't slander me." Gu Bei glared at me and lowered his voice.
I looked at Gu Bei and snorted coldly. I never expected that Jiang Ruohe’s good friend would be such a person.
I gave an address.
"Xinying Cafe."
Gu Bei shuddered, and there was a hint of panic in his eyes.
I looked at him coldly.
"Do you want me to get a photo? A photo of you and Huang Minwei meeting."
Gu Bei suddenly felt unwell. Seeing him like this, I wanted to laugh. Of course, I didn't take any photos.
At that time, I only saw Gu Bei's figure on the bus, and he was a little smart. He changed his clothes to meet Jiang Ruohe, but he concealed the fact that Huang Minwei and I were in the coffee shop, which made me suspicious and felt that the man who met Huang Minwei was him.
I asked with a skeptical attitude, but I didn't expect it to be true.
Gu Bei became anxious, looked at me with some warning, and asked me what I wanted.
"Yu Xiaowan, let me tell you, I took money from Huang Minwei because someone in my family was sick and needed the money urgently. Also, the reason I hid it from Ruohe was for his own good. Although it was you who saved him three years ago, it was Huang Minwei who had been in love with Jiang Ruohe for the past three years. I know Ruohe well. If he knew the truth, his heart would waver, and it would be hurtful to both you and Minwei."
"You really take everything into consideration. It's like you're thinking about me." I sneered.
"I don't want to do anything at all. Don't worry, I won't tell Jiang Ruohe."
Gu Bei was stunned and looked at me in disbelief.
"You really won't tell me?"
"Why should I say that?" I asked Gu Bei.
Why should I tell him? Telling him will do me no good. Anyway, I will be out of this marriage soon. Whatever happens between him and Huang Minwei has nothing to do with me.
"I already have the video of the coffee shop in my hand. If I want to tell him, Jiang Ruohe will know the truth immediately."
I didn't want to take it out at first because I owed Huang Minwei. I have to admit that what happened between Jiang Ruohe and me really hurt Huang Minwei. She hated me and blamed me, and I had to bear it.
But everyone has a bottom line. If she keeps bullying me, there's no need for me to owe her anything anymore.
I looked up at Gu Bei.
"Go back and tell Huang Minwei that we will have nothing to do with each other in just half a month. There's no need to stir up trouble. If you continue like this, we'll settle all the old and new accounts together. By then, I can easily guarantee that I will continue to pester Jiang Ruohe."
Gu Bei looked at me, nodded, said okay, and left.
Watching Gu Bei leave, a trace of mockery flashed across his eyes. What kind of friends does Jiang Ruohe have? It's simply...
In fact, at this time, I told Jiang Ruohe the truth about Huang Minwei's miscarriage, but I was not willing to do so.
What does it matter if I say it? I don't want him to feel guilty about me and continue to be entangled with me.
There is only half a month left until the end of the month, and I don’t want to get entangled any more.
I brought tea into the study. Jiang Ruohe was sitting on a chair, thinking about something, with some hesitation in his eyes. When he saw me come in, he quickly looked away and looked at me.
"Gu Bei left and didn't get to drink tea."
I brought a cup of tea and placed it on his desk. I turned around to leave, but he stopped me.
Jiang Ruohe moved his chair, stood up, walked to my side, and stared at me quietly.
"What?" I looked at him calmly.
"Three years ago, when you and Minwei went hiking, did you save a man who was bitten by a snake?"
I snorted coldly. Didn't I just tell Gu Bei that he already knew the truth? He even spent half a month looking for the people who were at the scene.
"Mr. Jiang already knows, right? Why are you even bothering to ask me?"
If he didn't know, I might say it wasn't me, but he already knew, and if he said it wasn't me, it would seem a bit hypocritical.
"Then why didn't you tell me earlier?" Jiang Ruohe wanted to say something, but stopped.
I stared at Jiang Ruohe indifferently, remembering everything he had done to me before, and wondered, would it help if I told him? Would he be nicer to me or something?
But everyone knows that he loves Huang Minwei. When dealing with me, the third party who destroyed the relationship between him and Huang Minwei, he will not be nice to me even if he knows that I once saved his life.
I pulled myself back to my thoughts and looked at him.
"Why, Mr. Jiang, do you feel guilty towards me?"
A strange look flashed across Jiang Ruohe's eyes, and he turned away unnaturally.
"Thank you for saving me, and I'm sorry."
I took two steps towards him, got in front of him, and looked at his stern face with some sharpness.
"What am I sorry for?"
Jiang Ruohe shuddered. Before he could speak, I continued, "Shouldn't you treat me so cruelly?"
Jiang Ruohe was speechless for a moment, with a hint of guilt in his eyes.
"I don't know why I can't control myself..."
I clenched my fists and stared at him. Finally, I controlled my emotions, said I couldn't bear his apology, and walked out.
After entering the room, I closed the door angrily and pressed my body against it.
"Jiang Ruohe, you are a bastard."
I grabbed some pajamas and went into the bathroom to take a shower.
After taking a shower, I tied a bath towel and opened the bathroom door. I was shocked to see Jiang Ruohe standing at the bathroom door.
When Jiang Ruohe was about to say something, I dodged backwards due to inertia, but my feet slipped and I fell backwards.
Seeing this, Jiang Ruohe hurried into the bathroom and reached out to pull me up, but the bathroom was too slippery, and he threw himself towards me and we fell down together.
He pressed me heavily to the ground, and my whole body was in pain. I turned my head and stared at the man who was pressing on me. His face almost touched mine.
"Jiang Ruohe." I raised my hand and slapped him.
Jiang Ruohe was not angry, but very annoyed. He quickly said sorry, got up, and reached out to pull me. I opened his hand, rolled my eyes at him, and tried to stand up, but found that my entire back was in so much pain that I couldn't move.
He glanced at Jiang Ruohe angrily.
"Help me up."
Jiang Ruohe reached out and pulled me up. I stood in front of him in pain, staring at him.
"Jiang Ruohe, are you sick? Why are you standing at the door for no reason? Are you peeping? You pervert." I was so angry that I wanted to slap him, but when I stretched out my hand, I don't know if I used too much force or what, and my bathrobe fell off.
I was stunned for a moment, and before I could react, Jiang Ruohe glanced at me and quickly looked away.
"Um, your bathrobe fell off."
I cried out, looked up at Jiang Ruohe angrily, and felt like jumping up and down in anger.
"If I tell you, get out of here."
The bathroom door was closed, and I hurriedly picked up the bathrobe on the ground, cursing Jiang Ruohe. If he hadn't appeared at the bathroom door so suddenly, how could I have fallen down? How could I have been in such a mess? And he had seen my naked body. I felt angry just thinking about it.
I reached out to open the bathroom door, intending to continue fighting, but Jiang Ruohe's words choked back everything I wanted to say.
I changed my clothes and went to the hospital with Jiang Ruohe. When Wang Yingzhi saw me, she rolled her eyes, frowned and asked Jiang Ruohe why he brought me here.
"Yingzhi, Xiaowan is Ruohe's wife. If we don't bring her, who else should we bring?" Jiang Nianhao said with great understanding.
"Xiaowan, your mother speaks her mind frankly, don't mind it." Jiang Nianhao smiled at me.
When Wang Yingzhi heard Jiang Nianhao talking about her, her face immediately froze. She wanted to say something, but Jiang Nianhao glared at her and she became silent.
Jiang Ruohe glanced at his mother indifferently and asked Jiang Nianhao what was going on with his grandfather.
"It's just that I'm old and overworked. The doctor said there's nothing serious for now, but you have to take care of your health in the future. I plan to leave the head office's affairs to you." Jiang Nianhao said.
At this time, Jiang Ting came out of the ward and saw me, with a flash of resentment in her eyes.
"Ruohe, Dad wants you to come in."
Jiang Ruohe pushed the door open and went in. After more than ten minutes, he pushed the door open and came out, looked up at me, and said, "Grandpa let me in."
After I pushed the door open, I saw Jiang Mingzhe lying on the hospital bed with a weak face. I felt a little distressed and called out "Grandpa".
"Xiao Wan, you've suffered a lot in the past two months since you came to the Jiang family. Grandpa is sorry for you."
"Grandpa, don't say that. Take good care of your health." I comforted him.
"No, I have to say. Grandpa knows he can't keep you, and he also knows he can't force you to be with Ruohe. In another half a month, Grandpa will let you go."
"But Grandpa has a request. There's only half a month left, and Grandpa hopes you and Ruohe will move back to the Jiang family's old house. Grandpa doesn't know how many days I can live, so I hope you can stay with Grandpa for a few more days, okay?"
I looked up at Jiang Mingzhe. If I moved back to the Jiang family's old house, wouldn't I have to sleep in the same room with Jiang Ruohe? But Grandpa was so kind to me, if I refused...
I nodded and agreed.
"Grandpa, a good person like you will surely live a long life."
There was some relief in Jiang Mingzhe's eyes.
"It's not a serious illness anyway. I plan to be discharged from the hospital. I'll leave Jiang's affairs to Ruohe. Alas, although Ruohe is a good kid, he also has some shortcomings. He's indecisive and can't tell people's hearts. I'm really worried about him."
Just like that, an hour later, Jiang Ruohe and I moved to the Jiang family's old house. Nanny Wang Ma prepared a room for us on the third floor.
Except for grandpa, everyone else lives on the second floor. I don’t know if grandpa arranged it this way on purpose, wanting to give us a chance to be alone, but also afraid that we would sleep in separate rooms, so the old man personally supervised us. It seemed that he still hoped that I could be with Jiang Ruohe.
After saying goodnight to grandpa, I went into the room feeling a little bored. Jiang Ruohe was taking a shower in the bathroom at the moment. I sighed, opened the wardrobe, and wanted to grab a quilt to sleep on the floor, but I was so hurt from the fall in the bathroom that I didn't have the strength to hold it.
At this moment, Jiang Ruohe came out of the bathroom wearing a bathrobe. When he saw me, he walked over, took out the quilt, threw it on the ground, looked up at me, and said that he had been sleeping on the floor for a while.
I didn't say anything and climbed onto the bed. I turned my back to Jiang Ruohe and looked out the window with my nerves tense. I heard the sound of a door opening and footsteps leaving behind me.
After a while, Jiang Ruohe came into the room again, stood in front of me and called me. I wanted to pretend to be asleep, but Jiang Ruohe said he knew I was not asleep.
I lifted the quilt and sat up, asking him what he wanted to do, but I saw that he was holding balm and cotton swabs in his hands, and asked me to show my back.
I refused instinctively, but Jiang Ruohe just stood by the bed in a stalemate. Finally, Jiang Ruohe's face turned cold and he returned to his usual cold attitude.
"Will you let me pick it myself?"
As Jiang Ruohe sat by the bed and applied the ointment on my back, I kept scolding myself in my heart, wondering why I was so cowardly again.
After a while, when he said it was okay, I immediately lay down, without looking at him, and said thank you expressionlessly.
Jiang Ruohe didn't say anything and reached out to turn off the light.
I felt a little regretful that I didn't bring the fruit knife with me. If Jiang Ruohe went crazy, I would have no ability to resist.
I don't know how much time passed, my eyelids were so sleepy that they were about to fight. I kept saying in my heart, Yu Xiaowan, you can't sleep, you must not sleep, but I finally fell asleep.
When the alarm clock rang, I woke up with a start. I looked vigilantly at the person who was sleeping on the floor at night, but found that he had disappeared. I breathed a sigh of relief.
After washing up, I went downstairs. Wang Yingzhi and Jiang Ting were talking and laughing while eating breakfast. When they saw me coming down, they stopped talking. Wang Yingzhi snorted, and both of them stopped talking.
I know that neither of them likes me, but now that we live together, I still have to say hello.
"Mom, Aunt." I walked over to them.
The two of them acted as if they didn't hear anything. Wang Yingzhi suddenly saw someone on the stairs, and quickly said "hmm" and asked to sit down.
I turned around and saw it was Jiang Mingzhe. Jiang Mingzhe walked down, glanced at Jiang Ting lightly, and sat next to me.
"Xiao Wan, tell Aunt Wang what you like for breakfast, and she'll make it for you."
I nodded and said yes and thank you.
After dinner, I went to the hospital to visit Xiao Shisheng.
When I pushed the door open, Xiao Shi was staring at the photo in his hand. When he saw me coming, he smiled at me. I put the flowers I bought into the vase and asked, whose photo are you looking at?
Xiao Shi handed me the photo. I took a look and it was a photo of a woman holding a child under a big tree. The child was obviously Xiao Shi. I joked that he was really handsome since he was a child.
"Is this your mother?" I looked up at him.
Xiao Shi hummed, a trace of sadness flashing across his eyes.
"She's so beautiful. Introduce me to my aunt someday."
"My mother passed away a long time ago." Xiao Shi said with some sadness.
I looked at Xiao Shi, not knowing what to say. Suddenly, I remembered that Xiao Shi had told me before that, because he came from a single-parent family, he had been bullied since he was a child. Until his senior year of high school, something important happened...
I think the important thing should be the death of his mother.
Seeing him in pain reminded me of my dad, and I started to feel uncomfortable too. We both fell into silence.
Xiao Shi looked up at me and said that he felt a little bored staying in the ward, so he wanted to go for a walk in the garden together. I nodded and agreed.
The two of them went to the garden, sat on a bench, watched the people walking around, and chatted about some company matters. After a while, I looked at the time. It was almost noon, and we had to go back to the Jiang family's old house.
I stood up and said goodbye to Xiao Shi. I stood up and took two steps when I suddenly noticed a figure in the corridor. I stepped on a stone without paying attention and leaned forward. When I thought I was about to make close contact with the ground, Xiao Shi put his arm around my waist from behind and let me fall into his arms.
"Sorry." I quickly stood up straight, looking embarrassed.
Xiao Shi shook his head and said it was okay.
"Then I'm leaving."
As soon as I returned to Jiang's house, Wang Yingzhi came back with a stack of newspapers in her hand. She called me and when I turned around, she threw the newspaper at my face.
I glanced down and saw the headline: "The Jiang Family's Young Madam Has No Shame, Secretly Meeting with Minghua General Manager Xiao Shi at the Hospital." It came with a photo of Xiao Shi grabbing my waist as I fell, and it also said that I'd been secretly dating Xiao Shi for a long time. I quickly looked up. Wang Yingzhi swung her hand at me, and I quickly grabbed her wrist.
"Mom, as the saying goes, if you catch an adulterer, you have to catch him in pairs. It's a bit too arbitrary to convict me based on just these two photos."
Wang Yingzhi looked at me angrily.
"Yu Xiaowan, don't try to quibble at this point. I guess you can't get any benefit from my son, so you turned to another man."
"I've heard for a long time that you and Xiao Shi are having an affair, yet you're still trying to make excuses. You're such a jerk to the core. I wonder how your parents could have given birth to a daughter like you. I guess your dad must have died of anger because of you."
I glared at Wang Yingzhi and squeezed her wrist tightly.
"Wang Yingzhi, watch your mouth. You can scold me. But scolding my family..." I pinched hard and Wang Yingzhi screamed in pain.
"I know you'll say I'm uneducated, but I don't need any education to deal with uneducated people."
"You're a socialite after all, but your words are even worse than those of the aunties arguing in the market. Aren't you afraid of being laughed at?"
I thought that since she knew that Jiang Ruohe and I were about to end, Huang Minwei would be able to be with Jiang Ruohe openly, and she could also have Huang Minwei as her son as she wished.
According to this logic, she should not cause me trouble, but I didn't expect that she couldn't even tolerate it for a short period of half a month and was thinking about how to cause trouble for me.
"Wang Yingzhi, if you can't tolerate me for even half a month, then let me tell you, I, Yu Xiaowan, am no pushover. If you push me too far, I can do anything."
I looked at Wang Yingzhi with cold eyes and shook her hand away. Wang Yingzhi looked at me angrily, cursed me for being a piece of shit, reached out to grab the teacup on the coffee table and threw it at me, but I dodged it.
At this moment, I really want to have a fight with Wang Yingzhi, but if I do, I will be no different from that shrew Wang Yingzhi.
I glanced at her indifferently, turned around and was about to go upstairs, but when the door opened, Wang Yingzhi immediately fell to the ground.
I looked up and saw that it was Jiang Ruohe. Wang Yingzhi turned around and looked at him with red eyes.
"Son, look at Yu Xiaowan. Rumors about her and Xiao Shi are everywhere. I just said a few words, and she pushed me..."
Jiang Ruohe walked in, glanced at the photo on the ground, a strange expression flashed across his eyes, and he reached out to pull Wang Yingzhi up.
Wang Yingzhi began to cry and tell me how I pushed her. I looked at Jiang Ruohe calmly, waiting for his scolding.
"Mom, didn't I tell you not to interfere in my affairs?" Jiang Ruohe looked at Wang Yingzhi with some reproach.
Wang Yingzhi stopped crying and looked at his son in disbelief.
"Mom, you must have been following Xiaowan and deliberately borrowed her position to take this photo, right? Mom, I can handle my own problems. If you do this again, I'll be really angry..."
Wang Yingzhi was not the only one surprised by Jiang Ruohe's attitude, I was also surprised. I had originally thought that Jiang Ruohe would scold me indiscriminately like before, but I didn't expect...
Jiang Ruohe's words completely annoyed Wang Yingzhi, and she burst into tears.
"How could I give birth to such a thing? You actually said that to me. How could you do this?"
Jiang Ruohe frowned.
"Mom, I'm just telling the truth. Please be quiet for now."
Jiang Ruohe walked up to me, took my hand and wanted to take me out. I steadied myself and didn't move. Jiang Ruohe turned and looked at me.
"When my aunt comes back, she will join forces with my mom to bully you. Can you stand the two of them?" Jiang Ruohe said in a low voice.
"Because of grandpa's illness, Yi Chen also took the opportunity to come back from Africa, and my aunt went to pick him up at the airport." He added.
If I get involved with these three difficult women, I think they will drown me in saliva, so I moved and went out with Jiang Ruohe.
Seeing Jiang Ruohe pulling me, Wang Yingzhi hurriedly asked him where he was going. Jiang Ruohe ignored him. Wang Yingzhi was so angry that she reached out and picked up another teapot and threw it at Jiang Ruohe, hitting him on the back. Jiang Ruohe ignored her and pulled me out the door.
I could imagine Wang Yingzhi's expression in the house, and a smile appeared on the corner of my mouth. When I came to my senses, I found that Jiang Ruohe had stuffed me into the car and started the car.
"Just drop me off at the intersection."
As long as she avoids getting involved with these three women, she doesn't force herself to be with Jiang Ruohe.
As soon as I finished speaking, the guy's face darkened and he braked suddenly. Because I was not wearing a seat belt, my head hit the windshield.
I covered my head and looked at Jiang Ruohe with some annoyance.
"Are you ill?"
Jiang Ruohe looked at me coldly.
"Yu Xiaowan, before we sign the divorce agreement, you are still the young mistress of the Jiang family, so please pay attention to your influence and don't do anything that will harm the Jiang family, okay?"
I looked at him in shock. He seemed to trust me in front of his mother just now. How could he turn his back on me in the blink of an eye? This was too much.
I didn't say anything, but Jiang Ruohe looked at me with a hint of annoyance in his eyes.
"Go down." His tone was softer than before.
I opened the car door, watched Jiang Ruohe's car drive away, and said, "What a strange person he is."
Just as I was about to leave, Yang Ru called me and asked me anxiously if I had watched the news.
"I saw it all. The media wrote nonsense. I just went to see Mr. Xiao because he saved me. When I was leaving, I accidentally fell and was helped up."
"Hey, you don't have to explain to me. I just came here to tell you not to worry. President Xiao has already asked the public relations department to handle this matter."
"I was afraid that you would be anxious about this, so I called to comfort you."
"Thank you."
"What are you thanking me for? Last time, we treated you like that, but you asked Mr. Xiao to keep us here. We are all very grateful to you."
Indeed, since that incident, Yang Ru has been very nice to me. After getting along with her, I found that she is actually a good person. The last time was only because of Anna's frame-up. Yang Ru told me that she and her team spent a full two years developing that facial mask product, so she really couldn't control her emotions at that time.
I found friendship again with Yang Ru, and for some reason, I suddenly thought of Huang Minwei.
During those four years in college, we had a pretty good relationship and even swore to be lifelong best friends, but unexpectedly, something like that happened.
To be honest, I don't really hate Huang Minwei for what she did to me now, because she was also a victim. Thinking of this, I really want to find out who drugged me. I want to ask that person what kind of hatred I have for him that made him treat me so cruelly.
I went to Shen Xiuting's house, thinking that my father had passed away a few days ago, and her resentment towards me should have subsided a little, and maybe she would let me in to sort out my father's things.
But when the door opened, I saw a strange face. He said that he was the owner of the house and had just bought it two days ago.
I was so depressed. How could Shen Xiuting do this? This house was bought by my father, and I had never thought of owning it. But how could she sell it without saying a word?
When I was going downstairs, I ran into my dad’s neighbor, Aunt Zhao, who pulled me aside and asked me what I was doing there.
"I wanted to sort out my dad's clothes to see if I could take some of them back home as souvenirs, but I didn't expect Aunt Tian to sell the house."
"Xiao Wan, forget about taking it. On the night of Old Yu's funeral, she took out all of Old Yu's things and burned them, saying she was afraid of being reminded of him..."
What a clever excuse! I guess you don’t want me to take it away at all.
At this time, another neighbor, Aunt Chen, came.
"Xiao Wan, not only did Shen Xiuting move away, she also used your father's insurance money to buy a big house. I ran into her the other day. She was dressed like a rich lady, so arrogant that she even ignored us old neighbors."
"What insurance money?" I asked hurriedly.
"Before Old Yu died, Shen Xiuting bought him an insurance policy, saying it was for sudden death. Nowadays, insurance companies really do cover anything. After what happened to Old Yu, everyone our age in the entire neighborhood bought one. This way, if he passes away suddenly, we can leave some protection for our children."
I had never heard Tian Rong and Shen Xiuting mention it before, so I hurriedly asked Aunt Chen if she knew how much the insurance coverage was.
"I think it's five million. Shen Xiuting and Xiaorong didn't tell me. I heard it from the insurance salesman."
Five million...
I took two steps back in shock, thinking that Tian Rong also knew about this, so why didn't she tell me? I took out my phone and wanted to call Tian Rong to ask her what was going on, but after thinking about it, I quickly hung up the call before it was connected.
I think it is necessary to ask Shen Xiuting in person.
I asked them if they knew where Shen Xiuting lived now.
"I heard she lives in South Bay Court, but we don't know which building she lives in."
"Why, Xiaowan, don't you know that your dad has insurance?"
I shook my head. The two of them looked at me with sympathy and said that Shen Xiuting was too much and actually wanted to take my father's insurance for herself.
What I care about is not insurance, but...
"Then Aunt Chen, Aunt Zhao, I'm leaving first."
I went to Nanwanyuan and contacted the property management company to find out which building Shen Xiuting lived in.
"Sorry, we can't freely provide residents with their privacy rights."
After being turned away, I walked out in a somewhat annoyed mood and happened to run into Shao Han. Then I remembered that he also lived here. Shao Han was a little surprised to see me and asked me why I was here.
"I'm here to see my sister."
"Who is your sister?"
"That's Tian Rong from your company."
Fortunately, I remembered that Shao Han was Tian Rong's general manager, and Tian Rong seemed to be interested in him. Since they were in Nanwanyuan, he should know where their family lived.
"My sister just moved to a new house. I came here in a hurry and forgot to ask her which building she lives in. My phone was out of battery, so I came to ask the property management, but they kicked me out."
Shao Han told me that he and Tian Rong lived in the same building, Shao Han was on the eighth floor and Tian Rong was on the ninth floor, next to the elevator. Shao Han and I got on the elevator together. After Shao Han reached the eighth floor, he smiled at me and said he was leaving.
I nodded.
When we reached the ninth floor and the elevator door opened, I happened to see Tian Rong waiting for the elevator. When she saw me, she was shocked.
"Xiao Wan, why are you..."
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