Chapter 28 "Model Husband."
Seeing that the person coming was Duan Zhuxian, the crowd surrounding the accident scene consciously dispersed to both sides and made way for him.
Duan Zhuxian is now among the senior executives of Huayan. He usually interacts with the elders of the rich second generation present. He can take their lives just by saying a few words to their parents.
Except for some not-so-smart ones, among his peers, only Jiang Yao dared to openly confront him.
"Oh my god, why is it Duan Zhuxian?" The friend who invited Jiang Yao to play racing was already feeling guilty, and now he was even more tearful. "Brother, I'm sorry for you today. I'll definitely treat you to a meal some other day to make amends."
He leaned close to Jiang Yao's ear and said this, then gave way.
Duan Zhuxian didn't even look at anyone else, and walked straight towards Jiang Yao. At a distance of less than half a meter, he looked Jiang Yao up and down several times, his eyes so deep that it seemed as if he wanted to strip Jiang Yao naked.
Jiang Yao held an unlit cigarette in his mouth and let Duan Zhuxian look at him, his cold and pale cheeks slightly raised, showing no sign of weakness.
Duan Zhuxian raised his hand, but before he touched Jiang Yao's body, he put it down again and asked, "Are you okay?"
The onlookers were ready to watch World War III, but they didn't expect Duan Zhuxian's opening remarks to be such a gentle inquiry. They couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. They thought that Duan Zhuxian was quite a good person and could keep his composure. He didn't seem like the kind of man who would risk his life for a beautiful woman. If they were Jiang Yao, they would probably just go down the stairs.
The friend beside him was desperately winking at Jiang Yao, asking him not to confront Duan Zhuxian at this time, and to talk it over.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Yao didn't appreciate it at all. He said coldly with a sullen face: "Can't you see it yourself?"
Duan Zhuxian paused, the tension on his face loosening slightly, and he said in a voice that only Jiang Yao could hear, "Wait for me here."
Then he turned and looked at Duan Feiyi a few meters away.
Duan Feiyi's face changed and he glared at Zhang Sheng beside him.
Zhang Sheng waved his hands desperately, looking panicked.
As he approached Duan Feiyi, Duan Zhuxian's face completely lost its warmth. "Two months ago, you violated the rules by organizing a drag race here and sent someone to the hospital. Dad told me at the time that you are not allowed to set foot on the racetrack again, or I will terminate all your positions at Huayan."
When everyone heard this, they suddenly realized that Duan Zhuxian was here to discipline his younger brother.
How could an elite nobleman like Duan Zhuxian be interested in Zhang Sheng, unless he had a sudden eye disease?
"It was Li Ruizhi who hit the person, not me..."
Being criticized in front of a group of people, Duan Feiyi couldn't help but shout a rebuttal. The second half of his sentence slowly became hoarse when he met Duan Zhuxian's cold gaze. As if he was really scared, he stammered for a long time: "Are you going to complain to Dad?"
"From now on, guard your position in the branch and don't cause any more trouble. I can consider not telling you." Duan Zhuxian glanced at Zhang Sheng, and his sharp eyes fell back on Duan Feiyi's face, "You know what I mean."
The moment their eyes met, Duan Feiyi broke out in a cold sweat, as if everything in his heart had been seen through.
He had a strong premonition that Duan Zhuxian was acting like a big brother now because there were so many people around, but after today, Duan Zhuxian would not let him go.
In the next half hour, Duan Feiyi was watched by Duan Zhuxian. He had to contact people to deal with the perpetrators and the damaged vehicles. He pretended to be cool all day, but ended up losing everything.
Everyone present gradually realized that Duan Feiyi was just a bully. Among the younger generation of the Duan family, only Duan Zhuxian had absolute authority.
Jiang Yao leaned against the wall and smoked, his eyes moving back and forth between Duan Zhuxian and Zhang Sheng.
If anyone dared to make eye contact in front of him, he would immediately send them on the run.
The suspicion and irritability that had accumulated for a day and a night reached its peak the moment Duan Zhuxian appeared. He was now a powder keg and it was difficult for him to remain rational.
However, from beginning to end, Duan Zhuxian never even gave Zhang Sheng a glance.
After the matter was roughly resolved, Duan Zhuxian found something flammable and explosive in the corner and asked, "Go home?"
Jiang Yao threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, put his hands in his pockets, and walked towards the exit.
Duan Zhuxian followed closely behind, the strange red highlights in front of his head looked like a flame, burning brightly in the wind.
After taking only two steps, Jiang Yao stopped and turned back: "Stay away from me."
After saying that, he quickened his pace.
Under the strange gazes of the crowd, the two disappeared at the end of the track one after the other.
*
On the way home, Jiang Yao sat in the passenger seat like a giant Buddha, not saying a word.
The low-frequency muffled sound that continued to be emitted by the car while it was driving made the silence in the car expand and spread.
In the end, it was Jiang Yao who couldn't sit still first.
He glanced at Duan Zhuxian who was driving and asked, "What are you doing here?"
Duan Zhuxian looked straight ahead, his expression calm as he said, "My wife had a dispute with someone at the racetrack I manage, so of course I came here to resolve the issue."
Yesterday, he helped Fu Yang successfully secure the cooperation. After the dinner, it was too late, so he stayed overnight in Rong City. The next day, he flew back to Lingbei and then went straight back to Huayan for a meeting. In the meeting room, he learned that Jiang Yao had been rear-ended, so he rushed over before the meeting was over.
Duan Zhuxian's answer was very official, but Jiang Yao was offended by the word "wife".
He suppressed a subtle and dense feeling of strangeness and said indifferently, "Is it not painful for embarrassing your little lover tonight?"
Duan Zhuxian asked, "My little lover?"
Are you pretending to be stupid?
Jiang Yao didn't waste any time and took out his mobile phone to check the browser history, but found that the original revelation had been marked as "deleted".
He manually entered the keywords, but still couldn't find any news related to the scandal, as if he had seen the news in a dream yesterday.
To be able to completely eradicate something on the Internet without leaving any trace, who knows what kind of capitalist money power someone used.
Fortunately, he saved the picture, otherwise Duan Zhuxian would have been at large.
Jiang Yao pulled up the photos and placed the phone upright on the stand next to the navigation.
"Look at how affectionate you two are, and if you add some first snow and background music, you can even act in a Korean drama." Jiang Yao said jokingly, but his tone was strangely cold.
Duan Zhuxian glanced at her out of the corner of his eye and said, "How can you tell she's affectionate without even showing her face?"
Jiang Yao frowned: "It doesn't matter whether you have a face or not. I can recognize you even if you turn into ash."
Duan Zhuxian raised his eyebrows in surprise: "You know more about me than I thought."
Jiang Yao said: "Don't try to change the subject!"
Duan Zhuxian paused and asked, "Do you care a lot?"
Finally, Jiang Yao, who had been pretending to be calm all the way, suddenly sat up straight as if he was ignited: "We are friends with benefits after all, shouldn't I care?"
Duan Zhuxian's eyes dimmed a little. This was not the answer he wanted to hear.
Seeing that Duan Zhuxian was silent for a long time, Jiang Yao thought that Duan Zhuxian had finally acquiesced out of guilt, and his inner irritation grew.
He took a deep breath, suppressed his displeasure, and put on a casual expression again: "Forget it, I'm too lazy to pursue it. It's a business marriage anyway. Since you have someone outside, let's just open the marriage. From now on, we can each play our own games and no one will care about each other. You can keep a little star outside, or even a football team, whatever you like. Similarly, I can also-"
The rest of his words were interrupted by a sharp brake.
"Fuck, are you sick?"
Jiang Yao, having just recovered from his shock, stared at Duan Zhuxian, but was unexpectedly met with the gloom in the other's eyes, and his heart skipped a beat.
He had an illusion that if he said one more word about the proposal, Duan Zhuxian would eat him.
The person who made the mistake is even more vicious than him who came to punish him.
Is there any justice in the world anymore?
Duan Zhuxian slowly drove a few meters and parked the car on the side of the road. When he spoke again, his tone was quite normal: "This is a candid shot."
"Nonsense, isn't this a candid photo or a deliberate staged photo to show affection?" Jiang Yao rubbed his sternum, which was hurt by the seatbelt, and said unhappily, "You're just hateful, not stupid."
Duan Zhuxian's deep eyes were agitated by Jiang Yao's words which were both praise and criticism.
"It means to take it out of context." Duan Zhuxian said, "He bumped into me at the hotel entrance that day. I was busy socializing and didn't take it seriously."
Duan Zhuxian paused, his eyes sweeping across the irritable expression on Jiang Yao's face. He pointed at the photo and added, "Fu Yang is right next to me. He's traveling with me. You can ask him next time you have a chance."
Jiang Yao looked over and saw that there was indeed a man at the edge of the camera, who looked like a passerby.
He looked away, staring at the little fox figurine on the center console. He was silent for a while, then raised his eyelids and asked, "Who did you offend?"
Duan Zhuxian said, "Zhang Sheng is Duan Feiyi's kept lover."
Jiang Yao was silent for a moment, then said, "But I've seen Duan Feiyi with a female companion."
Duan Zhuxian said: "That's his way of hiding his sexual orientation. His mother has wanted a grandson for a long time."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Yao cursed "scumbag" in his heart, narrowed his eyes, and quickly recalled a few details he noticed at the racetrack today, which echoed Duan Zhuxian's explanation.
He had long guessed that his "brother-in-law" was not an easy person to deal with, but he never thought that the other party would be so unscrupulous.
Jiang Yao asked, "Since he wanted to mess with you, why didn't he just take a high-definition photo of your face?"
He didn't doubt that Duan Zhuxian would tell him such a lie that would be easily exposed and would have even more serious consequences if he discovered it, but he just couldn't figure out what Duan Feiyi's purpose was.
Duan Zhuxian said, "He doesn't dare to go too far. This time he's just testing me and the elders of the Duan family."
Jiang Yao pondered for a moment.
According to this logic, Duan Feiyi's move was just to give Duan Zhuxian a warning. As for Li Ruizhi finding out about it last night, it must have been purely accidental.
Later, Li Ruizhi asked someone to block him and deliberately mentioned the matter in front of him, and was beaten. When Duan Feiyi found out, he probably thought that he was a jealous person and was here to fan the flames.
Jiang Yao snorted coldly, "No wonder Duan Feiyi and Zhang Sheng kept coming to me today to sow discord. It turns out it was a combination of punches."
Duan Zhuxian raised his eyebrows slightly, a little surprised that Jiang Yao would say the word "sow discord", and asked: "Did they succeed?"
Jiang Yao realized that he had misused the idiom, and immediately leaned back in his chair, saying, "Drive carefully."
After saying that, he turned his head away and ignored everyone.
A few seconds later, the car started again.
The interior configuration of Duan Zhuxian's car is mainly low-key luxury style. Any accessory is worth a lot of money. There are almost no unnecessary decorations, except for a little ceramic fox placed on the center console.
The little fox squinted its eyes, raised its big fiery red tail, and its butt was connected to the base with a spring. When the car started, it shook its head and looked very arrogant. It made you dizzy if you watched it too much.
Jiang Yao stared for a long time, felt a little sleepy, and dozed off unknowingly.
When I woke up, the last ray of sunset in the sky dissolved into the night, and the dusk turned into a thin smoky blue.
After getting off the car, Jiang Yao walked in front, keeping a little distance from Duan Zhuxian.
"Are you still angry?" Duan Zhuxian asked from behind.
Jiang Yao didn't refute.
He didn't know why he was still upset. The misunderstanding had been cleared up, but as soon as he saw Duan Zhuxian, his heart was in a mess and he felt very annoyed.
So he started to stir up trouble: "You didn't go home all night, who knows where you went to fool around."
Duan Zhuxian's eyes moved slightly when he heard this, and he looked at Jiang Yao in the light of a street lamp.
Jiang Yao always spoke to him in a very aggressive manner, so there was nothing wrong with what he said in itself. However, if it was linked to the previous incident where Jiang Yao misunderstood that he was keeping a mistress and was angry, the nature of the matter became a little subtle.
It's like, jealous.
Perhaps it was because the night was too hazy, he even had a momentary illusion -
It seems that there are other possibilities between him and Jiang Yao.
"I was in Rong City last night, accompanying Fu Yang to meet a client." Duan Zhuxian strode over to Jiang Yao and showed him the flight and hotel records. "You've wronged me."
Duan Zhuxian's tone was calm, but Jiang Yao felt a little awkward after hearing it. He glanced at Duan Zhuxian and said, "You didn't tell me, you deserve to be wronged."
Duan Zhuxian asked, "You usually go out and don't come home at night, but you don't even tell me when you're going out?"
Jiang Yao was suddenly speechless, and his eyes visibly flickered for a few times.
Duan Zhuxian's face flashed with mischief. He just wanted to tease Jiang Yao, and then he quickly coaxed her: "From now on, I will report to you wherever I go."
"I didn't say I had to be so involved."
Jiang Yao spoke in a stern tone and strode forward to open the fingerprint lock, but it wouldn't open no matter what he did.
"This lock needs to be changed. It sometimes works and sometimes doesn't." Jiang Yao muttered impatiently.
"I volunteered."
Duan Zhuxian grabbed Jiang Yao's fingers from behind, squeezed them into his palm, and easily unlocked them with his thumb.
"Yesterday at a dinner party, I heard several middle-aged CEOs talking about their families, saying that model husbands all do this."
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