Episode 15 Taking Care of You
Lin Ying didn't expect to get a reply from Yan Yiming so quickly.
During the physical examination three days later, Yan Yiming called. She simply went to the quiet corridor to answer the phone and turned on the recording function. The first thing the other party said was -
"I received the divorce agreement you sent me."
"Sign first if there's no problem. The lawyer will handle the rest."
"What makes you think I'll sign?"
"Then there's nothing more to say. Just leave it to the lawyers."
After she finished speaking, she was about to hang up when the other party asked anxiously:
"Don't you want to know why I didn't tell my parents about you?"
Lin Ying rolled her eyes. "If you want to talk about it, don't keep me in suspense. I won't let this kind of thing sway me from getting a divorce."
"Aying, don't be so aggressive." Yan Yiming's tone suddenly softened, as if he had returned to his usual good-natured state.
"I came back from Jiang Shu that day. I wanted to have a good talk with you, but you left on your own. I was also... unstable at the time. I wanted to find you but was mad at you. Your phone was still with me, and it was raining heavily. But as soon as I stopped, you were all I could think about... When we were very close in the past, do you still remember? When we were in junior high..."
"I have something else to do right now. If you don't want to figure out the key points, call me back."
"I'm sorry, Aying!" Yan Yiming suddenly said, "I shouldn't have hit you, and I shouldn't have locked you up at home."
"You should be sorry, but I still want a divorce..."
"So what you did to me was right?"
After hearing this, Lin Ying should have said "Okay, I shouldn't have had an affair" and tried to keep the peace, but remembering what Jin Ze and Jiang Shu had reminded her before, she learned to play dumb.
"What have I done to you? Aren't you a good person?"
"Don't you know why I did that to you?"
"You have your reasons for hitting me. I don't need to find out. The fact is that you did it, and I was tortured."
Yan Yiming heard that the other party was being stubborn, so he changed his words.
"I didn't tell my parents about you because I was afraid it would bring bad reputation to you. Our divorce is a small matter, but if it ruins your future, it would be more trouble than gain."
"Thank you for considering me, but I don't care about that. I only care about the signature you signed. Yan Yiming, I'm asking for a divorce because you assaulted and injured me and illegally imprisoned me. Our relationship has broken down and we no longer love each other. Do you acknowledge this?"
The other party denied: "Our relationship has not broken down..."
Lin Ying continued to output——
"We were rarely together, and you never cared about my moods or decisions. You ignored my words and insisted that I submit to you in everything, making you the center of everything. When I raised these issues, not only did you not reflect on them, but you even resorted to violence against me. You also turned a blind eye to your mother Ren Jiahui's occasional 'surveillance' on me, and even acquiesced to it.
In my opinion, these are enough to prove that our relationship has broken down. Even if you don't think so, I really don't want to live with you anymore. I tell you, seeing you every day, hearing you say those boring things, and every time you force me... force me, it makes me feel sick.
Having said this, Yan Yiming seemed to be shocked, and not a single word of the speech he had prepared could be uttered.
"That can't be a reason for you to cheat..."
"If you're not satisfied, you can always find a lawyer to fight with you. Your father should have a lot of good legal experts, right? Helping you with this matter shouldn't be a problem."
"Okay, wait for Lin Ying, wait for me to come back and confront you!"
After finally hearing what he said, Lin Ying hung up the phone herself.
She instantly felt refreshed. Fortunately, she had learned a lot of words from negotiating with Jin Ze in the past few days. Jiang Shu also reminded her last time that she should be brave enough to pass the blame, not to rush to take all the responsibilities on herself, and to throw the pain points to the other party in time.
She went back to work on a few more projects, and the staff came to her midway to apologize. "Sorry, our radiology department staff have a district meeting today, so we're leaving get off work early. How about we reschedule these projects for another time?"
Lin Ying glanced at the projects she hadn't done yet, all of which involved radioactive materials like X-rays. She said, "Then let's make an appointment when I'm free. These aren't serious matters."
She will officially go back to work tomorrow and doesn't know when she will be free.
When Lin Ying returned to the villa that night, she felt a lot lighter. Not only because she had won the battle with her mouth today, but also because of Jiang Shu's guidance. She suddenly felt that she was not so afraid of this matter anymore.
During dinner, she explained her victory today to Jiang Shu in detail, and he praised her in a rare way.
"They are quite perceptive and have learned how to confuse people."
"Didn't I learn all this from you?"
"Jin Ze has been synchronizing this matter with me recently, but Yan Song doesn't seem to be looking for legal counsel. It seems that Yan Yiming didn't lie. He really didn't tell his parents about this."
"Yeah, if it had come out, my mother-in-law would have come to chop me with a knife and scolded me for daring to let her precious son down."
This matter fermented for almost a week, and Lin Ying not only did not receive any blame from her parents-in-law, but also did not receive any follow-up questions from her father.
Lin Ying guessed that after explaining the divorce to Ren Jiahui that day, the Yan family must have asked their son first. However, not only did Yan Yiming not give a clear reason, but he was also hesitant. It seems that he is still fighting alone, otherwise he would not have been scolded by her at that time.
After dinner, she sat alone in her room, listing the assets she and Yan Yiming had accumulated over the past two years of their marriage. Divorce was less about feelings than about money. Previously, she'd been emotionally unstable, constantly constrained by so-called moral constraints. But recently, after Jiang Shu's help, she'd gradually become less concerned. She focused on the practicalities of the divorce, including compensation, property division, and the subsequent formalities. While she didn't care about the amount of money, the proper procedures still had to be followed.
Dongdong——
Thinking that it was Liu Ma coming to deliver fruit as usual, Lin Ying didn't put on her coat and went to open the door in her suspender pajamas. It turned out that the person holding the fruit plate was not Liu Ma, but Jiang Shu.
"Why are you the one delivering it?"
"I'm free, just by the way."
The fruits in his hand were all processed and ready to eat. Lin Ying was about to take them when he mentioned——
"If you're not busy, could you come in and help me look at the forms and personal statement I made? Lawyer Jin just sent them to me this afternoon. There are some things related to our family's assets that I don't quite understand."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Shu accompanied Lin Ying to the desk. She also put on her coat to preserve the dignity of "drawing clear of relations" as they had agreed upon.
After taking a quick look at Lin Ying's personal assets after marriage, as well as the totals of the couple's joint assets, Jiang Shu frowned slightly.
"Is the house you're living in now under Ren Jiahui's name? Even Yan Yiming's name isn't written on it?"
Lin Ying nodded, but didn't take it seriously. "Yes, before we got married, Yiming had never thought of moving in. He just said that we should just use the house as a wedding room and simply decorate it, and then we would go back to live with our parents. It was only when I said that it was too far from my work and the commute was inconvenient that he compromised and let us live in the wedding room."
At this point, Lin Ying noticed that Jiang Shu looked at her with a lot more pity in his eyes, so she quickly interrupted, "Actually, I just didn't want to live with my parents-in-law, so I used that excuse."
"I know."
Jiang Shu continued to look at something else, then heaved a sigh of relief and said:
"Thank goodness you came to your senses and stopped making excuses. Seeing how naive you were about your own wealth, I realized divorce was truly beyond your means."
Before Lin Ying's face darkened, Jiang Shu immediately added, "I'm talking about you in the past, not you this week."
He said, "You don't own any joint property, so there's nothing much to argue about. Marital property consists mainly of your combined earnings. You've only been married two years, and each of you contributed a tiny amount. Dividing it up doesn't mean either side is stronger or weaker. It's a minor issue. The bigger issue is probably with your father-in-law..."
"How do you say that?"
"Yan Song has invested in some innovative projects over the past two years. Some of them are losing money or even in debt. He invested in these projects under Yan Yiming's name...but the start-up funds for these projects were used in your name."
Jiang Shu circled that part in red and pointed it out to her...
When they got married, Lin Jidong gave his daughter assets and real estate worth nearly six million yuan, saying it was in the name of dowry, so the money was considered joint property of the couple. She only told Yan Yiming the passwords of those bank cards, but she didn't have such a large financial need in her daily life, so she just put the money there. She thought Yan Yiming was idle all day long and would not touch it unless it was absolutely necessary, but she didn't expect... He was secretly doing this with his father, and as a member of this family, she didn't even have the right to know?
Or did they never think of letting her know at all?
Jiang Shu said, "There are many similar cases, but the funding for those projects is not large, so our family will be able to cover the cost. However, if this matter is exposed... the relationship between Dad and Yan Song will be completely strained."
When Lin Jidong was mentioned, Lin Ying felt uneasy again.
"I haven't told Dad about the divorce yet. Do you think I should bring it up?"
"Why don't you dare tell me about the divorce? Are you afraid he'll be disappointed? Or are you afraid he'll ask you why?"
“Both.”
Lin Ying drooped his eyelashes, crossed his arms, and withdrew his eyes from the densely packed file data on the screen.
"My father has never been very warm to me, except when he married Yiming. For so many years, he only cared about the value I could bring to him as a daughter, rather than my own value as a daughter. I know he was dissatisfied with my mother for sending me to him without my consent... After my mother passed away, he became even colder to me, as if he was taking revenge..."
Lin Ying's impression of her mother remained stuck in the past. She wanted to send her to live with her father in the Jiang family, saying that there she would have a complete and perfect family environment. As a single mother, she had no way of providing her with a rich life...
However, on the third day after being sent to the Jiang family, the news of her mother Zhou Ruo's accidental death came flooding in - she died in an accidental car accident.
Lin Ying originally thought that her mother had just abandoned her to pursue a better life, but she didn't expect that on the day the Jiang family encountered this "sudden misfortune" of hers, her mother's life also suffered an irreversible misfortune.
When Jiang Yueling and his wife heard the news, they were obviously at a loss for words. They looked at each other for a long time before Lin Ying's crying broke the silence.
Lin Ying hugged her father's legs and begged him to take her to find her mother. Jiang Yueling hesitated for a long time, and stopped talking several times. In the end, he put down his chopsticks and ended with "You see for yourself".
Lin Jidong didn't look at his daughter, and couldn't eat anymore. He simply stood up, shook off Lin Ying's attempts to hold him, and left the restaurant with his wife.
Lin Ying cried until her voice was hoarse, and her tears completely filled the eyes she inherited from her mother... until her only brother Jiang Shu, who was still in the restaurant, handed her a tissue again...
Seeing Lin Ying choking with sobs this time, he reluctantly took out some paper to wipe her tears, and said a few rather clumsy words of "comfort":
"There's no point in crying. The dead can't be brought back to life."
When Lin Ying grew up, she no longer felt the urge to cry when she recalled the scene of that day.
Neither her mother nor her father is her true home.
Looking at Lin Ying's solemn expression, Jiang Shu obviously guessed what she was thinking, and brought her back to reality with his words.
"Dad hasn't cared enough about you over the years, but if you get divorced, his interests will be violated. He won't turn a deaf ear to it, so why should you look down on yourself? Besides, I'm here. I will always take care of you."
Hearing this again, Lin Ying couldn't help but laugh out loud...
"why are you laughing?"
Her tone was obscure, and her face was full of meaning: "You really know how to find excuses for your own selfish desires."
Jiang Shu heard the hidden meaning in her words, but he was not afraid - "So what? Isn't my 'care' catering to his needs?"
"I've been so grateful for your care over the past few months. How about I give you, Mr. Jiang, a five-star recommendation?"
Unexpectedly, as soon as these words fell, the other party burst into laughter, "Apart from that kind of thing, you have no other comments about me?"
Lin Ying couldn't help but tease—
"Isn't that enough?"
"not enough."
"So what do you want?"
Hearing this, Jiang Shu suddenly fixed his eyes on her eyebrows seriously, and Lin Ying instantly foresaw the upcoming kiss...
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