Episode 62 Torture Me
Lin Ying still chose to drive home by herself that day.
She knew clearly that Wang Duo's original intention in arranging a driver to take her there was just to invite her to his home for a short visit next time.
But now, the two of them have already made clear everything they need to say and the promises they need to make from last night to today. There is no need to engage in all this nonsense.
She went to the pharmacy specifically and got some tranquilizers and fever-reducing medicines.
After arriving home, Wang Duo sent photos and videos of his two children at the Starry Sky Exhibition. Ruxing looked carefree, as if she hadn't noticed the impending change in her situation—either traveling to a foreign country with her mother or constantly traveling between the two places...
Lin Ying drank a cup of hot water and washed the pills down her throat. The heat made her heart tremble again and again, and even brought out two tears.
After taking the medicine, she stuffed all her clothes into the washing machine and cleaned the house briefly. After several efforts, she felt a headache. Just as she was about to take a break, her mobile email rang with another reminder. It was the notification of the European work visa. After confirming the time when her passport would be received, she quickly replied to Pierre's studio in English.
"Pierre, thank you for your reply and job offer. I have accepted the offer and my work visa has been issued. However, I have some personal matters to attend to in Shanghai, so I will start no later than next month."
Her fate with Pierre seemed sudden at first glance, but in fact it was something she had planned long ago.
Although she has grown and benefited a lot under Wang Duo over the years, the potential risks behind this are indeed not small. His pursuit and favor are like a time bomb. She was framed only as a warning exercise. From then on, Lin Ying understood that the longer she works under him, the more she will have to rely on him. The debt of favor is the hardest to repay, even if it is only one-sided.
On the surface, Xu Yiwei was able to get the job because of Jiang Shu and her recommendation, but in fact, it was also with Wang Duo's tacit approval.
But why would Wang Duo be so tolerant of a girl with such ordinary qualifications? Even if he was approachable, he rarely used backdoors. Plus, before Xu Yiwei came, Cen Shuo was persuaded to withdraw, and she just happened to take over. The coincidence seemed too subtle.
Recalling Jiang Shu's previous advice to her, Jiang Yueling's uninvited visit later completely woke her up. She took the initiative to ask Sister Zhang to help her check the old accounts on the grounds of cashing in her original bonus. Sure enough, she noticed that in the years after the end of the epidemic, a trust account would regularly transfer funds to the gallery's account every year - and that trust account was under the name of a subsidiary of Jianglin Group, and the general manager in charge of these companies was her father, Lin Jidong.
No wonder Tengchun Gallery has been able to survive all these years, no wonder Wang Duo feels at ease letting her manage and operate the gallery... There is a reason for everything, either out of selfishness or even out of human relations.
She didn't know why Wang Duo gave Xu Yiwei the opportunity. Perhaps he and Lin Jidong had bigger plans. Maybe, just as Jiang Yueling worried, they wanted to expose Jiang Shu's "trouble"...
But she had no time to think about it at the moment. Even if Lin Jidong and Jiang Yueling were just bluffing, what she had to do was to take her daughter and fly away from the vortex of the storm.
Resign, get away from Wang Duo's personal control, leave Shanghai, get away from the entanglement of the transaction with Lin Jidong that was exposed.
That day, she met Pierre by chance during the exhibition tour and had a great conversation with him. It was a move she made and also what she longed for. When she first heard about this artist from Wang Duo, she had already been fond of him. She went back that day and saw all his works. The way he perceived the world made her feel that she had met him too late.
If there is a chance for us to work together, it will be very interesting.
So these days, she was lucky enough to get to know Pierre through the three men around her, which was also a way of playing the game.
But fortunately, she took the initiative to fight for this last opportunity, and it was Pierre who told her -
"You deserve it. Actually, when Alan first approached me, I had no intention of discussing it in detail. I had even forgotten who he was, but he was very proactive and showed me the gallery's introduction, as well as your introduction... They all thought I was giving you a chance for their sake, but in fact, I was giving Fujiharu a chance for your sake."
After replying to the email, Lin Ying thought she could finally take a nap. However, once she closed her eyes, her consciousness began to fade. She didn't sleep peacefully, and she had many dreams in a daze. In her dreams, the messy people and events around her kept coming back and forth, surrounding her layer by layer. Lin Ying was on the verge of suffocation...
Until a quick ringing of the doorbell woke her up. She was sweating and hot all over. She thought it was Cheng Xinran who came back to feed Ruxing snacks again, so she forced herself to get up, casually put on a coat and went to open the door...
Unexpectedly, the face behind the door coincided with the face that kept appearing in her fragmented dream.
It is Jiang Shu.
There was a sudden pain between her eyebrows, and she wished she was still dreaming so that she could close the door and pretend nothing had happened.
He had a gloomy face, and his eyes were unrecognizable, as if he had a thousand words to say to her, but before he opened his mouth he asked -
"Where's Ruxing?"
She told the truth: "I went to see an exhibition with Wang Duo and his son."
Hearing this name, the other party's face became even uglier.
"You agreed to marry him?"
Song Qi was quite quick-witted. We had just met by chance in the morning, and he came to question me in the afternoon, coming with such a fierce attitude...
"Yes, and I will leave Shanghai in the future. Let's take care of each other from now on. That's it. Go back. I don't want to talk right now."
After issuing the order to leave, Lin Ying was about to close the door, but Jiang Shu grabbed her hand as she was about to close the door, leaned in, and suddenly pulled her whole body into his arms. She couldn't resist but bumped into his chest...
He turned his hand, held hers, filled the gaps between her fingers with his, and knocked on the door.
"Why him?"
She had known that he would be jealous of Wang Duo, and that he would lose his temper, but at this moment she only felt her heart and lungs burning, and her head aching, and she didn't want to explain to him at all - she had no obligation to explain to him.
"He can give me what I want."
"What he can give, I can give too!"
"I don't want what you're giving me."
Lin Ying said sternly, trying to break free but to no avail...
"It was you who said you didn't want to get married and didn't want to take responsibility. It was also you who promised me that you would pursue you well. Now you inexplicably say you want to get married. Have you forgotten what I reminded you last time? The person behind Wang Duo is your father, and your father has no good intentions towards the company..."
"What does that have to do with me!"
Lin Ying finally couldn't hold it back anymore and roared at him to vent his anger -
"Jiang Shu, what right do you have to question me? You and I grew up together. How many grievances did I suffer in your Jiang family? How your mother turned a blind eye to me? How my biological father suppressed me? Don't you see all of this? What did the Jianglin Group bring me? Material things? So I deserve to be ignored and abused?! Now I have the opportunity to live and choose for myself. Why do you want me to care about the life and death of the Jianglin Group? I don't care about Lin Jidong or you!"
"What about Ruxing? Don't you care? Have you ever considered her feelings? She's still so young, do you want her to accept a thief as her father like you did back then?"
"Shut up Jiang Shu! What qualifications do you have to mention Ruxing?"
"I'm not qualified, so I deserve you to hide the truth that Ruxing is my daughter. I'm sorry for you and Ruxing. Now I don't even have the qualifications to make up for my guilt. I'm unworthy of you and the child!"
"Yes, you don't deserve it, you just don't deserve it! I hate you, Jiang Shu, I hate you. It's not worth it to sacrifice anything for someone like you..."
Lin Ying's whole body was falling apart, and the words buried deep in her heart came out indiscriminately, just as absurd as when she confided her feelings to him in the car that year.
But Jiang Shu didn't let her vent this time. He took off all the disguises and reserve since their reunion, leaned over and grabbed her lips unreasonably, just like he did six years ago, kissing and licking them, circuitously but swiftly.
His kissing skills hadn't deteriorated, and Lin Ying's memories were instantly awakened. However, this was followed by an uneasy tug of war between them. She hated herself for habitually indulging herself, for enjoying his pursuit. He was like a giant python, encircling her layer by layer, leaving her no room to breathe, no room to overstep her bounds...
But this time, she must cross.
In the gap of the deep kiss, she used her teeth to cut a bloody path. The fishy sweetness and the stinging pain were intertwined. Jiang Shu couldn't help but stop. Lin Ying pushed him away. The next moment, she raised her hand and slapped him down. The sound of the slap brought back some of his soul.
"You want to do this again? You want to torture me again?!"
The first time I was slapped by the person I loved, my face hurt, but I didn’t feel any heartache.
From the moment he decided to rush over to question Lin Ying, Jiang Shu had completely lost his mind. No matter whether Lin Ying hit him, scolded him, or ran away, he would endure it.
The corner of her bitten lip oozed blood, which was mixed with tears—more tears hung on Lin Ying's face. And his blood was rushing and burning, burning his eyes red and even his voice hoarse:
"You say I torture you, but aren't you torturing me? You're always like this, whether it was then or now. You always push me away and refuse to say anything. Either I'm your shield, or you vent your emotions on me. You think I can't understand anything, that I'm not worthy of expressing my love to you, that I'm not worthy of being the father of your children, or even being a member of your family. You see everything clearly, yet you turn a blind eye to my feelings.
Tell me, Lin Ying, if you really hate me that much, then why did you let me get involved in your life all this time? Why did you leave me some wiggle room? Was it just to play a trick on me or to get revenge on me?
Seeing Jiang Shu's red eyes for the first time, Lin Ying almost lost her balance. Taking advantage of the burning numbness, she suddenly grabbed his collar and forcefully bit the corner of his lips...
Jiang Shu then unreasonably kissed her onto the sofa, and like before, he continued to suck on the tip of her tongue and upper lip, fighting against her teeth, while his fingers obediently passed through her waist and back, caressing her breasts...
The more passionately he kissed her, the more fiercely she responded.
If he kissed somewhere else, she would bite him somewhere else, his fingers, wrists, flesh... She was sure that he was in pain, because every time she attacked, Jiang Shu would suppress the sound of pain in his throat and swallow it down.
He rubbed and caressed her body frantically, but her every response was full of aggression.
I'm teasing you, and you're the one who caters to me.
You played a trick on me back then, now it's my turn to play a trick on you. It's even.
"Jiang Shu, you are destined to be a mistress. You are only worthy of having an affair with me!"
After so many years, there are still taboos and filth between them, which can never see the light of day and they can never sever their ties.
"If I steal with you, anything is fine."
Her body was burning, but her heart was terribly cold, so she still had to hold his hot body tightly in her arms...
She was sure that her physical condition was not good and perhaps she shouldn't do such a thing, but even so, her body was still brought to a near-death by his fingers.
Just before her body was about to be invaded, she hugged his neck tightly and pressed her forehead against his...but he suddenly stopped moving——
"Do you have a fever?"
She mistook it for something else and thought he was joking with her for fun.
But soon, the weight and warmth in front of her suddenly disappeared. Jiang Shu helped her button up her clothes while saying seriously:
"I'll take you to the hospital."
But the difference between Lin Ying and being unconscious at this moment was that he was only conscious. His body was already weak, and he had suddenly experienced a climax. Now he had no strength at all, and his whole body seemed to be melting immediately.
Jiang Shu quickly calmed down, packed up his things, helped her put her clothes in order, then picked her up and carried her horizontally, preparing to open the door and go downstairs...
However, just as he pushed open the door, Wang Duo unexpectedly appeared at the door with Ruxing, and returning with them was Lin Ying's neighbor Cheng Xinran.
Facing such a scene, the three adults all looked at each other with different expressions. Ru Xing was the first to speak -
"Uncle, what happened to Mom?!"
Looking at the little girl's anxious face, Jiang Shu stared at Wang Duo and said unhappily -
"She has a fever. Didn't you notice she was not in good condition last night?"
After saying that, he carried Lin Ying around Wang Duo and hurried downstairs...
Cheng Xinran was completely dazed, having eaten so much. Before she could decide what to say, Wang Duo handed Ruxing to her...
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