Chapter 29 I Shouldn't Be Alive
I shouldn't be alive
He Zheng drove for three hours and rushed back to Haicheng to save the beauty. Shen Yifan wanted to make a few jokes, but when the words came to his lips, he heard He Zheng say:
"I'll take Wen Ruan home first."
Wen Ruan?
Oh, he is with Wen Ruan.
Shen Yifan swallowed his words and changed the subject, "Okay, I'm just reporting to you about my work. Mr. Guo regrets not having a drink with you tonight. He has to go to Haicheng next Monday and wants to ask you out on Monday night."
"Can."
After hanging up the phone, He Zheng turned his head to look at Wen Ruan. Wen Ruan was looking down at her phone, so he didn't disturb her. The car drove out of the parking lot and entered the main road.
Wen Ruan muted his phone before entering the banquet hall.
After getting in the car, I took it out and found eight missed calls, five from my mother and three from Zhang Tongtong.
She was about to call back, but He Zheng was on the line, so she didn't. She opened WeChat and sent a message to her mother first, "I'll be there in half an hour."
Then send a message to Zhang Tongtong, "On the way home, let's chat later."
After sending the message, when she was about to exit WeChat, she saw her name in a group with 99+ messages and clicked on it.
An investment group in the Haicheng circle, which she joined two years ago. She set the message mode to do not disturb and never spoke in it.
Someone was quick to upload the video of the celebration party to the group, starting from when she appeared and ending when she was carried away by He Zheng.
The group was buzzing with excitement, and she was the heroine of the topic.
There are more than 400 people in the group. Some speak up for her, some remain neutral, but not many. Most of them criticize her and make fun of her.
There are several on the current page.
Duan Gaoyi - Boxing Investment: [He Zheng actually helped Wen Ruan? Has He Zheng also become her lover?]
Zhang Mingxu - Shenye Securities: [I think so. Haven't you seen the online rumors? If someone gets ahead in bed, their skills must be pretty good. If I'd known, I would have tried to follow them.]
Sun Pengfei - Shenling Financial: [+1]
【……】
Several people chatted more and more excitedly in the group, until——
Wen Ruan: [Some Chinese scholars and officials are always fond of fabricating stories out of thin air, using flowery devices to create stories. They not only celebrate life but also whitewash the dark side. —Lu Xun]
Wen Ruan: [Your tongue could poison all the insects in the Nile. —Shakespeare]
Wen Ruan: [It is better to look like a fool with your mouth shut than to open your mouth and be confirmed as a fool. —Mark Twain]
Wen Ruan sent three messages in a row, and the group instantly became quiet, with no one speaking for a long time.
They arrived at the cake shop and He Zheng went to help get it. When he came back, he saw Ruan leaning on the back of the chair, looking out the window with his head tilted. His eyes were unfocused and he seemed to be in a daze. He looked exhausted and no one knew what he was thinking.
The navigation in the car has been set up and located Hua'an Yayuan.
He Zheng played a soothing piece of music that could help people relax.
Fifteen minutes later, the car arrived at the navigation destination.
He Zheng drove the car into the residential complex and patted Wen Ruan's arm. "Where are you going?"
Wen Ruan came back to his senses and glanced outside, "Go straight ahead, then turn left at the end."
After Wen Ruan took the college entrance examination, his mother sold her original school district house and bought this two-bedroom apartment near Songli Hospital.
The car stopped at the intersection of the building. Wen Ruan unbuckled her seat belt and He Zheng's eyes fell on her feet.
"Shall I take you up?"
Wen Ruan: "No, it's not that serious. It just hurt a little at the beginning, but it's much better now. There are flat shoes in the trunk, I can just change into them."
They both opened the door and got out of the car at the same time.
He Zheng opened the trunk first, Wen Ruan moved the car over, changed into flat shoes, and took the cake and clothes out of the car.
"Mr. He, thank you for tonight. You can drive the car as you like. Just call me when you don't need it."
After saying goodbye, Wen Ruan carried his things and walked towards the building, limping and walking very slowly.
He Zheng didn't follow her, nor was he in a hurry to leave. He leaned against the front of the car, following Wen Ruan's back with his eyes. After she got in, he took out cigarettes and lighter from his pocket.
The wind made the flame flicker and go out. His hands were shaking and it took him a while to light the cigarette.
He Zhengmeng took a puff of cigarette, feeling extremely upset.
It was almost three o'clock when Qian Wei called him.
"Boss He, I've handed over all my work. Should I turn myself in today?"
After Qian Wei went to Rongli and told the truth, He Zheng asked him to surrender voluntarily and promised him that he would help him solve any trouble Yao Tianyu caused him.
Qian Wei was not afraid of fines and detention. What he was afraid of was that Yao Tianyu would spread the news everywhere and that his relatives and friends would know. Since He Zheng had made the promise, he might as well surrender himself. This way, he wouldn't have to worry about it in the future.
Before hanging up the phone, Qian Wei said something.
"Mr. He, have you read the love letter Jiang Qingyan wrote to Yao Man? I've been wondering how Wen Ruan offended Yao Man that Rong Li wanted to do this to her. It turns out he's a love rival. Jiang Qingyan is really cruel to Wen Ruan..."
Jiang Qingyan’s love letter to Yao Man?
Qian Wei sent him the link to the love letter, and He Zheng finished reading the post "A Love Letter, Twelve Years of Waiting" in two minutes.
Jiang Qingyan said: "If you want to leave, I will wait for you in Rongli. As long as I am still in Rongli, I will always wait for you."
He saw it.
He wanted to kill Jiang Qingyan.
With such a big fuss online, Wen Ruan must have seen it.
Without thinking, he drove back to Haicheng. After driving for more than three hours, while waiting for the traffic light on the road, the love letter incident suddenly became a big deal and Wen Ruan was cyber-bullied.
He Zheng knew Wen Ruan too well. If it was just cyberbullying, Wen Ruan probably wouldn't care, but Jiang Qingyan liked the short essay from the marketing account.
That short essay implied that she was jealous because she couldn't get Jiang Qingyan's love, and she turned love into hate and deliberately stopped the project.
With Wen Ruan's personality, she can tolerate her lover's infidelity, but she can't stand the backstabbing that confuses right and wrong, so she should go find Jiang Qingyan.
Tonight is Rongli's celebration banquet. In previous years, all of Rongli's dinners were held at the Junrong Hotel under the Rongli Group, so he went directly to the Junrong Hotel.
Sure enough, there she was.
But he was late.
As soon as I entered, I saw Wen Ruan sitting on the ground, looking disheveled. There were so many people around her, but no one helped her. They were all laughing at her.
In his position, he couldn't rush over to protect her openly, and he had no qualifications, so he used the excuse of settling accounts with Yao Tianyu to disrupt the situation.
He Zheng had been suppressing his anger the entire night, but now that Wen Ruan had left, he couldn't control himself anymore. His hand holding the cigarette was shaking violently, and he was filled with a violent aura.
He was angry that Wen Ruan had played with his feelings back then. He had been angry for so many years and was unwilling to let her suffer even the slightest bit of injustice.
Jiang Qingyan deserves to die for daring to treat her like this.
After finishing a cigarette, He Zheng returned to the car, took out his cell phone and prepared to call Yu Yang, asking him to go to Junrong Hotel to drive the car back tomorrow.
After unlocking the phone, a WeChat message popped up.
Shen Yifan sent a screenshot of an investment group in Haicheng Circle. Many people in the group made malicious speculations, comments and suggestions about Wen Ruan, and Wen Ruan responded.
After three messages in a row, to borrow a famous quote from a famous person, the group fell silent and no one has spoken since then.
He Zheng scrolled through the messages and then directly tagged Chen Yifan in the group.
He Zheng: [@Chen Yifan - Minghe Capital, count the foul-mouthed people here and write down the names of these idiots. Foul-mouthed people have character issues. Put their names on Minghe's blacklist and never work with them.]
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Wen Ruan took the elevator to the seventh floor. She entered the password to open the door, changed into slippers and walked in.
The lights in the living room were on and his mother was sitting on the sofa. She didn't look up when she heard the noise. Wen Ruan walked over and was about to put down the cake and clothes when he suddenly heard a sneer in his ears.
"Are you satisfied with the outcome you've had today?"
Wen Ruan was stunned for a moment, then looked up and asked, "What?"
Wen Hui'an also looked at her, his face expressionless and his words full of sarcasm.
"You are 28 years old this year. Before you were 17, I took care of everything about you. You were very well behaved and listened to me in everything. That's why you excelled in everything you did during those years, and everyone who saw you praised you."
"At 18, you started to rebel. You fell in love early. You secretly changed your major. You went against me. You said you were the master of your own life from now on."
"You've worked so hard these years just to prove to me that your choice was right, but were you right?"
Wen Ruan got a headache every time he heard her say this.
"Mom, I sprained my ankle and it hurts a little. Can you please..."
Wen Huian was immersed in her own emotions at the moment and didn't notice what she said, and just kept complaining to herself.
"I've read all that online. Wen Ruan, is this your own choice? Back then, I asked you to study medicine, but you insisted on studying finance. You've worked so hard for so many years, and now you're in a mess. If you had listened to me, you wouldn't be in this situation today."
"And Jiang Qingyan, didn't I tell you that Jiang Qingyan is unreliable? You've been dating for three years and he hasn't brought you home. He's already thirty, and it's impossible for his family not to know about a relationship at this age."
"He doesn't want to take you back, which means his family doesn't like you. You can't go to such a family. You refused to listen to me and insisted on getting involved. As a result, they already have someone they love and don't take you seriously at all."
"You chose your career and your man. Facts have proven that both your choices were wrong. If you had listened to me, if you had stayed in Haicheng to attend university, you wouldn't have met Jiang Qingyan, and your life would have been much smoother..."
"That's enough! Can you please stop talking!"
Wen Ruan had been suppressing his emotions all the way, and now hearing Tang Monk's muttering like a spell, his brain was about to explode.
Her hands were shaking so badly that the cake and clothes in her hands fell to the ground with a thud.
"Why don't I stay in Haicheng to study at university? Because I want to stay away from you. Why should I stay away from you? Don't you know?"
Wen Ruan's eyes were bloodshot and tears were flowing uncontrollably.
"From childhood, I had to live by the rules you set: what time to eat, what time to go to bed, how much water to drink every day, what score I had to get on this exam, what place I had to get, what weight I had to maintain, how many books I had to read in a month... I was like a robot controlled by you."
"My room is covered with the plans you made. I have to follow your plans, otherwise you will be unhappy and have a stern face all day long."
"You said that because you gave birth to me, you missed out on a very important job opportunity. You said you were disappointed in me and sometimes regretted choosing me. In order not to disappoint you, I forced myself to complete your tasks on time and in full."
"Mom, I know it was hard for you to raise me alone, so I will listen to you in everything."
"You made me the top student in my grade, and I was top from elementary school to high school. You said my friends would hinder my studies, so I cut off all ties with them. Before high school, I didn't have a single friend."
"I'm an outcast at school. No one wants to play with me. It doesn't matter. As long as you're happy, I'll listen to you. But how do you treat me?"
"I've already told you, I'm not in a premature relationship, but you just don't believe me. You humiliated He Zheng in front of so many people, slapped me, and even read my diary!"
"You read it, but you still judged me word for word. You said my writing was depressing and that I was overthinking. You even showed the diary to my homeroom teacher and asked him to counsel me. When this got out, everyone thought I was suffering from depression."
"You didn't give me any dignity and still wanted me to follow your path. I didn't dare anymore, so I ran away."
"I chose the school myself, the major myself, and the man myself. I deserve what I'm facing today."
"But I don't regret it, because if I had listened to you and accepted your arrangement, I would have gone crazy a long time ago. Mom, I can't breathe when I'm with you."
"You look down on me in every way, and I don't want a mother like you. You really should have aborted me back then. I shouldn't have been born, I shouldn't be alive..."
Bang!
"What nonsense are you talking about!"
A slap came at her, and Wen Ruan staggered and fell on the single sofa behind her. She took a while to recover, forced herself to stand up, and turned around and ran out without paying attention to the pain in her ankle.
Downstairs, He Zheng started the car and was ready to leave. When he looked up, he saw Wen Ruan coming down again.
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