Chapter 3 You are the third party
You are the third party
When Wen Ruan returned to Huatang Bay, it was almost dawn.
The lights in the living room were on and Jiang Qingyan came back.
She put down her car keys, changed into slippers, turned around and walked inside. After taking two steps, she suddenly stopped.
My heart, which had been up and down all night, suddenly sank and fell completely into the abyss.
Jiang Qingyan drank too much again, his neck and face were red, and he leaned against the sofa.
Yao Man sat beside him, put her arms around his neck, snuggled up to his chest, and kissed him slowly.
Jiang Qingyan closed his eyes and hung his hands at his sides, as if he was asleep. He allowed her to move without any reaction.
When Wen Ruan got off the car, he accidentally stepped into two puddles and his shoes got soaked. The cold started from the soles of his feet and his whole body was almost numb. His body was trembling slightly and he almost couldn't stand.
She froze in place for a few seconds, then walked over, grabbed the back of Yao Man's collar and pulled her up.
As soon as Yao Man left, Jiang Qingyan lost his support and fell on the sofa with a frown, seeming to be in some pain.
Bang!
Wen Ruan raised his hand and hit Yao Man.
"Ah!" Yao Man was slapped hard on the face. She screamed in pain, covering her face and staring at Wen Ruan in disbelief.
"You dare to hit me!"
She is the eldest daughter of Rongli Group. She grew up with a silver spoon in her mouth. She is always the center of attention wherever she goes and no one dares to make trouble for her.
She is thirty years old and has lived for thirty years.
This is the first time I’ve been slapped!
Wen Ruan shook her hands, which were numb from the force she had used. "You came to my house late at night and molested my man. Shouldn't I be beaten?"
Yao Man's voice was sharp. "Morality? Jiang Qingyan loves me, we are in love with each other, I..."
"This isn't a question of love or not, it's a question of morality and shame," Wen Ruan interrupted her. "I'm just asking you, did Jiang Qingyan tell you in person that I'm his girlfriend?"
Yao Man frowned and said, "But it won't be like that soon!"
Wen Ruan rolled up his sleeves, his mood was relatively calm, and he smiled gently:
"Right away? So you know we haven't broken up yet, and you haven't even gotten promoted yet, yet you dare to come to my house and disgust me. What's wrong with hitting me?"
She pointed at Jiang Qingyan who was still drunk.
"You took advantage of my boyfriend being drunk and molested him at his house. I can call the police and have you arrested."
Yao Man covered her face and looked at her hatefully, "Why are you so arrogant?"
It was the first time she was slapped, and her face was in pain. She gritted her teeth, and her vicious eyes showed a determination to give it her all and not care about anything.
"Wen Ruan, have you always felt that I was the latecomer who destroyed your relationship with Jiang Qingyan?"
Wen Ruan found this question puzzling. "You have a very accurate understanding of your own position."
Yao Man sneered, "Wen Ruan, you are the third party!"
Wen Ruan felt offended and looked at her with a look that said, "If you have a mental problem, go get treatment."
Yao Man said: "Jiang Qingyan hasn't told you about my past with him, right? In fact, we have known each other since childhood."
Wen Ruan was about to use a broom to chase the man away, but stopped when he heard this.
Knowing each other since childhood?
No one told her, so she really didn't know.
Yao Man did not lie, she had indeed known Jiang Qingyan since childhood.
Jiang Qingyan's mother was the dance teacher hired by her family. She taught her from elementary school to high school, and only stopped when she went abroad.
She is very talented in dancing, but her academic performance is not good. Jiang Qingyan has very good grades and has always been the number one in the grade. When her grandfather heard about it, he often asked Teacher Jiang to bring him over to help her with tutoring.
I tutored her from junior high school to high school, and her grades actually improved, but she still failed the college entrance examination.
Because she fell in love early.
There was a rich second-generation student who was at the bottom of the class next door. The student didn't like studying. He took her out to play the day before the college entrance examination and tricked her into getting a room at night.
The next day she overslept and woke up at noon, missing the exam.
Her family was afraid that she would get involved with that bastard again, so they insisted on sending her abroad. She was angry with her family and didn't come back for many years.
Yao Man certainly wouldn't be stupid enough to tell Wen Ruan about this unbearable first love story.
What she wanted to tell Wen Ruan was something even more cruel, enough to tear her heart out.
"Jiang Qingyan has always loved me."
Yao Man wore a brown cashmere coat today, a set of high-profile designer clothes, the diamonds on her earrings shone brightly, and her makeup was bold and gorgeous.
She walked to the sofa, bent down to pick up her bag, took out a letter from the bag, turned around and walked to Wen Ruan, opened it, and put it in her hand.
"This is the love letter Jiang Qingyan wrote to me the day before I left the country."
She didn't like Jiang Qingyan back then.
Because at that time, Jiang Qingyan was just a nerd who only knew how to study. He was quiet, not witty, and not humorous. Unlike that school scoundrel who always coaxed her with sweet words, took her racing, took her drinking and fighting, and took her around the world to seek excitement.
Besides, she didn't like studying, and Jiang Qingyan's identity as a tutor annoyed her. At that time, he hit all her sore spots.
So when she received the love letter the day before she went abroad, she mocked him, saying that he was a toad wanting to eat swan flesh, and threw the letter away without even reading the content.
She didn't know what was in the love letter until last weekend.
That day, she knew that Jiang Qingyan and Wen Ruan were going to see a movie, but she couldn't think of a suitable reason to disrupt it, so she went to find Teacher Jiang.
Teacher Jiang has always liked her, and she planned to ask Teacher Jiang to trick Jiang Qingyan back home on time.
As a result, this love letter was discovered accidentally.
Teacher Jiang said that after she left, Jiang Qingyan picked up the love letter.
Teacher Jiang said, "Manman, Ayan has never forgotten you. He has been waiting for you."
Wen Ruan didn't hear what Yao Man said next. She looked at the thin piece of paper in front of her with a dazed look.
The paper has turned yellow over the years, but it has been well preserved and the handwriting is clearly visible.
There are many old books of Jiang Qingyan in the study. There are many annotations written by him on the reading materials he used to read in high school. Wen Ruan has read every one of them.
She had seen his handwriting in high school. At that time, his handwriting was neat and regular, unlike now, where the strokes were sharp, steady and restrained, and contained a majestic aura.
The paper in front of him indeed showed Jiang Qingyan's writing habits from high school.
Only after seeing the handwriting clearly did Wen Ruan read the content.
She was no stranger to love letters. In the past, her schoolbag and desk were often filled with love letters. This letter was no different from the ones she had seen before. They all used gorgeous and moving words to express the feelings.
But, this was written by Jiang Qingyan.
Written to Yao Man.
He promised, "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."
…
In the living room, Yao Man looked at Wen Ruan, whose face was pale, and her anger for being slapped tonight subsided a lot.
This was not enough, she had even more cruel words to provoke Wen Ruan.
"I heard that you were the one who pursued Jiang Qingyan first, but he rejected you. But three years ago today, he suddenly agreed to date you. Do you know why?"
As expected, Wen Ruan ignored her, and Yao Man didn't care either, she just kept talking to herself:
"Because three years ago today was my wedding."
She married her first love.
Back then, her father intended to choose a man of equal status for her, but unfortunately, by then, she had already secretly contacted the student scoundrel, and was deceived by his sweet words into secretly obtaining a marriage certificate.
She thought she was marrying for love, but after marriage she found out that she was cheated.
The man had no ambition and was caught cheating on a young model by her. He indulged in drinking, whoring and gambling. He married her only because his family needed the Yao family's help.
She wanted a divorce, but the other party refused to agree. She was afraid of being embarrassed but didn't want to sue, so she kept dragging it out.
Half a year ago, Jiang Qingyan went there on a business trip, and his father asked him to help negotiate. He actually persuaded that bastard to save her from suffering without any cost.
She hadn't seen Jiang Qingyan for many years, and when she saw him again that time, she was completely dazzled.
The boy who used to be dull and boring with thick black-framed glasses has become mature, steady, handsome and noble.
That face was so perfect, with three-dimensional features and a tall and graceful figure. The moment he looked at her, she fell in love with him.
She wants this man.
So she came back, spent two months dealing with matters abroad, and then joined Rongli Capital.
She thought it would be easy to win over Jiang Qingyan, after all, he had sent her a love letter in the past.
As a result, Jiang Qingyan actually had a girlfriend and they had been dating for three years.
She thought that time had passed too long and he had really fallen in love with Wen Ruan, so she could only use her status advantage to destroy them.
It wasn't until last weekend that she saw the love letter and its contents at Jiang's house.
It turned out that Jiang Qingyan entered Rongli for her, and the fact that he is still in Rongli means that he is still waiting for her.
He still has her in his heart, he has always loved her, Yao Man!
So Wen Ruan is the third party!
After reading the love letter that day, she immediately called Jiang Qingyan, and Jiang Qingyan really ran out of the cinema to find her.
However, when she threw herself into his arms and said she was touched, he pushed her away.
"Wen Ruan has been with me these past few years, and I can't let her down."
He politely rejected her, but she could see that he was hesitating and struggling. He had her in his heart, he just didn't know how to deal with Wen Ruan.
Yao Man originally planned to find a time to talk to Wen Ruan directly, but Jiang Qingyan did not allow her to mention the love letter to Wen Ruan.
"She won't be able to bear it. Don't tell her. After all, I am the one who wronged her. She resigned after the New Year. We broke up after she resigned. Let her leave quietly, okay?"
Yao Man was afraid of making him angry, so she kept it to herself.
She knew that today was their third anniversary, and she didn't want Jiang Qingyan to accompany Wen Ruan.
So she asked her friends to act out a play. She told Jiang Qingyan that her father had arranged a blind date for her. He was a rich second-generation man who appeared to be a gentleman but was actually a scumbag who played all kinds of games behind the scenes. She sent him a message asking him to accompany her.
He said he wanted to spend the third anniversary with Wen Ruan, so she called and said that the man had touched her, but he finally went.
He really loved her.
Jiang Qingyan was drunk by her friends tonight.
He got him drunk to fulfill her wish. She was going to take him to her place, but he insisted on coming back and said he wanted to apologize to Wen Ruan.
In fact, they came back five minutes earlier than Wen Ruan. She had just helped Jiang Qingyan to the sofa when Wen Ruan came back. When she heard the sound of the door opening, she kissed him as if possessed.
She hadn't intended to talk about the love letter, but this woman actually hit her!
No one ever dared to hit her!!!
…
"Three years ago today was my wedding."
Wen Ruan thought of the night she was with Jiang Qingyan.
She was the one who pursued Jiang Qingyan first and confessed her love to him, but Jiang Qingyan rejected her, saying, "Sorry, I don't have any plans for a relationship at the moment."
It was not until three years ago that Jiang Qingyan called her and asked her to meet him at the bar. When she arrived, he was already drunk.
That night, he kept pouring wine into his mouth.
When he saw her, he hugged her in his arms, his voice was hoarse from the strong liquor.
He said, "Wen Ruan, we are together."
She thought he was drunk and would definitely forget it tomorrow, so she coaxed him to say it a second time and even used her phone to record it.
As a result, he did not forget the next day. He took the initiative to pick her up from work, brought her breakfast, and took her hand when the first snow fell.
Later she asked him why he drank so much that day.
He said he had a fight with his mother.
So his sadness that night was actually because... Yao Man was getting married?
——As long as I am still in Rongli, I will always wait for you.
He joined Rongli right after graduation and is still working in Rongli today.
If he has been waiting for Yao Man, then what is she?
There was a noise coming from the sofa. Wen Ruan looked up and saw that Jiang Qingyan had woken up at some point. He supported himself on the sofa with his hands and sat up. He leaned back and looked at her. His eyes, red from the alcohol, were dim and unclear.
The two looked at each other.
Wen Ruan's throat hurt, and she heard herself asking him in a trembling voice.
"Jiang Qingyan, what have I been in these three years?"
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