Chapter 125 Hasn’t she had a good life these years?
Hasn't she had a good life these years?
When Wen Ruan woke up, it was already six o'clock the next morning.
I was woken up by He Zheng’s alarm clock.
Her back rested against the man's warm chest. She drowsily opened her eyes, fumbled for her phone from under her pillow, and glanced at the time. "An alarm so early? What's wrong?"
He Zheng woke up when the alarm rang for the first time. He tightened his arms and hugged her close to him. "Well, I have to go back to Haicheng for a meeting."
Wen Ruan realized belatedly that this was North City. He Zheng seemed to have come last night. She went to the bar with Lin Yue last night, and then she got drunk, so He Zheng went to pick her up.
Reaching out and slapping away the rogue hand that was causing trouble on his chest, Wen Ruan turned around in He Zheng's arms, "Didn't you fly directly from Singapore to Haicheng? Why are you here?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw the injury on his face. There was a bruise on his left cheekbone, and it looked like he had been beaten.
She reached out and poked the wound on him, "Who did you fight with?"
He Zheng's hand, which was slapped away by her, slid to her waist, hugged her slender waist, buried his face in her neck, and sniffed the unique fragrance on her body. He became angry when she mentioned this, and opened his mouth and pecked her neck hard.
"How dare you bring this up? I haven't seen you for a few days. I was afraid you'd miss me too much, so I squeezed out time to fly over to see you. I wanted to give you a surprise, but you ended up giving me a shock."
He briefly recounted what happened last night, without mentioning his own anxiety and uneasiness along the way. Instead, he focused on Jiang Qingyan's shamelessness and his own jealousy.
"He still held you, and you slept soundly in his arms, and you even hugged his waist."
Wen Ruan had no recollection of what he said, but he vaguely remembered seeing Jiang Qingyan and Chen Yi after getting off the bus last night.
She held his face with both hands and coaxed him softly, "You were drunk, weren't you? I thought you were here to pick me up. Don't be angry."
He Zheng's dark eyes were deep. "So what happened last night? Why are you in a bad mood?"
Wen Ruan was silent for a moment, then hugged him tightly and kissed him on the lips. "It's a long story, I'll tell you later. Aren't you in a hurry? Hurry and get up."
He Zheng really needs to be worthy, otherwise it would be too late.
He ruffled her hair and said, "You sleep a little longer. I have a meeting and a dinner tonight, so I'll be back early tomorrow morning."
tomorrow?
Wen Ruan thought of the artificial intelligence forum held by Ruan Group. He Zheng must attend. He was invited to give a speech at the main forum and could not be absent.
He Zheng went into the bathroom to take a shower, and after coming out, he took a pair of pants from the suitcase and put them on.
Wen Ruan lay on the pillow, looking at him, his eyes fixed on his eight-pack abs, and asked him about the forum, "Who are you going to take to the Ruan Group's artificial intelligence forum?"
He Zheng fastened his belt and put on a shirt.
"I was invited to give a speech and I don't take up a place. Minghe can still send two people, one of whom is Shen Yifan. If you don't go, let Xiang Hao come."
He Zheng walked to the bedside, leaned over and pinched her face, "Are you really not going?"
Wen Ruan smiled and looked at him, "You want me to go?"
He Zheng spoke frankly, "Yes, although I don't want you to run into Jiang Qingyan, this is a chance for you to expand your network. You don't have to worry about Yao Man causing trouble for you. Yao Wei is also going there to curry favor with Ruan Chengdong, and he will definitely not let Yao Man cause trouble in the Ruan family."
He reluctantly mentioned Ruan Hao again.
"That brat may be annoying, but the Ruan family is his territory. With the two of us watching over you, no one dares to bully you. The main reason is that this event has an official background and is of a very high standard. Many important figures will be there. It would be a pity if you don't go."
Wen Ruan had the same ambition as him, and he didn't want her to miss such a big occasion because of her personal affair.
Of course, there is also a little selfishness.
He wanted more people to know that Wen Ruan was his wife.
Wen Ruan saw that his face was calm but there was expectation in his eyes. He was silent for a moment, then smiled and rubbed his face.
"I'll think about it."
After He Zheng left, Wen Ruan took a nap and slept until ten o'clock, when he was woken up by a phone call.
Ling'er founder Tang Zhen called and said he was back from a business trip. He asked her when she would go to Ling'er to discuss the contract. Wen Ruan said she would be there in an hour.
After hanging up the phone, I found that Ruan Hao had sent a WeChat message half an hour ago.
Ruan Hao: [It’s over, my dad knows]
Know what? Before he could finish the rest of the sentence, Wen Ruan's eyelids jumped and he called directly. After two rings, the other party hung up.
Wen Ruan: “???”
…
Ruan Hao was in the hospital when he received Wen Ruan's call.
In my father's hospital room.
His heart was in his throat, and he was nervous and anxious.
When my father saw Wen Ruan yesterday afternoon, he was shocked, but there was nothing unusual. He just told him to go back to the company and never contacted him again. It seemed that he really believed what Wen Ruan said.
As a result, he was called here by his father in the morning. He thought something had happened, so he rushed over, and then -
"When did you know that Wen Ruan was your sister? Who told you?"
Ruan Hao was stunned by the question and subconsciously wanted to play dumb and say he didn't know. His father then asked, "Besides you, your aunt, and Ni Fei, who else knows about this?"
After asking this question, Ruan Hao felt that he was doomed.
When he was at a loss, his father received a work call. He was at a loss and secretly sent a message to Wen Ruan on his mobile phone, wanting to ask her what to do.
As a result, just after typing a few words, my father's voice came from above my head, "Put down the phone."
His hand shook, and the message he had just typed, "It's over, my dad knows," was sent successfully. He didn't even have time to withdraw it and stuffed the phone into his trouser pocket.
His father briefly explained a few things to the other end and then hung up the phone, putting the phone aside. Those sharp eyes that could see through everything looked at him again. He didn't say anything, but the oppressive feeling of his intimidation without anger made him very nervous.
My father repeated the question, "When did you know that Wen Ruan was your sister? Who told you?"
Ruan Hao had been afraid of him since he was a child. Now all his pressure was released, his tense back bent, and he knelt on the ground with a thud, his shoulders hunched.
He was afraid that things would become more complicated, so he didn't dare to involve his grandmother and aunt, so he took everything on himself.
"One time, when you were on a business trip, I went to your study to look for a book. I accidentally knocked over the medical book you had placed on the far side of the fourth drawer. There was a key inside. I was so curious, I just... opened the drawer."
He didn't understand how his father seemed to know everything in just one night.
His father would not explain it to him, but now that things had come to this, he had no choice but to speak.
Ruan Hao lowered his head and said that he knew his father had an ex-wife by reading his diary. He also said that he saw his father's treasured picture album in the storage room that his father did not allow others to enter, and the picture album was full of Wen Hui'an.
He said that he accidentally saw the video of Rong Li's celebration banquet and saw that Wen Ruan's face was very similar to the woman in the album. They both had the surname Wen and were both in Haicheng, so he asked Ni Fei to help investigate.
He said that he went to Haicheng to find Wen Ruan because he was curious about her.
He said that his aunt was going to Paris this time and took a ride with him to the airport. She happened to see Wen Ruan. She was shocked when she saw her face and wanted to call her father immediately, but he stopped her. He had no choice but to tell her everything.
Ruan Hao stammered as he finished speaking, not daring to raise his head.
The atmosphere was gloomy and tense. His cell phone rang. He shuddered with fright, glanced at his father's stern face, took out the phone and hung up, or even turned it off directly.
…
In the ward, Ruan Chengdong sat on the bed leaning against the pillow. After listening to Ruan Hao's words, he closed his eyes and remained silent for a long time before speaking.
"So, when Wen Ruan saw me yesterday afternoon, she knew I was her father. Then why did she..."
He paused, his eyelashes trembling slightly, his voice shaking, "Why does she pretend not to know me?"
No wonder she said her name was Wen Ruan, which means soft. No wonder she left so eagerly yesterday. She pretended not to know him and she didn't want to recognize him.
"You've all been hiding this from me. Is it because she doesn't want to acknowledge me?"
Ruan Hao thought his father would scold him for reading the diary and was prepared to be severely reprimanded. When he suddenly heard this, he was stunned for a moment, but answered honestly.
"yes."
He chose his words carefully. "There's an aunt named Zhong Lan, her mother's best friend. Her name is Aunt Lan. Aunt Lan told her everything about you and her mother."
"She said her mother would never be able to enter the Ruan family again in her lifetime, so she didn't want to either. She said she was no longer old enough to need a father, so she didn't want to... didn't want to recognize you. Most importantly, she was afraid that if grandma found out, she'd be furious and the tragedy of the past would repeat itself."
There was pain, sadness and bitterness in Ruan Chengdong's eyes.
I’m 28, soon to be 29, and my birthday is the Double Ninth Festival.
After getting these words out of Chen Yinyin last night, he almost immediately confirmed that Wen Ruan was his daughter, the daughter of him and Wen Huian.
He stayed awake all night and was so excited that he wanted to see Wen Ruan right away. But after calming down and thinking about everything, he had a guess: Wen Ruan didn't want to recognize him.
So this morning, after the doctor finished his rounds, he immediately called Ruan Hao over.
As expected, Wen Ruan didn't want to recognize him, and his daughter didn't want to recognize him either.
——She said she was no longer old enough to need a father.
Yes, he, her father, had been absent for many years, and she must have resented and hated him in her heart. Although he didn't know of her existence, this was not a reason.
In any case, he was wrong.
He was the one who was sorry for Wen Ruan and sorry for his Ruan Ruan.
While feeling full of apologies, Ruan Chengdong's heart was also filled with regrets.
Wen Hui'an begged him not to bother her anymore and begged him to let go of the past.
He knew that after what happened to his mother, this was how their life would be, so he accepted his family's arrangement and became a robot manipulated by his family. Although his life was boring and tedious, he was moving forward.
It turns out that it was Wen Huian who couldn't get over the past.
Wen Hui'an hid the matter from Wen Ruan. He felt a little resentful at first because she had separated them for so many years. But after calming down, he quickly felt relieved.
He could understand her. The several critical illness notices from his mother were mountains that could never be crossed between them. With his mother's temper, he could not accept her, and naturally he could not accept the child she gave birth to.
She had worked very hard to raise the child by herself, and he hadn't helped at all, so how could he have the right to blame her?
It was all his fault. He was cowardly and didn't dare to find out how happy she was with her second husband. He chose to escape and didn't dare to hear anything about her.
If he had gone to find her earlier, he wouldn't have found out now that she had given birth to a daughter for him.
Ruan Hao had never seen his father behave so misbehaving in his life.
He cried and laughed at times, his pale face looked helpless and powerless. For a moment, Ruan Hao's eyes were stung by the white hair in his temples.
In his heart, his father has always been tall and majestic, omnipotent, and no difficulty can stump him. At this moment, he suddenly realized that his father also has emotions and desires, and there are times when he is powerless.
The atmosphere in the ward was silent for a long time, and Ruan Chengdong's emotions gradually stabilized.
He asked Ruan Hao to stand up and his voice became deeper.
"What about the Rongli celebration party you mentioned just now? Has she had a hard time these years?"
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