"When you went to the capital, I thought I'd celebrate your birthday after you finished filming."
Ji Jin hugged Jiang Lai and said, "Thank you, sister. I like it."
Jiang Lai patted her back without asking any questions. "Have a good rest. I'll call you for dinner. Your brother-in-law's cooking skills have improved again."
"By the way, you asked Chen Xiao to consult me about the house, and I'm ready."
"I'll take you to see it tomorrow."
"The studio has been set up, and your grandfather has been properly taken care of, so you don't have to worry about anything."
Ji Jin secretly wiped away her tears and hugged Jiang Lai tighter.
Chi Zhan was a little worried that Ji Jin might lose control and use too much force, which might hurt Jiang Lai.
Just as he was about to step forward, Jiang Lai stopped him with a look.
"Chi Zhan has bought it across the street. I'll take you there. The bed is already made. It's clean and you can sleep right away."
Ji Jin nodded.
"Thank you for your hard work, sister."
“It’s not hard.”
Watching Ji Jin lie down, Jiang Lai closed the bedroom door.
He walked to the door and saw Chi Zhan waiting for him, then closed the door and pulled him back to his side.
Ask him, "Do you know what happened?"
Chi Zhan helped her sit down and handed her a box.
"These are your mother's relics, as well as the couple's rings. The other one is with Huo Qinghuai. They bought it at an auction."
Jiang Lai only took her mother's relics. When she saw a set of pear blossom jewelry, she curled her lower lip.
"Xiao Jin looks exactly like our mother, from her looks to her preferences."
"Leave this to her. I'll give it to her when she wakes up. As for the ring, you can do with it."
Chi Zhan accepted the female ring and said, "Huo Qinghuai may not live for much longer."
Jiang Lai paused, "What did you say?"
Chi Zhan told Jiang Lai everything about the situation that Po Jun had passed on.
"Gu Chenxu meant that if Ji Jin didn't speak up, he wouldn't treat Huo Qinghuai and would just let him fend for himself."
Jiang Lai was speechless. "Does Huo Qinghuai always threaten Xiaojin with his own life?"
"But wasn't it he who did those things in the first place?"
Chi Zhan was not trying to speak for Huo Qinghuai, he really didn't want this matter to affect Jiang Lai's mood.
There is always a thorn between them.
Who knows how they will be hit hard in the future.
"Everything I told you before was true, but I also hid some things."
Jiang Lai didn't react much.
Chi Zhan became even more panicked.
"I'm not hiding it on purpose. I'm just afraid that if I say too much, you'll think I'm talking about Huo Qinghuai and implicate me."
Jiang Lai reached out and hooked his chin.
"In your eyes, am I the kind of person who can't tell right from wrong?"
"Of course not."
Chi Zhan was full of desire to survive, "I acted on my own initiative for your health."
"Now I am redeeming myself from my crime, can you give me a chance?"
"Can."
Jiang Lai grabbed his collar and pulled him closer.
Chi Zhan quickly supported himself on the sofa beside her with both hands to avoid bumping into her belly.
Jiang Lai tilted her head, blew a breath into his ear, and scratched his Adam's apple with her nails.
"You'd better not hide anything and tell us everything, otherwise... you know what I mean."
Chi Zhan cursed inwardly, his Adam's apple rolling, and he forced himself to suppress his surging anger.
He took a deep breath and said, "I'm definitely not hiding anything this time."
Jiang Lai loosened his hand, leaned back, and raised his hand casually, imitating what he did every day.
"Go ahead."
Chi Zhan couldn't help laughing, and then he talked about some things that he had concealed.
"We once managed to get Huo Qinghuai drunk and figured out why he had been so indifferent to Ji Jinyu for three years."
Jiang Lai cracked melon seeds and motioned him to hurry up.
Chi Zhan said: "On the day of her coming of age, Ji Jin confessed her love to Huo Qinghuai, and took advantage of Huo Qinghuai's drunkenness to secretly kiss him. When Huo Qinghuai found out, he rejected her confession and scolded her for her behavior..."
"I think I know this."
"I think it's a little behind."
"Okay, go on."
Chi Zhan continued, "Ji Jin changed her choice of major overnight and went to study in another city. Because of the confession, Huo Qinghuai deliberately distanced himself from her, so by the time he found out, Ji Jin had already been studying in another city for a semester."
"Huo Qinghuai was also busy at that time, on a business trip. Ji Jin returned to Huo's house during the winter break, and he was also on vacation, so he found out about this."
"At that time, he realized that something was wrong in his heart, but he just kept it to himself and didn't say anything."
"The family discussed their marriage. One afternoon, Huo's mother spoke to Ji Jin alone in the small garden, intending to bring them together. Ji Jin said at the time that—"
"What is it?" Jiang Lai asked quickly.
"She said that she probably didn't like Huo Qinghuai, but because they had been together since childhood, she mistook it for love."
Jiang Lai analyzed, "Xiao Jin must have wanted to save face at the time and didn't want to make things awkward with the Huo family. After all, the Huo family treated her very well."
"You guessed right." Chi Zhan said, "It was indeed after Huo Qinghuai refused to marry her that she said that."
"Because of this statement, Huo Qinghuai agreed to get married. After getting the marriage certificate, he applied for a position in another place and was left out for three years."
Jiang Lai didn't understand. "What kind of logic is this?"
"That's some sick logic." Chi Zhan recalled what Huo Qinghuai said when he was drunk.
Because he drank too much, his speech was broken and incoherent.
If it wasn't the truth, he wouldn't bother to listen.
"According to him, he thought that since Ji Jin didn't love him, an agreement would allow Ji Jin's grandfather to rest in peace and allow Grandpa Huo to live out the rest of his life in peace."
"It's just a wedding for the two grandfathers anyway, there's no need to maintain a close relationship."
Jiang Lai claimed to understand men, but she failed to analyze the meaning of Huo Qinghuai's actions from this topic.
"Even if he didn't like Xiao Jin, it was too much for him to not help her when she was dying. It's as if the brother-sister relationship between them was fake."
Chi Zhan also didn't understand why Huo Qinghuai and Ji Jin, who were childhood sweethearts, should get married naturally.
Instead of making trouble like today.
"He didn't stand by and watch someone die."
"What?"
Jiang Lai stopped cracking melon seeds and said, "Swear you're not speaking for him."
Chi Zhan raised his hand, "I swear."
"He didn't take action at the time, nor did he let Pojun and the others take action. It was he who notified Yan Feng."
“…”
Jiang Lai held it in for a long time before finally saying, "Is Huo Qinghuai's personality so weird?"
Chi Zhan nodded, "It was indeed awkward at the time, and I couldn't think it through for a while."
"He has indeed always treated Ji Jin like a younger sister and doted on her. Before Ji Jin confessed her love, he never thought there was love between them."
"Even when adults joked about them getting married, he just laughed it off, thinking that when Ji Jin grows up, she'll find someone she likes, and then the adults will naturally stop saying anything."
Jiang Lai held his forehead and said helplessly: "Can't he see Huo Qinghuai's scheming and brains?"
"I've been trying to trick Xiao Jin before, but it doesn't look like I have a problem with my emotional intelligence."
Chi Zhan said, "He just didn't think about it that way. Later he started to think about it and connected everything together, which forced himself to get sick."
"But at the end of the three-year agreement, Ji Jin took the initiative to file for divorce, which caused his heart disease to completely explode, leading to all that happened later."
Jiang Lai was filled with questions: "Isn't he just pretending to be sick?"
Chi Zhan spread his hands and said, "He's a person who is both real and fake. It might be an occupational disease."
“…”
Jiang Lai thought about what Huo Qinghuai had done, and combined it with what Chi Zhan said.
Maybe a clear line has been drawn.
"Back then, Xiao Jin liked him, but he didn't like her, so he ignored her. Now, the two sides are reversed. He likes Xiao Jin, but Xiao Jin doesn't like him, so she keeps her distance."
"Then he should let Xiao Jin go, just like Xiao Jin let him go."
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