Wen Jin didn't answer. He didn't know if he could live until then.
Jiang Qiao still fed him.
The two of them tacitly agreed not to break the last layer of window paper.
Jiang Qiao knew that Wen Jin was afraid.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, Jiang Qiao was ready to leave.
The two fell silent.
Jiang Qiao urged him, coquettishly saying, "Wen Jin, cooperate with the treatment. I'll wait for you. Remember to get more sun. It's good for your health. I don't like men who are too weak."
Wen Jin didn't want her to leave, so he hugged her tightly, "I understand."
It was quiet all around. They could hear each other's breathing and heartbeat, and a silent ambiguity spread in the air.
Wen Jin pinched her waist, leaned over and kissed her between the eyebrows, "Wait for me."
…
Jiang family.
When Jiang Qiao got home, it was almost time for dinner, so she didn't go upstairs.
Yu Yunshu was carrying a bunch of things. "Qiao Qiao, I bought a bunch of things. Take a look. Which one do you like?"
Jiang Qiao chose a watch and said, "Thank you, Mom."
She asked casually, "Why haven't I seen Shi Chuan in the past two days? Where did he go?"
Yu Yunshu's smile froze on her face, and she thought of a random excuse, "Maybe your dad arranged for him to go on a business trip again."
"Mom, my dad is too strict. Shi Chuan is only eighteen. Isn't it too much to ask of him?" Jiang Qiao sensed something was wrong and half-jokingly tested him, "Shi Chuan is your only adopted son. You're not going to make him your heir, are you?"
Jiang Qiao guessed that Jiang's father and mother must be hiding something from him.
Yu Yunshu's expression turned strange. "...Shi Chuan is smart. It's not a bad thing if your father wants to take care of him. You don't have to worry about it."
"Besides, Shi Chuan was already ten years old when he came to our house. Which heir isn't trained from a young age? Perhaps your father values him so much that it's inevitable that he has higher expectations of him."
"Qiao Qiao, remember, you don't have to worry about these things. Mom and Dad will take care of everything for you."
Jiang Qiao looked at Yu Yunshu seriously, "Mom, you and Dad are not hiding anything from me, right?"
Yu Yunshu's expression turned even uglier. "What...what nonsense are you talking about? What could your father and I possibly hide from you? Even if we do, it's for your own good."
"Okay, okay, stop asking. You must be hungry. Let's go eat." After saying this, Yu Yunshu left as if escaping.
Jiang Qiao felt something was wrong, and it seemed she needed to investigate.
…
Three thirty in the morning.
Jiang Qiao quietly came to Jiang Weilin's study and turned on the light.
The room was filled with a faint scent of sandalwood. Jiang's father's favorite paintings hung on the wall, and there was a desk in the middle.
She had been there once before and knew there was a small safe under the desk.
I just don't know the password.
Jiang Qiao guessed that the things that Jiang's father and mother had hidden from him might be in this safe.
Wangcai: [Host, what if you don’t know the password? ]
"You're stupid, I have the skill of words."
Wangcai is wondering what the password is for the Word Spirit skill?
Jiang Qiao cleared his throat and said, "The password to the safe is my birthday!"
[Ding Dong~ The host's Word Spirit skill has been successfully determined.]
Wangcai: Is this possible?
Jiang Qiao quickly entered his birthday.
“Click—”
The door of the safe opened.
Jiang Qiao's eyes lit up and he quickly looked through the contents.
Inside was a pile of gold bars and some bidding documents.
Jiang Qiao was not interested in these.
Finally, Jiang Qiao saw an adoption record from an orphanage and an agreement.
Dawn Orphanage.
Name: Shichuan.
Age: ten years old.
Adopted by: Jiang Weilin.
…
Jiang Qiao began to look through the agreement below.
After seeing the content clearly, her face went blank for a moment, and then she fell to her knees in embarrassment.
Tears fell drop by drop on the smooth floor. She closed the safe tremblingly and left the study with the agreement.
Jiang Qiao finally understood why Shi Chuan didn't feel a sense of belonging in this family, why he was like an emotionless robot...
All this is because of her.
That agreement was Shi Chuan's "indenture".
It says that the price for the Jiang family to adopt him is that he stays in the Jiang family for life.
Can’t fall in love, can’t get married, can’t have children of their own.
I will support Jiang Qiao for the rest of my life.
No wonder……
No wonder Shi Chuan is always so busy...
From the first day Shi Chuan arrived at the Jiang family from the orphanage, Jiang Weilin asked him to undergo high-intensity training to make up for the shortcomings of the previous ten years.
Treat him as an excellent successor and train him.
He is very smart, but if he keeps doing this day after day, won’t he get tired of it?
All this is because of her.
From the moment his daughter was kidnapped, Jiang Weilin had decided not to let her join the family business, not to let her go through everything that an heir has to go through, and wanted her to live a peaceful and stable life.
So, Shi Chuan took her place.
He became a victim of the family business and a puppet of Jiang Qiao. Shi Chuan will live for her for the rest of his life.
Jiang Qiao knew that this was Shi Chuan's own choice.
At that time, Shi Chuan might have been longing for life outside the orphanage, or he might have been feeling proud that someone had finally adopted him.
At that time, the clever Shi Chuan probably didn't think that the agreement would be so difficult to fulfill. He just wanted to escape from the orphanage as quickly as possible.
Jiang Qiao knew how much a child longed for life outside the orphanage and how desperate he would be.
So Shi Chuan agreed to Jiang Weilin's request and was willing to become this puppet, even though he had never seen Jiang Qiao's appearance at the time...
But is he free?
No, he just flew from one cage to a bigger one.
Jiang Qiao couldn't blame Jiang Weilin because he was a father and he was thinking about his daughter.
She could only feel guilty.
Jiang Qiao wondered if Shi Chuan had not agreed to Jiang Weilin's request, would he wait until a family was willing to adopt him and gain true freedom?
She didn't dare to think about it.
Shi Chuan has been a puppet for eight years. Does he regret it? Or has he ever regretted it?
The answer is absolutely.
He must have regretted it, but he couldn't resist, because that agreement was the choice made by the ten-year-old him...a choice that yearned for more freedom.
Tears stained the pillow and soaked her clothes, and her chest felt so uncomfortable.
"Boom—boom—"
Thunder and lightning flashed across the dark gray clouds, illuminating the dark room. The girl curled up in the quilt like a coward.
Jiang Qiao didn't know how to face Shi Chuan, she wanted to take him home.
…
“Dongdongdong——”
"Miss, it's time to get up. You have classes today and need to go to school."
The servant came to call her.
No one responded.
The servant couldn't make up his mind and went downstairs to tell Yu Yunshu.
Yu Yunshu felt something was wrong and suddenly remembered what Jiang Qiao asked her last night, so she hurried upstairs to check.
Opened the door.
The girl on the bed had a flushed face, a pale and bloodless mouth, a layer of cold sweat on her forehead, her whole body was trembling, and the traces of tears under her eyes were particularly obvious.
Yu Yunshu's breathing stopped when she saw the agreement on the bed.
She still knew.
"Someone, call the doctor!"
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