Everyone knew that Yang Doufu's daughter married a rich man, but no one knew how rich he was. At most, some people would occasionally see her and a very handsome young man going out for a walk after dinner.
Upon hearing Aunt Wang's description, everyone gathered together to gossip about the Yang family. When someone brought up the son of the Ling family, who had also lived here before Yang Shushu, Aunt Wang curled her lips and said, "Well, I think the girl still knows how to choose. The son of the Ling family is okay, but how can he compare to the heir of the Mu family? The key is that he is rich and treats his wife well. You didn't see how affectionate the couple was. Just yesterday, I was drying clothes on the balcony and heard the couple having fun up there. I wondered what the two adults were doing, so I looked up, and guess what, they were kissing each other while having fun. Oh, don't even mention how affectionate they were."
Aunt Wang looked disapproving, but her eyes sparkled. An old man asked her, "Your house is downstairs from his, how did you see that?"
Aunt Wang looked disdainful and said, "Just stick your head out of the balcony and you'll see it."
Everyone: "..." They are really trying hard for gossip.
The old people were gossiping here and didn't notice someone walking past them. The person stopped for a moment when he heard Yang Shushu's name, and when he heard Aunt Wang say that the two were kissing on the balcony, he suddenly clenched his fists.
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As usual, Yang Shushu carried a lunch box to deliver food to Mu Shicang. When she arrived at the gate of the community, she saw Ling Xiao looking at her by the car.
He looked a little different from usual, looking much more haggard, and his gentle temperament was faintly gloomy, which reminded her of the time when she accidentally saw him in the hospital.
"Shushu, can we talk?" Ling Xiao looked at her and then glanced at the bodyguard beside her.
Yang Shushu looked at him, thought for a moment, and said to the bodyguard, "Wait here for me for a while."
Bodyguard Shi Jiao looked at Ling Xiao, thought for a moment, and nodded: "Okay."
After saying that, the bodyguard turned around and walked a short distance, but not too far, just enough to ensure that he could hear Yang Shushu and the others talking in a low voice.
Ling Xiao saw Yang Shushu approaching and opened the car door. The bodyguard took a few steps forward. Ling Xiao sneered, "How could I possibly harm her? I'm more afraid of her getting into trouble than your boss is."
Yang Shushu looked at him with strange eyes. Today, Ling Xiao was like an unsharpened knife that suddenly became sharp.
The bodyguard's attitude was very firm. He still walked forward, but was stopped by Yang Shushu: "It doesn't matter."
The bodyguard thought about it and stood still, but he took out his phone.
Yang Shushu knew that he was going to report to Mu Shicang, so she didn't stop him. She lowered her body and got into Ling Xiao's car.
Ling Xiao got into the car after her.
The car was obviously much quieter than outside. Yang Shushu looked at Ling Xiao and said, "Brother Ling, do you have anything to tell me?"
Ling Xiao looked ahead, silent for a long time, then slowly turned his head to look at her: "I heard about you..."
Yang Shushu immediately understood what he was referring to. She nodded and said, "Actually, I don't feel that much. You don't need to comfort me."
Ling Xiao stared at her intently for a long time, seemingly unable to see any emotion in her eyes. He felt relieved, but then his expression suddenly turned cold and stern: "So, what does Mu Shicang think about this matter?"
Yang Shushu paused: "How can he see it?"
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Just as Yang Shushu was coming out of the gate, Mu Shicang received a call. The person on the phone told him, "Boss, there's something I forgot to tell you before because I thought it might not be important, but thinking about it today, something seems amiss. Mu Shiyun and Ling Xiao met a few days ago. They seemed to have just exchanged a few words on the side of the road, and then Mu Shiyun left."
Mu Shicang hung up the phone, and suddenly his heart started beating very fast. An unprecedented sense of uneasiness came like a mad wind. At this moment, his phone rang again. It was the bodyguard he arranged to be with Yang Shushu.
"Boss, Ling Xiao came to look for the boss's wife. The boss's wife got into his car. The two of them didn't leave, but just stayed where they were."
Mu Shicang hung up the phone with a "click" and rushed out of the office.
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Yang Shushu sat quietly in the parking space, looking ahead. Her expression was quite calm, and she didn't seem to be affected by Ling Xiao's words just now.
Ling Xiao placed a hand on her shoulder worriedly: "Shushu, if the Ji family asks you to go back, you must not go back. They have no good intentions and just want to use you."
Yang Shushu had actually noticed this a long time ago, and what she found even more strange was—
"Brother Ling, you said that the old family did a lot of bad things to seize the family property. There was even a justice hunt that year, which caused an innocent family of three to get into a car accident. And that couple was directly killed by the people at that time?"
Yang Shushu didn't want to have such an imagination, but she had just heard Zuo Jinheng talk about what happened in the past, and then heard Ling Xiao talk about the Ji family's past, combined with the reason why Mu Shicang insisted on marrying her -
She had to think more.
Ling Xiao nodded. This was indeed what the elders did back then.
"How do you know all this?" Yang Shushu was puzzled. Even though Zuo Jinheng had experienced what happened back then, he only knew some of the truth after years of investigation and his grandfather's life. So how did Ling Xiao, an unrelated person, know all this?
"This... you don't have to worry about it. Anyway, if you can avoid going back to the Ji family, then don't go back. And Mu Shicang... The Ji family may just value his status as a member of the Mu family and use you. If I weren't the young mistress of the Mu family, perhaps they wouldn't be so persistent."
Yang Shushu smiled meaningfully: "Brother Ling, do you want me to get a divorce? And then test the Ji family?"
Ling Xiao felt a sharp pain in his heart when he saw her smile, but he still asked her, "Why can't it be a test for Mu Shicang? To see if he's willing to divorce Yi as the eldest granddaughter of the Ji family?"
"Brother Ling, there's one thing you have to understand. When we got married, no one knew about my background."
"Really?" Ling Xiao asked back with a meaningful tone.
Yang Shushu suddenly fell silent. She looked ahead with a solemn expression, not saying a word. Her profile, as still as still water, made people feel inexplicably nervous.
"Shushu, you..."
"Brother Ling, do you actually want to tell me directly that Mu Shicang had other intentions when he married me?"
"..." Ling Xiao suddenly fell silent. He looked at her quietly, his lips tightly pursed, as if he had agreed.
Yang Shushu nodded and said, "Well, I understand. Thank you."
After she finished speaking, she pushed open the car door and got out, leaving Ling Xiao with only a half-smile on her face. At that moment, Ling Xiao suddenly became scared and called her name in panic: "Shu Shu, I..."
Bang--
Yang Shushu closed the car door, and at that moment, a car suddenly came rushing from the front. The car drifted and turned at the moment it was about to hit Ling Xiao's car, and stopped directly in front of Ling Xiao's car.
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