Chapter 45 Chapter 45 Let's Talk
Jiang Lin's face was unhappy. He responded, "Is your background the only thing you can talk about? That's why you keep talking about it over and over again for so many years?"
Jiang Yue chuckled. "Did I just say you were an illegitimate child? My main point was clearly that you were uneducated. Wen Yao is your sister-in-law, not some 'she'."
After saying that, he took Wen Yao's hand, his tone softened, and he asked gently, "Have you given up now?"
Wen Yao didn't say anything, but her tears flowed even harder.
"Come back with me?" Jiang Yue asked.
Wen Yao nodded. Originally, she had wanted to escape Jiang Yue, but now, in a trance, she felt that Jiang Yue had become a haven of refuge.
Jiang Yue no longer paid attention to the two people in the room and pulled her out. When they reached the door, Wen Yao turned around.
"Lu Wan, first, I really want to be friends with you; second, there may be many people who like Jiang Lin, but I don't; third, you don't have to leave a note on my phone number, I will delete you." After saying that, he turned and left.
She thought Jiang Yue would mock her after they left, but he didn't. Instead, he pulled her into the elevator, downstairs, and finally to the parking lot. He opened the car door for her to get in, and then started the car himself.
The two of them were silent along the way. The heater was on in the car, but Wen Yao still felt cold, as if her heart and skin were frozen into ice.
The car drove to the Luoman Manor and Jiang Yue got out. This time he didn't hold her hand, but walked straight in. Wen Yao followed behind him.
When they reached the living room, Jiang Yue turned around and said, "Go take a shower. When you're ready, we'll talk."
Wen Yao returned to her room in silence.
After taking a shower, her body gradually warmed up, but she still had no strength and lay down under the quilt.
She felt like a loser now, and she didn't want to talk to Jiang Yue about anything.
Later, I thought that Jiang Yue was not a successful person either. Everything he planned failed, but Jiang Lin still succeeded in revitalizing the unfinished building. He probably used his own tactics to defeat Jiang Yue and thwarted his plan to use Pei Juan to attack him.
The halo and luck are always on his side because he is the male protagonist.
As she lay there, she fell asleep and when she woke up it was already the next morning.
I thought of Lu Wan, Jiang Lin, and Jiang Yue.
Jiang Yue said he wanted to talk to her, but she didn't know how he would talk to her. Now they were actually in the same situation, both desperate and with a bleak future.
But obviously she looked more embarrassed than him. At least he still had money and could still confront the male and female protagonists, while she was like a drowned dog.
She lay down until around nine o'clock when she heard a knock on the door. Mrs. Chen came to bring her breakfast.
She was really hungry and ate two bowls of rice.
After the problem of food and clothing was solved, it was time to face practical problems, but Wen Yao didn't know what to do next, nor did she know how to talk to Jiang Yue.
She took out her cell phone and found that there was a very popular local news last night, and there were several hot searches, all about Jiang Lin.
The news is an exposure of the previous financial fraud of Huijin Asset Management Co., Ltd. The evidence is solid and irrefutable.
The subsequent comments were all slanderous towards Jiang Lin, and several of the trending searches stemmed from the same article, which accused Jiang Lin of being an illegitimate child, his mother being a mistress, and his current close relationship with Pei Juan, which might also be related to fabrication. In comparison, Jiang Yue, the legitimate son of the Jiang family, was far superior. He came from a prestigious family, graduated from a prestigious university, and had achieved so many achievements since joining the Jiang family. It was almost a piece of slanderous writing that was well versed in public relations theory.
There is no doubt that this looks like something Jiang Yue did.
If Wen Yao hadn't been involved, she would have believed it. But because it was clearly Jiang Yue's doing, it proved that it wasn't him who did it, but Jiang Lin.
She informed Jiang Lin of the news, and Jiang Lin took advantage of the situation and revealed the matter from Jiang Yue's perspective.
What would their father, Jiang Shaoming, think? What would Old Master Jiang think?
Especially Mr. Jiang, he would feel that Jiang Yue did not even have this kind of broad-mindedness in order to fight for power. He could not accept that Jiang Lin was just going to Huijin Asset to be a small leader, and he used such a sinister trick to frame him and even did not hesitate to destroy his father's reputation.
Wen Yao suddenly thought of the phone call Jiang Yue received yesterday.
He went out immediately. The call should be from Mr. Jiang. Only Mr. Jiang could make him take it so seriously.
Wen Yao, not knowing where to go, stayed in the room for most of the day. It was not until the afternoon that she mustered up the courage, gritted her teeth, and called Jiang Yue.
There was a quiet and emotionless "Hello" on the other end of the phone, completely different from the gentle and doting tone before.
Wen Yao cleared her throat: "Are you in the room? I'll go find you and see what you want to talk about."
"I'm at the company." Jiang Yue said.
Wen Yao was stunned. She forgot that today was a working day.
But mainly, she hadn't expected Jiang Yue to be able to go to work as usual under such circumstances. Hadn't he just suffered a major setback? He was also tricked by Jiang Lin and criticized by his grandfather. If it were her, she would definitely take three days off.
After a long silence, Wen Yao finally spoke: "Didn't you say to talk? What to talk about?"
"Wait until I get off work, probably..." He seemed to check the time, "8:30."
"Oh, okay." After Wen Yao finished speaking, silence fell on the two of them. An awkward and speechless atmosphere filled the receiver, and she quickly hung up the phone.
At around seven o'clock, Wen Yao heard Jiang Yue coming back from her room. At eight twenty-five, Mrs. Chen knocked on his door and asked her to go to the study.
Finally here. Wen Yao took a deep breath and walked to Jiang Yue's study with an inexplicable feeling of nervousness and guilt.
That was the room where she was forced to work for him. It was spacious and bright, luxurious and elegant, with south-facing floor-to-ceiling windows, 3D embossed wallpaper with gold patterns on a gray background, an intricate and beautiful crystal chandelier, a whole wall of bookcases, and a European-style red lacquer carved desk.
The scene that came from her hands was also where she accepted his first negotiation.
This time, he did not stand in front of the French window, but sat behind the heavy desk. When she entered, he raised his head and looked at her quietly. There was no common sarcasm or contempt in his eyes, and naturally there was no tenderness and doting that he had shown in his previous acting skills. Instead, there was a seriousness and calmness, as if the two were equally matched negotiating opponents.
Wen Yao said nothing, moved a chair and sat across from the desk. With a look of hopelessness and resignation, she said, "Tell me, what do you want to talk about?"
Jiang Yue asked her calmly, "The plan you were secretly carrying out failed. Do you have any new direction now?"
Wen Yao had indeed failed, and had suffered a severe blow from Lu Wan. Her heart felt as if it was half empty. However, in front of Jiang Yue, she did not want to show the decadent look of a loser. Instead, she forced an elegant smile and said slowly, "I don't think I've failed. I can explain to Lu Wan or tell her the whole truth directly. I can provide enough evidence to make her believe me."
"I don't think you would do that," Jiang Yue replied. He then continued, "Even you don't have the ability to control this world. If you tell them the truth, the consequences are unpredictable. It might completely change the plot, affect the hero and heroine's worldview, or even... maybe the world will collapse, burying us all in it. That possibility exists, right?"
His words shocked Wen Yao. She only knew that such things should not be spoken lightly, but she had not considered whether the world could withstand such a huge upheaval.
Indeed, not everyone can calmly accept the fact that "the world they live in is fictional". No one knows what will happen after Lu Wan and Jiang Lin know this. It may change the direction of the plot at the very least, and subvert the entire novel world at the worst. If this world collapses, she may never be able to go back.
After a moment of silence, Wen Yao said somewhat helplessly, "But I don't know what I've become in my world. Every day I spend here means a little more uncertainty in that world. No one knows what will happen if this world collapses, but maybe then I can go back? In short, in order to go back, I will try every possible means, rather than just sit there and wait for death."
Her words sounded almost like a confession and a request for help. This was a problem she had always been worried about. She was afraid that she would disappear in that world, that she would become a vegetable or in some other state, and she was even more worried that if she was one day late, she would lose the chance to go back forever.
It was obvious that Jiang Yue had been prepared for this conversation, and he quickly answered her question: "I understand how you feel, and I really don't know how you can go back, but I have a hypothesis: you came to me, and only I know your identity. Perhaps I am the key to your return? If one day the story here ends, the hero and heroine live happily ever after, and I don't end up in tragedy, and my heart is free of resentment, can you go back?"
Wen Yao's heart moved, and a glimmer of light flashed in her eyes. She felt that Jiang Yue's guess was very possible.
Her arrival marks the beginning of the book, so her departure must correspond to the ending. Jiang Yue is the force that allowed her to travel through time, and that force is the obsession in Jiang Yue's heart. If his obsession disappears, then she will definitely be able to return.
At this time, Jiang Yue asked: "You agree with this point of view, don't you?"
Wen Yao was very wary of him. She checked several times in her mind and nodded gently, "I agree that this is the most likely possibility at the moment."
"The biggest and only possibility," Jiang Yue added, and continued, "So can we work towards the same goal? I change my fate, you return to your world, and Jiang Lin and Lu Wan go towards their predetermined endings."
Wen Yao thought for a moment and said with some doubt, "But I don't know if we can reach that ending, because the happy ending of the hero and heroine is contradictory to your ending in many ways."
"So this is the meaning of your existence. I always believe that everything depends on human effort," Jiang Yue said.
Wen Yao didn't have much faith in the words "Everything depends on human effort", but she believed in Jiang Yue's spiritual power, and his spiritual power did bring about a miracle, which was her appearance.
Wen Yao nodded again and said to him, "I am willing to believe in this possibility and then work hard." At the moment, this is indeed the only draw that can satisfy everyone.
"Then..." Jiang Yue looked at her motionlessly: "I hope you will no longer hide anything from me, or pretend to be making plans but secretly attacking Chencang. Can you do that?"
Jiang Yue came from a wealthy family and had experienced countless business negotiations, so he had a strong aura of a superior and successful person, and he never hid this aura. Wen Yao would feel oppressed in front of him if she was not careful, and then she would have a feeling of "obeying orders carefully", and the same was true at this moment.
She took a deep breath, reminding herself of her identity as the Creator. She looked back at him calmly, then smiled with a hint of disdain and said, "It seems like you're hiding even more. Not only did you lie to me, you even did that to me. Do you think I can be at ease cooperating with you when you're like this?"
Jiang Yue's expression slightly withered: "You think too much, I'm not planning to do anything to you."
Hearing him say this, Wen Yao sneered and exposed: "Then what does it mean to be prepared? If forcing people to drink and tying them up to the bed doesn't count? And... isn't this the trick you're good at using?"
As a villain, Jiang Yue's face didn't show a trace of shame. Instead, he said calmly, "If I say no, it means no. I admit that I lied to you, but that was only to make you stop harboring any ill will towards me. Everything that happened yesterday was based on our mutual consent, or perhaps it was just a test for me. But if you clearly didn't want to, I wouldn't force you to do anything, even if you didn't run away."
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