Chapter 46 Chapter 46 You Don’t Understand Me
Wen Yao chuckled softly and retorted, "It's not like you haven't done similar things before. After all, your character is there."
She was talking about his failed attempt to force Lu Wan, his affairs with Wang Shanshan and Guan Xiaoya, and his forcing Guan Xiaoya's best friend Feng Qingqing.
In short, Jiang Yue in the plot has no morals at all.
Jiang Yue sneered and stood up. He leaned over the desk with his hands and leaned closer to her. He said slowly, "So you don't really understand me. Why do you think someone like me, who is at the top of the class in terms of background, ability, appearance, and IQ, would bother to do such sneaky things? Unless I'm mentally ill, otherwise, in my dictionary, it's really not worth it for a woman."
Wen Yao was speechless.
In fact, in some ways, Jiang Yue's character is indeed contradictory: he's incredibly confident, to the point of arrogance, and therefore proud. Such a person should disdain dirty work. Business matters are fine, but drugging women is perverse. He believes his charm is enough to win women over, not to dirty his hands just to get a woman's body.
After a long silence, Wen Yao finally said stubbornly, "I agree to cooperate with you, but you must respect me during this period. No more hiding things, deceiving me, exploiting me, or doing anything else shady to me. If I find out, I will never cooperate with you again, even if it means I perish together with you."
"Okay, I agree." Jiang Yue agreed readily.
The air suddenly fell silent. Looking at the serious and arrogant Jiang Yue in front of her, Wen Yao suddenly felt a little embarrassed. Just as she was about to say, "Anything else? I'm leaving now," Jiang Yue spoke again, "You knew someone would take pictures of Lu Wan and me, right? You also knew that Jiang Chen would exaggerate and tell Jiang Lin and my grandfather, right?"
His question proved that he had indeed gone to deal with the matter last night. Wen Yao lowered her eyes and nodded guiltily.
However, in the original plot, Jiang Chen did not send the photo to Grandpa Jiang, but only to Jiang Lin. This time, probably because there was no farce caused by Jiang Yue at the wedding, Jiang Chen felt it necessary to give a copy of the photo to Grandpa Jiang as well.
But none of this matters. In short, Jiang Lin has a lot of opinions about Jiang Yue, and Grandpa Jiang is even more disappointed with Jiang Yue.
Jiang Yue sat back in his chair and said slowly, "Let's write off everything that happened before. From now on, our goals are the same, right?"
Wen Yao nodded again.
Jiang Yue then said, "We're going to have dinner at Grandpa's tomorrow night. Everyone will be there, including Jiang Lin and Lu Wan. Please get ready."
Hearing this, Wen Yao couldn't help but become nervous. She took a deep breath and said "Okay".
The next evening, the two went to the Jiang family's old house.
This day was not a family reunion festival, and nothing big happened. Wen Yao didn't know why Grandpa Jiang asked the whole family to have a meal.
Thinking about what had just happened, she couldn't help but worry that it was related to that photo of Jiang Yue and Lu Wan, and also the fact that Jiang Yue framed Jiang Lin.
But Mr. Jiang had already criticized Jiang Yue privately about this matter, so he wouldn't bring it up again. In the car on the way there, she asked Jiang Yue, "Is it just a meal this time?"
Jiang Yue glanced at her and replied, "Don't you remember the plot you set up?"
Wen Yao argued for her poor memory: "It's been so long, who would remember."
Jiang Yue said, "We had a similar meal around this time before, and Grandpa announced Jiang Chen's marriage at the dinner table."
When he said this, Wen Yao remembered that this was indeed the case.
Because Jiang Lin guessed Jiang Chen's thoughts and knew that Jiang Chen framed Lu Wan because he liked him, he told this to Grandpa Jiang. Grandpa Jiang was very angry and immediately arranged a marriage for Jiang Chen.
This dinner also occurs in the novel, but the time is a little later, and the perspective is also Lu Wan. After Jiang Chen learned about his marriage, he made a scene at the dinner table and strongly opposed it, but it was useless. What Mr. Jiang said was set in stone and could not be changed.
Because of this incident, Lu Wan guessed that this was the result of Jiang Lin's handling. She was very moved and had a great liking for Jiang Lin.
Knowing that the whole thing had nothing to do with her, Wen Yao felt a little relieved.
But what she was most nervous about was not this, but that she didn't want to see Lu Wan, but she had to see her. But no matter what, she had given up on Lu Wan and would never bother her again.
The two arrived at Jiang's house quite early. Only Jiang Chen and Feng Shumin were there. Feng Shumin was talkative and took the initiative to greet Wen Yao. The two of them exchanged a few words. What was surprising was that Jiang Chen didn't say a word.
Logically speaking, she didn't know about Mr. Jiang's decision. Given her personality, she would definitely look at Wen Yao with disdain and make a few sarcastic remarks, but now she didn't know what happened.
When she thought of this, she couldn't help but look at Jiang Chen, but she didn't expect that Jiang Chen was also looking at her. Their eyes met, and Jiang Chen smiled at her.
Wen Yao was even more puzzled.
Not long after, Jiang Shaoming came back, and a while later, Jiang Lin and Lu Wan arrived together.
When they entered the room, Wen Yao only glanced at the two of them out of the corner of her eye, without looking at them or saying anything. Jiang Yue did look at them, but did not say hello. After all, he was the eldest brother, so it was okay for him to be a little cold.
In the end, Jiang Lin just glanced at Jiang Yue without saying anything. There was even some dissatisfaction in his eyes. For a moment, the room was filled with a tense atmosphere.
When Old Master Jiang came out, he happened to see this scene. His already uneasy expression turned even worse. He then said, "Since we're all here, let's have dinner."
Wen Yao and Jiang Yue happened to sit across from Lu Wan when they sat down together. When Wen Yao looked up after sitting down, she accidentally met Lu Wan's eyes. She quickly looked away, pretending not to see it. As for Lu Wan's expression across from her, she didn't have time to take a closer look.
Actually, now that she thinks about it, she chose the wrong time to approach Lu Wan. At that time, Lu Wan just knew that Jiang Chen liked Jiang Lin, and knew that Jiang Chen deliberately fabricated her affair with Jiang Yue and approached her for ulterior motives. And it was obvious that Lu Wan had long seen that he had ulterior motives for approaching her.
In addition to many doubts, Lu Wan suspected that she and Jiang Chen came for Jiang Lin.
But what if she knew the opportunity was not right? It was too late. She could no longer explain to Lu Wan, and Lu Wan was too disdainful to ask her for confirmation, so this was their ending.
Knowing that the table would be overturned for this meal, Wen Yao stopped thinking about it and lowered her head to concentrate on eating.
Sure enough, when they were halfway through the meal, Mr. Jiang spoke up and said, "I asked you to come here today to make an announcement."
Wen Yao quickly swallowed the lobster meat in her bowl in one gulp, because she knew she wouldn't be able to eat the next bite. Jiang Chen yelled and overturned the table after hearing about her marriage.
Everyone looked at Old Master Jiang. He glanced at Jiang Chen and said slowly, "I have arranged a marriage for Jiang Chen with the Zhang family. He is Zhang Delong's eldest son. You should all know this."
Originally, Wen Yao didn't remember this character in the original plot, but being in this world, she did know Zhang Delong. His family ran a chain of supermarkets, which was quite large. Zhang Delong's eldest son was named Zhang Qian, who inherited the family business and was capable, but he was a second marriage.
She had also written about Mr. Jiang's thoughts. When he learned that Jiang Chen had feelings for his second brother Jiang Lin and wanted to break up his second brother's marriage, Mr. Jiang immediately planned to let her get married and give up this idea as soon as possible.
But Jiang Chen was the girl that Old Madam Jiang loved when she was alive, and Old Master Jiang also considered her well, so although the engagement was hasty, it was also well thought out. Although Zhang Qian was getting married for the second time and was a little older, he was a steady and generous person. Jiang Chen would definitely not be tired or worried if she was with him, and she could be a princess for the rest of her life.
But Jiang Chen didn't think so. She liked Jiang Lin, who was both good-looking and capable. How could she accept Zhang Qian, who was married for the second time, ten years older than her, with average looks and a stable personality?
So she threw a scene at the dinner table, expressing her absolute disapproval on the spot. Later, after being rebuked by Mr. Jiang's unwavering attitude, she was forced to marry. However, she became sarcastic towards Zhang Qian, and from time to time she would return to her parents' home to see Jiang Lin. She also secretly and ruthlessly framed Lu Wan. In the end, she was divorced by Zhang Qian and kicked out of the house by Mr. Jiang. Her fate was quite tragic, and she became a laughing stock throughout Binjiang City. Looking back, Wen Yao realized that she was truly ruthless towards the supporting characters.
After Mr. Jiang finished speaking, no one at the table spoke, including Jiang Chen. Wen Yao couldn't help but look up at Jiang Chen and found that she had her head down, saying nothing, and didn't look like she was going to say anything.
Feeling strange, Wen Yao couldn't help but look at Jiang Yue next to her, only to find that Jiang Yue also turned his head to look at her.
He was also wondering if there was some hidden plot here that he didn't know about, but when he saw her look, he realized that she didn't know either.
Everyone else was just surprised and said nothing. However, Jiang Shaoming glanced at Jiang Chen and asked, "Why so sudden? Is it confirmed?"
Old Master Jiang nodded. "Yes, actually Zhang Delong mentioned this to me two years ago. I didn't express my opinion before because I thought Jiang Chen was still young. Now that so much time has passed and Jiang Chen is old enough, it's time for us to get married."
"The eldest son is called Zhang Qian, right? Is he... married?" Jiang Shaoming asked again.
"Yes, he's married," Mr. Jiang replied, "but I've met him personally. He's reliable and will definitely not treat Jiang Chen unfairly. We've discussed it and will announce the marriage in the next few days. We'll get married in two months."
At this point, everyone knew that this was a done deal. Jiang Shaoming stopped talking, but just glanced at Jiang Chen again, then at the other people at the table, still puzzled.
Everyone present had no close blood relationship with Jiang Chen. When Old Man Jiang made the decision, even Jiang Chen himself did not say anything, so naturally, others would not ask any questions and dinner continued.
Wen Yao continued to eat the big lobster that she had never been able to eat before, and swallowed the lobster meat with a lot of doubts.
Thanks to Jiang Chen's unexpected silence, the meal was completed smoothly. After putting down the bowl, Mr. Jiang said, "Jiang Lin, do you have anything to do tomorrow?"
Jiang Lin raised his head: "Grandpa, you have to tell me what you want to do first, then I can decide whether it's okay or not."
Old Master Jiang smiled and said, "Come fishing with me at Wuling. Except for the last time you accompanied me, I haven't caught a fish weighing more than three kilograms since then."
"Okay, but you have to take me with you when you go fishing with Uncle Chen again. I watched the fish bite without even getting a sip of the fish soup."
Old Master Jiang laughed again. "He's not coming this time, so it's just you and me. If we catch any good fish, we'll cook it and eat it at the fish restaurant next door."
Jiang Lin agreed casually: "Okay, watch me consecrate your fishing rod tomorrow. I guarantee you can catch fish weighing more than five kilograms."
Old Master Jiang seemed delighted, his usually serious face breaking into a childlike smile. Feng Shumin was also delighted, as was Jiang Shaoming. Only Jiang Chen remained silent. And what about Jiang Yue? Wen Yao secretly went to see him and found his face calm, his emotions invisible.
The wind changed, and Mr. Jiang began to like Jiang Lin.
Maybe it was unintentional, just wanting to catch a big fish.
Perhaps it was intentional, to tell everyone that Jiang Lin is expected to become the future heir.
After all, Jiang Lin performed well at work and married Lu Wan. As for luck, as the male protagonist, luck can naturally be like a golden finger.
Jiang Yue also tried very hard, but he had been in trouble recently, and Mr. Jiang never chatted with him in such a relaxed manner. He was also too reserved and serious, and did not make Mr. Jiang smile.
On the way back, Jiang Yue was silent all the way. Wen Yao couldn't help but comfort him: "It's okay. The heir's status is ultimately determined by ability and status. As long as you can avoid those things later, your status as the heir will be fine. After all, you are the eldest legitimate son."
"I know. What do you think about Jiang Chen's situation?" Jiang Yue said.
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