Chapter 119 Sun Yixin and Su He's Choice
After Mo An and the other two left, Molly returned home, and something felt off.
Ji Hefeng was worried about her condition, so he simply conscripted her to copy materials for him. It was at this time that Molly discovered that Ji Hefeng actually had employees under him, and not just one, but more than a dozen.
“They are not my people, and I don’t pay their salaries,” Ji Hefeng explained.
"Public property?" Molly wasn't surprised.
Ji Hefeng nodded, "But these are all people I specifically requested. They all get paid, but you don't, so just consider this a learning opportunity. By the way, Wu Guyu said his wife is looking to hire a teaching assistant next semester, are you interested?"
Yan Yun is a university professor, and teaching assistants are usually students. Ji Hefeng took the initiative to suggest to Wu Guyu that they find something for Molly to do, and that's when Yan Yun brought it up.
Molly didn't know what a teaching assistant would do, but she wanted to visit the university, so she readily agreed.
Two days later, Ji Hefeng brought back a large pile of books for Molly, including textbooks and supplementary materials. "Take a look at them first, and ask me if you don't understand anything."
Molly read through the textbook once, then through the supplementary materials. She was fast; she finished reading them in just over ten days and remembered most of them.
"I don't understand any of it," she said to Ji Hefeng, then hesitated before asking, "Am I not suitable to be a teaching assistant?"
“You’re a good fit. You have a good memory, beautiful handwriting, and you’re efficient and quick. Yan Yun will definitely be satisfied. In fact, even if you didn’t go to Yan Yun’s side, I would have liked to keep you here. You’ve only been helping me for a little over half a month, and I already can’t live without you.” Ji Hefeng lowered his voice, his eyes fixed on Molly, his expression serious and focused.
Molly didn't quite believe Ji Hefeng's words, because his hand was already on her waist. Ji Hefeng's claim of being unable to live without her might have nothing to do with her work performance.
"Besides, school doesn't start until early March, there's still time. I'll teach you what you don't understand, and I'll try to teach you before school starts."
"I've marked all the parts you don't understand. Now explain them to me—"
"No rush, we'll start tomorrow."
Molly's voice was swallowed up by the season and the wind.
At the end of February, Ji Hefeng handed Molly an invitation.
Molly saw a familiar name on the invitation. "Sun Yixin is getting married? Wasn't she with Zhao Chengfeng? Zhao Chengfeng got into trouble, but she's fine?"
“Not only is she alright, but she also deserves credit for reporting Zhao Chengfeng.” Ji Hefeng said with a half-smile, “Zhao Chengfeng stabbed her and she almost died. If Zhao Chengfeng knew she was alive, I wonder if he would be so angry that he would rise from his grave.”
Molly was stunned, and after a long while, she said, "This Sun Yixin is quite pragmatic."
"She's all talk and no action, a real opportunist. But she does have good taste; the person she found this time is quite good." Ji Hefeng pointed to the name on the list. "This person agreed to donate 200,000 yuan to our university."
Molly's eyes widened. "So many?"
It's more than what Wu Guyu gave.
Ji Hefeng nodded, "They're from an old, established family; they're rich. So we have to go to this wedding."
Molly naturally had no objection, "Then let's go."
Ji Hefeng: "I'll introduce you to some people then."
The wedding was in early March, when the temperature had risen considerably. Molly wore trendy skinny jeans, ankle boots, a plain wool sweater, and a long brown wool coat. Ji Hefeng, at 1.9 meters tall, was dressed in a casual suit and trench coat, even more handsome than the stars on movie posters.
The couple attracted countless eyes as soon as they arrived at the wedding venue.
He Pan came up to them, clicking his tongue in praise, then turned and asked, "Are you here to cause trouble?"
"I'm naturally beautiful, I look good in anything, there's nothing I can do about it." Ji Hefeng said seriously, without the slightest bit of modesty.
His appearance infuriated He Pan, but He Pan couldn't refute it, so he could only say irritably, "Alright, in front of your sister-in-law, you can't be called good-looking."
Ji Hefeng wasn't angry at all; instead, he laughed even harder. "I know my wife is beautiful; you don't need to praise her. Honey, let's ignore him. He's all alone; he's just jealous of us."
He Pan glared at him, "It's just getting married, I'll get one tomorrow."
When Molly saw Sun Yixin, she was startled. After not seeing her for several months, Sun Yixin was completely different. Was this emaciated, pale-faced woman really the stunningly beautiful Sun Yixin from before?
"She was seriously injured, and the doctor said she will have permanent health problems." Ji Hefeng had only heard about it before, and this was the first time he had seen her in person. "I heard she was discharged from the hospital a couple of days ago."
"Getting married right after being discharged from the hospital?" Why the rush?
"Previously, the Sun family thought they had climbed onto the Zhao family's powerful tree and couldn't wait to get entangled with them. Now that the Zhao family has fallen, the Sun family has been greatly affected, suffering serious damage. They are now looking for a way out everywhere. Today's marriage is what the Sun family arranged for Sun Yixin."
Molly's expression was indescribable. "This groom, well, he's about the same age as our dad, right?"
Just now, Ji Hefeng said the groom was good. What made him good? Just because he donated 200,000?
Ji Hefeng: "He's a year older than our father."
Molly: "......."
Although Sun Yixin is quite annoying, it's still quite tragic that she ended up like this.
“She can refuse.” Ji Hefeng saw through Molly’s thoughts at a glance; his little wife was just too soft-hearted.
"Then why didn't she refuse?" Molly didn't quite understand why Sun Yixin would be willing to marry a man who was almost sixty years old.
“Because she had no better choice.” Ji Hefeng’s gaze deepened. These days, no young talent in Beijing would dare take on Zhao Chengfeng’s woman. Even those with the guts and ability wouldn’t be interested in Sun Yixin. He’d heard that as soon as Sun Yixin was discharged from the hospital, she tried to offer herself to a former admirer, only to be rejected. He wouldn’t tell his wife about it, afraid of offending her ears.
Molly saw Su He at the wedding. Su He was with a middle-aged man who looked to be in his early forties. He had a refined appearance and seemed much better than Sun Yixin, the groom.
Su He leaned softly against the man, her every smile and gesture delicate and tender, utterly endearing. The man was clearly charmed by her, his arm around her waist, occasionally glancing down with a soft smile. Their affectionate demeanor made them seem more like a newlywed couple than the bride and groom themselves.
Su He also saw Molly and Ji Hefeng. Her angry gaze was like needles, as if she wanted to prick Molly into a beehive. When her gaze fell on Ji Hefeng, it became gentle and tender, with a hint of resentment and grievance. She hesitated to speak, and her eyes instantly reddened.
Molly: "......."
Is this woman studying opera?
The wedding banquet was Western-style, but the food was very Chinese-style, with sixteen dishes on the table, which were laid out to the brim.
Ji Hefeng was talking to people while serving food to Molly.
Molly recalled when she first met Ji Hefeng. He was a man of few words, barely uttering a few sentences a day. Now, seeing him talking eloquently with a smile on his face, he was like a completely different person.
After the wedding banquet, Ji Hefeng drank some wine. Molly drove, and Ji Hefeng sat in the passenger seat, turning his head to look at Molly with a silly grin.
"Drunk with alcohol?" Ji Hefeng is usually quite restrained and rarely drinks alcohol. Even when he does, it's only a glass or two. Molly has never seen him drunk.
"I'm not drunk," Ji Hefeng said, his voice low and husky, like a hook that made Molly's heart itch.
hiss--
The screeching sound of brakes rang out.
Ji Hefeng sobered up considerably. "What happened?"
Molly gestured for him to look ahead. Suddenly, two women rushed out from the road ahead, one grabbing the other's hair and slapping her face hard.
"Was that Su He who got beaten?" Molly hadn't expected to run into Su He again. Unlike her beautiful and poised demeanor not long ago, Su He was now in a terrible state. The man who had been protecting Su He just moments before was now standing anxiously to the side, not daring to approach.
Ji Hefeng blinked. "Probably."
He rolled down his car window, and Molly rolled down hers too, peering curiously outside. Unfortunately, Suhe also looked up at them, but after just one glance, she quickly looked down again. Molly didn't miss the fleeting embarrassment on Suhe's face.
"Everyone, come and see! This vixen, this seductress, this shameless woman is seducing someone else's husband!"
"This wicked woman can't have children of her own, so she wants to take someone else's child and is eager to become a stepmother. She's despicable and has no morals!"
"You two despicable lovers, if I don't kill you, I'll change my surname to yours!"
......
As the car drove away, Molly voiced her doubts, "With Suhe's abilities, finding a stable job shouldn't be difficult, right?"
“A stable job can’t provide her with a life of luxury.” Ji Hefeng was not surprised at all by Su He’s actions. Everyone has their own ambitions. The Su family has fallen, and Su He, who is used to a good life, would not be willing to live a hard life.
After the start of the university semester, Molly became Yan Yun's little helper, helping Yan Yun organize materials, write on the blackboard, and sit down to listen to Yan Yun's lectures.
She was pretty and looked younger than the other students in the class. Many of the male students wanted to get to know her, but she was with Yan Yun every day. Whenever Yan Yun asked her for help, she would go home, so the students who wanted to get to know her had no chance at all.
In mid-April, Molly became very busy. The restaurant was built and the renovations were completed, and Wang Hechuan and his son were eager to open it. There was a lot of preparation work to be done for the opening, and Molly had to leave early and return late every day, so her work as Yan Yun's teaching assistant had to be temporarily put on hold.
Before the restaurant opened, Ji Hefeng told her that he had bought her two shops so that she could open a branch of her cake shop.
Molly frowned; she was overwhelmed.
Ji Hefeng comforted her, "Take your time, the shop will stay there and won't run away."
Molly glared resentfully at Ji Hefeng, "There won't be a next time."
Ji Hefeng chuckled, "Once you've trained them, you can have your subordinates run the shop. You can just check the accounts occasionally."
Busy with work, Molly didn't have time to think about Mo An and the other two, and she got used to the days when the three of them weren't home.
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