Chapter 256 Episode 20
Wen Yujiao was stunned for a moment, "Ah, it's nothing, I..."
"It's good that you're alright. I'll take you home."
Xu Shanshan objected, "Wen Changyu, are you blind?"
"She beat me up like this, can't you see?"
I will pay for the medical expenses.
"What do you mean?" Xu Shanshan asked incredulously.
“Yu Jiao… has always been kind to people,” Wen Changyu said.
Xu Shanshan: "??"
"She's kind to everyone, but I'm not?" Xu Shanshan asked Wen Changyu, pointing at Wen Yujiao.
Wen Changyu looked up at her again. "I don't know much about Comrade Xu, so I can't judge her. But given the current situation, Yu Jiao is my fiancée, so I will naturally protect her."
Whew~, Wen Yujiao secretly breathed a sigh of relief. What a close call! She thought it was just part of someone else's prank, but it seems... it wasn't.
I feel more at ease now.
"Yu Jiao, come on, I'll take you home," Wen Changyu called back to Wen Yu Jiao.
Wen Yujiao glanced at Xu Shanshan's unpleasant expression and responded crisply, "Mm!"
As the two walked towards the family compound, Wen Yujiao asked Wen Changyu, "Why don't you ask me how I got into a fight with her?"
"She came to see you?"
How did you know?
"Just a guess!"
"Can you guess how we started fighting?"
Wen Changyu thought for a moment and shook his head.
Wen Yujiao then told him, "She said I wouldn't be happy if I married you, because you don't like me."
Upon hearing this, Wen Changyu visibly tensed up, "Yu Jiao, I..."
Wen Yujiao walked forward with her hands behind her back, tapping her feet lightly, and continued, "She also said that you and she were husband and wife in your previous life, and you had three children."
After saying this, Wen Yujiao turned around and looked directly at Wen Changyu.
She wanted to hear his opinion before deciding whether they should continue their relationship.
Even if she wasn't part of their relationship, having an "ex-wife" like that is still quite scary.
She dislikes flawed marriages.
Although she is an ordinary person.
She was an ordinary person with no grand ambitions; she simply hoped to live a normal, uneventful life.
As for time travel and rebirth, they all appeared in her life, which she felt was a bit too complicated.
"I..." Wen Changyu probably didn't expect Xu Shanshan to be like a madwoman, blurting out everything.
He was sweating profusely and stammered, unsure of what to say.
Wen Yujiao thought he was unwilling to talk about it, and since she wasn't one to force people, she said, "My mother wants me to go back early to help her with chores, so I'm leaving now!"
"Yu Jiao," Wen Changyu called out to her again as she turned around.
Wen Changyu took Wen Yujiao to a secluded place where no one was around, and then he said to her, "I don't know if you believe it or not, but people may really have two lives."
“Xu Shanshan and I really did have a past life. In my past life, I went on a blind date with her and then married her.”
"Then why don't you marry her this time?"
“She doesn’t like me,” Wen Changyu said, his expression calm and without any regret, as if he had already let go.
"But you have three children..."
"Yes, she didn't love our children either, she even... abandoned our daughter herself, just to raise the daughter of the man she liked."
Wen Yujiao "..."
That's so explosive.
"so……"
"So, it's impossible for us to start over." Wen Changyu said this with a relaxed expression, as if a huge weight had been lifted from his heart after revealing this secret.
Wen Yujiao looked at him and said, "Since you've said that, Wen Changyu, I'm willing to give you a chance, but I don't want to see any endless entanglements."
Wen Changyu shook his head, "Since I've decided to marry you, I won't let you down."
Wen Yujiao said, "I hope so!"
“I’m going back,” she said, turning around and waving to Wen Changyu.
Wen Changyu knew she didn't trust him, so he said, "I'll prove it to you!"
Xu Shanshan was beaten up, but received compensation from Wen Changyu for her medical expenses. With the money given to her by the deputy battalion commander, she left Beijing quite well-off.
Although she didn't want to leave.
When she returned to the family compound of the Matchbox Factory, she learned that after she and her sister were laid off, the factory would no longer let them live in their houses, and her mother and sister had already moved out.
All the valuables in the house were long gone, and the mansion was gone too.
Her mother and her sister...
Xu Shanshan carried her suitcase to her uncle's house, only to be chased away with disdain. However, she also learned her sister's current address, which was in an alley.
She went to the address and found Xu Junjun, who was even thinner than when she left a few months ago, with dark circles under her eyes.
He didn't smile when he saw it was her.
She looked around the dark room and couldn't help but ask, "Why did you and Mother move here?"
"Mother?" Xu Junjun asked with a sad laugh, then shook her head. "No mother, no mother anymore."
Xu Shanshan was taken aback. "What do you mean?"
"What do you mean?" Xu Junjun sat there and cried.
Tears fell "plop plop".
"Father is gone, and mother is dead too, sob sob~" She buried her face in her hands and cried bitterly.
"Thud," the suitcase in Xu Shanshan's hand also fell to the ground.
"die……"
“No, no…” she shook her head, unwilling to believe it at all.
Because in her memory, her father didn't die so young at all.
Her mother did die after receiving news of her father's death, but not this early at all.
How could this be...?
Xu Junjun suddenly came over, crying and pushing her, "Where did you go? Where did you go? Where did you go..."
“My father is dead, and my mother hanged herself. I…” She choked up and couldn’t finish her sentence.
Xu Shanshan looked around the small room where Xu Junjun was staying and realized that it didn't seem like a room for one person.
Inside the room, there were traces of a man everywhere—on the bed, on the ropes hanging there, and even on the shoes placed beside the bed.
"you……"
Xu Junjun then tearfully told her, "I got married. I married Xiaojun's cousin."
"That boiler operator who's more than ten years older than you?"
Xu Shanshan didn't dare to accept it either.
Chaos has broken out. Everything is in complete chaos.
Although her sister's marriage in her previous life wasn't exactly good, the man just had many brothers and sisters, and his age wasn't that much different from Xu Junjun's.
In addition, with her brother-in-law Wen Changyu around, she got a minor leadership position in the factory. It might not be as good as the Wen family, but it was definitely much better than most ordinary people's lives.
Instead of a boiler worker whose appearance and age were vastly different from Xu Junjun's.
"How could you marry her?" Xu Shanshan asked in a panic.
Xu Junjun cried and said, "You left, and I can't find a job. My father had an accident, my mother committed suicide, and the factory is trying to kick me out. I... I have no choice."
"How could this happen, how could this happen..." Xu Shanshan slumped onto the stool, muttering to herself.
Xu Junjun cried for a while, then stopped crying and asked, "Where did you go?"
"...went to Beijing!"
"You want to find a job there?" Xu Junjun assumed that was the case.
Xu Shanshan didn't explain.
"Did you find it?" Xu Junjun asked again.
Xu Shanshan shook her head.
Xu Junjun wiped away her tears and said, "It's not easy to find here either. I've been looking for months and still haven't found it."
The two sisters were talking when someone came to the door; it was the boiler operator who had returned.
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