Chapter 19

For a moment, even the wind seemed to have stopped.

Although the small place was packed with people, it had a quiet atmosphere that made one feel like being in deep mountains and forests.

My husband is away from home, working as a laborer.

These six words are shocking enough, but what is even more shocking is the prefix of that person - Chen Yuning's husband, Jiang Yuanliang.

The boss's husband, whom they had met several times, was gentle and polite, and he was like the opposite of the powerful Chen Yuning. But no matter how much they opposed each other, they shouldn't have been so opposed as to secretly do small business outside!

By the way, does Mr. Chen know about this? No wait, turn your head back! Going to see Mr. Chen now is like looking down on your life!

Damn it, won’t they be silenced if they hear about this?

Who chose the filming location? Why did they choose the mountains? Was it to make it easier to dispose of the body? ! !

For a moment, everyone felt as if they were going to be beheaded in the next second. Some of those with poor mental qualities were about to pass out. However, a heavenly sound broke the silence at this moment and pointed out a way for them to survive.

"The lunch boxes have arrived, the lunch boxes have arrived, come and get them, if you're late they will be gone, lunch boxes..."

The staff holding the loudspeaker walked up and shouted: "Hurry up, you are not active in eating, you have problems with your thinking."

The stagnant air seemed to start flowing again. Someone who was almost exhausted dared to say, "Why is the lunch box so late? And is the speaker broken? Why is the sound so low?"

"Small? The sound..." The man realized something and suddenly changed his expression. He said righteously, "What did you say? I can't hear you! Oops, earwax has grown in my ears again. I have to find time to go to the hospital."

"Oh, yes, yes, I think I'm deaf too. It must be because of my phone."

"I stayed up late, but it turns out I can't stay up late..."

A group of "deaf people" blew down like the wind, bringing up fallen leaves. But in just a few seconds, the voices faded away, and only five people were left on the huge mountain.

"Boss Chen," the staff member holding the loudspeaker looked back blankly at the crowd that was fleeing, and asked tentatively, "Do you want me to ask someone to pick out some lunch boxes for you?"

"...Forget it." Chen Yuning rubbed his brows and looked at Song Zhiyi, "Want to go have a quick meal together?"

Without waiting for Song Zhiyi to answer, she added calmly, "His sense of taste is impaired, and the lunch box he ordered is particularly unpalatable."

Staff: "..."

Okay, you are the boss, you are right.

*

Chen Yuning took her nephew and the Song siblings to a restaurant half an hour away. The private room was well soundproofed.

She didn't have the habit of making her family affairs public, but if she took Song Zhiyi with her, she would have to take her brother with her. In this case, she couldn't leave out Qi Nanfeng, so two people became three, and three people became four.

In the end, she could only comfort herself that her nephew was also a family member.

This is a private restaurant that only serves customers who know it. The interior decoration style is quite ancient, with mahogany furniture, hollow carvings and cleaned very well. Chen Yuning is obviously a regular customer. After greeting the boss, he took them directly to the private room to sit down.

The restaurant is quiet to begin with, and once the door is closed, it becomes incredibly quiet. The only sound you can hear is the oxygen pump in the decorative square fish tank behind you.

Chen Yuning spoke first, smiled at the obviously uneasy Song siblings, and then turned to Song Zhiyu and asked, "After leaving Huaxing, are you going to continue to follow Liu Liu?"

When discussing the next employer with his former employer, Song Zhiyu always felt something was a little strange. He avoided the main point and said, "It's still a long way to go before the contract ends. I'm not thinking that far ahead."

Chen Yuning chuckled and said, "Liu Liu told me a long time ago that your sister wants to open a studio, right?"

When she said the second half of the sentence, she looked at Song Zhiyi.

Liu Liulian said this, but he didn't ask her opinion. Song Zhiyi raised an eyebrow and said half-jokingly: "I have such a plan. If it succeeds in the future, maybe I can be in the same business as Chen Zhong."

"In that case, why call me Mr. Chen?" Chen Yuning picked up the teacup and clinked the cups together. "If you don't mind, you can call me Sister Chen."

Is her attitude a little too nice? Song Zhiyi held the cup in her hand, unsure of what Chen Yuning was trying to do.

"Aunt," Qi Nanfeng spoke at this time, his voice as clear and crisp as his personality, "Zhiyu is my senior brother, and his sister calls you Sister Chen, so shouldn't I call him Uncle Zhiyu?"

"Hahaha, this is good, this is good, that's it!" Song Zhiyu didn't know what strange funny bone had been tickled, and he burst into a series of laughter, almost slamming the table.

"Go play somewhere else," Song Zhiyi rolled her eyes at him and raised her cup. "They can talk about theirs, and we can talk about ours. Since you don't care, I'll have the courage to teach you, Sister Chen."

The door of the private room opened and a waiter came in with a tray, interrupting their dispute over seniority points. Qi Nanfeng opened his mouth but said nothing.

…

Chen Yuning deliberately delayed the meal, and it took her an hour and a half to finish it. However, the voice she wanted to hear did not come to her. If she could not refer to Qi Nanfeng's expression, she would have suspected that there was something wrong with her ears.

Or does it mean that Song Zhiyi is not aware of the details of her husband's cheating?

But looking at her expression, she doesn't seem to be clueless. Why?

If Song Zhiyi could hear her inner voice, he might give an answer out of empathy -

Because she really didn't know the details, or at least she didn't know them yet.

She only found out from Yu Lanmiao's character card that the financial backer behind him was a married man. She was not interested in the story behind this. After all, she had only met Yu Lanmiao. Although this man was annoying and confident, it was enough to know that he would collapse in the future. She had no intention of bringing forward the time of his collapse.

But now, one of the protagonists of the gossip, who was also the one who suffered the most, appeared in front of her.

No one can control their eyes, or their brains, in this situation.

But as mentioned before, she had no interest in this gossip before, and naturally did not bother to dig into the life of the wife who was working outside. Therefore, even if she was curious now, she had to endure it until she could check the personal structure of Chen Yuning.

*

The afternoon shoot moved indoors. It was only ten minutes until three o'clock. The earth had been scorched by the sun all day and it was the hottest time of the day.

Unlike the mountains and forests with natural trees for shelter, the temperature here at the B&B is unbearable due to the heat from the air conditioner. However, there are still quite a few people who would rather suffer from heat stroke than stand in the sun.

The room was far from full. A staff member who was not sure about the situation came over, stepped halfway into the room, and then backed out. He couldn't help but ask his colleague who was sitting under the sun, "What are you doing? Are you doing a group tan?"

Tanning isn’t such a beautiful method, right?

"Listen to my advice," the man said, his face flushed and his voice a little weak, but his eyes were firm, "It's dangerous inside, it's best not to go in today, and if President Chen is still here tomorrow, it's best to stay away from her."

"He's talking nonsense." The man was puzzled. He thought about it twice and asked in a low voice with a look of sudden realization, "Mr. Chen, is this... early?"

"...No, but you can understand it as something similar. If you don't want to die, don't go in."

"Okay then," he also stood beside them, "I'll wait and see."

This conversation outside the room is just a small example. Inside the room, there are many people who don't listen to advice, and those who know what will happen but cannot leave because of work.

Regardless of what the former was thinking, the latter could only pray silently in their hearts, whether it was Song Zhiyi or Chen Yuning, whichever one, please let them go, they are just poor workers!

After Song Zhiyi entered, she keenly discovered that their attitude towards her had changed, but she couldn't really tell what had changed. She just felt that their attitude seemed to have become more respectful?

After she sat down at the same seat as in the morning and the people around her quickly cleared out, she became even more certain that this attitude was definitely not normal.

She tilted her head and met the gaze of Chen Yuning who had just entered the room. The two nodded slightly, as a greeting. Song Zhiyi turned her head back and thought about the change in the attitude of the staff. She realized that she had become the fox who took advantage of the tiger's power.

The reasoning process was greatly deviated, but the result was close to correct. They were not afraid that Song Zhiyi would use her power to bully others, but they were afraid that she would say something she shouldn't say and cause them to lose their jobs in their youth/middle age.

In a sense, Song Zhiyi did not "disappoint" them.

Even though there was no one around and he couldn't see the contents of the character card, Song Zhiyi still looked around furtively before pulling out the character card and writing down three words -

Jiang Yuanliang. Chen Yuning's husband.

[Huh? This person doesn't have his own card? ]

Coming.

Chen Yuning and the staff who stayed on the mountain that morning felt heartbroken at the same time, but the former was worried about social death, while the latter was afraid of their own real death.

When you encounter difficulty, work around it.

After Song Zhiyi found out that no one had set up a checkpoint for this person, he thought for less than a second and wrote down another name, Chen Yuning.

This time, the character card appeared as expected.

Skipping over the astonishingly excellent resume in the blockbuster film, what Song Zhiyi saw at first glance was not the gossip that interested her, but the fall of a female entrepreneur who might not be so decent but was excellent enough.

[Ahhh, you don't know who I am! How could such an outstanding woman like Chen be harmed so easily by a man? She must have been cursed, and she didn't even notice that her property had been transferred.]

Chen Yuning raised her buttocks and dropped them back down again.

Let it be social death, she has the means to make these people swallow everything they heard. The most important thing right now is to find out what Jiang Yuanliang did.

Not everyone can figure out what these incoherent sentences mean like she does, such as Director Xiao Zhang who did not go to the mountain with her. When Song Zhiyi's thoughts first appeared in the morning, he was the one who asked Chen Yuning whether he should go and remind her.

After all, he had known Chen Yuning for many years. Just by looking at her expression, Xiao Zhang knew that the protagonist of this gossip must have changed. After thinking for a while, he quietly picked up his phone and sent a message to someone.

Not far behind him, Song Zhiyi raised his eyes slightly and looked in front of the character card.

[Jiang Yuanliang...it turned out that he and Chen Yuning were childhood sweethearts. Later, the Jiang family fell into poverty, and Chen Yuning paid for Jiang Yuanliang's college education. Isn't this repaying kindness with ingratitude?]

[The two got married not long after graduating from college. It turned out that because Chen's parents favored sons over daughters, they would rather give the family business to their nephews than to their two daughters. Later, Sister Chen took prompt action and found a son-in-law to successfully inherit the family business. Then, after coaxing all the things of the old couple into her hands, she turned around and used the money to open Huaxing. Really, it was a great job! ]

[Why did you choose Jiang Yuanliang? Sister Chen doesn't look like a love-minded person. ]

[Because Jiang Yuanliang is soft-hearted, incompetent, and easy to control? He certainly seemed to be like that when he was young.]

Because he is easy to control.

When this answer arose in my mind, Song Zhiyi's voice also echoed in my ears.

Chen Yuning let out a very light sigh.

Right, all of it. Especially the part about her parents favoring boys over girls, which was something that not even anyone except the Chen family knew about.

Chen Yuning crossed her fingers and looked at Song Zhiyi with a scrutinizing gaze.

Only when I become the protagonist she describes, I can truly feel how terrifying what Song Zhiyi possesses is.

So why? Why tell her privacy in public? Why not tell her in private or in the private room at noon?

Is it that she is unwilling? No, Song Zhiyi should not be such a bad person. Then, there is only one possibility left, that she cannot.

It is said that people with mysterious skills have more limitations than ordinary people, such as the "natural blindness" of fortune tellers. Then perhaps the limitation Song Zhiyi is subject to is that he can only be reminded in this way?

Even though I know this will lead to misunderstanding, I can easily get beaten if I go out...

Could it be said that this is the true master?

Song Zhiyi didn't know that her image had changed and she had become a "selfless master". She was just still reading Chen Yuning's character information carefully.

[It's no wonder Chen Yuning made a mistake. In addition to his good looks, Jiang Yuanliang was also emotionally stable when he was young. He never got angry with anyone. The two of them still had a childhood friendship and knew each other well. Marrying him was indeed the best choice.]

[However, the affair between Jiang Yuanliang and Yu Lanmiao happened in the past two years. According to Sister Chen's age, they have been married for nearly 20 years. It shouldn't be that their genes mutated and they started to cheat in middle age, right? Ah, it's too hard to check. Forget it, let's look at something else.]

[According to the time, it was five or six years before Sister Chen discovered what he had done? Then their son should be around ten years old now. According to the information later, Jiang Yuanliang may have already started to transfer some of Sister Chen's real estate to the child's name.]

The purpose of transferring assets is actually this.

Buzz——

The cell phone started vibrating at this moment. Chen Yuning lowered his eyes to take a look and turned off the phone.

For her, having the property registered under the child's name was just like money going from her left pocket into her right pocket, and she didn't care too much about it. But judging from the looks of it, Jiang Yuanliang might want to do more than just that.

[Oh, no, I seem to have missed something. Let me sort it out. Sister Chen discovered Jiang Yuanliang's true face almost five years later, but she didn't divorce him immediately. If they divorced, they would have to divide the family property in half. Anyway, Jiang Yuanliang would have made all the money. It was indeed the first choice to wait and train her son first.]

[Then going back further, Jiang Yuanliang’s transfer of assets should have started when the child was eight years old. After all, it was transferred to his own child, so Sister Chen didn’t pay too much attention to it… Oh, the child! ]

[Found it! Sister Chen got pregnant for the second time this year. ]

Second time, pregnant?

Chen Yuning subconsciously touched her belly. This time her menstrual period seemed to be delayed by half a month. But this happened occasionally before. She originally thought it was because she was too busy with work...

If what Song Zhiyi said was true, then this child came at the right time. After all, it seemed that the first one had been abandoned.

Thinking of this, Chen Yuning smiled slightly.

[That little bastard deliberately pushed Sister Chen down and caused her to have a miscarriage this winter, right? It’s only been a few months, right?]

Chen Yuning's pupils suddenly shrank, her fingers clenched tightly, and her heart was beating so fast that it almost burst out of her chest.

Song Zhiyi's thoughts continue.

[This father and son are so vicious. They are obviously their biological children, their own brothers and sisters! They strangled him just because they were afraid that a child who didn't even exist would take away the family property or that he would be difficult to control, and even destroyed Sister Chen's body.

[If it weren't for this miscarriage, Sister Chen's vitality was severely damaged, and she also lost her fertility. She would definitely not continue to tolerate Jiang Yuanliang in the future. After all, she must have noticed that her son was closer to him, but she only had this one child...]

"call--"

Chen Yuning let out a long breath. The conflict between reason and emotion made her body tremble uncontrollably.

Jiang Yuanliang, and also, son.

Even though he will be ten years old this year, when Chen Yuning thinks of him, the first thing that comes to her mind is his babbling appearance.

That was one of the happiest times in her life. Could it be that I was really wrong? Like others said, I shouldn't miss my child's growth because of work...

No, it's not possible.

The moment this thought came to her mind, she suppressed it hard.

The root of everything is Jiang Yuanliang. If anyone is to blame, it is because of his bad parentage.

Chen Yuning stood up suddenly, turned around and left resolutely. Knowing this information was enough for her.

Clarify all assets, control Jiang Yuanliang or make him leave the house, and legitimize her son or give up. These three things have been highlighted in bold and red on the to-do list in her mind.

Before that, she needs to go to the hospital.