[If I hadn't seen the gossip about the online store, I would never have imagined it would turn out like this!]
[Damn, how can I subtly hint to my mom? If I just say it directly, will she think I'm crazy and chase me down the street?]
Zhu Lan's appetite was whetted.
She was curious about what could have made her usually outspoken and straightforward youngest daughter hesitate.
What secrets does Jiang Zhiyi hold?
What is she hiding from me?
No wonder Dad disliked Jiang Zhiyi so much; there was a reason for it all...
Jiang Zhiyi's cover-up for Jiang Zhixing's actions wasn't to save face for the Jiang family; it was simply to keep Mom with her. She knew our family's planned trip only lasted a week, and it was already the fifth day, leaving less than two days.
[But she felt it wasn't enough. She wanted to spend more time with her mother, which is why she allowed Jiang Zhixing to sabotage the cruise ship, trapping everyone on the island. She even cut off the radio signal to prevent contact with the outside world and prolong the ordeal.]
!!
The more I listen, the more something seems off!
[In fact, the guards had already spotted Jiang Zhixing when he approached the first cruise ship and reported it to Jiang Zhiyi.]
She had initially intended to send someone to stop him, but after some deliberation, she decided to let him have his way this once and let him cause chaos.
[Yuan Shu's death was truly unexpected! She only wanted to isolate this island from the world; she never imagined a murder would occur!]
Does she want to keep herself?
Zhu Lan became more and more confused as she listened.
Jiang Zhiyi and I are kindred spirits and share similar interests. If she wants me to stay a few more days, she can just say so.
Why resort to such extreme measures?
If they can't find the person who vandalized the cruise ship, all that money will go to her!
Jiang Zhiyi is a businesswoman; she wouldn't do such a losing business, would she...?
Sigh, even if I could tell, let alone my mother, I wouldn't dare to think about it that way.
Jiang Zhiyi actually likes Mom! Mom!
Help! How can I say this out loud?! Aaaaaaah!
All the sounds around me disappeared.
Zhu Lan felt her ears ringing and her whole body cracking on the spot!
No matter how much Lin Ke'er cried and shouted beside her, she remained unmoved, her mind completely blank!
Does Jiang Zhiyi like me?
No, GBA...
But I'm a woman...
[Sigh, Jiang Zhiyi's sexual orientation was originally normal, but her mother's charm is just too great!]
After she met her mother, the two gradually became best friends who could talk about anything. Slowly, she began to realize her own feelings—she had actually fallen for her mother!
[She initially thought it would be difficult to accept, but to her surprise, she accepted it quickly and even planned to gradually help her mother understand her feelings and accept her.]
Cough cough cough!
Zhu Lan glanced at Jiang Zhiyi cautiously.
She didn't notice this side and was still struggling with Lin Ke'er.
The two met off-campus; Jiang Zhiyi was unaware at the time that her mother already had a boyfriend.
[Later, by chance, he learned of his father's existence, but he still wouldn't give up and kept trying to find ways to "turn his mother gay"!]
[My mom was incredibly oblivious to things, so she didn't notice anything amiss. But my dad was different; back then, a man's intuition was off the charts! Mainly because she was making so many subtle moves, my dad saw right through her and warned her several times in private.]
[Later, seeing that she not only didn't back down but became even more aggressive, even wanting to sleep in the same bed as her mother, she finally couldn't tolerate it any longer and pressured the Jiang family to send Jiang Zhiyi abroad.]
[And so many years have passed since then!]
If it were someone else, Yan Miao might have been able to give them a piece of her mind.
It's your own family, your own mother, so you really can't resist touching her at all!
Sigh, with Jiang Zhiyi's stubborn temper, even with Old Master Jiang's coercion and the Yan family's suppression, she might not be willing to go abroad.
Most importantly, she realized that her mother only saw her as a good friend and didn't have any other intentions...
[Jiang Zhiyi and her father were both fully aware of this matter, but they tacitly kept it from her mother, so she remained unaware.]
[Dad was desperate, so he thought of using Jiang Zhiyi to try and awaken Mom's memory. Mom had no family; besides her teachers and classmates, Jiang Zhiyi was her only best friend.]
[If he hadn't been completely desperate, he wouldn't want his mother to have any more contact with Jiang Zhiyi. Over twenty years have passed; what if she's become even more obsessed?]
Zhu Lan's mind was filled with Yan Miao's sighs.
Fragments of memory began to flash by rapidly. During this time, Jiang Zhiyi made intentional or unintentional physical contact with him, such as accidentally brushing against him with the back of her hand while eating, and affectionately linking arms with him while walking.
He even reached out and grabbed his own waist!
I didn't think much of it at the time, but now when I think about it, it gives me goosebumps!
"I remembered I had some things to do, so I went back first."
"Lin Ke'er, Jiang Zhiyi is a little scared, so you stay here with her."
Before Jiang Zhiyi could react, Zhu Lan stormed out the door and left without looking back.
"I'm going to check on my mom; she's probably scared too."
Yan Miao's main selling point is that she lies through her teeth.
Jiang Zhiyi was fully aware that the two women were the first to go and examine the body.
A sense of panic washed over her; she felt as if things were no longer under her control.
That shouldn't be the case.....
Yan Chengjun would never tell her about that matter; this had always been their unspoken understanding.
So why did they suddenly leave?
After Zhu Lan left, Jiang Zhiyi became absent-minded and couldn't listen to anything Lin Ke'er was saying.
He casually comforted her and sent her away, changed his clothes, said something to the person on the other end of the phone, and went straight out.
........
A dark and gloomy basement.
The sound of a woman's high heels approached from afar.
Jiang Zhixing's heart was pounding. Damn it, he still got caught by that jerk!
I was already being so careful!
They had even checked the guards' duty roster beforehand, and sneaked in during a break to smash the cruise ship, but they didn't expect to be discovered.
"Da da da—"
The owner of the high heels had already arrived at the door.
Since he was going to die anyway, he decided to give up and shouted, "Kill me or torture me, do whatever you want! I just can't stand you. Why is it that we're all children of the Jiang family, but Grandpa is so biased!"
"It's not fair that you're only involved in company affairs while the rest of us only get that little bit of extra money!"
"Jiang Zhiyi, you know very well that this is what you owe me, and what you owe your elder brother!"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
