"It's alright. Mrs. Su said you're very busy with work, and sometimes you often stay up all night." I smiled, my voice trembling slightly, and quickly reassured him.
"Yes, I've been busy with a special mission lately, but it'll be over soon."
"That's good. No matter how busy you are, you must take care of your health."
"Okay, thank you for your concern."
Although this is a private road, the two cars blocking the middle of the road won't cause any problems.
But it was quite awkward for us to just stand there in the middle of the day, in the middle of the wilderness.
After a brief silence, I raised my hand and waved it slightly, saying, "Um... you must be hungry after all this time, go back and eat, I need to go back to the company too."
"Okay, thank you for your hard work."
"It's not hard work." I smiled and turned to walk towards the car.
Unexpectedly, he took a long stride and stretched out his long arm, getting ahead of me and opening the car door for me.
"Thank you." My cheeks were trembling with nervousness. I glanced at him and got into the car.
"Jiang Wan, goodbye." Before closing the car door, he called me by my name again, saying goodbye very solemnly.
My heart pounded even harder, and my cheeks burned hot.
Fortunately, Su Shenglin can't see it.
He turned around and knocked on the front window to signal the driver that he could leave, then walked toward the Audi A8.
As the red flag started up again and passed by his car, I could hardly resist turning my head to look back, wanting to see him one more time.
To my surprise, when I turned around, I saw him standing by the car, waving at me—as if he knew I was going to turn around and look at him.
My heart skipped a beat, and I quickly pulled my head back as if I'd been electrocuted, as if he'd seen right through me in an instant. I felt flustered, agitated, embarrassed, and even guilty and ashamed.
Jiang Wan, Jiang Wan, what are you thinking about?
That's Su Shenglin.
He has someone he likes, but he only sees you as a friend. He's just a really good person.
I clenched my hands tightly, constantly reminding myself, brainwashing myself again and again—don't have unrealistic daydreams.
But just as I was mentally preparing myself and convincing myself to stay alert, my phone rang with another WeChat message.
Looking down, I saw that it was a message from Su Shenglin.
When I treated him to dinner that time, we added each other on WeChat, and that was our first contact.
Su Shenglin: [I remember my mother saying, "Have you designed my clothes?"]
My heart started racing again: "Yes, when is a convenient time for you?"
Let's do it this weekend. I'll arrange the time and place and let you know.
【good. 】
Put down your phone; all my brainwashing efforts have been wasted.
Today is Thursday, which means we'll be able to see each other again in two days at most.
I have never felt time pass so slowly; forty-eight hours felt like four hundred and eighty hours.
Finally, Friday afternoon arrived, and I couldn't concentrate on work at all. I kept checking my phone to see if I had missed any messages.
Just as I was about to leave work, my phone suddenly rang.
My heart pounded at that moment, like when I was struggling through the desert to the limit of my life and suddenly discovered an oasis—I was incredibly excited and thrilled.
But when I picked up my phone, it turned out to be my scumbag father—Jiang Haiyang!
Wasn't he supposed to be administratively detained for fifteen days? It's only been a week, how come he's out already?
I was filled with doubt, staring at my phone for a few seconds before answering: "Hello..."
"Jiang Wan! You jinx! You even framed your own father! Not only did you frame me, you didn't even spare your stepmother! Jiang Yi is critically ill and could die at any moment. If you can't even see her one last time, aren't you afraid of being struck by lightning?!"
The phone was like a runaway fire-breathing dragon, its angry roar making my eardrums ache, so I quickly grabbed some other things.
I knew he would definitely come after me when he got out, and might even retaliate in a more severe way, so I had already made the best preparations to deal with it.
"You're a repeat offender for cheating, how can you expect me to frame you? Besides, it was your wife and son who got you detained, what does that have to do with me?"
"If you hadn't complained to Tang Xiu'e, would she have known?"
"President Jiang, you're wronging me. She's my stepmother, after all. She raised me with great care and hard work. It's a virtue for me to repay her kindness. You should praise me." I said sarcastically, feeling inexplicably happy.
Jiang Haiyang was even angrier: "Sharp-tongued! Vicious! If I had known it would turn out like this, I should have strangled your mother the moment she gave birth to you!"
Listen to this! Is this what a biological father should say in a society governed by the rule of law?
A few days of administrative detention is far too lenient on him.
"You called just to yell at me? Now that you're done yelling, you can hang up." I was already disheartened, and after saying this, I prepared to hang up.
To my surprise, Jiang Haiyang called me back.
"What, haven't you finished scolding me yet? You have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and high blood sugar. If you get this angry, your heart might burst and your wife and children will belong to someone else."
"Stop cursing me! I'm asking you, did you find your mother's jade bracelet?"
Ah! It suddenly dawned on me that this was his real purpose in contacting me.
"You're not here to ask me for the jade bracelet too, are you?"
“Lend the jade bracelet to Jiang Yi for a few days, and I will transfer all the remaining shares under your mother’s name to you.” Jiang Haiyang suddenly became generous, making the arrangements very clear.
But I hesitated.
When I was helping my aunt deal with the Zheng family, I inadvertently learned that not only was my uncle's company suffering heavy losses, but Jiang Haiyang's company was also in a similar situation.
His sudden generosity might be an attempt to shift the risk and drag me down as a scapegoat.
Seeing that I didn't speak, Jiang Haiyang became anxious. "You came to the company before asking me for money and shares, and I refused. You even framed me—what, now that I'm giving them to you, you don't want them anymore?"
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