Secret Past (3)
One week before Yan Ming's death, at Yan's house.
Yan Ming hadn't returned to the Yan residence for two weeks. Jiang Shuiying sat in the dining room, looking haggard, and only took two bites of the food in front of her.
Seeing this, the housekeeper and servants came forward to show concern.
"Ma'am, are you okay?"
"lady..."
Jiang Shuiying wiped her face and waved to the servant.
"I'm fine, you guys go down first."
Jiang Shuiying waited in the restaurant until the early morning before she went upstairs with a sad face.
Jiang Shuiying has been like this for the past two weeks. In the eyes of the servants, she has become a lost woman because of her cheating husband.
Yan Ming was smoking on the balcony of the hotel at this time. Zhu Zhi was sleeping soundly in the big bed inside, and had finished the milk tea on the table.
Yan Ming took a deep puff of his cigarette, his tone impatient.
"What's going on? Why did the connection with the higher-ups suddenly stop?!"
"Hasn't the land already been negotiated?! Why is it stuck at the approval stage? How the hell do you do things?!"
The voice on the other end seemed at a loss and continued to say something, but Yan Ming's patience was obviously exhausted. He frowned and stamped out the cigarette butt.
"Okay, stop talking. I'll let Yan Ying go find him."
After hanging up the phone, Yan Ming's phone dinged and suddenly received another text message.
"do you remember me?"
The business delays already bothered him, and this piece of information made him even more upset.
What’s even more frustrating is that he has no way of finding out who this person is. All the numbers are sent from virtual machines and cannot be traced at all.
The more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became. Yan Ming skillfully deleted the text message and lit another cigarette.
"What a fuck!"
Yan Ming waited until the smell of cigarette smoke had dissipated before he lay back down beside Zhu Zhi and held her in his arms. Zhu Zhi was awakened by his movements, opened her eyes dazedly, and asked him what was wrong.
"Nothing, go to sleep."
Yan Ming let Zhu Zhi lean on his chest and smelled the fragrance of her hair. His originally restless thoughts became calm and he gradually fell into a dream.
At this moment, Zhu Zhi, who was held in his arms, had clear eyes, and the sleepiness from before had disappeared completely.
The next day, Yan Ming hurried back to the company to deal with business matters and even scolded his male secretary. Yan had previously learned through insider information that the land was slated for development, and he had intended to grab it first and resell it at a high price. Unexpectedly, the higher-ups changed their tune and specifically designated another plot of land for development, leaving him speechless.
Yan Ming was in a bad mood when he thought about how he had lost tens of millions of dollars, so when he saw Jiang Shuiying walking slowly towards him, he did not give her a good look.
Jiang Shuiying carried the lunch box and spoke carefully: "Hubby, you haven't been home for a long time. I came to see you. This is what I made this morning..."
Yan Ming lowered his head to look at the documents and did not look up at her.
"I know. Leave it there."
Jiang Shuiying appeared cautious, but she didn't move. She just stood in front of the desk and said in a slightly urgent tone:
"I made this early this morning. Would you like to try it?"
Jiang Shuiying kept pestering him, and Yan Ming was very annoyed, but he finally opened the lunch box under her gaze.
He originally thought it was a Chinese breakfast like porridge, but when he opened it, it turned out to be a bloody steak with a salad on the side.
Yan Ming stared at the salad, feeling a surge of inexplicable anger in his heart.
"You let me eat this so early in the morning?"
"Don't you know I don't like these?"
Jiang Shuiying bit her lip with an innocent look in her eyes. She did not answer the question directly, but just asked Yan Ming to eat quickly.
"I know you don't like it, but I made it this morning. Try it first..."
Yan Ming was annoyed by her behavior, and coupled with the recent things that happened in the company, he finally exploded when Jiang Shuiying urged him for the third time.
"Enough! Jiang Shuiying, are you annoying?!"
He waved his hand and knocked the lunch box off the desk. The food inside scattered all over the floor with his movement, and a lot of it was spilled on Jiang Shuiying.
Jiang Shuiying was startled and fell to the ground with a scream, her eyes instantly filled with tears.
"...Yan Ming, why are you doing this to me...I just want to care about you...I..."
“What did I do wrong…”
"That's enough! Stop talking!"
Yan Ming slammed his hand on the table, and the loud noise startled Jiang Shuiying again. Yan Ming called his male secretary and asked him to take Jiang Shuiying back.
"Don't come here if you have nothing to do! Don't disturb me while I'm working!"
"Bang!"
Yan Ming slammed the door shut. Seeing the mess in the office, he had no desire to work and went into the lounge.
The argument in the office was very loud, and the employees outside were silent. Everyone kept their heads down, but their ears were perked up.
The male secretary helped Jiang Shuiying to the elevator hall, comforting her as they walked.
"Madam, Mr. Yan has been in a bad mood recently. Please don't be too sad."
Jiang Shuiying's nose was red and tears were welling up in her eyes.
"I'm his wife, I just want to care about him, why does he treat me like this..."
The sound is not loud, but people in the company can hear it clearly.
***
The day before Yan Ming died, Yan.
The atmosphere at Yan's company had been very depressing recently, and everyone was in a state of panic. Rumors had surfaced from nowhere that Yan's company was going bankrupt.
The entire finance department and legal department suddenly started working overtime, and many people in the business department have resigned, with reasons unrelated to the company, which has caused many employees to start looking for new jobs.
Yan Ming was so busy at the company that he didn't go home or visit his lover. He was busy dealing with matters at the company.
For some unknown reason, the inspection team suddenly flew into City G recently and suddenly wanted to check the cash flow of the Yan family.
Moreover, Yan Ming could no longer contact Director Guo and made more than ten calls but still no one answered.
The Yan family made their fortune in their early years, and many of their industries were tainted with shady things. In the end, they were whitewashed by the charity work of Director Guo and Yan Ming. The company's cash flow has always been made in two copies, one real and one fake. The real account book was kept by Yan Ming, and the fake one was kept in the company.
But the inspection team was no pushover and soon discovered the trick. They ordered Yan's to hand over the real account book as soon as possible, otherwise the entire Yan's would probably be sealed off.
During this period, the harassing text messages never stopped, but Yan Ming no longer had the heart to care.
Yan Ming ran around outside all day, hoping to use his connections to get through this difficult time, but he was rejected many times. All the companies he had worked with before refused to see him.
He was exhausted and in the early hours of the morning, he chose to return to Yan's house for the first time.
The Yan residence was completely quiet, and the servants had already left. After taking a shower, he didn't go back to his room directly, but instead headed towards the study.
After the last argument with Jiang Shuiying at Yan's, Yan Ming hadn't spoken to her for a long time. The once loving couple had become strangers. Furthermore, Yan Ming was now completely focused on saving the company, and he had no time to think about love anymore.
But when he pushed open the door of the study, he saw Jiang Shuiying in casual clothes, sitting on a chair in front of the desk.
She was not sleeping at this time and was not wearing pajamas. It was obvious that she was waiting for someone, which made Yan Ming feel strange.
He didn't tell Jiang Shuiying that he was coming back, so how did she know?
"Why are you sitting here so late at night instead of sleeping?"
Jiang Shuiying didn't look back, and spoke with her back to him:
"You're back? I've been waiting for you for a long time."
Yan Ming walked up to her and sat down in the boss chair.
"Wait for me? Wait for me for what?"
Jiang Shuiying had a plain face and pushed two pieces of paper in front of Yan Ming. The indifferent expression on her face made Yan Ming feel a little unfamiliar.
"Yan Ming, let's get a divorce."
"What did you say?"
"Let's get a divorce."
Yan Ming felt a lump in his chest and stared at Jiang Shuiying in disbelief.
"You actually want to divorce me?!"
Jiang Shuiying did not avoid Yan Ming's gaze. In the past, Jiang Shuiying always looked at Yan Ming with admiration, but now her eyes were cold, as if the man sitting in front of her was not her husband of three years.
"Yes, I want to divorce you."
"I don't want to spend my whole life with a cold and cheating husband. I don't want to wait for you until late every night."
"Yan Ming, I've had enough of you!"
"I don't want a penny of your money. I just want to leave. Please let me go."
Jiang Shuiying's questioning made Yan Ming furious. It was true that he had cheated on his wife, but Yan Ming thought that apart from this he was still a good husband. He was generous and gave all the family property to her, but this woman was still not satisfied.
Yan Ming had been accustomed to Jiang Shuiying's obedience for three years, but recently for some reason Yan Ming could feel that her desire to control him was getting stronger and stronger. It was obviously her own fault that she was doing things that she shouldn't have done, but in the eyes of outsiders, she became a sinner.
Thinking of this, Yan Ming sneered: "Oh, okay."
"Since you want to leave, then leave! Don't even think about taking a penny of my money!"
Yan Ming glanced at the divorce agreement and indeed saw the words "Jiang Shuiying voluntarily left the house" on it. Then he signed his name on the last page.
After signing, Yan Ming directly threw the two agreement papers at Jiang Shuiying, just like he did before in the office.
"It's signed, are you satisfied?!"
"Leave if you're satisfied! Get out of here!"
Jiang Shuiying was not annoyed. She picked up the agreement on the ground and left. Finally, she stood at the door of the study, looked at Yan Ming and said the last sentence.
"Yan Ming, you must remember me."
After hearing these words, Yan Ming looked up in surprise.
"What do you remember about you?"
Yan Ming didn't wait for an answer, because Jiang Shuiying had already left, leaving nothing behind.
Jiang Shuiying didn't take anything with her, only carrying a small bag on her back. She came to the door of Yan's house alone, where a black nanny car was already waiting for her.
She opened the car door, left Yan's house, and drove the nanny car deep into the city.
On the road, Jiang Shuiying waited for the car to drive for a distance, and after confirming that there was no car following behind, she took out her mobile phone and sent a video to Yan Ming.
Yan Ming had already opened a bottle of red wine in the basement and was drinking it quietly when his phone beeped, interrupting his thoughts. He clicked on it and saw that it was a message from Jiang Shuiying.
It's a video.
In the video, Jiang Shuiying is sitting on a chair in the study. From her clothes, it can be seen that it was filmed today.
Jiang Shuiying bent down to check the camera. After a slight sway, she sat up straight, was silent for a moment, and then spoke to the camera:
"Yan Ming, when we first got together, you said I looked like someone. Who was that person?"
After saying that, she suddenly stood up and lifted the clothes around her waist, then rubbed it with her hand and slowly buttoned off a small piece of skin.
Yan Ming's hair stood on end when he saw this scene.
What is she doing?
Then, Jiang Shuiying in the video actually tore off a piece of transparent flesh-colored thing from her waist, revealing a long, seemingly old scar on her waist.
Jiang Shuiying walked towards the camera with a calm expression.
"Could this person be me?"
The video ended abruptly here, Jiang Shuiying's face was still on the screen, staring at Yan Ming.
Yan Ming was sweating coldly, his heart was pounding in his chest, and his pupils began to constrict as he stared at the screen.
He remembered the scar. Only one person in the world had such a scar, because he had left it on a girl ten years ago.
Yan Ming's hand holding the phone was unstable and he almost dropped it on the ground.
Jiang Shuiying is her? Jiang Shuiying is really her?
impossible!
This girl clearly died ten years ago!
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