"Thank you for helping me today."
Su Wanwan was sleeping on her side with her back to Jiang Shengjun, her head resting on her hand. Her delicate peach blossom eyes were slightly red under the light of the bedside lamp, and her long eyelashes fluttered gently.
Jiang Shengjun slept next to her, doing nothing, not touching her skin at all, maintaining a certain distance between them.
“You are my wife, I have every reason to help you, there’s no need for these words of thanks.”
Jiang Shengjun's magnetic voice drifted over, carrying a faint, ambiguous atmosphere in the quiet, dimly lit room where a man and a woman were alone.
She opened her phone and found that the withdrawn money had just arrived in her account, so she immediately transferred it to her mother for her younger brother's tuition.
She thought she would receive praise from her mother, but she didn't expect that a single sentence from her mother would bring tears to her eyes.
Su Wanwan noticed a new message on WeChat and took a closer look.
[Wanwan, something terrible has happened! Your dad gambled away a lot of money again. A company just called, saying they're collecting debts. If he doesn't pay back ten million by tonight, they'll come to our door tomorrow. What should we do? Wanwan, see if your husband can help us. It's so much money, what can we do? Wanwan, I don't have the ability to help right now.]
Su Wanwan's world instantly turned dark. Large tears welled up in her eyes, her mind felt like it was being crushed by a thousand-pound boulder, and she couldn't breathe.
Ten million!
The previous five million was already her limit.
Now we owe another ten million.
Didn't her dad promise her he wouldn't gamble anymore?
Su Wanwan suddenly didn't know what to say, she just wanted to vent her emotions.
"Mom, where did he go gambling again? Didn't he say he wouldn't gamble anymore?"
Li Wenyan replied: "[He probably can't change, what should we do? This ten million is no small amount, it will seriously affect our lives! Wanwan, maybe your father will get into a lot of trouble in the future, let's cut ties with him.]"
Su Wanwan suddenly became short of breath.
Jiang Shengjun was already asleep. She didn't want to disturb him, and she didn't want him to spend money to help her father pay off his debts.
[Mom, we can't worry about Dad anymore. Take your brother and come to me immediately. I've booked a hotel for you; you can stay here for a while.]
What about your younger brother? He still needs to go to school.
I'll help him find a good school. Hurry and travel over tonight; I'm afraid those debt collectors might harm you tomorrow.
Okay, I'll think of a way to see if we can get through.
Su Wanwan turned off her phone screen and reached out to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes. As soon as she wiped one away, another fell down, as if she could never wipe them all away.
Thinking back to when my mother was sad and upset, my father would snore loudly and never care about her feelings.
And she is now married.
Even though her husband was sleeping next to her, she still felt extremely lonely, as if she were the only person in the world.
Now I'm experiencing the same pain my mother went through.
But what was even more painful than her mother's was that she herself had married the wrong person.
Every time she thought about how good Ouyang Maomao had been to her, she felt even more pained.
The next second, Jiang Shengjun suddenly turned around, his warm body enveloping Su Wanwan's somewhat cold body.
He held her tightly, as if afraid that Su Wanwan would run away at any moment.
"do not leave Me."
Jiang Shengjun's deep, sleepy voice murmured in her ear, and the warmth near her ear made her heart itch.
Su Wanwan involuntarily shrank back, and couldn't help but call out to him in a tearful voice, "Jiang Shengjun..."
The other party did not reply.
Su Wanwan guessed that he must be asleep, and that what he just said must have been in his sleep, so she didn't wake him again.
But as she was enveloped by his warm body, she suddenly felt a sense of relief, and her tears stopped falling.
"What's wrong? Why aren't you asleep? Your phone screen is still on."
Jiang Shengjun's voice suddenly rang in her ears. Su Wanwan was a little surprised. After turning off her phone screen, everything went dark. Her sobs reached Jiang Shengjun's ears.
"Huh? Why are you crying?"
Jiang Shengjun felt a pang of sympathy.
Su Wanwan didn't want to burst into tears as soon as she opened her mouth, so she didn't respond to Jiang Shengjun immediately.
"What's wrong? Was my tone a bit harsh just now? I just wanted to check on you, to see if you had anything bothering you, that you're still awake at this hour."
Jiang Shengjun hugged her even tighter, burying his nose in the back of Su Wanwan's neck and gently stroking her skin with his forehead.
Su Wanwan's eyes welled up with tears in her eyes. She shook her head and said, "I'm sorry."
Jiang Shengjun was even more confused, his doubts mixed with heartache. He touched Su Wanwan's face as if protecting a flower, "Why did you apologize?"
Su Wanwan couldn't hold back her tears and burst into sobs. She turned around and hugged Jiang Shengjun tightly, "It's okay, I just wanted to hold you and cry for a while, sob sob..."
She sobbed softly, tears streaming down her face.
Jiang Shengjun didn't ask her what was wrong. Instead, he held her back with one hand and patted her gently, while holding her head with the other and stroking it lightly.
Like coaxing a child.
The two were very close together, with no space between them.
She was so close she could hear Jiang Shengyun's rapidly beating heartbeat.
Jiang Shengjun's touch to her chest felt like being drenched by Su Wanwan's tears.
Seeing his woman crying so bitterly, he was at a loss for what to do.
"Wanwan, don't cry, okay? Tomorrow I'll take you to buy all the clothes you like, and we'll eat all the foods you like. I'll take a few days off to go on a trip with you, okay?"
Su Wanwan's mind was preoccupied with her father's debts, and she had no interest in playing.
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