After Liang Huaijing's Bai Yueguang went abroad, I took the position as her stand-in.
His brother drank wine and mocked me:
"A slap on her face, she had to laugh. 」
"Sincerity."
On the day Bai Yueguang returned to China, he specially took me to the reception banquet.
I want that group of people to humiliate me again, to please Bai Yueguang.
He said in a cold tone, "Remember who you are. 」
"You are not qualified to speak on this occasion. 」
I replied, "Okay. 」
He doesn't know yet.
Everyone present is already my subordinate.
1
On Liang Huaijing's birthday, Qiao Siran's call came back.
"Huaijing, I'm going back to China. 」
He drank some wine, and was drunkenly sitting on the couch pulling his tie, when his movements suddenly stopped.
"I heard that when I was not in the country, you had a small pet to relieve boredom?"
She chuckled,
"Fakes or something, just play with them, but don't take them seriously. 」
"Otherwise, I'll be angry. 」
The phone hangs up.
The drunkenness in Liang Huaijing's eyes dissipated little by little.
He raised his head slightly and pinched my chin, as if looking at my face, which was somewhat similar to Qiao Siran.
After a few moments, he sneered, grabbed my wrist, and lifted it up.
The honey water I had served him for hangover was poured in my face.
"Do you hear that?"
I blinked the drops of water from my eyelashes and said in a dumb voice, "I heard you, Miss Qiao is right. 」
"I could actually move out if she minded—"
Before he finished speaking, the scene in front of him suddenly turned around.
When I came back to my senses, I had been held by Liang Huaijing's wrist and pressed on the sofa.
He squeezed my chin hard and said coldly:
"Don't pretend to be pitiful in front of me, I don't eat retreat as advance. 」
"You said it yourself, no matter how much I went too far, you were reluctant to leave me, because you have loved me for many years. 」
"No matter how many grievances there are, I can endure them. 」
My eyelashes drooped, I bit my lip, and my circles grew red.
It took a long time before I squeezed out a "good" word.
Then he successfully saw the lust that gradually rose in Liang Huaijing's eyes.
"Before Si Ran comes back, you should first do your duty as a stand-in. 」
There was no mercy in his movements, and when I exhaled in pain, he would only reach out and cover my mouth.
frowned and whispered, "Noisy." 」
"Be quiet, Si Ran won't be as squeamish as you. 」
I know that Liang Huaijing has always looked down on me.
Because from the beginning, I was a stand-in for Qiao Siran.
Take the initiative to put it on.
2
When we were kids, we were playmates.
Later, my family went bankrupt and I moved out of the circle, so I lost contact.
When we meet again, I'm serving plates at a fine dining restaurant.
Greet guests with the standard English pronunciation you learned as a child.
And Liang Huaijing is already the prince of the high-ranking group.
Because of Qiao Siran's going abroad, he had a big quarrel with her, and the trouble reached the point of breaking up angrily.
I deliberately approached him with this face that resembled hers.
When he fell into his arms awkwardly, Liang Huaijing sneered.
Pinching my chin, forcing me to look up:
"Miss, you used to look down on me the most, forgot?"
My eyelashes twitched, and I lowered my head in embarrassment: "...... I'm sorry. 」
"Your face is a little similar to Si Ran. 」
He rolled up a blank check and stuffed it into my neckline, and said in a condescending tone.
"You can be Siran's stand-in and stay by my side to relieve your boredom. 」
I didn't hesitate and nodded.
He smiled: "Jiang Yan, you are really self-deprecating. 」
Because of his attitude, his brothers and friends around him also looked down on him.
The first time I followed Liang Huaijing to their party, a dozen red and white wines were pushed in front of me.
The man at the head has half-long hair, his eyebrows and eyes are merry, the corners of his lips are bent, and he coaxes gently:
"Drink. 」
"If you don't finish drinking, how can you prove your sincerity to Huaijing?"
I still remember his name.
Xie stopped the boat.
My gaze swept over his face without stopping.
Ignoring his suddenly sinking face, he just looked at Liang Huaijing.
He looked at it coldly and said indifferently, "Do you still expect me to drink it for you?"
That day, I drank all a dozen of wines.
The ears were full of laughter from the crowd:
"It's really drinking, so hard. 」
"Cheap, it's hard to climb the high branches, how can you do it if you don't hold on to it firmly?"
"Give her a slap in the face, she'll probably have to laugh, right?"
At that moment, countless thoughts crossed my heart.
Everyone thinks that I am so willing to be so cheap and close to Liang Huaijing because I like it.
- I can't show my flaws.
My stomach was churning, and I rushed to the bathroom, vomiting so hard that my throat was foaming with blood.
After I went out, Liang Huaijing didn't wait for me.
There was something wrong with the company, and he hurried back to deal with it.
Left me alone.
I crouched down on my knees in a daze, shivering in the bleak night breeze.
A familiar voice suddenly came from above his head, with a mockery:
"Tsk, he doesn't want you anymore?"
"Didn't you look down on Liang Huaijing the most before, why did you stick to him now?"
I jerked my head up and saw a familiar face with a sarcastic smile.
Xie stopped the boat.
The residual alcohol made me think for a few seconds, and after reacting, I spoke a little hoarsely:
"I'm not looking for him, am I looking for you?"
The drunkenness made my voice sound slurred.
It's more like some kind of coquettishness.
I staggered to my feet, but my legs went numb because I had been squatting for too long, and I staggered forward and threw myself into his arms.
From the reflection of Xie Zhuzhou's pupils, I saw what I was now.
His cheeks were flushed with drunkenness, and his eyelashes were moist and trembling like sweet and plump fruits.
With a deliberate hint of seduction.
Xie Zhuzhou's Adam's apple rolled up and down, grabbed my waist violently, and pressed it into his arms.
Accompanied by a passionate kiss fell, a voice filled with lust:
"What's wrong with looking for me?"
3
On the day Qiao Siran returned to China, they made an appointment early in the morning to hold a grand reception banquet for her.
Liang Huaijing specially took me.
"Dress up nicely and let her know that even if I look for a fake, my vision is not so bad. 」
Sitting in the black Bentley, he leaned sideways and pinched my delicately made face for a moment.
In my lowered gaze, he spoke, in a cold tone, "Remember who you are. 」
"You are not qualified to speak on this occasion. 」
I ignored the faint dull pain on both cheeks and responded, "Okay. 」
Private restaurant with great privacy.
The lights are bright and extravagant.
Qiao Siran sat in the middle in a small black dress, and the stars held the moon.
Her nonchalant gaze swept over me, fell on me, and suddenly laughed:
"Ah, isn't this our Miss Jiang?"
"I haven't seen you for so long, how can you pick up the clothes I don't want to wear? Your parents died early, and no one taught you self-respect and self-love?"
The fingers hanging at his side tightened sharply.
I lowered my head and looked at myself, and Liang Huaijing insisted on the skirt I changed into before going out.
Suddenly I realized.
He brought me over specifically to humiliate Qiao Siran.
She tapped her chin with her fingertips and asked a few men around her with a smile:
"I heard that every time you get together, she has to stand aside and pour wine and laugh, is that true?"
There was silence.
No response.
I glanced up and did not see Xie Zhuzhou.
Didn't he come today?
The thought crossed my mind.
In the next second, his face suddenly cooled.
Qiao Siran poured the whole glass of wine on my face, put down the glass, and said with a smile:
"It's a waste of such a good wine to pour on your face. 」
"Why are you looking at me like this, you want to fight back? Find out, you're no longer the eldest lady of the Jiang family!"
Her gaze fell on Liang Huaijing with anger and anger.
He leaned back on the couch, playing with the empty wine glass between his fingers, and looked at me.
Probably because of drunkenness, when the always cold person looked over, the corners of his lips were slightly hooked, and his eyes were lazy.
"Remember who you are and clean up for yourself. 」
I clutched the neckline of my wine-soaked dress and bowed.
Hurriedly ran out of the box.
In the bathroom at the end of the hallway, I was washing my face in front of the sink with my head down.
"Jiang Yan. A somewhat hoarse voice sounded.
I jerked my head up and saw a tall boy with dyed white hair in the mirror.
His name is Qin Yang, and he is the youngest of Liang Huaijing's friends.
I haven't graduated from college yet.,The personality has always been freewheeling.,Extremely rebellious.。
He walked in and closed the door with his backhand.
I looked at him, "This is the women's restroom. 」
"Don't you have anything to say to me?"
He raised his eyebrows lightly and tugged at his neckline.
The collar of the sweatshirt slipped down during the action, revealing the ambiguous red marks on my neck that I were all too familiar with.
Familiar, of course.
Because that's what I left yesterday.
I blinked and asked him, "Why didn't Xie stop Zhou come today?"
Then I managed to see his face sink and strode over.
Grabbed my chin and kissed me.
"If he doesn't come, you care about his whereabouts, I saw it, you were looking for him just now, right?"
"Jiang Yan, do you have a heart, I didn't come last time I had a fever, and I didn't see you ask me a word!"
When he said the last sentence, his tone was full of dissatisfaction and grievances.
I grabbed his arm and was about to speak.
There was a sudden knock on the door: "Jiang Yan, are you inside?"
It's Liang Huaijing.
The heart stopped beating suddenly, and the hand that landed on Qin Yang's arm almost subconsciously tightened its strength.
He felt it.
Then he suddenly laughed wickedly, "Ah, sister, I seem to have forgotten to lock the door. 」
"Just let him in and see us like this, okay?"
4
The heart tightened silently.
Before my brain could figure out the most appropriate course of action, my eyes were red and tears were already flowing instinctively.
"Okay, I lied to you, of course I locked the door. 」
A trace of jealousy flashed in Qin Yang's eyes, he raised his hand, and rubbed the tail of my eye with his fingertips with some strength,
"It's good to make up an excuse casually, anyway, he is all Qiao Siran in his heart now, and he doesn't have time to take care of you at all. 」
I sniffed and responded to the increasingly anxious knock at the door, "I'm here. 」
"I'm sorry, I didn't feel very comfortable with the wine that spilled in my eyes just now—"
Before he finished speaking, he was impatiently interrupted by Liang Huaijing outside the door:
"Feel wronged? Are you willing to be a stand-in for her, what's the matter, I can't stand it now with some wine?"
He paused slightly.
Even through a door, I can imagine his condescending posture now,
"It's useless to pretend to be pathetic to me, I won't be soft on you. 」
"Pack up and get out on your own. 」
In the footsteps that gradually faded away, Qin Yang grabbed my chin, forcing me to raise my head to look at him.
"What are you crying about?"
He gritted his teeth like an angry puppy.
The fire of jealousy in his eyes burned brightly, without concealing it at all,
"Jiang Yan, do you like him so much? obviously he treats you so badly, he still sheds tears because of his words. 」
"And what about me, what am I? Do you know how long I looked for you after you moved out—"
The words that were not finished were blocked by my sudden kiss.
I leaned on his shoulder, clumsy and jerky fiddling with my lips.
Soon he was mainly anti-guest with a very enthusiastic attitude.
「...... Never mind. 」
He blinked, and the tails of his eyes glowed a pitiful red with emotion,
"I can understand that you can't bear him for a while, it's not that Liang Huaijing's slut who seduces you, and he still engages in PUA. 」
"I can wait for you to figure it out. 」
"As long as you don't push me away like you did the first time. 」
……
That night, Liang Huaijing didn't wait for me to go back together.
I know that Qiao Siran is still angry, and he has to coax her well.
After finally coaxing Qin Yang, I took a taxi home alone.
But near the door of the house, he was suddenly dragged into the dark garden by a hand that suddenly stretched out.
The familiar aroma of absinthe enters the nose.
I immediately knew who he was.
Tightening the bag belt, he said in a low voice: "Xie Zhuzhou, you didn't come tonight, I'm worried about you, I ......"
"I confessed my mistake again. 」
Xie Zhichuan's cold voice sounded close to my ears,
"Does my sister like my brother so much?
"Do you want me to tie my sister to the bed and torture her a few more times so that my sister won't admit her mistake?"
I was dragged by Xie Zhuchuan by the wrist all the way into the bedroom of the villa.
It's deserted.
Liang Huaijing doesn't like to be in the same room with him, so even the nanny doesn't stay here.
I explained vaguely, "He didn't come tonight, I'm just a little worried......
"Worried about what?"
Xie Zhichuan bit my ear, with a bit of venting,
"On your birthday, he couldn't get used to seeing you ingratiating favor with Liang Huaijing, and poured you with wine until your stomach bleed, didn't I send you to the hospital?"
"Jiang Yan, you really have no conscience. 」
5
Xie Zhichuan left before Liang Huaijing returned.
Among these people, he is the only one who knows that I still maintain close contact with men other than Liang Huaijing.
But it's only his brother alone.
Qiao Siran began to take over the Qiao family's company.
She excused herself to have been abroad for several years and was not familiar with the domestic environment.
Let Liang Huaijing send me to her side as an assistant.
Then, openly and covertly, he encouraged the employees of the whole company to isolate and exclude me.
She used the methods of school bullying used by the most inferior, mentally underdeveloped teenagers.
Glue was poured into my glasses, thumbtacks were spilled on my shoes, and I was forever drunk at dinner.
I had stomach attacks and was admitted to the hospital several times.
Liang Huaijing would only warn me impatiently:
"The compensation money has already been credited to your card, and I have paid off the debts that your family has owed for so many years, what are you not satisfied with? 」
I said okay, hung up the phone, and let him and Qiao Siran go on a date.
Then he beat his brothers one by one.
As a consolation, they would take me in the car, take me home, take me to the company.
Until the last time, Qiao Siran played big-
I swallowed a candy with a blade on it and was dragged to the hospital for gastric lavage.
The sharp blade cut through my mouth and esophagus.
I opened my mouth and couldn't make a sound.
Only blood gushed out.
This time, I called Qin Yang.
Soon after he arrived, Liang Huaijing and Qiao Siran quarreled at the door of the ward.
"Siran, you've gone too far this time. 」
Liang Huaijing's tone was a little unhappy and cold,
"I left it to you to be petty before, but this time I can't get it and I'll die!"
"You're distressed!" Qiao Siran's voice was crying.
"What's wrong with me? I just don't like her. 」
"Her parents are dead, her family is bankrupt and in debt, if it weren't for the dead skin pestering you, how could you still be qualified to appear here, appear in front of me, and make me unhappy?!"
"She deserves to die with her parents!"
From beginning to end, Qin Yang sat on the edge of the hospital bed.
Holding my hand, I listened to her hoarse cries outside the door.
After a while, Qin Yang suddenly laughed:
"She's so embarrassed...... Even when I was young, I knew that after you moved out, her family bought your villa, and she started to learn cello even though she didn't know anything about music. 」
Before he could finish speaking, the door of the ward was pushed open.
I jerked my hand out.
Before Liang Huaijing and Qiao Siran could react, they glanced at Qin Yang almost pleadingly.
I was pale because of the blood loss.
His hair was disheveled, and there was still undried blood on his lips.
It's just such a pitiful, broken look.
With just one glance, Qin Yang's heart softened.
As soon as Liang Huaijing's cold and suspicious "Why are you here" came out, he sneered and stood up:
"Come and clean up the mess for you, the reporters were already downstairs when I came, do you know how important the direction of public opinion is for next month's project?"
He glanced at me and threatened,
"There will be no less compensation for you, remember, don't talk nonsense when you go out. 」
"Otherwise, you're pretty. 」
6
That night, I received a series of text messages from Qin Yang.
"I'm in the hospital during the day, my acting skills are good, right?"
"Liang Huaijing's stupid dog didn't suspect me at all. 」
"Qiao Siran's good life won't last long. 」
"Sister, how are you going to reward me?"
Like a large dog wagging its tail around me enthusiastically.
I replied to his message.
Then he exited the interface and replied to the concerns and greetings of several other people.
Finally, call back to Xie Zhuzhou.
"Are you still busy at the company?"
"Hmm. 」
He said, "If a big project can be won by several companies, it is enough to expand the territory several times. 」
"The difference between the quotation and the quotation is a world of difference, and the details have to be polished carefully - it's a pity that Liang Huaijing and Qiao Siran have been messing around all day, and I have to deal with these things. 」
I know he said that on purpose.
So he whispered, "You're very powerful. 」
"So powerful, why didn't you give up on him and choose me?"
I fell silent.
In the silent flow of time, I spoke, crying in fragments:
"Why didn't you show up before him in the restaurant that day?"
"I want to choose you too...... I wanted to choose you from the beginning, but you were a step too late, and I was already at my end. 」
On the other end of the line came the sound of a pen falling to the floor.
Then Xie Zhuzhou calmed me in a little panic:
"Yes, it's all my fault. 」
"I should have shown up sooner to save you. 」
"Now...... Okay, Ah Yan, let's take our time. 」
7
In the second month, it was Qiao Siran's twenty-fifth birthday.
Liang Huaijing had already planned to hold a grand birthday banquet for her in a resort on the outskirts of the city.
All the friends in their circle will participate.
I wouldn't have been invited to this kind of occasion.
So I didn't wake up until almost noon.
As soon as I walked out of the yard, I saw the girl living next door walking her dog.
It was a large dog with a bad personality, and she obviously couldn't handle it.
When he was dragged past me, he was brought down and fell heavily to the ground.
The big dog bared his teeth in triumph, and was about to run out—
I grabbed the rope and tightened the chain.
When the dog was strangled and stuck out its tongue and looked at me with a hideous face, he looked at him with a blank face.
In the silent confrontation, the ferocity in the dog's eyes gradually disappeared.
It bent down and wagged its tail at me flatteringly.
The girl got up from the ground and ran to me with her bleeding knees in tow, and exclaimed:
"This dog was raised by my father, and even he can't handle it...... You're so good, have you ever tamed a dog before?"
"Tamed...... There are several. 」
I met her curious gaze and laughed slowly,
"Every dog has a different personality, and the way to tame them is also different. Some need to show weakness, and some need to be relaxed and pulled. 」
"Yes, you can't take a step back. 」
Seeing a hint of confusion in her eyes, I stopped the conversation empathetically and took out my phone.
The caller ID on the screen popped up Liang Huaijing's name.
After connecting it, the voice from there was not as cold and impatient as before.
Instead, it has a hint of inexplicable gentleness:
"Jiang Yan, you come to the resort now, Si Ran wants to apologize to you for what happened last time, and she also prepared a gift for you. 」
I waved at the girl, and as I walked back, I spoke:
"I don't need to apologize, the place is far away, and it's not very convenient for me to go there......
"How can it be inconvenient, isn't your parents' cemetery also near here?"
On the other end of the phone, Qiao Siran's drunken voice suddenly came into his ears,
"Ah, I said the wrong thing again. 」
"It's okay, you come in Huaijing's car, and I'll compensate you in person—you must come." 」
There was only one crimson sports car parked in the garage.
She opened it just the other day.
I sat down calmly, started the car, and calmly drove onto the winding road.
The moment he realized that the brakes had suddenly failed, he just took a deep breath and turned the head of the car with the steering wheel.
With a bang, the car crashed into a stone wall on one side.
The force of the impact caused my ribs to snap in an instant, and the airbag popped out like a punch to the face.
My consciousness was plunged into darkness, and I fainted.
8
In my dreams, it seems to go backwards along the trajectory of time.
I saw a lot of fragmented scenes.
When I was three years old, I was hospitalized with a serious illness and had a fever of more than 40 degrees.
My mother hugged me and walked around the balcony of the hospital room, crying uncontrollably.
When I was nine years old, I took my cello to a national competition and won the gold medal in the junior category.
Dad picked me up and let me fly in the air.
"What reward do we Ah Yan want?" 」
And then.
It was when I was fifteen.
The night before I jumped from a tall building, my mother fed me a sleeping pill.
She thought I was asleep and hugged me and kissed me indiscriminately.
The wounds on his body had not yet healed, and he smelled of blood.
"Don't try to get revenge on them, they're a bunch of brutes...... Ah Yan, live well. 」
"You are the bravest child, and no one will make it difficult for you anymore when your mother is gone, just a little harder. 」
Her voice was full of despair, with a fragmented cry,
"But Mom really can't hold on—"
She thought I was asleep, but I wasn't.
She thought I would be a sensible and intelligent kid, but I wasn't.
Mom, I'm a madman.
9
The day I woke up from the car accident happened to be the day when Liang Huaijing and their bid failed.
They have exhausted countless efforts and manpower to make a plan, and all the originality points have been stolen by competing companies.
The other party even offered a point lower than them.
The most fatal point - the other party proposed that they won the first phase of the project by dishonorable means.
Originally, taking over this project would allow several companies that had long been tied to the same small boat of interests to expand their territory several times.
It's yellow.
A few people couldn't help but quarrel in the living room of the ward of the private hospital.
"Who the hell leaked the plan? Xie Zhuzhou, can't you find out?"
Liang Huaijing sneered,
"By the way, take the company over there, there are shares of your Xie family, who knows if you are guarding and stealing?"
Xie Zhuzhou's tone was indifferent and disdainful: "You can doubt me, I have no opinion. 」
"But I have a reasonable reason to think that it was caused by your white moonlight who returned to China. 」
"For such an important project, you have to add a fool who is in the middle of it, don't you take the risks into account?"
"What's more, she is stupid and bad, she even has the heart to hit Jiang Yan with her hands and feet on the brakes, and she can't do anything!"
Liang Huaijing was furious:
"I knew you had ill intentions towards Jiang Yan! But unfortunately, she chose me. 」
Xie Zhizhou sneered, "That was in the past. 」
"In the future, it's not good. 」
I lay on my hospital bed, staring at the snow-white ceiling.
Tear the corners of your lips.
Slowly, slowly, laughed.
Yes, Jiang Yan who got into the car that had been passive and almost lost his life on the mountain road without realizing it.
Like a drowning person climbing driftwood, he can only cling to the silk flowers that they are surviving.
Even if they have been in the car for their private conversations, even if they have been taken into the most confidential office.
How could it be the one who betrayed them?
10
On the day I was discharged from the hospital, Liang Huaijing came to pick me up.
Sitting in the car, I whispered:
"If Miss Qiao cares about my presence, she has returned to China, and I can stop bothering you. 」
He jerked his head back.
His eyes were a little cold: "What's the matter, are you going to leave me and throw yourself into the arms of Xie Zhuzhou?"
As if frightened, I leaned back, "How can it be...... What does it have to do with him?"
And because he pulled the wound on his body that had not healed, his face turned pale in pain.
"I'm just afraid that Miss Qiao will be unhappy, after all, you ......."
Liang Huaijing's face softened a lot: "That's her problem, don't worry about her. 」
"You were injured because of her, and when you go home, take care of it—"
He paused slightly, and his tone softened,
"I'll never let people bully you again, Jiang Yan. 」
But soon, he didn't have time to take care of me.
Because of the resort project that was developed by several companies more than ten years ago, some rumors began to circulate on the Internet.
It is said that a gold mine was discovered during the excavation that year.
There are hundreds of workers who are now buried in the mines.
Things are in a lot of uproar.
Early in the morning, Liang Huaijing hurriedly went out.
I finished my breakfast slowly and went upstairs in front of the nanny:
"Auntie, I'm going to sleep for a while, don't bother me if it's okay. 」
Then, he entered Liang Huaijing's study.
A few days ago, when Xie Zhuzhou and the others came to discuss countermeasures, they brought with them some very important top-secret information.
When he left, he was empty-handed.
I rummaged through the study, stood on a chair, and found two yellowed brown paper bags from the top of the bookcase.
My heart jumped, and my breathing began to become shortness unconsciously.
I was about to take it off.
Through the door panel, I heard Liang Huaijing's somewhat vague voice:
"Mama Zhang, where is Jiang Yan?"
"Miss Jiang said she was not feeling well after eating breakfast and wanted to sleep for a while, do you want me to wake her up?"
"No, let her sleep. 」
It was Xie Zhuzhou with some gentle voices.
Xie Zhichuan sneered: "Isn't my brother always hated her, and he poured her wine for the first time, do you regret it now?"
The last sentence was so close that it almost stopped at the door.
I reacted instantly, and the three of them were standing outside, across a study door, opposite me.
In the next second, the door opened:
"Okay, when is it, and you're still saying these things-Jiang Yan, why are you here?!"
11
I ignored Xie Zhichuan's question.
just pinched the blackened photo in his hand, and looked at Liang Huaijing at the front fixedly:
"Didn't you burn this picture at the time?"
He didn't answer.
After a pause of silence, I whispered:
"I thought you hated me. 」
The old photo has a yellowed background, and the above is us many years ago.
Standing side by the pool in the courtyard of the Liang family's villa, shoulder to shoulder.
At that time, my family was not bankrupt, and Liang Huaijing was still a neighbor.
I felt that he always looked at me wrongly, and I hated him.
But my dad has a good relationship with the Liang family.
This photo was taken by the parents on both sides of Liang Huaijing on his birthday after I had a fight with him.
I'm not happy and he's not satisfied.
Soon after the photo came out, he lit it in front of me with a fire:
"Do you think I'm rare to take pictures with you?"
Young Liang Huaijing looked at me and sneered,
"The princess is sick, it's really bad luck for me to see you on my birthday. 」
At that time, I was so angry that my eyes were red.
Turn around and go.
"So you didn't see that I was scrambling to put out the fire and keep the photos very cherished. 」
Because I almost died at the hands of Qiao Siran, he already had a little shallow guilt towards me.
At this time, it was opposite to my eyes with a little cautious hope.
In just a moment, Liang Huaijing silently softened his gaze.
He turned his head sideways: "You guys go downstairs first, anyway, the past has been settled, and it's not so easy for them to turn it over, and they are not in a hurry." 」
But Xie Zhizhou and Xie Zhichuan, who were standing behind him, did not move.
"What do we have to say, that we can't hear?"
After a while, Xie Zhichuan suddenly laughed,
"At the beginning, you wanted to leave Jiang Yan and let her be Qiao Siran's stand-in, didn't you say this in front of us? 」
Liang Huaijing sank his face and scolded coldly:
"Xie Zhuchuan!"
He turned a deaf ear, "Isn't it still what you said? What you don't like the most is that she used to be high, like a princess, and now that she has fallen, you wish she would be in the mud for the rest of her life—"
Before he finished speaking, he was smashed back by Liang Huaijing's vicious punch.
"That's enough!"
Xie Zhichuan was undaunted.
He spit out the blood foam in his mouth, turned his gaze, and fell on Xie Zhuzhou on the side:
"Brother, aren't you going to say something, are you still dreaming that one day she will come back to you rightfully?"
"You're just like me, you're just a bad junior. 」
I've always known that.
He and Xie are half-brothers.
There is an innate extreme and gloomy desire to destroy everything in the blood.
My whole body trembled, and I almost didn't dare to meet Xie Zhuzhou's sudden and sharp gaze.
「...... Don't be afraid of me, Ah Yan, I guessed it a long time ago. 」
He looked at me, and his voice was calm,
"Tell me, he used to treat you like this, only to find a mutilated photo, and you relented again?"
"Look at me, Jiang Yan. 」
His tone suddenly became cold,
"Answer: Me!"
In an instant, Liang Huaijing, Xie Zhuzhou, and Xie Zhuchuan.
Three pairs of eyes with different emotions all fell on me in unison.
"I don't know what to do. 」
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry......
I was trembling, and my expression was full of despair and whiteness after the East Window incident.
The mutilated photograph was clutched in the palm of my hand.
An afternoon sun shimmered through the cracks in the blinds.
Everything collapsed in this moment as I had envisioned it.
Nobody cared, I hid my phone on the inside of my skirt.
Those few top-secret archival photos that were taken in a hurry.
12
A long, long time ago, I found this photo in Liang Huaijing's study.
In the photo, I am wearing a white dress and looking indifferent.
Although he had a cold face, he tried his best to put on a disdainful appearance.
However, the hand hanging by his side and pinching the corner of his clothes still exposed his nervousness.
He really wanted to, he really wanted to take a picture with me.
But because I have always expressed my disgust clearly, I dare not declare it.
Then I left, and Josiran replaced me.
She wears a white dress, learns cello, cuts her hair to the length of her shoulders, and commands Liang Huaijing, rarely has a good face.
— just like me was more than 10 years ago.
From the beginning, she was my stand-in.
So Qiao Siran hates me to the bone, so Liang Huaijing is like an idiot with a sick brain, standing on her side in everything.
I know it all and watch it all coldly, and I never expose it.
Because a good card, of course, must be played at the most critical moment.
— for example, at this moment.
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"I don't know what's going on, I didn't have the face to see all of you in the first place. 」
Word by word, I choked up and said,
"After my family went bankrupt, I didn't do well. Later, my parents passed away, and I couldn't even pay the tuition fees, so I had to work everywhere. The debt collectors even took my cello, which I hadn't played in years. 」
"I always feel that everything in the past is like a distant dream. 」
「...... But I really want to stay here. 」
"I'm sorry, but you treat me as a greedy bad person. 」
I kept rubbing the corners of my red and trembling eyes, and wiped them vigorously.
But the tears kept going for a moment, and they still fell like beads with broken threads.
I hurriedly bowed, passed them, and was about to leave.
But his wrist was grabbed by a person.
Looking up, it was Xie Zhuzhou's struggling face.
The love-hate in his eyes was mixed, and his emotions tumbled, and in the end, they all faded into a complex and silent undercurrent.
"It's dirty, Jiang Yan. 」
"You're quick to make excuses, you and my brother haven't met a few times since the beginning, and you can be said to be nostalgic for your old relationship when you seduce me, so what are you and him?"
He pinched my chin and forced me to look up, with self-deprecation in his tone,
"Jiang Yan, you are a shameless slut. 」
My eyelashes trembled, but I just closed my eyes and couldn't say anything to refute them.
In the next second, the other hand hanging by his side was held by Xie Zhichuan.
"Sister, we can not blame you for the past. 」
"But no one can tolerate sharing their loved ones with others. 」
"So, now, you have a choice to make. 」
I opened my mouth, but before I could make a sound, as soon as my body was light, I was grabbed by Liang Huaijing's waist and the whole person was taken into my arms.
"What to choose? From the beginning, she chose to be me. 」
He said coldly, "Who gave you the illusion that you are qualified to compete with me?"
"About the project and the archives, let's talk about it another day. 」
"Mama Zhang, send off. 」
14
I was still wearing a white nightdress, and I was thrown into the bathtub by Liang Huaijing.
The shower was turned on, and the icy water made me feel excited.
looked at Liang Huaijing almost pleadingly:
"It's cold, it hurts. 」
"Do you have any pain from me?" Jiang Yan, I will pay off your debts, if I hadn't saved you, you wouldn't have known where you were sold!"
His eyes swept sharply, as if he wanted to rip off my flesh inch by inch,
"Even if I didn't think about it before, let Qiao Siran bully you, why can't you give in with me? Why should you go to someone else?"
"Or are you dissolute by nature, and if you don't hook a few more men, you won't be able to live?"
I couldn't open my eyes in the strong impact of the water, so I could only curl up in the bathtub and passively bear everything.
Liang Huaijing stood up, threw the shower, and looked at me condescendingly:
"You're here, wash yourselves. 」
"From today onwards, don't think about stepping out of this house. 」
……
I was locked in my bedroom by Liang Huaijing.
On the ankle, there is a thin silver chain.
It was just long enough for me to move every inch of my room, but I couldn't get out of the room.
Because of the serious injuries in the previous car accident, coupled with the cold water that he threw into the bathtub for several hours.
I had a high fever for several days, and I fell into a coma.
Liang Huaijing was not idle.
In this era, even if online public opinion is forcefully suppressed, the little thing that flows through the cracks is still enough to affect him.
What's more, while busy clarifying everything, the Xie family, who was originally an alliance, turned against him.
Xie Zhuzhou took care of the decency of the two worldly friends.
But as an illegitimate son, Xie Zhichuan will not leave him the slightest leeway.
The two have been working together for so many years, and each has the deadliest handle in each other's hands.
After repeated confrontation games, Liang Huaijing, who was physically and mentally exhausted, finally found time to come and see me.
I'm still asleep.
Because of the high fever, his lips were pale and cracked, and his voice was hoarse.
But he was still there, calling his name indistinctly.
「...... Liang Huaijing. 」
"Obviously you don't want me. 」
"It was you who burned the photo first, and you didn't come to see me the day I moved out, and then Qiao Siran bullied me so many times, and you didn't help me once. 」
"I'm going to be sad too......
In the end, I slowly opened my eyes.
Not surprisingly, the hand that was on the outside of the quilt was held by the person in front of the bed.
Liang Huaijing held my hand and looked at me fixedly.
The look is a little complicated:
"Just remember it, I'm sick and thinking about it. 」
I answered in a hoarse voice.
He said to himself, as if to convince himself:
"Forget it, I can't blame you...... You moved out of here when you were a teenager, what's wrong with wanting to come back. 」
"If you want to blame it, blame the two sluts of the Xie family for seducing you. 」
As he spoke, he tucked the quilt for me and pressed my head against his arms.
"For the rest of the year, you're going to stay at home and not go anywhere. 」
"Since Xie Zhizhou wants to play, I'll have a good time with him. 」
I didn't speak.
I was just pressed by him in his arms, sniffing the breath that made me want to vomit, and soon fell asleep again.
15
In order to avoid Xie and Xie Zhuchuan, Liang Huaijing transferred me to a secret villa in his name on the outskirts of the city.
He gave me his phone back and told me to pass the time with boring little games.