“Jiang Chen… don’t misunderstand. I never meant to drive you away.”
Looking at Jiang Chen’s seemingly resolute and deeply devoted back, Su Zhenyue hurriedly reached out and grabbed him.
She couldn’t understand when Jiang Haotian had become like this.
What did he mean by saying that she could only be happy with him?
He could clearly see that Jiang Chen loved her. He loved her so deeply that he was willing to risk his own life for her. It had never been about money.
For the sake of her happiness, Jiang Chen would rather sacrifice everything he had.
By saying something like that, wasn’t Jiang Haotian deliberately provoking Jiang Chen?
How could he say such a thing?
Seeing Su Zhenyue cast a disappointed glance at Jiang Haotian while refusing to let go of him, Jiang Chen was dumbfounded.
‘Wait, don’t you have some kind of misunderstanding about what being heartbroken looks like?’
“Sister… Eldest Young Miss Su, I’m really not heartbroken, and I genuinely don’t mind. If you don’t believe me, look at how brightly I’m smiling.”
“Hehehe! I’m seriously not upset. This has absolutely nothing to do with Jiang Haotian. Look!”
“Nothing would make me happier than seeing you and Jiang Haotian live happily together! Hehe!”
“So, can I leave now?”
Jiang Chen hurriedly put on a huge smile, desperately trying to reason with her.
The equally bewildered Jiang Haotian quickly chimed in, “Exactly, exactly. Zhenyue, aren’t you overthinking this?”
“Brother Chen is obviously very happy.”
‘What the hell? I only said a few extra words, didn’t I?’
Even Jiang Haotian couldn’t see how Jiang Chen looked heartbroken. Why was Su Zhenyue suddenly acting as though she had gone crazy?
However, the guilt in Su Zhenyue’s eyes only deepened.
She looked at Jiang Chen, who was clearly ‘devastated’ yet still insisting that he didn’t mind. Then she looked at Jiang Haotian, who was trying to defend himself, and her disappointment in him grew even stronger.
‘Bless us? His heart must have been bleeding when he said those words, right?’
‘Just so I won’t feel guilty, Jiang Chen is actually forcing himself to say all these painful things against his true feelings. He even wished Jiang Haotian and me happiness?’
‘Why is he so foolish? How can he love me this much?’
Su Zhenyue gazed at the ‘deeply devoted’ Jiang Chen.
She opened her mouth, wanting to say something, yet not a single word came out.
Only overwhelming guilt remained.
‘Even after being treated like this, he’s still speaking up for Jiang Haotian. Why does he have to be so kind? Why can’t he be a little more selfish?’
Meanwhile, the surrounding guests who had been watching the drama unfold couldn’t help casting contemptuous looks at Jiang Haotian.
“Seriously? Isn’t the way Jiang Haotian talks a little too insulting?”
“Exactly. He even tried to humiliate the guy with money. Even if he didn’t mean it that way, that was still going too far.”
“I just feel sorry for that handsome guy. He’s good-looking too, so why doesn’t Eldest Young Miss Su like him?”
Everyone couldn’t help taking a closer look at Jiang Chen.
In truth, judging purely by appearance, Jiang Chen’s face, height, and temperament completely overshadowed Jiang Haotian.
After all, Jiang Haotian was originally the Protagonist. A Dragon King novel’s Protagonist didn’t need to be exceptionally handsome.
Someone who lived off a woman, however, was a different matter.
Several wealthy women in the crowd were already beginning to show interest.
Jiang Haotian was completely stunned.
At that moment, listening to the people around him discussing him while staring at him with contempt, he felt rage surging through his veins. His carefully maintained facade was about to crumble completely.
Inside his head, he furiously cursed Jiang Chen and eighteen generations of his ancestors.
‘Damn it! You shameless manipulator! You scheming bastard!!’ This story is hosted at g.com.
‘Seriously? What the hell are you pretending for?’
‘We’re both foxes that have lived for 1,000 years. We’re both players in the same game. Who the hell doesn’t know what the other is capable of?!’
‘Just two days ago, you were trading insults with me! What the hell are you pretending to be innocent for now?’
He genuinely hadn’t expected Jiang Chen to be this calculating.
The bastard was actually pretending to be devoted and pitiful to gain everyone’s sympathy!
Jiang Haotian had even believed Jiang Chen was just some insignificant nobody without much cunning.
So this was what he had been waiting for?
‘Fine! If I don’t destroy you sooner or later, my surname isn’t Jiang!’
Jiang Haotian glared viciously at Jiang Chen, grinding his teeth with hatred.
Jiang Chen felt as though Jiang Haotian might break into an invincible Dragon King smirk at any second, and the corners of his mouth twitched uncontrollably.
‘Seriously? If you don’t want your brain anymore, why not donate it to Dave?’
‘Does nobody believe the truth anymore?’
‘Looks like I’ll have to fight magic with magic!’
Jiang Chen immediately adopted a solemn, deeply affectionate expression and said, “Miss Su, I’m not going to do anything foolish.”
“Actually, I’ve already let go. As long as I see you living happily, I can finally be at ease.”
“Right now, I only want to find somewhere peaceful and beautiful where I can quietly rest for a while. I really won’t do anything foolish, I promise!”
“Thank you for still caring about me, but you can forget about the concern. Just give me more money instead.”
Jiang Chen spoke with complete seriousness, without the slightest hint that he was pretending.
Su Zhenyue’s expression finally became somewhat doubtful.
However, guilt still lingered in her eyes, along with another emotion she couldn’t quite describe.
She knew Jiang Chen was choosing to let go only because he didn’t want her to feel guilty.
Actually… she hadn’t intended to directly tell him to leave.
However, she couldn’t bring herself to ask him to stay, much less tell him she wanted to date him.
Jiang Chen was wonderful. He was a good man.
Unfortunately… she didn’t love him.
And she certainly couldn’t lie to him.
If he truly had lost all hope, perhaps it really was time for him to let go…
It was also time for him to find a good woman, someone who genuinely loved him, and have a proper relationship.
Although she knew that with how deeply Jiang Chen loved her, that would be impossible…
Su Zhenyue frowned and struggled for a long time before finally managing to ask, “Are you sure?”
Jiang Chen immediately nodded like his life depended on it.
He was just about to tell her that he couldn’t possibly be more certain when Su Zhenyue pulled out a bank card with a complicated expression.
“If you’ve really made up your mind, then… all right.”
“There’s 100 million on this card. Consider it my way of thanking you for taking care of me these past three years…”
The familiar routine.
The familiar bank card.
Jiang Chen’s eyes instantly lit up. He snatched the bank card from her hand, turned around, and walked away.
‘Brother, why didn’t you tell me there was more money involved?!’
‘And CEO Su, just how much wealth are you hiding between those two fingers? How are you this rich?’ This chapter is updated first at g.com.
Meanwhile, Jiang Qingli, who had witnessed everything, had an utterly dark expression.
Three years of companionship?
Three years of taking care of her?
He had even patiently accompanied her through her blindness?
And Jiang Qingli hadn’t known anything about it…
‘Fine. Very well!’
‘Jiang Chen, my own little brother, has actually learned how to lie to me? And he’s been deceiving me for this long…?’
Jiang Qingli’s beautiful eyes turned bloodshot, and a cold, gloomy aura surrounded her.
After hesitating briefly, she took out her phone and found Jiang Chen’s number.
Then, staring at Jiang Chen downstairs, whose tall figure of over 1.8 meters perfectly matched her aesthetic preferences, she typed out a message.
“I’m on the second floor. Come up and see me. I want an explanation…”
Jiang Qingli’s tone was cold, carrying even a hint of command.
However, after she sent the message, a loading icon appeared and began spinning.
Two seconds later, a red exclamation mark appeared beside the message.
[! Message sent, but rejected by the recipient!]
Jiang Qingli froze when she saw it.
She stared at the screen for a long time, completely unable to understand what it meant.
No one had ever blocked her before.
“Butler Li, what does ‘message sent, but rejected by the recipient’ mean?”
Jiang Qingli turned toward Butler Li.
Butler Li casually walked over. After taking a single glance, he said, “Oh, that just means the other person blocked you… Blocked?”
The moment he finished speaking, he couldn’t resist leaning closer to check the contact name.
‘What the hell? Who is this person? They actually dared to block Jiang Qingli? Do they have a death wish?’
‘Oh, it’s Young Master Jiang Chen. Then that’s fine.’
‘Wait!’
‘What the hell?! Jiang Chen?!’
Butler Li thought he had seen it wrong. When he raised his head again, he was met with Jiang Qingli’s utterly stunned expression.
‘Jiang Chen… blocked me?!’
‘He blocked me?!’
‘How dare he?!’
For more than a decade, ever since they were children, Jiang Chen hadn’t even dared to answer her phone call a few minutes late.
Yet now, he actually dared to block her?
Had he lost his mind?
Jiang Qingli refused to believe it. She immediately grabbed her phone, found Jiang Chen’s number, and called him.
After several beeps, however, the call was automatically rejected.
Meanwhile, downstairs, Jiang Chen’s phone didn’t even ring.
Clearly, he had blocked her calls as well…