Su Wan rested her head on Zhao Mengxue’s shoulder, her eyes filled with coldness. Zhao Mengxue really was still obsessing over her jade pendant.
Too bad she didn’t know that the pendant had already been bound to Su Wan and then thrown into the space’s warehouse. No one would ever find it again.
“No need. We’re already divorced anyway. There’s no point in investigating anymore.” Su Wan’s voice still carried sorrow, looking as if she didn’t want to talk further.
“By the way, who were you talking to on the phone just now?” Su Wan asked as if casually.
Zhao Mengxue often used the phone at her house. Su Wan had been curious before, but Zhao Mengxue always said she was calling classmates.
So Su Wan hadn’t paid it much attention. They were classmates anyway, attending the same girls’ school. Zhao Mengxue’s family conditions were very poor. When she first entered the school, she was bullied, and it was Su Wan who helped her.
After that, their relationship grew closer and closer. Su Wan believed she treated Zhao Mengxue extremely well. Sometimes Zhao Mengxue didn’t even have breakfast to eat, and it was Su Wan who often brought her food.
When shopping for dresses or jewelry, Su Wan would always bring Zhao Mengxue something as well. One could say she treated her even better than Gu Xingyao.
Yet Zhao Mengxue hated her to the bone. Su Wan couldn’t understand it—where had she wronged her? Could it be that being too good to someone was also a mistake?
When Zhao Mengxue heard Su Wan ask this, her expression became a little unnatural, but she quickly returned to her usual gentle look. “It was my classmate. Wanwan, what are you planning to do after divorcing Gu Huaizhi?”
She changed the subject, deliberately steering the conversation toward Su Wan’s sorest spot. Sure enough, the moment she asked, the sorrow Su Wan couldn’t hide made Zhao Mengxue feel extremely satisfied.
The person she hated most was Su Wan—this girl born with everything, beautiful, privileged, always pitying her!
When she first met Su Wan, it was in the school restroom a month after enrollment. At that time, she was being bullied, beaten with a mop, filthy all over.
That was when Su Wan walked in through the doorway. Her white shirt and angelic face left Zhao Mengxue staring in a daze.
Then she became friends with this angel who appeared in her life. Zhao Mengxue had once been grateful to heaven for letting her meet Su Wan.
But once she learned more about Su Wan’s family background, her mindset changed. Why did Su Wan have everything—wealth, status, looks, family background, even academics—all better than hers?
And Gu Huaizhi too. The first time she saw Gu Huaizhi, they were both fifteen, while he was sixteen.
Gu Huaizhi’s parents were friends with Su Wan’s father, Su Lixian. After Grandpa Gu passed away, Gu Huaizhi had no one to take care of him, so Su Lixian brought him to Shanghai.
Clearly just a country boy, yet the first time Zhao Mengxue saw him, her heart raced uncontrollably.
Gu Huaizhi was handsome. Even dressed in the plainest blue cloth clothes, it was obvious he wouldn’t be an ordinary man in the future.
Zhao Mengxue buried those feelings deep in her heart. During that period, she visited the Su household frequently, but Gu Huaizhi was always indifferent to everyone—whether to her or to Su Wan, it was all the same.
Su Wan couldn’t stand his cold attitude. A pampered young lady who had always been doted on—how could she endure such cold treatment?
So she constantly picked on Gu Huaizhi and his younger sister. Once, she even whipped Gu Huaizhi with a riding crop, and Zhao Mengxue almost began to hate Su Wan for it.
But Gu Huaizhi refused to accept the wound medicine Zhao Mengxue offered. His eyes were calm, his voice equally indifferent. “Miss Zhao should keep it for herself. I don’t need it.”
What Zhao Mengxue hadn’t expected was that Su Wan would eventually force Gu Huaizhi to marry her. From that moment on, Zhao Mengxue hated Su Wan completely.
Why did Su Wan, who already had everything, still have to snatch Gu Huaizhi from her?
Zhao Mengxue even began to dream—dreams where she was the Su family’s daughter, where everything belonged to her, and in the end she even married Gu Huaizhi.
The more she thought about it, the more she felt that Su Wan had stolen everything that should have been hers. She wanted Su Wan to give it all back!
Seeing that Zhao Mengxue didn’t want to say more, Su Wan felt a bit suspicious. But she only wanted to deal with Zhao Mengxue as soon as possible and then go find Gu Huaizhi, so she didn’t press further.
Instead, she asked, “Mengxue, I heard your brother is back?”
When Zhao Mengxue heard her mention her elder brother, her expression darkened slightly. But then she thought of how her brother had always liked Su Wan. Every time Su Wan went to her house, her brother would stare at her.
Thinking of her gambling-addicted brother, a plan formed in Zhao Mengxue’s mind. “Yes, Wanwan. My brother brought back some interesting little things this time. How about I let him bring some over for you to take a look?”
A glint flashed in Su Wan’s eyes. She put on a look of disinterest. “I’m not in the mood.”
Zhao Mengxue coaxed her again and again, until Su Wan finally accepted the suggestion, looking as if she were reluctantly a bit interested.
Su Wan put on a show with Zhao Mengxue for half the day. Zhao Mengxue stayed for dinner at the Su house before leaving. Su Wan sat on the sofa with her eyes closed, thinking.
After washing the dishes, Sister Wu hesitated for a moment before walking over. “Miss, are you really letting Zhao Mengxue’s brother come?”
Su Wan looked at her. “What’s wrong?”
After struggling for a while, Sister Wu finally spoke. “Miss, I really shouldn’t say this, but Miss Zhao… I always feel she has bad intentions.”
She didn’t say more. What she really wanted to say was that Zhao Mengxue wasn’t a good person at all—she was always asking Su Wan for this and that, and she liked ordering Sister Wu around even more than Su Wan did, as if she were the lady of the house.
“Mm, I know what I’m doing. Don’t worry, Sister Wu.”
Relieved, Sister Wu left. Su Wan gave a self-mocking smile.
It had been the same in her previous life. Sister Wu had told her that Zhao Mengxue had bad intentions. Even Gu Huaizhi, a man of very few words, had once told her to stay away from Zhao Mengxue.
But because she lived alone in Shanghai, she could only rely on Zhao Mengxue to keep her company.
Ever since her father passed away, she didn’t like being alone. Whenever there was no one around her, she always felt lonely and uneasy.
Zhao Mengxue was her best friend. Of course she trusted her completely—so much so that she didn’t even listen to Gu Huaizhi.
On the other side, when Zhao Mengxue returned home, she happened to see her brother lying on the small sofa in the living room, reading a book that clearly wasn’t anything decent just from its cover.
Suppressing the anger in her heart, Zhao Mengxue walked over and sat beside him. By accident, she glanced at the contents of the book, her brows immediately knitting together. “Brother! How can you bring this kind of thing home to read? If someone finds out, you’ll get into serious trouble!”
Things were strictly controlled now. These kinds of materials couldn’t be privately kept. Who knew where her brother got them from? He never did any proper work—just looking at him annoyed her.
Zhao Chengren shot Zhao Mengxue a glare. “What business is it of yours?”
Suppressing her anger, Zhao Mengxue said in a low voice, “Don’t you like Su Wan? She’s divorced now. You have a chance.”
Zhao Chengren flipped over and sat up, his eyes lighting up. “Su Wan’s divorced? Really?!”
Zhao Mengxue rolled her eyes, crossed her arms, and leaned back against the chair. “Of course it’s true. I’ve already talked it over with her. Tomorrow you go to her place, bring some little trinkets to amuse her. If you get along well with her, maybe you really will have a chance!”
She had originally had other ideas, but thinking of her own brother, if Su Wan married into her family, wouldn’t there be plenty of ways to torment her?
Her elder brother was lazy, a gambler, and lustful—yet the one thing he was good at was sweet-talking. Didn’t Su Wan always complain that Gu Huaizhi didn’t know how to coax people?
Heh. Then she would give her one who knew exactly how to do it.