Chapter 206 - Five Years Ago Or Five Years Later, I Will Always Have A Place In His Heart (1/2)
”Is that so?”
”Miss Jiang, you are indeed a clever woman. You know to find all sorts of reasons to comfort yourself. For example, you never asked why I brought Little Fishie back with me. You are used to hiding problems that you do not wish to delude yourself into. You know how to protect yourself, but in reality, you are just too deceiving yourself. ”
Zhou Shufen's eyes were sincere. As she stared at Jiang Ruolan's expressionless face, she could also see the tenacity within her eyes that was slowly crumbling.
”Miss Jiang, think for a moment… A woman wanted to tie down a man who doesn't love you with the shackles of marriage, isn't this act of stealing someone else's happiness?” Zhou Shufen chuckled and continued, ”Actually, to you, it's just a matter of having someone to protect you in your life. Don't you think that Qin Gengxin is more suitable for you? To me, Xian Zihao is not only the man who was once inseparable from me, but he is also ��”
At this point, Zhou Shufen didn't say anything else, but her eyes seemed to be implying something.
Jiang Ruolan didn't say anything. Xian Zihao had once said that Zhou Shufen's daughter had nothing to do with him. No matter how much he had hidden from her, she at least believed that as long as Xian Zihao told her the truth, it wouldn't be a lie.
”I suddenly don't understand.” Jiang Ruolan looked at the confidence in Zhou Shufen's eyes with a smile that was not a smile, ”Since you're so confident, why didn't you try to talk to Zihao about this, instead spend so much effort on me? Don't you think that you're looking for the wrong person?”
Zhou Shufen paused for a moment before changing the topic. ”Because Zihao is a responsible man, and because you don't intend to let go of him, using the shackle of marriage to tie him with you. I'm just advising you to let go of him as soon as possible and not get yourself into this mess.”
Jiang Ruolan stared fixedly at Zhou Shufen, her expression unchanged.
”I am curious as to why Miss Zhou broke up with my husband that year and why she suddenly appeared five years later, trying to break up his marriages?”
In any case, neither her courage nor her personality allowed her to submit to all these appearances. Women were easily influenced by the occasional sentence or two, and she needed a stronger heart to maintain her marriage.
Zhou Shufen only smiled. ”Break up his marriages? On the night my grandfather came back to H City, Zihao went back to the venue. Do you know why he came back? That night, my helper, whom I hired at the Household Service, was distracted for a moment, and Xiaoyi took this chance to disappeared without a trace. That night, due to a number of nearby roads and parks being impassable, Zihao went through heavy rain to find her.”
”Later on, Xiaoyi would often use the hotel phone to call him. She's only five years old, but she already knows Zihao's cell number by heart. Did you know what Xiaoyi called him? She called him daddy.” Zhou Shufen looked straight at Jiang Ruolan and chuckled.
”Then, one day, around 1 am. Little Fishie suddenly had a high fever. She cried and wanted Zihao. She wanted to find her father. Zihao was there in half an hour. He sent Little Fishie to the hospital and only left after the fever subsided after two to three hours. So Miss Jiang, do you really think I'm trying to break up your marriage?”
Zhou Shufen interrogated her with harsh words, shooting her mercilessly like an arrow.
Jiang Ruolan's heart ached instantly. She kept staring at Zhou Shufen, trying to find any trace of her lie. Even the slightest flaw could be her salvation.
But no, Zhou Shufen's expression was still so magnanimous, as if everything she said was the truth.
Right now, Jiang Ruolan was the third party trying to ruin other people's happiness. It was as if she was the one who needed to have self-awareness.
That night Xian Zihao went out and came back drenched from the rain, the phone calls he often took, the silences, the looks she couldn't see through, the heartache and guilt that he was trying to hide, the occasional look in his eyes, and that night he went out at once in the morning, he didn't return until nearly five in the morning. The phone's line that was occasionally busy and the natural and intimate text 'Zihao, see you tomorrow.'
Jiang Ruolan once thought, Xian Zihao's trust, his care, his love, his tenderness and tolerance, all those beautiful things, was so worth for her to strive for…
She did her best to protect this marriage because she thought it was worth it...
Jiang Ruolan thought that she should believe in him anyway. She just didn't think that there was a need to pursue things further. Her trust and growing reliance had, in the end, made her own foolishness appear.
Jiang Ruolan's face was gradually turning pale, almost the same as Zhou Shufen's face when she almost lost too much blood. In an instant, she realized that Zhou Shufen's face was similar to hers.