Chapter 38

Winter had arrived.

Before he got off work, Zhong Jing sent a message to Jiang Yuan saying that there was no need to wait for him today and that she should go back to the villa by herself first and he would come over at about ten o’clock in the evening. Jiang Yuan said that it happened that she had to pay the property fee for her small apartment so she would go back to deal with it first before going to the villa. Zhong Jing said yes.

When she went downstairs, the piercing cold wind blew on her face like a knife slashing her face.

Since her relationship with Zhong Jing was exposed, she had never went back by herself, she always took his car so she never felt the gradually cold winter air. When she came out, she didn’t expect it to be so cold.

She tightened her collar and walked towards the bus station.

Just when she took only two steps, a car suddenly stopped beside her. She saw the familiar car and moved to look at the driver’s seat but it was not the person she was looking forward to but Han Qiming.

Han Qiming got out of the car and came over to help her open the back seat door, “Mr Zhong asked me to see you off.”

Jiang Yuan felt warm in her heart, “Thank you.”

She got into the car.

After he started driving, the atmosphere in the car was a bit awkward.

She had not talked with Han Qiming since the last conversation.

Both of them had the idea of ​​avoiding each other.

Jiang Yuan saw that he didn’t seem to be speaking to her so she took out her mobile phone and swiped Weibo to pass through the awkward time.

After driving for a while, Han Qiming suddenly said, “Do you know what Mr. Zhong is going to do tonight?”

Jiang Yuan was taken aback and looked up from her phone screen, “He didn’t tell me.”

He was silent for a while and didn’t say anything.

Jiang Yuan: …

The car drove all the way to the gate of her small apartment, Han Qiming didn’t say anything. She opened the door to get out of the car but he stopped her, “Jiang Yuan—”

She paused while holding the door handle waiting for his words.

“Huashi and Sheng Yuan will marry soon.” Han Qiming said.

Jiang Yuan was dumbfounded and couldn’t understand the meaning of those words.

Han Qiming in front of her sighed softly, “Tonight is Father Xuan’s birthday and a few close relatives are invited. The chairman and Mr Zhong are also there today and they are going to discuss about marriage together. Jiang Yuan, I hope that you can win the bet too but you don’t know Mr. Zhong, no one can change his mind.”

The blood on Jiang Yuan’s face gradually faded. What he meant was that Zhongjing used her as a plaything from the very beginning, he still did and it would not change in the future.

“Why didn’t he tell me?”

Han Qiming looked at her in the rear view mirror, her face was pale but her eyes were still stubborn.

His heart suddenly ached and he regretted telling her this, shattering her butterfly dreams.

But no matter how beautiful her dream was, the reality was even crueler.

He couldn’t bear it any more watching her sink into a deeper quagmire.

“Maybe he doesn’t intend to end your relationship now, maybe he will let you resign, make you disappear from people’s sight and hide you in a place that only he knows–”

Jiang Yuan’s face grew paler with every word he said.

Her heart was bitter, her eyes were sore and tears were welling up in her eyes but she resisted them from falling.

“I, I got it!” Jiang Yuan quickly opened the car door and rushed out as if there was something in the car that she couldn’t avoid.

Han Qiming watched her disappearing back quickly, his brows were wrinkled and his heart was heavy, he said this to Jiang Yuan behind Zhongjing’s back so he would probably get fired from his job.

Jiang Yuan returned to her apartment with her body trembling uncontrollably.

It turned out that she was too naive and stupid to think that she could conquer the man above her.

Giving her money, treating her well, obviously only to the extent of being a lover but she foolishly looked forward to achieving a positive result with him.

Did she have the face of a mistress? Why was that when Chi Yan cheated on her and when she got to Zhongjing, what she could get was always a third-party position?

Angry, annoyed and sad, all her emotions turned into tears.

She cried and thought all night long.

The next morning, it was Zhong Jing who called her first. When he called, she was washing her swollen face with cold water.

“Are you at home? Have you paid your fees?” Jiang Yuan replied in a hoarse voice, “I am at home, not yet, I’ll pay it later.”

“What’s wrong with your voice?”

“Nothing, just a little cold.”

“Come over when you are done, it’s the weekend so I will take you to the next city, there is a newly opened snow field, let’s go and have some fun.” , Zhong Jing said.

She replied, “Okay”.

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Yuan calmed herself and went downstairs to the property and paid the property fee then took a taxi at the villa. She opened the door with the code and she pushed the door in. Zhong Jing was having breakfast in the dining room. When she saw her coming in, he smiled lightly and said, “You are here? Have you eaten?”

Jiang Yuan shook her head. Seeing that her face was not good, Zhong Jing stood up and walked up to her and held her face and asked, “Did you not sleep well last night, why is your face so pale?” He touched her slightly bloody lips with his thumb then bowed his head and kissed her and pressed his forehead against hers and hugged her into his arms, “If you don’t feel well, we’ll stay at home today and won’t go out, okay?”

Her face was buried in his arms due to the height difference, her voice was a little muffled but it was enough for the man to hear clearly. She said, “I hear that Mr Zhong is going to get married, congratulations.” The man holding her became stiff and let go of her.

His beautiful face frowned, “Who did you hear that from?” Tears fell silently as Jiang Yuan looked into his eyes, “Are you going to hide me? From sister Xuan Lu? Are you going to keep me for yourself? Finally, when you get tired of playing with me, you will give me a sum of money to send me away?” She asked a series of questions, her eyes were blurred with tears and she couldn’t see the man in front of her clearly.

Zhong Jing was silent.

After a long time, he sighed and asked softly, “Jiang Yuan, what do you think the destination of our relationship would be?”

Jiang Yuan paused, still crying but as she did so she laughed again.

She was the only one who had hoped and expected that they would end up as normal boyfriend and girlfriend and even eventually became husband and wife.

He had never thought about it that way.

He didn’t make any promises to her so why would she question him?

It was she who hid her ambition and greed, who wanted to take a gamble, who regarded physical bonding as an emotional one, she was the one who insisted on doing her own thing, when everyone was telling her that she was not worthy of him, she just ignored it… …

Now that she had lost, who could she blame?

But she felt so bad in her heart and so angry at the man for being so cold-hearted.

How could he hurt her without any guilt?

How could he be gentle to her for one second then look at her lightly in the next second as if he could whatever he wanted and he didn’t care if she left or stayed?

There was no point in saying anything else.

Jiang Yuan wiped away the tears on her face trying to make herself not so ugly and embarrassed, she tried her best to pull out a smile, “I think maybe… it’s probably a done deal.”

She said this and ran out.

The man tried to chase after her but after two steps, he stopped again.

Just let her calm down for some days.