161: Chapter 161: Son is Very Independent 161: Chapter 161: Son is Very Independent Jiang You had just returned from the film set when, upon reaching the gate with her car, she saw a figure standing in front of the metal gate, blocking her way.
She honked the horn.
Lou Ruozhi turned around, and then she could clearly see who it was.
Jiang You furrowed her brows and didn’t pay her any attention.
After the gate opened, she drove right in.
But who would have thought, Lou Ruozhi actually dashed in front of her car.
Jiang You immediately hit the brakes.
“Madam, be careful.”
The bodyguard accompanying her was scared into a sweat by her sudden action.
Jiang You coldly looked at the woman standing in front of her car, rolled down the window, and lashed out at her, “Are you out of your mind?
If you want to die, don’t do it at my family’s doorstep.”
Lou Ruozhi walked up to her and said, “Youyou, your Grandma refuses to see me, could you please talk to her for me?”
She had been waiting at the gate for well over half an hour already, yet no one had appeared.
Jiang You couldn’t be bothered to look at her, indifferently saying, “If my Grandma doesn’t want to see you, she won’t see you.
Why must you come here to bother her?
Just go back to wherever you came from!”
With that said, she wanted to close the car window, but then the other person put her hand up.
“Youyou, I came…”
“Don’t call me that, it sounds uncomfortable.” Jiang You coldly cut her off.
Then she gave her a cold look, “Take your hand away, if you get hurt later, don’t blame me!”
After speaking, she pressed the button.
The car window rose, and Lou Ruozhi had no choice but to pull her hand back.
She could only watch as Jiang You’s car drove into the mansion.
After the car entered, the metal gate automatically closed.
“Madam, should we head back?”
The bodyguard looked up at the sky, where a faint bolt of lightning streaked across the gloomy sky, “Looks like it’s going to rain soon.”
Lou Ruozhi had not expected the old lady to be so difficult, not even letting her through the door.
Old Madam Jiang did not expect Jiang You to return.
“My dear granddaughter, what brings you back?”
“I missed you, Grandma.”
As soon as Jiang You entered, she headed straight for the sofa, sat down, and wrapped her arm around the Old Madam’s, nuzzling her with her head.
Old Madam Jiang raised her hand to pat the back of her hand and smiled, “Have you had dinner?”
Jiang You shook her head, “Not yet.”
The Housekeeper, standing by, immediately responded upon hearing this, “I will have the kitchen prepare a meal right away.”
Seeing her granddaughter hugging her arm absentmindedly, Old Madam asked, “Did you run into her at the gate?”
With no particular emotion, Jiang You merely uttered a “Hmm.”
“Are you upset?”
“I’m not upset.” Jiang You looked up at the Old Madam and pursed her lips, “I just can’t figure out what kind of person she is.”
All these years, she never came to care for her and her brother.
But lately, she had been quite diligent.
Any expectation she once had of Lou Ruozhi ceased to exist the moment she was pushed out as a hostage.
“Silly child, if you can’t figure it out, then don’t bother.
You have your Grandma, and you have your brother and sister-in-law.
You don’t need to worry about these matters.”
Old Madam stroked her head, speaking kindly.
This girl had always been well protected since childhood, living a carefree life.
In the past, the Old Master watched over her, and after he passed, her brother continued to protect her.
They never let her deal with those vexing matters and vexing people.
Suddenly remembering the matter online, Jiang You asked, “Grandma, what is my brother up to?
I asked him, but he didn’t tell me anything, and my sister-in-law said she doesn’t know either.”
After glancing at her, Old Madam shifted her gaze back to the TV.
Immediately, she said, “Grandma doesn’t know either, but don’t worry about it.
Your brother always has his reasons for what he does.
Just go about your business and stop fretting over these things.”
Jiang You pouted and replied, “Oh, okay then.”
“Second Miss, the meal is ready.”
At that moment, the Housekeeper walked out from the kitchen and announced.
She responded, “Okay, thank you, Mr.
Wu.”
Old Madam Jiang said, “Go and eat.”
“Mhm, after I eat, I’ll come back and watch TV with you.”
“Good.”
…
At the hospital, when Lou Ruozhi showed up at the Jiang Family Mansion, Jiang Yan was informed.
As Su He was also there, she naturally heard about it.
“Do I need to go back to the mansion?” She tested the waters, looking at the man sitting beside her.
The man, holding her hand, pinched the center of her palm and said, “Grandma isn’t someone who suffers losses easily.”
The implication was clear: even if Lou Ruozhi approached Grandma, she wouldn’t gain anything from it.
Hearing him say that, Su He felt relieved.
She was just worried that Grandma, being advanced in age, might get upset by that person, which would be more loss than gain.
Since he had said so, there was no need for her to worry.
“I’ll head home first then.
Uncle Zhong will come later to bring you dinner.”
After saying that, she withdrew her hand and prepared to stand up and leave.
But as she had stood halfway up, the man suddenly grasped her wrist, gently tugged, and she ended up sitting sideways on his lap.
“What are you doing?”
Su He looked at him with slightly furrowed brows.
The man gazed down at her, “Won’t you stay with me tonight?” His voice was low and husky, magnetic and compelling, “You didn’t stay with me last night, and I couldn’t sleep.”
He leaned in close to her ear, a hot breath on her earlobe, making her heart flutter.
She blinked, and said softly, “I can’t leave our son at home alone, can I?
Besides, you’re fine, and I don’t want to stay in the hospital.
Isn’t our bed at home much more comfortable than the hospital’s?”
As soon as she finished speaking, the man murmured in her ear, “You little ingrate.”
While he spoke, his mouth started to move.
She dodged, “If you’re going to speak, just speak.
Don’t keep biting.”
The man, ignoring her protests, buried his head in her fair neck and nibbled gently.
Then his trail followed her jaw down to her soft, pink lips.
The cool touch of his lips rubbed against her tender ones, parting and pressing, his voice rough, “Where’s my birthday gift?”
His burning breath made her skin heat up as her long eyelashes quivered slightly.
She leaned back, playing coy, “What if I said I hadn’t prepared anything?”
The man’s eyes narrowed slightly, not angry but with a curve of his lips, he replied with a smile, “That’s fine, there’s one ready at hand.”
“Hmm?”
She raised an eyebrow, momentarily not understanding what he meant.
She tried to move back, but he advanced further, flashing a devilish smile, “You are the best gift, spend the night with me.”
Su He looked at his dark eyes, now clouded with desire, and felt a jolt of alarm.
This man was really becoming more and more outrageous with his words.
She chuckled, “President Jiang, don’t blame me for not warning you, don’t indulge yourself just because you’re young.
Aren’t you afraid of kidney dysfunction?”
The man let out a low chuckle from his throat, “Don’t worry, even at forty or fifty, it won’t affect your pleasure.”
Without waiting for her to reply, his kiss descended upon her.
He gently captured her lips, sucking and savouring as if they were a delicious delicacy.
Their hot breaths entwined together.
Su He only made a symbolic push against him before allowing him to kiss her.
As the man claimed her sweetness, he wrapped his arms around her slender waist, absentmindedly squeezing her soft waist that filled his grasp.
Su He’s waist was another sensitive spot for her.
She couldn’t help but let out a low moan.
The ambiguous and timid note reached the man’s ears, it was fatally tempting.
After a deep kiss, the man’s thin lips trailed to her ear, his breathing slightly labored, his voice deep and husky: “Be good, stay with me tonight, our son is very independent, he doesn’t need you to accompany him.”
Upon hearing this, Su He only wanted to roll her eyes.
“I don’t want to.”
As soon as her words fell, the phone in her pocket rang.
She didn’t pick it up the first time, not because she didn’t want to, but because the man didn’t let her.
And then, it rang again.
She put her hand against his shoulder, pushing him, “Stop it, I need to answer a call.”
The man lightly bit her earlobe, murmuring deeply: “Go ahead and answer.”
Feeling resigned, Su He could only free up one hand to reach for the phone in her pocket.
She lifted her phone, tilted her head back, and looking at the flickering caller ID on the screen, she said flatly: “The call is from your very independent son.”
The man paused for a moment in surprise.
Su He answered, immediately putting the call on speaker.
The young child’s tender voice rang out: “Mommy, when are you coming back?”
Su He glanced at the man who had just looked up and said: “Mm, Mommy will be back in a while, did you eat dinner?”
“I did~” Suddenly, the little guy asked again: “By the way, Mommy, where’s Daddy?”
He hadn’t seen Jiang Yan since last night, and after coming back from kindergarten today, he went online and found out that Jiang Yan was hospitalized.
“Baby saw online that people are saying Daddy is going to die soon.”
Su Baobao’s blunt childish voice chimed in again.
The little guy was mainly curious; he didn’t believe what people online said.
Three black lines crossed the man’s forehead: “…”
The man opened his mouth, his voice soft and warm as he spoke to the child on the phone: “Don’t listen to their nonsense, Daddy is doing fine.”
Su Baobao hadn’t expected him to be with Mommy; upon hearing his voice, he called out in a babyish tone: “Daddy, are you coming back tonight?”
Su He said nothing, just watched him.
The man decided in a second, saying: “Mm, Daddy will return with Mommy in a bit.”
“Okay, then baby will wait for you guys to come back.”
“Mm.”
After hanging up the call, Su He took a glance: “President Jiang, are you sure you want to go back?
Aren’t you afraid that people will notice nothing’s wrong with you?”
The man embraced her, his dark eyes staring intently at her before he leaned in for another kiss.
Su He: “…”
It was a while before he let her go.
Their foreheads rested against each other, their breaths somewhat disordered.
The man caught his breath and said: “If I didn’t even have this much skill, I wouldn’t be fit to be your husband.”
“…”
Ten minutes later.
The couple drove out of the underground parking lot, exiting from the west.
Su He was the one driving.
The night was unusually dark, and the bright moon in the night sky was also hidden behind the clouds.
Through the car window, they could see the roadside branches swaying incessantly.
There was something Su He wanted to ask the man, but she had never found the right opportunity.
The man in the passenger seat tilted his head to look at her, “Do you have something you want to say to me?”
Su He lightly furrowed her brows, he could tell?
Could he really have installed a monitoring device on her?
It seemed impossible, unrealistic.
Before she could speak, the man’s gentle voice rang out again, “All your little thoughts are written all over your face.”
Su He: “…”
She gripped the steering wheel, made a turn, and entered the main road.
“You hate that person, not solely because she left you and Jiang You behind, right?” Her voice was warm, gentle and melodious, “If you don’t want to answer, just pretend I didn’t ask.”
Then, she added another sentence.
The man did not immediately answer her, instead, he stared at her profile and countered, “Why do you ask?”
Su He tilted her head and exchanged a glance with him, then refocused on driving.
She said, “Intuition.”
It was only because she had heard him speak of the car accident back then that she had this guess, but it was just a guess.
After a moment of contemplation, the man said, “Yes, there is indeed another reason.”
Su He said nothing, waiting for the rest of his statement.
“The police had ruled the car accident a traffic incident at the time, caused by the driver’s improper handling due to heavy rain.
But the day after the accident, as I lay in the hospital bed, someone whispered in my ear…”
He paused in the middle of speaking, and Su He turned her head to look at him again, only to find his gaze fixed ahead.
The disordered lights from the outside shone on his dignified and sharp-profiled face, revealing a tension stretched tight across his features.
The man gazed unblinkingly at the night outside, his deep and dark eyes now even more intense, shadowy, and foreboding.
Su He could feel that he seemed to be restraining some kind of emotion within himself, or perhaps a bad memory.
She glanced at him and then withdrew her gaze.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to…”
At that moment, the man suddenly interrupted her, “She said, ‘Why didn’t you die with your dad?'”
His voice was very calm, as if stating something insignificant.
Upon hearing this, Su He felt an inexplicable tremor in her heart.
A sharp pain followed, as if someone was pricking her with a fine needle.
Her pupils briefly widened in shock; she knew whom he referred to as “she.”
But how could a mother possibly say such a thing to her own son?
Why?
The man continued speaking calmly, as if narrating something unrelated to him.
“She probably didn’t realize I was awake at the time.
I always thought it was a hallucination, until I heard her talking on the phone with someone else.
That’s when I knew I hadn’t misheard.
Although she didn’t mention specifics on the phone, some things, upon a little reflection, do raise suspicions.
Later, I told Grandpa, and he also had it investigated, but the outcome was still consistent with what the police determined.
The driver died on the spot as well, so there was no evidence.
All parts and functions of the car were normal, with no signs of damage.
But it was because everything was too clean, too normal, that I didn’t believe it.”
During this conversation, a warmth suddenly emanated from Jiang Yan’s hand.
He looked down and saw, in his originally gloomy eyes, a touch of faint starlight, and a subtle curve formed at the corners of his mouth.
The woman was holding his hand, fingers tightly interlocked.
This was the first time she had taken the initiative to hold his hand.
It turns out his cool and proud wife wasn’t immune to feeling compassion for him; it just took him showing a bit of misery to get it.
…
On the other side, at the Jiang Family Mansion.
Just as a whirlwind blew outside, Lou Ruozhi had been waiting for almost an hour and was about to leave when the iron gate opened.
She thought the Old Madam was ready to see her, but that wasn’t the case.
The housekeeper looked at her emotionlessly, his tone not particularly kind, “Mrs.
Lou, the Old Madam mentioned, if you’re here to inquire about our young master’s condition, then you can go back.
We have nothing to disclose.
Furthermore, the Old Madam asked me to relay to you, if the Lou Family is eyeing the Jiang Family’s assets, you’d better save your effort.”
Having said this, the housekeeper, without caring whether she had heard clearly or not, turned and went back inside, saying, “Close the door.”
Lou Ruozhi stood there, completely stunned.