Chapter 1789
“Boss,” Miller’s emotionless voice rang out, startling me, but she kept her face unchanged, “It’s not enough to have private meetings at Shen’s house every night, you want to be a lookout at work?”
“Hmm?” I froze for a moment and reacted with a blush of anger and shame, “Miller! What’s going on in your head? Behave yourself! I’m waiting for a friend, I just made an appointment to meet here half an hour ago.”
“Oh.” Miller pushed the frame without pain, “Don’t wait for someone you can’t wait for, it’s the same as going to call someone who’s pretending to be asleep, it’s pointless.”
“You mean I’ve been stood up by Chen Xing?” I said as an afterthought.
Miller shrugged his shoulders, undeniably.
Suddenly I felt humiliated that I’d been teased, and angry, I dialed Chen Xing’s number again.
I thought I had it and was about to give him a good scolding when a woman’s polite voice came through, “Sorry, the number you have called is busy, please call again later, sorry ……”
“He hung up on me?” I spat incredulously pointing at the phone with Miller, “He actually hung up on me?”
Miller raised his eyebrows with a look that had nothing to do with me.
I was completely enraged by Chen Xing’s attitude, remembering his simple warmth when we first met, I was chilled and angry, I just got up and put on my jacket, “Go get the car, I’ll see where he can hide.”
“Up where?” Miller asked.
“To stab him in his lair.”
……
I’d been waiting in Chen Xing’s office since the afternoon.
But at seven o’clock, a figure pushed through the door, then the lights came on, and the light was a little dazzling, but Chen Xing’s face was still extraordinarily clear.
When he saw me, his whole body froze in place for two seconds before he took off his jacket and hung it on the coat rack as if nothing had happened.
“Mr. Chen is in high spirits, he must have just returned from a multi-billion dollar project, what does it look like to drink plain water without opening a bottle of good wine to celebrate properly?” I mocked in a sinister manner.
Chen Xing sniffed his movements, raised his eyes to look at me and said indifferently, “Can’t you just talk properly?”
“Hmph ……” I sneered and looked at him aggressively, “My dear good brother has grown up, not only can he stand me up as he pleases, even pulling the plug on me is so skillful, you’ve made it this far, why don’t you also teach me how to talk nicely?”
We just looked at each other, half a room away from each other, tit for tat.
The secretary came in just in time to pour water, and sensing that the atmosphere was not right, hastily put the cup down and hurriedly retreated.
The three of us were left in the room, and after a moment of stalemate, Chen Xing sighed and turned his face away to avoid my gaze, “What exactly do you want to say?”
“That should be my question to you, what do you really want!” I blurted out, “How long has it been since you’ve been home, have you ever hugged your own son?”
At the mention of this, Chen Xing’s expression suddenly went cold, “What did Ruoruo say to you?”
“She didn’t say anything, I saw it myself, Ruo Ruo just gave birth, you didn’t take care of her in the hospital and stay with her, and now you’re leaving her alone at home, do you know it’s her husband, it’s her hope, it’s her everything, you’re so cruel Chen Xing!”
Chen Xing looked at me with stubbornness written in his eyes, but did not answer.
As someone who has been there, I could see that when it came to Wang Ruoruo, the emotions in his eyes were nothing other than guilt and remorse.
The longing, the sadness, the heartache, and even the tenderness that used to be everywhere in him, all seemed to have disappeared.
When I calmed down, I realised that my words had gone too far and adjusted my tone of voice before speaking again, “Is there something you’re hiding from Ruo Ruo? Afraid she’ll see it, that’s why …….”
“No.” Chen Xing didn’t give me a chance to finish, “I just didn’t want to continue to hide it from her, and confessed everything to her, including Jon including everything before, I told her, so we, can only end here.”
He looked at me as if he had already made up his mind, and as if he was fighting the world.
I couldn’t imagine that, after just over a year of marriage, he had made such a choice.
Chapter 1790
Chen Xing’s painful entanglement speaks for itself, but as a woman, what I can feel more clearly at this moment is Wang Ruoruo’s despair and helplessness after learning the truth.
Whenever she talks about Chen Xing, Wang Ruoruo’s words and eyes reveal her deep love, whether she is happy or not, she really gives him her heart.
Marriage and children, and being together, was probably the only thing Wang Ruo had hoped for in her heart, but Chen Xing had cruelly torn it all apart.
“You shouldn’t have done this, at least not now.”
The coldness of the moon will be remembered by women for the rest of their lives.
I couldn’t help but think of Gathering Jane, the girl who had started out dripping with confidence and sunshine, but after being hurt by Gu Han, there was no more light in her eyes.
Those crowning axioms warn the world that honesty and openness is the only way to last, but they don’t say that perhaps the truth, will take away a lifetime of expectation and trust in love from a person’s heart.
Chen Xing took a sharp breath, his expression helpless and cold, “You know, why did Jon suddenly disappear in the first place? And why did he suddenly get married?”
I frowned, the change of subject was a bit of a reaction.
He didn’t seem to be waiting for my answer, with his eyes lowered, he went back to talking to himself, “If Lin Baisan hadn’t sought me out, I wouldn’t have known the truth ……. It turns out that Mom had been sending someone to privately monitor my every move, she knew about my relationship with Qiao En, and although she didn’t have a direct attack, she hid it from me, and secretly sought out Qiao En. secretly sought out Jon, and what they said, I have no way of knowing, but it was after that day that Jon disappeared from my world, and not long after that, he went to America and became the scapegoat for his own brother.”
“Today, he lies in bed without any semblance of consciousness and his parents, who are far away, won’t even come back to see him, and you know what they say on the phone? That he was disgusting, that there was no son as disgraceful as him! The only reason he’s in this situation, his career in tatters, his reputation ruined, his family and friends scattered, is because he chose to leave in the first place, to protect me, to let me have everything the Chen family had without a hitch, he had nothing left but me, and I couldn’t leave him behind, didn’t want to be that again, hiding behind all the time, happy to be a coward.”
As he said this, his gaze was downcast and unfocused, his eyes looking vacantly straight ahead, as if he was just an empty shell, his soul long gone.
There is no such thing as perfection in this world, and there are always people who fail to be true to themselves.
As a bystander, I am not qualified to judge whether Chen Xing’s choice is right or wrong, only that it is too unfair to Wang Ruoruo.
“At least Ruo Ruo did not wrong you, the child is also innocent, no matter how busy you are, even if you really have to go your separate ways in the future, this responsibility you have to bear, running away will not solve the problem, think about it yourself.”
When a man gets stubborn, even nine bulls cannot pull him back, there is no telling how long Jon’s situation will last, as long as he is not sober, Chen Xing will not be able to face all that guilt honestly.
Leaving the Chen family’s office, I had planned to visit Wang Ruoruo first, when the driver’s car was halfway to the station when I received a call from the police station.
“You are the lawyer representing Miss Mofilin, right?”
……
Half an hour later, I rushed to the police station.
Still in the car, I could see an ambulance blocking the entrance from afar, the warning lights on the roof flashing anxiously.