CH 22

In the Ruan family, at dinner time.

Since Yang Qingwei and Yang Ruorou entered the Ruan family, Ruan Xudong would come back to have dinner with them every day, setting a perfect example of a good husband and a father.

He walked into the living room, looked around but didn’t see the person he was hoping to see. So he asked Yang Qingwei, who was sitting on her knees in front of the coffee table doing her homework: “Ruan Yingyin hasn’t come back?”

Yang Qingwei put down her pen, stood up, and nodded: “Well, I told Yin Yin to come home for dinner tonight. But she ……”

She paused for a moment and smiled a little awkwardly: “She doesn’t want to come back.”

Ruan Xudong angrily threw his briefcase directly on the sofa and then crossed his arms.

That night, Jiang Xingyuan’s words kept reverberating in his mind.

Ruan Xudong had long wanted to be a partner of the Jiang Group. Jiang Xingyuan is the sole heir to the Jiang Group, so Ruan Xudong naturally wanted to build a good relationship with him.

But Ruan Xudong didn’t expect that Jiang Xingyuan knew Ruan Yingyin. And that night when Ruan Yingyin left the Ruan family, Jiang Xingyuan’s attitude towards him was also very fierce.

At the beginning, the relationship between him and several vice presidents of the Jiang Group was very good. But who knows what this Jiang Xingyuan did, the vice presidents of the Jiang Group are not even willing to answer his phone.

Ruan Xudong was very angry at their indifference. He wanted to ask Ruan Yingyin about the matter. But Ruan Yingyin blocked his phone number. He even used one of his employees’ phone to call her, but as soon as Ruan Yingyin heard his voice, she hung up without saying a word.

Afterwards, he asked Yang Qingwei about Jiang Xingyuan. It was when he learned through Yang Qingwei that Jiang Xingyuan was in the same class as them, and was also the deskmate of Ruan Yingyin!

Ruan Xudong really didn’t know about this.

He always thought that Jiang Xingyuan had gone abroad to study, because he had heard the vice presidents of the Jiang Group mention it.

If Ruan Xudong knew the truth, today he would not be in this situation.

After all, if Ruan Yingyin and Jiang Xingyuan were deskmates, it would have been easy to form a good relationship.

His daughter Ruan Yingyin, although had many bad qualities and short tempered. But she was very beautiful, just like her mother.

There’s no way that a man can resist the charm of a beautiful woman.

But now it’s too late.

The more Ruan Xudong thought about it, the angrier he became.

“Dad, don’t be angry.” Yang Qingwei said, “I’ll look for Yin Yin tomorrow and persuade her to come back ……”

“Persuade her what!” Ruan Xudong became even more angry. He looked at Yang Qingwei’s aggrieved look and knew that Yang Qingwei must have been scolded by Ruan Yingyin.

He softened his voice a little and said, “She said she won’t come back, right? Fine, if she doesn’t want to come back, she doesn’t need to ever come back! I’d like to see how she can live outside by herself!”

As for Jiang Xingyuan.

Ruan Xudong looked at Yang Qingwei, cleared his throat slightly and revealed a smile, “Qingwei, you said your deskmate is Liang Yuan?”

Yang Qingwei blushed slightly and nodded her head.

Ruan Xudong looked at Yang Qingwei’s expression, thinking that the game is already set as he asked, “How is your relationship with him?”

Yang Qingwei coughed in embarrassment: “It’s okay.”

Ruan Xudong patted Yang Qingwei’s shoulder: “Qingwei, Ruan Yingyin is not someone to rely on. In the future, Dad can only rely on you. The Liang Group is well financed, if you can get on good terms with Liang Yuan, it will be beneficial to us all.”

“Dad didn’t know much about Qinzhong before, so I checked a little information and found that there are many noble children studying in Qinzhong. They are all your backers ah.” Ruan Xudong said, “This is how it is in business, connections are a very important part, understand?”

Yang Qingwei naturally understood this truth, so she nodded, “Dad, I know what to do.”

Ruan Xudong was very relieved.

The Liang Group and the Jiang Group were on par, so it would be good if they could climb up high with the help of the Liang Group.

Li Da was capable, but the daughter born out of her wasn’t good at all. On the contrary, this daughter that Ruo Rou taught is so smart ah.

****

Ruan Yingyin did not know what happened to the Ruan family. She was doing well outside by herself.

She sent the fastest delivery over the weekend and made sure that everyone will receive it all on Monday.

She got 20,000 cash on her account instantly. At first she thought she could only receive two thousand first. But to her surprise these customers confirmed the receipt very promptly.

With a happy mood, she posted on the two forums; one was the school forum in Qinzhong and the other was in Amway to inquire about the effect of her lotion.

The effect was really good, some people even sent photos.

Although most people didn’t believe her product’s effectiveness, there were still a small number of people who placed an order under the persuasion of others.

She posted 60 new bottles of lotion over the weekend to sell, and 10 bottles were sold today.

Slowly but steadily, Ruan Yingyin believes the sales of her lotion will get better and better.

Now that she has her own apartment, Ruan Yingyin did not hesitate to buy dozens of cartons of glass bottles and mineral water, as well as packaging materials.

She planned to put all these things in the other empty room so that she doesn’t have to replenish the raw materials from time to time.

She was afraid that people’s attention would be placed on her if they saw her buying too much mineral water and glass bottles, but she didn’t have any choice. She could only buy them in batches and instructed the seller to hurry the delivery.

When she returned from school on Tuesday, she went downstairs several times to get the delivery.

The last time she went downstairs, she stumbled upon the young couple at the elevator.

The young couple saw Ruan Yingyin and greeted her with a smile: “Getting the delivery?”

Ruan Yingyin nodded and looked at the young couple before asking in puzzlement, “Are you moving out?” She actually saw some people from the moving company going in and out a long time ago, but never met the young couple, so she didn’t ask.

The young couple looked at each other, then looked at Ruan Yingyin before replying: “Yes, we moved to a larger house, and it’s closer to the city center. It will be convenient for us to continue to work from there.”

Although Ruan Yingyin felt that this happened a little fast, she was not sure about the young couple’s family situation, so she didn’t suspect much and happily congratulated them, “Congratulations, this is wonderful.”

The young wife smiled a little unnaturally, she was about to open her mouth to say something, but remembering Ruan Yingyin’s ‘brother’s’ instructions, she swallowed the words that came to her mouth each time.

She took out her cell phone: “Yin Yin, let’s add each other on WeChat. When you have time, come to our new home to play, you can send the pictures of the topics you don’t understand to my husband, so he can write the solution and send it to you.”

Ruan Yingyin then added their WeChat.

Through that she learned that the husband’s name is Li Qin, the wife is called Yan Tanhua.

“We will move out completely tonight, tomorrow night the new neighbours will move in.” Before leaving, Yan Tanhua couldn’t help but hint.

Ruan Yingyin did not notice anything strange, she nodded and went into her room.

She carried all the delivery boxes that arrived today into another empty room, and neatly arranged one box at a time.

Then she produced another 60 bottles of lotion.

****

On Wednesday evening, the bell for the last class rang.

Ruan Yingyin put her textbooks and other things into her school bag.

Jiang Xingyuan sat in his seat, watched Ruan Yingyin packing her things, and suddenly asked, “I haven’t seen you at school these days? You don’t live in the school dormitory?”

Ruan Yingyin’s hand paused for a moment, she pursed her lips, not wanting to answer him at all.

The reason is that Jiang Xingyuan is really too abominable, he snatched a lot of snacks from Ruan Yingyin these days. Not only did he eat them himself, he also distributed them to others!

Fortunately, Ruan Yingyin has a lot of snacks hidden in the drawer, between the books and the holes between them except in her pocket.

But she still felt very heartbroken.

Jiang Xingyuan waited for a while for an answer. But when no answer was returned, he lifted his leg, his foot stretched on the horizontal bar of Ruan Yingyin’s stool with a violent shaking. Leaning over, he asked in a low voice, “Are you mute? Or deaf?”

When he spoke, his breath sprayed on Ruan Yingyin’s neck, making her feel a little cold.

She stepped towards the wall, zipped up her school bag and said, “Ruan Xuong took back the permission to stay in the dormitory.”

Jiang Xingyuan tsked, his eyes fell on Yang Qingwei who happened to be walking out the door with Liang Yuan talking and laughing, “You’re really your father’s cheap daughter.”

Ruan Yingyin gently frowned. Looking at Jiang Xingyuan, she said seriously, “He is not my father.”

Oh, right. They had severed their relationship.

Jiang Xingyuan looked Ruan Yingyin up and down, and raised the corners of his lips in a smile with deep meaning, “Then where do you live now?”

Ruan Yingyin clutched her school bag and looked at him with great caution, her whole body in a state of high alert.

“Where do you live?” Jiang Xingyuan raised his eyebrows and asked again, his tone turning to be dangerous.

Ruan Yingyin blinked, lowered her head, and replied, “The Dongyang neighborhood next to the school.”

Jiang Xingyuan lowered his eyes and looked at the fluffy head just beneath his eyes. No one could see the colour in his pupils at the moment, it was as cold as a dark pool and black as a black hole.

He asked softly: “Do you really live there?”

Ruan Yingyin’s heart trembled slightly, but she still nodded: “Mm.”

Jiang Xingyuan smiled as he reached out and patted Ruan Yingyin’s thin shoulder, “Ruan Yingyin, I really hate it when people lie to me.”

After leaving such a sentence, he got up and dragged his school bag and left.

The bag was carried by him in his hand, and when he walked away, it touched the corner of the front table. Ruan Yingyin felt as if she could hear the sound of something slithering on the floor.

As if at that moment, Jiang Xingyuan wasn’t dragging his schoolbag in his hand, but her.

****

Ruan Yingyin’s apartment was on the 12th floor, she entered the elevator and pressed the button as it started ascending.

Jiang Xingyuan’s phrase ‘I really hate it when people lie to me’ kept echoing in Ruan Yingyin’s mind.

She felt a little distracted.

The elevator reached the 12th floor with a ding, and Ruan Yingyin walked out, reaching into her pocket with one hand to get her keys, while walking towards her door.

But her steps suddenly halted and her whole body froze in place.

Jiang Xingyuan was leaning against her apartment door.

The school bag was thrown at his feet, he had one hand in the pocket of his school uniform, his two legs folded, and his back against the door of Ruan Yingyin’s apartment.

He was holding a cell phone, his head down as he was talking with someone on the phone.

Hearing the sound of the elevator, he abruptly raised his head and his gaze fell precisely on Ruan Yingyin.

His lips instantly raised in a dangerous smile as he said: “I’ll hang up now. Will find you later.”

Jiang Xingyuan hung up the phone, casually inserted the phone into his pocket, and slowly approached Ruan Yingyin who was standing at the entrance of the elevator step by step: “Ruan Yingyin, didn’t you say you live in the Dongyang district next to the school?”

The instinct told Ruan Yingyin to run, so she did not say anything and turned around to get into the elevator.

Jiang Xingyuan reached out, pulled the school bag behind her back, then turned her around and pushed her to the door.

She bumped into her door and raised her head in panic. Her eyes collided with the ones of Jiang Xingyuan who was looking at her from a high position.

Jiang Xingyuan said with a dark expression, “Ruan Yingyin, you lied to me again.”

Ruan Yingyin stood up straight.

Since the matter had come to this, it could only be remedied.

“I’m sorry, I just don’t want to tell anyone my address.” She let out a breath, “I live out here alone as a girl, it would be dangerous if too many people knew the address.”

While saying that, Ruan Yingyin took out the key and inserted it into the hole of the locker.

As she opened the door, she said to Jiang Xingyuan behind her, “Classmate Jiang, do you want to come in and have a glass of water?”

Ruan Yingyin showed a good attitude in admitting her mistake and speaking in a harmonious voice and manner.

Jiang Xingyuan, who had just planned to give her a good teaching, looked at her and somehow that anger subsided.

Instead, he had the urge to rub her head.

But unexpectedly, after opening the door, Ruan Yingyin quickly slipped in, and in front of Jiang Xingyuan’s still unresponsive gaze, she quickly closed the door!

Ruan Yingyin’s heart was pounding as she closed the door and then quickly locked it.

She rested against the door and let out a deep breath.

Outside the door, Jiang Xingyuan reacted a bit slowly. He looked at the door that closed on his face, and began to laugh in anger.

His hand was clenched in a fist, and his eyes held a monstrous rahe.

Jiang Xingyuan kicked the door fiercely.

The door shook and trembled.

Ruan Yingyin hurriedly left the door, put down her school bag, then quickly slipped into the room. Packing all the materials to make the lotion into the empty room, she locked the empty room.

After locking up, she slipped around the kitchen and hid the key of the empty room in the rice bowl.

After checking and finding no other suspicious things in the room, Ruan Yingyin was finally relieved.

After Jiang Xingyuan kicked it once, he didn’t kick it again.

Ruan Yingyin looked at the door in disbelief, knowing that Jiang Xingyuan didn’t leave yet.

Now she understood why the young couple across the hall had moved away. It must be related to Jiang Xingyuan, so it wouldn’t be wise to hide all the time.

When she went out to school this morning, she saw the people of a moving company going in and out of the room across the hall, but didn’t understand why.

Why would Jiang Xingyuan do that? Why would he move in with her as a neighbour? Was it because he wanted to cause her psychological damage up close?

Yes, in the book, Jiang Xingyuan also used this method to drive Ruan Yingyin crazy little by little.

Just then, the cell phone on the living room coffee table vibrated.

Ruan Yingyin picked up the phone.

Jiang Xingyuan: Open the door.

With the three simple words, Ruan Yingyin could feel Jiang Xingyuan’s anger.

She sat down on the sofa and hurriedly peeled a fruit candy and put it in her mouth to suppress the shock, then held her phone and typed.

Ruan Yingyin: Classmate Jiang, it’s a little inconvenient for a boy to enter a girl’s room.

Ruan Yingyin: We’ll talk tomorrow at school. Please go back today, okay?

Jiang Xingyuan lowered his head and leaned against the wall of Ruan Yingyin’s apartment door and typed.

His lips were tightly pursed, his face gloomy, his pupils cold and dark, with shades of gloom.

Jiang Xingyuan: Open the door and say it again.

Jiang Xingyuan: Do you believe that I will find someone to smash your door right now?

Jiang Xingyuan: Ruan Yingyin, don’t test my patience.

After receiving three messages in a row, Ruan Yingyin crushed the fruit candy in her mouth. Although it was very sweet, she felt a little bitter inside.

She was afraid that if she opened the door for him now, he would not let her go. But she was afraid that if she didn’t open the door for him now, he would really find someone to smash her door, and then her consequences would be miserable.

Ruan Yingyin: Classmate Jiang… I can open the door for you but…..

Ruan Yingyin: But can you promise me not to do anything to me?

Outside the door, Jiang Xingyuan’s fingertips paused slightly and the corners of his lips slightly rose. Then he typed slowly and methodically.

Jiang Xing Yuan: Okay.

Ruan Yingyin looked at the message and nervously stood up from the sofa. She began to pace around the coffee table biting her nails.

Exhaling a long breath, she chewed and swallowed the bitten fruit candy before walking to the door.

Ruan Yingyin stretched out her hand and put her hand on the door handle.

She slowly opened the door, revealing a gap. Poking her head out through the gap, she looked at Jiang Xingyuan cautiously.

Jiang Xingyuan stood outside the door, watched her, bent down and picked up the school bag thrown on the ground. Casually flinging it in the mid-air, he showed a hostile smile to Ruan Yingyin.

“Shutting the door on my face?” Jiang Xingyuan said, “Ruan Yingyin, you’ve really got the courage.”

Ruan Yingyin’s heart thumped, the door didn’t open all the way, her hand was still on the handle, and only a slit was opened.

Jiang Xingyuan’s left elbow slammed on the door, hard enough to knock the door open.

Ruan Yingyin subconsciously retreated a few steps, Jiang Xingyuan walked in and backhandedly slapped the door shut.

Seeing him in the same room as hers and remembering the scene in the nightmare, and the plot of the book, Ruan Yingyin felt breathless.

Her hand clutched the corner of her school uniform. She was shaking with anxiety inside but showed a calm look to Jiang Xingyuan, “I’ll go get you a glass of water.”

Jiang Xingyuan’s eyes casually swept around the room before tossing his school bag onto the sofa, stopping Ruan Yingyin who was about to move to the kitchen.

He reached out, pulled Ruan Yingyin, and pressed the person behind the door.

Ruan Yingyin raised her head in panic, and saw his cold eyes under the bangs.

When he bent down, the distance between the two instantly became very close.

Ruan Yingyin pressed herself against the door. Biting her lip, she said warily whilst looking at him, “Classmate Jiang, you said you wouldn’t do anything.”

Jiang Xingyuan cocked his head to the side and smiled.

Pressing one hand on the door, he shook the other hand in front of Ruan Yingyin: “Am I doing anything now?”

Ruan Yingyin didn’t answer.

He stared straight into her eyes, his pupils faintly flashing with madness: “Ruan Yingyin, you’ve lied to me twice today. I said I hate it when people lie to me.”

Ruan Yingyin’s palms were sweating, and her always smooth and soft voice had a slight tremor: “I’m sorry, it’s my fault for lying to people. But you asked me for my address, of course I can’t tell you.”

Jiang Xingyuan gave a short laugh and reached out to tuck the hair in front of Ruan Yingyin’s forehead behind her ear.

His fingertips were cool, and although his movements were gentle, they were extraordinarily frightening.

This is the calm before the storm.

In the book, every time Jiang Xingyuan wanted to do something to Ruan Yingyin, he started off very gentle to her.

The gentle Jiang Xingyuan represents the Jiang Xingyuan that is about to explode.

He even spoke gently, “I asked you, why can’t you tell me?”

Ruan Yingyin’s hand behind her back was subconsciously picking at her nails.

“A girl’s address naturally cannot be casually divulged to a strange man.” Ruan Yingyin almost blurted out.

When she finished, she stopped instantly.

This answer would probably make Jiang Xingyuan even more angry.

It’s over, it’s over, she’s going to be beaten today. Ruan Yingyin wanted to cry, not knowing what to do next.

She had even closed her eyes and prepared for the coming storm.

“Strange man?” Jiang Xingyuan heard this answer, repeated it, and smiled.

In his last life, Ruan Yingyin was the closest woman he had ever been with, and the only one at that.

In these two lifetimes, he simply couldn’t stand the approach of any other woman except Ruan Yingyin.

However, in his previous life, Ruan Yingyin had more than one man close to her!

But in this life–

He stared at Ruan Yingyin, who was a little scared, looked very innocent, had a victim-like look, had no memory of her previous life, and suddenly thought something.

Jiang Xingyuan lowered his head and his lips fell on Ruan Yingyin’s ear, his breath burning hot: “Wrong, Ruan Yingyin, I am the closest man to you.”

Ruan Yingyin opened her eyes wide and looked at Jiang Xingyuan with surprise.

The closest man? This Jiang Xingyuan is crazy.

He saw the uncertainty in her eyes, understood her confusion and asked, “Do you have friends now?”

Ruan Yingyin thought for a moment and shook her head.

Hamsters can live better alone instead, she does not need friends.

“Do you have a family now?”

She had already broken up with the Ruan family, she didn’t want that kind of family, so Ruan Yingyin shook her head again.

“No friends, no family.” Jiang Xingyuan repeated, seemingly satisfied with Ruan Yingyin’s current situation, “Then isn’t it me who is closest to you every day?”

According to his words, it’s correct.

“So–” Jiang Xingyuan coldly said, “Ruan Yingyin, you only need to promise me three things. If you can keep them, you will be safe in the future.”

Ruan Yingyin’s eyes lit up.

After she entered the book, she had been trying to find a way to make Jiang Xingyuan let her go. But even though she hadn’t found it yet, Jiang Xingyuan sent the opportunity himself.

Three things, as long as he doesn’t rob her nest or her snacks, she can agree to them all.

“One, the door of your house must be open to me at all times. Open it when I tell you to.”

Ruan Yingyin nodded. According to Jiang Xingyuan’s style, if she does not open the door, he has various ways to open it.

That’s why just now she opened the door.

“Two, you will listen to whatever I say.”

Ruan Yingyin looked at him, hesitated and also nodded. This promise is a bit tough to keep. There are a lot of loopholes too. She just needs to agree first and observe the situation later.

“Three -” Jiang Xingyuan paused for a moment, remembering bad memories as he finished, “Stay away from other men.”

Ruan Yingyin did not hesitate and immediately nodded.

The reason why Jiang Xingyuan was reborn and hurt Ruan Yingyin so badly was because in his previous life, Ruan Yingyin had betrayed him.

So if he had such a request, Ruan Yingyin could accept it.

One day, Jiang Xingyuan would surely find out that she is different from the Ruan Yingyin of his previous life. Then he would come out from the shadow of being cuckolded in his previous life and naturally welcome a new life and a new woman. At that time, she, the ‘Ruan Yingyin of the previous life’, would naturally become a thing of the past. So this rule wouldn’t be valid if that happens.

The power of time is great, and Ruan Yingyin believes she can wait for such a day.

Jiang Xingyuan saw Ruan Yingyin agreeing so easily without much burden and warned seriously, “Ruan Yingyin, I gave you another chance. If you let me down this time, you will regret it.”

He gently gritted his teeth and repeated again, “You will definitely regret it.”