Chapter 17

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Thanks so much to avel! Really helped me out this week.

As night fell, Wen Nian’s assistant came to visit, with a suitcase in her left hand and a lunch box in her right. As if she knew Jiang Ci was here, as soon as the door opened, she said: “Miss Jiang, it’s been a long time.”

Jiang Ci: “Hello, Assistant Zhou.”

The suitcase was placed by the wall. Assistant Zhou put the lunch box on the dining table, and Wen Nian motioned her to take the plan away: “It’s not right, let them do it again.”

Assistant Zhou: “Ok. Ms. Wen, rest more and pay attention to your body.”

After she left, Jiang Ci asked Wen Nian: “Can you get up? Or do you eat in bed?”

Wen Nian lifted the quilt and said weakly, “I don’t have any appetite.”

Jiang Ci stepped forward to help her: “You have to eat even if you don’t have an appetite.”

Wen Nian sat on the edge of the bed, stroked Jiang Ci’s smooth hair, and suddenly asked: “Am I ugly now?”

Jiang Ci: “You grew up beautiful, and you have received eight thousand or ten thousand love letters. How could you be ugly?”

“Did you receive less than me?” Wen Nian lay on her shoulder, “Ah-Ci, hold me a little bit, I will eat dinner with you.”

All her weight was on Jiang Ci, and Jiang Ci moved slowly: “…accompany you?”

Wen Nian: “I asked Assistant Zhou to go to Linji to pack a few dishes, which are all your favorites.”

Jiang Ci: “……”

Wen Nian looked at her: “You didn’t make arrangements for the evening?”

Jiang Ci stepped back and rearranged her words: “Let’s eat together.”

The two sat down around the dining table, the lunch boxes were opened one by one, and Jiang Ci placed the fish soup at Wen Nian’s table. Wen Nian took a few sips while holding the spoon: “…I want to drink chicken soup.”

Jiang Ci: “You wait a moment, I’ll buy it.”

Wen Nian touched the wolfberry floating on the soup surface: “I want to drink the chicken soup made by Aunt Jiang. The first time I went to your house for dinner, Aunt Jiang made the chicken soup, which was fragrant and strong. I remembered it for many years.”

Jiang Ci: “Then I will tell her.”

Wen Nian’s spirits rose: “We will drink at noon tomorrow, okay?”

Jiang Ci: “Okay.”

Jiang Ci took out her mobile phone, Lu Xingxue’s message came into view.

[Okay, I’ll wait for you.]

It’s been more than half an hour. Jiang Ci opened her phone, and called Jiang Lin first. When Jiang Lin heard that Wen Nian wanted to drink chicken soup, she agreed, and asked Jiang Ci not to talk nonsense on the phone.

After she hung up the phone, Jiang Ci opened the chat window with Lu Xingxue: [It might be late, so would you eat first?]

Jiang Ci put down the phone, Wen Nian had changed her chopsticks, and kept putting vegetables in her bowl.

Jiang Ci said with a laugh: “You need to supplement your nutrition, don’t give it to me.”

Wen Nian: “You have to eat more.”

Jiang Ci: “Do you know how much weight you have lost? Aunt Ning loves you very much.”

Wen Nian: “Then don’t you feel bad?”

Jiang Ci: “We all feel distressed.”

Wen Nian put a few pieces of beef onto Jiang Ci’s plate again: “Eat everything you like.”

The phone on the table lit up.

[Lu: It’s okay, I’ll wait for you.]

Jiang Ci looked at the phone, and Wen Nian also looked over: “Someone is looking for you?”

Jiang Ci: “It’s okay, you have a good meal.”

Thinking of the appointment with Lu Xingxue, Jiang Ci didn’t eat much. Wen Nian went to wash up after the meal, and when she lay back on the bed, she asked Jiang Ci to get her a mask from the suitcase.

Jiang Ci tore off the packaging of the mask and applied it to her carefully.

The night breeze blew in from the window. It was a bit cold. Jiang Ci closed the window and drew up the curtains.

“Want to watch TV?” she asked Wen Nian.

Wen Nian: “If it didn’t hurt, I would have thought I was on vacation.”

Jiang Ci: “……”

Jiang Ci: “Who makes you work so hard?”

Wen Nian: “Ah-Ci, would you like to try this mask? Whitening, hydrating, and anti-aging, the effect is pretty good.”

Jiang Ci laughed: “Where can a mask come with so many effects?”

Wen Nian: “I want you to try it.”

Jiang Ci: “Then I will take a few back.”

Wen Nian: “You can try it here.”

Jiang Ci walked around the bed and sat down on the chair again. She glanced over the cot in the room, which was neatly stacked with blankets.

Jiang Ci sighed in her heart.

Later, when the nurse came on her rounds, Jiang Ci exited the ward and went all the way to the end of the corridor.

The window here can only be opened a small slit, and the wind outside has become stronger, and it is still mixed with fine rain. Jiang Ci held the phone and called Lu Xingxue.

There was almost no waiting time, and the call was connected.

Even after waiting for so long, Lu Xingxue’s voice did not sound unpleasant: “Jiang Ci.”

Jiang Ci was very sorry, and made her tone considerate: “Lu Xingxue, I’m sorry, Wen Nian is not doing very well, I can’t accompany you for dinner tonight. I made you wait for so long, and I will invite you next time.”

Lu Xingxue: “What happened to President Wen? Is it serious?”

Lu Xingxue should be in the restaurant at the moment, but the background of the call wasn’t noisy. Jiang Ci was puzzled for a moment, but didn’t think too much: “…she had a miscarriage.”

Although the miscarriage was Wen Nian’s private matter and should not be told by her, Lu Xingxue, as her partner, will know sooner or later in her life circle, and there is no need to hide it from her.

Lu Xingxue was silent for a moment, and asked Jiang Ci the second question: “Then are you coming back tonight?”

Jiang Ci: “I will stay with her in the hospital tonight.”

Lu Xingxue spoke gently: “Okay, I see.”

The lights in the huge dining room were all off, and only the table where she was sitting had a soft light over her head.

There were flowers in the center of the dining table, Lu Xingxue put down the phone, her eyebrows drooping, and half of her face was in shadow. She played with the square jewelry box in her hand again, the buckle opened, “click,” and she closed it again.

There was a flash of diamond light passing by.

The manager wearing a professional skirt held the tray and stopped at the table, and took out the dishes from the tray: “Miss Lu, excuse me, this is the soup presented to you by the restaurant.”

Maybe because she had been waiting so long, worried that she would be too hungry, they gave her an appetizer first. Afraid to make her feel embarrassed by speaking directly, they used this reason.

Lu Xingxue raised her eyes to look at her, smiling at the corners of her mouth: “Thank you.”

“You are welcome, please enjoy it slowly.”

Lu Xingxue: “It’s a waste of your time. I’m sorry, but give me a few more minutes. I’ll leave after drinking this bowl of soup.”

She booked the entire restaurant, the back chef and the waiters were on standby. The tip was generous tonight, and no one complained. Lu Xingxue said that, and the manager was flattered: “Miss Lu, your dishes have not yet been served… “

Lu Xingxue: “No need.”

When she said these words, she was kind and gentle, as if the hours she waited in vain had never happened. The manager had never met such a well-mannered customer. She couldn’t help but wonder how hard-hearted the person who didn’t come to the appointment was to let her down?

—

Jiang Ci and Wen Nian chose a movie to watch. Before the first half was over, Wen Nian fell asleep in a daze.

There is no blood on her lips, her body is sunken in the soft bed, and her slapped face is full of weakness.

Turning off the TV and the lights, Jiang Ci walked gently to the escort bed at the other end.

There was a faint smell of disinfectant in the ward, and Jiang Ci couldn’t sleep well in the new environment. Listening to the sound of the rain, the rain drops from sparse to dense, and the rain outside is getting heavier.

She didn’t know when it started, it was mixed in the sound of rain, and Wen Nian whimpered.

Jiang Ci opened her eyes.

Not mentioning a word during the day, and it was quiet at night, but a person was crying secretly. Her marriage was not satisfactory and she lost a child. Wen Nian is too strong, and she didn’t even want to let others know her sadness.

Her cry was locked in her throat, suppressed and restrained.

Jiang Ci was torn by her crying, tears flowed silently with her, she did not dare to wipe her hands, for fear of making noises that would disturb her.

The next day, Jiang Ci stopped work. Seeing that the time was almost the same, she went to Songling Road to get chicken soup.

The Tong family’s kitchen aunt went to the market before dawn to buy fresh old hens. Jiang Lin personally prepared it and stewed it for Jiang Ci. The chicken soup was already fragrant.

Carefully put it into the thermos, Jiang Lin probed Jiang Ci’s words: “What did Wen Nian say?”

Jiang Ci: “She didn’t mention anything.”

Jiang Lin pondered: “She didn’t mention anything? That’s a good thing, I guess she’s dispelled the idea of divorce.”

Jiang Lin thinks that it is a good thing not to divorce. Jiang Ci doesn’t want to talk more about it if she’s going to talk speculatively with her. Jiang Lin knew that she had other thoughts in her heart: “Ah-Ci, don’t be unwilling to listen. Although Wen Nian’s child is gone, Lin Xiao can’t trust her, but Four Seasons is going to promote her this time, and the power lies with her. The hand is always true, right? I think it was a blessing in disguise this time.”

“A blessing in disguise?” Jiang Ci was like a cat with its tail stepped on. “Mom, you and Aunt Ning are concerned about the company and the project. Has anyone cared about Wen Nian? She just lost her child. Do you care about what she is thinking? Do you?”

Jiang Lin: “Silly daughter.”

[avel: This bitch]

Jiang Ci picked up the thermos and was about to leave. Jiang Lin followed her: “Wen Nian has planned her life well, what are you worrying about her for?”

She wanted Jiang Ci to be as obedient as Wen Nian, but her daughter refuses to set foot in the Tong’s house. She has to be a mediocre piano tuner. She was coaxed by Lu Xingxue not long ago and began to flutter up and down again.

Jiang Lin sighed heavily.

—

Jiang Ci returned to the hospital, and had only got out of the elevator. With a ‘bang’, something was thrown out of Wen Nian’s ward.

Jiang Ci fixed her eyes—it was Wen Nian’s suitcase, the zipper was not pulled, and all the clothes and supplies in a box were scattered in the corridor.

The nurses at the nurse station hadn’t realized what had happened, but Jiang Ci had already had an unknown premonition.

Lin Xiao’s voice, going from gentle to harsh, came out from the wide open door: “Wen Nian! Ms. Wen! You played this hand too well!!”

“Use a divorce to force your dad, letting your dad put pressure on my old man, come on, now my card is frozen, let me be your grandson obediently, okay, no problem! Ms. Wen, let’s go, I’ll carry you home and wait!”

Jiang Ci ran to the door. In the ward, Lin Xiao roughly tore off the indwelling needle from Wen Nian’s hand, trying to lift her off the bed.

Jiang Ci’s head was empty, she rushed in and pushed Lin Xiao away: “What are you doing! She just had a miscarriage!”

Because of her anger, she tried her best this time, and Lin Xiao was pushed to a stagger by her before hitting the cabinet next to the bed.

The needle punctured the blood vessel, and blood dripped on the back of Wen Nian’s hand. Jiang Ci said to the nurses who rushed to the ward: “Hurry up and stop her bleeding! The rest of you go and ask for security!”

so, there was no chapter last week because I’ve been having a lot of headaches recently and I wasn’t able to work much last week. We powered through (thanks again avel for all the heavy lifting) and there’s a double release today!

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