Chapter 22

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Nie Jia didn’t know if Jiang Yang was just hard-pressed, or if he even had the courage to find Huo Qing, but he(Nie Jia) was very surprised. Huo Yun had already criticized Meng Qian by mentioning his name on Weibo. It was clear that the Huo family would not reach out to help the Jiang family. Jiang Yang came to Huo Qing and hoped that Huo Qing would give him the withdrawn funds again?

Jiang Yang had already arrived and was waiting in the hall when Nie Jia came back with sweat on his head.

In fact, Huo Qing was not home. Ye Xiaojue had thrown a temper tantrum in the morning. Huo Qing personally sent him to school, and not long after he left, Jiang Yang came with great hope and courage. The butler said that Huo Qing was not here, so he just waited without leaving.

“Yan Su?” Jiang Yang turned around when he heard footsteps. He saw a man and almost doubted whether he was hallucinating. Jiang Yang looked at Nie Jia in amazement and raised his eyebrows with a sense of crisis. “Why are you here?”

“Mr. Yan, you are back.” The butler handed Nie Jia a clean towel respectfully. “Breakfast is being prepared. Please wait for a while.”

“It’s okay, I’ll go and take a shower first.” Nie Jia wiped his sweat and walked inside, looking at Jiang Yang indifferently. “As you can see, I live here. What can you do?”

“You…” Jiang Yang was stunned. For a moment, his brain blanked out, and he could not digest the scene in front of him.

With a thud, something exploded in Jiang Yang’s mind. Why did Yan Su live in Mr. Huo’s house? What was their relationship? Mr. Huo suddenly withdrew the funds from the Jiang family, was it also what Yan Su meant? Except for the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, could even Mr. Huo be used as a gun by Yan Su?!

“He’s here for Brother Qing.” Ye Shuming, who was wearing a sports suit, yawned softly and came in followed by Huo Yun, who looked unhappy.

Jiang Yang froze for a moment. Ye Shuming, the famous writer who had long been silent was here!

Huo Yun didn’t see Jiang Yang at all. When she saw Ye Shuming panting, she sighed temperamentally and said to Ye Shuming: “Brother Su came back from the run and you have just changed your clothes and yet you are still panting. You are usually rebuilding or being lazy. When will you get better?”

“It’s Brother Su who got up too early…” Ye Shuming walked two steps forward and collapsed on the sofa and cried out. After noticing Huo Yun’s unhappy eyes, he straightened his back and said seriously: “I swear to get up early tomorrow morning. I will run two or three hundred laps!”

“You said that yesterday and the day before yesterday.” Huo Yun shook her head helplessly. She didn’t want to tai chi with him. She gave Nie Jia a glass of water and sat next to Ye Shuming, holding his arm.

{T/N: Tai Chi, short for T’ai chi ch’üan or Tàijí quán, is an internal Chinese martial art practiced for both; its defense training, its health benefits and meditation. So it’s just a form of fighting, in this context.}

“Since you were not looking for me, then I’ll go take a shower first.” Nie Jia threw the towel on his shoulder, and went upstairs without stopping. He didn’t take Jiang Yang seriously.

“Brother, hurry up! We will wait for you and eat together.” Huo Yun shouted after him.

“Got it.” Nie Jia responded lightly.

They were as familiar and intimate as if they were family members who had lived together for more than ten years, without the slightest estrangement and any false polite alienation.

Half a year ago, because Jiang Yang successfully stuffed a painting in Huo Yun’s hands, he got Huo Qing’s funds, and was envied by the upper circle of the entire Yue City. They all thought that Jiang Yang had Huo Qing’s appreciation, and Jiang Yang was also happy to show the outside world that he could talk to Huo Qing.

In fact, Jiang Yang knew more than anyone else whether he could talk to Huo Qing or not. If it wasn’t so, he wouldn’t be forced to find the courage to look for Huo Qing now, until he was desperate.

Jiang Yang hadn’t even thought about being as close as Yan Su so as to let Huo Yun call him brother.

“Are you curious?” Huo Yun asked, after Nie Jia went upstairs. The delicate and charming feminine beauty on her face immediately subsided and was replaced with a kind of indifferent disdain. “Why do you keep guarding against your step brother who is living with us?”

Jiang Yang’s throat tightened, and his eyes were embarrassed as if he had been slapped.

Huo Yun said indifferently: “Shuming is my husband. He had an accident four years ago and had been in a coma until now. It was Su ge who cured Shuming, a month ago. He is the benefactor of our family, so if you want to deal with Su ge, it means that you want to incite trouble with my family. Now, how is the Jiang family doing? Instead of looking for my brother, you might as well ask Brother Su to let you go. But I advise you not to humiliate yourself. Think about what you have done to him before. Will he forgive you?”

Jiang Yang stood there for more than half a minute before returning to his senses palely. He looked at Huo Yun who was hostile to him, knowing that there was no room for things to turn around. Huo Qing loved his sister too much, but looking at Huo Yun’s attitude towards him, even if he saw Huo Qing today, it was impossible to get any help.

And he would never ask Yan Su. Just like Huo Yun said, if he could easily be forgiven for what he did to Yan Su, how could Yan Su try to kill him after returning home?!

He realized he had turned complacent earlier, after attaching himself to Huo Qing, but in the blink of an eye, Yan Su even became Huo Qing’s benefactor. Even his last trump card was defeated by Yan Su….. What else could he do?

“Goodbye.” After a long time, Jiang Yang nodded slightly in a dry voice, and left unwillingly. His phone shook in his pocket. Jiang Yang glanced down, the caller ID was Qin Yiran.

–

Huo Yun was very short-tempered, and just after Jiang Yang left, said to the butler, “In the future, any person related to the Jiang family is not welcomed.”

“Yes miss.” The butler answered.

Upstairs, Nie Jia was a little surprised when he watched Jiang Yang get into the car and leave. “Not up to the standard?”

[Yes, not yet.] The system said.

“He’s quite stubborn.” Nie Jia sneered and let go of the curtains and went into the bathroom to take a shower.

When he was wiping his hair, he was caught and surrounded by a pair of powerful arms. Huo Qing’s burning breath spat in his ear. “Jiang Yang came, did he annoy you?”

Nie Jia glanced back at him. “Does he have this ability?”

Huo Qing smiled dotingly, took the towel and dragged him in his arms to wipe his hair. “I will buy you some of Jiangs’ scattered stocks, including the 3% that was previously sold by aunt. If Jiang Yang can’t hold the shares in his hands, Jiangs will be yours.”

“He won’t move easily. He still has 45% of Qin’s shares. I will let him spit out Qin’s shares first.” Nie Jia said. “But now, Jiangs’ shares are worthless, you can buy as much as you like.”

The Jiang family was now surrounded by scandals, and a government investigation team was thoroughly investigating money laundering and bribery cases. Who would dare to have anything to do with Jiangs? The priceless Jiang family shares were nothing but waste paper now. Shareholders were anxious to disassociate themselves from the Jiangs sooner than later, so Huo Qing did not spend much money acquiring those shares.

–

Jiang Mansion.

Jiang Yang did not get out of the car after driving into the garage, just laid on the steering wheel and breathed deeply in silence.

He answered a call from Qin Yiran, thinking that this woman was here to laugh at him. But Qin Yiran didn’t speak any nonsense during the call. She straightforwardly said that she could help Jiangs in this difficult time, but the condition was that in addition to returning Qin’s 45% shares, it was necessary to give 20% of Jiangs’ shares and 70% of the profit of the Pacific Cable Project. She was like a lion opening its bloody mouth!

{T/N: Chinese proverb/idiom for voracious greed.}

Jiang Yang’s anger had accumulated in his chest in Huo’s house where he dared not speak. Finally, he couldn’t hold it in and snarled at Qin Yiran.

Qin Yiran didn’t react, but just said casually: “You have a week to consider my proposal, but I hope you don’t expect miracles. You know whether or not Jiangs’ can survive for a week now. The people in the investigation team follow whose orders, don’t you know? You may have stolen a cat, but if the top asked them to find an elephant, can you guess whether the investigation team will help you argue or make an elephant out of it? Jiang Yang, you can think about it carefully.”

After speaking, she just hung up the phone.

Qin Yiran’s sneer made Jiang Yang stunned.

I am sorry for the delay. I was busy with some things and it took time. I am not done yet, either. So, the chapters of I Just Want to Divorce and I Woke Up and Was Pregnant will be delayed. I posted this one since I had this chapter in reserve which means I did nothing much in the last two weeks. So, the delay. The next week, ch-23 will be uploaded but I am not sure about the other two novels, so let’s wait and see. I am not gonna drop them though.

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