Chapter 132: Worth All This Effort From Me?
Clearly, Lin Tingting had also seen it.
Although angry that Sun Chengye didn’t give her face, she still had to endure this anger.
Knowing it was not appropriate to fall out with Sun Chengye now, she viciously left behind a sentence, “Consider yourself lucky.”
Watching the two disappear into the distance, Jiang Ruanxi just pursed her lips. She hadn’t been talking nonsense. In her previous life, Sun Chengye was short-lived. Calculating the time, it seemed to be around this period.
There was no way around her not believing it. As soon as Jiang Ruanxi turned around, she saw Wei Chang with an icy expression.
“Madam Lin has also come to the temple to pray for blessings?” The Crown Prince’s tone was flat, revealing no joy or anger.
“Yes.” Jiang Ruanxi curtsied. “This subject wife has seen Your Highness the Crown Prince.”
“I see Madam’s forehead is darkened. I’m afraid praying for blessings won’t solve it.”
Jiang Ruanxi’s mouth twitched. He had clearly heard her earlier words. She raised her head to meet his indifferent gaze. “Noble Your Highness the Crown Prince, since when have you also started reading faces?”
“Whether to believe it or not is entirely up to Madam to judge.”
“Your Highness the Crown Prince jests. This subject wife has matters to attend to. Farewell.” Jiang Ruanxi did not want to entangle with him, curtsied, and hurriedly left.
And she did not know that in the instant her figure disappeared, a dark light flashed in Wei Chang’s eyes.
So what if she had innate good fortune?
Wasn’t it still ending up deserted by everyone?
Jiang Ruanxi returned to her room, her heart pounding wildly.
What did Wei Chang’s words just now mean?
Could he know something?
Thinking of the Nameless Daoist’s words, a thought suddenly surfaced in her mind. Could it be…
“Madam, you’ve finally returned.”
Hong Ye’s words interrupted her thoughts. Jiang Ruanxi quickly took out the paper from her bosom and burned it.
“Third Master Jiang just came looking for you.” Hong Ye did not know what had happened and quickly wiped sweat for Jiang Ruanxi. “Third Master sat in the room for a while, and seeing you had not returned, he left. But before leaving, he asked me to relay a message to Madam.”
“What message?”
“Third Master said we are all one family. If Madam has any needs, she can seek him privately.”
Seek him?
A chill rose in Jiang Ruanxi’s heart. Jiang Rui appeared gentle on the surface, but was actually ruthless.
She remembered that back then, when Jiang Xuerou was poisoned and needed her as a medicine primer, she refused. Jiang Rui directly stepped forward without a word and broke her hand.
Compared to Jiang Changjun and Jiang Linlei’s straightforwardness, Jiang Rui was the one who hid it deepest.
If not for her generous dowry and the connections of her foster mother and foster father finding a famous doctor, her hands would probably all have been ruined.
Jiang Ruanxi touched her left hand.
In this life, Jiang Xuerou had died early. Although such a thing had not happened again, the seed of hatred had long been planted in Jiang Ruanxi’s heart.
“Then tell him that I want to divorce Lin Ningkun and need the Jiang Family to step in.”
She wanted to see if the Jiang Family would really step in to help her.
Thinking of something, Jiang Ruanxi handed a piece of paper to Hong Ye. “Find an opportunity to give these things to Lin Tingting.”
Hong Ye took it and glanced at it, immediately scared pale. “Madam, this is the evidence of you drugging the Old Madam. How can you give it to Third Miss?”
“Hasn’t she been looking for evidence all along? Once given to her, she will definitely come find me.”
Jiang Ruanxi hooked her lips. “Anyway, just do as I say.
Hong Ye wanted to persuade but, thinking that Jiang Ruanxi always had her own objective in doing things, swallowed the words on the tip of her tongue.
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First go relay the message to Jiang Rui.
“Understood. You may go.”
After hearing Hong Ye’s words, Jiang Rui’s face was indifferent, while Jiang Linlei’s face beside him turned embarrassed.
But he still waited until Hong Ye left before erupting.
He heavily placed the teacup on the table, his voice carrying sharpness. “I knew Jiang Ruanxi coming to Guangming Temple this time was not with good intentions. Turns out she’s using divorce as a pretext.”
Jiang Rui was much calmer than him.
“Fourth Brother, if she really wanted to divorce, why come to Guangming Temple? Don’t you find it strange?”
The night wind was cool, blowing off the last leaf from the tree in the courtyard.
Autumn was also quietly approaching its end, and winter was slowly arriving.
“What’s strange about it? The dirty things she did in the Lin Family—if she continues staying there, I’m afraid the Lin family members will devour her down to the bones. Coming to Guangming Temple is just finding an excuse to take shelter here for a while. Elder Brother is right. Jiang Ruanxi has indeed developed disloyalty. We must stop her.”
Is that really how it is?
Jiang Rui frowned tightly, gently rubbing the teacup in his hand.
He always felt that Jiang Ruanxi had become unpredictable since Lin Ningkun returned.
Both Jiang Xuerou and Jiang Changjun had fallen into her hands. Would she do something so stupid?
But for the moment, he could not figure out her objective in doing this. Jiang Rui set down the cup and said indifferently, “No matter what she wants to do, keep an eye on her first. I’ll go warn Lin Ningkun. Even if it drags on to death, we must leave Jiang Ruanxi to the Lin Family.”
After speaking, Jiang Rui stood up and opened the door. Another yellow leaf blew onto his clothing. He lifted his slender fingers to pick it up.
His gaze became profound.
He always felt the matter was not that simple, but could not say exactly where it was off.
After a long while, he thought he was overthinking it.
Amid the Jiang Family’s powerful influence, Jiang Ruanxi, a mere woman, and in Guangming Temple at that—there was no way she could stir up any waves.
When Jiang Rui arrived at Lin Ningkun’s house, Lin Ningkun was throwing a tantrum inside the room.
The room was full of broken things everywhere. Run Ru’s face bore clear fingerprints and kept streaming tears.
But Run Ru endured the pain, not daring to make a sound.
When the door opened, she happened to see Jiang Rui standing at the entrance and was so scared her voice lowered. “Third Master Jiang.”
Her voice trembled slightly, also carrying some disbelief.
Lin Ningkun frowned. Seeing the mess in the room, Jiang Rui immediately understood.
His eyes filled with disgust as he turned to Run Ru. “I have words with your family’s Master. Go down.”
It was exactly what Run Ru hoped for. After she left, Jiang Rui walked in.
A mocking smile hung on his lips. “I never expected a grown man with no other skills to now only have the ability to beat women, using it to regain his dignity as a man.”
Lin Ningkun’s heart felt as if stabbed by countless knives, the veins on his wrists bulging. “You’ve come to my place—surely not just to mock me.”
“Just a drowned dog. Is it worth me going to such trouble?”
The indifference in his eyes and ruthless words directly tore Lin Ningkun’s last shred of dignity to pieces.
He was furious beyond measure. “Then what have you come for? You’re not welcome here.”
He clearly hated him yet did not dare to strike. He wondered if Jiang Xuerou had been blind back then to get entangled with this person.
“No wonder Second Sister regretted it and wanted to divorce you. If I saw such a useless husband, I wouldn’t want to continue either.”
