Chapter 222: Cousin Aunt
“Why?” Xie Jingyan didn’t believe it.
If it wasn’t Jiang Ning who took the mission, how would she have come to this world?
Why was she so resistant upon seeing him?
Little Honey didn’t tell Xie Jingyan about Jiang Ning’s stomach cancer.
Seeing him pretending so stubbornly, it didn’t want to tell him even more.
It said sarcastically: [It might be related to your wedding partner, and that child. You didn’t explain anything, so isn’t that making Ning Ning think she took on a mission to be the third?]
Xie Jingyan’s expression changed slightly.
Because he had no relationship with Su Wanyuan.
He also followed what Little Honey said and completed the previous plot.
Until the restraints of this world disappeared, he didn’t dare let Jiang Ning come back.
He couldn’t accept Jiang Ning dying in front of him again.
Every night he had nightmares, and the scene of the nightmare was that short five meters, a chasm he could never reach.
“About the wedding, I don’t know who leaked it. That was what I prepared for Ning Ning, it has nothing to do with Su Wanyuan. I also withdrew the news. As for that child… she is also related. Now she avoids me and resists my approach.”
“So I can only wait for her to come find me herself.”
Little Honey was speechless.
Seeing him being so stubborn, it could only say: [If you’re any later, Wei Jin will come to the door. He saw Jiang Ning, and you know how crazy he was back then. He dug up Jiang Ning’s grave when drunk and lay in it. His love is no less deep than yours.]
Even… Little Honey felt that the one most suitable for Jiang Ning was actually Wei Jin.
It was just bad timing.
The person Jiang Ning met first was Xie Jingyan.
And it made Jiang Ning fall for him.
Xie Jingyan’s brows darkened: “No one can take her away again.”
Little Honey couldn’t quite tell if Xie Jingyan’s feelings for Jiang Ning were love or the obsession from youth over what he couldn’t have.
It asked: [Do you actually love her?]
Xie Jingyan was silent for a moment, then smiled brightly: “Should we cut open my heart to see? It beats only for Jiang Ning.”
Little Honey looked at the winding scar half-hidden on his wrist and disappeared in some fear.
Xie Jingyan stopped smiling, his mouth corners drooping.
It doesn’t matter…
He would make Jiang Ning like him again.
……
The black Rolls-Royce stopped outside a marketplace in North City.
Yuan Yuan saw Xie Jingyan, and her tears that had stopped flowed again: “Father, I lost Tuan Tuan.”
Xie Jingyan bent down to wipe the tears from her eyes. Yuan Yuan had a pair of very beautiful eyes. If Jiang Ning were here, she would discover that Yuan Yuan’s eyes resembled hers, but only shallowly by two parts.
“Yuan Yuan, don’t cry. Your eyes will swell and look bad.”
Yuan Yuan wiped the corner of her eyes and nodded anxiously: “Then let’s go find Tuan Tuan.”
Xie Jingyan nodded, and someone immediately brought the surveillance footage from outside the supermarket to him.
“President Xie, this is the surveillance footage from outside at the time. We found a lady who seems to have taken a kitten.”
Yuan Yuan got anxious upon hearing this: “It must be my Tuan Tuan. Father, let’s go pick up Tuan Tuan and bring it home.”
Xie Jingyan took the video and looked.
His gaze paused slightly, his fingers unconsciously zooming in on the image in the footage.
Until he saw that face. Even though her outfit had changed, Xie Jingyan recognized her at a glance—it was Jiang Ning.
She cradled a blue and white kitten in her palm and got into the car.
Xie Jingyan didn’t expect fate to be so wondrous, letting him find Jiang Ning before he even seriously searched.
After figuring out Jiang Ning’s address.
Xie Jingyan took Yuan Yuan to Jiang Ning’s apartment.
Xie Jingyan drove, with Yuan Yuan in the baby seat in the back: “Father, how much longer?”
“Almost there.” Xie Jingyan replied.
Then thinking of yesterday, when Yuan Yuan resisted Jiang Ning, he asked: “Yuan Yuan, why were you so rude yesterday?”
Yuan Yuan looked down guiltily at her little fingers, playing with them, not making a sound.
Xie Jingyan’s expression was flat: “If you don’t tell the truth, I won’t want you anymore.”
Hearing she might be abandoned, Yuan Yuan immediately cried in fright: “Wah wah wah, Father, don’t abandon me. It’s, it’s Wanyuan Aunt. She said, hic, she said Father was finding a new mother, and the new mother won’t like me. I don’t want to be separated from Father. Wah wah wah, I, I… hic, I want to be with Father forever.”
Xie Jingyan’s eyes softened slightly in emotion, his tone gentling: “Good child, but Father really dislikes this Aunt Su. Don’t see her again, okay?”
Yuan Yuan’s big eyes brimmed with tears, she sobbed softly, mumbling unclearly: “I, I know. It was the nanny aunt who took Yuan Yuan to find Wanyuan Aunt. Wah wah wah.”
Xie Jingyan hadn’t expected Su Wanyuan’s influence to reach into his home.
It seemed all the servants in the house had to go.
Only then did Xie Jingyan comfort her: “Don’t be afraid. I won’t abandon you.”
Yuan Yuan was still a bit unhappy.
Until they got out of the car.
Xie Jingyan straightened Yuan Yuan’s fluffy hat.
He checked his own outfit, felt it was fine, then took Yuan Yuan to the apartment where Jiang Ning rented.
The house she rented was on the ninth floor.
Jiang Ning had just gotten home, set out cat food for the kitten, and put down a litter box. Her butt hadn’t even warmed the seat when the doorbell rang.
This door had no peephole, so Jiang Ning asked: “Who is it?”
Yuan Yuan answered crisply: “Hello, older sister. I’m here for the kitten.”
Jiang Ning glanced at the blue and white one munching away and instantly understood.
She immediately opened the door, and what met her eyes was a man in a black coat, standing tall and straight.
Following his chest upward, Jiang Ning saw Xie Jingyan’s cold and indifferent face.
She: “…”
Yuan Yuan also recognized Jiang Ning, pulled at Xie Jingyan, and pointed at Jiang Ning: “Father! It’s the bad aunt from yesterday.”
Jiang Ning: “…”
Her face expressionless, she immediately shut the door.
Xie Jingyan blocked it with his hand in time: “Jiang Ning, wait. Hear me out.”
Jiang Ning’s voice squeezed out through gritted teeth: “Take your daughter with Su Wanyuan and get lost.”
Xie Jingyan realized this misunderstanding was huge.
“No, she’s not my child with Su Wanyuan.”
Jiang Ning didn’t loosen her grip: “Take your daughter with some unknown woman and get lost!”
Xie Jingyan: “…”
He looked down at Yuan Yuan.
She stared with big eyes, curiously watching him and Jiang Ning.
Xie Jingyan couldn’t worry about anything else and explained in a voice only they could hear: “She’s He Shang and Sui Tang’s child…”
Jiang Ning’s grip loosened.
The door sprang open.
Xie Jingyan lost balance and fell directly at Jiang Ning’s feet.
It hurt so much he gasped.
Yuan Yuan saw Xie Jingyan fall and hurried forward to help him: “Father, are you okay?”
Jiang Ning blinked, her gaze passing over Yuan Yuan’s fair and anxious little face.
This three-year-old kid in front of her was Sui Tang and He Shang’s child?!
Then why did she call Xie Jingyan Father?!
Xie Jingyan got up from the ground, rubbed his wrist, gently pushed Yuan Yuan toward Jiang Ning and said: “Yuan Yuan, call her Cousin Aunt.”
Typo correction yay~
