Chapter 73: Song Jie, Your Girlfriend’s Cheating On You

Little what? Little what??

Damn it! The executives on the other end of the video conference told themselves to buy a webcam next time that could not be turned off by the boss at any moment…

Meanwhile in the study, Qin Jiang’s hand was dominantly held down by Yan Liang, their fingers interlaced, hot and intense, mixing with his heartbeat.

For a moment, Qin Jiang felt himself about to become Young Mistress Yan’s plaything in her palm.

The woman’s familiar perfume lingered faintly by his ear, and the next moment Yan Liang whispered an incredibly taboo form of address into his ear.

Qin Jiang was too horrified to react.

This… uh this…

Could he really call her that? That would be so embarrassing.

But Qin Jiang didn’t dare disobey Young Mistress Yan. He obediently wrapped his arms around Yan Liang’s waist and let her sit on him.

“Little…Aunt, if we’re found like this… it’s not good.”

Qin Jiang’s Adam’s apple bobbed as his expression dimmed.

Young Mistress Yan, you’re playing with fire!

But he suddenly realized: putting aside the fact that he pretended to refuse but obediently called her that, wasn’t this problem also partly Yan Liang’s fault?

What’s there to be excited about!

What was she so excited about??

In the past, if he called her “Aunt”, Yan Liang would be so triggered she’d want to kill him for it.

She was clearly triggered now, but in a very different way.

“Hmm, being discovered isn’t good?”

“Discovered by whom, though, baby?”

Yan Liang willfully looped her arms around Qin Jiang’s neck. A feeling of blissful satisfaction swirled in her chest.

But actually, she couldn’t help being afraid.

The always-proud Young Mistress Yan seemed never fully confident in Qin Jiang’s feelings for her.

She couldn’t help wanting to bite the man’s neck, as if only by leaving marks and tasting his scent could she barely quell the anxiety of not receiving love.

A child who lacked love from childhood.

Her whole life was spent healing that childhood.

Her whole life was spent searching for a love that could make her feel secure.

Qin Jiang keenly noticed Yan Liang’s abnormality. This time he merely pressed his forehead gently against her brow and said, “Yanyan, have you tested me enough?”

Qin Jiang gazed deeply into Yan Liang’s eyes, his own eyes sparkling brightly with a smile.

There was no embarrassment from being wantonly “ruined” by Yan Liang. Instead his eyes glittered as he smiled and asked her this question.

As if he would always be her sun.

Whenever she needed him, he would be there.

It felt unreal, but Yan Liang truly and urgently needed this blatant display of love.

“If Yanyan always feels insecure… No problem, I’ll tell you every morning when I wake up, I’ll tell you that the reason why I insist on staying at Liangyue Manor is because—”

“Yanyan, I like you.”

Qin Jiang’s voice was hoarse, full of sincerity and sweetness. The moment he said the final sentence, he took the initiative and turned from being the guest into becoming the host.

At that moment, the positions of Qin Jiang and Yan Liang were reversed.

Qin Jiang even directly shut off Yan Liang’s computer, making sure both video and audio were disconnected. For a moment the entire study contained only the two of them.

Yan Liang felt as if her heart had fallen into a honey jar.

“You’re just saying that to placate me…”

“I’m not going to… ummfff…”

Yan Liang protested with her mouth but not her heart. Inside, she was brimming with sweetness and love.

However, the next moment Yan Liang’s pupils contracted as Qin Jiang pounced on her and sealed her lips.

Qin Jiang’s crisp smell instantly enveloped her.

Thump!

Yan Liang seemed to hear the sound of her heart falling and falling for Qin Jiang, down to irredeemable depths.

“Now, do you believe me?”

Qin Jiang imitated the way Yan Liang liked to kiss him, deliberately making a loud, smooching sound.

In the empty study, the sickly sweet smell of love in the air was dizzying.

Immediately, the tips of Yan Liang’s ears flushed red.

“…No… I don’t believe you.”

Another possessive kiss landed as Qin Jiang hooked his arm behind his yandere tycoon wife’s neck, pressed her nape, and his thin lips left a mark on her sweet lips.

He was going to “punish her severely”!!

Smooooch~

Another kiss landed.

Qin Jiang watched Yan Liang’s expression and teasingly asked, “Do you believe me now? Little…”

“I don’t believe you.”

Yan Liang put on a tough front, but only she knew she was secretly enjoying all of this…

Outside the study.

Zhou Ning and Butler Xu stood at the doorway.

Their faces looked expressionless, but inside they’d been numb for a long time.

What had they done to deserve this?

They’d just come for the usual night duty.

In the kitchen.

Qin Jiang served Yan Liang her medicinal meal, then left with an air of pride, like he had accomplished many incredible feats.

Yan Liang was still immersed in sweetness and didn’t notice Zhou Ning and Butler Xu standing timidly before her.

When she came back to her senses and saw the two deadpan, icy faces, her mood suddenly soured.

The temperature in the study unsurprisingly dropped again…

“What’s the matter.”

Yan Liang felt annoyed. Seeing the two’s serious looks, she knew someone at the old manor was acting up again.

“Ms. Liang, Old Master Yan is ill!”

“You may have to go to the old manor tomorrow.”

“Eldest Young Master has already returned tonight, and he personally went to the psychiatric hospital to bring Madam back home. He also plans to celebrate his birthday early, on the very day you were preparing to drape white silk to mourn Eldest Young Mistress Yue. The other elders of the family have been invited over too.”

“According to inside information, that old bastard… uh, cough cough… that old thing plans to use the excuse that Mr. Qin cannot have children as a reason to choose a new husband for you.”

Zhou Ning’s face was cold, but inwardly he’d been furious countless times.

Because he’d followed Yan Liang for many years, he knew just how disgusting the inside of the Yan family was.

Relatives devouring each other was nothing out of the ordinary.

So he felt even more sorry for the always isolated Young Mistress Yan.

God knows how much suffering the Young Mistress had endured, how many tears she’d swallowed alone, before she finally got someone she liked—someone who could accompany her and make her less lonely and less pained.

In truth, as long as Qin Jiang didn’t make trouble, Zhou Ning and Butler Xu were more than happy for him to accompany Young Mistress Yan.

Because they truly pitied Yan Liang.

After all, which parents would name their daughter “Liang”, a word that evoked an aloof and cold emotion.

Perhaps because she was born destined to be detached from emotion, a cold and unfeeling existence?

“Mm, he really is having an episode.”

The old man was suffering from…a hope to get himself killed!

Yan Liang’s good mood, just soothed by Qin Jiang, fell into a valley again, but this time her emotions were noticeably more stable.

No crazed outburst, not even a change in her expression.

“Tomorrow, I’ll take Jiang to the old manor.”

In the past, Yan Liang, in order to protect Qin Jiang, never allowed him to set foot in that dangerous place.

But now, she suddenly felt otherwise.

She very much wanted Jiang to personally come into her world.

Even if it’s bleak and ruined, that’s her past. She was willing to tear open her most rotten self and show it to him.

If he got scared away, it didn’t matter.

She could still just…recapture and lock him up~

Qin Jiang came downstairs. He’d already called Song Jie to represent him at the finest art auction house, Fengmingxuan.

The artworks to be auctioned had to be authenticated by professional appraisers a week in advance before being placed on the auction platform.

“Brother Jiang, will these paintings really make money? When I registered at the auction site, I saw that it’s full of various antique masterpieces.”

“Although our few pieces are unique in style and have a distinctive personal flair… they’re by an unknown small time artist after all.“

Song Jie’s unsure tone came through.

Qin Jiang ignored him. “Jie, you just need to believe me.”

“After it succeeds, I’ll give you 30% of the profits.”

Qin Jiang was always generous to his brothers. Besides, Song Jie was someone fiercely loyal to him no matter what happened to him.

He was willing to cultivate him as his right-hand man on the road to success.

To let his buddy get rich alongside him.

“By the way, have you been in contact with your girlfriend Jiang Kexin lately?”

“Does she know you’ve moved into a mansion, live in a luxury house and drive a fancy car?” Qin Jiang asked, feeling a prick of unease.

“Brother Jiang, you… you know, Kexin and I are childhood sweethearts. As her boyfriend, how could I hide things from her…”

Qin Jiang’s sudden question visibly surprised Song Jie.

“Song Jie, you’re asking to get yourself killed!”

For a moment Qin Jiang was exasperated beyond remedy.

Song Jie laughed out loud and hurriedly said, “Alright, alright Brother Jiang, I’m just teasing you—Kexin doesn’t know I’ve gotten rich yet.”

“But Kexin said a few days ago that someone in her family was sick and asked to borrow $30,000. She knows how much I’ve been saving over the years—$30,000 is indeed all I have…”

“But if Kexin needs it, I’ll give it.”

“Brother Jiang, don’t worry, I really only gave Kexin the $30,000 I’d saved, I didn’t tell her anything else.”

Hearing Song Jie’s words over the phone, Qin Jiang’s tension eased a bit.

In his previous life, Jiang Kexin got together with a rich second-generation guy, got dumped, then came back to Song Jie before deliberately attempting suicide in front of him.

That drove Song Jie, who loved his girlfriend with all his heart, to become a target exploited by Jiang Kexin.

In this life, during this period Qin Jiang had Mo Da monitor Jiang Kexin’s movements.

That rich second-generation guy did spoil Jiang Kexin for a while after getting her.

During this same time period, Song Jie had spent most of his time with Qin Jiang.

Jiang Kexin used postgraduate exam prep as an excuse, but in reality she was fooling around with that rich guy and Song Jie didn’t notice at all.

Recently, the rich guy had grown tired of Jiang Kexin.

He started giving her the cold shoulder.

And it probably went from lavishing her with designer bags, watches, clothes, and taking her to exclusive places to no longer spending lavishly on her.

However, Jiang Kexin’s appetite had already been fed by that rich guy.

Her longing for luxury goods, her obsession with a wealthy life…

How could Jiang Kexin’s desires ever be satisfied?

Now she began lying to Song Jie, trying to siphon off all his savings just to buy herself a designer bag to satisfy her vanity.

This made Qin Jiang think of Bai Chuchu.

In his previous life, hadn’t he also emptied everything out just to buy Bai Chuchu the designer bags she wanted?

He was nothing more than a bootlicking little puppy, licking until he had nothing left.

And even risking his life.

It was simply too stupid.

This life he wasn’t going to repeat the same mistake, and he absolutely wouldn’t let Song Jie repeat it either.

“Song Jie, you live frugally and your annual living expenses are only $20,000, and she wants to take all your savings of $30,000… do you think she considered your feelings at all?”

“Which relative of Jiang Kexin is sick, and what illness requires $30,000—did you not ask any of that?”

Qin Jiang fired the questions one by one.

Song Jie couldn’t help frowning.

Of course he wouldn’t think of those things—he’d been with Kexin for many years.

Kexin was proud, aloof, rational, and beautiful.

She wouldn’t lose her head over nothing. She must have come to him to borrow money only because she had no other way.

And as Jiang Kexin’s boyfriend, he should take care of her and be her unconditional support.

So everything Brother Jiang just mentioned, he truly didn’t think there was any need to question.

If Kexin wanted to tell him, she’d naturally tell him.

He simply loved his childhood sweetheart Jiang Kexin, and there’s nothing wrong with that in essence.

Qin Jiang also clearly understood this.

But the problem was… Jiang Kexin had long since changed, while Song Jie was still blindly trusting and giving!!

“Brother Jiang, I trust Kexin.”

“Everyone has secrets, and even I hide things from her now—lying that I have no money makes me feel guilty.”

“When life gets better, I should share it with her immediately, to bring her along…”

Sensing his friend’s anger on the other end of the line, Song Jie didn’t dare argue further with Qin Jiang.

Even though he didn’t understand Brother Jiang’s methods.

But he also unconditionally trusted Qin Jiang.

Just like his trust in his girlfriend Jiang Kexin.

“Okay, okay, okay…”

“I think you won’t learn until you crash headfirst into a brick wall.”

“Tomorrow go wait at the cafe opposite Chanel at Blue Crystal Plaza No. 1—there will be a surprise.”

Qin Jiang had already found out that Jiang Kexin had reserved a new Chanel bag, priced at $120,000.

That once-attentive rich second-generation guy Wu Yu used to buy her many bags, and she’d been nurtured into a spendthrift.

To show off to her girlfriends, she specifically ordered a new Chanel bag.

But recently Wu Yu reduced her spending.

Jiang Kexin sold a few less valuable bags and was reluctant to sell the rest, but even after trying her best to raise the money, it still wasn’t enough, so she set her sights on her poor boyfriend.

Besides, didn’t her poor boyfriend’s savings from part-time jobs since university happen to be the $30,000 she was short of?

Sure enough, Song Jie was extremely easy to coax.

As soon as she asked, he obediently handed over all his savings without even asking where she was spending the money…

“Brother Jiang, do you know something I don’t?”

Song Jie wasn’t a fool either. He’d roughly guessed what Qin Jiang was trying to tell him.

But he didn’t believe it!

He and Jiang Kexin were in a mutual relationship. Both were top students from their small county.

They had excellent grades and matched each other in looks.

They naturally got together and made it to a top university in the big city.

They were a perfect match.

Jiang Kexin would never betray him.

Song Jie’s emotions couldn’t help spiraling out of control.

But Qin Jiang didn’t give him a chance to vent. He just uttered one last sentence before handing up, “Go see for yourself.”

…

Qin Jiang hung up and went straight upstairs.

Entering the study, he clearly felt the atmosphere was off and somewhat oppressive.

And why were Zhou Ning and Butler Xu standing here, getting punished at this late hour??

“Yanyan, this is… what’s wrong?”

Qin Jiang immediately walked up and hugged the woman sitting in the leather chair.

Without caring about her mood, he just kissed her on the lips.

Yan Liang’s previously poor mood was instantly moisturized into a rosy glow.

Zhou Ning and Butler Xu simply watched in amazement.

A kiss could actively trigger an instant mood flip??

“Jiang…hug please~”