Chapter 12

  His eyes glanced out the window at the drifting rain, and he couldn't hide the increasingly dark flush on his face. He turned to look at the two housekeepers staring at Jiang Wanru, and said: "You can go down now, there's a mistress here." The two housekeepers heard him say this, looked at each other hesitantly, they understood more clearly than anyone in the Wang household that Jiang Wanru had never considered herself as Lian Hao's wife.

  Lian Hao raised his eyes to look at Ji Yan, who was standing behind Jiang Wan with her head down and eyes cast downward. He said softly to Jiang Wan, "I have something to discuss with you, let your maid go down first." Jiang Wan looked up at Lian Hao and shook her head, saying, "Third Master, she has never been a talkative person, I can trust her. There should be someone in the room serving by our side. Besides, it's still early, not yet time for sleep, so let's just have her stay by our side to pass water, pour tea and deliver messages."

  Lian Hao said in a low voice to Jiang Wanru after she left, "Wanru, you can't be too trusting of a maid, people's hearts are easily changed, it's still better to rely on your own family." Jiang Wanru didn't expect Lian Hao to give her such sincere advice, but unfortunately, her own family wasn't reliable either. People's hearts were indeed easily changeable, but if there was no one trustworthy in this world, life would be flavorless and frightening. Jiang Wanru believed that the two people from the Jiang family who had left with her were still worth trusting.

  Lian Hao looked at Jiang Wanru's calm expression and asked in a low voice, "Do you hate them?" Jiang Wanru smiled slightly as she shook her head and said, "I don't hate them. What is there to hate? I promised to marry into the Wang family for three years, and during these three years, I will listen to what they say and live a peaceful life. I am using my future to repay the kindness of the Jiang family in raising me, and I think it's worth it. To me, they are just strangers on the street, people you brush past when walking down the road. Why should I treat them as enemies and waste my precious time remembering them?"

  She smiled and said, "Aunt Yu once gave me a Yu family villa. After I left the Wang mansion, I temporarily lived there. Until later when I find a suitable place that I like, I will move out to live." Lian Hao listened to her words and understood that the villa was only a temporary residence. He suppressed his curiosity and raised an eyebrow, looking at Jiang Wan with a smile, "Wan, you don't like that villa?" Jiang Wan shook her head lightly and said, "I heard that the courtyard is decorated very elegantly by the Yu family, and has been taken care of by them for many years."

  "I have never seen the Yu family, and I have never been to that courtyard. I promised Aunt Yu that I would not move into that courtyard until my most difficult time. My two families' accompanying houses went somewhere to live for a while, but later I will not stay there for long, as soon as I find a place to live, I will move out, and the courtyard will be returned to the Yu family at that time. 'The Yu family's things cannot be occupied by outsiders.' This is what Aunt Yu said, it is said that she still wants to achieve her goal, and in the end, she will return to the Yu family's ancestral tomb."

  Jiang Wanru raised her index finger and placed it on her lips, signaling to Ji Yan not to speak. Jiang Wanru looked at Lian Hao, who had closed his eyes, and thought about what he had just said. Jiang Wanru whispered to Ji Yan, "You can leave first." After Ji Yan left quietly, Lian Hao immediately opened his eyes and looked at Jiang Wanru, saying, "Wanru, since the Jiang and Yu families don't care about me, I'll take care of you from now on."

  Jiang Wanru listened to Lian Hua's words, which were full of sympathy and concern. She didn't take his words seriously and naturally wouldn't remind him. After a few days, when she left the Wang Fu, they would become two strangers in the world. Lian Hua looked at Jiang Wanru, who clearly didn't believe him, and carefully said to her again: "I bought a small villa outside the city some time ago. The courtyard is not big, only about two hundred square meters. After you leave the Wang Fu, you can temporarily live there for a few days. Don't worry, I won't make you suffer in the future."

  Jiang Wanmu smiled lightly and shook her head, saying: "Thank you for Third Master's kindness, but after I left the Wang Manor, I didn't want to disturb Third Master's normal life, nor did I want to cause misunderstandings for future Third Master's wife. I just wanted to live a peaceful life, with my own two hands and feet, I can certainly support myself." Lian Huaru stared at Jiang Wanmu as if listening to heavenly music, saying: "You have no strength to bind a chicken, your body is thin like a branch, and the Jiang family didn't give you any dowry, how will you make a living in the future?"

  Jiang Wanru always felt that both parties had already agreed on the terms, and later cooperated happily. After the fact, the weaker side didn't need to add more conditions, asking others to take care of themselves a bit more. People sometimes still need some backbone, and one's aspirations can't be too short, or else they'll let others look down on them by three points. Lian Hao looked at Jiang Wanru with a discerning eye, not recognizing the reality, and shook his head lightly: "You only recognize a few characters, you have no relatives, no reliable friends. The Jiang family won't care about you, and the Yu family never recognized you. Alas, going out like this, you won't survive for many days. When something happens, it will even drag down the good reputation of the Wang Manor."

  Jiang Wanmu didn't raise her eyes, so she didn't see Lian Hao's extremely ugly face, nor did she see the unyielding determination in his eyes. Jiang Wanmu thought that what she said was reasonable, and at her young age, if someone was willing to treat her well in the future, she would naturally remarry and live a good life. The person who said this should be ashamed, but Jiang Wanmu didn't think she was wrong, and her face just couldn't turn red, so she could only lower her head and pretend to be ashamed, unable to raise it.

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