Chapter 326 - From then on
Chapter 326 From then on
“Then what happened? I’m sorry for knowing nothing about it. My poor Qian must have suffered a lot.” Jiang Jingcheng hugged Chen Qian again and his warm hand caressed her soft cheek.
Chen Qian avoided his touch involuntarily and turned her body away. Jiang Jingcheng didn’t care about it and thought she might be shy.
“You didn’t care about me at that time. What’s more, you knew that Mo Yichen was still my boyfriend at that time. That’s why you’ve been avoiding me.” Chen Qian murmured and complained. A trace of sadness flashed through her eyes.
What Chen Qian said was true and Jiang Jingcheng couldn’t deny it. He smirked and scratched his head to resolve the inexplicable embarrassment.
“Come on, you need to say it out! Once you say what you want to say, you’ll feel better! Don’t always hold it. You will be unhappy if you continue to hide your thoughts.” Jiang Jingcheng gazed with deep feeling at Chen Qian, and said softly.
Perhaps this was love. She could find the love through the eye contacts. Unfortunately, he met and fell in love with the wrong woman at the right time.
Chen Qian suddenly felt sorry for the poor guy. He would soon be alone, like her in the story, watching his beloved go away from him.
“I looked for Gu Yan’s husband. I asked him why he divorced her. They had been in love for several years! This was not fair to Gu Yan. It was harder for divorced women to find true love. Besides, Gu Yan had done everything that a good wife should do. Why did he abandon her?”
“You are right. He is irresponsible. The wife is not a piece of clothes which can be changed at will. He’s a terrible husband!” Jiang Jingcheng said angrily. What he hated most in his life was this kind of irresponsible people.
“Don’t be so angry. Things were not as easy as you thought. Actually, I also thought it was her husband’s fault at first, but when I saw those photos, I knew I was totally wrong. These photos were really terrible…”
“Photos?” Jiang Jingcheng was surprised.
“The photos that Gu Yan’s husband showed me was about Gu Yan and a strange man. He told me that the man was Gu Yan’s gigolo. Gu Yan’s husband met him when he went to their house for money. It was too much to bear, so Gu Yan’s husband divorced her. To a man, there was nothing more shameful than to be a cuckold.”
“What? That’s…that’s unbelievable!” Jiang Jingcheng said with a wry smile. The private life stories of his beloved leader Gu Yan totally overturned everything he knew about her.
“I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen the photos. But this was evident, and there was no way to argue about.” Chen Qian sighed deeply, but her heart was filled with the joy of success.
“Then I couldn’t say anything about these photos. If I were a man, I wouldn’t allow my wife to cheat on me. Then I went back home. When I opened the door, I saw something that made me feel sick now.”
A shiver traveled down her spine. It was still raining heavily outside, and the temperature in the room suddenly dropped.
Jiang Jingcheng quickly coated her in blanket and poured a cup of warm water for her.
“What did you see?”
“I saw a strange man. Gu Yan kissed the man, and then they were…” Chen Qian stopped and chuckled. Then she continued sarcastically, “No offense, but I didn’t expect her to do such things with a stranger in my house!”
Even the brilliant Jiang Jingcheng didn’t expect that. He stopped asking. Was the Gu Yan he knew really the same person Chen Qian knew?
No matter what Gu Yan had done before, he wouldn’t belittle what she did at present. As long as she admitted her mistakes and corrected them, she still was a good person. Jiang Jingcheng had always believed in this way and had always adhered to his opinion! However, Jiang Jingcheng actually didn’t like the past Gu Yan in Chen Qian’s story.
Jiang Jingcheng listened to Chen Qian quietly. He wanted Chen Qian to depend on him. No matter how much she had suffered in the past, he would make up for her, give her what she wanted, and give her the best life.
“Then I quarreled with her.” Chen Qian said seriously. Maybe the argument was the key part, so Jiang Jingcheng listened carefully.
“I told her that her life shouldn’t be so chaotic and a woman should be independent. She could live better without a man! There were a lot of good things in our life. She couldn’t quit on herself! But she didn’t listen to me. She told me what she thought at that day. And I knew that in her mind I knew nothing about her.”
“She said we were different. She had always admired my rich family and my good career. She told me that she decided to leave and to live the life she wanted. I tried to stop her but I failed.”
“Since then, I hardly ever saw her again. I got some news of her from my friends. When I knew she was fine, I was relieved. Perhaps I valued friendships so much that I sometimes overlooked Yichen’s feelings.”
Chen Qian stopped talking and became more upset. Her eyes glistened with tears. Jiang Jingcheng looked up into Chen Qian’s eyes and helped her gently wipe the tears.
“If you don’t want to say, just stop. I will always be with you and I won’t let you suffer it again. Let bygones be bygones.” Jiang Jingcheng tapped Chen Qian on her shoulder to comfort her.
“But I have to say!”
“At that time, I thought my life wouldn’t be changed. I would be happy even if there were only me and Yichen in my life. I loved him more than I loved myself!”
“However, at that day I saw Yichen and Gu Yan. They were hugging each other. I was so angry that I slapped her! She leaned on Yi Chen’s shoulder with little shyness, looking at me with such vicious eyes that scared me. For whatever odd reason, Yichen was totally enamored by Gu Yan and stood up for her!” Chen Qian choked up and burst into tears.
“From then on, I left. I don’t want to go back. I lost my love and friendship. I don’t know what else I have.” She cried and said in a hoarse voice in Jiang Jingcheng’s arms.
“All my longing for the future was taken away by her. Then I heard that she used Yichen’s popularity, power and reputation to run a studio. And now she succeeds. Everything happens so quickly and I’m in a state of shock.”