20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3750 A World of Mending and Patching

Like Lin Xiaojie on Zhao Chang'an's side, she tightly closed her eyes.

Perhaps this is what it means to be heartbroken.

Zhao Chang'an quietly withdrew his hand and saw several clear marks on the back of his hand. However, he had thick skin and the marks would disappear in a while, as if they had never happened.

The two women, one on the left and one on the right, were like the attendants beside Zhao Chang'an, their eyes closed and silent.

However, Zhao Chang'an knew that beneath the two silent, dark ocean surfaces lay fierce undercurrents capable of destroying ships and killing people.

Seeing that his wife was ignoring him, Xiang Yong felt a little embarrassed. He hoped that Qiao Yan would go to work in the city because he really wanted to have something substantial with Lin Xiaojie, and ideally, he could possess her body and soul from then on.

But now that Zhao Chang'an has meddled in other people's business and taken away Lin Xiaojie, the good woman he has been longing for, he no longer needs to let his wife go to the city to enjoy herself, while he, his parents, brothers and sisters-in-law work hard at home to earn money.

It was her idea to contract the hotel, and she insisted on contracting the tea plantation. Now that she has a good job, she wants to dump the hundreds of thousands of yuan in debt on him, along with her one-year-old daughter. She also wants to shirk her responsibilities as a mother and make her mother and sister-in-law bear the burden. Why should they?
He treated his nephew like his own son, and he, his parents, and his sister-in-law all knew the reason.

After his sister-in-law gave birth to his nephew eight years ago, his older brother, who was overjoyed, has been working tirelessly with her ever since, hoping to have another child, ideally a son and a daughter.

However, the only adults in the family, namely the older brother and the second sister, were unaware of the truth. If the older brother really wanted it, and his sister-in-law and parents agreed, Xiang Yong would have to do it for him.

So when his parents kept urging his wife to have another child while she was still young, Xiang Yong remained indifferent. Even now, a year and three months after Qiao Yan gave birth, he still sleeps in a separate bed from her and hasn't been intimate with her even once.

If it were Lin Xiaojie, Xiang Yong would definitely be even more enthusiastic about her than his older brother was about his sister-in-law.

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The car entered the national highway and continued south. Towns and buildings gradually appeared on both sides of the road, and Jiangcheng was not far away.

Qiao Yan's phone rang. She took her phone out of her bag with her eyes closed and a little tired. She opened her eyes, glanced at the caller ID, and answered, "Hello, who is this?"

He said to Zhao Chang'an, "That woman's phone number."

Zhao Chang'an took the phone from Qiao Yan and held it to his ear: "What did you say?"

"Let Xiaojie answer the phone. I have something to say to her about my brother."

The sound on the phone was a bit distorted and had a buzzing static noise. Although there was a mobile signal here, it wasn't very good.

"Do you think she'll answer now? Just tell me what's on your mind, and I'll pass it on if I think it's necessary. If not, I'll hang up."

Zhao Chang'an frowned, thinking that the day had started off well, but ever since Ye Yiyi was persuaded by that brat Lin Xiaojie to take this "beautiful scenery" mountain road, one unpleasant thing after another had been happening, making him annoyed.

"Brother, I'm begging you. I know you're a good person. Please help me. Let my sister-in-law, no, let Sister Xiaojie answer the phone."

The girl's voice on the other end of the phone was trembling with tears: "Please, brother~"

"Don't give me the 'nice guy' card. I have no choice; otherwise, who would want to get involved in this? Tomorrow I have to talk to the leaders of Hubei Province about cooperation. If you can watch TV, you should see me on Hubei Satellite TV's news tomorrow night, and I reckon I'll probably also be on CCTV-1's evening news. You know, girl, I think I've already shown enough patience with such trivial matters. Do you expect me to hold my phone to Lin Xiaojie's ear and force her to listen? Even if you wanted to, I wouldn't be that disrespectful to her. Does harassment mean constantly pressuring her and making her suffer?"

Zhao Chang'an said bluntly, "You know, young lady, to you, I'm someone from Yunduan. It's highly likely you'll only encounter me once in your lifetime. Although I'm still involved in this matter, I can't waste any more time. Once we get to Shancheng, I'll hand Lin Xiaojie over to my subordinates, and I won't concern myself with this anymore." Zhao Chang'an only spoke so much to the girl because of her beauty and innocent appearance.

If she were an ugly woman, Zhao Chang'an would have gotten out of the car and kicked her when she recklessly stopped the car, telling her to get as far away as possible.

“My brother said that a classmate helped him find a good job, but that classmate forced my brother to break up with Sister Xiaojie. My brother said that he was forced to write the breakup letter. He said that he was just pretending to be friendly with that classmate for the time being, and that he would stop paying attention to that classmate once he had settled down.”

Zhao Chang'an was amused by this logic and said to the girl, "Let me ask you, if a boy you've established a romantic relationship with selflessly supports you with living expenses every month since your senior year of high school, would you break up with him for the sake of your future after graduating from university?"

The girl was silent for a moment before saying, "I can't!"

"Or you could tell that boy, 'I'm just playing along with this classmate for now, getting him to help me find a job. Once I've established myself at my workplace, I'll dump him and come back to you.' Would you say that?"

The girl was silent for a moment, then said with difficulty, "I can't!"

"Knock knock knock! Okay, this is a public phone. I didn't even know how much it costs to make a call. Making phone calls is very expensive!"

There was a knock on the door from the other end of the phone, and an impatient middle-aged man urged them on.

"So, let's hang up."

Zhao Chang'an sighed inwardly.

"But what about Sister Xiaojie?"

Her voice choked with sobs: "My family has wronged Xiaojie, sob sob—"

"That's enough, are you never going to stop?"

Zhao Chang'an, worried about disturbing the children, was seething with anger, but he still tried to speak calmly and softly: "Lin Xiaojie doesn't need to take any responsibility for you, and you have no right or qualification to interfere with her or use the excuse of caring for her to morally blackmail her. From now on, you two should just part ways amicably. If you really want to repay her, as I said before, first you have to get into university and have the ability to repay her!"

After saying this, Zhao Chang'an hung up the phone.

After handing the phone back to Qiao Yan, Zhao Chang'an noticed her strange look and smiled at her amicably: "This world is just a makeshift operation; someone always has to patch it up."

"Mending and patching?"

Qiao Yan laughed coldly: "I've seen through this world. All men are such scoundrels! When they're short of money, they'll do anything for it, like a heartless bastard. But when they have money, they start to despise the women in their own homes, thinking they're just old hags who don't understand them at all. They think that young and beautiful girls outside understand them and are prettier and more charming than their old hags! In short, they're all shameless!"

Zhao Chang'an didn't dare to talk to Qiao Yan, because he knew that once he started a conversation, she would argue endlessly.

However, Xiang Yong found these words extremely offensive, believing that his wife was indirectly criticizing him.

My face felt burning hot; it hurt from Qiao Yan's mockery.

(End of this chapter)