Chapter 44
"On what grounds?" As soon as he saw the person who spoke, Bowen jumped up as if someone had stepped on his tail, "What do you want with her? Who are you to find him?"
"Just because she's my woman, I'll be able to find him one day." Ling Yichen walked up to Bowen and confronted him head on, "Lu Jiawen, you and your sister have been hiding her for a year, you should feel lucky that I'm not bothered with you!"
"You are shameless!" Bo Wen's face turned red with anger, "What do you take my sister for? She is your wife, and you dare to say such things so blatantly in front of her, don't you think you are going too far?"
Ling Yichen had been harbouring a fire in his heart since he got the news in the morning that Xia Mao had left the flat and was picked up by Bo Wen, and when he came in just now and happened to hear half of his words, his momentary anger attacked his heart, which led him to say such words unscrupulously.
Now when he looked at Lu Wanru, who was silent but somewhat embarrassed, he couldn't say any more.
"She is simple, kind and different from other women. Don't think that if you have a few dollars, she will be your mistress, you are dreaming!
The word "mistress" irritated Ling Yichen, he had to admit that he did let the woman he liked to be his "mistress", and this knowledge made him very angry in his heart.
He suddenly understood why Xia Mao had left, because no matter how good she was to him, in the eyes of others, she was a mistress!
"Bowen, you shut up!" Lu Wanru saw the veins in Ling Yichen's temples jumping, so she stepped forward and pulled her brother back, "What did you come here for today? Is it to fight or to settle things?"
She gave her brother a firm pinch on the arm and winked at him.
"Your brother-in-law is not someone who doesn't know what's going on, we're a family, if there's anything, let's sit down and talk slowly." Lu Wanru stiffly pulled Bo Wen to sit down, and looked at Ling Yichen, "Why don't you sit down too?"
Ling Yichen sat down across from them in a huff.
"Xia Mo said that she would never stay with you." Bo Wen spoke first, "I'll take her away tomorrow! Get out of here and never come back!"
"How dare you? How dare you take her away?" Ling Yichen laughed coldly, "I don't believe she'll ever get out of D City unless I say so!"
"Who do you think you are?"
Bo Wen almost jumped up again in excitement, Lu Wanru pulled him back with a quick hand, "Can you say less?"
Lu Wanru looked at the two impulsive men with a headache, her hand holding her brother down, her eyes looking at Ling Yichen, "What do you mean? Are you trying to keep Xia Mo around?"
"There's no way I'm going to let the woman who gave me a child go with another man!" Ling Yichen's face sank like ink as he looked coldly at Bo Wen, "I can't afford to lose that person!"
"What about Lu Wanqiu? Are you going to leave her behind as well?" Lu Wanru's gentle and virtuous face held a hint of ridicule, "You're even better than my father, trying to have two concubines in one wife?"
"I've already spoken to Lu Wanqiu, the child can be carried back to you and put under your name, or I can pay for her to raise it herself, but the child will no longer be able to have the slightest relationship with me." Ling Yichen became unfocused again, as if he was negotiating contractual terms with someone, without the same impatience he had when talking about Xia Mao earlier.
"Bringing back Lu Wanqiu's baby for my sister to raise?" Bo Wen shouted again, "Are you crazy? She caused my sister to be unable to have children, and now you're letting my sister raise her child?"
Lu Wanru really had no idea what to do with this silly brother of hers, why didn't he think about what Lu Wanqiu's purpose was? Even if he wanted to raise it, he would have to ask Lu Wanqiu to allow her to do so, right?
"I don't have a problem with that." Lu Wanru reached out and took her brother's hand tightly, "I told you a long time ago, my request is very simple, as long as Yuanqi and I live together properly."
"The child will always be with you, Ling's cooperation with Lu's will always continue, your status as Mrs. Ling will not change, Yuan Qi was born to you, and his status as the eldest son and grandson of the Ling family will not change either," Ling Yichen stood up from the sofa, "Xia Mao's status is that of my woman, not my mistress, and I have no desire for a wife or two concubines, I only want this one woman, and I hope that no one from your Lu family will interfere."
"I know." Lu Wanru strangled Bo Wen's hand so hard that her nails almost dug into Bo Wen's hand, so that there was really no way for Bo Wen to ignore her.
"It's hard for Bowen to come here, let him stay here for a few more days!" Ling Yichen said and was about to leave.
"I'll have to go back later!" Bo Wen forced himself to watch Ling Yichen go out before he stood up and shouted, "I knew he was shameless before, but now I realise he is so shameless to the core!"
"Where are you headed back? He should have gone to the resort by now!" Lu Wanru stood up and walked to the window, looking at the fading sunset, "He has already made up his mind, it's not something you or I can change, Bowen, you'd better let it go!"
"No!" Bo Wen rushed to his sister's side, his face blue and red with anger, "He has a wife and a son, why does he still want to hold on to Xia Mao? If Xia Mao agrees, so be it, but Xia Mao doesn't agree, so what gives him the right to force her?"
"Just because he is Ling Yichen." Lu Wanru turned to look at her brother, "Mother's happiness, my happiness and Yuanqi's happiness are all tied up in his body, do you think the three of us are no match for Xia Mao alone?"
"You are all separate individuals, how can you compare yourselves like that?" Bo Wen walked around the living room in annoyance, "I like Xia Mao, can't I take her away, can't I take her somewhere where no one knows her?"
"Last time I sent Xia Mao out because I was one step ahead of him in time, and now you don't have that head start," Lu Wanru looked at her brother with a bitter smile, "the fact that he was able to get here so quickly proves that he was watching you all along and knew you were here before he followed. "
"Eh?" Bowen's eyes glazed over, "He's really going to the resort?"
"Should be on his way there." Lu Wanru said with certainty.
"Then I have to go back now." Bo Wen was so anxious that his hair looked like it was going to stand up and he rushed outside, "Big sister, I have to go back now, in case he really breaks in, how can Xia Mo resist him?"
"Bowen!" Lu Wanru chased after him, calling out, "Even if you go back now, you can't get into the resort!"
Chapter 45
After Bowen left, Summer ended up staying in her room for a while and went to the spa by herself.
She swiped a swimming costume with her key tag and changed into it, so she picked an unoccupied pool and sat in it.
Leaning against the edge of the pool with her eyes closed, she was warm all over and it made her a little drowsy.
She was half asleep when she heard a voice ringing in her ear, "Summer's End?"
Startled, she opened her eyes at once and looked at the man with thick eyebrows in front of her, "Who are you?"
"Are you really Xia Mao?" Leng Junsheng squatted at the edge of the sink, looking at the increasingly delicate woman in the sink, "Where did you come from?"
"You know me?" Xia Mao looked at him strangely, "I had a bit of an accident and lost my memory, I don't know you now."
"Oh my God? How could this happen?" The corners of Leng Junsheng's eyes reddened, his heart almost shed tears, "So are you here to find me now?"
A few black lines sprang up on Xia Mao's forehead, "I've lost my memory, I don't know you at all, so how could I possibly come looking for you?"
"Then how did you come here?" Leng Junsheng's eyes went to the number plate on her wrist and he asked with even more surprise, "You actually know Tan Wei? Tan Wei told me that his friend was coming to stay for a few days, and it was you who was talking about ...... You're not Tan Wei's girlfriend, are you?"
"You've got a big brain!" Xia Mao speechlessly stood up from the sink and sat on the edge of it.
Leng Jun grew originally thick eyebrows, now once he saw Xia Mao's hot body, his eyes almost didn't fall out, he didn't expect Xia Mao, who usually dressed conservatively, to have such a good body, it simply made people's blood boil!
His gaze was so direct and hot that Xia Mao's face turned red with a start.
"Xia Mao, you've grown up!" Leng Junsheng followed her and sat down on the lounge chair next to her, "Where are you going to school now? Can you leave me your phone number?"
"You tell me first how you met me." Xia Mao discovered the simplicity of the man in front of her, the most innocent of all these people she had met.
"You are my sister's classmate, Leng Ling, do you still remember?" Leng Junsheng looked at Xia Mao and asked curiously, "How did you get injured?"
"Don't remember." Xia Mao shook her head.
"Oh, you've lost your memory, so you can't remember my sister either, right?" Leng Junsheng scratched his head in distress, "Then let me introduce myself first, my name is Leng Junsheng, I'm Tan Wei's friend, you know Tan Wei, right?"
Xia Mao smiled and nodded, "I know him."
"You're not his girlfriend, are you?" Leng Junsheng asked again uneasily.
"No." Xia Mao looked at him with amusement.
"That's good, then." Leng Junsheng patted his chest, "A friend's wife can't be bullied, if you became his girlfriend, I wouldn't be able to handle it."
Xia Mo couldn't help but laugh softly, "Tan Wei and I are friends, can you give me your sister's contact information?"
"Yes!" Leng Junsheng replied readily, "But it's useless even if you ask for her contact information, she doesn't turn on her phone nine days out of ten."
"Is that so? Then I want it too!" It was so hard to find a classmate who knew her, so of course she couldn't let it go.
Leng Junsheng picked up her mobile phone and entered not only his sister's phone number, but also his number by the way.
"Remember, my sister's number can't be reached, but my number is on twenty-four hours a day." Leng Junsheng smiled and used her phone to call himself, then redid the note, "I gave your phone a special setting, even if my phone is muted, your phone will ring the same."
Xia Mao's heart twitched, and the look she gave Leng Junsheng was a little less joking.
"Do you know anything about my past? Like where my family lives, where my parents are, what they are called, what they do, do you know everything?" Xia Mao asked in a soft voice.
The corners of Leng Junsheng's eyes were red again, he looked at Xia Mao sympathetically and told him everything he knew, "...... your father left two years ago and has never been seen again, I have been asking people to look for him, at least he is not in D city anymore, as for your mother she left with Mona and went to L city. If you want the exact address, I'll have someone check it out for you, but I heard there's a singer competition next month, and Mona should be able to come back to participate."
"Mona?" Summer ended up lightly reciting the name.
"However, I suggest that you should not go to your mother now, when I went to see her over a year ago, she even said that a school gave you a high scholarship to go study, if you appear in front of her with your memory lost like this now, she will still be worried to death?"
Summer's eyes darkened and she leaned back in her lounge chair without speaking.
"So what are you doing now? Are you in school? Or you don't have to go to school, our company happens to need models, you can go modeling ...... No, you can't be a model, what kind of person who is a young grandmother goes to be a model?" Leng Junsheng was there very distressed muttering to himself, "If I let you work for me as a secretary? My dad guaranteed to disagree, his eyes just value education too much ......"
Xia Mao narrowed his eyes at her, and didn't interrupt his self-talk.
Having someone around to keep her company made her suddenly not feel so lonely.
When she had just been soaking in the hot springs, she had felt as if the world had abandoned her.
Now it seemed that this was not the case, that there was someone who cared for her and was looking for her.
Although she didn't remember him at all, she was still grateful to him.
When Ling Yichen arrived at the resort, he received the message with two pictures.
One picture was of a delicately shaped woman looking straight at the man next to her as she emerged from the water, and the other was of a woman lazily leaning back in a lounge chair, squinting gently at a fat man sitting next to her gesturing and vernacularly talking.
Ling Yichen's lungs were about to explode, what did this woman want?
He hadn't even gotten rid of the one at home yet, and she had gotten him another one?
He took a big step into the hot spring area and went straight to where Xia Mao was at the moment.
"...... How about I get you a crash course in secretarial work? You go enroll and learn for a month or so? You are so smart, a month will be enough ......," Leng Junsheng was still rambling there.
"Do you usually talk this much too?" Xia Mao, who had only just recovered from her illness and whose heart was still broken, had been shopping all morning, had just taken a half-day bath, and had not eaten dinner, and had long been a bit groggy, said softly, "Like a monk."
"I don't usually talk much, it's just that I'm happy to see you!" Leng Junsheng saw that her face was as pink as an apple, and her eyes seemed to be open, so he asked her, "What's wrong with you? Are you not feeling well?"
Chapter 46
"It's like a bit dizzy." Summers shook her head and sat up from the lounge chair, "I have to go to my room."
"I'll walk you." Leng Junsheng was busy reaching out to help her.
Xia Mao had just stood up when she was unsteady on her feet and almost fell into the pool, Leng Junsheng was busy reaching out to put his arm around her waist.
Just as his hand was about to rest on her slender waist, he was pulled and tugged by the man who suddenly rushed over to him, pushing him into the pool, and the woman let out a low cry and landed in the man's arms.
The water in the pool was not deep, but it scared Leng Junsheng, and when he turned around to see Xia Mao in the arms of another man, he jumped up from the pool in a flash of anger.
"You let her go! You rascal ......"
Before the word "rogue" could be uttered, Leng Junsheng saw who was coming, "Mr. Ling? Why are you here too?"
Ling Yichen only just saw that it was the eldest son of the Leng family, naturally he hadn't forgotten that the Leng family's daughter and Xia Mao were classmates.
"You let go of me!" As soon as Xia Mao saw that it was him, her body suddenly had strength again, and she struggled hard, "You let go of your hand."
"Stop it," Ling Yichen coaxed as he felt the unusual hotness on her body, "Are you uncomfortable somewhere?"
"Yes, I'm uncomfortable! I'm uncomfortable because I saw you!"
Summer's mind became even more dizzy, but she felt a pang of nausea at the thought of this man having a wife, a lover, and two children.
Especially when she thought that she was still following him around beautifully, and that she had followed him to his flat and to his office, her heart was unusually twisted.
Such a lowly self was even worse than a mistress!
When Ling Yichen saw her confused look, how could he let go of her? He simply bent his waist and carried her directly on his shoulders, letting her toss and turn, and not paying any attention back.
"Where are you taking her?" Leng Junsheng looked dumbfounded, Ling Yichen had taken several steps out before he reacted and caught up from behind, stopping in front of Leng Junsheng, "She doesn't want to go with you, you put her down."
"Mr. Leng, I think I have to remind you that you'd better stay away from this woman next time, he's not someone you should touch!" With that, Ling Yichen shot a glance at the two men at the door, and they immediately stepped forward to block Leng Junsheng's way.
"What do you want? Do you still want to rebel?" Leng Jun jumped in anger, but there was no way to leap over the two men, so he could only shout from behind, "Ling Yichen, where are you taking her? She's mine! Give her back to me!"
Ling Yichen didn't even turn his head back, but the people next to him listened and looked sideways, and a few even took out their mobile phones and secretly took pictures and recorded videos.
Xia Mao was carried back to the room, he first put her down and tried to make her stand against the wall, but the woman fell limply towards the floor, he was busy pulling her back into his arms, ripped the bath towel off her body and threw it on the floor, he did not have time to take off his own clothes, so he carried her to the bathroom and took a shower.
It wasn't until he had tucked her under the covers that he took off his own damp clothes.
Looking at her reddened face, he frowned and made a call for the doctor at the resort to come over immediately while he sat on the edge of the bed and patted the woman's face, "Summers?"
The woman frowned in pain and shook her head, murmuring, "...... I didn't know he was married, I'm sorry ...... I didn't know he had a baby, I'll leave ......"
Bean-sized teardrops slowly descended down the corners of her eyes, Ling Yichen's heartache wiped away the tears at the corners of her eyes with his fingers, "Xia Mao, you wake up? Are you uncomfortable anywhere?"
"Mom ......" Xia Mao closed her eyes and reached out to wrap her arms around his neck, her hot face gently rubbing against his, "Mom, I miss you ......"
It was a comical scene, but Ling Yichen felt a burst of heartache, he leaned down and let her wrap her arms around him, rubbing her neck against his, rubbing some unknown liquid all over his neck, and he didn't duck or dodge.
Bo Wenfei was making a fuss about going to the resort, and Lu Wanru had no choice but to follow him in the car, only to be stopped when he reached the entrance of the resort.
"Sorry sir, right now the resort can only go out but not in, it's temporarily closed to the public."
"This is where I live, why don't you let me in? I'm calling the police, are you trying to imprison anyone?" Bo Wen jumped out of the car and was about to yank the man's collar, looking as if he wanted to fight with someone.
Lu Wanru sighed and let someone go and pull Bo Wen back, then let someone drive the car back regardless of Bo Wen's wishes.
"Big sister, what do you want? I'm not going back!"
Fortunately, Lu Wanru had the foresight to have the door locked, but she still frowned and said, "Are you crazy? The car is going so fast, how dare you try to open the door?"
"Sis-"
"Lu Jiawen, I'm telling you, you should stop thinking about how to be with Xia Mao, this matter, not to mention others, even I won't agree to it! She has been with your brother-in-law for more than a day or two, you don't mind ......" Lu Wanru let out a long breath, "Absolutely not! There is no impervious wall in the world, not to mention that he didn't even think about hiding it, bringing Xia Mao to the president's office for two days, now there is basically no one who doesn't know about them, if you want to step in and steal her again, do you still let others behave?"
Bo Wen's face instantly turned even uglier, he sat there woodenly, his eyes looking straight at the back of the chair in front of him, no longer saying anything.
That dumb look made Lu Wanru's heart ache, she reached out to hold her brother's hand and advised in a warm voice, "Sister knows that you like Xia Mao, but liking doesn't always mean having, sometimes being whole is also a kind of liking."
"You also like Ling Yichen? So you want to make him whole?" Bo Wen turned her head with red eyes to look at her sister, who was no longer young, and said heartily, "But does he know?"
"I didn't like him much when I married him, and I still don't, but I can't live without this status as the wife of the Ling family, before it was because my mother needed a son-in-law with this status in the Ling family, and now there is another reason, I have a son who also needs me to have this status to look after him and protect him."
"But what if Xia Mo doesn't agree? What if she doesn't want to be with Ling Yichen?" Bo Wen asked worriedly, his heart itching like a cat scratching again, "If she is happy, I can make her whole, but what if she is not happy? Then wouldn't my fulfillment be a disservice to her?"