He Lost Control with Jealousy — What Happened to Being Untouchable? - Chapter 3

Lin Hao hurriedly got out of the car and saw Sang Wan, silently lamenting what bizarre fate this was.

“Miss Sang, are you alright?”

Sang Wan’s eyes shimmered with unshed tears. “I think my leg got scraped. It hurts so much.”

The man in the car frowned at her delicate, trembling voice, laced with suppressed sobs.

Little fox, she’s got quite a few tricks up her sleeve.

“Call her assistant. Have them come pick her up.”

The man’s icy voice cut through the air, and Sang Wan instantly cursed his ancestors in her mind.

How could someone be so heartless?

“President Lu, my assistant is dealing with the car repairs. Could you-”

Sang Wan, ever persistent, tried again.

Before she could finish, a firm voice interrupted, “No.”

Lin Hao glanced at the imposing figure in the car, hesitated for two seconds, then dialed her assistant.

“Miss Sang, your assistant says the car will be here shortly. Just wait a moment.”

The black Bentley Continental slowly pulled away, the man’s face gliding past her view with infuriating calm.

Sang Wan gritted her teeth. Of all people, why did I have to run into this block of ice?

Less than two minutes later, Sang Wan’s car smoothly left the club behind.

She leaned against the window, the night breeze brushing through her hair with a faint coolness, yet it did nothing to ease the knot of frustration in her chest.

Lu Tingzhou…

She silently repeated the name, her fingers unconsciously curling.

This ice block is proving much harder to crack than I expected.

Instead of heading back to her apartment, the car drove straight toward the outskirts, to the Zi Jing Sanatorium.

She had been away filming for three and a half months.

Not seeing her grandfather for so long, she wouldn’t be able to sleep tonight without checking on him.

The Zi Jing Sanatorium was eerily quiet in the night, with only a few streetlamps casting dim yellow light.

The hallway was empty, the sharp click of her heels against the floor echoing urgently, betraying her excitement.

Sang Wan pushed open the door to the ward and called out sweetly, “Grandpa!”

Her voice was soft and bright with laughter.

But the room was pitch black, save for the sparse moonlight filtering through the window.

It was 10:30 p.m. a bit late, but not so late that the nursing staff wouldn’t hear the door.

Her heart skipped a beat, a sudden sense of foreboding flooding her chest.

She reached for the light switch on the wall. With a soft click, the room lit up.

It was empty.

Uncle Liu, the caregiver, was gone. Even her grandfather was nowhere to be seen!

She whirled around and rushed out of the room, grabbing a passing night-shift nurse.

“Where’s the patient from this room? Mr. Sang Zheng’an?”

The nurse flinched at her urgency, stammering, “M-Mr. Sang? After dinner, his family came to take him home.”

“Family?”

There was no one else but Xu Shiming. Her grandfather had only one daughter, her mother. Her grandmother had passed away early, leaving her grandfather to raise her mother alone.

After her mother’s death, her father had been the one covering her grandfather’s medical expenses.

A loud buzz filled Sang Wan’s head as fury surged through her.

What he wants is obvious now.

First, he tried to sell her off for 300 million. Now, he’s using her grandfather to force her hand.

Never in her life had Sang Wan despised her father more than in this moment.

He had his own family now, a son, yet he couldn’t spare even a shred of familial affection for her.

Four years ago, the Sang Group faced financial troubles. In his distress, her grandfather suffered a sudden cerebral hemorrhage and had been in a coma ever since.

Less than two months later, her mother, Sang Jingchu, died in a car crash on her way to pick Sang Wan up.

The only silver lining was that two months after her mother’s death, her grandfather woke up.

But after regaining consciousness, he remained in a dazed and confused state. The doctors said it was a lingering effect of the cerebral hemorrhage though he had woken up, his awareness was unlikely to fully recover.

Yet, less than half a year after her mother’s passing, her father brought that woman and her daughter into their home.

From then on, her grandfather became her only emotional anchor.

Sang Wan clenched her fists, silent for a moment before turning and walking away.

…

Half an hour later, at the entrance of the Sang residence.

Sang Wan stood outside the wrought-iron gate, staring at the house that held her childhood memories, her former home.

The Sang family estate now was a shell of its past, transformed into someone else’s cozy nest.

And she didn’t even have a key to enter.

An indescribable mix of humiliation and fury surged within her.

Lifting her foot, she mustered all her strength and kicked the cold, heavy gate with a resounding,

“BANG!”

The loud noise pierced the silence of the night.

Soon, the housemaid, Aunt Liu, hurriedly came to open the door. When she saw Sang Wan, her face registered shock.

“Young Miss… How did you-”

Sang Wan didn’t respond, striding straight inside.

In the living room, Xu Shiming sat in a robe, swirling a glass of red wine as if he had just settled onto the sofa.

Standing beside him was his current wife, Lin Lan.

Dressed in an elegant silk nightgown, Lin Lan’s well-maintained face bore almost no trace of time’s passage.

When she saw Sang Wan, a flicker of concealed triumph flashed in her eyes, though her expression feigned surprise and concern.

“Wanwan, why are you here so late? You should’ve called ahead.”

Her voice was soft and gentle, laced with deliberate affection.

Sang Wan ignored her completely, her gaze locked onto Xu Shiming.

“Where’s my grandfather?”

Her voice dripped with unmistakable hatred.

Xu Shiming set down his wine glass, his expression darkening instantly, his tone laced with scorn.

“Is this how your mother and I taught you to speak to your elders?”

Sang Wan glared at him, barely suppressing the rage in her chest as she sneered through gritted teeth, “What right do you have to mention my mother? Just because you’re a heartless bastard?”

“You insolent brat!”

Xu Shiming raised his hand, stepping forward as if to strike.

Tall and slender, Sang Wan might have looked delicate, but she wasn’t one to take abuse lying down.

She seized his wrist and shoved him back forcefully. “I don’t have time for your nonsense. Where is my grandfather?”

Lin Lan quickly stepped in, grabbing Sang Wan’s arm with a placating smile, trying to mediate between father and daughter.

“Wanwan, don’t be so emotional. Let’s talk this out properly. Your father has been busy with work, and he misses you but hasn’t been able to see you, so his temper-”

“Your acting skills are worse than mine. Spare me the embarrassment of watching you try.”

Sang Wan yanked her arm free, even brushing off her sleeve in disgust.

Xu Shiming, seeing this, was livid. “You ungrateful wretch! Lin Lan treats you like her own, is this how you repay her?”

Like her own?

Was he blind in both eyes and heart? If she truly treated her like her own, would Xu Mingyue have taken over her room?

Would the locks have been changed without her having a key?

Would her mother’s belongings have been thrown out?

If not for Aunt Liu knowing how much they meant to her and secretly saving them, she wouldn’t even have those mementos left.

And as for her mother’s jewelry, still missing to this day, Sang Wan had no doubt it had all gone to the dogs.

She was exhausted today, and with her grandfather’s safety weighing on her mind, she had no patience for further argument.

“I don’t have the energy for your lectures. Just tell me where my grandfather is.”

Xu Shiming glanced at her with a faint smirk at the corner of his mouth. “By the end of this month, you’ll be engaged to Chairman Wang. Your grandfather will naturally return to the sanatorium.”

Though she had anticipated his motives, hearing it spoken aloud now sent a chill through her heart.

Sang Wan trembled with rage. “Xu Shiming! I’m your daughter. For a mere 300 million investment, you’d actually sell me out?”

“My grandfather wasn’t just your father-in-law, he treated you like his own son, pouring everything into nurturing you. And you? You’re not fit to be a father or a son!”

Xu Shiming, fuming, paced in circles. Unable to find a suitable weapon, he finally grabbed a wine glass from the coffee table.

With a loud “bang,” it shattered at Sang Wan’s feet.

“You!”

Red wine mixed with shards of glass splashed onto her ankles, instantly breaking the skin. A crimson trail of blood trickled down the top of her foot.

Lin Lan gently soothed her husband’s anger. “Shiming, mind your health. Wanwan is just being immature. We’ll teach her slowly.”

Xu Shiming took a moment to compose himself before letting out a cold laugh, his eyes filled with disdain.

“I don’t need Sang Zheng’an to succeed. He’s nothing but a burden now, costing hundreds of thousands in medical bills every month.”

Tears welled up in Sang Wan’s eyes, her heart aching as if pierced by needles, making it hard to breathe.

She could hardly believe the man before her was her father.

Ever since her mother passed away and her grandfather’s mind began to fade, her father had grown increasingly distant. Now, there wasn’t a shred of affection left.

“You really don’t care about what others will say, do you? Climbing up by stepping on my mother’s back.”

“Less than six months after she was gone, you couldn’t wait to bring this woman into our home! And now you’re using my grandfather to force me into a marriage alliance. Are you even human?”

When her mother had suddenly passed away, she was still drowning in grief, unable to recover. Yet this man had already moved on to his second spring.

The feeling of betrayal and abandonment by someone so close still weighed heavily on her heart, a dull ache that never faded.

Xu Shiming, stung by her words, grew even more furious. “Now that you’ve grown wings, become some big celebrity, you think you can lecture me? Without me, where would you be today?”

“Ha!” Sang Wan let out a bitter laugh. “How shameless. Everything I have today, I earned step by step on my own. It has nothing to do with you!”

Lin Lan, ever the opportunist, dabbed at her eyes, her voice trembling with feigned sorrow.

“Wanwan, how can you speak to your father like that? Your grandfather left the company in shambles. Do you have any idea how hard your father has worked these years?”

“And with your grandfather’s medical expenses being so high, we’re just… just trying to do what’s best for the family!”

Sang Wan shot her a frosty glare. “You have no right to speak here.”

Turning back to Xu Shiming, she enunciated each word clearly. “You’d better make sure my grandfather is safe and sound. Otherwise, I’ll bring Sang Corporation to ruin overnight. And when that happens, you, your wife, and your children will be thrown out of the Sang family. I mean what I say.”

Knowing full well Xu Shiming wouldn’t give her any answers, Sang Wan had no desire to stay and look at either of them any longer.

As for her grandfather, she would find him, no matter what.

Just as she was about to leave, Xu Mingyue descended the stairs and approached her, eyes brimming with provocation and disdain, yet her tone sugary sweet and innocent.

“Sis, why do you always make Dad angry the moment you come home? The doctor said he has high blood pressure, he shouldn’t get upset.”

Sang Wan reached out and pinched her cheek, biting her lip with a light laugh. “Your mother has taught you well. You’ve truly mastered the art of serving tea with your words.”

With that, she turned and walked away.

Returning to her empty apartment, Sang Wan threw herself heavily onto the sofa.

It felt as if all the strength had been drained from her body, leaving only endless exhaustion and anger.

After calming herself for a while, she took out her phone and dialed Su Mo’s number.