The Ex-Wife Of A Wealthy/Powerful Family Tempts Me To Treat Her Badly/Betray Her - Chapter 48

Chapter 48: She didn’t like her that much.

When Jiang Yu saw the message from Rong Wei, a surge of irritation rose in her heart.

If Rong Wei didn’t want the things, why should she keep them?

She might as well just throw them all away.

Jiang Yu paused for a moment, then remembered the bank account number Rong Wei had given her a long time ago and immediately made a transfer.

She then edited her message: 【How you deal with them is your business, but I don’t want to keep your things here. I don’t want to owe you anything. I’ve roughly estimated the price and transferred the money to you.】

Immediately after, Jiang Yu decisively ended the topic: 【See you the day after tomorrow. I have things to do, so I won’t talk anymore.】

On the other side of Lin City, although the meeting was still ongoing, Rong Wei had been distracted, waiting for Jiang Yu’s message.

Rong Wei felt restless. When she saw the two messages from Jiang Yu, her annoyance reached its peak. She simply pressed the screen dark and tossed the phone onto the table.

The resulting collision sound was conspicuously loud in the conference room.

The executives in the conference room heard the noise and keenly realized that their boss’s mood seemed to have worsened. They were even more cautious in their subsequent reports.

Under the shroud of extremely low pressure, the long and arduous meeting finally concluded twenty minutes later.

When the meeting ended, Rong Wei was the first to leave the conference room.

This was her last task for the day. After leaving the meeting, she immediately returned to her car.

Inside the car, the quiet space made her feel even more unsettled.

Rong Wei irritably pulled open her collar, then opened her phone to check the account balance of the card number she had given Jiang Yu.

She had, of course, never touched the so-called compensation Jiang Yu had given her.

Now, with a new deposit of seven figures, the amount in the card had accumulated to a considerable sum.

She thought in silence for a moment, then told her assistant the card number.

【Transfer an eight-figure sum from my personal account, and use the money in this card, to start a venture capital project.】

【The final beneficiary should be Jiang Yu’s name.】

After sending the message, Rong Wei closed her eyes.

She subconsciously reached for her pocket, her fingertips lightly tracing the cigarette case.

About half an hour later, Rong Wei returned home. She opened the door and found the living room light on.

Rong Wei was surprised. As she was thinking, a fluffy golden head rose from the sofa and entered her line of sight.

Rong Shi saw her return and rubbed her head: “Hi, Sister, are you done with work?”

Rong Wei was silent for a moment, then smiled and asked, “Are your own things all done?”

Rong Shi hummed: “Yes. For me, the most important thing tonight is to keep my poor, heartbroken, allegedly-just-dumped sister company.”

Rong Wei smiled, then gently rubbed the top of Rong Shi’s head after a while, and asked, “What do you want to eat?”

“I’ve eaten, I’m not hungry.”

“I brought a bottle of champagne from Ms. Rong’s wine cellar. Want to share it?”

Rong Wei looked at the amber-colored wine that Rong Shi produced as if by magic from behind her and nodded: “Okay.”

“I’ll go change and freshen up first.”

Rong Shi nodded, seemingly casual, but actually observing Rong Wei very carefully.

To be honest, Rong Wei looked fine, not much different from her usual self, though her expression was slightly colder.

Rong Shi sighed softly.

Regardless of right or wrong, this was her sister’s first time experiencing something like this, so she had to come and accompany her.

Rong Wei took a set of clothes and went to the bathroom to shower. Whenever she stayed at home, an auntie would always come during the day to tidy up.

A day had passed. The cigarette butts in the ashtray had completely disappeared, and the bedding had all been changed.

Rong Wei felt an inexpressible sense of stuffiness. She let out a long sigh and went into the bathroom to shower.

The warm water poured onto her skin. The soft flow could barely soothe her irritable heart.

Rong Wei’s showers were usually brief, but today, she stayed in the bathroom for nearly an hour before coming out.

When she emerged, Rong Shi was still nestled on the sofa, and wine had already been poured into the champagne flutes.

Rong Wei walked over, picked up a glass, looked quietly at Rong Shi, and said, “Actually, you don’t need to worry about me.”

“As you said, when it’s over, it’s over. There’s nothing worth agonizing over.”

Rong Wei was skilled at seeing into people’s hearts, so Rong Shi was not surprised at all to hear her say this.

“Okay, I understand.”

Rong Shi replied, clinked her glass against Rong Wei’s, and as the fine bubbles exploded from the rim, she heard Rong Wei speak.

Her tone was cool and detached, as if she didn’t care at all: “My friend didn’t like her that much anyway.”

Rong Shi turned her head, looking at Rong Wei with suspicion.

After a long pause, she numbly nodded under Rong Wei’s steady gaze.

…

Jiang Yu had a busy day at work and was physically exhausted and sleepy when she returned home in the evening.

But when she lay in bed, she couldn’t fall asleep for a long time.

Images of her meetings with Rong Wei in Li City floated through her mind.

The deep-sea blue sapphire earrings were exceptionally vivid in her memory.

She clearly remembered that the sapphires had held a different meaning back then.

At that time, secretly, she had actually wanted to use those sapphire earrings to create more opportunities for herself and Rong Wei.

It was a pity that the sapphire jewelry had now become a burden.

Jiang Yu opened her eyes and gently slapped herself.

Really, she had already decided to separate, so why was she still thinking about Rong Wei?

Withdrawal symptoms truly were a terrible thing.

Jiang Yu warned herself not to think any further, but even so, she suffered from insomnia for a long time and finally drifted into a hazy sleep close to 2:00 a.m.

When Jiang Yu opened her eyes the next day, the sky outside was completely bright.

The weather was lovely today, with a pleasant azure blue outside.

Jiang Yu stretched, slowly woke up for a while, got out of bed, and went to the closet to choose her outfit for the day.

Since she had temporarily decided to stay in Lin City for a while longer, Jiang Yu had no work planned for today.

With the time free and her mother’s death anniversary approaching, Jiang Yu planned to visit her mother’s grave today.

When visiting a deceased relative, clothing naturally shouldn’t be too bright or too revealing.

Due to her profession, Jiang Yu had many clothes in her closet and a rich variety of colors. She simply chose a black long dress and accessorized with black diamond jewelry before leaving home.

Her mother was an orphan who grew up in an orphanage. After her death, Jiang Yu bought her a burial plot, choosing a location by the mountains and water that her mother had loved most when she was alive.

When Jiang Yu got out of the car, she was surrounded by continuous mountains, and the world beneath the clear blue sky was full of fresh greenery.

The management here was good. After Jiang Yu registered, she followed the relevant staff to the location of her mother’s tombstone.

The area was spacious, surrounded by flowing water, seemingly very free and peaceful.

Jiang Yu silently looked at the tombstone and then placed the flowers down.

She stared intently at the photograph on the tombstone.

The woman in the photo looked to be in her early forties, with few wrinkles, and was very beautiful, especially her bright and lively eyes.

She had died suddenly from a myocardial infarction.

Before that day, Jiang Yu had never imagined her mother would leave.

Recalling some things from the past, Jiang Yu’s mood was complicated for a moment.

She paused for a long time before slowly speaking: “I’m sorry, Mom. I was too busy with work, so I only have time to see you now.”

“Don’t worry, I’m doing very well.”

“You be well, too. If there’s a next life, I hope you can be safe and happy.”

After saying this, Jiang Yu fell silent.

Perhaps because it had been too long since they last met, or perhaps because she and her mother were not close to begin with, even seeing her, she didn’t know what else she could say to her mother.

Jiang Yu stood fixedly in front of the tombstone for a long time until her legs felt stiff before she snapped out of it.

She bowed deeply to the tombstone, then prepared to leave the area.

But just then, she vaguely saw two figures not far away.

Jiang Yu wasn’t wearing contacts, so from a distance, she couldn’t clearly see the faces of the approaching people. Only when they got closer did she see their faces and instinctively frowned.

Qin Yan quickly walked up to her and spoke: “Sister, what a coincidence. We actually meet here.”

Jiang Yu remained silent, not speaking further, only looking at Qin Yuanshan without changing her expression, her gaze full of coldness.

Qin Yuanshan’s intentions were never pure. Coming here this time, she wondered what disgusting scheme he was plotting now.

Jiang Yu didn’t want to get overly entangled with them here, so she simply said directly: “You are not welcome here.”

As she spoke, Qin Yan opened her mouth, ready to say something, but Jiang Yu simply turned and left the area.

She left cleanly and decisively, naturally failing to notice that after she departed, the father and daughter, Qin Yuanshan and Qin Yan, exchanged glances, their eyes full of smugness.

…

The sunny day after the rain often brings increased heat.

This stuffiness persisted, especially on the second day, the day Jiang Yu and Rong Wei had agreed to meet at the Civil Affairs Bureau. The weather was unbearably hot.

Jiang Yu was always punctual. She arrived at the entrance of the Civil Affairs Bureau fifteen minutes earlier than arranged and sat quietly in her car, waiting.

Her memory was generally poor, so she actually couldn’t recall what it was like a few years ago when she and Rong Wei accidentally stumbled into getting their marriage certificate.

She could only vaguely remember that the weather seemed nice that day, and she felt like she had noticed Rong Wei’s figure in the crowd early on.

The car was just parked in a spot that allowed observation of the Civil Affairs Bureau entrance. Jiang Yu had deliberately worn her glasses today. In an almost historical overlap, she saw Rong Wei’s figure in the crowd at first glance.

Or more accurately, she saw a blue sedan, and intuition told her that Rong Wei was sitting in that car at this very moment.

Almost simultaneously, Jiang Yu received a message from Rong Wei.

【I’m here. Where are you?】

Jiang Yu simply replied and then got out of the car.

At the same moment, a blonde, blue-eyed woman got out of the blue sedan she had noticed. She was wearing a white shirt and a waist-cinching long skirt, her face expressionless, looking both noble and dazzling.

Jiang Yu took two steps forward and stood in front of Rong Wei.

When they weren’t in bed, they were typically people of few words. Especially after everything that had happened, there was little room for unnecessary conversation.

Jiang Yu cut straight to the chase: “Let’s go, General Manager Rong.”

Rong Wei looked quietly at Jiang Yu and replied in a nonchalant tone: “Alright, but, Miss Jiang, I want to ask you one last time.”

“Are you sure you want to divorce me?”

Jiang Yu instinctively frowned, gave a mocking laugh, and then said, “What is there to hesitate about?”

“General Manager Rong, I think there’s one thing you need to know.”

“You’re not gold. Why would everyone be unable to forget you?”