Transmigrated as the Disabled Alpha Wife of the Black Moonlight and She Said She Loves Me - Chapter 67.2

Hearing this so often made me feel like I existed solely to care for Jianan in Aunt Xu’s eyes.

But it didn’t matter. Jianan’s legs were weak, so it was only right for us to look after her and keep an eye on her.

But when I saw the will, I realized Aunt Xu hadn’t left me anything! Absolutely nothing!

Aunt Xu had once told me that my Mommy left the company to me, and she merged it into the Huo Corporation. She promised that when I grew up, she would leave this company to me.

I thought Aunt Xu would return Mommy’s company to me. But it wasn’t mentioned in the will!”

Meng Xien was furious and agitated. “Minmin, do you know how shocked and angry I was? Can you even understand how I felt?”

“I don’t care about anything else, just this company! My Mommy founded it single-handedly! Aunt Xu herself said that the Meng family, envious of the company, bullied us after Mommy’s death, hounding us relentlessly until she was forced to hand it over. They literally drove her to death! On her deathbed, she entrusted me and the company to her best friend!”

“At that moment, I was dumbfounded. I doubted my own eyes and read the will over and over. If it weren’t for the black ink on white paper, I’d never have believed Aunt Xu would do something like this!”

“Ten years! I treated Aunt Xu like my second mother, my grandmother, my life mentor, the person I admired and revered the most!”

“Ten years! I devoted my heart and soul to Huo Corporation, thinking about how to make it thrive even while eating and sleeping.”

In the end, Aunt Xu left me nothing. She never even considered me her granddaughter!

In Aunt Xu’s eyes, Huo Jianan was her only granddaughter! That’s why she left everything to Jianan!”

Min Jiru was stunned speechless, watching the pained and furious Meng Xien, her emotions tangled and complex, unable to utter a single word.

“That was when Aunt Xu went abroad for treatment. Before she left, she repeatedly urged me to watch over Jianan and protect the Huo Corporation.”

“I promised Aunt Xu that I would keep a close eye on Jianan and definitely protect the Huo Corporation,” Meng Xien said with a cold laugh. “Yes, I did try to persuade Jianan, but she remained stubbornly headstrong, refusing to listen to anyone except Ruan Nianning.”

“I watched coldly as she clung to her foolish stubbornness, watching her ruin the Huo Corporation. Once again, I realized that protecting the Huo Corporation meant only one path remained.

After proposing an alliance to Ruan Nianning, she trusted me without suspicion. My motives were reasonable: who wouldn’t covet the vast commercial empire of the Huo Corporation? Who wouldn’t want it? We formed an alliance with mutual delight.

I imagined the moment when I would bring Huo Corporation under my control. Then, I would expose Ruan Nianning’s true nature before Aunt Xu and Jianan, and return Huo Corporation to Jianan.

I would make Aunt Xu see, and ask her face-to-face, “Did you ever truly see me as your granddaughter? Did you also see me as just a pitiful creature sheltering under the Huo family’s roof? Look carefully! It was I who protected Huo Corporation, I who purged the internal traitors—it was I! Your precious granddaughter, Huo Jianan, is nothing. She’s just a fool who lets others manipulate her. She’s far inferior to me!”

From that day on, I was no longer the stumbling block in Jianan’s path as she expanded her grand empire. Instead, I always supported her proposals, no matter how high the hidden risks.

The executives found this strange—Jianan’s behavior was understandable, but mine was not. To make an example, I fired two executives who had most vigorously opposed the proposals. I knew they were right and acting in the company’s best interests, but I still fired them. I thought to myself that once I achieved my plan, I would rehire them.

With the obstacles removed, Jianan’s attitude toward me completely changed. Perhaps Ruan Nianning had said something to her. For someone who had never apologized before, she broke tradition and apologized to me, saying she shouldn’t have said those things.

She even told me she truly saw me as her elder sister, but my opposition only made her doubt herself. What she needed was support and encouragement, not opposition. That day, she was overjoyed because she felt I was finally standing by her side. In the evening, she dragged me into playing games with her—she’s incredibly skilled! I have to admit, in that aspect, she’s absolutely number one. She said that as long as she was the boss of Huo Corporation, I would always be her second-in-command, her most loyal partner.”

Meng Xien sighed deeply, the tip of her nose turning slightly red. “I know Jianan told me the truth. I feel deeply ashamed for betraying her trust, but I’m even more certain now that Huo Jianan isn’t the right person to lead Huo Corporation. She’s unsuited for the mental strain and pressure of such a position. She’s better off enjoying life freely with the person she loves.”

“Because Aunt Xu prohibited the company from making any acquisitions for the next five years, Huo Jianan shifted her focus from her frenzied acquisition spree to expanding into new business areas. She disregarded whether we had the expertise, resources, or competitive advantages—any business she deemed promising, she pursued.”

“Over the course of a year, she simultaneously expanded into four new business sectors. Money flowed out like water, pouring down the drain. None of the four sectors showed any profit, yet she kept investing more and more, throwing good money after bad.”

“Huo Corporation’s situation grew increasingly dire, yet I grew increasingly pleased. Aunt Xu called to ask how the company was doing—she must have heard about the new ventures from some directors. I told her everything was fine, that the risks were manageable, and that both I and the senior management had reviewed the projects and found no issues. Of course, the plan I reported to Aunt Xu was a different version. Naturally, she wouldn’t find any problems with the plan I presented.”

Meanwhile, I accelerated my covert operations. In this way, the money and Huo Corporation shares in my hands kept growing.

Jianan and Nianning worked together, one from the outside and one from the inside, doing everything they could to help Huo Jianan drain Huo Corporation.

Huo Corporation collapsed far faster than I imagined. Then again, it takes a century to grow a towering tree, but only a saw to destroy it.

Until one day, I finally had enough power to announce at the shareholders’ meeting that Huo Corporation had changed hands.

Only then did Huo Jianan finally see the light, realizing that I had been scheming to seize control of Huo Corporation’s shares all along.

Even Aunt Xu flew back from abroad just for this.

When the four of us met, Huo Jianan accused me of using her all along.

I replied, “You should ask your dear Madam about that.”

At that moment, Ruan Nianning finally revealed that she had never loved Huo Jianan at all. She married him solely to avenge her mother! She claimed that after Huo Zhujun hit her mother, she deliberately drove over her repeatedly and then blamed the accident on her. The Huo family’s wealth and influence allowed them to twist the truth. But Huo Zhujun died too soon! Ruan Nianning vowed to destroy the Huo Corporation and watch it crumble, leaving Xu Weiyi destitute.

Aunt Xu and Jianan only then realized that Ruan Nianning had entered the Huo family with the sole intent of revenge.

Min Jiru asked, “How could Jianan bear that?”

“Of course she couldn’t. She was devastated, constantly asking Ruan Nianning if she had ever truly loved her.”

Ruan Nianning insisted she never had. “How could I love the daughter of my enemy? I accepted Huo Jianan’s proposal and married him solely for revenge.”

“I’ll never forget Aunt Xu’s expression that day. In over a decade, I’d never seen such shock, disappointment, and suppressed fury on her face.”

Aunt Xu asked Ruan Nianning, “Our Huo family has never treated you poorly. Yes, your mother was killed by my daughter, but we’ve done everything we could to be merciful and fulfill her last wishes. Why are you still clinging to us and scheming to manipulate Jianan?”

Ruan Nianning laughed loudly. “You Huo family members are bullies, and you have the nerve to call yourselves merciful!”

At that moment, I revealed the truth. “It was Huo Jianan’s mother who hit your mother. But it wasn’t the deliberate, repeated crushing you imagined—it was a pure accident. I can testify to this because I was in the car at the time. I have no reason to lie. Aunt Xu can provide you with the lawyer’s contact who handled the case, along with the original documents. You can verify it yourself.”

Ruan Nianning refused to believe it, stubbornly insisting that we must have bribed everyone involved!

Though she denied it and refused to believe me, I could sense her on the verge of collapse.

I experienced a victory unlike any other. It felt as if I had finally pulled out the murderous poison that had been festering in Jianan’s and the Huo family’s heart.

I said, “Ruan Nianning, do you really think I didn’t see through your schemes? How does it feel to be used by others?”

She cursed me bitterly, calling me a despicable demon! She accused me of using her all along, just to get my hands on Huo Corporation.

Ruan Nianning was on the verge of madness. She yanked her hair, then suddenly grabbed her phone to make a call.

Just then, I heard a loud thud—Aunt Xu had collapsed to the floor.

Startled, I rushed over. Aunt Xu had been undergoing treatment abroad since her last heart attack. The doctors had warned that another episode could be fatal, and she must avoid any stress. But today, her heart acted up again. The medicine bottle had fallen to the floor and rolled under the table. I quickly grabbed the bottle—I knew it contained emergency medication.

I got the medicine, but Aunt Xu refused to take it. She stared at me intently, demanding to know if I was involved, if I had conspired with Ruan Nianning to deceive her and Nannan.

I urged Aunt Xu to take the medicine. “Aunt Xu, please take this. Without it, you’ll die.” But she refused, insisting I answer her question: had I really colluded with Ruan Nianning?

At that moment, I felt truly ashamed. I didn’t dare meet Aunt Xu’s eyes. “I’m sorry,” I said. “I partnered with Ruan Nianning, but I never intended to take control of Huo Corporation for myself. Aunt Xu, please believe me—Huo Corporation will soon return to Huo Jianan’s hands.”

Aunt Xu, who had never imagined I would collude with someone to deceive her, said, “Xien, I can’t believe you actually did this…”

She fainted. Even as she lost consciousness, her last words were, “Xien, why? What have I ever done to you?”

I suddenly regretted everything! I was terrified, gripped by an unprecedented fear. What have I done? If anything happens to Aunt Xu, I’ll never forgive myself.

I rushed Aunt Xu to the hospital, barely registering where Huo Jianan and Ruan Nianning had gone.

In the surgical waiting room, my heart felt like it was burning on a hot coal. I kept replaying everything I’d done: how I deceived Aunt Xu, how I indulged Jianan, how I had Ruan Nianning whisper sweet nothings into Jianan’s ear.

It turns out I was so dirty, despicable, cunning, and vile. I was ten, no, a hundred times worse than Ruan Nianning!

At least Ruan Nianning was seeking revenge for her mother. But I… I was only trying to prove that I was superior to Jianan, that only I could protect the Huo Corporation, while she was utterly unfit for the task!”

Tears rolled silently down Meng Xien’s cheeks, her voice thick with tears, pained and muddled like a withered leaf buffeted by winter winds.

“Aunt Xu died, never waking up from surgery.”

“The police called, telling me someone had jumped into the river from Changbin Bridge—a leg-disabled woman. They asked me to identify the body.”

“When I returned to the Huo residence to find Ruan Nianning, intending to give her money to leave, a shadow plummeted from the upper floors, landing in a bloody, mangled heap before me.”

“That day, Aunt Xu died, Jianan died, and Ruan Nianning died. Only I, the vilest of sinners, remained alive.”

“It turns out I was so utterly wrong! My so-called clever schemes were nothing but a giant joke.”

Do you know how much I hate myself? I knew Ruan Nianning’s true intentions, but I didn’t tell Aunt Xu. I didn’t stop Jianan, letting her tear the family apart. I personally killed Aunt Xu! I killed Jianan!”

Meng Xien doubled over in anguish, pounding her head with her only free hand.

Min Jiru quickly grabbed her. “Don’t do this, Xien, don’t do this.”

“I’m just a wretch! A vile, wicked person!” Meng Xien continued to strike her head. Her already injured skull swelled and reddened from the blows.

Min Jiru held her tightly, using all her strength to stop her. “Xien, Xien, I beg you! Don’t hurt yourself like this!”

No matter how Meng Xien struggled, Min Jiru held her firmly, letting her lean against her chest and kissing her. “Xien, I love you. Please stop hurting yourself.”

Cradled in Min Jiru’s soft embrace and kissed by her gentle lips, Meng Xien gradually calmed down.

Min Jiru helped her lie down and went to fetch a warm towel to wipe away the tears streaking her face.

Meng Xien grabbed her arm. “Don’t leave me! Don’t leave!”

“I won’t leave, I won’t,” Min Jiru sat back down beside her, gently wiping away her tears with tissues.

“Minmin, I’ve always been grateful to Aunt Xu, really. Even if she didn’t leave Mommy’s company to me, I might have been angry, but I never wanted to harm her.”

Min Jiru gently stroked Meng Xien’s face, her heart aching for the young woman. “I know you never intended to hurt Aunt Xu or Jianan. Don’t you remember? You told me they were your family, the most important people in your life. At the time, I was actually upset by that. You bought me ice cream, but I refused to eat it.”

Meng Xien finally smiled. “You remember that?”

“Of course I do! You even bought me two, saying one wouldn’t solve the problem, so you needed two. How wicked of you! Trying to fatten me up!”

Meng Xien laughed even more, her face lighting up. “And you ate both, leaving me not a single bite!”

They shared a smile. Min Jiru lay down next to Meng Xien, pulling one of her hands close to her chest.

Under the warm, orange glow of the floor lamp, the room filled with a gentle tranquility.

After a long silence, Min Jiru asked, “Xien, are you feeling better now?”

Meng Xien nodded. “Much better. Thank you for being here. Without you, I think I might have fallen apart again.”

“Again?”

“Mm, it was the day Aunt Xu and Jianan left. I was home alone, drinking. I drank a lot, my mind constantly replaying past events—Aunt Xu’s words, Jianan’s words. I kept drinking, bottle after bottle. I don’t know how much I drank. Eventually, I lost all awareness.”

“When I woke up again, Housekeeper He was waking me. Her lips were a vivid red, but Housekeeper He usually wears such a pale shade. This vibrant crimson is only worn by the Huo family during festive occasions and celebrations.”

“Housekeeper He must have noticed my dazed expression. ‘Miss Meng,’ she said, ‘today is a joyous occasion for the Young Miss. Madam said you should go to the hotel as soon as you wake up.'”

“But I remember Jianan got married a long time ago, didn’t she?”

I suspected I had misheard. “Is Jianan getting married today?” I asked again. “What’s today’s date?”

“Miss Meng, you’re truly drunk,” Housekeeper He replied. After she said a few more words, I finally realized: I had been reborn. I had returned to the day of Jianan’s wedding.

“I rushed to the hotel like a madwoman. There I saw Aunt Xu and Jianan again. Aunt Xu was smiling at Jianan, adjusting her wedding dress, telling her how beautiful she looked. Jianan smiled radiantly, clearly overjoyed. I recognized the dress—it was the same one from my previous life.

I was overwhelmed with emotion, almost to the point of tears. They were both still alive—what could be better than that?

Aunt Xu asked me why I was crying. I told her, “I’m just so happy—for Jianan, and for everyone.”

That day’s wedding was identical to the one in my previous life. I watched Huo Jianan take Ruan Nianning’s hand, watched them exchange rings. I almost rushed forward, screaming at her not to marry this scheming woman. But I knew Huo Jianan loved her deeply, and I couldn’t disrupt this grand ceremony.

From my seat in the audience, I silently watched them exchange rings and kiss, watched Jianan, seated in her wheelchair with a smile, complete the wedding ritual. I thought this must be heaven’s chance for me—to atone for my past sins. I resolved that this time, I would definitely protect Jianan for Aunt Xu, and prevent Ruan Nianning’s plans from succeeding.

Min Jiru leaned down and kissed her forehead. “I believe in you. You’ll definitely help Jianan safeguard the Huo Corporation.”

“But in this life, so many things seem different. Jianan’s personality has become much more outgoing, like she’s been reborn. She’s very sensible and decisive, even more optimistic, proactive, and full of energy than I am.”

“Are you jealous of her?”

“No, why would I be jealous of her?” Meng Xien’s lips curved into a satisfied smile. “I’m even happier than Aunt Xu to see Jianan’s transformation. In this life, she’s becoming an exceptional successor.”

Meng Xien took Min Jiru’s hand. “And in this life, I’ve been reunited with you again. You’re back, Minmin.”

Min Jiru paused, startled. “We weren’t together in the previous life?”

“No,” Meng Xien’s voice carried a deep regret. “After that phone call, we lost all contact. It was as if we’d vanished from each other’s worlds.”

Min Jiru’s heart skipped a beat, a sudden wave of inexplicable loss and pain washing over her. Could that have been how it ended between her and Xien in the previous life? Did she lose him and never find him again?

“Then… did you…” Min Jiru bit her lip, suppressing the sadness in her eyes. “Did you fall in love with someone else in the previous life? Did you marry them?”

“No, I never fell in love with anyone else.” Meng Xien sighed, her gaze fixed on the painting of sunflowers hanging on the wall—vibrant hues brimming with hope and passion.

“I traveled to many countries and cities on business trips, but I never experienced those chance encounters with you on streets, by the roadside, or around corners like in the movies.”

I often wonder where Minmin is. Is she doing well? Perhaps she’s married now, with a happy family. I wonder if she ever thinks of me, even if just for a fleeting moment.

Just like how I suddenly remember her when I pick up my coffee cup, when I’m getting dressed, when I see a bouquet of flowers by the roadside, or when I draw back the curtains and sunlight floods my eyes.”

This was the first time since their reunion that Meng Xien spoke of her feelings after their separation, of her longing.

A gentle smile played on Min Jiru’s lips, tears glistening in her eyes.

“No, it’s not just a fleeting thought. I’ve never forgotten you, never.”

“I wonder too, if Xien still remembers me. Does she ever think of me? I imagine that when she can’t sleep at night, she must think of me—just like how I think of her! Countless times, I’ve almost picked up my phone to call her. But what about during the day? Does she ever think of me then? Does she pause when the ground is carpeted with golden ginkgo leaves, remembering our kiss?”

“I remember. I’ll never forget. You’re the only girl I’ve ever kissed, in this life and the last. My one true love. How could I ever forget?”

A gentle kiss landed on soft lips, still damp with tears, tasting salty.

“Minmin, why are you crying?” Meng Xien asked tenderly, trying to wipe away her tears. But Min Jiru’s injured arm could only be raised so far before it refused to move any higher.

Min Jiru took Meng Xien’s hand and placed it on her waist. Tears clung to her long lashes as a light, tender smile spread across her lips.

“I’m just so happy. I’m so glad I came back to find you.”

She lowered her head and kissed her beloved again, just as she had ten years ago, in the corner of the campus’ ginkgo tree grove, in that quiet, undisturbed room, to the rhythm of her own heart—joyful, shy, and secretly anticipating. That pure, beautiful girl had leaned down and kissed her.

“Xien, did you know? I loved you at first sight.”

Meng Xien’s actions were the result of multiple factors: Jianan’s behavior, Jianan’s insults, the contents of the will, and her desire to prove herself. All of these ultimately led her to take that particular course of action.

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