Chapter 498: Are You Their Biological Child?
"If you’re not a real man, I’ll..."
The fashionable woman’s eyes held a glimmer of hope, but more than that, resolve. "I’ll... I’ll castrate you!"
Her sudden personality shift made even Jiang Xinghai hesitate.
Based on his earlier examination of her, she didn’t seem to have any mental illnesses.
’Why such a drastic change in personality in such a short time?’
Seeing her expression, Jiang Xinghai couldn’t help but frown. He asked in a low voice, "What exactly have you been through?"
The fashionable woman remained silent.
Jiang Xinghai didn’t press her further. He turned, walked to the French windows, and lit a cigarette.
"Don’t tell me you can’t get it up when it counts!"
The fashionable woman stared at Jiang Xinghai’s back. "Letting you have a free meal, but you’re chickening out yourself. A moment ago, you were shamelessly boasting about teaching me how to be a woman, making me... Heh, I utterly despise men like you who talk big!"
Hearing this, Jiang Xinghai couldn’t help but turn his head. ’Has this woman activated cheat codes or something?’
’Just a moment ago she was resisting, struggling, and now, in the blink of an eye, she’s started pushing my buttons.’
"From the look on your face, it seems I guessed right, didn’t I? What a shame. You look about my age, but you’re already useless. I’m so disappointed." The fashionable woman glanced at Jiang Xinghai’s "Jiang Xinghai."
"Me? Useless?"
Jiang Xinghai took a deep drag from his cigarette. "First, tell me what’s happened to you. Then I’ll teach you a lesson."
"You promise?"
"I promise."
"Fine."
The fashionable woman’s eyes reddened again, and she truly began to pour out her story to Jiang Xinghai.
It turned out her name was Qiu Caie, and she had married the son of a wealthy family.
But her husband, due to excessive debauchery at a young age, on top of all sorts of sordid socializing, had ruined his body by his early twenties.
So, for the three years since they married, she had been sleeping alone.
She herself was a model and constantly had to deal with the competition and pressure of the modeling world. Recently, her husband had even set a trap for her, and she was nearly violated by a disgusting old man in his seventies.
In a fit of anger, she prepared to file for divorce.
But on that very day, she received news from her family. During a company team-building event, her younger brother and sister had been tricked and taken to Myanmar. The two of them required a ransom of one million.
To prevent her own funds from being divided in the divorce, she had no choice but to temporarily drop the proceedings.
Her current trip to Yun Province was to ransom her brother and sister.
As Jiang Xinghai listened to her story, ripples of emotion stirred in his heart. "So, you were in a bad mood, and on the plane, when Yuanyuan wanted to switch seats with you, that’s why you..."
Qiu Caie sighed and nodded. "I admit it. Now that I’ve calmed down and think about it, what I did was wrong. I really shouldn’t have... to Yuanyuan, right? I shouldn’t have yelled at her..."
"After learning about your circumstances, your behavior at the time is understandable. It’s forgivable."
Jiang Xinghai nodded to himself. "However, if you came here to ransom your brother and sister, why were you acting like you wanted to die in front of me? If you were really dead, who would ransom them?"
"Them... Heh..."
"I’m the eldest child. Over the years, while I may not have given a lot to the family, what I received was far, far less than what I gave. You have no idea, I even had to borrow money for my own dowry..."
"Hmph. My parents were only nice to me to my face. Behind my back, they constantly put me down in front of my brother and sister. They thought I didn’t know. Yes, when my brother and sister got married, I pretended not to know how much money they secretly gave them in red envelopes. I don’t care. As long as my conscience is clear! But I’m their daughter too, after all. Where is the fairness?"
"It was only after I got married that their attitude toward me started to warm up. It was just because they thought my husband’s family had some money, and because they were getting old. After all, my brother and sister live far away after getting married, so in their old age, they’d have to rely on me, the daughter who married locally. I accepted that. But for the one million to ransom my brother and sister, they couldn’t even come up with a hundred thousand!"
Qiu Caie’s eyes were filled with utter despair. She laughed self-deprecatingly. "They had no choice but to tell me that they had given all their pension money from over the years to my brother and sister as a subsidy. In the end, I was the one who had to take out the hard-earned money I’d saved for so many years. There’s so much I can’t even talk about..."
"Even the five fingers on a hand aren’t the same length. It’s normal for parents to be a little biased toward their children, but their actions are really a bit..." Jiang Xinghai was beginning to pity this woman from the bottom of his heart. He could only offer some comfort: "In the end, blood is thicker than water. Try not to dwell on it too much."
"I want to let it go, too."
Qiu Caie spread her hands, speechless. "But do you know what they said to me before I left? They said if I can’t ransom my brother and sister, I don’t need to bother coming back!"
"Forgive me for asking, but... are you sure you’re their biological daughter?" Jiang Xinghai was also left speechless.