Monster Escape Room Re-Employment Chapter 28
byI am who I am (1)
Jiang Lingyi is a person who keeps the past, present and future very separate. Some people never get out of their most glorious years until they are old. He thinks that is very sad, just like chewing a chewing gum that has lost its taste. For him, everything is in the past, no matter good or bad, he has to be able to pick it up and let it go.What he believes in is: transcending the past, everything starts from today, and tomorrow is another beautiful day.
In fact, he just thought he was open-minded. Although it was not the glorious years that bound him, it was the dark days.
There is a saying that the opposite of love is not hate, but forgetfulness or indifference. Jiang Lingyi still hates the Jiang family and the blood flowing through him. He even has a stress reaction when he hears related things. This is exactly a sign that he is not mature enough.
He is the illegitimate son of Jiang Jiujie, chairman of Jiujiang Group, and his mistress Jiang Xin.
Jiang Lingyi has never mentioned his origin to anyone, and he avoids it very much.Therefore, when Lian Moqin said Jiang Xinyue’s name in public in the restaurant, implying that he knew his origin, he couldn’t help but make him wet all over.
When Jiang Jiujie was young, he married into the same family as his current wife. Later, he met and cheated on Jiang Xin, Jiang Lingyi’s mother.
However, Jiang Xin didn’t know that Jiang Jiujie was married. She didn’t know that she had been deceived until his wife Lu Bing came to the door. However, she was also diagnosed as being three months pregnant.
Jiang Xin’s health has never been good. If she aborts this child, she may never be able to have children again.
Seeing that Jiang Jiujie could no longer remain in the dark, he held a tripartite negotiation. Jiang Xin cried in tears and prayed for the life of this innocent child, and promised to fly away, never have anything to do with the Jiang family again, and would not come to compete for property.Lu Bing felt compassion and allowed her to give birth to the child. Jiang Jiujie also paid a large sum of money as compensation and breakup fee.
Originally, this matter could have been resolved “peacefully” like this.
There was an unexpected situation. At that time, Jiujiang Group was going through a series of key milestones such as mergers and acquisitions and listing. Some competitors had somehow dug up this story and were preparing to publicize it.
Originally, the personal ethics of the leaders could not be completely linked to the group’s management level, but their opponents knew how to spread rumors. As long as one piece of black information was true, even if the rest were false, they would be believed to be true.It doesn’t matter whether the evidence is complete or not. As long as the seeds of doubt are sown, Jiujiang Group’s reputation will be severely damaged.
Between the group and Jiang Xin, Jiang Jiujie chose the former without hesitation.
In order to eliminate Jiang Xin from society, he put Jiang Xin under house arrest at a relative’s house and destroyed all information and certificates related to her.Jiang Xin went into labor in despair and gave birth to Jiang Lingyi, but she suffered from postpartum depression.
On the day when Jiang Ling celebrated her 100th anniversary, she jumped from a three-story window.
And in the suicide note she left before her death, she still believed that Jiang Jiujie would at least care about his family ties and take care of his children.
Jiang Lingyi was indeed taken back to the care of her family, but this was not discovered by Jiang Jiujie’s conscience, but by Lu Bing’s motherhood that was moved – two years ago, she gave birth to Jiang Xinyue.
Despite this, out of her natural stance, it was difficult for Lu Bing to have a good attitude towards Jiang Lingyi, and trying to ignore him was the biggest concession she could make.
In order to avoid rumors, Jiang Lingyi was nominally the child of that relative, but the senior servants and relatives in the mansion all knew that he was Jiang Jiujie’s illegitimate son.
In this environment, one can imagine how the young Jiang Lingyi suffered cold treatment and harsh treatment.
When he wondered why his “mother” didn’t get along with him like Lu Bing and Jiang Xinyue’s mother and daughter, Lu Bing told him the whole truth without reservation.
Jiang Lingyi, who has not yet understood love, first learned to hate.
He hated the cold-blooded power machine Jiang Jiujie, hated Lu Bing for cruelly telling a child these things, hated Jiang Xinyue who was born with family affection, and hated himself for bringing death to Jiang Xin.
After all, he was still young and could not be financially independent, so he had to rely on others. However, he secretly gritted his teeth and swore that this was only temporary.
One day, he will escape from this hell that is not home.
He had to fight for the freedom that his mother did not get back then, and he had to make his own way on his own.
When he turned eighteen, he took the college admission notice that was completely his own and left the Jiang family without looking back.
Student loans, part-time jobs, scholarships… He worked hard to make money and lived frugally to support his living expenses. He was finally proud for the first time that he did not rely on others.
“I’m really amazing.”
No one would encourage him, so he encouraged himself.
Not only that, he would also repay the Jiang family regularly.
He calculated every cent of the Jiang family’s money he spent when he was a child, down to the penny. If he couldn’t remember, he estimated it based on the market price.
He is like a polluted pond, trying to remove every drop of sewage from the clear water, but in the end he will dry up.
No matter how much money he pays back, it can’t change the fact that every drop of his blood is filled with the dirty genes of an illegitimate child.
Naturally, he wouldn’t want a penny from Jiang Jiujie.
Therefore, this meeting after many years is not about gaining inheritance, but giving up.He wanted to make a clean break with the Jiang family.
It was precisely because of this idea that Jiang Xinyue convinced him to go back once.
All the past events flashed through his mind, and he raised his head. The scenery outside the car window had turned into the gate of a manor-style mansion.
When the online hailed car didn’t come through the door, Jiang Lingyi got out of the car, confirmed the visitor list with the concierge, and walked to the mansion.
It was late autumn, and the tree-lined driveway was sparsely covered with fallen sycamore leaves. Every once in a while, you could see gardeners pruning and pruning leaves on ladders.
He looked over carefully and found that the only gardener who could greet him was no longer there.
In the past eighteen years, he had walked alone on the side of the driveway like this countless times… walking towards the snow-white mansion with almost numb thoughts.
“I’m right here.” Lou Xian’s whisper sounded quietly in his sleeves.
Jiang Lingyi’s flying memories were called back to reality.
Yes, he is no longer alone now.
Just by having Lou Xian by his side like this, he felt full of courage to face the past.
About half of the cars were parked in the parking space on the side of the mansion. Jiang Lingyi bypassed the open-air fountain, walked straight to the door, and rang the doorbell.
The door opened, revealing a short-haired woman wearing a white shirt and trousers. Her stern eyebrows were somewhat similar to Jiang Lingyi’s.
She raised a smile and said, “Ah, I thought you were almost here, and it was just right.”
“Can the matter be resolved within ten minutes? If not, can I ask you to represent me?” Jiang Lingyi did not hide his disgust.
“Oh, at least have a meal before leaving. Don’t act like the air here is poisonous.”
“Anyway, I’ll leave when the time comes.”
Jiang Xinyue shrugged: “Be patient, at least wait until everyone is gathered before we can discuss things. Or, do you want to see the old–ahem, father?”
“Get lost.”
Lou Xian’s knowledge of Jiang Lingyi’s past was limited to written research and Jiang Lingyi’s one-sided remarks. When they actually met, it seemed that his relationship with Jiang Xinyue… was better than imagined?At least they can not hide each other’s true attitudes.
Also, I don’t know if it was his misunderstanding, but Jiang Lingyi seemed a little scared of her… Lou Xian, whose whole body was pressed against his skin, could feel Jiang Lingyi shuddering slightly.
“That gardener…Zeng Xiuying, where did she go?” Jiang Lingyi asked casually.
Jiang Xinyue crossed her arms and thought for a moment: “You mean that very kind old lady? She got Alzheimer’s disease last year and her children were sent to a nursing home.”
“Is that so…” Let’s go see her later. It doesn’t matter even if she doesn’t remember him.
“Speaking of which, she left a bag of gold coin chocolates and said she would leave it to you when Ling Yi comes back. I put it in your room.”
Jiang Lingyi nodded, turned around and walked up the stairs. For some reason, his eyes felt a little sore.
“There are still some good memories, right?”
After arriving at the quiet mansion, Lou Xian stopped making any sound and directly transmitted the sound in his mind.
In the past, whenever Jiang Lingyi made progress in her studies, Grandma Gardener would take out a cheap gold coin chocolate from the supermarket from her pocket.This is his treasure and will not be opened and eaten until it expires.
Later, when Jiang Xinyue found out about this, she happily ran to ask her grandma for a reward, and she gave it to her with a smile.However, all her chocolates were later confiscated by Lu Bing.
After all, the Jiang family is a wealthy family, and they won’t just give him an attic, or a stairwell, like in Harry Potter, and it wouldn’t be nice to have someone there.So Jiang Lingyi had his own room, which was a misappropriated guest room.
He pushed open the door in his memory, and a spotless unfamiliar room came into view.
There is no trace of the original at all, and it looks exactly like the other guest rooms, as if the eighteen years he spent here were all fake and can be erased at any time.
He opened the drawer and saw gold coin chocolates in a plastic bag. He only took one of them and put it in his pocket.Then he sat on the edge of the bed and stared blankly at the swaying shadows of the trees outside the window.
Intermittent conversations and footsteps came from downstairs. Everyone gathered in the reception room, talking about him upstairs, the chairman in the ward, Jiang Xinyue who was about to inherit the group, and the winner Lu Bing who had the last laugh… He smiled like a mask and spoke out polite words full of hypocrisy as if he were talking about a character in a novel.
The scales slide against the skin, bringing a cool comfort.
“There are about ten people.” There was unnoticeable joy in Lou Xian’s tone, “Well… greed, greed, anxiety, vigilance, fear, contempt, greed, secret joy, pride, resentment… It’s great. With such rich negative emotions, I can regain a lot of strength.”
Jiang Lingyi twitched the corner of his mouth.Everything is there, except that no one is sad for Jiang Jiujie.
I always feel like the 8 o’clock show of The Affair of a Rich Man is being played downstairs, while the urban fantasy drama is being played upstairs.This time, it was Jiang Lingyi’s turn to lose his temper after being told by Lou Xian. He felt that he was too small for being so brooding about this nonsense.
If Lou Xian can really recover, it’s not like he can’t be kind to the Jiang family.
He took a deep breath and stood up.What is supposed to come will come.