Chapter 46 1/2

The love brain that hasn’t opened up for thirty years is like this: everything the wife does seems cute.

Until five minutes later, Cen Lang, who was slow to realize, found that the capable Dr. Xiao Jiang, in front of Jiang Wanlan, was a bit hesitant, which was not a good thing for himself.

However, he didn’t care; no one could stop him from pursuing Jiang Li, especially since Jiang Wanlan and Lu Jing had faced opposition from their families. They had weathered storms together and would always provide the strongest umbrella for Jiang Li.

Of course, the prerequisite was that Jiang Li would tell his parents that he wanted to be with him.

Cen Lang looked at the rain outside the window. The convective rain in the afternoon seemed to be turning into a storm, but there was a little thunder. The heavy rain washed the glass walls, forming streams pouring down.

Jiang Li stood behind the glass wall, watching the rain. The sanatorium had a beautiful environment, and even the rain falling on the ground was clean.

With his hands behind his back, Cen Lang pondered for a moment and said, “Actually, Mr. Jiang is not that fierce.” In an hour and a half, the results would be out, and if they matched expectations, Cen Lang would immediately inform Jiang Li of the whole truth.

He was afraid that Jiang Li might be worried. Thinking about it carefully, Jiang Wanlan had lost his child, and Cen Lang couldn’t fully understand, but what did it matter? Jiang Wanlan couldn’t forgive himself even more.

Jiang Li turned his gaze and said, “I’m not afraid of him.”

Cen Lang smiled. It seemed that Jiang Li always liked to emphasize in front of him that he wasn’t afraid of this or that. Cen Lang believed him; Dr. Xiao Jiang was someone who dared to venture into the dungeons alone.

Besides fear, people had many complex and incomprehensible emotions; some might take decades to fully understand.

“Mr. Jiang used to be very soft-hearted, very…” Cen Lang paused, not used to using overly flattering words to describe anyone other than Jiang Li. He changed his expression and said, “You can see that he can be with someone like Lu Jing.”

“He was chilled by the rain.”

Cen Lang: “The rain that day was even heavier than today.”

That was the third day after Jiang Wanlan lost his child. The couple tried everything and were almost desperate. Jiang Wanlan ran back and kneeled at the Jiang family gate, begging his father to help find the child.

Many people came to watch the excitement in the rain. Once the most prestigious omega in the central district’s upper society, after eloping with a poor boy for two years, he knelt at the Jiang family gate without a trace of color on his face, begging for mercy.

The heavy rain seemed to want to destroy everything, crushing Jiang Wanlan’s backbone. After searching for three days, he was exhausted, fell to the ground several times, and got up on his knees in front of everyone.

Those three days were also the most agonizing days of Lu Jing’s life. He watched Jiang Wanlan kneel, plead, faint, and get up in front of everyone. He wanted to pull Jiang Wanlan up, but he could only watch because he was powerless, only madly digging three feet to find people. In the evening, he asked children to place food at Jiang Wanlan’s feet, but Jiang Wanlan didn’t eat a bite.

The Jiang family gate remained closed for three days. When it finally opened, the first words from Jiang’s old man were, “Swear to break up with Lu Jing; otherwise, the retribution will be on the child.”

Lu Jing didn’t close his eyes. On the night he learned the news, he set off to the border area to find his child.

When it rained, Jiang Wanlan’s mood became very bad. He stood by the window, seeing a couple under the glass corridor watching the rain.

Is Lu Jing still guarding the back door? Did he bring an umbrella?

Jiang Wanlan would never forget the afternoon he woke up and lost his child.

He didn’t know why he slept so soundly. The one-year-old child wasn’t noisy or difficult to take care of; he even slept on the side of Lu Jing at night.

Perhaps if he had tested his blood in time, he would have found that he might have taken some sleeping pills, but that didn’t matter now.

The landlord took away his child, his phone, the photo album he placed on the bed, and all the tangible memories. He didn’t even have a photo of his child.

Lu Jing didn’t like taking photos; his phone only had photos from the full moon and some videos of the child wobbling around, learning to walk.

Sometimes Jiang Wanlan didn’t dare to sleep, afraid that he would forget the appearance of his child as soon as he opened his eyes.

In the bustling street, Jiang Wanlan said to Lu Jing, “I’ve decided to go home.”

He was going to give up Lu Jing and choose the child.

The one-year-old child could smile, walk, peacefully play with his fingers leaning against his dad, and crawl over to open the door when Lu Jing came back from work. “Dad!”

He was so cute; everyone in the neighborhood praised him.

Jiang Wanlan: “I’ll go back and beg my father. We can’t see each other again in the future.” This was the outcome he knew before going back.

Lu Jing, who had never blamed him since the incident, looked at Jiang Wanlan intently, as if he knew this day would come. After a long time, he said, “Okay.”

He had always supported all of Jiang Wanlan’s decisions.

Jiang Wanlan turned around, tears streaming down.

For him, Lu Jing’s military status was destroyed by the Jiang family. He could only find an ordinary job, but his outstanding abilities were recognized by his superiors. Their lives got better, and they planned to buy a house with the money they had. Lu Jing said that it made no difference to him. Even if he joined the space force, it would be for a better life for Jiang Wanlan. Although life was good, in the face of the grinding gears of fate, it was fragile.

Even if Lu Jing was the most powerful Alpha in this area, even if the central district was the most peaceful place, they couldn’t find a missing landlord. Military and police forces were mobilized for warfare, barely used to maintain order, and missing cases couldn’t be prioritized.

At this time, the old family forces formed a coalition, and their strength became very powerful.

Jiang Wanlan went back home.

Later, when the space force needed people, Lu Jing re-entered the army and could only start as a low-level soldier. He, the most outstanding graduate of the combat department in his class, was directly admitted to the Space Force as a commander. However, he didn’t even wear the rank of his classmates, who had far less ability than him.

Jiang Wanlan knew the hardships he had gone through. In twenty years, he had risen to the rank of general.

And in twenty years, Jiang Wanlan had firmly secured the position of head of the Jiang family, cutting off all the branches and turning it into his one-man show.

Not long ago, the third uncle who was sent to mine, resentful and aware of Jiang Wanlan’s sensitive nerve, revealed the truth: Although the Jiang family’s child was pitifully lost, the old man was afraid that if they found the child, Jiang Wanlan would renege, so the family elders decided to look for the child casually.

In other words, the first search, which was most likely to succeed and was led by the Jiang family, was not sincere at all. Jiang Wanlan knew in his heart, and soon after taking over, he took charge of the second search.

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