Chapter 26: You Came Standing, You’ll Leave Crawling

“A-Yu, listen to me,” Jiang Chen felt a little panicked. He couldn’t lose Ruan Yu, a valuable pawn in his game. “You’ve misunderstood me. It was Tang Qingning who was clinging to me. I’ve clearly rejected her many times. A-Yu, I’ve always loved you.”

Ruan Yu, as a pawn, was only useful to him because she could influence Gu Yan Zhi, stir his emotions, and make him lower his guard.

Gu Yan Zhi clenched his fists. If Ruan Yu wasn’t standing in front of him, he would have gone up and torn Jiang Chen to shreds.

Seeing Gu Yan Zhi’s gloomy expression, Jiang Chen felt a surge of satisfaction. He loved seeing Gu Yan Zhi dislike him but unable to do anything about it.

Ruan Yu’s lips curled into a mocking smile, “The esteemed young master of the Jiang family, digging a wall under my husband’s nose, how low. I’d like to ask, does your father know about this?”

Jiang Chen was an illegitimate child. His father and his original wife had been childless for many years, and the family business needed an heir. Jiang Chen was brought back to the Jiang family when he was sixteen. Later, he was caught in the power struggles within the Jiang family, constantly being harassed by his stepmother.

Just when his father thought he would be childless for life, his original wife became pregnant and later gave birth to a son. Now three years old, although young, he threatened Jiang Chen’s position in the Jiang family. So, Ruan Yu thought this was why he had used her in the previous life.

In the previous life, Ruan Yu was so foolish that she helped Jiang Chen steal confidential information from Gu Yan Zhi’s company, stealing important project documents and giving them to Jiang Chen. Later, he thrived in the Jiang family, and his father looked at him with new eyes. Overnight, his position in the Jiang family changed drastically.

Jiang Chen’s face turned ugly, he was speechless after being rebuked by Ruan Yu’s words. But he didn’t think much of it. He thought Ruan Yu was just jealous of Tang Qingning and didn’t want to pay attention to him, she was angry with him, so she said such harsh words.

“A-Yu, don’t ignore me. I promise you I will never have any contact with Tang Qingning again, okay? Don’t ignore me.”

Jiang Chen was digging a wall in public, Gu Yan Zhi was furious, his whole body filled with rage. He moved forward to attack, but Ruan Yu grabbed his hand. At that moment, she saw a deep wound on the back of his hand, it must have been cut during the altercation.

Ruan Yu’s brow furrowed, looking at the wound on his hand, her heart felt like it was being squeezed by a hand, making it hard to breathe.

Ruan Yu lowered her head. Gu Yan Zhi didn’t notice her expression, he mistakenly thought she was feeling sorry for Jiang Chen, afraid that he would get hurt, so she did this. The words of accusation reached his lips but he swallowed them back.

He remembered what Ruan Yu said, “Trust her a little more.” He suppressed his anger, his eyes bloodshot red.

Seeing the wound on the back of Gu Yan Zhi’s hand, Ruan Yu’s cold gaze fell on Jiang Chen, then she looked at the bodyguard beside him, her voice filled with anger, “You were hired with money, not to eat for free. You watched your master get hurt.”

Gu Yan Zhi was startled by Ruan Yu’s words, the bodyguards beside him lowered their heads, not daring to speak.

It wasn’t that they didn’t step forward, it was that their master wouldn’t let them. When they were about to step forward, they were stopped by their master’s sharp gaze.

Ruan Yu released Gu Yan Zhi’s hand and stepped forward, approaching Jiang Chen. Jiang Chen was frightened by the gloom in her eyes, because the ruthlessness in her eyes was very similar to Gu Yan Zhi’s.

“Jiang Chen, you hurt Gu Yan Zhi, you came here standing, so you’ll leave crawling.” Ruan Yu’s voice was like a sharp knife, piercing Jiang Chen’s heart, “Tang Qingning made a scene at the Gu residence last time, and I ended up crippling one of her hands. Knowing your relationship with Tang Qingning, you must know, which part of you should I cripple today?”

Ruan Yu at this moment was no different from a devil from hell, with such an innocent and sweet face.

Jiang Chen’s heart skipped a beat. He wasn’t unaware of this incident, but when Tang Qingning told him about it, he didn’t believe it. He didn’t think that the usually naive and easily fooled Ruan Yu would do such a vicious thing.

At that time, he thought that Tang Qingning was afraid that he had developed real feelings for Ruan Yu, so she framed her. Now it seemed that he had overthought it, it was all true.

Gu Yan Zhi stared at Ruan Yu’s figure in disbelief. The usually sweet and innocent girl beside him seemed to have changed completely.

Ruan Yu’s gaze fell on the bodyguard beside her, “Since Mr. Jiang doesn’t want to be the esteemed young master of the Jiang family, he came here to find trouble, then you should take good care of him, don’t neglect him.”

Ruan Yu’s voice was light and airy, but it carried a strong sense of oppression, an oppression that was no less than Gu Yan Zhi’s, “Cripple his legs first, the rest depends on your loyalty to your master. He hurt your master, but don’t be too harsh, leave him with a breath to report back to Old Master Jiang.”

With Gu Yan Zhi’s methods, he could make Jiang Chen die silently, but that would be too easy for him. She wanted Jiang Chen to live a life worse than death.

Jiang Chen panicked. Looking at Ruan Yu’s posture, this was something she could do. “A-Yu, I’m your Jiang Chen Ge Ge, we agreed to run away together, go to a city where no one knows us, have you forgotten?”

Jiang Chen played the emotional card, hoping that Ruan Yu would remember their past and let him go. He also regretted why he had to come and cause trouble for Gu Yan Zhi.

Ruan Yu didn’t pay any attention to Jiang Chen’s words, she walked to Gu Yan Zhi and took his injured hand, a hint of heartache flashed in her eyes, “Does it hurt?”

Gu Yan Zhi reached out and gently stroked her head, “It doesn’t hurt.”

Ruan Yu glared at him with dissatisfaction, how could it not hurt? “Don’t do this kind of thing yourself next time, after all, not everyone’s blood is clean.”

Jiang Chen’s face turned ugly after hearing Ruan Yu’s words. This was not the first time Ruan Yu had humiliated him today.

“Let’s go home, I’ll help you put medicine on it.” Ruan Yu took Gu Yan Zhi’s hand and walked towards the courtyard.

Back in the living room, Ruan Yu found the medicine box and gently applied medicine to Gu Yan Zhi’s hand. There were wails coming from outside, about half an hour later, the sound outside stopped, and a bodyguard came in, “Mr. Gu, Miss, he’s only got a breath left, he’s fainted.”

Ruan Yu was very satisfied with this outcome, “Will his legs ever be able to stand again?”

“No,” the bodyguard answered truthfully.

It seemed that Jiang Chen would spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.

“That’s exactly what I wanted,” Ruan Yu said, “He brought it upon himself, he can’t blame anyone else.”

The bodyguard left the living room. Gu Yan Zhi’s burning gaze fell on Ruan Yu’s face, his eyes filled with an unclear emotion. His thin lips moved, but he didn’t say anything.

Ruan Yu returned to her usual sweet and innocent self, a sweet smile reappeared on her face, “Husband, you’re looking at me like that, are you dissatisfied with how I handled things?”

Gu Yan Zhi’s thin lips parted, “No.”

“Then why are you looking at me like that, Husband?” Ruan Yu said, “Could it be that there’s something on my face?”