Chapter 9 - Wench (1)

Shu Yan, being the only one home, had something simple for dinner. After she finished cleaning up, she took a shower and decided to turn in early. She had been running around all day long and that was quite tiring.

On the top of the night table, there were pictures of the two kids. Perhaps, because she had the memories of the original owner, Shu Yan felt a closeness to the two children. Recalling their endings in the book, she felt a stiffness in her chest.

In the book, the two of them did not have a happy life. Ye Jingjing quit school after graduating high school and joined the workforce in order to support her brother, Ye Tianbao, to continue to go to school. The two of them hated Ye Zhiqiang their entire lives.

One time, Ye Tianbao’s company had a project together with Ye Zhiqiang’s company, and Ye Ranran was Ye Zhiqiang’s company’s representative. Ye Jingjing saw the white swan like Ye Ranran, became crazy jealous of her, and wanted to set her up. And, Ye Tianbao decided to help out his sister.

During dinner, Ye Tianbao added drugs to Ye Ranran’s food. Ye Jingjing worked at the hotel and her plan was to take Ye Ranran, who looked like she was drunk, into a room and take naked pictures of her.

Of course, the female lead would never truly be hurt. Right when Ye Jingjing was leaving with Ye Ranran, they ran into the male lead, who just arrived at the restaurant. He saved the female lead.

After that event, the male lead set Ye Jingjing up and sent her straight to jail. Ye Zhiqiang, seeing that Ye Tianbao was his oldest son, protected him, but he was still forced to leave City Xi. He was brought up one more time in an extra chapter where he died in a car accident like his mother. Shu Yan didn’t think much of it when she was reading the novel; they were merely cannon fodder. But now that she had become their mother, she had a different take on it.

Wasn’t that too much of a coincidence? There weren’t that many cars back in ’92. According to the original owner’s personality, she would most likely have taken both of her children back to the village where she came from. Other than the two buses a day, Lingan Township only has a few tractors. How did she end up dying in a car accident? And her son Ye Tianbao, he was forced out of City Xi, then died in a car accident shortly thereafter. How did both of them die in car accidents? And both died on the scene no less.

Shu Yan shuddered from her own conspiracy theory. Ye Zhiqiang didn’t care about his children, their fate would probably be worse being with him than with her. She had promised original owner that she’d take care of her children. In addition, Shu Yan quite like children. Now that she had gained two children without having to carry them for 10 months in pregnancy, she quite honestly felt like she had gottem the longer end of the stick.

She heard the sound of a door opening, and her heart tightened. Ye Zhiqiang? What was he doing here?

She saw Ye Zhiqiang. Just like in her memory, he was wearing a floral shirt paired with a light-colored pants and a gold chain that was the size of a pinky finger along with his bald head. He couldn’t look any more like a parvenu.

“Have you signed the papers yet?” was the first thing he asked.

Shu Yan pursed her lips and faked a sad look. She couldn’t afford to alert him right now. She needed to wait till she had collected the evidence that she needed…

“What about our kids if we get a divorce? You don’t even want your son anymore?” said Shu Yan as she choked back her tears.

“If it wasn’t for my son, why would I leave you the house? You will have the house and money. And, I will send you an additional $300 a month so you can just stay home to bring up the kids. Go ask around Lingan Township. You’ll see that your situation is the best out of all of them. Alright, stop dragging it out, just sign the papers,” said Ye Zhiqiang impatiently.