“But I didn’t dare to come back. I was afraid that you would blame me, so I wanted to wait for me to stand at the highest position and then come back to stand beside you. Shen, can’t you really forgive me?” As soon as she finished speaking, she choked. It was as if Shang Jinshen could send her to hell without saying a word. She was completely stuck in Shang Jinshen’s answer.
Shang Jin looked at her with a complicated look in his eyes. After a long while, he said, “I didn’t blame you.”
Hearing this, Maggie was surprised and took a step closer to him to confirm. “Really? You don’t blame me?”
He nodded. There was nothing to forgive if he didn’t blame her. Looking at Maggie’s sudden smile, he felt as if he had seen a little girl a few years ago.
Maggie suddenly leaned over, hugged his waist, and buried her happy face in his arms, showing a proud smile in a place no one could see.
Seeing this, Mrs. Shang smiled. It seemed that her son still could not forget Maggie.
In the past, she didn’t like Maggie, but compared with the annoying Ji Yan, she would rather let Maggie be the daughter-in-law of a merchant. Moreover, Ji Yan had been married for so long, but she didn’t add a son or a daughter to the merchant, which made her even more dissatisfied.
Shang Jinshen, who was held in her arms, suddenly stiffened. He couldn’t help but think of Ji Yan’s temperature. Then he looked up and only saw a white dress on the corner of the stairs.
Ji Yan closed the door and leaned against it. It should be over soon, right? This marriage was not supposed to begin.
Shang Jinshen stood in front of the guest room for a long time. He dropped his hand, which was about to knock on the door, and then walked to the study with a poker face.
She didn’t ask, and there was no need for him to deliberately explain anything. Thinking of Ji Yan’s calm face, Shang Jinshen couldn’t help feeling angry.
Looking at the sparkling stars outside the window, Ji Yan gradually fell asleep. In the dream, the man in front of her turned around and walked to another person without looking back. She was alone.
When Ji Yan woke up, it was dawn. It didn’t matter if she pretended to be calm. The dream was the most real state of mind. She couldn’t deny how uncomfortable it was for her to watch Shang Jinshen go further and further away in her dream. She wanted to ask him not to go. However, her pride and dignity didn’t allow her to open her mouth and beg him.
She knew that begging was useless. Otherwise, she would not have begged her mother not to send her away when she was young. But she was still sent to the Ji family.
She begged her father and mother not to send her mother abroad, but her mother sent her to a foreign sanatorium in a fit of mental illness.
She didn’t want to marry a businessman for Ji M, but in the end…
With a wry smile, Ji Yan simply got up, changed into sportswear, and ran out of the shop in the morning light.
She walked around the track near the villa, wiping away her sweat. The more she ran, the calmer her heart was, as if all her troubles were scattered with sweat.
Panting and wiping her sweat, Ji Yan began to run again.
“Oh, what a coincidence.” Suddenly, a man’s voice came over. Ji Yan looked back and saw a man in white casual clothes running beside her. He looked very unrestrained and romantic.
“Who are you?” She frowned and looked at the man who came to hit on her.
This question made the man stunned, and then he looked at her with disappointment and said with a smile, “Have you forgotten me? It’s really too much for you to remember.”
Huh? Ji Yan looked at the man carefully and finally confirmed that she really didn’t know him.
The man had no choice but to spread out his hands. “Last time at the bar, Sister Liu, do you remember?”
She looked more confused, thinking with a frown, and then said in surprise, “The person who said he wanted to invite me to drink Changdao Ice Tea?”
He laughed and said, “It seems that I didn’t drink until the end.”
Ji Yan smiled embarrassedly. “Are you Sister Liu’s friend?”
Thinking of that sexy Sister Liu, the man raised his eyebrows and said evilly, “Yes.”
What did he mean? Ji Yan didn’t understand, but she didn’t ask any more questions. Even if he was Sister Liu’s friend, they were not so familiar with each other that they could chat.
Seeing the girl running silently, the man was not willing to fall behind and continued, “Miss Ji, last time I told you to remember my name. You won’t forget, will you?”
Name? I really forgot.
… For the first time, Meng Shaotian felt so humiliated in front of a woman. It had always been a woman who took the initiative to ask him for a Ji Gui card. She had never forgotten his experience of self-introduction in the blink of an eye.
“My name is Meng Shaotian. If I forget it again, it will really hurt my self-esteem.” He made an exaggerated expression.
Ji Yan nodded gently, but the words “Meng Shaotian” repeated in her mind, which seemed a little familiar.
However, there was one more important thing to ask first. “Um, why are you here?” And he happened to come to talk to her.
Meng Shaotian said slowly, “My family also lives nearby. Miss Ji, you don’t know the neighbors nearby, do you?”
“It’s true. I don’t know her. Since Ji Yan married into a merchant’s family, she has never met anyone living in the surrounding villas. She must be rich or noble.”
Thinking of this, she began to distance herself from the man who called himself Meng Shaotian. The rich became too fast, and she didn’t want to deal with him anymore.
Young Master Meng was so smart that he had always been very good at grasping women’s thoughts. Naturally, he instantly felt that Ji Yan was obviously estranged from him.
But he was confused. Generally, women couldn’t wait to have something to do with him after knowing his identity, but this woman… Well, he admitted that she was not an ordinary woman. After all, she was the young lady of Shang Jinshen.
But Ji Yan didn’t think about dealing with him until this second. The next second, she lost her balance and immediately leaned down.
Meng Shaotian instinctively grabbed her slender waist and supported her to stand up. However, in just a few seconds, the lights flashed a few times not far away.
Ji Yan didn’t know anything, but Meng Shaotian had been in love for a long time. He couldn’t hide that kind of secret photos from his eyes. However, Meng Shaotian, who missed the soft touch on his hands, didn’t want to care about those paparazzi at all.
“Thank you.” She thanked him and quickly distanced herself from him. If it weren’t for Meng Shaotian, she would have fallen.
Meng Shaotian’s handsome face was full of smiles. He said in a gentle voice, “Be careful.”
Ji Yan pursed her lips and walked out. The slight pain in her ankle slowed her down. Similarly, Meng Shaotian also took a long look at the runway and turned to catch up with her.
“Meng? Mr. Meng, don’t you want to run anymore?” Ji Yan asked after thinking for a while. He was still the most suitable person to call him Mr. Meng.
Meng Shaotian also heard her address. He smiled and said, “It’s so boring to run alone.”
… Ji Yan kept silent and didn’t want to say anything more.
“This temper is really… How did she become so cautious after waking up after drinking in the bar that night when she looked so innocent and lovely?” Meng Shaotian naturally would not miss the vigilance in Ji Yan’s eyes. From just now to now, he only saw Ji Yan’s coldness, alienation, vigilance, and a kind of faint loneliness around her.
It seemed that this little lady was really interesting. Her personality was changeable, and she was favored by that woman, Lu Liu. What should he do if he became more and more interested?
Rubbing his chin, Meng Shaotian watched Ji Yan leave in a hurry with an evil smile.