Compared to the tolerance of the Gu family, Xia Xiaowan was scolded badly in her own home. Xia Nanze really wanted to beat her. He rolled up his sleeves in anger and rushed to her. But Gu Nianbin stopped him. Mrs. Xia kept scolding Xia Xiaowan, but stood in front of her, for fear that Xia Nanze would hurt her daughter in anger.

When she hit a nerve, Madam Xia’s eyes turned red, and she kept apologizing to Gu Nianbin.

Gu Nianbin wished he could divide himself into two. He had to pull Xia Nanze back as well as comfort Madam Xia. Xia Xiaowan just sat there with her head lowered, not saying a word.

In fact, the Xia family was mainly afraid that the Gu family would look for trouble. When they saw that instead of being angry, Gu Nianbin spoke up for Xia Xiaowan and heard that Xia Xiaowan had already apologized to the Gu family and was forgiven, they felt a bit relieved. After they got tired of scolding her, they stopped and calmed down.

This storm was over.

However, Xia Xiaowan did not expect that after she finally canceled her wedding with Gu Nianbin, Jiang Kaiwei started to trouble her.

Jiang Kaiwei didn’t come to her. Instead, he just sent some text messages from time to time. Even if Xia Xiaowan ignored him, he still did the same. In the beginning, his messages were a little emotional, such as: “I was very tired today, but when I thought of you, I was not tired anymore.”

“I had my lunch at Mona Lisa restaurant. I remembered that you loved the steak here the most.”

“I heard that there was a comedy film that has been very popular recently, do you want to watch it?”

Later, he sent her all kinds of nonsense such as: “I met with the higher-ups of the bank at night. They still looked the same on the surface. But I could see that there was a hint of schadenfreude in their eyes.”

What was even more baffling was: “Old Yan bought a pure white fancy carp. When I saw it floating on the surface of the water this morning, I thought it was dead and asked someone to throw it away. However, as soon as the man picked it with a net, it suddenly started to move away.”

“Do you have to tell me even when you bought a fish? Are you insane?” Xia Xiaowan thought to herself.

Xia Xiaowan was extremely annoyed. In the end, she had no choice but to change her phone number. However, it wasn’t quiet for long before her phone was overwhelmed with his text messages again. They were even more concentrated than before. Later on, he went even further and started to send her his selfies.

Xia Xiaowan could not imagine that the cold, domineering, and insufferably arrogant man in her impression would one day become a funny guy. This was simply too inconceivable!

This kind of earth-shaking change made her feel very ridiculous. But unconsciously, her hatred for Jiang Kaiwei also faded a lot.

Hatred had once blinded her heart, causing her to be filled with hostility and become extreme. That was why she had done such a ridiculous series of things. Thinking back, she felt ashamed. In fact, when Gu Nianbin was in a coma, she had already repented. She had become indifferent to many things. As her goodwill had begun to recover, she felt much more comfortable.

Then she finally understood that being a good person was actually much happier than being a bad person.

As for Jiang Kaiwei, she no longer hated him. It was just that they had been entangled for seven years, and she hated him for five years. After such a long time, she was tired.

Some mistakes, once made, could not be rectified, such as her miscarried child! That was a scar in her heart. Even if the scar was gradually blurred due to the passage of time, it would not disappear.

She didn’t read most of the messages that Jiang Kaiwei sent her. Occasionally, she would flip through them when she was bored. However, she never replied to those messages. She wanted to see how long Jiang Kaiwei could keep on doing this. Because in her impression, Jiang Kaiwei was an extremely impatient person.

Jiang Kaiwei was indeed an impatient person, but he had shown enough patience and endurance towards Xia Xiaowan.

These days, he had been reflecting on himself. He reflected on his immaturity when he was young and frivolous, on his tyranny and decisiveness, and on the root cause of all this. In the end, he understood that it was his problem. He was not confident in their relationship and was afraid of losing Xia Xiaowan. Because he was afraid of this, he simply pushed her away. In the end, it led to unexpected consequences.

Xia Xiaowan’s matter had affected him greatly. So he no longer took many things to his heart. His insufferably arrogant pride had faded, and he had become less aggressive. He even began to consult Shen Li on how to chase girls.

Sending text messages to Xia Xiaowan was a suggestion that Shen Li gave him. Shen Li also told him that the messages should not be too cheesy in language. He could sometimes talk about something emotional, some ordinary things, such as what he did every day, what happened, or what he was thinking of in his heart. The more real, the better. This move was called going about it little by little without a letup.

He did what Shen Li suggested. But then he found that Xia Xiaowan had changed her phone number. Then he ran to look for trouble with Shen Li.

Young Master Shen stretched out his long legs and shook the wine in his cup. He said calmly, “She just changed numbers. Can’t you get her new number?”

Jiang Kaiwei said, “So what if I got it? She can still change it. This means that she dislikes what I did.”

“That’s good.” Young Master Shen smiled and said, “Keep going! However, you should send her messages a bit more frequently. You must make her feel your presence at all times. Only then can you subtly change her impression of you.”

Jiang Kaiwei didn’t have any experience in dating. He had had so many girlfriends, but he didn’t need to put much effort into them because they all came to him for his money and his family. He had never been nice to anyone, and he didn’t know how to make a woman happy.

That was why he had asked Shen Li to be his love consultant. Jiang Kaiwei felt that Shen Li was right. So he sent text messages to Xia Xiaowan more frequently, whether he was resting or at work. He even did it during his meetings. It seemed that it had become a habit. He wanted to report to Xia Xiaowan immediately whatever he had done.

Shen Li laughed at him for being obsessed with it and asked if he had any results.

Jiang Kaiwei shook his head in frustration. “The messages went unanswered. I even sent my selfies as you told me. But she still didn’t respond at all.”

Shen Li asked, “Has she changed her number again recently?”

Jiang Kaiwei said, “No.”

Shen Li smiled and said, “She didn’t change her number even when you text-bombed her like this. This is her response! Not bad. Keep going. You can even warm her up even if she is like a piece of ice.”

Jiang Kaiwei raised his eyebrows and a smile appeared on his lips.

Seeing that Jiang Kaiwei was in a good mood and had become much more approachable recently, Shen Li dared to ask some questions, “Kaiwei, how can you be sure that the child is yours? Xiaowan never admitted it, did she?”

“She refuses to admit it because she hates me.” Jiang Kaiwei turned his chair to the window. When he saw the sunlight passing through the gap in the window to project a narrow golden mark on the ground, he stood up and simply opened all the curtains. The room got bright and beautiful immediately as the sunlight poured in.

He stood by the window for a while before saying, “I saw her medical records in the sanatorium. There was a videotape in it, recording what she appeared when she went out of control. The most frequent words she cried out was, ‘Jiang Kaiwei, you are a bastard, you killed your own child with your own hands!’ She was crazy, but those words were true.”

Shen Li asked, “Why don’t you regard it as her crazy words?”

“I have consulted a leading neurologist. The doctor said that when normal people speak, they often have to think about it before speaking. The brain has this function, so the language is always slower than the brain. However, when people get crazy, their brains are chaotic and there is no such function. The most frequent thing they said is often true, which could be found in many cases.”

“What if you make a mistake?”

“There is no ‘what if’.” Jiang Kaiwei turned around. “I believe in my intuition and her.”

“If this is all Lei Yajing’s doing, what are you going to do?”

Jiang Kaiwei’s eyes suddenly turned cold. “I’ve already done it.”

Shen Li was somewhat stunned. “That fast?”

“I thought it was too slow.” Jiang Kaiwei leaned against the window and sneered. “She is the first person who dares to play tricks with me. I haven’t been aware of her tricks for so many years!”

Shen Li kept cursing Lei Yajing. “I knew she wasn’t a good person. She and her brother aren’t good people.”

As they spoke, there was a noise outside the door. Shen Li pricked up his ears to listen and laughed, “Speak of the devil and she will arrive.”

Jiang Kaiwei pressed the intercom and ordered the secretary to let Lei Yajing come in.

Shen Li said, “Then I will leave for a moment. Don’t be too ruthless. She is a girl after all!”

Jiang Kaiwei ignored him and watched coldly as Shen Li left. Lei Yajing rushed in. Her face was pale and her eyes were red. She did not greet Shen Li and directly ran to Jiang Kaiwei. “Brother Kaiwei, please save my brother!”

Jiang Kaiwei sat lazily in his chair. “Why should I save him? His suffering is all thanks to you!”

Lei Yajing was stunned for a moment and said, “Brother Kaiwei, what are you talking about? Why can’t I understand?”

“In fact, I originally wanted to put you in jail. Then I thought about it again. Although you will suffer in the prison, your life will still be normal. Maybe you will get used to it after staying there for a while. When the time comes, your brother will spend some money and then get you out. So, I think it is better to put your brother in prison and cut off your way out. When you lose your backer, and you are not rich, your life will be more miserable than living in prison!”

“Why? Brother Kaiwei?” Lei Yajing was confused. “What exactly did I do? Why did you treat me like this?”

“You know what you have done.” The cold light in Jiang Kaiwei’s eyes was like a sword, stabbing straight at her.

Lei Yajing could not help but shiver. “I, I really don’t know.”

“You are so stupid. You are still pretending. I hate people lying to me, but you have kept lying to me for five years. That night five years ago, you stripped yourself naked and climbed into my bed. What did you want to do? After knowing that Xiaowan had my child and knew that I was outside, you deliberately said those ambiguous words to make me misunderstand, right?” Jiang Kaiwei’s brows furrowed tighter and tighter. “You successfully made us break up, forced Xia Xiaowan away, made her miscarry and almost go crazy. Do you know?”

“I don’t know, I don’t know, I really don’t know!”

Jiang Kaiwei roared, “Why did you do that?”

Lei Yajing’s lips trembled, and her body teetered. “It’s you, you said you hated Xia Xiaowan and you didn’t like her to appear in front of you all day long… I love you, everything I did was because of you!”

“Get out, get out!” Jiang Kaiwei did not want to see her again and had a disgusted expression on his face. “When you did those things, you should have thought of today’s end!”

Lei Yajing suddenly woke up to reality and knelt on the ground, hugging his leg. “Brother Kaiwei, I was wrong, I was wrong, I was really wrong… please…”

Jiang Kaiwei kicked her away and pressed the intercom, “Get the security guards to come and drag this woman away. In the future, she shall never step into the company again!”

Zhu Li responded and asked the security guards to come to take her away.

Knowing that the president personally gave the order, the security guards moved extremely quickly. They arrived in less than two minutes.

Zhu Li stood there and watched the woman with loose hair cry. When she saw that the woman was carried out by the security guards and dragged away, she shook her head with emotion. Those who were pitiful must have a cause for having sunk to their lows!