When Jiang Rui holding Tuan Zi in her arms showed up in the Ying family mansion, everyone was shocked.
“Shit!” Chengcheng jumped up and remarked, “when did you get married, brother?”
Xin Qing, “Am I a grandma now?”
“From whom did you steal the child..” Wangwang asked with his lip corner rising. The 23-year-old boy resembled Xin Qing very much but his handsome facial features were gentler. Ah Sha would say that he was the prettiest child in the Ying family.
Eight years ago, the second day Ah Sha was saved, Jiang Rui came back with the prescription. However, he had to return to school on the same day. A year later, Xin Qing could stand up on her feet and another year later she finally walked like a normal person.
Since then, Wan Qingsi and Ying Xin held their wedding ceremony. On the same day, the news that Mei Jing had died of disease came out. There had been a long while when rumors ran rampant that Mei Jing was murdered by Wan Qingsi for he had regretted marrying the eldest daughter of the Ying family.
Wangwang came back from abroad three years ago and now the Xin Enterprises was changed into Ying Enterprises because the one who bought the Xin stock was exactly Wangwang.
“Happy birthday! Mom!” Jiang Rui said, putting down the child and walking to Xin Qing.
Xin Qing opened her arms to embrace him and said, “I haven’t seen you for another one year and you just brought me such a big surprise. Where is the mother?”
Jiang Rui looked very odd. Could he say that the mother ran away just like a ghost the day she saw him, leaving her own daughter behind?
“Brother, did you get married?” Chengcheng stared at Tuan Zi and said, “I am your uncle. Call me uncle, little fellow!”
When Tuan Zi had not spoken yet, Jiang Rui cast a glance at him and said, “I adopted her.”
“Ah Qing, look, I did say the Jiang family were all bastards. Since your son changed his surname into Jiang, he had learned to discard her own wife after having made use of her,” Ying Qingcang said with a sinister smile. “who can adopt a child that looks exactly like you.”
Xin Qing ignored their conversations, because Tuan Zi was staring at her with her twinkling eyes, whose lovely face resembled her when she was in her childhood.
“Alas, come here. Let me hold you!”
“Didn’t Ah Sha and Xunxun went back yet?” Jiang Rui asked and pretended to not see Xin Qing who was smiling at Tuan Zi who looked so naive.
Xin Qing patted Tuan Zi’s head and said, “they planned to come but Ah Sha was pregnant. This time she reacted violently, not like the first time she was carrying Fanfan and Xunxun didn’t want her to run around.” Fanfan was the son of Ah Sha and Wan Qingsi, having not reached four.
“Alas, I wish Ah Sha could bring me a granddaughter for me this time, just like…” Xin Qing asked, looking at the little girl, “what’s your name?”
“I am Tuan Zi.” Tuan Zi replied with her sweet voice. She could tell that the pretty grandma that held her was the most powerful one here. As long as she could please her, she didn’t have to mind others at all.
“Pooh!” Chengcheng drew near and said, “did you just give her such a funny name?”
Tuan Zi sunk her face and said seriously, “it was my mom!”
Jiang Rui frowned and fell into reflection. “So she was called Chen Tuan Zi?”
“Come!” Xin Qing pulled Tuan Zi to rose up and said, “grandma will find you something to eat!”
When the living room was left with all men, Chengcheng said, “Mom didn’t look like a grandma at all. She was so young, just like my sister.” His word aroused Ying Qingcang’s reaction whose face had been all the time straight. He nodded his head and turned to look at Jiang Rui with his wide-open eyes. “So what’s the story?”
“I’m also interested in the whole story.” Jiang Rui put off his coat and sit down, and told the story about Tuan Zi to everyone.
Wangwang raised his eyebrows and asked, “are you sure you didn’t touch a woman’s body at all?”
“No.” Jiang Rui shook his head affirmatively, and added, “they are not clean.”
In his mind, all other women were dirty except for Xin Qing. No one could understand why he had been so stubborn…
Of course, he would not tell anyone about that accident years ago. For him, being trapped by a woman and giving her the first time in such a way was a lifetime shame.
“Or should we do a DNA test?” Chengcheng proposed. Wangwang looking at Jiang Rui, “What do you going to do? Judging from the appearance, you are 80% father and daughter.”
Jiang Rui rubbed his forehead and said, “No, her mother will pick her up in a few days.”
“But what if she’s really your daughter?” Chengcheng said and he felt it was inappropriate.
“What’s up?” Jiang Rui said coldly, “who can force me to admit it if I wouldn’t do it.”
Ying Qingcang cast a glance at him and said, “Ah Qing likes her. If you only don’t want to admit her mother, we can keep this child.”
“You can expect Wangwang to marry early so that he can make a baby for you.” Jiang Rui refused his proposal for he didn’t want anything to do with the freak mother and daughter.
Jiang Rui came back today mainly because of the birthday of Xin Qing and plus Wangwang’s officially taking over the Ying Enterprises. Tomorrow, Ying Qingcang and Xin Qing would leave and go on a world tour. But Ah Sha was expecting again, so Xin Qing’s first stop was the Wan family base.
Jiang Rui at first didn’t plan to go back with Tuan Zi, but he was on a mission. If he caught attention only because of the little girl, then his half-year plot would be a total waste.
“I’m investigating an underground arms dealer in the northeast region who keeps a close connection with east Europe. They have met Tuan Zi before and thought she is my illegitimate child.”
Chengcheng chuckled and remarked, “your target is a woman?” Then he sighed and went on, “I’m confused. These years, the guys didn’t even recognize you, the War God since you carried out tasks in person. Aren’t they too stupid?”
“Because those who saw me have all died.” Jiang Rui said indifferently.
That year, only three persons graduated from Lesxi and Jiang Rui was one of them. When he came back, he accepted Xin Qing’s advice and changed his surname into Jiang and officially entered into the capital circle. Since the Jiang family sent him to the armed forces, he had made countless contributions in the past three years.
Jiang Rui even became the youngest general two years ago, who supervised the capital arm police defendant forces. Grandpa Jiang had said he was even assigned to some secret missions because of his training in Lesxi.
“My grandson will put you down at midnight and you will have nowhere to cry out your grievances!”
Tuan Zi had successfully won Xin Qing’s favor overnight in the Ying family. When she was about to leave the next day, Xin Qing packed a boxful of things for her to eat and gave her a set of jewelry full of child pleasure which was designed by herself.
“Why do you treat that child so nice?” Ying Qingcang asked and pulled Xin Qing from outside. “It’s cold out there. Why do you have to see them off?”
Due to the careful love of this man, the over-forty Xin Qing looked just like a little girl full of energy. Aside from her beauty, the time had brought her some tranquility and charm.
“I tell you, that child must be Xiao Rui’s daughter.”
Ying Qingcang held her waist and asked, “how can you be so sure?”
“My sixth sense!” Xin Qing boasted. “But the mother is unknown yet. When we go to the base, we ask Boss Wan to help us investigate it.”
“Mom, my brother didn’t want you to have anything to do with the child and her mother. You will put him in a dilemma by doing so.” Wangwang prompted, “Brother Xiao Rui doesn’t like it.”
Xin Qing snorted coldly, “do not imagine me unaware that Jiang Qianren had suggested last time that his mother wanted to advise Xiao Rui to marry the daughter of the Wen family. Luckily, I have asked Wen Pintang that his half-sister was not a good girl. I will not let Xiao Rui marry her!”
“When did you contact that Wen Pintang?” A cold voice of a man came to her ears which made Xin Qing cried an “ah”. She laughed embarrassingly and stammered, “it was… in other… on the other day. Huh huh!”
Ying Qingcang pulled her upstairs and said, “Come. Let’s talk, about how you call other men behind my back.”
Chengcheng said to Xin Qing who was waving her hand to ask for help, “mom, you should care about my dad’s feelings. He will be willing but unable in a few years.”
Xin Qing flushed and gave a stare at her son while Ying Qingcang threw a vase at hand in the corridor, which, however, was caught by Chengcheng who was agile to jump.
“Huh! I’m one of the bounty hunters. Don’t expect a vase can attack me surprisingly.”
Wangwang took a look at him and said, “You are on vacation because you damaged too many public properties on duty last time if I remember it right.”
“Right!” Chengcheng was not overwhelmed by his words. He pulled his luggage from under the sofa and said, “so I must find myself something to do.”
Seeing him dragging his luggage towards the door, Wangwang asked him in wonder, “where are you going?”
“Of course I will seek refuge with Brother Xiao Rui!”
“Huh huh…” Wangwang didn’t keep him and said to the already closed door, “hope you return alive.”
Chen Chen didn’t go far but hid in a nearby inn after she went from the hotel. She never thought that she could meet Jiang Rui in this place. What was more horrible was that Tuan Zi was with him now.
“Ah Zi, tell me what I should do?”
Ah Zi on the other side of the phone said sourly, “what’s to worry about what you should do. It’s a good chance for the father and daughter to foster a relationship. And by then you turn yourself in, and the Huaijiang War God might spare your life.”
“Don’t be ridiculous,” Chen Chen shouted. “Do you reckon he will forgive me? Even if he admits Tuan Zi, he won’t admit the mother of Tuan Zi. He might probably take Tuan Zi away and tear us apart.”
Chen Chen found it even more horrible to think about and said, “Ah Zi, I must figure out some way to get Tuan Zi back.”
“Aren’t you the one who left her to her father?” Ah Zi accused, “anyway, you have double Ph. Ds. Why do you act like an idiot when you are troubled by something like this?”
“You have no idea how powerful that man is!” Chen Chen denied that she was a coward and refuted, “under that circumstance, he stared straight at you when you opened the door. His eyes were like two swords. If I didn’t run away, I might be killed right away.”
Ah Sha suddenly went into silence and asked her in several seconds, “you mean, he has recognized you as the person who trapped him five years ago? Didn’t you say that you were wearing a hat so that he hadn’t seen your face?”
“How should I know it?” Chen Chen was confused too. When her men took action at the midnight, Jiang Rui could know how she was like. And she wore a hat when she was in the hotel. But why were his look and his eyes so horrible…?
She sighed and continued, “tell me. What am I going to do now?”