in2ebook Chapter 997 Distant Memory
Chapter 997 Distant Memory
Suddenly, he felt someone tapping his shoulder.
He looked up and saw a man in a black suit standing in front of him with a photo in his hand.
"Mr. Cheng, someone asked me to give this to you."
Cheng Yunchuan took the photo, took a look at it, and his pupils suddenly shrank.
The photo showed Jiang Mubai and a man hugging each other intimately. And he actually knew that man...
Cheng Yunchuan's brain was buzzing. In the photo, Jiang Mubai was nestled in a man's arms. The two were in an intimate posture. The man lowered his head and whispered something in her ear, while Jiang Mubai smiled shyly. Cheng Yunchuan had never seen that smile before.
He recognized the man. It was Gu Yan, Jiang Mubai's ex-boyfriend, a man he always thought had been completely forgotten by Jiang Mubai.
"What...what does this mean?" Cheng Yunchuan's voice trembled, as if it was a hoarse whisper coming from the depths of hell.
The man in black shrugged and said, "I'm just a messenger. I don't know. But, Mr. Cheng, take care of yourself." After saying that, the man turned around and disappeared into the crowd.
Cheng Yunchuan sat on the ground dejectedly, the photo slipping from his weak hands like a drifting leaf. He felt his heart being tightly grasped by an invisible big hand, and it became difficult to breathe.
Li Xueer's cries, the shouts of the reporters, the flashing of the flash lights...all of this became blurry and distant. The only thing he could feel was the excruciating pain.
He was betrayed.
He was betrayed by the woman he loved deeply.
He staggered to his feet and stumbled out of the press conference. He didn't know where he was going or what he should do. His mind was blank, with only endless despair and pain.
He walked aimlessly on the street. There was a lot of traffic and people coming and going, but no one noticed him. This once shining star now wandered in the corners of the city like a zombie.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, he came to the riverside. The river breeze blew on his face, but it could not blow away the haze in his heart. He looked at the sparkling river surface and suddenly had an urge to jump in.
Just then, his cell phone rang.
It’s Jiang Mubai.
He hesitated for a moment, but finally answered the call.
"Yunchuan, where are you?" Jiang Mubai's voice sounded calm, as if nothing had happened.
Cheng Yunchuan sneered, "Why, you're willing to call me? Are you done with your old lover?"
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a moment, and then Jiang Mubai sighed. "Yunchuan, you misunderstood."
"Misunderstanding? The photos have been taken, what are you still trying to argue about?" Cheng Yunchuan's voice was full of anger and sarcasm.
"That's not what you think," Jiang Mubai explained, "Gu Yan...he just ran into some trouble, and I just helped him."
"Help him? Help him to the point of giving him a hug?" Cheng Yunchuan roared.
"Yunchuan, please listen to my explanation..."
"I don't want to hear it!" Cheng Yunchuan interrupted Jiang Mubai rudely, "We're over! It's completely over!"
After saying that, he hung up the phone angrily and threw the phone into the river.
Watching the phone slowly sink to the bottom of the river, Cheng Yunchuan's heart sank with it.
He turned around and walked in the opposite direction, his back looking desolate and lonely.
However, the moment he turned around, he did not see that Jiang Mubai was standing not far away, looking at him silently.
Her eyes were filled with tears.
She slowly bent down and picked up the photo on the ground. In the photo, Gu Yan was hugging her tightly, his eyes full of worry and heartache.
Although there was a smile on her face, behind that smile lay deep helplessness and bitterness.
At this moment, a black car slowly stopped in front of Jiang Mubai. The car window slowly lowered, revealing a familiar face.
"Mu Bai, get in the car."
Jiang Mubai raised his head and looked at the people in the car with complicated eyes.
"elder brother…"
"It's time to tell you something."
Jiang Mubai took a deep breath, opened the car door, and got in.
The car started slowly and disappeared into the night.
Cheng Yunchuan, however, knew nothing about all this. He walked alone on the empty street, like a child who had lost his way.
He didn't know that a bigger storm was brewing...
Jiang Mubai got into the car, and the car was filled with a faint scent of sandalwood, which was familiar to her and the incense her brother Jiang Chengze used to use. She tightly grasped the photo, her knuckles turned white, but she said nothing.
Jiang Chengze started the car, and the black car drove smoothly into the night. He glanced at his sister through the rearview mirror and sighed, "Cry, it's hard to hold it in."
Jiang Mubai's tears finally burst out, rolling down like pearls from a broken string. "Brother, why...why did he misunderstand me like this?"
Jiang Chengze reached out and rubbed her hair, his tone gentle but with a hint of helplessness: "Silly girl, there are some things that are not the time to tell him now."
"But... I don't want him to misunderstand me, I love him..." Jiang Mubai said with a sob.
"I know," Jiang Chengze's tone became serious, "but some things are more important than love. Do you think I'm willing to let you suffer? Do you think I'm willing to watch him misunderstand you?"
Jiang Mubai raised his head and looked at his brother with tearful eyes, "Brother, what's the matter? Why can't you tell me?"
Jiang Chengze was silent for a moment, then slowly said: "Mu Bai, do you still remember our father?"
Jiang Mubai was stunned for a moment. Her father died when she was very young, and her memory of him was already very vague. "I remember... not very clearly..."
"Our father is not an ordinary businessman," Jiang Chengze's tone became low, "He...he used to be..."
He paused, as if hesitating whether to continue.
"What is it?" Jiang Mubai asked.
"He is... a gangster boss," Jiang Chengze finally said, with a trace of pain in his eyes, "Our Jiang family used to be an underground empire that controlled the entire Southeast Asia."
Jiang Mubai's eyes widened in shock. She couldn't believe what she heard. "How...how is this possible?"
"It's true," Jiang Chengze said with a wry smile, "After my father passed away, I took over his position, but I don't like this kind of life. I want to whitewash the Jiang family and give you a normal future."
"So...so Gu Yan..." Jiang Mubai seemed to understand something.
"Gu Yan is the heir of the Gu Group. The Gu Group, on the surface, is a legitimate business, but in fact, it has been secretly against our Jiang family," Jiang Chengze explained. "I approached him in order to obtain evidence of the Gu Group's crimes and completely bring them down."
"That...that photo..." Jiang Mubai's voice trembled.
"That was just acting," Jiang Chengze said, "I needed Gu Yan to believe me, so..."