Chapter 0034 – Swapping Identities (1 / 2)

After returning to the mansion, Jiang Xia still continued his previous attitude towards Chen Jieyi, and even though her anger subsided later and she quietly slipped out of the study and timidly greeted Jiang Xia, Jiang Xia still intensified his efforts to ignore her presence.

Chen Jieyi was already aggrieved, after Jiang Xia’s attitude towards her, just one morning, the other people in the mansion also gradually cold her, making her miserable. What’s more, Jiang Xia directly asked Cheng Yu to move to the mansion to live, live where not, Jiang Xia insisted on sleeping with Cheng Yu in the same bed, as long as it can promote the cooperation with the Mo Lin Group, Xu Yin of course, is happy to accept.

No one asked Chen Jieyi’s opinion, and it wasn’t until Lao Liang cleared her personal belongings to the study on the second floor and set up a simple bed that Chen Jieyi realized that Cheng Yu had already taken over and hijacked the position that was rightfully hers.

Liang Shaoruo moved both of Aunt Li Chunxia’s children into his bedroom, leaving the study to her.

“Did I do something wrong… why are you treating me like this…” questioned Chen Jieyi as she stopped Liang Shaoruo, but he completely ignored her cries and pushed her away with an expressionless face.

“This is Mr. Xu’s arrangement.”

After everything was packed up, Chen Jieyi was thrown in the study, she crouched on the desk piled with design drawings, looking at the locked door, listening to Cheng Yu and Jiang Xia’s laughter downstairs, she cowering, silent tears sliding down her cheeks, swooshing on the piles of drawings.

A sense of abandonment and despair arose, the character makes it difficult for her to hold a grudge against others, Chen Jieyi locked herself in the study is also just a gamble with Jiang Xia, as long as Jiang Xia took the initiative to give her an apology is good, but she finally waited for, is Jiang Xia’s complete estrangement.

Her past psychological ills have made her instinctively fearful of this sense of alienation, which means a loss of security. Her early experience of studying abroad made her realize this deeply. At that time, Chen Jieyi had to work two jobs at the same time in order to maintain her daily expenses due to her family’s limited ability to support her. This made the already unsociable Chen Jieyi even more distant from her classmates.

Drifting in a foreign land for nearly five years, she does not have a single friend who can be described as genuine. Chen Jieyi can only endure the molestation of restaurant owners, racial discrimination by gangsters and the uncomprehending stares of her parents on her own.

She also wanted to talk, but her ordinary looks, broken English and unsolicited personality could not allow her to integrate into the local social circle, but an inadvertent gesture by others to help her could make her grateful under the covers in the middle of the night, for Chen Jieyi, socialization is contradictory, she was increasingly afraid of interacting with strangers due to the fear of not fitting in, and on the other hand, because of the craving for security, she was always hoping that On the other hand, she longs for a sense of security and is always looking forward to someone who cares about her.

This contradiction under heavy pressure became more and more serious, and eventually evolved into a sick chronic disease.

Originally, the meeting between her and Jiang Xia in the underworld brought a ray of light to Chen Jieyi’s world, and now this ray of light has dwindled.

Chen Jieyi’s performance was all within Jiang Xia’s expectations, but she had no time to care right now, after dinner, Jiang Xia pulled Cheng Yu out for a walk.

Their emotions took off like a rocket in two days, and Cheng Yu held Jiang Xia’s hand tightly as they strolled through the streets bathed in slanting sunlight.

Jiang Xia suddenly retracted his hand and looked at Cheng Yu with a mysterious face, Cheng Yu thought that Jiang Xia was going to test him again and unconsciously swallowed his saliva.

But to his surprise, Jiang Xia just went around to the other side and gently caressed his injured shoulder.

“Does it still hurt?”

“Much better.” For the first time being cared for by Jiang Xia, Cheng Yu touched his head in embarrassment.

“The doctor said that although it was a stab wound, it didn’t break any bones, and that you handled it exceptionally well with the first bandage, so it’s basically fine.”

“Eh, how do you know I saved you?”

“It was that old thing Cheng Molin who told me, he even said that if you hadn’t fainted, he would have at least had a few words with you.” Cheng Yu was very nonchalant about his father’s name, but blushed a little as he said it.

“That old thing was spying on me in the middle of the night, he already knew who you were, and said I should take my chances or something…”

Jiang Xia almost couldn’t hold on to the fact that Cheng Molin, knowing that she might be the suspect in the kidnapping of his son, still went to great lengths to abduct him back to his “career”.

It was also fortunate that Chen Jieyi had gone into hibernation again at the critical moment, so Jiang Xia did not reveal himself.

F City had a water system around the city called the Minxin River, and the Minxin River channel was not far from the mansion, and without realizing it, they walked onto the stone bridge that spanned the Minxin River.

Jiang Xia suddenly stopped at the stone bridge under the street lamp, it was late, the soft yellow light haloed the dim night, Jiang Xia’s pretty face in the light and dark interlaced with the backdrop appeared to be more Chu Chu touching.

“Say, did it ever occur to you that I’m the real killer?”

“Testing me again?” Cheng Yu gradually got comfortable with Jiang Xia’s PUA.

But this time, Jiang Xia’s expression was unusually serious.

“I’m telling the truth, if I intentionally brought you to the central cultural square, intentionally let you go to a pastry store that doesn’t even exist, intentionally arranged for two thugs to knock you out when you were going up the stairs, and in order to threaten Mr. Cheng Molin, intentionally took a machete and cut your shoulder – have you ever thought about this possibility ?”

Cheng Yu froze, Jiang Xia’s firm eyes conveyed at all times that she wasn’t lying, but how was that possible?

“You…why did you kidnap me? If you kidnapped me…why did you save me.”

“So-you’ll firmly believe that I didn’t do you any harm, won’t you?”

Cheng Yu froze for a moment before nodding firmly.

“That’s for sure.”

After hearing Cheng Yu’s assurance, Jiang Xia smiled sweetly, in Cheng Yu’s eyes, her smile blended into the night color, but also became more and more hazy, like a dream-like trance, he thought that it was because he passed the test that he smiled, in this subtle atmosphere, he couldn’t help but move forward, wanting to embrace Jiang Xia, but she unexpectedly took a step backward, leaning her back against the railing of the stone bridge.

“But sometimes, even I doubt myself, let alone you. I don’t believe that you could have the courage to give up everything for me.”

As soon as the words fell, Jiang Xia leaned backward and fell into the Minxin River in response to the sound, although the river was not deep, but this kind of water system around the city was often full of silt, and the oxygen-rich water was also full of moss, coupled with the fact that this body was not at all versed in water, Jiang Xia could not stand up in the river at all, and in the blink of an eye, he began to struggle in the water to sink and float.

Although in the film and television drama have seen similar bridge, Cheng Yu how would not think that this kind of thing will happen to themselves, he still simply thought that Jiang Xia is in the test him, he did not hesitate for a moment, took off his jacket and shoes and jumped down, Cheng Yu’s water is good, but drag non-stop in the water struggling Jiang Xia or some effort, he made every effort, before finally dragged her to the shore.

After disembarking, the nearly deflated Cheng Yu collapsed to the ground and asked with great incomprehension.

“I say…we don’t have to be so extreme, you don’t know how to swim at all, if something really happens to you, I…I don’t know how to explain to that old thing.”

Jiang Xia, who had vomited half of her stomach, also gradually slowed down, and she rolled over and tightly hugged Cheng Yu, and he couldn’t even react in time, so Jiang Xia kissed him.

For the completely inexperienced Cheng Yu kissing is simply a blitz, his stomach of problems all by Jiang Xia’s soft warmth melted, disappeared without a trace.