Chapter 401 - Find A Chance To Announce Loudly To Feel The Excitement (1/2)
Chapter 401: Find A Chance To Announce Loudly To Feel The Excitement
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Chang Jingqiu was not looking down on the general public. On the matching of family status, since the Qi family did not mind, she had nothing to say about it. Considering the precedence of Song Yu’s example, the Qi family probably would not care.
However, Ruan Danchen’s identity, wasn’t that just disgusting?
Turning away someone from an honorable and reasonable background, just to get married to Ruan Danchen.
A wedding also involves the in-laws. Presented with a shameless woman the likes of Liu Ronghua, how would the Qi family be at peace?
“That’s not all, if it’s only about her identity, I would not be this unwilling. When I went to look for Qi Chenglin, how did I know he was married? Then Ruan Danchen had to accuse me of being a mistress, and she did so by baiting me to twist my words while hiding her identity, just to make a fool of me. After that showing off her relationship with Qi Chenglin in my face, with all her words filled with insults,” mid-sentence, Change Jingqiu started to cry, “Moreover, she was saying all those things in the first floor’s main hall in Qilin. That place was full of people coming and going, with so many of Qilin’s employees, and the front desk girls were just listening on the side. After I left, won’t this incident spread all over Qilin, even to our circles? Who knows what those people talked about behind my back.”
“She ruined my reputation.” Chang Jingqiu continued to cry, rubbing her tears with the back of her hands, looking pitiable, “Now that I think about it, I’m not sure if she was doing it on purpose, intentionally say all those stuff in front of others to slander against me just to take revenge on me. I didn’t know that Qi Chenglin was married, how could she treat me like that.”
Grandmother Chang grew more furious as she listened. “That’s over the line. With that kind of personality, how can she marry into Qi family!”
Based on Chang Qingqiu’s description, Ruan Danchen was many levels below her granddaughter. To think that Qi Chenglin would choose someone like that over her own granddaughter, Grandmother Qi feel aggrieved in her heart and that grievance could not find an outlet.
“It’s because of her acting skills. It took her so much effort to leech onto Qi Chenglin. In order to have the Qi family accept her and to get Qi Chenglin’s heart, she must have put on a gentle and generous facade, while revealing her despicable and mean personality behind their backs. Grandma, after some thoughts, I think she might have had a grudge on me since high school. However, I was still young and ignorant so I did not realize it. Now that I’ve grown up, stepping into society and started to slowly understand the way this world works, it’s starting to make sense.”
“Isn’t our family rich? I transferred schools midway, so on the third year of high school, I did not enter into Jixia High School, but instead, went to a public school. At that time, Chen Libai and I were the only ones with good family background. I was also quite popular. It would seem that Ruan Danchen did not like me much all the while, but during that time she was keeping a low profile in the class, keeping to herself. It may be due to her mother’s issue, she had quite the inferiority complex. At that time most people in our school knew about her mother’s incident, so her relationship with the students were not close. I did not realize it then, but now that I think about it, she treated me more coldly compared to anyone else. Whenever I initiated a conversation with her, she always ignored me, and even the way she looked at me was always cold.”
“Hmph!” Grandmother Chang harrumphed. “That’s her being envious, jealous! Behaving that way from such a young age, now that she’s grown up, at her current age, it’s no surprise that she turned out to be like you said. Especially with a mother without self-respect like Liu Ronghua, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, the daughter can’t be any better.”
Chang Jingqiu sniffled with her nose full of snot, finally stopping her tears, and said with puffy eyes, “If Qi Chenglin chose someone great, I wouldn’t mind. If he can’t recognize my value, that’s his loss, but to find someone like Ruan Danchen, how can accept it? Qi Chenglin and the whole Qi family is obviously tricked by Ruan Danchen. I don’t want to be a mistress, but I really want Qi Chenglin to see through Ruan Danchen’s real personality. I can’t allow him to be scammed by Ruan Danchen for his whole life.”
Chang Qingqiu did not go into detail, but Grandmother Chang understood fully. No matter what she said, Qi Chenglin was the Prince Charming in Chang Qingqiu’s life.
Now that Qi Chenglin was married to Ruan Danchen, by Chang Qingqiu’s perspective, it was as though casting pearls before swine.
Chang Qingqiu’s respect and veneration of Qi Chenglin could not accept that a woman like Ruan Danchen is destroying her Prince Charming’s image.
Grandmother Chang let out a long sigh and patted Chang Qingqiu’s back in consolation, “I can understand your feelings. To see such a good boy like Qi Chenglin to be tricked by Ruan Danchen, even I feel that it’s unfair. We must definitely not be a mistress. Tearing apart another family is also something we should not do. However, if it’s possible to have Qi Chenglin see Ruan Danchen’s true face and have him rid himself of such a despicable woman, that will be great. Of course, if Qi Chenglin already knew Ruan Danchen’s true face, yet pick her without a care of all consequences, then our hands are tied. We have done what we could.”
Chang Qingqiu nodded her head depressively. Grandmother Chang hugged her, consoling, “Isn’t Grandma’s birthday coming up? I will ask your uncle to send an invitation to the Qi family. They will have to give your grandmother some respect, they will come. At that time, I’ll personally talk to that Ruan Danchen.”
Chang Qingqiu was not afraid that her lies would be revealed since she already told Grandmother Chang that Ruan Danchen was two-faced. With that she had no fear that Grandmother Chang will feel that Ruan Danchen was likeable after meeting with her.
Rather, Grandmother Chang might even think that Ruan Danchen’s acting skills were just too good.
“Oh yeah, Grandma, there’s something else.” Chang Qingqiu lifted her head from Grandmother Chang’s embrace, frowning slightly. “Ruan Danchen claims that Qi Chenglin’s son is her biological son. Do you think they have been together back then?”
“Hmph, if that’s true, how old was Ruan Danchen when she was pregnant?” Grandmother Chang pouted, feeling even more annoyed.
“She’s the same age as me,” Chang Qingqiu said obediently.
“That means she’s only 19 years old when she was pregnant?” Grandmother Chang glared, already disliking Ruan Danchen even more before they even met. “Having a child for another man at 19 years old, what kind of morals! At that time she must have held onto Qi Chenglin unwilling to let go, yet somehow broke up afterwards.”
“Regardless, they are now together again.” Chang Qingqiu said. “I’m afraid Ruan Danchen is using the child to grab hold of Qi Chenglin. I heard the Qi family adored Qi Chenglin’s son greatly. If Ruan Danchen is really the biological mother, they might extend that love for his son over to her.”
Grandmother Chang groaned for a moment, then ruffled Chang Qingqiu’s hair, “alright, don’t think too much. This terrible incident has made you feel depressed. Take the afternoon off and go take a nap. You’ll feel better after a nap.”
Chang Qingqiu obediently nodded and stood up with droopy shoulders. Seeing her made her way upstairs dejectedly, Grandmother Chang felt aggrieved.
Chang Qingqiu went back to her room, sat on the bed and frowned in deep thought.
When she was bringing Ruan Danchen’s matter to Grandmother Chang, she thoguht of something.
Back then Qi Chenglin was engaged to Shen Zhijing, then later cancelled the engagement, and later without any notice brought a son back to the Qi family. Now Ruan Danchen suddenly appears and claimed that she was the biological mother.
Chang Qingqiu frowned as she paced within the room. Was this matter somehow related to Shen Zhijing?
No matter how you put it, Shen Zhijing was one of the persons involved in this.
After some thoughts, Chang Qingqiu took out a phone from her bag and gave Xia Zishan a call, “Zishan, are you close to Shen Zhijing?”
“A little. We have met a few times. What’s the matter?” Xia Zishan asked in confusion.
“Oh, nothing much. Invite her over for some fun when if she’s free,” Chang Qingqiu replied.
Xia Zishan was dumbfounded, and asked out of curiosity, “I don’t think you have met Shen Zhijing before right? Why do you suddenly want to meet her?”
“It’s just some minor things, no need to let her know. Just treat it as getting to know each other through some fun times. Be natural.” Chang Qingqiu said. “Don’t tell her that I’m trying to know her.”
“What’s going on?” Chang Jingqiu’s mysterious behavior was making Xia Zishan more and more curious.
“Don’t ask. Think of it as helping a friend,” Chang Qingqiu was getting a little impatient, but she did not want to voice it out.
“Sure, it’s just a small matter, nothing I can’t help with,” replied Xia Zishan. When it comes to Chen Libai’s matters, Chang Qingqiu was quite helpful. With Chang Qingqiu’s request being nothing too difficult, she would naturally agree to help.
“Let me see, how about tomorrow? I’ll give her a call and ask her out for dinner and karaoke. I’ll call along a few friends too. That should look more natural, and I’m sure she won’t think too much about it.”
“Alright, you take care of it,” Chang Qingqiu replied.
“Okay then, I’ll call her and make an appointment with her,” Xia Zishan said.
They then ended the call.
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The news of Ruan Danchen personally going downstairs to confront her love rival spread quickly and got to Qi Chenglin’s ears. Even the words used by Ruan Danchen on Chang Qingqiu brought to his knowledge.
Why would he know about it?
If was none other than the girls impatiently chatting with others, spreading the news that the director’s wife allied with the General Manager’s wife to fight with a mistress in full details. Ruan Danchen and Song Yu’s words were all repeated word for word.
When Jiang Yuan came to notify him, Qi Chenglin was laughing uncontrollably while listening. He felt that the way Ruan Danchen talked with Chang Qingqiu had a similar effect to Qi Youxuan in the way that it will make someone speechless.
After work, Qi Chenglin went directly to the design department’s door and waited for Ruan Danchen.
At first Ruan Danchen still had some unfinished work, but it was not worth going overtime or bringing it home, so she decided to finish it right here as it would only take another five or six minutes.
However with Qi Chenglin standing there at the door, everyone was heavily pressured.
Manager Zou had to stay for overtime that night so he took his mug and walked towards the pantry, wanting to get some coffee, yet unexpectedly ran into Qi Chenglin the moment he exited the door.
“General Manager!” Manager Zou panicked and blurted.
“Chill, I’m just waiting for Danchen,” Qi Chenglin said, making Manager Zou more nervous.
From his vantage point, Ruan Danchen kept working with her head down, not raising her head at all and continued to be oblivious to his presence.
“General Manager, please wait a moment, I’ll go notify Mrs. General Manager,” Manager Zou did not mind the troublesome title of ‘Mrs. General Manager’, but rather said it in all seriousness.
Without waiting for Qi Chenglin’s affirmation, Manager Zou had walked back with his empty mug.