The Rich Man's Life Begins with a Comeback

Chapter 276 Silent Love (4k)

A cold wind swept across our faces, carrying with it the smoke of firecrackers.

From an environmental perspective, this is air pollution.

From an emotional perspective, this is the warmth and joy of family reunions.

Jiang Ruan walked out of the building entrance, tightened her long down jacket, and then took out her car keys from her pocket with her right hand, unlocking the Maybach GLS600 parked not far away.

As the car lights came on, Jiang Xinjie, Zhou Ruoyu, and Zheng Weiyi all instinctively turned their gazes towards it. When they saw that Jiang Ruan had actually driven this car back, they were all immediately shocked.

"sister!"

"Is this your car?"

Jiang Xinjie is 17 years old this year, which is the age when he loves cars the most. When he saw the lights of the Maybach GLS600 turn on, his eyes lit up immediately, and he ran towards the car excitedly: "Sister, can I open the door and take a look?"

"Look."

Jiang Ruan was six years older than Jiang Xinjie. When she was admitted to university, Jiang Xinjie was still a little kid who clung to her leg and pestered her every day to buy him toys.

"It's not my car."

A friend lent it to me.

Jiang Ruan looked at Zhou Ruoyu and Zheng Weiyi beside her and briefly explained the origin of the car.

"Boy friend?"

Zhou Ruoyu's face showed a hint of gossip.

"That's it."

Jiang Ruan smiled and gave an ambiguous answer.

Zheng Weiyi stood aside, looking at the imposing Maybach GLS600 and the four consecutive blue license plates with seven numbers hanging on the front of the car. He had some doubts about Jiang Ruan's achievement of being promoted to deputy general manager of the cabin department of Ruyi Airlines at the young age of 23.

"You two chat first, I'll help my brother spread out the firecrackers."

Zheng Weiyi said something to Jiang Ruan and Zhou Ruoyu, then took the long whip and walked to the open space, before bending down to unfold it.

"sister……"

"I'm so sorry, I embarrassed you in front of your family just now."

As soon as Zheng Weiyi left, Zhou Ruoyu took Jiang Ruan's arm and immediately said, "You know what kind of personality Grandma has. She kept bringing this up intentionally or unintentionally after we started talking about it. And since it was Weiyi's first time visiting our house this year, he definitely couldn't refuse out of politeness."

Zhou Ruoyu looked very guilty and explained the matter to Jiang Ruan again.

Although the two sisters are only a few months apart, they have always had a good relationship, and Zhou Ruoyu also highly approves of and respects her cousin Jiang Ruan.

During their school years, Jiang Ruan was undoubtedly the campus goddess, whether in junior high or high school, with countless suitors and receiving all sorts of gifts almost every day.

Milk tea, fruit drinks, beverages, desserts, and cakes were almost non-stop from morning to night. At that time, she was like a little follower. Jiang Ruan never touched these things, so in the end, they all ended up in her stomach.

This meant that even though her living expenses were very limited during her school years, she was able to live a very comfortable life thanks to her cousin's support, and her daily life was incredibly pleasant.

Over time, the idea that following my cousin's lead meant I would have meat to eat had become ingrained in my bones, and this led to an unforgettable and profound bond between us.

She had just heard at home that her cousin had been scammed out of 25 yuan after graduation and had missed the opportunity to become a member of China Southern Airlines' Pearl Blue program. Listening to her cousin recount her difficult experience of surviving, she almost burst into tears.

"It's fine."

“I know Wei Yi meant well.”

Jiang Ruan wasn't a woman who acted without discernment. She clearly understood the old man's desire to protect the child, and she also understood that Zheng Weiyi had to swallow his pride to make that phone call because he owed a great debt of gratitude. Ultimately, the way things turned out was her fault.

"Wei Yi looks good."

"Refined and polite, simple and honest."

"He's good-looking and tall, and he spoils you a lot."

Jiang Ruan watched as Zheng Weiyi, after laying out the long string of firecrackers, hurriedly helped Jiang Xinjie unload things from the trunk, and asked with a hint of admiration, "How old is he this year? How long have you been dating?"

He is three years older than me, 26 years old this year.

Zhou Ruoyu replied softly, "We've been dating for four years."

"Four years?"

"You started dating as soon as you entered college?"

Jiang Ruan looked slightly surprised.

"Uh-huh."

"At that time, he had just entered his senior year of college and was the president of our school's student union."

When talking about her past relationship, a sweet smile appeared in Zhou Ruoyu's eyes: "That guy was cunning. I originally thought that our meeting was a coincidence, but in fact he had already secretly fallen in love with me. The so-called coincidence was just something he did on purpose."

Looking at Zhou Ruoyu's undisguised sweetness and happiness, Jiang Ruan couldn't help but smile slightly.

With such a beautiful cousin as Jiang Ruan, Zhou Ruoyu naturally wouldn't be too bad off either.

If Jiang Ruan is a cool and aloof beauty, then Zhou Ruoyu is a sweet and charming girl next door, with crescent-shaped eyes when she smiles and milky-white skin.

She paled in comparison to Jiang Ruan, but in a crowd, she would still be a stunning beauty who would turn heads.

What does his family do?

Jiang Ruan continued to ask, "He went home with you this year, so have you met his parents?"

“His father is a high-ranking official at the Yanjing Energy Bureau, and his mother is a professor at Yanjing Institute of Technology. I met his parents and other family members last Mid-Autumn Festival. They all treated me very warmly.”

Zhou Ruoyu did not hide anything and told Jiang Ruan the truth.

"The terms are that good?"

Jiang Ruan was taken aback, her delicate brows furrowing slightly: "He is from a ministry-affiliated unit. Although Ruoyu, you successfully passed the exam for the tax bureau in Yanjing this year, isn't there a bit too much of a gap between our families?"

“At first I was a little worried, and I mentioned it to Weiyi, but he was very firm in his feelings for us, and judging from how his parents treated me, I stopped worrying about it.”

At this point, Zhou Ruoyu's face inexplicably turned red. She leaned close to Jiang Ruan's ear and whispered, "Sister, we are each other's first love, and we both gave each other our first time. I believe he will cherish me."

When Jiang Ruan heard what Zhou Ruoyu said, she was slightly stunned, and then her first time inexplicably came to mind.

To be honest, her experience that night was indescribable. As her heart was gradually filled by Gu Heng, every time she recalled that night, she would have a completely new feeling.

'that is……'

'I wonder how many times he did it that night.'

Jiang Ruan's mind wandered, and she felt inexplicably bittersweet.

"sister?"

"What are you thinking about?"

When Zhou Ruoyu noticed that her cousin had drifted off into thought while she was talking, she couldn't help but wave her hand in front of Jiang Ruan's eyes.

"nothing."

Jiang Ruan came to her senses and gently shook her head.

"hey-hey……"

"Then, sister, do you and your brother-in-law have..."

Zhou Ruoyu winked at Jiang Ruan, her expression full of gossip.

"Children shouldn't pry into adults' affairs."

Jiang Ruan pursed her pink lips, not answering Zhou Ruoyu's gossip.

"I'm not Jiang Xinjie!"

"I'm not a child, you're only a few months older than me!"

Zhou Ruoyu's cheeks puffed out slightly: "Sister, don't be stingy! I just shared everything with you, I promise I won't tell Uncle and Aunt!"

"Eh……"

"I didn't ask that on my own initiative~"

"That's exactly what you wanted to say~"

Jiang Ruan's lips curled slightly, and her cool eyes were filled with a smile.

"Second sister, did you just call me?"

Jiang Xinjie came running over at this moment, and then looked at Jiang Ruan with expectant eyes: "Big sister, the box of pineapple juice you bought looks really delicious. Can I open a box and try it later?"

"Jiang Xinjie!"

"How old are you?!"

"Why are you still acting like a child!"

Zhou Ruoyu was gossiping when Jiang Xinjie interrupted her, and she immediately became furious: "All you do during the New Year is eat and drink, you big glutton!"

"Isn't Chinese New Year all about eating and drinking?" "If you don't want us to drink, then you don't want us to drink. Why are you being so fierce?"

Jiang Xinjie pouted, looking slightly aggrieved.

"Drink."

"You can open whatever's in the trunk."

"Drink whatever you want, eat whatever you want."

Looking at Jiang Xinjie's seemingly wronged expression, Jiang Ruan smiled and shook her head: "Big sister approves. If anyone doesn't let you eat, just say it was me who said it."

"Oh yeah!"

"Big Sister is awesome!"

Jiang Xinjie was overjoyed to receive Jiang Ruan's permission and made a face at Zhou Ruoyu before leaving.

"Stinky boy!"

"You're 17 years old already, why are you still acting like a little kid!"

Enraged, Zhou Ruoyu grabbed a handful of snow and threw it at Jiang Xinjie, but he dodged it with a pigeon leap, making him even more arrogant.

"Boys tend to mature later."

Although Jiang Ruan said this, she was thinking of Gu Heng again.

Thinking back to when they first met, Gu Heng was only 18 years old, yet he exuded a mature demeanor in every gesture. That contradictory temperament, a blend of youthful charm and maturity, truly captivated her at the time.

"Crackling..."

Just as Jiang Ruan's thoughts were drifting away, Jiang Xinjie lit the fuse of the whip.

In an instant, a continuous burst of firework exploded, and countless firecrackers and red paper scattered all over the ground, turning into a natural red carpet for the New Year's Eve festival.

The entire string of firecrackers, numbering ten thousand, burned for more than half a minute before finally stopping.

"Let's move the things."

"Can the four of us carry it all upstairs?"

Jiang Ruan walked towards the Maybach GLS600. Jiang Xinjie and Zheng Weiyi had just moved everything from the trunk to the ground, making it look like a small mountain.

"It's definitely not enough for just the four of us."

Jiang Xinjie feigned seriousness: "The only thing we can do now is call our old man down to help!"

"so rude!"

No sooner had Jiang Xinjie finished speaking than Zhou Ruoyu smacked him on the head.

"Well played."

"Not polite."

This time, Jiang Ruan did not protect Jiang Xinjie, but offered a quiet word of encouragement.

"Wrong, wrong."

Seeing his two older sisters form an alliance, Jiang Xinjie instantly smiled obsequiously and became submissive: "Should I call my dad and the others now and ask them to come down?"

"Stop bothering them."

Zheng Weiyi offered his opinion at the opportune moment: "Let's take as much as we can, and come down again later."

"So, we'll put the rest of the things here?"

Jiang Xinjie looked around: "How about I move some more into the trunk?"

"Just call your third aunt and ask her to keep an eye on things by the window."

“We’ve been neighbors here for many years. No one would dare to touch something that looks obviously valuable and has an owner.”

Looking at the mountain of New Year's goods in front of her, Jiang Ruan realized just how comprehensive Gu Heng's preparations were. It turned out that when she opened the trunk of the villa on the mountaintop, she only saw the surface layer and forgot just how spacious the trunk of the Maybach GLS600 was.

Libyan ham, luxury dried abalone, ready-to-eat bird's nest, Buddha Jumps Over the Wall soup...

Cases of Moutai, cases of Lafite, cases of Zhonghua cigarettes.

Various expensive health products, as well as top-tier skincare products.

Leaving aside the items whose value she doesn't recognize, even the items whose value she does recognize, if added together, would probably amount to several hundred thousand.

Jiang Ruan and her younger siblings moved these things into the house one after another, which quickly attracted the attention and amazement of the elders.

"Ruan Ruan, did you buy all of these?"

Jiang Dong stood at the door with his hands on his hips, glaring at everyone, and said, "How much does all this stuff cost in total? If we make money and then squander it all, are we going to starve ourselves?"

"These……"

"My boyfriend asked me to bring them back."

Originally, Jiang Ruan did not intend to reveal Gu Heng's existence to her family because she was afraid that if her family knew about Gu Heng, they would ask her all sorts of questions, and she did not know how to explain her relationship with Gu Heng. After all, she herself was not clear about what kind of relationship the two of them had.

But now that all these New Year's goods are in front of her family, she has no choice but to bring out Gu Heng, because the total value of these goods is completely beyond her spending power.

"Ruan Ruan has a boyfriend?"

Aunt Jiang Ruan asked curiously, "Is that Mercedes downstairs your boyfriend's?"

"Mom, that's a Maybach!"

"Mercedes-Benz is just a little brother compared to Maybach!"

Jiang Xinjie, still a young man at heart, couldn't help but show off: "Both are GLS, but a Maybach is almost enough to buy two Mercedes!"

"You think you know everything!"

"He doesn't understand what he should know, and he understands everything he shouldn't know!"

When Jiang Ruan's third aunt heard Jiang Xinjie interrupt, she glared at him fiercely. Upon seeing this, Jiang Xinjie instinctively shrank back and hid behind Jiang Ruan.

My boyfriend lent it to me.

Jiang Ruan nodded and readily admitted it.

When did you talk about it?

How old is the other person this year?

"What's your personality like?"

"Am I good to you?"

When the elderly father, Jiang Dong, heard that his beloved daughter had started dating without his knowledge, his questions immediately rained down on Jiang Ruan like cannonballs.

"We've been dating for six months, and he's about my age."

"She has a good personality and treats me very well."

Jiang Ruan quickly answered, and seeing that her father still wanted to ask more questions, she immediately said, "I'm hungry, everyone is hungry, let's get ready to eat."

Jiang Dong was somewhat annoyed when his daughter abruptly ended the conversation.

"Brother-in-law, who made fun of me for talking too much before?"

"If it were you, I think you'd be even more talkative than me."

Jiang Ruan's uncle put his arm around Jiang Dong's shoulder, his expression slightly gloating: "Now you know what it feels like to have your little cabbage, which you've raised with so much care, being eaten by a pig and being powerless to do anything about it, right?"

"Don't be sad!"

"Let's open a bottle of Moutai, brother-in-law, let's drink to our hearts' content tonight!"

As Jiang Ruan's uncle finished speaking, his hands naturally reached towards the whole case of Moutai, but Jiang Dong slapped them back halfway.

"Drinking Moutai?"

"Can you understand what it's like to drink?"

Jiang Dong rolled his eyes at the other person, then turned around, opened the liquor cabinet, took out a single bottle of Feitian Moutai, and slowly walked back while saying to the other person, "But since Ruoyu's boyfriend is here, let's drink this tonight."

"Ouch!"

"Brother-in-law is so generous!"

Upon seeing this, Jiang Ruan's uncle regained his cheerful smile.

The atmosphere became even more lively as everyone chatted and laughed.

After washing her hands, Jiang Ruan came out of the bathroom. Looking at the lively and peaceful scene before her, a touch of warmth appeared in her eyes.

At the same time, realizing that all of this was thanks to Gu Heng's silent dedication, she couldn't help but miss him even more...

(End of this chapter)