Flash Marriage: He is a Wife-pampering Addict

Chapter 1324: 1323 is not here to find you.

Wen Jin indifferently interrupted Jing Xiaocha: “It’s not too late to tell us now.”

“Yes, it’s not too late now. Actually, by voluntarily telling us, you are still being a good citizen. Has Zhang Jinlei always been bad to you? He even went so far as to hit you?”

Lu Zhiyan stared at Jing Xiaocha’s cheek, which still bore faint finger marks.

Jing Xiaocha touched her face with her hand and shook her head indifferently: “I’m used to it. Once I leave the country, he won’t have a chance to bully me.”

Zhang Jinlei, that bastard, is indeed detestable.

The ringtone of Lu Zhiyan’s cellphone sounded. He took it out, glanced at it, and said, “I need to go to the hospital now. Ah Jin, if you have something to do, you can go back first. I’ll arrange for someone to take Miss Jing back.”

“Okay, I’ll tell Ah Kai about it, just take your mom to Kangning Hospital.”

After saying that, Wen Jin turned around and left the office.

Jing Xiaocha watched Wen Jin leave the office and then turned to ask Lu Zhiyan: “Will Zhang Jinlei go to jail? If he does, how many years will he serve? Could he get a lighter sentence since he confessed voluntarily?”

“He treats you so badly, yet you still care about him?”

Lu Zhiyan squinted his eyes in puzzlement as he looked at Jing Xiaocha. People say that once a scar heals, the pain is forgotten. Her wounds hadn’t even healed yet, and she was already speaking up for him.

“I’m not speaking well of him. I just think his son is pitiful. If he and his wife go to jail, their son won’t have anyone to take care of him.”

“He has a son?”

***

On the way back to the factory, Wen Jin made a call to Gu Kai, telling him that a girl named Jing Xiaocha and her mother would come for a check-up soon.

“Ah Jin, don’t worry, I’ll take care of it,” Gu Kai assured promptly on the other end of the phone.

Wen Jin chuckled, “Telling you, of course, I’m at ease. Their expenses are on me; don’t charge them anything.”

“One million, huh? As if she lacks that money. Don’t tell me it’s because the witness is a pretty girl, and you have some ideas?”

Hearing Gu Kai’s teasing, Wen Jin softly cursed: “Earn some virtue, man. The girl’s still a minor.”

“A minor?”

Gu Kai obviously didn’t believe it.

To Wen Jin, Jing Xiaocha truly seemed no different from a minor—a petite and slender figure with casually tied ponytail, delicate facial features, and even that unruly personality, all reminiscent of a simple minor.

But such Jing Xiaocha inevitably made him think of the past Ranran.

Perhaps, it had been too long since Ranran got married and he had been too lonely, that upon seeing a young girl, he found some resemblances to Ranran in her.

“Yeah, she just graduated from high school and got into university but couldn’t afford it. However, she is not greedy for money; she actually said she didn’t want the one million, and just asked me to lend her three hundred thousand, promising to pay me back in the future.”

“Is there still someone who isn’t greedy for money?”

“You’ll see when you meet her. I’m hanging up now, call me if there’s anything else.”

**

At closing time, Gu Kai arrived at Wen’s Pharmaceutical Factory.

When Bai Yiyi went to the restroom, she happened to bump into Gu Kai coming up from downstairs. Her eyes changed slightly, perhaps due to his comment at noon; her heart involuntarily skipped a beat.

Seeing him now actually felt awkward.

“I’m not here to see you.”

Gu Kai noticed her discomfort, pursed his lips slightly, tossed the car keys to her, then strode past her, heading forward.

Bai Yiyi caught the car keys in a fluster and turned around to see Gu Kai leaving, heading for the restroom.

Without knocking, Gu Kai pushed open the door to Wen Jin’s office, “Ah Jin, not off work yet?”

Wen Jin was on the phone. Seeing Gu Kai enter, a flash of surprise appeared in his eyes, gesturing for him to take a seat on the sofa first.

“How come you’re here? Are you looking for Yiyi?”

Wen Jin hung up the phone, came around from the office desk, poured a glass of water for Gu Kai, and sat down next to him.

“I’m here to see you.” Gu Kai frowned slightly, took a sip from his glass, shed his jacket, and in just a white shirt his tall figure reclined lazily into the sofa.

“To see me?”

Wen Jin looked at him amused, convinced that he came under the pretense of seeing him, but in fact, he came for Bai Yiyi.

“Yes, it’s about Jing Xiaocha’s mother’s condition. If you’ve finished your work, let’s leave the office. I’ll tell you more on the way.”

“I have a dinner engagement tonight,” Wen Jin apologised.

“Entertaining clients?”

“Of course, who else would I entertain if not clients? A couple of those who cancelled orders the other day, after this afternoon’s press conference, they called willing to renegotiate.”

“So, they’ve presented a new opportunity to make money for you, but why would you still want to do business with such people?” Gu Kai sneered dismissively.

“In the business arena, there are only interests, no permanent friends or enemies. If they concede more benefits to me, why wouldn’t I talk? How can I not make money when it’s there? How could I support so many employees in the factory? How could I repay the debt owed to Mo Xiuchen?”

“That’s true. So let me get straight to the point. Jing Xiaocha’s mother is in the late stages of cancer and there’s no possibility of treatment anymore.”

“Late-stage cancer?” Wen Jin looked at Gu Kai in surprise.

All he had heard from Jing Xiaocha was that her mother was sick, but he hadn’t expected it to be this serious. If it’s late-stage, not just 300,000, even 3 million would be of no use.

Gu Kai nodded, his tone calm, “Yes, late-stage cancer. Jing Xiaocha probably knows it too. She said they checked a few months ago and it deteriorated very quickly…”

After hearing Gu Kai’s rough explanation, Wen Jin furrowed his brows, “What did Jing Xiaocha say?”

“She insists on hospitalizing her mother and seeking treatment. That girl is too stubborn; she wouldn’t listen to anything I said and even snapped at me.”

Gu Kai couldn’t help complaining as he brought this up.

“She snapped at you?”

Wen Jin watched him with laughter in his eyes. Jing Xiaocha was still counting on Ah Kai to save her mother, how dare she snap at him.

“She said she had the money and would not owe me any medical expenses. She told me to just take care of her mother’s treatment. I’m starting to doubt, did she really say she doesn’t want ten million but only asked to borrow three hundred thousand from you?”

Gu Kai suddenly sat up straight, his gaze burning as he looked at Wen Jin.

“That’s what she said. Since she insists on the treatment, let’s just follow her wish.” Wen Jin didn’t have much understanding of Jing Xiaocha’s situation and didn’t feel it was his place to say more.

“The hospitalization has been arranged, and she’s already in the hospital.” Gu Kai said with frustration, “I thought a girl who would call to provide clues, and say she didn’t want ten million, would be reasonable. But what Jing Xiaocha told you is completely different.”

“She’s just a young girl; perhaps she finds it hard to accept the fact that her mother is in the late stages of cancer.”

“Never mind her, is there any progress with Lu Zhiyan’s case?”

Gu Kai changed the subject.

Wen Jin nodded, “Zhixing just called, Zhang Jinlei and his wife have confessed and spilled everything they knew, probably implicating certain people.”

“Oh?” Gu Kai narrowed his eyes, “By ‘certain people’ you mean?”