Have you been drinking? 5000+

  It's no wonder why the young master has never been too fond of the young mistress, but... even the steward can see that their young mistress is different from the people in the Guan family, their young mistress is really very kind.

  "Is the young mistress all right?" asked the housekeeper.

  Guan Yan nodded slightly: "It's nothing..."

  "Let the doctor take care of your arm."

  After hearing Guan Jia say that, Guan Yan Xi only then noticed that there were three bright red scratch marks on her arm.

  Guan Yan nodded slightly.

  After treating Guan Yan's wounds, she sat quietly alone in the second-floor living room, thinking...

  Now that Yan Ruhua can be given a sedative to calm her down, what's next? What if Yan Ruhua keeps making a fuss about going back to Guan's house? How should she be stopped?

  Let her go back... That's obviously impossible, because Guan Yanxi has a relative like Yan Ruhua, and letting her go back to the Guan family is giving the Guan family another chip to blackmail herself.

  Is it going to keep Yan Ruhua locked up until everything with the Guan family is resolved?

  The people of the Guan family... Guan Yanhong no longer believes in anyone, unless one day... she has completely left the Guan family, Guan Zhongyuan still wants to bring back Yan Ruhua, just wanting to be a simple husband and wife with Yan Ruhua. For Yan Ruhua's happiness, Guan Yanhong might agree.

  But before this... Guan Yanxi absolutely cannot back down, even if it means being resented by Yan Ruhua.

  She clenched her teeth and slowly got up, her legs still a bit weak...

  Her mother had already lost both legs and fallen down. Guan Yu Yan must become strong and resilient, only then can she protect the people she loves.

  A thousand dividing lines

  Jiang Shen arrived at the company, and Bai Yi immediately brought all the newspapers and magazines from yesterday to Jiang Shen's desk according to his instructions.

  As Jiang Shen had expected, the news of him and Pei Dingkun taking action made it onto yesterday's headlines.

  Jiang Shen's lips curled up, and Guan's family should have seen how happy they were supposed to be.

  "Are the small companies below ready?" asked Jian Chen as he took off his suit jacket.

  "It's all ready, apart from a few small companies you've helped out before that I think will lend a hand, the several small companies we've prepared are also all set." said Bai Yi.

  "Don't let Guan's family find out..." Jiang Shen warned.

  Next is a play directed and performed by Jiang Shen himself... I'm afraid it will also affect Jiang's stock, but didn't the ancients have a saying that goes "only when you are at death's door can you be reborn"? Only when Jiang really reaches the end of his rope... will Guan Jingye, that old fox, truly believe.

  "Also, Kunzi Ge wants to meet you at 9 o'clock tonight at the old place, I've already arranged it..." said Bai Yi.

  "I know, you go prepare these things first, absolutely can't make any mistakes!"

  "Don't worry, boss! I've got this under control!" Bai Yi patted his chest again to reassure Jiang Shen.

  Afternoon, Jiang Shen has been working overtime in the office and hasn't come out. The whole company saw yesterday's news... However, it was because of the president's wife being hospitalized that the president left early, and on the third day, the president was working overtime again, making everyone nervous and frightened.

  Not until Jiang Shen left the company did high-level executives leave one after another.

  Jiang Shen drove straight to the Labyrinth Nightclub.

  He entered through the back door and went upstairs to the nightclub on the second floor, then called Pei Dingkun.

  According to Pei Dingkun's usual habits, he should be fooling around with women right now... If Jiang Shen doesn't call ahead to remind him, he'll probably see something he shouldn't.

  As expected, Bae Jeong-geun was indeed with several beauties, and as soon as he saw Kang Sun's call, he sent those women away.

  He had just poured two cups of wine for himself and Jiang Shen when Jiang Shen pushed the door open, the timing was just right.

  Bai Dingkun took a deep drag on his cigarette and pushed the wine glass towards Jiang Shen: "How's Guan Yanhong?"

  "It's nothing." Jiang Sheng loosened his tie and downed a mouthful of wine.

  "You were quite ruthless that day... the guys were all beaten to a pulp by you!" Pei Dingkun said, holding his cigarette and rubbing the wound on his face with his thumb.

  "You're not gentle either." Jiang Shen poured himself a glass of wine and leaned back on the sofa with a smile.

  After both of them knew the truth, neither of them apologized, they just looked at each other and smiled...and that was it.

  After all, it was just a misunderstanding between them.

  "Has Guan's family found you?" Jiang Shen asked.

  "I met Guan Zhan Yan from the Guan family." Pei Ding Kun tapped out the cigarette ash, "It was that day when a friend asked me to dinner... He also went, and we had a few drinks together, so we're familiar with each other's faces now."

  Jiang Shen chuckled softly: "This is just getting in touch with you, Guan Jingnian that old fox... He won't make a move easily before grasping the whole situation."

  Just then, Pei Dingkun's phone rang.

  Bai Dingkun raised an eyebrow and looked at Jiang Shen, but the caller display showed Guan Tianyan.

  Pei Dingkun smiled meaningfully at Jiang Shencuo as he answered the phone: "Hello... Guan Shao!"

  "Pei Shao, where are you? We're going out for a drink on this side and it's more fun with more people, are you coming?"

  "Oh, is that so? What's the occasion today... won't be Guan Shao's birthday, would it?" Pei Dingkun took a drag on his cigarette, his smile laced with mischief. "Are there any beauties? If not, I'm not going..."

  "It's not a birthday, just calling out a few brothers to have some drinks, don't worry... Can you still call Pei Shao and not have beautiful women?!" Guan Maiyan deliberately got close to Pei Dingkun.

  "Stop calling me Young Master Pei, it sounds weird... I'm a businessman, don't like to be called that. Just call me Kunzi."

  "Then don't call me by my full name, just call me Yan!"

  Bai Dingkun's eyes narrowed as he extinguished his cigarette, seemingly gazing at Jiang Shen with a faint smile: "Since you put it that way... then let's just consider ourselves brothers. Brother, there's something I'd like to ask for your help with."

  "You said, brother, whatever can be done will never be declined!" Guan Danyan responded crisply.

  "Your sister... the one named Guan Yanxi, I, Kunzi, have seen countless women, but there are only a few who can move my heart. Your sister... I really can't forget her, even if it's just once!"

  Jiang Shen's fist clenched tightly as he gazed at Pei Dingkun with a gloomy expression.

  Guan Yan had some doubts, and after a long time, he smiled and said: "My sister... is already Jiang Shen's wife, and I heard that... you and Jiang Shen are brothers, isn't it not quite right?"

  "Brother?! Who the hell is a brother to him, brothers share good fortune and bad, and of course, they also share good women! He actually dared to fight me, I, Pei Dingkun, recognize him as a useless brother!"

  "On the other end of the phone, Guan Maiyan's lips curled up: 'I'll try my best with this matter, are you still coming to the gathering here?'"

  "Come on! Why don't you go if there's a beauty?" Bae Jeong-kun has already picked up the cigarette box and lighter from the tea table, "Send me the location! I'll be right there!"

  "Good!"

  He hung up the phone and smiled at Jiang Shen: "Don't make that face! This is to gain the enemy's trust... Guan Yan Hong is my sister-in-law, even if she were naked in front of me, I couldn't..."

  Pei Dingkun said, the more Jiang Shen's face turned uglier. Pei Dingkun simply rubbed his nose and stood up: "Then I'll leave first, you settle the bill! Consider it my medical fee!"

  As soon as Pei Dingkun finished speaking, a short message arrived, and he took a look at the address before heading out.

  As he walked to the door, Bae Jeong-kun suddenly turned his head and asked Kang Sun: "Sun... I'll ask you a question. You hit me so hard that day, it wasn't just about saving face, was it?"

  Jiang Shen's fist clenched tightly, and it wasn't just for the sake of appearances...

  Guan Yanrou was the woman who had moved Jiang Shen's heart, and at that time, Jiang Shen thought Pei Dingkun had drugged Guan Yanrou, that anger was overwhelming... Truly hated to tear Pei Dingkun in two.

  Jiang Shen didn't say a word, he lit a cigarette with great annoyance.

  She had feelings for Guan Yanruo, but in Guan Yanruo's heart, there was only Tang Xiao... the same Tang Xiao who cut off her right hand!

  Bai Dingkun had never seen Jiang Shen like this before. He gripped the door handle and chuckled: "Don't tell me... you've fallen for your own wife, but your own wife likes that... the person who took your wife away that day, wasn't it Tang Xiao?"

  Seeing Jiang Shen still not speaking, Pei Dingkun's smile became even more pronounced: "It can't be... you have a sexy beauty by your side every day, and yet you haven't even touched her?!"

  Bai Dingkun's eyes are too poisonous, this sentence is simply a direct blow to Jiang Shen's heart.

  "Aren't you leaving yet?!" Jiang Shen's tone was somewhat impatient.

  Jiang Shen's reflection, indeed made himself say the right thing? Pei Dingkun burst out laughing, didn't expect that Jiang Shen also had a woman he couldn't win over, this actually opened her eyes.

  That Guan Yue was indeed extraordinary!

  "I'm telling you... don't blame me for not warning you!" Pei Dingkun raised an eyebrow at Jiang Shen with a sly expression, "If you want to possess a woman's heart, first take possession of her vagina! Make her surrender in bed... and she'll naturally be obedient to you!"

  After finishing speaking, Bae Jeong-kun left, and only Kang Sun remained in the quiet, dark private room.

  He furrowed his brow and downed cup after cup of liquor, until he had finished all the wine on the table and smoked an entire box of cigarettes before finally getting up to leave.

  Jiang Shen arrived home to find Guan Yanxi sitting by the fountain at the entrance, lost in thought.

  Jiang Shen stopped his car in front of Guan Yanhong and asked through the window without getting out, "What are you doing sitting here?"

  Guan Yan's vermilion lips curved upwards as she gently stroked her own arms: "I can calm down and think about things here."

  Jiang Shen pursed his lips, hesitated for a moment without saying a word, got off the car and sat down beside Guan Yanrou. Apparently due to the effect of alcohol, his movements were somewhat large, bumping into Guan Yanrou who was propping herself up against the edge of the fountain with one hand.

  The strong smell of alcohol wafted towards Guan Yanruo, who furrowed her brow: "Have you been drinking?"

  "A little." Jiang Shen said lightly, taking out a cigarette and lighting it up.

  What Jiang Shen meant was almost a whole bottle of XO and another unopened bottle of red wine on the table.

  Neither of them spoke, the surroundings were so quiet that there was not even a bug's chirp... only the sound of the fountain splashing and colliding with the water surface.

  Jiang Shen drew on his cigarette for a while before extinguishing it after hearing Guan Yanrou lightly cough and cover her lips. He asked, "What are you thinking about?"

  Guan Yan's small hands were tucked into her sleeves as she hung her head: "Jiang Shen, I told my mom everything that happened. Now my mom wants to go back to the Guan family."

  "Uh-huh."

  Jiang Shen stared at Guan Yan's small profile, her eyelashes trembling slightly, and a few strands of her casually tied long hair fell in front of her small face.

  “She… was too excited, so I gave her a sedative.”

  Saying that... Jiang Shen clearly saw Guan Yan's small hand clenching, her inner struggle and distress... was actually the curve of her lips rising.

  Jiang Shen involuntarily raised his hand to tuck a strand of hair behind Guan Yan's ear, his fingertips lingering on her earlobe with a gentle, ticklish touch.

  Guan Yan turned her head to meet Jiang Shen's slightly drunken eyes: "Jiang Shen, am I doing the right thing? The method... is it too cruel? She is... she is my mother, and I'm treating her like this..."

  "Intellectually, not letting your mom return to the Guan household is correct. Your biggest obstacle in leaving the Guan family is indeed your mom. As for emotionally... I don't have a mom, so I can't understand the kind of feelings you're talking about... 'She's my mom'."

  No mother?! Guan Yan's heart skipped a beat.

  "Your mother..." Guan Yanxi tentatively asked.

  "Hmm, after giving birth to Xiao Zhun, she ran away with another man. I didn't even remember her appearance or name." Jiang Shen subconsciously reached for a cigarette again, but then put it back after thinking of Guan Yan's gentle cough just now.

  Guan Yanzhi could tell that Jiang Shen didn't want to mention this matter again, but Jiang Shen's eyes and slight movements of annoyance told Guan Yanzhi... this matter was far from being as easy as Jiang Shen had said.

  "Can I lean on your shoulder for a while?"

  "Huh?"

  Before Guan Yanrou could respond, Jiang Shen had already taken the initiative to lean his head on her frail shoulder.

  A strong smell of alcohol mixed with the scent of shampoo wafted over, and Guan Yan wanted to push Jiang Shen's head away. However, seeing that Jiang Shen had his eyes closed as if he was very comfortable, she could only frown and let him lean against her like that.

  The deep night is slightly cold, and the stars in this pitch-black sky are like a background for Guan Yan and Jiang Shen, looking so beautiful.

  Wen Guanjia stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window on the third floor living room, his lips involuntarily curling up.

  Old lady, if you have a spirit in heaven, please bless the young master and mistress to be harmonious, for the sake of the Jiang family and your beloved little young master.

  "Guān Yán Qiāng......" Jiāng Shèn called out softly.

  "Hmm." Guan Yan's eyes drooped as she looked down at Jiang Shen who was leaning on her shoulder and almost asleep.

  "There are times when doing something can't be judged by morality and common sense, believe in yourself... what you think is right, just do it, even if the result isn't what you thought, at least you've tried a way that follows your heart."

  Whatever you think is right, just go and do it?

  Is Jiang Shen talking about... locking up mom?

  She lowered her eyes, she had already done so... locking her mother in the Jiang's house.

  Jiang Shen is right, no matter what the final result is, at least I will follow my own heart.

  Jiang Shen's words made Guan Yanxi feel a lot more at ease. She leaned against Jiang Shen's shoulder and said, "Jiang Shen, go back to the bedroom and sleep. The weather is cool now, and it's easy to catch a cold if you fall asleep here."

  "Hmm." Jiang Shen grunted softly, but showed no intention of moving.

  "Get up!" Guan Yanrou patted Jiang Shen's face and moved away from his shoulder. "Go back to the bedroom and sleep."

  When Guan Jia saw the situation downstairs, he hastily asked a few servants to help Guan Yanhong and support Jiang Shen back to the bedroom.

  Jiang Shen was actually not that drunk, with Jiang Shen's capacity for liquor, those were just enough to make Jiang Shen feel a slight intoxication, but he could still walk.

  Jiang Shen originally wanted to get Yan Hong to help him back, but unexpectedly heard the steward being too nosy... and even got several servants to assist.

  It's like helping the wrong side!

  The servant helped Ginger onto the bed and only left after helping him remove his shoes, socks, pants and jacket.

  Is Jiang Shen out socializing? How did he end up getting drunk like this?!

  A thousand dividing lines

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