Chapter 10: Hope

The car drove into a retro manor.

The old lady of the Chi family was born in Jiangnan. This villa was built by Chi Jinyan's grandfather specifically for Grandma Chi. They have lived there for more than 50 years. It is said that they are very loving.

But she doesn't fit in here, and Chi Jinyan doesn't allow her to come. She feels dirty and will pollute her grandmother's pure and kind place.

Cen Xia felt the atmosphere suddenly change, disrupting her meditation. She raised her head and stared ahead. Sure enough, the man was standing at the door.

The car stopped, the door opened and Chi Jinyan got out, standing in the yard with a calm expression.

Here he doesn't need to pretend that the couple is harmonious, because Grandma Chi knows everything.

Chi Jinyan didn't wait for her and walked ahead, and Cen Xia hurriedly followed.

An old woman with kind eyes and gray hair sat in the hall. She was nearly seventy years old, but still radiant. Excluding the white hair, she was only in her fifties or sixties. Her eyes were shrewd. After all, she was once a prominent figure in Qingcheng.

Cen Xia smiled as she walked forward, leaned forward slightly, took out a pen and paper, and wrote:

"Grandma, please forgive me for not coming to visit you for a long time. Are you well?"

The handwriting was neat and beautiful, and written in large letters, just so that grandma could see it clearly.

Chi's grandmother was once a lady from a wealthy family. She preferred polite and well-educated people. She smiled and reached out her hand to hold her , " Okay, okay, all is well. You young people are busy. You don't have to run around me, an old lady. I've been waiting for you for a long time. You should eat first."

The old lady of the Chi family knew about the affair between the two, and she had always acquiesced and turned a blind eye to it.

Cen Xia stopped being polite, she knew that this house was just as cold as Chi Jinyan's villa.

There are still some rules in scholarly families: no talking while eating, no talking while sleeping, and no conversation during the table.

Cen Xia wanted to know whether the matter she talked to the old lady last time would have any result.

But she could never find a chance to talk to her alone, and she didn't want Chi Jinyan to find out that she could speak.

After dinner, Old Mrs. Chi and Chi Jinyan talked about company matters, but Cen Xia didn’t understand and didn’t want to listen.

Wandering around, he went to sit in the pavilion outside the house.

After a while, Old Mrs. Chi came over. She stood up to greet her, and the two of them walked one after the other.

Old Mrs. Chi spoke first , " Just say whatever you want to say. No one will come here."

Cen Xia didn't seem surprised. Although the old man didn't go out, he knew a lot.

Old Madam Chi knew what she was worried about, "Don't worry, Jinyan won't know what you say or do here."

Cen Xia knew that Grandma Chi always kept her word, so she breathed a sigh of relief and slowly said , " Grandma Chi, I have nothing to say."

Her hoarse voice came, dull and not very pleasant.

Old Mrs. Chi was a little surprised by her voice. She didn't expect it to be so serious, but she didn't say anything. Anyway, she only cared about whether the person was dead or alive.

"You are here, aren't you waiting for me?"

Cen Xia didn't say anything. She was indeed here to wait for her. She knew that Grandma Chi liked to come here for a walk after dinner.

"You don't want to talk to Jinyan, right? But you are willing to talk to an old woman like me. I know more or less about your affairs. It's not that I don't care, but I'm old and I have to listen to Jinyan on some things. I called Jinyan here today because I want to talk to you. Don't you want to say something?"

She knew what was wrong with that voice, but she didn't want to let this woman go so early.

Cen Xiaxiao doesn't know how to protect herself.

Hesitantly and carefully asked , " Grandma Chi, what did I mention to you before?"

Old Madam Chi paused, turned her back to her and seemed unhappy , " Ms. Cen, this is why I called you here. It was you who came to me to ask me to marry Jinyan. Have you forgotten?"

Cen Xia felt something was wrong when she heard this name. She was so nervous that her palms were sweating. She heard the old man's voice before she even opened her mouth.

"I still want to ask you the same question again. Did you really like him and marry him?"

Cen Xia lowered her head. Her boyfriend died in a car accident, and she suspected that Chi Jinyan was the culprit. She was so ignorant that she married him in a daze just for revenge.

But it was all a misunderstanding. She didn't want to lie, but she couldn't tell the truth either. After hesitating for a moment, she replied , " Yes."

"Now? Why do you want to leave him?"

Cen Xia remained silent. She knew that she was just an outsider and no matter what she said or did, no one would support her.

"I know Jinyan can be excessive at times, but you chose this path yourself, so you have to keep going even if you have to kneel down."

Her words were gentle, yet despairing.

Cen Xia looked at the kind-hearted old man in front of her in disbelief. She knew clearly what Chi Jinyan had done.

Yes, her love is only for her family.

"Grandma Chi, I was wrong at the beginning. I overestimated my own abilities and thought I could stand beside Master Chi and be a good match for him. I was wrong to ask you to threaten me to marry him. I didn't expect Miss Gu to die because of this. Everything is my fault. I am willing to pay with my life. I beg you to let me leave ... "

Cen Xia knelt on the ground, grabbing Mrs. Chi's arm with her rough hands, crying and begging , " I know it's my fault, but I really didn't stop him from seeing Miss Gu. I really didn't know that Miss Gu had an accident ... " She just forced the marriage and never thought that it would kill a life. For this, she was willing to accept all punishments.

Old Lady Chi interrupted her , " I don't want to hear your explanation. I wanted to marry you, and now I want to divorce you. What do you think of my Chi family? I loved you at first, and you knew how to behave. We were a good match, and you were well-educated. But I never thought you would be so vicious. Don't you want to suffer a little so that outsiders know that my Chi family is left alone and can be bullied by others?"

She was a little excited. Her grandson lost his mother at a young age, his father died early, and he had to struggle in the business world before he reached adulthood. He was already a child with a hard life. How could this result have happened if she hadn't intervened?

"Grandma Chi, I know I was wrong. I really didn't mean to hurt anyone." Cen Xia felt so ashamed that she could only keep begging.

"Ms. Cen, you owe Jinyan a life. How did he get through that time? You can't make up for it with just an apology." That Gu Xia is not an easy person to deal with, and this Cen Xia is also not very motivated. Thinking of these two enemies, she was so angry that she shook off Cen Xia's arm.

Cen Xia stared at the old man blankly, and her tears stopped at this moment, as if time had stopped and there was a deathly silence.

After endless silence, she spoke again , " Jinyan is a good child. He has suffered since childhood and has never enjoyed the warmth of a family. I hope that as his wife you can take good care of him and give him warmth. In my Chi family, there is only widowhood but no divorce." Unexpectedly, this sentence came true.

Seeing that Cen Xia remained silent, she spoke again in a deep voice, "Miss Cen, Jin Yan has already given you enough face, what else do you want?"

She opened her mouth to say something but couldn't. Was it her face? Yes, on the surface, the Cen family was still prominent, but behind the scenes, it had already been torn apart. On the surface, she was the high and mighty Mrs. Chi, but behind the scenes, everyone despised her and her dignity was destroyed. She allowed others to have fun in the romantic field, and no one knew about it. This was Chi Jinyan's good method.

Cen Xia's eyes were dull, his heart sank to the bottom, and the last glimmer of hope disappeared completely.

Old Mrs. Chi closed her eyes. She knew that her grandson was not marrying for the sake of saving the Cen family's reputation, but for the glory of the Chi family's ancestors. No one could know that the Chi family had married into such a family. She regretted arranging this marriage.

"I will pretend I don't know about your request for a divorce from Jin Yan. You have to reap what you sow."

"Cen Xia."

There’s still time to fight for it in the future.

The voice that frightened her to the core came from behind her.

She was so startled that her body shook.

With tears in her eyes, she turned to look at the voice.

But he only saw Chi Jinyan's deep, emotionless black eyes.