The Big Shot is Also Crazy About Me Today

Chapter 1239 - 1172: Reward: Kiss in the Car

Shi Jiaojiao’s face was full of desolation as she went on, "Saying all this, of course you’ll think I’ve got a twisted mindset, but that’s only because you’ve never been through what I have. My mother sent me to my grandma’s place in the countryside, and my grandma wasn’t good to me. She kept saying it was because I wasn’t a boy that my mother couldn’t marry into a rich family, saying I was born with the fate of an illegitimate daughter, destined never to be some rich family’s young lady..."

"I didn’t know what a rich family’s young lady was, so I went to ask my mother. My mother told me my Father was a rich man, but he had another daughter, younger than me. Because she existed, I couldn’t become the rich family’s young lady, couldn’t live a good life, could only be sent to the countryside. My mother said, Jiaojiao, you must remember, the reason you’re like this is all because that girl stole everything that should have been yours..."

Tears fell from Shi Jiaojiao’s eyes as she said, "Back then I hadn’t even met Shi Nuan, but I already hated her. If it weren’t for her, I wouldn’t be living that kind of life. But in the end, fate didn’t abandon me. I stayed in the countryside until I was twelve, then my mother finally brought me to the city..."

"My mother bought me very pretty clothes, bought me all sorts of food and drinks, dressed me up like a city kid, and told me that before long, I’d be a rich man’s daughter. And sure enough, shortly after, my mother got married, married into the Shi Family, and I followed her into the Shi Family..."

"That was the first time I saw Shi Nuan. She was shorter than me, very thin, wearing an off‑white nightdress as she stood at the top of the stairs, looking so, so frail. But she was very pretty, incredibly pretty, the kind of pretty that made me, at the very first glance, completely unable to feel any fondness for her..."

"But that wasn’t all. Because she’d grown up with everything handed to her, even though Shi Nuan had a cold personality, all sorts of things she had never had to use and didn’t even really understand just came easily to her." She let out a cold laugh. "But me, even after I became the Shi Family’s young lady, people still looked down on me behind my back!"

Shi Jiaojiao curled her lips into a smile and asked him, "Shen Zui, I know you hate me and you like Shi Nuan. After hearing all this, you’ll probably just think I’m dark‑hearted and jealous of her... Yes, I am jealous of her. But the real reason she and I are mortal enemies is because she stole you!"

Shen Zui narrowed his eyes. "Stole? That’s a ridiculous thing to say. I’ve never belonged to anyone, least of all you, so what is there to steal? And as for Shi Nuan, I was the one who pursued her first. I was the one who liked her first..."

"But if she hadn’t known that I liked you too, she never would have agreed to be with you!" Shi Jiaojiao shot back. "Shen Zui, you heard all those recordings. The facts are right there in front of you, aren’t they?"

Shen Zui’s brows furrowed, a flash of anger in his eyes. If Shi Jiaojiao hadn’t played him that recording, he wouldn’t have left the country, wouldn’t have given up on Shi Nuan, and wouldn’t have lost her!

He had to admit that his own restless, insecure emotions played a big part in it, but Shi Jiaojiao really was the fuse. Without that fuse, none of this would have happened!

Shen Zui said, "Shi Jiaojiao, I sympathize with what you’ve been through, but none of it was caused by Shi Nuan. Shi Nuan originally had both her parents and a happy family, but because your mother barged in, everything fell apart. Now her home has been occupied by you and your mother, her Father has been taken by you, and what kind of life has she been living for the past eleven years? You only ever think about your own suffering—have you ever once thought about Shi Nuan?"

"Anyway, as for all the tangled grudges between you, I don’t want to get involved anymore. That’s not why I came today, and I’m not here to listen to you talk about all this. Just now Ji Xiangling said you know why Shi Nuan got sick. Are you going to tell me or not? If you don’t, I don’t care to know anymore either, because to me, the fact that Shi Nuan is fine right now is more important than anything!"

Shi Jiaojiao looked at Shen Zui, gave a bleak smile, and said, "You want to know, right? Then I’ll tell you. Some time ago, because of the Shi Family shareholders’ meeting, Shi Nuan went back to the Shi Family house to stay for a bit, and then she accidentally fell into the water in the back garden. Of course, that’s not the main point. The main point is that because she fell into the water, Shi Nuan had a miscarriage..."

Shen Zui was completely stunned, unable to believe it. Shi Jiaojiao kept up that thin smile. "Of course, at that time Shi Nuan was already unconscious. Father, in order not to deal her a blow, didn’t tell her that she had been pregnant and had lost the baby... As for whose child it was in Shi Nuan’s belly, I don’t think I need to say it. You know."

...

Liao Qinghe moved into the Song Mansion. Song Yansheng had called ahead, so Shi Nuan was already mentally prepared.