Chapter 465: Driven Mad with Jealousy (1)
As the family of three could not move into their newly renovated house, they decided to rent an apartment for the time being.
Ye Tianxin walked ahead with her grandmother, and on their way up the stairs, they b.u.mped into Wu Cailan. She was dressed to kill and was coincidentally making her way down the stairs.
When Wu Cailan noticed Ye Tianxin, she couldn’t help but jibe at her, “Oh my, look who we’ve got here? Isn’t this our ace student from Capital University? Are you returning home after making it big?”
“Madam Wu, that sounds a little salty, isn’t it?”
Wu Cailan was instantly stunned by Ye Tianxin’s reb.u.t.tal. However, she knew that this was not something surprising, since Ye Tianxin was never a pushover.
She wasn’t someone who was easy to trifle with and was not the least pleasant.
“You wouldn’t have made it into Capital University had it not been for s.h.i.+’s tutelage.”
However, Ye Tianxin merely stared at Wu Cailan and chuckled before she retorted, “Madam Wu, aren’t you embarra.s.sed by what you’ve said? I pity Di Shans.h.i.+ for having a mother like you. I’d advise you to exercise restraint. Otherwise, with that fiery temper of yours, no girl would be willing to marry into your household.”
Xie Xuning was observing Wu Cailan throughout the exchange as he stood behind Ye Tianxin, and the more he looked at her, the more familiar he found her to be.
“Madam, did you, by chance, work in the police station’s Household Registration Department in the past?”
Wu Cailan was stunned upon hearing Xie Xuning’s question, for she could not recognize him at all.
After all, it was difficult to recall the face of a person whom one had only met once.
“Yes,” Wu Cailan acknowledged swiftly.
Xie Xuning couldn’t help but reply gravely, “Then may I remind you of your response when I came to seek you out in August 1988? You told me that both Ye Linlang and her mother were dead!”
Xie Xuning’s words unlocked the trove of memories that were long forgotten by Wu Cailan.
Vivid memories of that very year flashed across Wu Cailan’s mind, and her face instantly darkened.
Flashbacks inevitably began to play in her mind. Back then, Ye Linlang had returned from the Capital, where the university she was attending was located. She exuded elegance with every move and had a keen eye for fas.h.i.+on. Beyond these, she was also a doctor with an endearing personality. Even Wu Cailan’s husband often praised Ye Linlang for her lovely looks and kind heart.
‘Men couldn’t care less about the ident.i.ty of the father of Ye Linlang’s child. They are only focused on how beautiful and charming she is,’ Wu Cailan thought.
Ye Linlang was as gorgeous and striking as a rose, and all the men in town inevitably fell for her charms.
As Ye Linlang was a med student, Mayor Zhai invited her to work in the town’s health center.
Back then, men who wanted to get into her good books flocked over to the health center to help out with tasks like painting the wall and planting trees.
There was an endless stream of men who buzzed around her like bees and who willingly submit to her.
Wu Cailan was often jealous about this.
Mayor Zhai had thought that Wu Cailan was mad and even criticized her for being jealous of a pregnant lady.
Men had no idea how aggressive women were towards their own kind.
During that time, the people in town seemed to have lost their minds.
Men helped Ye Linlang out without a word of complaint and were constantly at her service.
Children would gather at the health center every single day to listen to Ye Linlang’s stories.
Jealousy grew uncontrollably in Wu Cailan’s heart like a weed.
Eventually, when someone came up to her and offered her a proposition, she accepted it without further thought.
“A loose and fickle woman like Ye Linlang doesn’t deserve to be idolized by men,” she concluded.
The terms that were offered to Wu Cailan were too attractive for her to resist.
Besides, all that she needed to do was simply utter a line.
However, little did Wu Cailan expect that piece of paper and her words to change the fates of many others.