Chapter 1589: Leave with Nothing?

Chapter 1589: Chapter 1589: Leave with Nothing?

In Beijing, at the Zhuang Family home, in the living room, Mu Yan could feel the subtle tension the moment she stepped through the door.

The storm she’d imagined never came; instead, everyone’s oddly polite silence only made her more worried and on edge.

Her gaze swept over the old man, the old lady, and the couple Zhuang Zeyang and Ruan Xinyu, and she found that all their attention was focused on Jiang Jingheng beside her, their eyes full of scrutiny.

She cleared her throat and said, "Grandpa, Uncle, Jing Heng knows you both love tea, so this time he specially prepared some top-grade pre?Qingming Longjing for you. Grandma, Aunt, this is the bird’s nest Jing Heng bought specially for you two."

The old lady looked elsewhere, her expression cool. "Anything Jing Heng sends is naturally good, but rich people have their way of living and poor people have theirs. Since our family isn’t some grand, wealthy household, we won’t be putting on airs like rich folks."

Her words were loaded with gunpowder, just shy of outright saying Jiang Jingheng was using his money to bully them.

"Grandma." Mu Yan called softly, "this is just a small token from Jing Heng, it doesn’t mean anything else."

"Nuannuan, you’re too young, too simple and kind, you don’t know how wicked people’s hearts can be. But Grandma is different. Grandma has met a lot of people; what’s on his mind, Grandma can see much clearer than you." The old lady frowned, her face serious.

"Grandma, it’s not what you think." Mu Yan was a bit anxious, regretting that she hadn’t told them the truth back then.

She turned her head to look at Jiang Jingheng. He kept his head lowered, looking completely like a man resigned to being butchered, which only made her feel guiltier.

She looked to Ruan Xinyu for help. "Aunt."

Ruan Xinyu had always treated Mu Yan like her own daughter. Seeing her caught in the middle made her heart ache. She said, "Nuannuan, your grandma isn’t trying to make things hard for Jing Heng. But you two are saying you want a divorce one moment and then you’re getting back together the next, calling wind as wind and rain as rain. We’re very worried about you."

"That was all on me, it was my one?sided idea, me being willful. Jing Heng, He never did anything to let me down." Mu Yan said hurriedly.

"Nuannuan, stop talking!" the old lady suddenly snapped, looking as if she hated the iron for not becoming steel.

Mu Yan, "..."

She felt like a pond fish getting hit by stray bullets.

She turned her head to look at the old man and called, "Grandpa, Grandma and Aunt are bullying me and Jing Heng, you have to help me."

The old lady and Ruan Xinyu, "..."

Who exactly were they doing this for?

The old man looked at his granddaughter gazing up at him pitifully. He’d wanted to keep a stern face and scold her, but seeing that hopeful look in her eyes, as if Grandpa was the most powerful person in the world and the one who loved her the most, his heart immediately softened, and he suddenly recalled the quiet days of her childhood.

Every time she did something wrong and her parents were about to discipline her, the first person she thought of asking for help was him—she’d hide behind him and then act all smug toward her parents.

His gaze fell on Jiang Jingheng as he said, "Your grandfather called me yesterday and explained the outside rumors. But I want to hear it from you. Our Zhuang Family would never use power to oppress others, but no one gets to bully the daughters of our family."

Hearing this, Mu Yan rushed to say, "Grandpa, He hasn’t bullied me."

The old man shot her a look, very much wanting to make her shut up just like her grandma did.

Mu Yan shrank her neck and pouted. She was telling the truth, so why were they looking at her like that?

Suddenly she felt her hand being held, and she turned to look at the man by her side.

Jiang Jingheng looked at the old man, his expression solemn, and said, "Grandpa, I know that no matter what the truth is, those rumors have caused some harm to Yanyan and to the Zhuang Family. I didn’t explain anything—as her husband, I failed to protect her, and when she needed me most, I wasn’t by her side. But I promise that from now on I won’t let her suffer any harm. I’ve already had a lawyer draft an agreement: if I ever do anything to betray her, I’ll walk away with nothing."