She’s Hard to Get - C275 Strong opponent

“No problem, you handle the matters of the office during the day, you can hand these over to Secretary Ling at night.” Ling Tian was very satisfied with Xu Mengyun’s solution to this matter. Regardless if she did it to avoid suspicion, at the very least, Xu Mengyun had made a compromise on Ouyang Jue’s matter.

“Secretary Ling?” Xu Mengyun couldn’t help but laugh when she heard Ling Tian’s words, “I can’t afford to hire such an expensive secretary.”

“I’m free to you, so it’s fine if you pay me instead.” Ling Tian turned off the light in his room and gently kissed Xu Mengyun. He looked at the drawer which held the divorce agreement and had wanted to take it out many times, but the agreement was on Xu Mengyun’s side.

“Ripping it up is useless. The original version is in my mind. Your investigation period cannot be shortened.” Xu Mengyun closed her eyes and patted Ling Tian’s back, telling him to honestly sleep.

Ling Tian could only retract his hand, and slowly fell into a deep sleep beside Xu Mengyun. Xu Mengyun could hear his light snores, but she found it hard to sleep in them, and the current state of Madame Ouyang made her feel very afraid. The two of them were just too similar, she was afraid that one day, she would be like this woman, grabbing onto power with all his might, and not letting go, and did not hesitate to sacrifice everyone around his.

From a young age, Xu Mengyun didn’t want to follow the rules of such a wealthy family the most when it came to watching adults fighting amongst each other. However, she chose the same path as all the women in the Wealthy Class.

Ling Tian had always wanted to take control of her life, just like all those years ago, Ouyang Gu had always been eroding the Xia Clan’s property. This made Xu Mengyun instantly feel upset, and she wished she could sell off the entire Xu’s tomorrow and enjoy life with money.

Ning Caier spent the entire night listening to the movements outside the room. Not returning to her room was actually a release for her, and her tightly-knit body under the quilt had gradually relaxed a little, but she spent the entire night dreaming of a nightmare. It was as if the moment she closed her eyes, the Madame Ouyang and her maid would tightly grab onto her body and scold her for not being able to be a wife.

Ouyang Jue didn’t come back to see her the entire night, which made her feel a little uncomfortable. If it was before, when she was sick, Ouyang Jue would definitely accompany her the entire night, rather than being as indifferent as he was now.

Her body was still aching from the day before. The marks left on her body from the heavy blows were still lasting and would not get better just because she slept.

She did her best to look spirited. She did not want herself to lose her final bit of dignity in front of Madame Ouyang, so even if she had to use all her strength to drive herself out of Ouyang Family, she wanted to be clean and refreshed.

“Cough cough cough!”

Ning Caier was coughing violently, she placed her hand on the door handle and used all her strength to open the door, the sunlight from the corridor shone in, but what Ning Caier felt was not the time for happiness, but the scent of hell.

She trembled as she walked down the stairs. Fortunately, Ouyang Jue had not reached the company yet, so when she saw him, a large amount of grievance surged up her heart.

Initially, she wanted to talk to him about what had happened yesterday. She was not worried about the disgust Madame Ouyang felt towards her, but she was worried that she would have another goal after coming back here. She wanted to use Ouyang Jue as a pawn to make Ouyang Jue her own.

However, when she walked closer, she discovered that the ashtray was filled with cigarette butts. Furthermore, Ouyang Jue’s brows were knitted tightly, and he looked even more haggard and haggard than ever before.

“Ouyang …” Ning Caier looked at the door of the Madame Ouyang, and only after confirming that she had not woken up did she dare to sit beside Ouyang Jue, “What happened, did the Madame Ouyang make things difficult for you?”

Ning Caier’s words practically came out of her mouth. She felt that the reason Ouyang Jue turned out like this was because Madame Ouyang had raised some kind of outrageous condition, so she firmly held onto his hand in an attempt to tell her that this woman was not that simple.

“My mother wouldn’t make things difficult for me, but I felt troubled because of her. Cai’er, the doctor said that my mother has Azhymer’s disease, so you have to take good care of her at home. Even if she’s angry at you, you have to endure it as much as possible.”

Ouyang Jue didn’t know why Ning Caier would say such things about his mother. He felt that it was most likely because of his mother’s illness that Ning Caier had misunderstood her, so he quickly explained his mother’s condition to Ning Caier. Although her condition was still at the early stages, it was very possible that her condition would worsen if he didn’t take care of her properly.

“How is that possible!?” Ning Caier knew from Ouyang Jue’s words that the Madame Ouyang was just pretending. She was still in high spirits when she mistreated him yesterday, how could she turn into a senile dementia overnight, “Ouyang, please ask the doctor to carefully examine this matter. Maybe the Madame Ouyang is thinking too much, that’s why he feels that he has this disease.”

Ning Caier wanted to warn Ouyang Jue to be careful of Madame Ouyang, so she suggested to be sent to the hospital for a check-up. If she was really sick, she would be willing to take good care of her, but if she was pretending to be sick, she hoped that Ouyang Jue could see clearly that this Madame Ouyang was asking for his pity, and that it had caused her guilt.

“The doctor already saw it last night. He said that it’s best for mother to stay at home and have her family take care of her. You should do your best to accommodate her. Mother has suffered a lot before, I want to make it up to her.”

Ouyang Jue’s answer was not at the same frequency as Ning Caier’s, but it imperceptibly gave Ning Caier another piece of information, and that was that this doctor was indeed in cahoots with the Madame Ouyang, so the diagnosis he made could not be trusted at all, just like how he suffered such serious internal injuries, yet that doctor unexpectedly did not diagnose anything.

“I think it’s better to bring Madame Ouyang to the hospital. After all, the family doctor could only casually look around and could not confirm the diagnosis. I heard that this disease also needs to be controlled by medicine.”

Ning Caier only wanted Madame Ouyang to go to the hospital, and only the doctors in the hospital could see the truth. He was in danger right now, and TiaoAo Group was also in danger.

Mother’s mood is already unstable right now, the effect of going to the hospital might be even worse. Furthermore, there are so many reporters outside, if they were to record this matter, other people would definitely say that the TiaoAo Group is cursed, and that will affect the reputation of the whole corporation.

He only wanted to stay with his mother for a moment more. Ouyang Family’s servants had already prepared breakfast, but Ouyang Jue did not enjoy it with Ning Caier and instead, went to his room to eat with his mother.

Right now, he wished that he could hand over the management of TiaoAo Group to someone else. He only wanted to accompany his mother and compensate her for the days that she had lost to him.

Of course, they knew that it wasn’t easy for her to stay in this home, and that Madame Ouyang didn’t like her very much, but they still treated her very politely, and placed a considerably rich breakfast in front of her.

The door to Madame Ouyang’s room was open. Ning Caier could hear that Madame Ouyang was already awake, her tone was extremely gentle, and it was mixed with light laughter, as if she was talking about her childhood to Ouyang Jue.’s voice was also very cooperative, laughing from time to time, as if she was frowning from time to time.

“A Jue, why is the smell of smoke so strong on you? Did you steal your father’s cigarette? Be careful not to get beaten up by him.” Madame Ouyang’s tone was filled with doting towards Ouyang Jue, “Quickly go and change your clothes, your father will definitely be angry when he comes back.”

“No worries, my dad is away on a business trip and won’t be back for a while. I’ll go change it later.” Ouyang Jue pacified his mother like a little girl. He didn’t care about those missing times and times, if time could really come again, then when his mother was about to leave, he would definitely leave with her.

However, these words were sour to Ning Caier. When she was facing her own mother, Ouyang Jue had completely lost her sense of judgement, and could only silently shed tears at the table, dripping all of her tears onto the plate in front of her.

A maid who had been following the Madame Ouyang all this time stood at the door to the bedroom. From this position, one could hear both the instructions of the Madame Ouyang and could also monitor Ning Caier.

When she saw that she had not eaten her fill, she immediately walked over. This toy Madame Ouyang had not played enough, she definitely could not let it fall so easily.

“Miss Ning, today’s mission of taking care of Madam is very heavy. You should eat your fill, only then will you have strength.”

The Madame Ouyang wanted Ouyang Jue to hate Ning Caier and force her to leave. This process would take at least one or two months, they had to take it slowly, otherwise, with Ouyang Jue’s shrewdness, he would definitely be able to see through the flaws in this process.

Ning Caier could feel the strength in the servant’s hands. She knew that she had far too many things that were in the hands of the Madame Ouyang, even if she could escape from the Ouyang manor, she would not be able to escape the empire. In the end, she would still be captured and would have to endure many times more pain than she was currently.

She could only take a sip of the juice, but as soon as the liquid fell into her stomach, she felt as if her whole organs were on fire. Her stomach and intestines had suffered injuries from external injuries and she could not eat anything right now, but she had to force herself to swallow everything, even if it took a while to spit it all out.

“I’m done eating, so I’m going to the courtyard to get some fresh air.”

She placed the breakfast tray on the table and went out to the courtyard alone. Ouyang Jue was still in the mansion, so these maids would not stop her, since it was still early, so the cold wind from the courtyard was constantly blowing on Ning Caier’s face, causing her to vomit everything she had just eaten. But now, she especially wished that she could get sick, and the best case scenario would be pneumonia, which would allow her to be hospitalized.

As a result, she did not return to her room. Instead, she continued to sit in the cold wind and cold water, and felt her body alternating between cold and hot. This was the symptom before the fever started, Ning Caier felt that she was about to succeed.