The CEO’s Substitute Wife Is A Genius
Chapter 287: Grandma’s lifesaver is not you

Chapter 287: Chapter 287: Grandma’s lifesaver is not you

"Asking about a bag, the specifics will have to wait until tomorrow for feedback from Zhang Neng’s side,"

"Oh."

Jiang Man responded indifferently, thinking the old lady had lost a designer bag like Hermès or LV.

Although she was a designer for LV, to be honest, she didn’t have much of a feeling for luxury goods.

Possibly because she was a creator of luxury goods herself, she rather preferred the simplest things.

Like with bags, she liked the most ordinary canvas bags, sturdy and dirt-resistant.

Not just bags, but clothes as well, ordinary T-shirts and casual pants, as long as they were comfortable.

...

Jiang Man returned to her room and felt more and more uneasy.

She had always felt guilty about being the old lady’s lifesaver.

It was because of that guilt that when the old lady proposed to thank her by having her marry Lu Xingzhou, she ran so fast.

Furthermore, she had found out she had a gynecologic cyst from a checkup, misunderstood it as a sexually transmitted disease, and thus abandoned the identity of the young mistress of the Lu family to take the 20 million and leave.

To outsiders, she was foolish. 20 million compared to the status of the young mistress of the Lu family was just pocket money.

But what could she do?

Being a daughter of the Lu family now seemed like the best outcome.

In her room, she couldn’t sit still and finally ended up calling Wen Jingya.

Wen Jingya was hanging out with classmates at a bar, amid loud noise, she shouted, "Hold on, I’ll find a quieter place to talk to you!"

After a series of turns, Jiang Man just anxiously listened to the sounds on the other end of the phone.

Not until the roaring noises faded did Wen Jingya say, "What’s up? Why are you calling me this late?"

Jiang Man bit her lip and furrowed her eyebrows, hesitating for a moment.

"What’s up? If it’s nothing, I’ll get back to having fun."

"It is something! It’s something!" Jiang Man panicked and detailed everything that had happened.

After listening, Wen Jingya was incredulous, "You don’t even know whether you saved grandma or not? Aren’t you afraid of falsely claiming to be grandma’s lifesaver and, if it’s not really you, being severely dealt with by grandma?"

"Let me tell you, don’t think grandma is so benign just because she seems kind-hearted. Do you know how ruthless she was when she forced apart her niece and the niece’s boyfriend with a stick? And after grandpa died, she, with Xingzhou, suppressed the old vassals of Lu Family. Do you really think a widow with a child relied on pity? To be honest, grandma was fierce back then, she even had several of the veterans thrown into prison to subdue that group of old courtiers."

The more Jiang Man listened, the colder her spine felt: "...I really don’t remember, and it’s not my fault. Besides, it was the nurse and grandma who kept saying I saved someone. I never claimed it myself."

"I don’t have time to hear you beat around the bush, just get to the point, what do you want?" Wen Jingya was very impatient. She was having a great time with friends and was quite annoyed by Jiang Man’s disruption.

"Yaya, it’s difficult for me to inquire about what happened back then. Could you help me investigate, ask around, check the street cameras, eyewitnesses, anything. I just want to know if it was really me who saved grandma..."

If it was, she would continue to rightfully enjoy the benefactor’s treatment.

If not, then she needed to think about a way out earlier.

"What’s in it for me?" Wen Jingya chuckled lightly, "You’re not thinking that because you’ve been Miss Lu too long, we’re sisters, are you?"

"Of course not, there are benefits, of course." Jiang Man bit her lip, thought for a moment, "What do you want, just name it."

"I actually don’t want anything special; after all, I lack nothing, just can’t stand seeing Jiang Man and Xingzhou together. I want them to divorce," Wen Jingya said seemingly nonchalantly.

But deep down, she was full of hate.

Originally, she was the child bride, always believing herself to be Lu Xingzhou’s future wife.

Now, not only had Jiang Man usurped her identity, but she had also stolen the affection that should have belonged to her from the Lu family.

She had long wanted to get rid of the thorn in her eye, Jiang Man, but to no avail.

"Yaya, isn’t that an unreasonable demand? Whether brother and sister-in-law divorce isn’t something I can influence," Jiang Man was close to crying, pitiful and even somewhat pleading, "Can’t we consider other conditions? Like money or something?"

"Are you joking? I’m the eldest daughter of the Lu Family, and you are the second miss. We both have pocket money. Would I lack money?" Wen Jingya completely lost her patience, "I’m off to club, hanging up now."

"Ah... wait..." Jiang Man clenched her fist, bit her back teeth, and took the plunge, "I promise you, as long as you can clear up the matter of the past, I have a way to make brother and Jiang Man divorce!"

"Alright then." Wen Jingya changed her tone, "I have connections. Just you wait."

"Hmm, thanks."

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Man’s heart finally calmed down a bit.

She indeed had a way, but this matter couldn’t be told to anyone.

That day, in the VIP lounge of the gambling stone venue, she heard the conversation between Nan Juefeng and Han Shuo.

If she just revealed that Jiang Man’s foster father was her aunt’s boyfriend back in the day, naturally, Jiang Man and big brother wouldn’t be able to be together.

After all, she had tested the waters a few days ago; just mentioning that man, grandma was itching with hatred.

...

An hour later, Rong Mansion.

Having not returned in over ten days, Jiang Man dearly missed her own little room.

After taking a bath, she lay down on the comfortable single bed and crossed her legs.

She popped up in the ’Trio Team’ group: Back in Beicheng, home now.

No sooner had she sent the message than JOJO threw out a sonogram: "Sister, look at my baby, cute isn’t it?"

Wu Yingfan: "Where’s the baby?"

Jiang Man: "It’s still an embryo sac."

Wu Yingfan: "Seriously, what’s there to see then?"

JOJO: "But the embryo sac is cute too."

Wu Yingfan: "Man-sis, Shaye said she wants to come to Beicheng with me... I couldn’t resist her, planning to take her tomorrow."

Jiang Man: "Doesn’t the little girl go to school?"

Wu Yingfan: "What books to read when all she thinks about are cardboard celebrities, a screw loose. Uncle Parna spoils her, anyway, she will inherit billions, doesn’t matter whether she studies or not."

JOJO: "I think you two are quite a match."

Wu Yingfan: "You’re under the influence of pregnancy hormones, seeing a match in everything."

JOJO: "Get lost, 88, going to sleep now."

Jiang Man looked at the screen and smiled, quickly replying: "8."

No sooner had she finished chatting here, she soon received a few greetings from her brothers.

She was too lazy to reply to each one, so she checked in with everyone in ’The Family of Love’.

In the past, the family members she had to report her schedule to included only her old dad, now also friends, and her brothers and uncle.

Truth be told, it was a happy feeling.

The happiness of ordinary people is really just that simple.

Just as Jiang Man was about to exit the chat app, preparing to listen to some music and read a book.

A message from the dark web caught her attention: Alliance Hierarch, there’s an interesting order. The client wants to investigate a man named Li Jin and the romantic escapades of Lu Xuemei.

Ordinary orders, the subordinates would automatically filter and decide whether or not to take them.

But this order was different; Lu Xuemei, wasn’t she Alliance Hierarch’s husband’s aunt?

Jiang Man: Find out who the client is.

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