The Time-Limited Love and Marriage
Chapter 71

Chapter 71: Chapter 71

Jiang Moxi ignored Ye Chen, finished pouring the drinks, and then left the private room.

But she always felt, given Yu Dingding’s nature of using any excuse to extort money from Ye Chen, it’s unlikely that she would waste two precious days that could be used for fundraising.

Because only when Yu Dingding repays the huge debt her father owed, could she leave Night Color and be completely free from Ye Chen.

So after she left the private room, she called Yu Dingding.

"What else is up?"

Yu Dingding probably thought it was still Ye Chen, her voice containing a coldness and irritation specifically intended for Ye Chen.

Not until Jiang Moxi spoke: "It’s me."

Then Yu Dingding’s tone changed: "Moxi? Don’t lend your phone to someone surnamed Ye in the future, I don’t want to see him, nor do I want to hear his voice."

"Got it. But what’s going on with you? Why did you suddenly take a leave?"

Jiang Moxi always felt that Yu Dingding’s leave request was out of the ordinary.

On the phone, Yu Dingding pondered for a long time before saying: "Moxi, my dad was beaten up in prison, and I can’t do anything about it."

Apart from Yu Dingding’s slightly choked voice, Jiang Moxi also heard the sound of clinking bottles.

Jiang Moxi quickly probed: "Where are you now? I’ll come to you."

Yu Dingding also wanted an outlet for her emotions, so she told Jiang Moxi her location...

*

Fu Youhan had been chatting with Ye Chen for a while, and was just about to leave after checking his watch.

That’s when his phone rang.

Fu Youhan answered the call.

The person on the other side said something that noticeably darkened Fu Youhan’s eyes.

"When did this happen?"

He asked a follow-up question, and the person on the other side said something more.

Then he said, "I’ll be right there."

As Fu Youhan put away his phone, Ye Chen couldn’t help but be nosy: "What happened?"

"More work for the capable, go ahead."

Seeing how Fu Youhan was staring at the private room’s entrance, lost in thought, Ye Chen added: "Moxi took a leave and left, no need to say goodbye to her."

Fu Youhan immediately responded coldly to Ye Chen: "Why did she take a leave?"

Wasn’t she just fine?

Ye Chen maliciously grinned: "She told the manager it’s an emergency, but she didn’t specify what kind."

The manager had just sent a message in the group to find someone to replace Jiang Moxi, and Ye Chen had accidentally seen it.

Seeing Fu Youhan’s livid face, he revelled in schadenfreude.

"What goes around comes around, who can escape the will of heaven..."

Who could blame someone for just now suggesting to Jiang Moxi to ask Yu Dingding to extend her leave for another two days, causing him, Ye Chen, to be in a fret.

See, karma strikes back.

Fu Youhan indeed wanted to punch Ye Chen, but the National Security Department was urgently pushing him, so he could only keep this account in mind and settle it together next time.

As for Jiang Moxi...

He would hurry back to Tianqin Bay to see what she was actually up to!

*

Jiang Moxi found Yu Dingding by the Yan City Moat.

She was sitting on the ground wearing a white dress by the riverside of the Yan City Moat, surrounded by countless empty beer bottles.

Jiang Moxi sat down next to Yu Dingding, and when Yu Dingding looked up at her, her eyes were already showing signs of drunkenness.

"Moxi, do you want to have a drink together?"

Jiang Moxi wanted to keep the man company even at the cost of her life, but thinking about the toxins remaining in her body, she said, "No."

Yu Dingding didn’t insist, just blew into the opened bottle towards her mouth.

After drinking more than half of the beer, Yu Dingding finally spoke up.

"Yesterday, I called a prison guard I had arranged earlier to ask about my father’s situation. He was hesitating,

and after probing further, I found out that my father was beaten, and those who did it are still placed in the same cell as him."

Talking about it, Yu Dingding nearly choked up: "Tell me why they won’t let go of my dad who is such an honest person?"

"They are..."

"Qin Shuang and the Qin Family."

Yu Dingding watched the river water flow rapidly, her eyes misty and powerless.

"That day when Mo Yifeng came to Yan City to find me, Qin Shuang somehow found out and followed. I told Qin Shuang I didn’t want to go back to him anymore, to keep her man in line. But Qin Shuang blamed everything on me and even had someone beat up my dad, constantly threatening his life!"

Ever since she became Oiran in Night Color, she seemed to have donned armor, becoming a socialite impervious to slander.

Only her father was the crack in her armor, the one who could wound her deeply.

"You could talk to Young Master Ye about this," Jiang Moxi suggested.

In Jiang Moxi’s view, given Ye Chen’s anxious demeanor to see Yu Dingding, knowing that these were the reasons for her leave, he should help Yu Dingding.

But Yu Dingding said, "Forget it, even if he knows, he will definitely end up siding with his darling and bully me."

Jiang Moxi turned to look at Yu Dingding’s face, beautiful enough to disregard morals: "I don’t think so, Young Master Ye seems very different towards you."

Ye Chen today looked exactly like a love-struck fool.

Though Jiang Moxi didn’t believe in love, she knew that fools in love were often willing to become passionately impulsive for their beloved.

"But love is a losing game nine out of ten times, and I’m already losing terribly. Now, the only thing I can control is my heart. If I lose that too, what would I have left?"

After saying that, Yu Dingding took another big swig of beer, trying to wash away the bitterness in her mouth with the fiery liquid.

Jiang Moxi then understood why Yu Dingding didn’t seek Ye Chen’s help.

Apart from fearing that Ye Chen, after knowing this, would side with Qin Shuang and worsen the bullying, she was more afraid of becoming more reliant on Ye Chen, of falling in love with him.

After thinking it over, Jiang Moxi asked Yu Dingding, "What’s your father’s name?"

"Yu Tongshu." Yu Dingding, somewhat drunk, subconsciously asked Jiang Moxi, "Why?"

"Nothing, just curious," Jiang Moxi replied, then sent a message to Scavenger.

"Emperor City Prison, Yu Tongshu. Find some people to protect him!"

Scavenger replied immediately: "Received, Dead Ghost!"

After sending the message, Jiang Moxi remembered how earlier Ye Chen had been frowning at her phone.

She quickly deleted all her previous conversations with Scavenger and changed his contact name to "Jing Yan."

After putting away her phone, Jiang Moxi lightly patted Yu Dingding’s shoulder: "Everything will get better."

Yu Dingding, thinking Jiang Moxi was comforting her, leaned her head on her shoulder: "It will."

Later, Jiang Moxi took the heavily intoxicated Yu Dingding back home, then returned to Tianqin Bay.

Unexpectedly, Fu Youhan was already at home.

In front of him was a laptop, his long fingers typing something.

He was busy without looking up, "Why did you suddenly take a leave?"

"I saw Yu Dingding, told her to take a few more days off."

Although Fu Youhan didn’t speak further, focusing on the computer,

it was apparent that he was very pleased with Jiang Moxi’s response, a smile lingering at the corner of his lips.

Yet, Jiang Moxi’s attention was on the rhythm of Fu Youhan’s typing, always feeling like he was entering some aggressive code.

So, she leaned in to see what kind of code it was.

But as soon as she leaned in, she was pulled onto his lap...