Half an hour later, the driver delivered Zhan Bei Jue to Lu Ming Zhe’s car.
The car door opened, and seeing him slumped over the steering wheel, half-dead and weak, Zhan Bei Jue gave him a push.
“What’s wrong? You were unclear on the phone, what happened?”
Lu Ming Zhe unbuckled his seatbelt and staggered out as if drunk.
He opened the rear door, lay down on the seat, and covered his eyes with his hand.
“Let’s find a place to drink, you drive.”
Zhan Bei Jue started the car and drove onto the road.
Lu Ming Zhe remained silent, and after several minutes, he still hadn’t recovered.
Zhan Bei Jue looked at him, looking miserable, in the rearview mirror and couldn’t help but ask.
“Got scammed? Your mom was right, Xiang Wan is a scammer?”
Lu Ming Zhe’s voice trembled.
“I wish she was a scammer, then I wouldn’t be this upset. The problem is, she has no flaws.”
“Suddenly she just didn’t want me anymore, what the hell is this?”
Zhan Bei Jue wasn’t good at comforting people.
Even if he could empathize with others’ feelings, he couldn’t say any mushy words.
Moreover, seeing him like this, he seemed to see his past self.
He had laughed at himself quite a bit back then.
He couldn’t help but speak the truth.
“Heaven’s cycle of retribution, it’s good someone came along to deal with you. It’s all your karma.”
Lu Ming Zhe didn’t argue with him and gave a bitter smile.
“That’s right, it’s indeed my karma, it’s all karma!”
“We’ve known each other for four years. For the first three years, I didn’t take her seriously. Now that she’s gone, I realize I can’t live without her. I’m such a fool!”
Didn’t she get pregnant with your child?
Zhan Bei Jue wanted to ask this question.
But then he thought of Jiang Nan Fang back then…
Women, once they become ruthless, can do anything.
As for children, they are in her belly, and they truly have no say.
“Stop sighing. If you really can’t live without her, now that she’s only just left, go find her quickly. Don’t be like me, delaying for so many years.”
“How can I find her? If I could find her, I would have.”
Speaking of this, Lu Ming Zhe slowly sat up and gave a self-mocking smile in the rearview mirror.
“Back then, I used to laugh at you, always thinking you were useless. Looking at it now, damn it, I’m completely following your old path.”
“Did Xiang Wan learn from Jiang Nan Fang? Her methods are exactly the same as hers. She disappeared without a trace. I want to find her, but I don’t know where to start!”
“That impressive? It seems she really doesn’t want you.”
Zhan Bei Jue had no sympathy, and even felt like laughing.
Lu Ming Zhe angrily kicked his seat, and only then did Zhan Bei Jue suppress his smile.
“Doesn’t she have a younger brother studying here?”
“I beat up her brother, but he insisted he didn’t know. His sister hasn’t contacted him either. I’m truly out of options.”
Then Zhan Bei Jue also didn’t know what else to say to him.
After all, he wasn’t a master at flirting.
And his past with Jiang Nan Fang was a negative example, he didn’t know how to impart experience to him.
He could only take him to a club and accompany him drinking, glass after glass.
The wine intoxicates not the drinker, but the person.
Soon, Lu Ming Zhe started talking nonsense.
Zhan Bei Jue asked someone to prepare a room for him and helped him inside to rest.
He then took out his phone, found a personal WeChat contact, looked at it repeatedly, and sent a message.
“I’m coming over now.”
The other party replied instantly with an OK gesture.
Then, another string of messages followed, asking him to bring a few cases of wine, some food, and some fruit.
Zhan Bei Jue complied, driving around the city for a long time before parking the car in a secluded villa.
The door had already been unlocked, and he pushed it open.
In the luxurious and bright living room, sat a young woman dressed very beautifully and exquisitely.
Upon closer inspection, they had some resemblance in their features.
“Where’s what I asked for?”
Seeing him enter, the woman slowly rose from the sofa to greet him.
“In the car.”
Feeling a bit warm from drinking, Zhan Bei Jue took off his jacket and hung it on his arm.
“How is she? Has her condition improved?”
“Heh,” the woman sneered.
“I told you half a month ago that she was not doing well, and now you’re asking if she’s improved after half a month. How filial.”
“If she hadn’t improved, her bones would have rotted by now. What meaning would your visit have?”
Zhan Bei Jue listened to her sarcasm indifferently.
“Stop with the useless talk. Don’t you still have me?”
“Go get the things yourself. I’m going upstairs to check.”
The woman rolled her eyes at him, put on slippers, opened the door, and went to the trunk to get the items.
He tiptoed upstairs to the room.
Only a floor lamp was left on in the room, casting a dim yellow light.
On the large, white bed lay a quiet middle-aged woman.
Zhan Bei Jue walked over, stared at her sleeping face for a few seconds, and reached out to stroke her hair.
“Mom, I’ve come to see you.”
The woman didn’t react. Her face was pale, but her features were still very defined and delicate, no different from before the incident.
Zhan Bei Jue picked up her hand again and looked at it.
It was very clean, and her nails were neatly trimmed.
He sighed, tucked her hand back under the covers, and turned to go downstairs again.
The woman had moved all the items to the doorway and was dragging them in bit by bit.
Zhan Bei Jue didn’t help, and asked her indifferently.
“You haven’t answered my question yet, what exactly is her condition?”
The woman only looked at him lazily after moving all the items inside and closing the door.
“My capabilities are limited, and I’m not some brilliant medical expert. What can I tell?”
“Anyway, recently she’s been sometimes lucid and sometimes groggy. If she’s not sent to the hospital, you should prepare for the worst.”
After his mother had tricked Jiang Nan Fang into going to the rooftop and falling with Ke Teng,
To avoid escalating the scandal and affecting the Zhan family’s reputation, Zhan Bei Jue had immediately blocked the news.
And he had Jing Fang step forward to order everyone who filmed the video to delete the videos from their phones.
He declared to Jiang Nan Fang and the Ke family that his mother had passed away after failed rescue efforts.
In reality, it was to somewhat alleviate the anger of Jiang Nan Fang and Ke Jing Yu.
After all, Ke Teng was seriously injured at the time, and Jiang Nan Fang hated his mother intensely.
If she had been told that she was not dead, Jiang Nan Fang might never have ended up with Zhan Bei Jue.
Precisely because he knew this deeply, Zhan Bei Jue hid his mother in this unknown place.
He dared not let anyone other than himself know.
He was very worried.
What would Jiang Nan Fang’s reaction be if the truth came out and she discovered his great deception…
It was truly pitiable.
Zhan Bei Jue had always longed to have another child with Jiang Nan Fang.
He always felt that having another little angel to tie them together would give him more resolve to keep her.
He hadn’t expected that after finally getting pregnant, such a thing would happen.
Therefore, he had been in a low mood recently.
The woman currently living with his mother is Zhan Bei Jue’s fraternal twin sister.
She has no Chinese name, her English name is Melody.