Jiang Mi's face lit up with joy. She reached out and picked it up, placing it in the container she had prepared, then turned to scramble back.
A pair of slender legs suddenly appeared before her. Jiang Mi's heart stopped. She instinctively tried to hide the container, but Jiang Jingxiu bent down and snatched it away.
Jiang Mi felt her blood freeze. Her face turned deathly pale. Trembling, she stood up, trying to snatch the item back. Jiang Jingxiu raised his hand and dodged.
The woman on the bed screamed in fright, "Who are you? How did you get in?"
"Came specifically to steal used goods? Jiang Mi, what do you think you're doing?" Jiang Jingxiu looked at her with a somber expression that made her tremble with fear.
She knew all too well what that look meant. It meant he was truly angry!
That year, when she was at the Jiang family's house, she had almost been taken advantage of by a distant cousin. Jiang Jingxiu had worn that same look, and had immediately beaten the man half to death. It had taken the man six months to recover, but he was left with a disability. After that, he never dared to set foot in the Jiang family's home again.
If it hadn't been for that incident, she wouldn't have fallen for him... and none of what happened later would have occurred.
"Uncle, I... I... I just wanted to play a prank on you! I wasn't thinking of anything," Jiang Mi stammered, knowing how terrible her explanation sounded. But she couldn't tell him about Mian Mian.
"Trying to create a child for me to play with?" Jiang Jingxiu suddenly reached out and grabbed her neck, his grip so strong it felt like he intended to choke her to death.
"No, how could that be! I wouldn't dare!" Jiang Mi broke out in a cold sweat, terrified. This man always cut straight to the chase, and he had guessed correctly.
"You wouldn't dare? Jiang Mi, you've crossed my bottom line again and again. Do you think I really won't do anything to you?" Jiang Jingxiu tightened his grip on her neck. Jiang Mi instantly struggled to breathe and tried to pry his hand off.
If she hadn't climbed into his bed that year, his fiancée would not have driven off in anger and been killed in a car accident!
He hadn't killed her then, but he had told her to get out of Anshi and never appear before him again!
Jiang Mi felt the air in her chest grow thinner and thinner. She pleaded, "Uncle, please... let me go... I don't want to die."
That year, she truly didn't know how she had ended up in his bed. She really knew nothing. Later, when his aunt had her accident, she had been very sad. But she had only genuinely admired him. She had never intended to covet him. She knew she wasn't worthy!
What was she? Just an orphan adopted by the Jiang family, with a lower status than the servants. He was the most dazzling presence in the Jiang family, someone she could only look up to her entire life.
She had just been moved by the few glimmers of kindness he had shown her repeatedly. Perhaps they meant nothing to him, but to her, who received no kindness at the Jiang family, they were like charcoal fire in winter, precious beyond measure.
The woman beside them was so scared she was stunned. She couldn't quite follow the conversation, but she understood. This woman had come to steal Mr. Jiang's used t-shirt. What it contained was obvious. She was trying to steal his seed! Everyone in Jing City knew that Mr. Jiang would never let any woman have his child. Another woman had tried this before, and her fate had been miserable. She was reportedly still in prison. After that, no one dared to scheme for Jiang Jingxiu's seed.
But this woman also called Jiang Jingxiu "Uncle"... What was their relationship?
The woman dared not speak anymore, for fear of saying too much and making things worse.