Chapter 104: Chapter 104: Past Grudges and Gratitude
Xiao Li, who was invited in a different way, couldn’t help but roll her eyes to the sky upon hearing this, "I really thank you!"
"Even without you telling me, I would have found out sooner or later. My uncle will definitely find out."
Cheng Jue across from her didn’t care about Xiao Li’s reaction. She picked up a cup of tea, took a sip, and then looked at Xiao Li, "Speaking of which, I truly hate your grandmother..."
When Cheng Jue said this, her gaze at Xiao Li was unmistakably venomous...
But when Xiao Li looked back at her, she noticed that Cheng Jue seemed to be seeing someone else through her.
Xiao Li understood that she was being hated as if she were her grandmother. Truly a madwoman...
After glaring at Xiao Li, Cheng Jue continued, "Little girl, do you know that your grandmother and I were the best of friends in our youth.
In terms of how you young people would say it now, we were ’besties.’
However, our sisterhood completely shattered with the arrival of two men..."
In the following time, Cheng Jue truly recounted the events of the past to Xiao Li, one by one.
Back then, the Cheng Family and the Bai Family emigrated overseas at the same time. Both were prestigious, secluded families from Jiangnan who moved abroad together, so naturally, Cheng Jue and Bai Ruoqing became close friends.
Despite being friends, they had very different personalities: Bai Ruoqing was gentle and demure, whereas Cheng Jue was more proud and aloof.
Even though their temperaments were different, they became good friends because of Bai Ruoqing’s agreeable nature.
They remained friends from childhood until they met two people.
Those two people were Wen Xiaozheng and Wen Xiaowen.
That year, Wen Xiaozheng and Wen Xiaowen both went abroad to study. Wen Xiaozheng, being the son of the Wen Family head, always carried himself with the demeanor of a prince wherever he went.
Wen Xiaowen, most of the time, seemed like Wen Xiaozheng’s follower.
Actually, Wen Xiaowen wasn’t supposed to study abroad since members of the second branch of the Wen Family didn’t have the qualifications to go abroad, no matter how well Wen Xiaowen did academically. If the first branch of the Wen Family didn’t allow him to go, he simply couldn’t.
It was thanks to Wen Xiaozheng that Wen Xiaowen was able to go abroad, but Wen Xiaozheng wasn’t genuinely trying to help him.
He just wanted to bring Wen Xiaowen abroad and thoroughly crush him there.
Who could blame the Wen Family members for always comparing the two of them?
Wen Xiaozheng’s father had taken power from Wen Xiaowen’s father, and at that time, not everyone in the Wen Family was convinced.
Thus, the collateral branches of the Wen Family would often privately compare Wen Xiaozheng and Wen Xiaowen, and unfortunately, Wen Xiaozheng couldn’t surpass Wen Xiaowen. He often heard people say, "Who knows, maybe after the first branch hands over power to Wen Xiaozheng, Wen Xiaowen will seize it back."
Hearing this planted a thorn in Wen Xiaozheng’s heart. Before going abroad, he thought of taking Wen Xiaowen with him to destroy his spirit overseas.
Thus, Wen Xiaozheng took Wen Xiaowen abroad to study, treating him like a servant every day...
Until during a gathering for overseas Chinese, Wen Xiaozheng saw Bai Ruoqing and was immediately captivated by her beauty and grace.
From then on, all he thought about was pursuing Bai Ruoqing, putting aside his intentions to suppress Wen Xiaowen.
But no matter how he pursued Bai Ruoqing, she remained indifferent to him because her affections lay with the humble Wen Xiaowen by Wen Xiaozheng’s side.
At the same time, Cheng Jue also fell for Wen Xiaowen.
Upon discovering that Bai Ruoqing and Wen Xiaowen reciprocated each other’s feelings, Cheng Jue sought out Wen Xiaozheng to conspire against Bai Ruoqing.
That day, Cheng Jue first drugged Bai Ruoqing, sending her into Wen Xiaozheng’s room. Afterward, she found Wen Xiaowen and drugged him as well.
Her plan was that, after drugging Wen Xiaowen, she would take him to witness Bai Ruoqing entwined with another man. At that moment, Wen Xiaowen would undoubtedly be heartbroken, and with the drug taking effect, they would naturally end up together.
To prevent Wen Xiaowen from suspecting that it was her scheme, Cheng Jue also drugged herself so she could later pretended to be a victim...
But she never expected the plan to fail, with Bai Ruoqing managing to escape. The usually gentle woman knocked Wen Xiaozheng unconscious during her drug-induced state and fled.
When Cheng Jue arrived with Wen Xiaowen, instead of seeing an entwined scene, they saw Bai Ruoqing sweating profusely but neatly dressed, opening the door to call for help.
When Wen Xiaowen saw Bai Ruoqing and listened to her, how could he not understand?
Wen Xiaowen, angered by the design against Bai Ruoqing, first helped Bai Ruoqing to the side, then forcibly pushed Cheng Jue into the room, locking her inside with Wen Xiaozheng.
Then he left with Bai Ruoqing, and along the way, with both understanding each other’s intentions and under the influence of the drug, what was meant to happen naturally happened.
Meanwhile, in the hotel suite, the freshly awakened Wen Xiaozheng was pounced upon by a woman. Since the lights were off, Wen Xiaozheng thought it was Bai Ruoqing succumbing to the drug and responded accordingly.
The next day, when everything was already settled, the two plotters found themselves in the same bed, leaving both of them furious beyond words.
Later, Bai Ruoqing and Wen Xiaowen registered their marriage, and in their anger, Cheng Jue and Wen Xiaozheng did the same.
However, they didn’t marry to be together, but for one goal: to torture Bai Ruoqing and Wen Xiaowen.
Soon after Bai Ruoqing married into the Wen Family, Cheng Jue followed.
For this former good friend, Bai Ruoqing had long forgotten their sisterhood once she knew Cheng Jue had drugged her.
Cheng Jue tried to oppress Bai Ruoqing everywhere in the Wen Family, but Bai Ruoqing didn’t take any of it to heart. She had Wen Xiaowen’s love and was expecting a child.
Those insignificant troubles didn’t bother Bai Ruoqing at all.
Seeing her suppression efforts fail and watching every day Wen Xiaowen’s tender care for Bai Ruoqing and eyeing her growing belly, Cheng Jue was driven nearly insane with jealousy.
She touched her own belly, thinking she needed to have a child too, one who could suppress Bai Ruoqing’s child.
Thus, Cheng Jue approached Wen Xiaozheng. Wen Xiaozheng also needed an heir; without an offspring, how would the first branch of the Wen Family continue?
So, the two of them, who hadn’t been intimate since they were drugged before, found themselves back in bed together.
Unfortunately, neither of them had feelings for the other. Although Wen Xiaozheng was inferior to Wen Xiaowen in many ways, he was equally passionate.
Why would a man like Wen Xiaozheng, who could have any woman, remain alone with only Bai Ruoqing in his heart?
Now, to be with Cheng Jue again, he felt no attraction, thus couldn’t perform.
Cheng Jue felt the same way; her stomach churned at the thought of being with Wen Xiaozheng, but she had no choice.
In the end, Cheng Jue was forced to drug both of them again, relying on the drug’s effects to do what needed to be done.