Chapter 46
Extra (Jiang Huaisheng’s Perspective)
“Young Master Huaisheng, the Master and Madam have been in an accident.”
In this household, the housekeeper addressed Old Master Jiang as the Head of the Family. Jiang Huaisheng’s father was once called Young Master, but after Jiang Huaisheng’s birth, he became Master.
Jiang Huaisheng was the Grandson, so he was addressed as Young Master Huaisheng.
Jiang Huaisheng had been frail and sickly since birth, but before the age of three, he didn’t have many memories of being ill. However, after turning three and understanding more, Jiang Huaisheng resented his parents for giving him such a fragile body.
His family was so wealthy, and he possessed intelligence, good looks, and everything others envied, yet he had a terrible body.
Because of this body, some people dared to call him a sickly child behind his back. Of course, if such words reached Jiang Huaisheng’s ears, regardless of whether he was angry or not, someone would deal with those who dared to speak carelessly.
Bankruptcy, expulsion from school, job loss – in short, they would disappear completely from Jiang Huaisheng’s life.
Foolish people always paid the price for their careless words. Knowing the Jiang family’s power, yet still recklessly venting their malice, they had to bear the consequences.
But taking revenge on these people couldn’t improve his health. So, every time he was sick and lying in the hospital, with cold fluids being injected into his thin veins and the smell of disinfectant filling his nostrils, Jiang Huaisheng would curse the world, wishing everyone would suffer the same pain as him.
A child’s blood vessels were delicate, and sometimes he had to endure multiple injections. Other people’s blood entered his body, but it only prolonged his suffering, not giving him a healthy life.
When he was young and his bones hadn’t fully developed, he often had to sit in a wheelchair, watching others walk, run, and jump, freely expending their boundless energy.
His family, worried about his isolation and potential psychological problems, specifically found him playmates.
These playmates were mostly children whose families had requests of the Jiang family. Most of them came from relatively well-off families, many looking like dolls, fair and lovely, smart and precocious, behaving like miniature adults.
Well-behaved children knew not to speak carelessly and how to flatter and please Jiang Huaisheng.
But it was disgusting. Jiang Huaisheng found it repulsive. These children were still children, after all, even with adults’ guidance, they couldn’t completely hide the malice in their eyes.
Some children didn’t have malice, but sympathy and pity. But the proud Jiang Huaisheng didn’t need anyone’s pity. In his eyes, these so-called peers were just simple-minded paramecia.
What right did these little bugs have to pity him? He drove away all his playmates.
Jiang Huaisheng’s birthday parties were always grand affairs. He was the undisputed protagonist.
But this year was a little different. On his eighth birthday, Jiang Huaisheng’s parents didn’t come to celebrate with him. When he received the call, his grandfather’s personal butler said: “The Master and Madam have been in a car accident and are currently receiving treatment at the hospital.”
The young Jiang Huaisheng had a terrible temper. He didn’t care whether his parents were in a car accident or not, but they had broken their promise, making him lose face. He knocked over his birthday cake.
The old man was initially furious, about to scold his grandson for being so unreasonable, but the angry little grandson fainted and was quickly taken to the hospital for treatment.
“This child’s body is too fragile.” The old man sighed, not daring to say a harsh word to Jiang Huaisheng. After all, his little grandson’s condition seemed even more serious than his son and daughter-in-law who were in a car accident.
The butler said that Jiang’s father and Mrs. Xu were receiving treatment, not emergency care, because their injuries weren’t too serious. One injured his leg, the other injured her hand, but neither was life-threatening. They just needed to stay in the hospital for a few days, wear casts for ten days or half a month, and they would fully recover.
“The housekeeper, Gu Ze, who was in the same car, is in the emergency room.”
Two days after Jiang Huaisheng’s birthday, the hospital announced Gu Ze’s death.
“We’re very sorry, we did our best. The impact injured the patient’s heart.” The hospital had tried to resuscitate him for nearly 20 hours, and the patient’s will to live was strong, but ultimately, he lost to death. The rescue failed, and a young life was lost in the hospital.
After a while, the butler brought two outsiders to the Jiang family mansion.
It was a delicate and beautiful woman, like a lily. Jiang Huaisheng had seen this kind of woman before. His father was promiscuous and loved all kinds of beautiful women.
There was one mistress he particularly favored, to the point that she almost caused a scene at the Jiang family home. She was pregnant at the time and tried to force her way in.
Of course, before Old Master Jiang found out, his father…
His promiscuous father lit a cigarette and pressed the burning tip onto the woman’s dress, leaving a burn scar on her leg.
His father said coldly: “I had a vasectomy a long time ago, so you, you bitch, are living in my house, spending my money, cheating on me, and even bringing…”
The beautiful woman’s face was filled with panic as she clung to his father’s leg, begging for mercy. The woman and her lover, of course, paid the price.
And his father, at that time, looked at him with an awkward expression: “Huaisheng, you saw it, don’t tell your mother. Dad will buy you the latest toy. Dad only has you as his son, and everything Dad has will be yours in the future.”
Jiang Huaisheng’s dark eyes looked at his father without any warmth, then he turned his wheelchair and left.
Disgusting, everyone in this world was disgusting. Jiang Huaisheng heard that because of his father’s infidelity, his mother gave birth to him prematurely, which was why he had such a fragile body.
Actually, it was because their blood types weren’t compatible, but Jiang Huaisheng needed someone to blame, so he resented his father, and he also resented his mother.
Finding such a terrible man, knowing he was terrible, why was she still affected by him? Knowing it was a business marriage, why invest any feelings? If she couldn’t handle it, she shouldn’t have gotten married and had children.
Jiang Huaisheng knew that his parents both had lovers outside, they often carried different scents of perfume.
They had separated shortly after he was born, but at every family gathering, under the spotlight and in front of the cameras, they would put on an act, pretending to be a perfect and loving couple.
From that time on, Jiang Huaisheng knew that love was the cheapest thing in the world, it had an expiration date, like canned food, lasting only a few years, maybe ten, seemingly unchanged, but slowly rotting every day, then suddenly going completely bad.
When he was young, Jiang Huaisheng didn’t know what love was, but he remembered this clearly. And family affection was only slightly better than love, inherently bound by blood ties.
Some family affection was great and strong, but some was as thin as a cicada’s wings, like a thin piece of paper, easily torn.
In their circle, family affection wasn’t worth much. For example, those children who were sent to be his playmates, if they offended him, they would be beaten by their fathers.
Some were even divorced and abandoned.
Hypocritical people would even blame him, as if their relationships wouldn’t have broken down so easily without him, as if their family affection was just a bubble, fragile compared to eternal interests.
The first time Jiang Huaisheng saw Gu Tang’s mother, he sensed a familiar aura from her. This woman was no different from all the others he had met.
Her eyes lit up when she saw the Jiang family’s wealth.
She clutched the child’s hand so tightly that it hurt, but she didn’t notice.
This was the first time Jiang Huaisheng saw Gu Tang, an eight-year-old child.
The old butler told him: “This is the son of Gu Ze, who saved the Master and Madam. He’s eight years old this year, a third-grader in the town’s elementary school. He was born on the same day as Young Master.”
Hearing this, Jiang Huaisheng felt an inexplicable dislike for Gu Tang. A country bumpkin from a small town, what right did he have to be born on the same day as him?
“According to the Head of the Family, he will stay here temporarily while we decide on the arrangements.”
The elderly butler said with a smile: “If you like him, you can keep him as a playmate.”
After all, Jiang Huaisheng had driven away many such playmates, and the old butler had a headache, not knowing what kind of companion Jiang Huaisheng wanted.
Their young master was good in every aspect, except for being too picky and having a bad temper.
But he couldn’t blame his young master. After all, the child was often sick, and it was normal for patients to be irritable.
“No.”
Jiang Huaisheng said coldly, he didn’t want a smelly kid from the countryside following him around, making him feel dirty.
Of course, at that time, he would never have known that Gu Tang would stay, and stay for a long time.
The other party was like a comet, descending from the sky with a trail of light, and for a long time afterward, like the sunlight he craved, illuminating his dark and muddy heart.
The comet fell into his arms, and from then on, they were entangled, bound together by love, privately his.
