Chapter 20. Marriage? The Car Accident Kind (5)
Grandfather Shen watched as Shen Wan was helped into Wen Yingling’s car, happily waving goodbye. Yingling was a good girl—a bit cold, perhaps, but true to her word, intelligent, and reasonable. She wouldn’t harm his precious granddaughter like the Lin family might.
He felt completely at ease leaving his amnesiac granddaughter in Wen Yingling’s temporary care.
Keeping Wan Wan away from Lin Ming was also good, preventing her from regaining her memories prematurely by seeing him every day.
Having lived nearly a lifetime, he’d seen all types of people. He knew exactly what the Lin family was like. Aware that his granddaughter had been raised to be naive and gullible by his late son and daughter-in-law, he hadn’t transferred company shares to her name when she got married, lest she lose her head.
Before losing her memory, given how completely devoted the foolish girl was to Lin Ming, she would have likely transferred the shares to him the very next day.
But he had to save face for his granddaughter, so he made a verbal promise to the Lin family, stating that if their marriage was happy and harmonious for five years, he would transfer the shares to Shen Wan. In reality, without a signed contract, whether to transfer or not depended entirely on his mood.
He wasn’t a fool. If he had really transferred everything to his dim-witted granddaughter, the Shen family would have been finished. He had always regretted that the Shen family had no one left. Now, this amnesiac granddaughter with calculating eyes somewhat pleased him. If she didn’t regain her memory, once fully recovered and divorced, he could throw her into the company.
Sitting in the car, Shen Wan suddenly shivered, feeling a chill run down her spine. It was a familiar feeling of being schemed against.
“Are you cold?” Wen Yingling turned to ask.
Hearing that icy voice, Shen Wan quickly shook her head. “N-no, not cold.”
She hadn’t been cold before, but the ice beauty’s voice had chilled her.
“Why did you want to come with me?” Wen Yingling’s gaze fixed on Shen Wan’s face, her words very direct. “Is your only goal to have me help you with the divorce? Now that Grandfather Shen knows your plans, you shouldn’t need me anymore. So, why do you want to come home with me?”
Shen Wan looked at Wen Yingling pitifully. Did she have to be so blunt?
Didn’t she care about saving face?
188: He wouldn’t shrink away. Let’s see. This small problem should be left for the host to solve herself.
Shen Wan used her uninjured hand to tug at Wen Yingling’s sleeve, saying pitifully, “Yingling, this world is so strange to me. I’m so scared. You’re the only person I’m familiar with.”
188: Judging by the ice beauty’s skeptical look, she clearly didn’t believe his host’s tall tale.
“These past days, you’ve been the one feeding me, bringing me water, and the first person I saw when I woke up,” Shen Wan said in a coy voice, gripping Wen Yingling’s shirt hem tighter and tighter. “If I can’t see you, if you’re not in my world, I really don’t know what I’ll do.”
188: Keep making it up. Oh… no, he should say, Host’s reasons are very sufficient. Well said.
Wen Yingling looked down at her shirt hem in Shen Wan’s grip and said, “Let go first.”
Shen Wan: ??
“Yingling…”
“Release my shirt and speak properly. Don’t use that coquettish voice. You didn’t talk like this before.” Wen Yingling spoke a long sentence in a steady tone, nearly infuriating Shen Wan.
Just because she’s beautiful, does that mean she can disregard Shen Wan’s feelings? Well, fine, she can.
Shen Wan’s small hand released the shirt hem, but she still gazed at Wen Yingling with pitiful eyes. She didn’t know that at this moment, Wen Yingling felt no pity for her at all, only thinking that this second personality was not only overly dramatic but also had too many lines and particularly strange ideas.
Perhaps she had been suppressed for over twenty years and gone mad!
Wen Yingling smoothed her wrinkled shirt hem several times, but it remained crumpled. Shen Wan’s gaze weakened, and she even moved a bit farther away. Just then, Wen Yingling looked up, her serious gaze startling Shen Wan. Was she… a neat freak?
“Next time, just speak normally. Don’t keep grabbing my shirt hem. It’s particularly difficult to iron that area.”
Shen Wan: “188, I’m so embarrassed!”
[188’s warm voice sounded: “Wan Wan, it’s okay. Next time, use other methods. You’ll always be able to attract the ice beauty’s attention… oh, I mean, you’ll always be able to make the ice beauty believe you.”]
“Alright, back to the point. Shen Wan, why did you choose to come home with me?”
Shen Wan put on a serious face and said, “This world really is so strange to me…”
“Besides this reason, are there any others?” Wen Yingling asked, clearly not believing her. She particularly wanted to know what the second personality was up to.
Shen Wan’s mind raced. Her eyes suddenly lit up, and she moved closer to Wen Yingling, looking around before speaking in a low voice, “You might not believe this, but I feel like everyone is out to harm me. Only when I look at you do I feel safe.”
“Paranoia?” Wen Yingling frowned slightly. She observed Shen Wan carefully and actually saw a hint of fear in her eyes.
Was she really afraid? Wen Yingling paused for a moment. The second personality seemed more capable. Now that it was in control of the body, why would it be afraid?
“Yingling, I feel like someone wants to harm me.”
While Wen Yingling was pondering, Shen Wan spoke softly, “Yingling, I’m only telling you this.”
Wen Yingling’s expression grew serious, and she also lowered her voice, “What have you discovered?”
“A few days ago, a fragment flashed through my mind,” Shen Wan said nervously. “It was terrifying. In the scene, I was driving, and suddenly the car went completely out of control, crashing into the roadside. Didn’t my mother-in-law say at the hospital that she shouldn’t have given me a car for my birthday? Then this accident wouldn’t have happened.”
Wen Yingling’s eyes suddenly narrowed. “Your birthday was last month.”
“Yes, it was a new car,” Shen Wan said excitedly, about to grab Wen Yingling’s shirt hem again. Seeing her resistant look, she grasped her wrist instead. “Yingling, what are the chances of a new car going completely out of control?”
“Very small, almost negligible.”
Wen Yingling realized something. “You… remembered?”
Shen Wan thought: Hey, hey, hey, why do you sound so disappointed?
“No, just that fragment in my mind. I can’t remember anything else, and I don’t know if that scene is real or fake. If it’s real, I think someone must be trying to harm me. Yingling, do you think it could be Lin Ming? He seems to really dislike me and wants to get rid of me.”
“So this is why you came home with me?”
“Grandpa is old. I don’t want to worry him, so I had to ask you to help me investigate these things.”
Wen Yingling understood and said coldly, “You’re quite good at assessing the situation. Do you think I’m easy to deal with, so you’re latching onto me?”
“We’ve known each other for so long. Aren’t we friends?”
“No.”
Shen Wan thought: Helpless. After all this time, we’re still not friends.
“However, I can help you with this matter.” After saying this, Wen Yingling casually handed Shen Wan a jacket, then fell into deep thought. She felt something was still not quite right.
“Yingling, please don’t tell your brother about this.”
Wen Yingling glanced at Shen Wan, her voice slightly cool. “Do I look as foolish as you?”
Shen Wan thought: Fine, I’m the fool. The biggest fool of all.
Shen Wan successfully moved into Wen Yingling’s home. Wen Yingting didn’t have any particular objections; in fact, he seemed a bit pleased when he learned she would be staying with them.
“188, what’s this guy so happy about? Does he think that with me living in his house, Xia Xinzhi can successfully marry Lin Ming and live happily ever after? Dream on. Someone who tried to kill me doesn’t deserve to live comfortably.”
Wen Yingting believed that with Shen Wan living in his home, he’d have the opportunity to get close to her. This man’s thought process was particularly unique, thinking that if he could attract Shen Wan, he could help Xia Xinzhi and Lin Ming’s relationship.
On the day Shen Wan moved in, Wen Yingting was excessively attentive to her.
He was constantly serving tea, fetching water, running up and down, and asking after her well-being.
Wen Yingling watched Wen Yingting coldly, her gaze nearly throwing him out the window.
“Wan Wan, would you like to go down to the garden to enjoy some sunshine? I’ll take you down,” Wen Yingting said with a beaming smile. His gentle and refined appearance indeed attracted many women.
Shen Wan shook her head. “I don’t want to sunbathe.”
“You can look at the flowers. The garden has many beautiful blooms, growing well and looking lovely.”
Shen Wan glanced at her reflection in the mirror, noticing the faint scar on her forehead. “Wen Yingting, are you trying to antagonize me? You know I’m disfigured, yet you still want to take me to see beautiful flowers.”
“Well…”
As Wen Yingting was about to say something, he suddenly felt the air grow cold. He stiffly turned around to see Wen Yingling standing in the doorway, her expression so icy it made his muscles tremble.
“Wen Yingting.”
“Yingling, call me brother.”
“Wen Yingting, seducing a married woman is immoral,” Wen Yingling said bluntly as she entered the room. “Shen Wan is still married to Lin Ming. If you want to stay in the Wen family, don’t be a homewrecker.”
“Don’t you find such behavior shameful?”
Wen Yingting: “Yingling, you misunderstand.”
“Then get out!” Wen Yingling’s lips tightened. “Shen Wan doesn’t want to sunbathe or look at flowers, so she won’t go. Why are you forcing her?”
Wen Yingting: “I’m not, I didn’t.”
Seeing Wen Yingling approach, Wen Yingting quickly moved aside.
“Do you want to go out for a bit?” Wen Yingling remembered what she had discovered and wanted to tell Shen Wan.
Shen Wan nodded happily. “Mm, it is a bit stuffy inside. Some sunshine would be nice.”
Wen Yingling pushed the wheelchair past Wen Yingting, completely ignoring his existence.
Wen Yingting thought: What happened to not wanting to sunbathe?