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Chapter 501 - 444 junk messages_2

Chapter 501: 444 junk messages_2

Offering flowers to Buddha on behalf of another is not impermissible, and Li Shuru wouldn’t know, but such behavior is really too despicable.

"What are you thinking about?"

Li Shuru passed a dish over.

Jiang Chen smiled nonchalantly and carried it to the dining room.

During the meal, the atmosphere was quite cheerful with laughter and conversation, but Jiang Chen increasingly felt something was off.

That night, lying in bed, Jiang Chen finally couldn’t help but ask, "Is something on your mind?"

Li Shuru nestled into his embrace, her soft hair partly draping over his face, tickling him and wafting a light scent of fragrance.

"No."

Jiang Chen knew she wasn’t being sincere, yet he didn’t ask further.

"Ding."

The mobile phone on the nightstand made a sound.

It was a text message.

"Your phone rang."

Jiang Chen reminded her.

Li Shuru got up, glanced at her phone, didn’t reply, quickly set it down, and lay down again.

"It’s just spam."

Jiang Chen didn’t think much of it, holding the girl without any further actions, enjoying the rare peacefulness.

"Ding."

Yet, after two minutes, there it was again.

Jiang Chen glanced at the girl.

Li Shuru didn’t move.

"Ding."

The sound of the text message rang out a third time.

Spam messages wouldn’t keep coming like this, would they?

"Aren’t you going to check?"

Jiang Chen asked.

"It’s nothing, don’t worry about it."

Jiang Chen smiled, "It can’t be that someone is wooing you, can it?"

Li Shuru didn’t speak.

Could it be that he had hit the nail on the head?

But let’s not say it.

For a girl like Li Shuru, it wouldn’t be surprising at all that she has suitors.

Jiang Chen wasn’t nervous or angry, and just as he was about to continue asking, the phone actually rang again.

This time it wasn’t a text message; it was a direct call.

Li Shuru could no longer pretend not to see and sat up straight, promptly hanging up the phone.

Jiang Chen was astonished.

Could it really be someone trying to steal his girl?

Of course.

He never doubted Li Shuru’s character, and he had experienced being cheated on before.

A relationship is a mutual choice.

Perhaps in the eyes of some wealthy and powerful people, women are merely objects, even playthings.

But in his heart, Li Shuru was always a person with her own individuality; he never treated her as his possession.

If Li Shuru truly felt that their time together was too sporadic and unsuitable, he wouldn’t force her to stay.

He had always been prepared for such a possibility.

After all, he could never guarantee that he could be wholly devoted to her.

Only...

Had that moment really come so quickly?

It was undeniable.

Even with the mental preparation for the possibility that one day she might leave him, when Jiang Chen truly contemplated the image of this girl in someone else’s embrace, he found that emotionally, he wasn’t as open-minded as he had imagined.

Just like now.

He clearly wanted to maintain a smile, but the smile he forced out couldn’t conceal its stiffness.

It was human nature.

"Who is it?"

Now he couldn’t keep pretending to be deaf and dumb; he sat up as well.

"Just a nuisance call."

Li Shuru indeed was someone who wasn’t very good at lying.

"Let me see."

Jiang Chen said gently.

"It’s really just a nuisance call."

As Li Shuru spoke, she tried to stuff her phone into the pillow, "Let’s sleep."

Jiang Chen didn’t attempt to take it from her.

"I’m not that petty. If you really met someone better..."

Li Shuru suddenly looked up.

"What did you say?"

Their eyes met.

Those beautiful eyes that intimidate average young men trembled intensely.

For some reason, Jiang Chen suddenly felt unjustifiably guilty; he opened his mouth but didn’t know what to say.

"Do you mean to say, you’ve been wanting to say that all along?"

Her eyes began to fill with tears.

Jiang Chen fell silent, and a hint of doubt unavoidably rose in his heart.

The beautiful moonlight spilled onto the bed, illuminating the two figures in their pajamas.

A tear rolled down the corner of Li Shuru’s eye, as she threw back the quilt, got up, and stepped out of bed.

"Where are you going?"

Jiang Chen asked quickly.

"I’m going to sleep in another room."

Li Shuru didn’t let the conversation go bad but chose to escape, swiftly leaving the room without giving Jiang Chen a chance to stop her.

To tell you the truth.

Jiang Chen was somewhat baffled.

How did it seem like he’d become the bad guy?

Of course.

He wasn’t a novice in love like his cousin Hong Xiaoyu; if he let Li Shuru sleep outside for the night, there would probably always be a knot between them.

He was about to get out of bed when suddenly, he caught sight of a corner of Li Shuru’s forgotten phone peeking out from under the pillow.

Jiang Chen reached out and took the phone from under the pillow.

He had never invaded someone else’s privacy, Li Shuru included.

Some couples, particularly those with strong possessive instincts, love to check each other’s phones, but he never had.

Yet at that moment, he really wanted to see who had made the call and sent the text that just came in.

The screen lit up.

Unlock required.

Jiang Chen tentatively entered Li Shuru’s birthday, but the phone vibrated, the password was wrong.

The screensaver, however, caused him to space out for a moment.

It was a photo of him sleeping.

He had no idea when it was secretly taken.

Thinking of an image like Li Shuru delicately taking out her phone to sneak a photo after he fell asleep, Jiang Chen couldn’t help but chuckle.

Looking at the locked screen, Jiang Chen didn’t try any further.

He carried the phone and looked around the rooms, but there was no sign of Li Shuru. Heading to the garden, he found Li Shuru curled up in a wicker chair, knees to her chest, staring at the night sky.

"You left your phone," he said.

Jiang Chen walked over and handed her the phone.

"Thank you."

Li Shuru took it, her eyes slightly red; apart from that, there was no significant change in her demeanor, but this degree of politeness made Jiang Chen feel somewhat uncomfortable.

He sat down beside her.

"I just tried to unlock it with your birthday, didn’t work."

"It’s not my birthday."

Even though Jiang Chen hadn’t asked, Li Shuru quickly blurted out a string of numbers.

Jiang Chen asked, "Why use this password?"

"It’s the date we climbed Heaven’s Fort."

The memory of almost falling into a deep abyss flashed across his mind.

Jiang Chen fell silent.

Li Shuru handed the phone back to him.

"If you want to see it, go ahead."

"Harassment calls, what’s there to see?"

Jiang Chen said with a nonchalant smile.

"It’s not harassment calls."

Li Shuru looked at him, one hand still holding the phone out.

Jiang Chen stared at her for a while, then finally reached out and took the phone back.

Li Shuru withdrew her hand and hugged her arms, once again looking up at the stars, seemingly searching for her father’s star.

Unfortunately, the air quality in East Sea wasn’t ideal. Though haze wasn’t severe, the night sky was indeed less bright than some smaller cities.

Jiang Chen entered the sequence of numbers and successfully unlocked the phone this time.

The blocked incoming call had no notes, but the content of the "junk messages" was quite—

dramatic.

Jiang Chen was stunned, his expression frozen.

And it wasn’t just tonight.

According to the timestamps, the "junk messages" from the same number went back to last night when he was still in Hancheng.

Jiang Chen looked up, struggling.

"I miss my dad," Li Shuru murmured softly to the night sky, side facing him.

Jiang Chen, who had done nothing wrong, couldn’t help feeling an overwhelming sense of shame.

"Shu Rui, you’ve misunderstood, this photo, it’s fake, it’s not— It’s not what you think..." Jiang Chen’s words were a jumble.

At that moment, he finally understood what Shi Qianxi had done when she drugged him.

Apparently, she had taken intimate photos of him!

That’s right.

No wonder his shirt was pulled off.

The junk messages Li Shuru received were all "intimate photos" of him and Shi Qianxi in bed.

To think, as the acting chairman of Jin Hai, could a girl really sink to doing such a thing?!

Jiang Chen almost couldn’t help cursing out loud.

"I said I was drugged, that nothing happened between us, do you believe me?"

Li Shuru was silent.

"I can call her over to explain to you in person," he said.

Jiang Chen knew his story sounded ludicrous, but it was true!

Had it actually happened, then so be it, but his situation was even more wrongful than Dou E’s.

Li Shuru turned her head to look at him.

"Tomorrow! I’ll call her over tomorrow!"

"No need."

Li Shuru lowered her legs, "Go rest."

Jiang Chen was taken aback.

What was going on?

Is that it? No more problems?

He still didn’t understand women fully.

Some girls, once fallen, would wallow in the dust, as long as you’re willing to lie to them, they’ll willingly believe.