Paranoid Doctor Only Loves Me
Chapter 496 - 460 The New Year has come (two updates in one)_2

Chapter 496: 460 The New Year has come (two updates in one)_2

However, once the review came through, as his ex-wife, Zhao Xinlan managed to emerge unscathed, completely unaffected. Jiang Tao understood then that Zhao Xinlan hadn’t lied—the majority of the money she spent was indeed her own.

Their household’s daily expenses were covered by Jiang Tao’s regular salary.

A salary belongs to both spouses, and there was no issue with Zhao Xinlan using half of it.

He always thought Zhao Xinlan was simple and easy to deceive. It wasn’t until now that he realized Zhao Xinlan was actually playing dumb but was a clever schemer.

Every day since his incarceration, he regretted not treating Zhao Xinlan a tiny bit better back when she was deeply in love with him.

If only he had been a bit nicer to Zhao Xinlan and let her have their child, then their family wouldn’t have ended up in this situation.

"Second bro, you guys go out first. I want to speak to Meimei alone," Jiang Tao said to Jiang Wu.

"Alright."

Jiang Wu left with his wife and daughter, and Jiang Jiahao left with his family as well.

When only the siblings were left, the guard reminded them that there were ten minutes remaining.

Jiang Tao hurriedly said to Jiang Mei, "Meimei, no matter how much you despise Zhao Xinlan, now is the last gamble for our Jiang Family. Zhao Xinlan’s maternal grandfather was once the richest man in Harbor City."

Jiang Mei: "..."

So that’s why Zhao Xinlan is so wealthy?

"As the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Even if her grandfather is gone, his wealth remains. The Jiang Family needs Zhao Xinlan’s help. You and Ah Wu, you’re smarter, and you think things through more comprehensively. Therefore, the heavy responsibility of revitalizing the Jiang Family, I’m entrusting to you. Whether it can be done depends on fate, just do your best," Jiang Tao spoke.

"Big brother, I understand. I’ll do my utmost. No matter how badly Zhao Xinlan treats me, even if she curses me, I’ll still get her to come see you," Jiang Mei promised.

She understood that even if Zhao Xinlan was rich, getting her to willingly give money to help the Jiang Family would be futile, no matter what she or her second brother said.

Only by letting her come to the prison to meet with Jiang Tao might there be a chance her brother could convince her.

For the sake of the Jiang Family, enduring some hardship was nothing.

"Good, then I’ll wait for your good news."

"Time’s up," the guard called out.

"Big brother, take good care of yourself. We’re waiting for you to come home."

"...Yes."

In the end, just as Jiang Tao said, Zhao Xinlan was no longer the little woman who was infatuated with him. Whatever Jiang Mei said was in vain.

Zhao Xinlan refused to meet with him, and to avoid Jiang Mei’s relentless pestering, Su Yangming took Zhao Xinlan on a trip.

Jiang Mei was furious.

She felt incredibly guilty towards Jiang Tao and didn’t have the courage to visit the prison again.

Jiang Wu and He Wenhui noticed something was off with Jiang Mei and went to her house to ask her what exactly was going on, what their big brother had said to her that day.

Jiang Mei, in a panic, revealed that Zhao Xinlan’s maternal grandfather was the richest man in Harbor City.

Jiang Wu and He Wenhui were both shocked and regretful.

Especially He Wenhui.

How could the Jiang family be so blind? How did they fail to see the unpolished gem that was Zhao Xinlan right before them?

Of course, she was blind too, or else she wouldn’t have looked down on Zhao Xinlan.

Were they the fools all along?

How regretful.

"Could her refusal to see big brother have something to do with that young man by her side?" He Wenhui had also met Su Yangming and, despite his not-so-fair skin, still couldn’t change the fact that he looked like a kept man.

"Exactly, at her age, she’s always with a man so much younger than her. Isn’t she afraid of being laughed at?" Jiang Wu, holding traditional and conservative views, thought that it was normal for a man to be older than a woman in a relationship, but the other way around was simply beyond words.

"I don’t know about that. She’s not in Hua City now. If she were, I could still have someone block her path, but now that she’s not here, I also don’t know when she’ll come back," Jiang Mei said, extremely frustrated.

"If there aren’t any other solutions, we’ll have to use the most foolish one—waiting for the hare at the stump," suggested He Wenhui.

"It seems that’s all we can do for now," Jiang Mei conceded.

"..."

**

On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Su Ruoan and Tang Shengyi took turns resting. Tang Su told Zhang Li and Zhao Yue the day before that she wouldn’t be at the store that day. She would leave the twentyninth to them and would come early on New Year’s Eve to hand out red envelopes.

The store would be closed from the first to the fifteenth day of the new year.

At the café, Tang Su made the same arrangements. However, Zhou Hang and Xu Jie found Tang Su, "Sister Tang Su, we have something we’d like to discuss with you."