CH 30.2

Ruan Zhiyin went along with Butler Liu’s words and went to the miscellaneous items area in the attic to get a clean cardboard box to fill with the water chestnuts.

Who knew that after she came out, she was blocked by someone waiting at the door.

“Elder sister, I want to talk to you.”

Lin Jingfei was deliberately waiting for her here. She had wanted to speak to Ruan Zhiyin.

Just as she finished speaking, she looked at Ruan Zhiyin’s radiant face and could not help but clench her hands. “Now that my reputation is ruined, are you happy?”

Ruan Zhiyin shook her head slightly with a slight smile and furrowed her brow. “That is caused by your own actions, it has nothing to do with me.”

She could not say whether she was happy or not happy.

Even though she and Lin Jingfei were cousins, they had not grown up together. They had only lived together under the same roof for three years with neither a friendly nor antagonistic manner.

Ruan Zhiyin would not treat the Lin family as relatives, nor would she waste any emotions on this matter.

“It has nothing to do with you?” Lin Jingfei seemed to be irritated by her indifferent demeanor and bit her lower lip. “If it was not for you, would Qin Jue really ignore those trending searches?”

Qin Jue ignored it and had even told her to find Ruan Zhiyin. But how could Lin Jingfei lower her head and ask Ruan Zhiyin for her forgiveness?

She was hoping that Qin Jue would be soft-hearted as usual and help her remove the trending searches. But he was cruel and just watched as people started to join in with kicking her while she was down.

They had known each other for ten years. Lin Jingfei had never thought that Qin Jue would one day treat her like this.

Ruan Zhiyin looked at Lin Jingfei’s eyes that were filled with resentment and coldly said, “Lin Jingfei, let me remind you. I have nothing to do with Qin Jue anymore. No matter what he does, there is no need to drag me into it.”

“Besides, if you had honestly stuck to acting in movies instead of thinking about shortcuts all day, you would not have ended up in this situation.”

In the beginning, it was Lin Jingfei who insisted on entering the entertainment industry. If she had more noteworthy achievements over the past few years, her reputation would not have become this bad.

“Okay, so even if Qin Jue has nothing to do with you, then what about Cheng Yuelin? If it were not for him, I would not be dragged into this mess with Lin Zhe!”

Lin Jingfei hated Ruan Zhiyin’s condescending posture the most, and continued in a mocking tone, “You look down on me so much, but aren’t you the same? Just relying on a man?”

Hearing that the person who had taken action against Lin Zhe was Cheng Yuelin, Ruan Zhiyin’s face was surprised.

In the next moment, she laughed lightly.

“If you think so, then it is. Cheng Yuelin is my husband, I will not refuse his help. I will also not write him off with just a few words from you.”

Living with Cheng Yuelin for this period, she had been more relaxed than she had ever been before.

If Cheng Yuelin wanted to continue this marriage for whatever reason, Ruan Zhiyin would also not refuse.

He had said that she had placed a line between her and other people too clearly. This could easily hurt people, so Ruan Zhiyin had also decided to learn to accept his goodwill and help.

If he wanted to take this back one day, then she will use another method and return the help that he had given her.

As for this, she did not need to elaborate about it with Lin Jingfei.

Lin Jingfei did not expect that Ruan Zhiyin would accept Cheng Yuelin’s help this easily.

She did not like Ruan Zhiyin, but she also understood Ruan Zhiyin. In her eyes, Ruan Zhiyin had always been proud. If she had heard that she was relying on a man, this should not have been the reaction she would have given.

Seeing that Ruan Zhiyin had pushed past her to head downstairs. Lin Jingfei called out to her again. “Wait.”

Ruan Zhiyin frowned and turned around. She saw that Lin Jingfei had taken out a box and opened it before passing it to her.

“This jade Buddha, I’ll return it to you.”

In the red velvet box, there was a piece of translucent and lustrous jade Buddha.

With just a glance, Ruan Zhiyin recognized it as the piece that Qin Jue had given her during high school.

It was much better quality than the one the orphanage director had given her.

When she had lost the jade Buddha that the orphanage director had given her, and at the time as she had just returned to the Ruan family, her self-esteem was very low. So she had hidden alone in the annex to collect her emotions.

Qin Jue had bought this Jade Buddha for her at the mall in an attempt to comfort her. Ruan Zhiyin could tell that even though it wasn’t bad, it was still given with goodwill.

But just before she went abroad, this jade Buddha had gone missing.

From her eyes, it seems like it had been secretly taken by Lin Jingfei.

But Ruan Zhiyin did not really care. She never put much weight in the jade Buddha that Qin Jue had given her from the mall.

“I do not need it anymore.”

The jade Buddha that the orphanage director had given her was originally hers.

Qin Jue had helped her get it back. She was grateful and responded to that sentiment.

As for this piece that Qin Jue had bought from the mall. She had already broken up with Qin Jue, so there was no reason for her to accept it.

“I was the one who stole the jade Buddha. I will apologize for this matter. But… you really do not want it?”

Lin Jingfei had decided to return the jade Buddha because she did not want to hang onto it anymore. It could made Qin Jue’s resentment towards her to deepen. For Ruan Zhiyin, even Jiang Anzheng was starting to be alienated by Qin Jue.

Zhou Hongfei had stolen Jiang Anzheng’s fiancée and made Jiang Anzheng lose face. Even though his best friend had suffered such a blow, he had not even offered a word of condolence.

Lin Jingfei understood that Qin Jue already understood that Jiang Anzheng had hatched a plot to make him skip his wedding.

He was not willing to doubt the people around him, but once he found out about this betrayal, it would be difficult to trust them again.

Ruan Zhiyin shook her head. “Since I do not want it anymore, if you like it, this jade Buddha, you should keep it safe.”

She hoped that she would not have to deal with Lin Jingfei or Qin Jue anymore.