CHAPTER 450: CHAPTER 450

After several games of chess, Old Master Feng was also somewhat fatigued, so he let the old steward help him to his room for a rest.

Jiang Moxi also stood up to leave.

Seeing this, Ye Chen hastily approached to explain his intention.

"Xiao Moxi, would you please tell me where Dingding is?" he implored.

Jiang Moxi’s beautiful eyes lowered slightly: "Dingding said, even if you are good, it’s too late now. I think she probably doesn’t want to see you anymore."

Upon hearing this, Ye Chen’s heart involuntarily clenched.

Indeed, from Yu Dingding’s perspective, he, Ye Chen, had committed many unforgivable acts towards her, not to mention allowing Qin Shuang to hurt her time and again. It would be strange if Yu Dingding still wanted to see him.

But now, he realized how deeply he loved Yu Dingding.

He still couldn’t let go, unwilling to spend the long remainder of his life watching Yu Dingding live with someone else, while he could only be a bystander.

"I know I have not been good to her, and I also felt I had no face to see Dingding again. But it was only yesterday when I visited Dingding’s old home that I realized she was the one who had saved me when I nearly drowned. It was Qin Shuang who falsely claimed all that, leading to today’s situation..." Ye Chen recounted all of this with a voice that was nearly despondent and hoarse.

But Jiang Moxi caught the critical point, remembering her previous conversation with Yu Dingding, "So you were that mentally challenged young man?"

Ye Chen was baffled: "What mentally challenged young man?"

"It’s nothing. Dingding told me before about saving such a mentally challenged person."

Mentally challenged, Ye Chen: "..."

He felt like Jiang Moxi was insulting him, and there was plenty of evidence for it.

But he needed something from Jiang Moxi, so it wasn’t right to say anything. Instead, he only asked, "I know I’ve been very bad to her in the past, but now I truly realize my mistake, and it’s an outrageous one. Xiao Moxi, would you please tell me where Dingding is?"

Ye Chen made countless promises, such as once he found Yu Dingding, he would certainly treat her well, surely bring her happiness, and so on.

But Jiang Moxi only said, "If you are destined, you will meet again naturally."

Having dropped this remark, Jiang Moxi saw Feng Yu come with cookies and a pot of chrysanthemum tea, and she directly turned to go back to her room.

Ye Chen, unwilling to settle for this outcome, attempted to follow her.

However, Feng Yu blocked his path and, without speaking, made it clear that he wouldn’t allow Ye Chen to disturb Jiang Moxi’s rest.

Upon seeing this, Fu Youhan stepped forward to persuade Ye Chen, "Let’s go back first."

Ye Chen initially didn’t agree, but seeing the tense atmosphere between Feng Yu and Fu Youhan, in the end, he could only nod.

As the two turned to leave, they heard Feng Yu’s voice behind them: "Don’t think that just because the old master agreed to let you accompany Xixi, you’re the ultimate winner."

Fu Youhan paused briefly in his steps.

Ye Chen thought he might go back to fight with Feng Yu, but then Fu Youhan took long strides, signaling Ye Chen to keep up.

It wasn’t until both men got back into the car that Ye Chen felt Fu Youhan’s low pressure hadn’t dissipated.

Ye Chen passed over a cigarette and then lit one for himself.

In the mist of smoke, Ye Chen sighed lightly, "Brother Han, today you’ve won a great victory, much better than me who can’t even find the way. There’s no need for this."

Fu Youhan also lit the cigarette, took a few heavy drags, and then spoke.

"Do you really think the old master is on my side?"

Ye Chen’s hand holding the cigarette faltered: "Isn’t he?"

"If he were on my side, he wouldn’t just let me accompany Xixi as a driver and bodyguard."

And about that game of chess, Old Master Feng doesn’t believe for a second that he could pull off a turnaround victory against eighteen pieces!

With a slight hint from Fu Youhan, Ye Chen also realized Old Master Feng actually wasn’t on Fu Youhan’s side, which made him sigh.

"Who would have thought, even Third Master Fu, when wanting to become a son-in-law, is still looked down upon."

But Fu Youhan didn’t pay attention to his teasing, constantly smoking, looking especially irritable.

"Are you thinking of giving up?" Ye Chen asked Fu Youhan.

From birth, Fu Youhan’s status has been extraordinary.

Not to mention, he made a name for himself on Wall Street in his teenage years by shorting a country.

So even during the years when he was in a wheelchair, few people dared to be presumptuous in front of him.

But now, the Feng Family’s people swarmed him, stepping on his face without any courtesy...

Ye Chen couldn’t help worrying whether Fu Youhan could withstand such a huge fall from grace and want to give up.

But Fu Youhan retorted, "What about you? Will you give up on Yu Dingding?"

Without hesitation, Ye Chen rejected the idea: "No! Even if there’s no hope of winning Dingding back this lifetime, even if I can only follow behind her like a lovesick pup, I will never give up."

"That’s the spirit."

The two men had the same mindset when it came to winning back the women they loved.

After finishing an entire cigarette, Fu Youhan cleared part of his frustration, then started the car engine and first took Ye Chen away.

*

On the other hand, Jiang Moxi returned to her room and stared blankly at her phone.

Because just this morning, she received a message from Yu Dingding’s new number.

"Moxi, my design submitted to Yunshang won a prize, they’ve invited me to Emperor City to attend the Yunshang Designers’ Annual Awards Ceremony!"

At that time, Jiang Moxi asked Yu Dingding, "So you’re going back to Emperor City?"

Because Jiang Moxi knew that Yu Dingding was very opposed to returning to Emperor City, to confront the people and things from her past.

Jiang Moxi even thought, if Yu Dingding didn’t want to go to Emperor City, she would communicate with Yunshang’s headquarters to hold the Designers’ Annual Awards Ceremony in another city.

But Yu Dingding replied to her like this: "Yes! I can’t just never go back to my hometown because of certain things."

Yu Dingding also said, "Moxi, I’ve made up my mind. Where I fall, I shall stand up! So I want to see, whether I can stand up in Emperor City again with the help of this award."

At this moment, Jiang Moxi really wanted to ask Yu Dingding if she still wanted to return if Ye Chen was in Emperor City.

But recalling Yu Dingding’s determination to stand up again in Emperor City, Jiang Moxi truly didn’t know whether or not to tell her about Ye Chen, afraid it might dampen Yu Dingding’s hard-fought spirit.

After much pondering, Jiang Moxi finally set her phone down.

Yu Dingding was now full of confidence about life, and she didn’t want to let Ye Chen, the annoying nuisance, disturb her for the time being.

Moreover, Yu Dingding was just going to Emperor City for the Designers’ Annual Awards Ceremony. If that meant she would encounter Ye Chen, it could only prove that the two of them were still fated...

*

On another side, at the Jiang Family.

Jiang Weiwei was practicing the piano, while Yu Man enjoyed listening.

Jiang Sibei also wanted to practice, but after waiting a long time and seeing Jiang Weiwei had no intention of stopping, she could only go back to complain to her mother.

"Mom, Weiwei has been hogging the piano, and I haven’t even had a chance to touch the keys! Why don’t we just return to Yan City, this house is small and stuffy, and there’s only space for one piano, I really don’t want to stay here anymore."

Xiao Qingyun worried about being overheard by Jiang Weiwei and quickly tiptoed to the door to check, hearing the piano music was still ongoing, she breathed a sigh of relief and closed the door.

"Sibei, it’s not just you, I also want to go back to Yan City. But making a fuss about returning now will only make it seem like our branch of the family is unsociable, and it’ll also anger your grandfather, at which point we wouldn’t even get a penny."

Xiao Qingyun took Jiang Sibei’s hand and earnestly advised her.

"Besides, you know that Jiang Weiwei has recently attached herself to the Wu Family of Emperor City. Right now, our entire family needs her to make an appearance at the Wu Family Business’s anniversary celebration to boost our presence, so it’s her time to be most favored. Remember not to have a direct confrontation with her at this time."

But recently, Jiang Sibei’s mood was utterly sullied by being oppressed by Jiang Weiwei every day.

"Sometimes it’s not that if I don’t want to clash with her, I can avoid it. Mom, you don’t know, Jiang Weiwei’s schemes are as numerous as a wasp’s nest. I even suspect that Moxi’s departure back then was all her doing..."