Chapter 332: Chapter 330: Blame Yourself for Bringing This Upon Yourself
Every step felt like walking in cotton.
Perhaps it was the rain, but Jiayi felt groggy throughout.
She settled in the wet back seat of the car, took one last look at the airport, drew a deep breath, and restrained her trembling voice, "Let’s go back."
The driver was about to agree when, up ahead, a car horn sounded. A silver compact car slowly drove up, blocking the way.
Once it stopped, the car door opened, and a slender young woman holding a transparent umbrella stepped out and walked towards them.
Chu Xinyue walked up to the Ya Family car, stopped beside it, held up her umbrella, and looked intently at Jiayi inside the car, gesturing for her to come out.
"Isn’t this Miss Chu the Second? Did she come to see you about something?" The driver was surprised and turned to glance at Jiayi.
Jiayi also noticed Chu Xinyue driving up. At this moment, she had no mood to guess what she wanted.
She quickly composed herself, asked the driver to wait a second, and got out of the car with her umbrella.
The rain outside had let up a bit, but it was still a steady drizzle.
"What business do you have with me here?" Jiayi tried to keep her tone as normal as possible.
Chu Xinyue silently assessed the person in front of her who had obviously just been crying; the eyelids were slightly swollen, the tip of the nose was pink, and the voice was hoarse with a heavy nasal sound.
Following the two cars from behind, she learned that Ya Chen had brought Jiayi to the airport, intending to send her away from S Country, to find that man.
The instant she realized this, Chu Xinyue felt an indescribable joy, and hope flickered anew.
But seeing Jiayi choose not to leave, her mood plummeted once again.
Chu Xinyue’s voice fell as if into an ice cellar, "I just want to ask you one question."
"Speak."
"Did you really save Ya Chen years ago?"
Jiayi was taken aback, not understanding why she brought this up, and after a long pause said, "I don’t understand what you mean."
This was also something she had always wanted to know, but she just couldn’t remember.
Chu Xinyue’s tone grew colder and more pressing, "Do you really not remember saving Ya Chen, or are you pretending to be mistaken, in order to garner Ya Chen’s favor?"
A gust colder than the rain swept over, and Jiayi was finally sure—this second sister truly had feelings for Ya Chen; otherwise, she wouldn’t be interrogating her like this!
"The dress Ya Chen gave me was shredded by you. At the dinner party, when those young ladies gossiped about Ya Chen, you made them look foolish, and at the horse track, it was you who deliberately caused me to almost fall off the horse... All of this, it’s all because of Ya Chen, isn’t it?"
Chu Xinyue lifted her proud chin, her lips curling into a sneer, "Don’t change the subject. I just want to know if you really don’t remember saving Ya Chen."
Jiayi’s eyes, clear as glass, fixed on Chu Xinyue, "If I didn’t do it, I won’t admit to it. If I did, no one can take it from me. But right now, I really don’t remember. I have never brought up that I saved him in front of Ya Chen; he believes so on his own."
Chu Xinyue’s umbrella slipped from her hands, hitting the ground and splashing water, as if her mind shattered in that instant, tears welling up in her eyes:
"How could you possibly not remember? The one who saved Ya Chen all those years ago clearly wasn’t you, it wasn’t you—go tell Ya Chen, go tell him it wasn’t you, it was clearly me who saved him, why does he think it was you, why, why!—"
Jiayi was shocked.
She had always suspected it; being a landlubber who couldn’t swim, how could she have possibly saved Ya Chen from drowning back then?
Could it be that the person who saved Ya Chen that year wasn’t herself, but someone else?! And that person was not another but Chu Xinyue?
Seeing the look on Chu Xinyue’s face, she was certainly not lying.
It seemed that Chu Xinyue had long harbored deep-seated feelings for Ya Chen.
Jiayi suddenly had a flash of insight and grabbed Chu Xinyue’s wrist with an icy tone, "So, it was you who pushed me down the slope in China during the trip, wasn’t it?"
Chu Xinyue clenched her teeth, tears welling up, trying to pull her hand away, "What are you talking about—"
Jiayi held onto her without letting go, "At this point, what’s the use of denying it? Ya Chen has been the man of your dreams since childhood, from the very first day your mom brought me home to replace Chu Xinyu in marriage, you secretly resented me and saw me as your imaginary enemy! When the dinner was coming up and you saw that the Chu Family was about to recommend me to Ya Chen, you couldn’t hold back any longer. Taking advantage of the trip, you wanted to harm me! Did you think by my death, and your mom not willing to let Chu Xinyu marry Ya Chen, there would be no other woman to marry him? That Ya Chen would continue to live in a fantasy where he only belonged to you? Laughable! Let me tell you, he is Ya Chen, the Crown Prince of this country, even if all the women of the Chu Family died out, he would still have a wife, and this wife, will never—ever be you, understand, second sister?"
It was the first time Jiayi called Chu Xinyue ’second sister’, those two words were like a steel knife, piercing straight into Chu Xinyue’s heart!
Especially the last sentence, which suddenly made Chu Xinyue’s body go limp, as if she was brought back to the harsh reality.
Yes, even if all the women of the Chu Family were to die out, even if all the ladies of Nanga’s wealthy families were to die, the wife of Ya Chen would never be her, with her congenital heart disease.
Jiayi held back her anger and leaned close to Chu Xinyue’s ear:
"I must also tell you. Even if Ya Chen misunderstood that it was me who saved him, no one else is to blame but you, for reaping what you’ve sown, because your actions caused my memory loss, preventing me from explaining to Ya Chen!"
Chu Xinyue was shocked.
In the end, did she harm herself?
Jiayi released her hand and stepped back, walking toward the car.
Chu Xinyue came to her senses, crying out to Jiayi through the rain, "Fine, now that you know it was me who saved Ya Chen, then you go and explain it to him..."
The rain soaked her completely, casting aside all dignity and grace.
She asked for nothing else but for Ya Chen not to misunderstand her as someone who stole her sister’s credit, to leave a good impression in the heart of the man who captivated her.
Jiayi momentarily stopped, suddenly feeling a bit dazed.
Although she resented Chu Xinyue, even though this feeble-minded second sister turned out not to be an ice beauty but a venomous one, Jiayi couldn’t help but envy her for this courage.
For Ya Chen, Chu Xinyue could completely cast aside her self-respect, such devotion.
Perhaps what she lacked in love was precisely Chu Xinyue’s kind of perseverance...
After a brief pause, her mood darkened again, she closed the umbrella, bent her body, and got into the car, a move of the lips, and the car started up, leaving the airport behind.
Jiayi got into the car coldly and decisively, stabbing pain into Chu Xinyue’s heart.
