How the hell can someone sing this song if they don't know? Lies crumble on their own.

"You lying to me?" the guy shot back.

Gu Nuannuan stuck her tongue out, awkwardly blinked her eyes, and quickly retracted her little fist from the guy's shoulder. "Uh, been eating for so long, thirsty huh? Lemme get you some water, don't choke on your food."

He hadn't even finished his meal for three minutes, Jiang Chenyu looked at her escaping figure, shaking his head helplessly, chuckling.

In the living room, Gu Nuannuan froze when she saw Wei Aihua.

Wei Aihua was equally taken aback when she saw her.

Both of them tacitly dreaded a showdown with each other.

Yet, ironically, they both had the same destination in mind.

Next to the water dispenser, both of them silently got their own water.

The air was so still that you could only hear the sound of water flowing from the dispenser.

"When are you moving out tomorrow?" Wei Aihua looked at the water outlet, her voice sounding hoarse, devoid of the domineering demeanor she had during the day. Perhaps it was late at night, she was tired, and her whole demeanor appeared much softer.

Gu Nuannuan: "Depends on when Jiang Chenyu sobers up."

Wei Aihua capped her bottle after getting water, then turned to Gu Nuannuan. "Once you leave, whatever belongs to the Jiang family will not be shortchanged for Chenyu. But there's only one mistress in this house, and that's me. If you want to contend with me, you're still too green. We can coexist peacefully, even if we can't stand each other, we can at least maintain surface harmony. But if you dare to be greedy and try to take over the Jiang Group, I won't let it go."

"... What are you talking about?" Gu Nuannuan was puzzled.

"What mistress, what equal share, and taking over the Jiang Group? That's all you Jiang family business, nothing to do with me. I never thought about contending with you for anything. Don't let your paranoia deceive you." Gu Nuannuan held Jiang Chenyu's water cup and looked Wei Aihua straight in the eyes, her tone sincere. "And please tell me, how did Miss Gao Ru'er tell you about these things?"

Wei Aihua looked at her seriously, saying that a person's eyes couldn't lie. She could see Gu Nuannuan's sincerity in her eyes.

Wei Aihua suddenly remembered that night in the hotel when her husband told her she was being fooled by Gao Ru'er, but she didn't believe it.

Gu Nuannuan also said she was being incited by someone.

"That day, when you came back...," Wei Aihua asked Gu Nuannuan, "What did you say to Ru'er that made her cry?"

"That day I went to find her." Jiang Chenyu came out from behind.

He hadn't even finished his meal before he noticed the two of them talking in the living room.

Jiang Chenyu hurried downstairs as soon as he heard.

He quickly caught on to their conversation as he got closer.

When Wei Aihua questioned Gu Nuannuan, he stepped out of the shadows and said to Wei Aihua, "Big Sister, Nuannuan and Miss Gao only met three times. I was present for all three. She never had any disputes with Miss Gao. That day, when I returned home, I was actually talking to Miss Gao."

Wei Aihua looked up at the tall Jiang Chenyu, "How could it be you?"

"Yes, it was me. You must know about Nuannuan's feelings for me, but I'm already married to Nuannuan. That day, what I said to Miss Gao was to advise her not to waste her time on someone who didn't reciprocate her feelings."

Gu Nuannuan looked up at her husband, "Yes, I remember that Dad asked me to deal with her, so I sent Dad away and left the time to you two."

Wei Aihua couldn't believe it, she blinked quickly, "Was it you?"

"Yes, it was me. I can clearly tell you tonight, Nuannuan won't take the title of mistress of the Jiang family. The Jiang Group belongs to the part that belongs to Little Su, and I won't touch it."

After knowing that Jiang Chenyu had nothing to do with Gao Ru'er, Gu Nuannuan's shock was no less than Wei Aihua's.

She poked Jiang Chenyu's waist, "You don't like Miss Gao, huh?"

Jiang Chenyu asked Gu Nuannuan, "Do you think I would marry someone else if I had someone I loved?"

She was that "someone else."

Gu Nuannuan thought for a moment, then looked at Jiang Chenyu's eyes and shook her head.

If Jiang Chenyu had someone he loved, he wouldn't have married her.

"Well, why didn't you say so earlier? I cursed you in my heart before."

Blunt and straightforward, Gu Nuannuan accidentally blurted out what was on her mind in a daze.

After saying it, she was astonished.

Jiang Chenyu smiled and asked, "What did you curse me?"

Although he was smiling, Gu Nuannuan felt awkward in her heart.

She had misunderstood Gao Ru'er and Jiang Chenyu as a couple, and she had cursed Jiang Chenyu in her heart, calling him a dog for having a girlfriend but still getting married to her, a useless man.

Even the kiss not long ago, Gu Nuannuan found it hard to accept.

Turns out, Jiang Chenyu and Gao Ru'er had a clean relationship.

All of this was due to Wei Aihua's misleading and her own assumptions.

Gu Nuannuan met Jiang Chenyu's gaze, and she immediately averted her face nervously. Then, she turned to Wei Aihua and said, "You should go back and rethink all of this. Maybe there's someone scheming behind our backs."

Jiang Chenyu took Gu Nuannuan's hand and asked, "Is the water ready?"

"It's ready." Gu Nuannuan obediently replied, holding up the water bottle in her hand for Jiang Chenyu to see.

"Let's go rest."

Jiang Chenyu led Gu Nuannuan past Wei Aihua.

Leaving Wei Aihua alone in the living room to ponder.

In the bedroom, Jiang Chenyu grabbed onto that question and didn't let go. "What did you secretly curse me for?"

Gu Nuannuan bit her tongue and smiled at Jiang Chenyu, "You better not know, I'm afraid you'll strangle me."

Jiang Chenyu chuckled, "No truth, no moving out tomorrow."

"You dog."

Jiang Chenyu: "And?"

"You wimp."

Gu Nuannuan said, then she bit her lip, lowered her head, pretending to look guilty. In the meantime, she sneakily glanced at the man with an iron expression, who was staring at the top of her head.

"Stop staring, if you keep looking, you'll make me bald from dandruff."

Jiang Chenyu: "What else?"

"My head is only this big, I have limited curse words."

Jiang Chenyu chuckled, "Your head doesn't seem small to me."

"It's the same size as yours."

Talking too much with Gu Nuannuan was infuriating. Whenever she spoke too much, he would get annoyed.

Jiang Chenyu reached out and took the water cup from Gu Nuannuan's hand, then sat down on the sofa. "Why did you curse me?"

"It stemmed from a misunderstanding. I didn't know you had no relationship with Miss Gao at the time, and I certainly didn't expect her to be such a chatterbox. I mistakenly thought she was your girlfriend and felt guilty for marrying you, breaking you two up. Now, ha! Turns out, she's a white lotus through and through. At her level, she could be considered an elder in the White Lotus Sect for setting me up." Gu Nuannuan's anger flared up as she spoke, inadvertently saying more than she intended.

After speaking, she realized that Jiang Chenyu was looking at her, "Why are you looking at me again?"

"Are you a sparrow?" So much chirping.

Gu Nuannuan: "Did you not graduate from elementary school? Don't you know the Chinese zodiac?"

Jiang Chenyu: "..."

Alright, he shut up.

Even if he shut up, Gu Nuannuan took the initiative to ask, "Hey, do you think Big Sister will reflect on this?"

"You can ask her yourself."

"You're mocking me!" Gu Nuannuan glared at Jiang Chenyu.

Jiang Chenyu smiled for a moment, and Gu Nuannuan, seeing him smile, found herself getting irritated.

She pushed Jiang Chenyu away unceremoniously, giggling, "Get off, don't sit on my sofa, I want to sleep."

As for what Wei Aihua would think, Gu Nuannuan didn't intend to delve into it. She explained what needed to be explained, and even Jiang Chenyu explained it himself. If Wei Aihua still didn't believe it, what could they do? It's not what they cared about anyway. Gu Nuannuan also understood Jiang Chenyu's sarcasm towards her. He probably thought the same way.

In another bedroom,

Wei Aihua returned to the room and shook her husband, who was sleeping heavily. "Hubby, why did you say I was fooled by Ru'er last time?"

Jiang Mayor put on his glasses and propped himself up with his arm, asking, "What time is it and you're not sleeping yet?"

Wei Aihua asked anxiously, "Hubby, wake up quickly, explain to me, why did you say I was fooled by Ru'er?"

Jiang Mayor was annoyed by his wife's pestering, he sat up and looked at the person next to him, "You still haven't figured it out after so long? Ru'er likes our Chenyu, but Chenyu is already married to Nuannuan, so Nuannuan is her love rival. The Jiang family has a ban, and she can't come, so she can only use you to make trouble for Nuannuan and make our family restless, giving her a chance to take advantage of... You love reading gossip magazines, don't you? You can't even see through these pieces of information."

Wei Aihua asked again, "Then why are you so sure that Gu Nuannuan doesn't want to be the mistress of the Jiang family?"

"She married Chenyu under duress. Do you know why she confronted you that day? Everyone has their weaknesses, and Nuannuan's weakness is her parents. Initially, Dad used her family to threaten her into marrying Chenyu. Otherwise, why would a young girl in her prime marry someone she had never even seen? She didn't even want to marry in the first place, so where would she get the idea to vie for the title of Jiang family mistress with you? It's just an empty title, and you're too hung up on appearances to see through Gao Ru'er's scheme."

"She was forced to marry Chenyu?" Wei Aihua's eyes flickered slightly, as if she had cleared away the fog in front of her and seen the truth ahead.

After Jiang Mayor finished speaking, he lay back down. "This girl, Nuannuan, even when she was eligible to be our daughter-in-law, she ended up becoming Chenyu's wife. Just think about it from her perspective, would the Gu family elders be willing to let Nuannuan marry? I also heard that, for Nuannuan's sake, the Gu family has reduced a lot of their current cooperation and only works with old acquaintances. Why? It's to tell our Jiang family that the Gu family doesn't marry off their daughters for honor. Aihua, we're not young anymore, we have to learn to think about things. Having a brain is meant for using it, not being manipulated by others."

Wei Aihua sat on the edge of the bed in frustration, thinking deeply. Gao Ru'er's words were almost all about pulling her in and then manipulating her feelings, making her harbor hostility towards Gu Nuannuan.

Wei Aihua also thought of how Gu Nuannuan had always wanted to move out, just to avoid any connection with the Jiang family.

How could such a person have the mind to compete for that empty title?

She was wrong, she was so wrong.

Wei Aihua thought into the night, even as the hot water turned warm and then cold, she couldn't sleep.

The next morning, the atmosphere at the breakfast table was particularly calm.

Jiang Lao wiped his hands with a wet towel and asked Jiang Chenyu, "Are you ready to leave today?"

"Yeah, after breakfast, I'll pack up a few things, and then I'll leave with Nuannuan."

Jiang Lao asked, "Where are you staying?"

"In the new mansion we bought, Hanhai Mansion."

Jiang Lao nodded, looking at Gu Nuannuan, and with the tone of an elder, he advised, "When you go, don't be too free-spirited. Come back to see Chenyu often when you have time."

"Dad, haven't you had enough of my trouble yet?" Gu Nuannuan was about to leave, feeling good, so she joked, "I'll come back regularly to specifically annoy you, Dad."

Jiang Lao wasn't angry at Gu Nuannuan's words; he laughed, "You dare say that."