Chapter 22
One night, 20 years ago, Zhang Jane was forced to beg on the street with her nine-month-old belly by a loan shark.
Zhang Jane’s husband was arrested for gambling and her house was repossessed by a debtor. Later, Ho Gina was born and kept suffering from pneumonia, which was not getting better, which was even worse for her. She had to carry the unborn Ho Gina to the door of Shen Mansion and asked the Ho family to give her mother and daughter a chance to live.This text is property of Nô/velD/rama.Org.
Seeing her sincerity and simplicity, Mrs. Shen took her in as a cleaning lady at Shen Mansion.
Zhang Jane, who entered The Shen Family, was a hardworking woman who didn’t say much, and was very much to the liking of Mrs. Shen. Mrs. Shen promoted her to her side and took charge of the Shen Mansion. Later on, she treated Ho Gina as half a granddaughter, sending her to the same noble school that Shen Ron and Shen Belle attended, covering her tuition fees from childhood to adulthood, and giving her a BMW car when she went to college.
Before Shen Ron married Yang June, Ho Gina was always grateful to Mrs. Shen, but this gratitude faded little by little in her crush on Shen Ron.
She worked hard to get into a good college, worked hard to make herself look beautiful, and worked hard to get Old Mrs. Shen to notice her. But over the years, Mrs. Shen has been looking for all kinds of women to match with Shen Ron, but she has never set her eyes on her.
When she first lost to Yang June, she was convinced but broke a heart, and this time, before the old lady let Shen Ron welcome his new wife, she likewise did not even once consider her as a candidate, and her dissatisfaction with the old lady grew stronger and stronger.
In fact, she could move out and not help The Shen Family with anything, but she can’t give up Shen Ron, she would rather condemn herself to stay with The Shen Family and be treated like a maid, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, she is willing to fight and wait.
It was English 6 exam today and Ho Gina left the house with her books in her arms with confidence. But as she was walking into the main house to say goodbye to the old lady, she was called by Aimee: “Gina, take the tonic soup from the kitchen to the young lady’s room.”
Ho Gina whipped her head around and stared at Aimee without a smile, “Why do you want me to go? I’m not available.”
“Zhang Jane has accompanied the old lady out, and everyone in the house is busy, can’t you see? Or are you afraid of seeing the young lady’s anger in your heart?” Aimee was jealous of Zhang Jane’s favor and had always been hostile to her, and she was even more unpleasant to Ho Gina.
And with this statement, she was undoubtedly an insult to Ho Gina, who blushed coldly and looked at her askance, “What do you mean?”
“What else does it mean? Who in the entire mansion doesn’t know that you have a crush on the Young Master, and that’s why you’re hostile to the Young Lady?” Aimee deliberately sighed aloud and scowled at her with a mocking expression, “You’re younger and prettier than the young madam, but so what? The old madam just likes the young madam more than you. You, just serve the young madam well, hurry up and bring the tonic soup up, save the delay, the old madam will be unhappy when she finds out.”
“Ah, yes, the young lady crashed her car yesterday and the eldest young master sent it to be repaired in the middle of the night, so it seems that the eldest young master’s love for the young lady is no less than that of the former young lady.”
Ho Gina gritted her teeth and took a deep breath. But instead of turning away, she dutifully walked into the kitchen to carry the bowl of tonic soup in her hands and headed for the second floor.
Behind her, Aimee snorted disdainfully, “And you want to be the young master’s mother-in-law, Zhang Jane, you don’t weigh yourself either.”
Ho Gina’s hand tightened around the porcelain bowl, a roaring fire igniting in her heart.
Cheng Lydia was lounging on the sofa reading a medical book when she entered the master bedroom on the second floor, dressed in casual clothes, her hair falling softly over her shoulders, a thin blanket over her knees, her whole appearance elegant and serene.
“Young lady, your tonic soup is ready.” Ho Gina said in a gloomy voice.
With such an unpleasant voice, Cheng Lydia was struck with novelty and looked up at the unpleasant-looking Ho Gina in front of her with a crooked little face.
Shen Mansion had a long list of maids, and she couldn’t remember a few, but this girl she did remember, and she hadn’t given herself a good look since the first day she started.
“Thanks.” Cheng Lydia spat two words at her shallowly and looked down to continue flipping through the book in her hands.
She was not one who liked to be harsh on her servants, but neither was she one who was willing to spoil them without bounds.
And her coldness was undoubtedly another irritation to Ho Gina, Ho Gina gritted her teeth, and a wicked look gradually appeared on her face, it seemed that some plans were to be carried out in advance, taking advantage … of the absence of both the old lady and the lady.
The porcelain bowl was placed heavily on the table with a ‘thud’, spilling half of the tonic soup away.
Cheng Lydia was taken aback, followed by the book in her hand being swung half a meter away by Ho Gina, and she lifted her small face to look at Ho Gina’s eyes with no surprise.
Is this little girl crazy?
“Ms Cheng, aren’t you the least bit curious as to why the old lady had to have you marry the youngest?” Ho Gina looked askance condescendingly.
These days, Cheng Lydia’s eyes never glanced in the direction of the end of the corridor, and never asked about Yang June’s affairs. So she decided that Cheng Lydia didn’t know that Yang June existed and lived on the same floor as herself.
“Should I be curious?” Cheng Lydia smiled, unimpressed.
“So, have you heard of this guy Yang June?”
“Heard that.” Cheng Lydia nodded, still looking self-conscious; she’d heard the name from Shen Ron’s lips, the night Shen Ron had gotten drunk.
“So, do you want to meet her?”
“What the hell are you trying to say?” Cheng Lydia’s face finally took on a more serious expression and she looked at her askance unpleasantly.
“You’ll find out soon enough.” Ho Gina grabbed a good hold of her wrist and tugged her toward the bedroom door.
Cheng Lydia was naturally angry at being dragged away like that, but she really wanted to know what the girl wanted to do. She turned left out of the bedroom, and there was a corridor of air that was not too long, with pink roses blooming on both sides of the corridor, and the fragrance was pleasant.
So many days into the process, Cheng Lydia had never set foot on the corridor because there was no need and she wasn’t one to hang around.
Before she could adjust to being dragged along, Ho Gina had dragged her to a carved wooden door, and without knocking or notice, Ho Gina reached out and pushed the door panel open in its entirety, and Cheng Lydia passively entered the room.
It’s a large bedroom with elegant decor and warm tones, with sky blue curtains that half hide the majority of the light from the windows. Sky blue sofa, sky blue carpet, sky blue bed …
As if she was in a romantic ocean world, Cheng Lydia’s eyes flashed with amazement that there were people in this world who liked to decorate their bedrooms in complete blue as much as she did.
“Isn’t it beautiful? Very luxurious?” Ho Gina sneered, then dragged her back to the big sky blue bed in the middle of the bedroom and pointed to the sleeping woman on the bed, “See? It all belongs to her, she is Yang June, the woman Ron loves so much, you must not have seen her before?”
When she was just pulled in, Cheng Lydia was only concerned with surveying the hues and layout of the house, and did not notice the woman lying on the bed. When she saw Yang June on the bed, and saw her face that looked extremely similar to her own, consternation colored her heart a little, her gaze, every pore of her body …
How could it be? How can there be someone who looks so much like myself in this world?
Her legs gave out and Cheng Lydia nearly fell to the floor, struggling to steady herself and trying to control the urge to turn and flee as she shot a stunned look at the woman on the bed.
She slept so quietly, so motionlessly, that she didn’t even feel the door to her room being pushed open hard and Ho Gina making a loud racket. As a doctor by profession, and having spent years and years waiting on her vegetative mother, Cheng Lydia was soon able to determine that the woman before her was a vegetable who would not awaken.
The June that Shen Ron has been pining for turns out to be her, living in The Shen Family mansion, and she, the wife, doesn’t even know it!
Cheng Lydia shifts her gaze to Ho Gina, trying to get more of the truth out of her.
The Shen Family is the only family that has ever been in love with you. Don’t dream, if it wasn’t for this face of yours, you wouldn’t have been able to enter The Shen Family in your next life. Yang June is the one who is the First Young Master’s legitimate wife, the one he truly loves, and …”
“Wait a minute!” Cheng Lydia reached for her sleeve, almost pleadingly, to stop her from continuing, her heart racing and her breathing becoming progressively more contentious.
She knows that Mrs. Shen is not genuinely good to her and that Shen Ron does not love her, she always thought they were just looking for a surrogate mother for The Shen Family’s incense and she happens to have a weakness in their hands, but she never thought that was the case at all.
It turns out that the old lady picked her because she has a face almost similar to Yang June’s, and it turns out that Yang June has been living next to Shen Ron all this time, and it turns out that she’s sharing a husband with another woman!
“What? Don’t want to know the truth anymore? There are still a lot of things you don’t know.” Ho Gina fought to shake off her hand and smiled cruelly, “By the way, just that Ferrari you drove yesterday, do you think the youngest bought it for you? Dear young lady you are naive again. It was bought by the young master for his beloved wife four years ago, and when the old lady asked the young master to bring the car back for you to drive the day before yesterday, the young master was furious, it was the car he gave to his lover, can you imagine how much he was not happy to give it to you? On the contrary, you even wrecked the car on the first day you drove it.”
“Enough talk?” Cheng Lydia finally took a few unsupportive steps backwards and leaned limply against the arm of the sofa, her face pale.
That red Ferrari is Yang June’s? It’s actually Yang June’s!
No wonder Shen Ron was so angry after she wrecked her car last night and drove it out overnight for repairs.
No wonder Chung Grace said the car is four years old. It turns out Shen Ron bought it for Yang June four years ago. Geez! She actually drove Yang June’s car and wrecked it.
Looking at Yang June’s quiet sleeping face on the bed, Cheng Lydia only felt a creepy feeling, and the chills all over her body stood up.
On the contrary, Ho Gina wasn’t going to just let her go and snickered as she followed, gazing at her from close range, “Sorry, I’m not done yet, I haven’t told you how much the Eldest Young Master and Yang June are in love. You wouldn’t believe it, the two of them have known each other since they were children, and have loved each other for over ten years; the first young master went up to the Yang family to propose marriage the day after he returned home, and had a grand wedding on the tenth day.”
Ho Gina turned around and leaned down to clutch Yang June’s shoulders and shook her hard while screaming in a low voice, “Yang June, do you see, your Shen Ron is about to be snatched away by this woman, they are already married and will have a baby soon, how long are you going to sleep? Aren’t you the least bit anxious? You …”
“Don’t push her!” Cheng Lydia, though her limbs were weak and her mind was aching, could not help but brace herself against the discomfort of seeing Ho Gina pushing a patient so roughly and rushing up to rescue Yang June from her clutches.
Ho Gina looked at her with a cold snort, “What? Are you still afraid that I will push her awake? Afraid that she’ll wake up and snatch back the throne of Young Granny Shen? Afraid that she …”
Ho Gina’s words ended abruptly, and her gaze at Yang June gradually tinged with a touch of surprise, and in an instant became frightened again.
“Yang June … you …!” Ho Gina took an involuntary step back and stared at Yang June in consternation.
She thought she was mistaken, as she rubbed her eyes with her hand as hard as she could, but there was no mistake, there were really two clear tears sliding down from the corner of Yang June’s eyes.
This is something that hasn’t happened in four years, ever!
Cheng Lydia also saw the tears in the corner of Yang June’s eyes and was equally stunned, but she was not as frightened as Ho Gina, and after Ho Gina turned and fled from Yang June’s bedroom, she instead gradually calmed down and did a brief examination of Yang June with her professional attitude as a doctor, and found that Yang June was not about to turn awake She found that Yang June did not show any signs of waking up.
Cheng Lydia carefully pulled the covers back for her, tears slipping out of her eyes as she gazed at her quiet sleeping face and whispered, “I’m sorry, I didn’t know anything.”