Treasure Hunt: Tycoon's Priceless Runaway Wife

Chapter 440: The Tilting Balance

Baobao’s birthday wish was something Mr. Ji naturally couldn’t fulfill. Even if he had the ability to force himself to accept the fact of Ji Rui and Le Tong being together for Baobao’s sake, he couldn’t control Ji Rui and Le Tong, making those two young people reconcile and live with him. Even thinking with his knee, he knew, with Le Tong and his son’s disdainful attitude, could they really get along with him?The driver drove Mr. Ji towards the mansion, and Mr. Ji, sitting in the back seat, kept his eyes closed, looking as if he were asleep, but in reality, his mind was filled with a lot of things. His grandson’s words full of petulance, and his son’s harsh words, kept echoing in his ears.

Back at the mansion, as soon as he opened the door, the woman who had been with him for over thirty years came up to him.

"Back already? How did it go?"

The middle-aged woman asked eagerly, helping him take off his coat in a hurry.

"Not well!"

Mr. Ji shook his head; in front of this woman, he didn’t even have the courage to speak the truth.

This woman was thinking wholeheartedly that since it was Baobao’s birthday today, if he went, his son would reluctantly agree to some small demands for the sake of his grandson.

However, Mr. Ji didn’t even get a chance to speak; every time he tried to steer the topic to the main point, Ji Rui either pretended to be dumb or blatantly ignored him and staged intimate scenes with that woman, Le Tong.

"What about Ah Wen and Ah Wu..." The woman’s voice choked slightly.

"They won’t die!"

Regarding those sons who were always causing him trouble, he had both love and hate for them!

When would those two good-for-nothings ever show the same steadiness and reliability as their brother?

"CoCo, she..." The woman timidly handed Mr. Ji a cup of tea.

"Don’t mention her!"

The trouble the Ji Family was facing this time wasn’t minor; it had already far exceeded what Mr. Ji had anticipated.

At the beginning, he just agreed to cooperate with her to win over his son, but he didn’t expect to bring a wolf into the house.

The woman silently lowered her head, no longer making a sound.

"You should also stop making little moves behind the scenes. If you ruin the Ji Family, the ones who suffer won’t just be Ah Ru!"

Mr. Ji spoke with a grim tone, took a sip of tea without giving the woman another glance.

"I..." The woman shrank beside him, not daring to say more.

...

Two days after Baobao’s birthday, Yang Sheng returned to the country.

What he brought back wasn’t good news, but it wasn’t bad news either.

Through his efforts, the court date was postponed by a month, meaning they had one more month than before to seek a solution.

However, even though he managed to get an extra month for the Ji Family, he himself was taken home by the Yang Family on the day he returned to his country.

"I will go with you. I have my own feet; you don’t have to worry." This was what Yang Sheng said to the bodyguards from Beijing who came to escort him back to the Yang Family in Ji Rui’s office.

"Young Master, the old master’s health is deteriorating day by day. Last night, he even fainted while going to the bathroom."

Yang Sheng wanted to say something more, but both Ji Rui and Le Tong spoke almost simultaneously.

"Senior/Yang Sheng, you should go back!"

No matter the truth of the reasons given by the Yang Family’s bodyguards, Yang Sheng should go back and take a look.

Ji Rui didn’t want Yang Sheng to bear the label of being unfilial because of him. He himself couldn’t find a way to get close to his family already; he didn’t want Yang Sheng to repeat the same mistake for work and for him.

Yang Sheng struggled for a moment, but eventually handed over his work and flew back to Beijing with the bodyguards.

During these few days after Ji Rui returned to the country, the dire domestic situation had basically been brought under control, and many overwhelming waves had been more or less dealt with. Moreover, Le Tong was slowly adapting to her new job, and while not as experienced and skilled as Yang Sheng, she was doing quite well in handling Yang Sheng’s work in such a short time, far exceeding both Ji Rui’s and Yang Sheng’s expectations.

Their work gradually returned to normal, and though busy as usual, they both tried to make time in the evenings to go home and be with Baobao.

Le Tong’s medicine, Aunt Guan would get up early every morning to prepare it, and after finishing breakfast, Le Tong would carry a thermos filled with the morning and afternoon doses of herbal medicine.

"It tastes awful!" Le Tong mumbled, holding the bowl and frowning.

This was a new prescription from yesterday, and it seemed even more bitter than the old one.

"Be good, drink it all up!" Ji Rui didn’t care whether the medicine was bitter or not; he just wanted to see a healthy and rosy Le Tong as soon as possible.

Le Tong pursed her lips, eventually holding her nose to down the whole bowl reluctantly.

"Rinse your mouth..."

A cup filled with warm water was handed to her, and Le Tong took it with a surprised look.

"Ji Rui, what’s gotten into you?"

Now, she no longer doubted Ji Rui’s genuine affection for her.

But liking didn’t mean he would readily serve and please her,

"Are you a masochist? Are you not used to being treated nicely?"

Ji Rui seemed to see through the confusion in her eyes, raised an eyebrow, and pretended to glare at her sternly.

Le Tong drank the medicine, her face scrunched in bitterness, and gave him a resentful look in return.

"Yes, if I wasn’t a masochist, how could I have stayed under you for so long? I heard from Senior that your secretaries never last more than half a year! Demon!"

"That’s because they’re incompetent; how’s that my fault." Ji Rui didn’t think that was a problem of his at all.

"You really dare to say that, you have no idea how picky you are!" Le Tong complained indignantly.

Being forced by Tiantian to drink down two big bowls of herbal concoction, Le Tong felt psychologically unbalanced, and thinking of the past oppression and bullying by this hateful man, she got even angrier.

Ji Rui, seeing Le Tong reveal more of her true self and act more freely around him, didn’t find it annoying; rather, he found her adorable and genuine.

Reflecting upon it, perhaps that calm and indifferent demeanor she used to have required significant effort to fake?

"Alright, it’s my fault for being picky! Is Secretary Le planning to criticize me in front of all Ji Family employees?" Ji Rui joked with her amusingly.

"No need for that, as long as I know it myself!"

In Le Tong’s mind, the Ji Rui who showed his emotions was for her eyes only; others just needed to see his cold, expressionless facade.

At that time, Le Tong hadn’t realized that this was so-called possessiveness.

Because she liked him, she always hoped that the side of him she saw was different from everyone else’s.

She hoped that his good and his bad, his happiness and his sadness, his positive and negative sides, were shown to her alone!