After the Fake Young Master Ran Away with His Child, the Villain Went Crazy - Chapter 15

Jing Ruan unexpectedly came to love going to work. Every day, he watched those people who were more capable and smarter than him have no choice but to endure it and report to him, speaking pleasantly as they said that this document needed his signature.

A petty person gaining power. A fox borrowing the tiger’s might.

When Jing Ruan went to the restroom, he once heard people cursing him. Jing Ruan did not have much self-respect or sense of shame. He would even deliberately wait until they were in the middle of speaking excitedly, then quietly come out of the stall, walk up beside them, and ask them with feigned innocence,

“Were you talking about me?”

Jing Ruan watched those people’s faces instantly turn pale. Their mouths moved as they tried to defend themselves with a few words, yet they truly had no idea what to say. Some people even fainted on the spot, while others immediately bent down, lowered their heads, and apologized to him.

Whenever this happened, Jing Ruan felt like the villain in a fairy tale, forcing those good people to submit, making everyone complain bitterly about him.

Good people did not live long. Calamities lasted a thousand years.

Jing Ruan liked being a bad person.

Recently, he had become obsessed with this feeling.

However, there was one bad point. Jing Ruan noticed that someone seemed to have been following him lately. He did not know whether it was those people at the company, hating him so much they wanted to get rid of him as soon as possible.

After Jing Ruan got off work that day, the bodyguards rode in the same car as him.

As the car drove along the road, it slowly came to a stop.

The driver glanced ahead. It seemed two cars had scraped against each other, and the car owners were arguing. Neither side was willing to give way, causing more and more cars behind them to be blocked. The driver waited for about half an hour, but for some reason, the traffic police still had not come to handle the matter.

“Young Master Jing, why don’t you get out first and walk to the lane across the road? I’ll immediately arrange for another car to come and take you to Sir’s place.”

The driver turned his head and asked Jing Ruan in the back seat.

Jing Ruan looked at the opposite lane. There was no traffic jam there. He thought that would work. Otherwise, if they kept waiting like this, who knew how long they would have to wait?

Jing Ruan got out of the car with the two bodyguards. When they reached the railing, Jing Ruan stepped on it with both feet and directly climbed over. After climbing over, they walked to the other side of the road.

Jing Ruan had just steadied himself on the other side when someone bumped into him. The bodyguards immediately realized something was wrong. A cut had been sliced into the pocket of Young Master Jing’s clothes, and the things inside were gone.

One of the bodyguards chased after the person.

Only after that bodyguard gave chase did Jing Ruan realize the wallet in his pocket was missing. Jing Ruan looked at his clothes with heartache, then stared in the direction where the bodyguard had disappeared, wondering whether the wallet could be recovered.

This thief was far too brazen. Even with two people beside him, the thief still dared to strike. Their courage was not ordinary.

Just then, the other bodyguard suddenly gripped Jing Ruan’s hand with a grave expression. His eyes scanned their surroundings as he pulled Jing Ruan very close to himself.

“Bodyguard Brother, what’s wrong?”

Jing Ruan did not know the names of these two men. When the two bodyguards had first come to his side, Jing Ruan had asked their names, but the two of them had been like mutes, refusing to speak or answer.

So even now, Jing Ruan still addressed them this way.

“We fell into a trap. Hurry, go.”

After saying this, the bodyguard immediately pressed his earpiece and reported a string of numbers. Then he grabbed Jing Ruan and ran.

Jing Ruan was dragged along as he ran, still not having reacted to what was happening. The bodyguard’s grip on his hand was deathly tight, as if his wrist had been seized by a pair of pliers.

Only when they moved did Jing Ruan realize in panic that among the crowd standing there just now, there had been people watching them. When those people saw that the grass had been stirred and the snake startled, they immediately stopped pretending and chased after them.

The bodyguard took him specifically toward places with more people.

Fortunately, Jing Ruan had been good at fleeing for his life in the past, so he could barely keep up with the bodyguard’s pace. Jing Ruan breathed through his open mouth. His heart was about to jump out of his chest. Because he was running too fast, his heart began to hurt faintly.

The bodyguard dragged him along for a long time. Those people followed closely behind, refusing to let go. It was like a cat catching a mouse. They neither truly caught up and seized them, nor allowed them to relax at all.

The bodyguard had experienced countless dangerous incidents. He reacted and realized that the other party had not come for their lives. They were probably only trying to teach them a lesson and play with them.

Logically speaking, after they had been running for so long, Mr. Yan’s side should have received the news already. Why had no one been sent after all this time?

The bodyguard’s thoughts turned several times.

Then he suddenly understood.

The bodyguard abruptly stopped, and his steps slowed by a great deal.

Jing Ruan did not understand. He only thought the bodyguard had helped him shake off those people. The bodyguard led him into an alley and pulled him behind a wall to hide.

“Young Master Jing, call Mr. Yan. If Mr. Yan answers, tell him the situation we’re in right now.”

Jing Ruan did as the bodyguard said.

He took out his phone and called Mr. Yan.

On the other end, Yan Yi He was in the small study discussing matters with the others. The phone on the table suddenly vibrated.

Yan Yi He glanced at the caller ID on the phone.

Jiang Zhi and Yan Qian exchanged looks. Jiang Zhi took two steps forward and walked to Yan Yi He’s side, continuing to ask about the solution to the matter from earlier. As he spoke, his gaze glanced toward the phone screen on the table.

After Jiang Zhi saw the phone number on the screen clearly, he was not surprised. They were all waiting to see whether Yan Yi He would answer this call.

Since childhood, Yan Yi He had always been surrounded by a group of people. The education he received was top-tier, full of things outsiders could never learn. A kind and weak person could not sit securely in his position.

Naturally, the left and right arms following by his side were not good people either. Birds of a feather flocked together; people were divided by their kind.

If Yan Yi He was a tiger or leopard, then they were jackals and wolves.

They were loyal to Yan Yi He, but at the same time, they were not useless fools. They were all people carefully selected by their families, and their intelligence was among the best of the best. So once the interests of the families behind them were involved, they would also test Yan Yi He.

Their leader was Yan Yi He, but the ones who had allowed them to step one foot into this circle were the families behind them.

They clearly knew Yan Yi He’s bottom line.

So this time, it was only a harmless little test.

They had placed the test in the open. They also knew Yan Yi He completely understood their thoughts. They were waiting for Yan Yi He to give an answer.

Why did he want Yan Jin to follow Yan Qian and work with him?

This matter was a signal.

The five great families were attached to the Yan family. From the beginning until now, those used and arranged for work had always been people by Yan Yi He’s side. They knew Yan Qian’s father was old and muddled, but this should not have been enough to make Yan Yi He waver and let Yan Jin get involved with Yan Qian in handling matters.

So what exactly was Yan Yi He thinking?

Could it truly be because of that Jing family person who could not be shown in public?

No matter how they looked at it, it did not seem like something Yan Yi He would do.

They also knew the history of the Yan family’s development. They had heard of the previous family head who had gone mad for love. There were even rumors from unofficial channels that after that woman killed the family head, she took her own child and left the Yan family.

One year after she left, a baby appeared at the Yan family’s gate.

That baby was raised by the Yan family. No one knew whose name the child was placed under. There were too many people in the Yan family’s main branch and side branches. The Yan family only looked at the heir’s intelligence, which had led to many Yan family members having children with highly intelligent women.

They all hoped their child would be chosen by the family head.

Their fathers had even suspected that Yan Yi He belonged to the bloodline passed down from that family head, because his brows and eyes bore one or two points of resemblance, and he had been extremely precocious, showing astonishing talent very early on.

But as Yan Yi He slowly grew up, he became modest and courteous, even gentler and friendlier than the previous family heads. Only then did they relax.

The phone on the table kept vibrating. Yan Yi He hung up the call, unlocked his phone, and turned on airplane mode. Very soon, the phone stopped vibrating and fell silent.

Yan Yi He continued discussing the matter from before.

Undercurrents surged in the study.

After the matter was finished, the group left the study. When the servant at the end of the hallway saw them come out, they immediately notified the kitchen to serve the meal.

The elevator descended to the first floor. The group chatted and laughed as they stepped out. Yan Yi He suddenly fell back a step, walked to Yan Qian’s side, stopped, and said a few words to him.

“Yan Qian, sometimes you have to let your father see the truth with his own eyes. Because he hasn’t tried it before, he believes Yan Jin is the best and can replace you. You have to let him recognize reality.”

“A wolf is a wolf. It should also show its claws and let everyone see how formidable it is. I don’t keep failures by my side, but I don’t think you will fail.”

After saying these words, Yan Yi He did not wait for Yan Qian’s reaction and walked off alone. The others had also heard what he said, but they pretended to know nothing and came over to discuss what food the servants would prepare that evening.

Yan Qian had clearly been enlightened, so the gloom on his face disappeared. The others at the dining table also dispelled the wariness in their hearts.

While Jiang Zhi was drinking chicken soup, the phone in his pocket vibrated lightly. Using the motion of lowering his head to drink soup, he took out his phone and glanced at it.

A message had been sent from the other end.

There was only one period.

This meant the matter they had ordered was complete.

When Jiang Zhi set down the soup bowl, his right hand brushed against Yan Qian seemingly by accident. Yan Qian paused slightly after being touched and quickly understood the message the other party was passing to him.

Yan Yi He had indeed not stopped it.

“Yi He, when you have time, let’s go skydiving together. Let’s see who takes first place this time.”

Yan Qian smiled and invited Yan Yi He.

Yan Yi He made a sound of acknowledgment and did not refuse.

Jing Ruan dragged his exhausted body along. The shoes on his feet had been lost while running, and there were many wounds on both his feet. He had been calling Yan Yi He the entire time, but the calls would not go through. Aside from the first call, which the other party hung up, every call afterward failed to connect.

The bodyguard had taken him running all over the place. When Jing Ruan could not run anymore, the bodyguard carried him on his back and kept running. They did not know how long they had run before the people behind them finally stopped chasing.

After discovering that those people had stopped pursuing them, the bodyguard immediately took Jing Ruan toward the Yan residence. On the way back, the bodyguard supported Jing Ruan. But once they entered the Yan family’s territory, the bodyguard no longer helped him. A car took them to the villa where Mr. Yan lived.

Jing Ruan’s two legs were weak and felt as if they had been filled with lead. The soles of his feet felt as though they were being pricked by countless fine needles. When he got out of the car, Jing Ruan had only taken a couple of steps before he fell.

The bodyguard stood to the side and waited for him to get up. Jing Ruan did not understand why the bodyguard had suddenly stopped helping him, but he had no strength left to care about any of that. He only wanted to quickly reach the place and lie down to rest.

Jing Ruan gritted his teeth and held on with his last breath, walking forward.

When he reached the entrance of the villa, Jing Ruan lifted his head and looked ahead.

He saw a figure standing on the balcony on the third floor of the villa.

Servants would not enter the third floor this late at night, much less enter Mr. Yan’s room.

So the person standing there

was Mr. Yan.