Chapter 1158: Chapter 1158 Betrayal (9)
The expression on the face of the Ruanlin Family was unprecedentedly severe and sharp, almost leaving Ruan Jianmin with nowhere to hide.
Her own sons, could the Ruanlin Family not understand them?
She had four sons. Ruan Jianguo married Shu Jiao, who was exceptionally intelligent and capable, absolutely having Ruan Jianguo under her thumb when it came to family dynamics, without question.
Ruan Jiandang was weak-willed and indecisive, as could be seen from the situation with Liao Zhaoji.
Ruan Jianjun was the most easygoing one, having grown up with Du Qing as childhood sweethearts, and thus their marital relationship was particularly good.
Among the four sons, the only one who could truly stand firm in the family hierarchy was Ruan Jianmin. He was well-educated, and Wu Le didn’t have any major faults, just a bunch of minor ones. She was materialistic and selfish, but those weren’t problems, because Ruan Jianmin could manage her. Over the years, there had been minor squabbles, but nothing major had happened.
Could this clear-headed Ruan Jianmin not understand what consequences that woman could bring to his family? She did not believe Ruan Jianmin did not know.
He knew full well but still let it happen, leaving only one possibility: there was indeed some kind of relationship between him and that woman. Maybe it hadn’t reached the final step, but it was absolutely impossible to claim he was innocent.
However, this couldn’t be discussed in front of Wu Le, after all, he was her own son, and she still valued him.
Ruanlin Family knew her son, so how could Ruan Jianmin not understand the Ruanlin Family? He almost immediately changed his expression.
"To what extent has it gone?" Ruanlin Family asked again.
"Mom! It’s not what you think. Nothing really happened between us!" Ruan Jianmin explained.
"Nothing happened, only some thoughts." Ruanlin Family stared at him.
Ruan Jianmin’s face changed dramatically. The things he had confidently declared before felt like a slap directly across his face, making him feel extremely embarrassed.
Indeed, he and Chen Hong hadn’t yet reached that point. Chen Hong had been at the store for two years, and during the first year, he hadn’t paid attention to her. After that, for some reason, she was always hanging around him, speaking sweetly, addressing him as Brother Ruan this and Brother Ruan that, and sometimes there were some suggestive actions.
She was a young girl just out of society, youthful and beautiful, giving him many obvious and subtle hints. He couldn’t possibly be so numb as to not feel it.
Besides, during that time Wu Le was always out, and the couple spent more time apart than together, while he spent day in and day out with Chen Hong at the store, so naturally, a bit of affection grew.
However, he could swear one thing: nothing had happened between them. After all, he had a family, a wife and children. And Chen Hong had also expressed she didn’t expect anything, she just admired him and hoped to be by his side, asking for nothing else.
A girl like that admiring him, asking for nothing, only wishing to be with him, not only greatly satisfied Ruan Jianmin’s vanity but also made him feel very guilty, so he tended to take care of her a bit more in daily life.
But until now, they had only maintained an ambiguous relationship; nothing had actually happened. Deep down, he still leaned towards his family. When the Ruan Family was so poor back then, Wu Le followed him and even bore him two sons. He wasn’t a beast; how could he do something as heartless as abandoning his wife and sons?
It was just that he didn’t know what to do about Chen Hong, so he let it drag on. Just what kind of intentions he was holding, only he himself was clear.