The Substitute Bride: Indulged by the Obsessive CEO

Chapter 291: Dealing With Death On New Year’s Eve

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Tang Beibei followed Jiang Minghua through a long corridor to the greenhouse. She heard from Jiang Minghua that her mother liked flowers and plants, so she had a lot of them.

To ensure that the flowers and plants could survive all year round, they built a greenhouse. The temperature inside the greenhouse would be higher than the ambient temperature at this time of the year.

Tang Beibei was indeed a little curious. She followed Jiang Minghua to the greenhouse and as expected, she was greeted by a wave of warm air as soon the door opened.

It was as warm as spring in the greenhouse, and the air smelled of flowers.

There were many flower racks with all kinds of potted plants, all neatly labelled.

Tang Beibei didn’t know much about flowers and plants but seeing such lively flowers and plants in winter was pleasing to the eye and improved her mood.

Jiang Minghua explained the plants to her and even told her which were her favorites. “Sister-in-law, see if there’s anything you like. We’ll give you a pot.” “Are you sure?”

Tang Beibei would like to get a plant but she was worried. “1 don’t have a greenhouse at home. I won’t be able to keep it alive.”

“It’s okay. Just put it in an air-conditioned room.” Jiang Minghua smiled and continued, “Let’s continue. There are many more flowers here. Some of the petals can even be purified and are especially good for women.”

Tang Beibei nodded in agreement. There were indeed many good medicinal herbs here. Proper usage of these herbs could enhance a woman’s health and wellbeing.

She looked at the smiling and chatty Jiang Minghua and felt that she was quite cute and easy to get along with.

“All, what, what is that?”

Suddenly, Jiang Minghua screamed and jumped behind Tang Beibei.

Tang Beibei looked at a wriggling snake in front of her and was stunned.

It was a big snake moving unhurriedly. It did not look like it was hunting, but more like it was taking a leisurely stroll.

Why was there a snake here?

“Sister-in-law, Sister-in-law, th-that’s a snake. Help me chase it out. If it goes into hiding, it may hurt my mom when she comes in here.”

Tang Beibei’s face turned pale. “1,1, I’m a little scared too. No, I don’t know how to do it. Why don’t we call a professional snake catcher?”

“No, no. It may go into hiding. Sister-in-law, go get it!” Jiang Minghua begged.

“No, I, ah!”

Tang Beibei wanted to refuse, but she was suddenly pushed forward and almost stepped on the snake. Her face turned pale with fear.

In the living room, Jiang Jingchen looked up at Jiang Mingyang when he heard the latter mention Jiang Minglang.

Jiang Mingyang stared back at him, hoping to get a clue from his reaction but he saw nothing. Instead, Jiang Jingchen’s cold and sharp gaze sent a chill down his spine.

Jiang Mingyang then added, “After the reunion dinner, let’s prepare some things and visit Second Brother at the hospital. He must be feeling very sad.”

Jiang Xing felt a little sad too when he heard about his second son still in the hospital. He instructed the butler to send some food to the hospital for the second young master.

The butler nodded and went to the kitchen to ask the cook to prepare some food.

Jiang Mingyang asked Jiang Xing, “Dad, about Second Brother’s case. Have we found out who instigated Song Hai to hurt Second Brother?”

Jiang Xing shook his head. Song Hai’s disappearance was very strange, but who kidnapped him and what did they do to him? When they asked Song Hai, he just got very agitated and kept saying that there were many rats, many rats, and the rats wanted to eat him.

Jiang Jingchen showed no interest in the conversation and looked through the new year goodies on the coffee table. The Jiang family had laid out all kinds of snacks.

He tasted some cookies. If the cookie tasted good, he would take a bite. If it didn’t taste good, he would spit out even that one bite and throw everything into the trash can.

He was so wasteful that even Jiang Xing gave him a sidelong glance.

Jiang Jingchen didn’t care about what other people thought of him. He scanned a few cookies that he thought his wife would like and went online to buy them.

His wife had been busy lately and didn’t have time for snacks. She would only eat a little when reminded, so he didn’t buy too much every time. He just wanted her to have a taste.

He wanted to buy her all the things that other girls liked, no matter the amount. If his house couldn’t contain all the things, he would buy another villa.

He would give her what no one had given her before.

“Jingchen, what do you think about your second brother?”

“Hmm?”

Jiang Jingchen looked up blankly. “What about my second brother?”

“The incident where he was stabbed and Song Hai was captured!” Jiang Xing reminded him.

“It’s probably Song Hai’s enemies who did it.”

H ii

Jiang Xing frowned. Jiang Jingchen’s comments weren’t helpful at all.

“Dad, Mom, help!”

Jiang Minghua’s scream came from not far away.

Jiang Xing stood up. He only had one daughter, and he treasured her very much.

“Huahua, what’s wrong?”

“Dad, sob, sob, sob, I’m petrified.”

Jiang Minghua was crying her eyes out. She lay in Jiang Xing’s arms as if she had been shocked to the nth degree.

Jiang Jingchen looked behind her and frowned when he didn’t see his wife.

“Jiang Minghua, where’s my wife?”

“S-Sister-in-law has been bitten by a snake.” Jiang Minghua sobbed.

“Where?”

Jiang Jingchen’s face was gloomy, and his eyes were cold. Jiang Minghua was so scared that she shivered and stopped crying.

“In, in, the greenhouse!”

Jiang Jingchen walked out quickly. Jiang Minghua followed him and cried, “First Brother, I’m sorry. If 1 didn’t bring Sister-in-law to visit the greenhouse, this wouldn’t have happened.”

Jiang Jingchen ignored her and rushed into the greenhouse, but he didn’t see Tang Beibei.

Jiang Jingchen’s face turned pale as he kept walking and looked around.

“Beibei!”

At one of the exits, he found one of Tang Beibei’s shoes. Jiang Jingchen stared at the shoe.

He had picked out those shoes for her before they left the house!

Jiang Minghua cried even louder. “It’s all my fault. It’s my fault. If I didn’t bring Sister-in-law here, this wouldn’t have happened. I heard that snakes not only bite but also eat people. Sister-in-law couldn’t have been eaten, right?”

A security guard came over. Jiang Xing and Jiang Mingyang looked at Jiang Jingchen sympathetically.

Jiang Xing ordered the security guards to act, “Find the First Young Madam, dead or alive!”

It was really unfortunate for the family to deal with death on the eve of Lunar New Year!

Jiang Minghua looked at Jiang Jingchen’s gloomy face and said a little fearfully, “First Brother, I, I’m sorry for your loss!”

“Shut up!” Jiang Jingchen growled. He wouldn’t believe that something had happened to his wife.

Jiang Minghua started crying again after being scolded and ran into Jiang Xing’s arms again, looking extremely wronged.

“Something happened to you wife, why are you shouting at Huahua?”

Jiang Jingchen’s eyes were cold and gloomy. He ignored them and walked out of the greenhouse to continue searching.

Behind the greenhouse was a lush hill, which was an excellent place to cool down with an after-dinner stroll in summer.

But in winter, cold wind assaulted the face and rustled the leaves. Jiang Jingchen started to panic.

“Beibei, Tang Beibei!”

In the greenhouse, Jiang Mingyang asked his sister in confusion, “Sis, why is there a snake in the greenhouse?”

Jiang Minghua wiped away her tears. “It’s warmer in the greenhouse in winter. These snakes probably didn’t want to spend winter in the cold, so they came into our greenhouse. That snake is quite big and ugly.”

Jiang Mingyang looked at her suspiciously while Jiang Minghua looked out of the greenhouse sympathetically. “Sigh, how sad. Dealing with death on New Year’s Eve. Is First Brother an unlucky person or what?”

They didn’t like Jiang Jingchen and couldn’t care less about his wife’s life or death.

They had long been used to not having Jiang Jingchen around. His sudden appearance and clamoring to take away Jiang Corporation was a threat and a scourge to them.

If something also happened to him, they were happy to spend some money to give them both a grand funeral.

Outside the greenhouse…

Jiang Jingchen ran out. Because he was in a hurry, he didn’t wear a coat. He only had a sweater on and the sweater wasn’t wind resistant.

The cold wind was like a knife with its blade stabbing into his body. It was so painful that he could not call out her name again..