After the divorce, my ex-husband and son lined up to pursue me.

Chapter 99 Second Marriage Woman
"With you?"

Jiang Xia threw out two words in a questioning tone.

Lu Ershisan raised an eyebrow, a cigarette dangling from his lips: "What? Still not happy? With this face of mine, I can make five figures a night in the sex industry. Am I not good enough for you?"

Jiang Xia: "..."

I really wanted to ignore his profession as a male model, but he just couldn't stop thinking about it.

Jiang Xia helplessly rubbed her forehead. After sitting on the motorcycle for so long, she felt like her whole body was falling apart from the bumps. She was speechless for a moment and wanted to calm down and have some peace and quiet.

Lu Niansan received no response, clicked his tongue in annoyance, raised his hand to call the waiter, ordered a bunch of meat skewers and beer, and also asked for a few refreshing cold dishes.

He glanced at Jiang Xia and asked, "Haven't had dinner yet?"

Then, he handed the menu back to the waiter and said, "Another bowl of noodles, hot soup, light, no cilantro, scallions, or ginger."

The waiter nodded, made a note of it, and left with the menu.

Jiang Xia poured himself a cup of hot water from the kettle on the table, held it in his hands, blew on it to cool it down, and took a few sips. At the same time, cold dishes were served one after another, followed by various meat skewers.

Lu Niansan gestured with his chin towards her: "Eat up, and then come home with me."

"..."

It feels like we just escaped one wolf's den only to fall into another.

Jiang Xia sighed helplessly. She had no appetite, so she broke off a pair of chopsticks and fiddled with them in her hand. Then, she spoke calmly, but her words were surprising: "I can be with you, but will your mother agree?"

Lu Niansan, who was enjoying his skewers, suddenly froze, his handsome face instantly turning ashen.

Jiang Xia put down the chopsticks she was playing with, rested her chin on her hand, and looked directly at him: "And your father, do you think they'll agree to you marrying a divorced woman with a child?"

Lu Niansan's shocked expression gradually returned to normal, and he quickly threw down the meat skewer he was eating. "When...did you find out?"

He grew up in an orphanage from the age of ten until he was eighteen. For those short eight years, no one knew he had parents, including the auntie director of the welfare home and the police officer who brought him there.

How did Jiang Xia know all this?!

“You used to talk in your sleep,” Jiang Xia said wearily.

Lu Niansan was stunned again: "What?"

“Once you were beaten to death and were covered in injuries. Your aunt was reluctant to spend money to take you to the hospital, but she was also afraid that your high fever would make you stupid, so she found some medicine and asked me to take it to you.”

Back then, all the boys shared one room, and the girls shared a room on the other side of the corridor. The conditions weren't great; it was just a bunk bed.

However, Lu Niansan was even less sociable than Jiang Xia. He was like a troublemaker and more like a little bully. No matter how the aunt and the dean tried to discipline him, it was no use. In the end, no one wanted to pay attention to him, so they tidied up the storage room and gave him a place to live.

Jiang Xia drank two more sips of hot water. When she saw the hot soup noodles brought over by the waiter, she said "thank you." While stirring the bowl of noodles with her chopsticks, she continued, "You were talking in your sleep calling for your mom and dad, so I knew."

“Talking in my sleep?” Lu Niansan hesitated repeatedly, squinting as he stared intently at Jiang Xia: “Impossible. Even if I was delirious from the fever and talked in my sleep, it couldn’t be as simple as you say.”

of course.

Jiang Xia couldn't remember clearly either, only vaguely recalling...

"What's so great about being someone's concubine? I don't have a father! And he's not my father!"

"Mom, let's go! Isn't it good enough for just the two of us? Leave him, don't take his charity anymore!"

"If you want him, you won't have me! You want him, right? Then you won't have me as your son anymore! I'd rather be an orphan, and it'll have nothing to do with you!"

That's probably it.

Therefore, Jiang Xia deduced everything in his mind at that time.

But she felt that these things had nothing to do with her, so she pretended not to hear them and never mentioned them to anyone.

"No matter what, your troubles have nothing to do with me." Jiang Xia said calmly. "Lu Twenty-Three, I don't care if you're sincere or just joking with me. Thank you for tonight. Money is fine, but don't even think about anything else."

Compared to when he was a child, Lu Niansan's face has only become sharper, more composed, and more mature. In terms of handsomeness, there hasn't been much change. Jiang Xia, who was a teenager back then, wasn't attracted to him. How could she be now?

Lu Niansan listened to her in silence, then lowered his head and picked up the skewers from his plate to continue eating.

After a long pause, he finally said, "You look down on me? Or do you think my status as an illegitimate child is shameful?"

Jiang Xia swallowed the noodles in her mouth, looked up at him again, and replied very seriously, "Formerly, I don't like you."

Lu Niansan: "!!!"

Another rejection, and still so blunt.

He couldn't quite describe his feelings, but he was so angry he laughed: "Do you like your husband? You must, otherwise you wouldn't have been so foolish as to marry him."

After throwing out those defiant words, he touched his face and said, "Am I not more handsome than him? If you're looking at looks, isn't mine good enough? Besides, do you know how much I'm worth?"

"I don't want to know." Jiang Xia retorted quickly, then took a deep breath and said seriously, "You have a very beautiful face and a great figure, but liking someone isn't just about looks and money."

Liking someone is a feeling that's hard to describe.

I don't know what's so great about that person, it's just... that energy about them, somehow it entered their heart and slowly evolved into love.

Jiang Xia wasn't in the mood to argue with him. After eating a couple more bites of noodles, her stomach started churning uncomfortably, and she lost all desire to eat anymore. She simply put down her chopsticks, grabbed a tissue, and said, "I don't have my phone or cash on hand right now, so you can pay for this meal. I'll transfer the money to you later, and there's also a thank-you fee for tonight."

After saying that, she got up and was about to leave when Lu Niansan grabbed her arm.

The next second, he forcefully pressed her back into the small stool, saying, "Sit down and finish your meal with me."

"..."

What's wrong with this person?!

But no matter what, without Lu Niansan tonight, Jiang Xia couldn't escape, so she suppressed her annoyance and patiently watched him eat.

I don't know how Lu Niansan usually maintains his figure. He ate almost all of the barbecue on the table by himself, and in the end, he even finished off Jiang Xia's bowl of hot soup noodles.

Jiang Xia, speechless, rested his chin on his hands, looking at the humanoid pig, and said helplessly, "Are you finished eating? Can I leave now?"

"Where are you staying tonight?" Lu Niansan tossed aside the empty tissue, lit another cigarette, and still teased and joked, "No money, no ID, not even a cell phone. Do you want to sleep on the streets or under a bridge?"

Jiang Xia frowned; he had indeed hit the nail on the head.

But then she thought for a moment and asked, "Could I borrow your phone...?"

"No."

"..."

(End of this chapter)