Chapter 23 What role do I play?

"Miss? Is there a problem?" She added. I suddenly noticed my lapse and hurried to change my posture. Then I said to her with a smile, "Hello, what can I do for you?." "I want to buy a cell phone, any recommendations?" She asked back with a smile. "May I ask what performance you value more with your phone? Is it a photo shoot, or a game, or others?" I asked as calmly as I could. "I don't play a lot of games. I only play King of Glory once in a while. Occasionally I also like to take pictures of delicate dishes and so on. I used to use iPhone all the time, but I didn't like the system of IOS. I couldn't use the unlicensed APP, so I hated it. I wanted to try a new one." I nodded to her and introduced her to a high-end domestic phone. She bought it without hesitation and asked me to transfer her cell phone card. Then she asked me to call her and say she wanted to test the phone, I actually hesitated for a moment, but felt that her request was not too much, so I agreed to her request. She took the phone and finally left, and I let out a long sigh. I thought to myself, "It's really a small world, how could I have met her here?” I feel even hungrier. I took out the mobile phone to continue to order takeout. But my phone has not been dialed out, Xuanlong had come. "Fourth Brother let me take your to have a meal, He says you are pregnant now and cannot eat casually." Jacky Hua 's style, what he decided, could not be violated. If I didn't go, Xuanlong would remiss his duty. So I asked him to wait for me,and I wanted to take a leave of absence from work with the manager. But he interrupted me and said, "No, I've already told him that. Your dimission procedures have been completed. I'll have someone move your stuff of the dormitory for you." Xuanlong said. I was a little angry, "Why do you guys always make the decisions for me? It's my own business." Xuanlong Jiang replied calmly , "This is what the Fourth Brother meant." "Is what he says a holy decree? Everyone has to listen to him?" I said loudly towards Xuanlong. But he didn't answer my question. This man was always wearing an expression with no emotion and speaking in a calm tone. But he was actually a very handsome middle-aged man with huge figure who at all times was in a well-fitting black suit. He also always wore an expression, cold and aloof, no one could see any joy or sorrow in him. I got into Xuanlong's car, and the manager ran out and stood on the side of the road to bid me farewell, "Kiki, come back often when you have time, I miss you." I expressed my thanks to him for his help and promised to contact with him often Xuanlong waited for me to finish the talk with the manager and drove away. Then he suddenly said, "They are all just employees of Fourth Brother, you are now Fourth Brother's wife, don't be too polite with them, it will lower yourself dignity." Rarely did he take the initiative to speak, and I took the opportunity to ask, "Brother Xuanlong, you've been with Fourth Brother for many years, right?" "Yes." He responded briefly "Then you know a girl named Nanan?" I continued. "Yes" He answered quickly. "They used to be very close, right?" I asked. This time, Xuanlong didn't say anything, and only after a long time, he say, "About Nannan you need to ask him yourself." Looking at his expressionless face, I also had to choose keep silent. Xuanlong took me to a restaurant not far from the headquarters, told me that Fourth Brother was on the third floor, and then left. As soon as I entered the restaurant, the waiter came up and said, " Miss yao, this way, please." He took me to the third floor, and all the seats in the third floor restaurant were empty, with only Jacky Hua sitting there alone. The third floor wasn't without guests, it should have been cleared by Jacky Hua. While I liked quiet places, I thought it was very ostentatious to set aside such a large space for lunch. Jacky Hua gestured for me to sit down, then stared at the overall that I was wearing . His brows frowning slightly, "Don't wear this kind of clothes in the future." "It's a work uniform, a must-have for work." I explained. "Don't go to work anymore." 'he said coldly. "But I don't want to be a tool that only gives birth and carries children." I argued. He didn't seem to hear me at all and just waved his hand to gesture for food to be served. This is the second time I've had a formal dinner with him, the first time being at a children's restaurant. "Her name is Nan Lin." He uttered a sentence unaccountably. His tone was flat, but my heart thumped because it was the secret I wanted to know the most. “Oh,” I said. I pretended not to care what he said but expected him to tell me more about the girl. He's a control freak, so I must not appear too weak or he would ignore me and always treated me as a puppet. I waited his introduction about the girl anxiously, as if he had forgotten the conversation what he had started and never said anything again. I couldn't stand this man's style of doing things. He got people interests about the subject and then stopped talking about it. He was so immoral! "And then what?" I asked. "She means a lot to me." He said briefly. He's said this to me for the second time. In fact, even if he didn't say it, I knew that girl was important to him. He slapped me hard for my breaking a photo frame and kicked me out of the house, which was a sufficient hint of how much that girl meant to him. "You love her. You never took me for a wife. You married me just to get custody of your child back, didn't you?" I said bluntly. As I said this, my heart pained terribly. "Yes." He replied calmly. At this moment, I had the urge to slam the bowl in his face but I resisted. "You don't need to mind much, I can give Lucas what you can't give. He will have a good future." He said coldly. "What about me? What role do I play?" I asked coldly as well. "Aren't you pregnant again, just give birth. Lucas needs a companion." He said faintly. I was merely a tool of giving birth to a child. He was nice to me before, just wanted Lucas back. Now he was being nice to me, but only because I was having a baby again. My value, just what the child brought. Otherwise I was nothing. "Let's get a divorce." I said as I stood up. He looked up at me with a chill rising in his eyes, “How dare you propose a divorce?" "Our marriage, however, is just a play by your director. Now that your purpose has been served, let's get a divorce.I will not be a puppet wife in honor. She's back, you just go find her. Let me go." I said coldly. His voice was even colder, " Kiki Yao, If you ignore my good intentions , you will definitely regret later!" "No, I won't . I will not be your puppet at your mercy anymore." I said unhesitatingly. I picked up my bag and left the table. Jacky Hua watched me coldly with disdain .In his mind, I couldn't get rid of him. I went downstairs and headed for the door of the restaurant, only to hear someone calling my name, and I looked back, surprisingly it was the girl I'd met at the mall just this morning. By the way, Jacky Hua told me her name was Nan Lin. Was it really that small of a world to meet her again in such a short period of time?