Night Fire Lingering

Chapter 278 I Don't Mind Being a Substitute

As soon as Wen Yan finished speaking, she suddenly remembered some details, and her pupils widened: "Is it because of the attention and care I gave you in the past?"

Jiang Huaixu raised his eyelids slightly, a reaction that proved Wen Yan had guessed correctly.

Wen Yan closed her eyes tightly.

This is really her fault!

“My health isn’t good. Because of my status as the eldest son of the Jiang family, I’ve had no shortage of girls around me who used the guise of caring for me to have other ideas. But Yan Yan, I know you’re different.” Jiang Huaixu could sense her sincerity.

Wen Yan lowered her eyes to look at the pattern on the carpet, her voice a little hoarse: "Senior, there's a reason why I care about you. At least at the beginning, my intentions weren't pure."

"what reason?"

“I know I shouldn’t be doing this, but now that things have come to this, I don’t want to lie to you.” Wen Yan raised her eyes again, her gaze falling on Jiang Huaixu’s left chest. “Senior, do you remember me saying that you look a lot like someone I knew?”

Jiang Huaixu certainly remembered that he said, "I don't mind being a stand-in."

"..." Wen Yan almost choked. "There is no substitute."

She walked over, raised her hand, and placed her fingertips on Jiang Huaixu's chest: "Here you hold the heart of my old friend."

Jiang Huaixu's pupils contracted sharply.

In an instant, countless details flashed through Jiang Huaixu's mind—Wen Yan knew he had undergone a heart transplant, Wen Yan cared a lot about his health, and Wen Yan knew the precautions for living after a heart transplant.

She cares about her health.

However, she was never curious about him.

She had no interest in him as a person.

A long-lost sharp pain shot through his heart, the pain becoming increasingly clear, as if demonstrating its very existence, making it hard for Jiang Huaixu to breathe, and giving him an incredulous sense of mockery.

"He...is the person you like?" Jiang Huaixu pressed his hand to his heart in anguish.

"Senior, what's wrong?" Wen Yan was shocked and immediately helped him sit down.

Jiang Huaixu took a deep breath and asked again, "Is he someone you like?"

Wen Yan shook her head: "The person I like is Gu Yanci."

Seeing that Jiang Huaixu's expression had become even more unpleasant, Wen Yan unscrewed the bottle of mineral water in the room, reached into his pocket, found the heart-protecting medicine, and took it out for Jiang Huaixu.

Jiang Huaixu didn't take it, staring intently and directly at Wen Yan, and took the medicine directly from Wen Yan's hand.

His lips touched hers.

Wen Yan stiffened slightly, but still looked at him calmly.

So calm, it felt as if Jiang Huaixu had been doused with cold water.

He leaned back on the sofa, looking dejected, and said with a mix of disappointment and self-deprecation, "I originally thought that you were the one who asked me to come today. It seems that's not... not at all."

“Senior, you shouldn’t be so careless.” Wen Yan felt that Jiang Huaixu was too reckless, after all, he was in poor health.

"But what if it really is you calling me? Yan Yan, I'm not a long-lived person, and I don't care about social status."

He was unwilling to give up that one in ten thousand chance.

Even if he knew Wen Yan was married, what if Wen Yan was just having a sudden whim?

After all, her marriage to Gu Yanci also stemmed from a one-night stand.

He was willing to spend a night with her, even without any respectable relationship.

Wen Yan pursed her lips, about to say something, when she suddenly saw Jiang Huaixu's chest heaving violently. His breathing, which had finally calmed down, became rapid again, and his handsome face turned an unnatural red, while his lips remained white.

Jiang Huaixu felt his heart beating faster than usual, and the pain forced him to clutch his left chest.

"Senior, what's wrong?" Wen Yan was startled. "I just took medicine, there shouldn't be any problems... Medicine? Water?"

She looked at the bottle of mineral water that had just been placed down in shock.

Wen Yan took out her phone to call an ambulance, only to find that the signal was blocked and the room's landline could not make outgoing calls.

She ran to the door and pounded on it, shouting, "Help! Is anyone outside? Help!"

There was no reaction from outside.

The only sound in the air seemed to be Jiang Huaixu's panting. Wen Yan held his limp hand, feeling despair, each second feeling like an eternity.

"Senior, hang in there! I... I'll figure something out!"

“Yan Yan…” He stared intently at Wen Yan, wanting to say he liked her, but he could no longer bring himself to say it.

Just then, a loud bang came from the door.

The door was kicked open from the outside!

A tall man in a suit strode in and was surprised to see Wen Yan kneeling in front of the sofa, holding Jiang Huaixu's hand tightly.

"Gu Yanci!" Wen Yan's tears broke free. "Quick! Call an ambulance! Something's happened to my senior!"

Gu Yanci immediately looked away from their clasped hands and called an ambulance.

Gu Yanci didn't ask any questions. He took off his suit jacket, put Jiang Huaixu's arm on his shoulder, and helped him walk out.

Wen Yan went first and opened the door wide.

As soon as he stepped out, he saw a group of people surrounding him!

They were all good-for-nothing second-generation rich kids from the capital's elite circles, clearly just there to watch the show.

"Wen Yan, you've been having an affair with another man behind Gu Shao's back. Does Gu Shao know?"

"My God, it really is Wen Yan! She really cheated on me!"

"Gu Yanci is handsome and rich, Wen Yan, why—"

Just as the group's gossiping questions began, two men came out of the room.

"Holy crap, they're two men!"

"Quick! Quickly record a video for Gu Yanci... Huh?"

The entire audience fell silent.

Gu Yanci raised his eyes and looked coldly at the camera pointing at him: "What should I send you?"

The onlookers: "...?"

Why is it Gu Yanci?

Who's the man next to her? Could it be a threesome?