If he hadn’t been thinking of teaching her a lesson, allowing things to naturally progress, or if he had secretly had people protect her all along, she wouldn’t have ended up in trouble.
He was too arrogant, and too conceited!
He thought that if An Xin were truly pregnant, she would make a scene at his doorstep, demanding that he divorce An Ruo and marry her.
He thought all women would act that way.
But he was wrong, An Xin wasn’t just any woman.
She didn’t show up at his door weeping and wailing, nor did she reveal her pregnancy.
She just quietly set up her scheme, waiting for An Ruo to fall into it, and then she made everything look flawless while also clearing herself from any involvement.
He even thought that what An Xin wanted was to drive An Ruo away and take her place as the young lady of the Tang Family, but he never considered that what she really wanted was An Ruo’s life.
He couldn’t understand why An Xin would do such a thing.
She could have easily taken An Ruo’s place by tearfully revealing her pregnancy, but she chose the extreme path. She would rather walk the road to her own destruction just to kill An Ruo.
Tang Yuchen’s dark eyes stared at the image of An Ruo, his mind rapidly pondering.
What was An Xin’s motive for doing all this?
Was it just to sit in the position of the young lady of the Tang Family?
If things were that simple, there was no need to kill An Ruo.
What, exactly, was her motive?
A sudden insight flashed through the man’s mind, and he abruptly understood An Xin’s motive.
It was that rumor about him being a wife-jinx!
Many people knew about the fortune teller’s words that he was destined to jinx six wives. If An Xin truly wanted to marry him, she had to put an end to that rumor.
The only way to do that was to kill An Ruo, so she could sleep tight without any worry.
There was another point. An Ruo had seen the faces of those three men, and An Xin was afraid that one day An Ruo would sense something amiss, possibly sketch their likenesses, and implicate her.
So, to cut off all future troubles, she chose to kill her.
So that was her motive!
And he had only come to realize it now, if he had seen through all this earlier, would An Xin have been able to play tricks right under his nose?!
Damn it, what had he been doing all this time? Why did he only think of this now?!
Tang Yuchen clenched his fists, eyes ablaze with raging fury, and suddenly rose to his feet, kicking the solid wood desk. The massive desk fell with a loud bang, letting out a deafening noise.
He grabbed a chair and smashed it on the ground, frantically destroying everything within reach!
Only when the study was in complete disarray did he cease his terrifying behavior.
The man clenched his fists, his eyes seething with sinister violence.
You are the first woman who dares to play mind games with me. Then let’s wait and see who will play whom to death!
Tang Yuchen calmed down after a while, rummaged through the ruins for his phone, dialed his subordinate’s number, "Listen, there’s something you need to do tomorrow..."
The next morning, upon receiving Tang Yuchen’s call, An Xin hurriedly got dressed at home.
Half an hour later, his car arrived downstairs, and she left the house excitedly, getting into his car.
Tang Yuchen turned his head to look at her, a habitual smile at the corner of his mouth: "Baby, you look very pretty today."
An Xin, pleasantly surprised, asked him, "Do you like it?"
"Of course." The man leaned in and kissed her cheek lightly.
An Xin lowered her eyes, a flush of shyness on her face.
Tang Yuchen moved away, starting the car while asking, "Where shall we dine?"