Chapter 1425: Passed Away

Chapter 1425: Chapter 1425: Passed Away

Zhuang Yi saw Mu Yan looking clearly unhappy, and didn’t dare agree right away. He lowered his voice and said, "Wasn’t I just too mad?"

"So just because you’re mad you start hitting people without even figuring out what’s what? You’re a soldier, aren’t you? You don’t have a shred of discipline." Mu Yan looked at him, her face full of disgust.

Zhuang Yi, "..."

They say girls tend to side with outsiders. Looks like it’s true.

He gave a little snort and said, "It’s because he went too far. Nuannuan, I’m doing this for you. Why do you keep taking his side?"

"I don’t need this kind of ’it’s for your own good’ that you made up in your own head!" Mu Yan said irritably. "And he’s my husband. Of course I’m going to side with him."

Zhuang Yi was a bit annoyed. "And I’m still your brother. I’m telling you he did that kind of thing—are you seriously going to forgive him?"

"What exactly did he do? Isn’t it just the media twisting things around? Why are you taking it as the truth? Aren’t you and He brothers? Don’t you know what kind of person He is?" Mu Yan shot back.

Zhuang Yi fell silent for a moment. Jiang Jingheng really was a good brother, and going by what He’d always said, He never went near women. Back when he learned He was marrying Nuannuan, he’d actually felt quite reassured.

But men are often ruled by what’s below the waist. What if he slipped up and made a mistake?

Suddenly Zhuang Yi countered, "Then why don’t you tell me why you moved out of the house and into a hotel?"

Mu Yan was stunned for a second, a bit of sadness rising in her heart.

Here she was, coming down on Zhuang Yi for starting a fight and feeling bad that he got hurt, yet over there He was acting like she didn’t exist. A fresh wave of grievance surged up in her chest.

Her expression darkened, and she snapped, "Yeah, we had a fight. Is that not allowed?"

Zhuang Yi had no idea why her attitude suddenly flipped. He didn’t dare say anything, afraid he’d just make her even more upset.

Honestly, it’d only been a few days since he last saw her, and somehow her temper had multiplied several times over compared to before.

If this was how she was with Jing Heng all the time, he could kind of see why He might cheat.

Of course, that would just be the excuse for Jiang Jingheng to cheat.

The girls of the Zhuang Family having a bit of a temper—so what? That’s personality.

Once she’d cooled down, Mu Yan said, "Alright, go back. Don’t come all the way to Upper City over something this trivial. The army doesn’t belong to our family; you can’t just take leave whenever you want. People who don’t know better might think you’re abusing the fact that your uncle is a high‑ranking officer and running wild in the troops."

Seeing his sister looking out for him warmed Zhuang Yi’s heart, but when he remembered the other reason for his trip, his expression tightened slightly. "Actually, I came this time for something else too."

"Mm?"

"To help Second Uncle take care of Jiaojiao’s funeral arrangements," Zhuang Yi replied.

"Oh." The moment Mu Yan heard it had to do with Zhuang Shaoyang, she couldn’t even be bothered to respond.

Only after a moment did she realize something was off.

She lifted her eyes to look at Zhuang Yi, shocked. "What did you say? Zhuang Chujiao, she..."

Zhuang Yi’s expression was grave. He nodded and sighed. "Don’t blame Second Uncle for still caring about her. She was the daughter of his good brother, and she’d been raised in our Zhuang Family for so many years. There were feelings there, after all. Now that she’s gone, let’s wipe the slate clean on the past grudges. People have to learn to let go at some point. I Hope you can do that too."

Mu Yan understood what he meant; you can’t live your whole life for hatred. Besides, although she and Zhuang Chujiao didn’t get along, it wasn’t as if there was some huge vendetta between them. After all, she’d never actually suffered any real loss at her hands.

She frowned and said, "But wasn’t she supposed to be serving her sentence in the rehab center? How did she suddenly end up dead?"