Chapter 371 It Is Quite Odd
Why did Benjamin, Dan and Jesse suddenly go to a restaurant near herpany? And why did they
also want to have lunch with her?
There was something fishy going on. Jean felt it and knew this was not so simple as it looked. She
looked at Jesse with a piercing gaze.
The thought at the back of Jean''s mind was one, ''Could it be Jesse who went behind me? But it''s
impossible for her to do so.
I came back from the Wen Group today. Zed didn''t know about this, let alone Jesse.
It''s quite odd.''
Feeling Jean''s fixatedly staring at her, Jesse shot back a challenging look at her.
Her jaw tightened as Jean frowned about this. Then a faint realization came to Jean.
This was all very puzzling, still. ''How did she know I haven''t been at mypany today?''
"Grandpa, I''m sorry." At this moment, her confusion didn''t matter. She had tofort Benjamin first.
Or her peaceful life woulde to an end.
"You''re sorry?" As soon as Jean admitted her fault, Benjamin grew angrier and gave her a ck look.
He sternly asked,"Tell me honestly, Jean. What have you done all day?"
Getting asked by Benjamin made Jean feel sick in the stomach. For a moment, she didn''t know what to
say.
She couldn''t mention anything about Wen Group.
She had hidden this thing from Zed, so there was no way that she could tell them anything about it.
But how should she reply without annoying grandpa?
Seeing that Jean was hesitating, Benjamin angrily said,"Don''t tell me you went to the hospital today.
You were already there yesterday."
Jean had no choice but to think on her feet.
So she lowered her head and guiltily replied,"Grandpa, I''m so sorry. I shouldn''t keep this a secret. But I
didn''t know how to say it. I''m afraid that you''ll be even angrier after I tell you what I''ve done today."
Benjamin frowned after he saw that Jean was full of remorse, and he asked,"What on earth have you
done today?"
Jean raised her head just an inch and said, afraid,"I did go to the hospital today."
Benjamin eximed at once,"You went to the hospital again? To see your friend? What kind of friend is
he? Why did you visit him two days in a row? Has he gotten worse? Or is there a dirty secret between
you and him?"
Seeing that Benjamin had got the wrong idea, Jean exined with haste,"No, no, grandpa. I went to
the hospital to visit my dad."
As she said so, she looked at Benjamin.
"What? Your dad is also in the hospital?" Benjamin frowned, looked at her with some suspicion and
said,"If you went to the hospital for your dad, why were you afraid of telling me the truth just now?"
"Because..." Jean felt awkward and said weakly,"My dad has done something wrong before, and I''m in
a feud with him because of it. He is very ill now. If not, I wouldn''t go to see him. Even though he has
wronged me before, he is still my father. However, I didn''t tell Zed that I went to see my dad, because I
was afraid that Zed might be unhappy. So I dared not tell it to you too."
Jean''s exnation left Benjamin greatly puzzled. He mulled over all that Jean just said, trying to figure
how truthful she was being to him. Again, he asked,"What has your dad done? Why do you hate him?
He is Zed''s father-inw. And why didn''t Zed go to the hospital to visit him?"
"He..." Jean flushed with embarrassment immediately.
Obviously, if she wanted Benjamin to believe in her exnation, she had to tell Benjamin the fact that
her marriage with Zed was just a transaction.
But, she wondered whether the cost of telling the truth was too high.
This was a crucial moment for her and she had to save the situation somehow. Jean thought that she
couldn''t worry about that and honestly, there was no other choice.
To hide the fact that she had returned to the Wen Group, she had to trivialise the love between her and
Zed, and tell grandpa the truth.
Jesse interrupted,"Grandpa, Zed hasn''t told you why he married Jean because he was afraid that you
might get angry after knowing the truth."
Jesse thought to herself, ''Ha, ha. Jean, thank you for giving me such a good chance. I''ll make most of
it.''
"Why did they get married?" This was getting moreplicated than Benjamin had anticipated. Still, he
had always wondered why they had married in such secrecy.
When Benjamin first met Jean, he didn''t think much of Jean and truly felt she was not good enough for
his grandson.
But Zed liked Jean and the two were quite happy, so Benjamin had no reason to create any trouble
between the couple.
And after he saw that Zed and Jean loved each other and lived in peace and happiness, he came
around to epting Jean as his granddaughter-inw.
This time, now that Jesse had hinted that Zed and Jean married for a certain wrong reason, he had a
bad feeling about what was toe.
Benjamin''s dislike for Jean was exposed again as he looked at her with derision.
"For a piece ofnd." Before Jean could exin anymore, Jesse jumped at the chance of answering
Benjamin''s question.
Jean looked at Jesse perplexed and thought to herself why she had ignored Jesse''s presence in the
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room before.
Jean thought, ''This is it. Jesse has got a golden chance of showing me in an unfavourable light in front
of grandpa. She must be really happy to reveal the shameful truth between me and Zed.
But I have no other choice but to let her say whatever she wants to say.''
Jean knew she was in a bind now. She sighed looking helpless and downcast at Benjamin.
''This is all for a bigger cause. I am doing this to find out why my mom died. No matter what it takes, I
will walk on the path I have taken.''
As she encouraged herself by looking at this from a different perspective, she gradually calmed down.
"Jesse, shut up. I want her to tell me herself." Benjamin stopped Jesse at once and pointed at Jean,
ordering her to go on.
Jean''s heart sank and even though she didn''t look up at Benjamin''s face, she still knew that he must be
angry now and that he was on the edge of rage.
What should she do now?
She wanted to back down, but she closed her eyes, and thought of her mom. Slowly she replied with
bitterness in her voice,"Grandpa, I did marry Zed for and."
"Go on." Benjamin replied with a firm voice though on the inside, he was on an emotional roller coaster.
Still, he tried hard to keep calm.
He thought to himself, ''Zed is my best grandson. He is one in a million. But to get a woman, he was
willing to offer a piece ofnd.
I just don''t understand what charm Jean has. Why did Zed do this deal for her.''
Jean told him the whole fact in one breath,"I married Zed and my dad got thend that he wanted.
That''s it." Then she closed her eyes and resigned herself to what fate had in store for her next.
"That''s it? So you married Zed because it was your dad''s demand. And you didn''t marry him because
you loved him. Am I right?" The floodgates had opened. Benjamin''s rage knew no bounds and he
glowered at Jean as he grilled her.
If Jean said yes to all of this, he would break her legs, '' he thought in his heart.
''Zed is the apple of my eye. How could Jean and her father do this thing to my Zed?
What is her merit?
Why did Zed exchange a piece ofnd for her?''
Benjamin felt that he was going to explode any minute and anger ravaged any inkling of reason left
inside him.
Benjamin literally gave Jean a death stare and decided to break her legs unmercifully if she dared say
one more word.
"Grandpa, what''s wrong? Who got your goat?"
Zed''s familiar voice came from the door and all people in the living room were relieved at once.
Particrly, Jean. She had run out of things to say. If Benjamin had kept on pressing her, she wouldn''t
know what to reply.
Tonight, she had been cornered by Jesse to tell Benjamin her deal with Zed. And she hadn''t imagined
Benjamin''s reaction to be this wrathful in her wildest dreams.