Gu Yanshen held up his cell phone and looked out the car window. The drizzle was falling on the glass of the car window, winding down in strips. His handsome face was reflected vaguely on the glass.
Under normal circumstances, Su Junyan would not wait for him to call him as soon as he got off the plane. Gu Yanshen thought, it must be because of some things on the project.
"I'm fine."
Su Junyan coughed lightly, and the background sound was a bit messy. Gu Yanshen deduced that he should be at a dinner party, and sure enough, he heard him say again: "But your woman is a little troublesome. Someone just happened to ask me to help you. I will give it to you as soon as possible."
I'm calling you to tell you this. I am now entrusted with a duty of loyalty. Yan Shen, I think you have to come back immediately, otherwise this place will be turned upside down."
"…………"
Gu Yan frowned deeply. Although Su Junyan spoke in a lazy tone, those words made his heart sink slightly. Thinking of the missed calls just now, he asked: "...What happened to Zijin?
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C City, Qiao Family.
Zi Jin stood at the door of Qiao's house, holding the corner of her clothes tightly with her slender fingers. She took several deep breaths, but when she really raised her feet and walked into the door of Qiao's house, she felt something unprecedented.
A difficult feeling I've had.
It wasn't that she was afraid of facing Qiao Jinglian, nor was she afraid of Li Muhua and Qiao Jingting's acrimony, she was just afraid of not being able to face Qiao Shijun's eyes and the look of disappointment on his face.
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Originally, she was thinking of using the simplest and most direct way to end this loveless marriage, but now, everything is not on the right track, and something like this has been exposed. She doesn't know what she will face next.
No matter what the situation was, she was too afraid of disappointing Qiao Shiyun.
That old man has been protecting her as an elder for the past five years. What she has today is all given by him.
He was already so disappointed when I divorced him before, but now something like this happened again...
"...young mistress?"
A servant happened to come out. When he saw Zijin standing dumbly at the front door, he subconsciously called out. Zijin came to his senses hastily, nodded, and had to lift his legs to walk into the door.
It was the people in the living room who heard the sound at the door, and the sound of footsteps hurriedly came. Before Zijin could see who it was, he heard a sharp scream, followed by a slap in the face -
There was a "pop" sound.
Zijin only felt a dull pain in her cheek, and her whole body shook violently. The broken hair on her cheek stuck to her mouth, and a numb feeling came immediately. Her hands subconsciously wanted to hold something on the side.
, but didn’t want to lose control of his body and hit the antique vase at the door. A louder sound came from the door. Zijin’s heart skipped a beat. He could no longer care about the dull pain on his face. He wanted to hold on to something, but his whole body was confused.
It tilted, and along with the antique vase, which was as tall as one person, it landed on the ground.
There was a sticky feeling in the palm of her hand, and she couldn't tell where it hurt more, because her whole body was lying on the floor, on top of the broken glass. Fortunately, she was wearing jeans today, and the broken glass had not penetrated the denim fabric.
, but the palm of her hand was cut several times, and blood came out gurglingly.
"...Shen Zijin, you are such a bad person! I said it before, what qualifications does a person like you have to enter the door of our Qiao family? You are good, I became the young mistress of the Qiao family, but
Not willing to be alone, you ran out to hook up with other men. You despicable woman, you want to hook up, forget it, you actually want to make a fuss all over the city. You know how people are spreading the news about our Qiao family and me.
Son? You bastard, you cuckolded my son, and you still have the nerve to come back? You—"
"Shut up!"
Qiao Shijun heard the huge noise downstairs and came down on crutches. He saw the mess all over the ground at a glance. His gloomy face became even colder. He glared at Li Muhua fiercely and growled, "What are you doing?
Do you think I'm dead? What did I tell you? Come to the study to find me when Zijin comes back. What are you doing now?!"
Qiao Shiyun winked at the servant beside him, and someone immediately came up, helped Zijin, stood up from the broken glass of the antique vase, and asked her again: "... Young lady, your hand is bleeding. I'm looking for a doctor."
come over……"
"……fine."
Zi Jin didn't dare to look at Qiao Shiyun now. Li Muhua rushed up and slapped her in the face as soon as he entered the room. She actually didn't pay much attention to her nasty curses, and even found them a bit funny——
What right does she, Li Muhua, have to scold herself like this?
People all over the world may be qualified to scold her for being shameless and scolding her for cheating on her, but what kind of deceit did she, Li Muhua, do outside?
If it weren't for Qiao Shijun, Zijin really wouldn't have endured such a slap in vain. She did something wrong, but it was not Li Muhua's turn to take the opportunity to show off his power in front of her and add insult to injury.
"Let the doctor come."
Qiao Shiyun's voice was low and he could not resist. He ordered the servant and finally looked at Zijin, "Take care of the wound first. No matter how big the matter is, you can't mess around like this. Zijin, go to the living room and sit down first."
"dad……"
"dad!"
Just when Zijin was about to say something, Qiao Jingting couldn't wait to speak up. She glanced at Li Muhua. Her mother's eyes were filled with unwillingness. Naturally, she, as a daughter, would not just look at her, "How could you
So partial? Mom, what did she say wrong? It’s true that Shen Zijin is shameless, what’s going on outside now? Why are you still protecting her? Hasn’t she embarrassed our Qiao family enough? Mom, beat her
You're right! This kind of woman is just mean. If my brother doesn't touch her, she will find another man outside!"
Qiao Jingting looked at Zijin with a sharp and sarcastic look, "Shen Zijin, tell me yourself, do you want to lose face?"
"I told you to shut up!"
Qiao Shiyun banged the crutch in his hand and roared angrily, "No matter what the news is outside, Zijin is back. I want to listen to her explanation. What are you so excited about one by one now indiscriminately? The face of the Qiao family is...
Lost like this!"
"dad--"
"Qiao Shiyun, you are such an old fool!"
Qiao Jingting's unwilling voice was cut off by Li Muhua again. She took a step forward and looked at Qiao Shiyun with a sneer, "I didn't say anything when you protected this little Jianren before, but now she is cuckolding my son! This is
You can bear this, right? Sorry, I, a mother, can't bear it! You don't intend to pursue it, and you still want to listen to her explanation? I won't listen!"
"Did I ask you to listen?"
"Qiao Shiyun, you..."
"…………"
"Please stop arguing."
Zijin couldn't bear it anymore and subconsciously clenched her palms. Her sharp nails hurt the wound even more, but she didn't know it. Perhaps only this kind of pain could keep her awake and make her awake.
Have the courage to say the next thing.
She took a deep breath and slowly raised her head. Her eyes, which were always clear, were now a bit scarlet. Her voice was a little choked, and every word was extremely clear, "...I'm sorry,
It is my fault that the Qiao family has suffered such a blow, and I have nothing to explain. Since it is something I have done, I will not deny it."
"…………"
"Did you hear that? Dad, I was really right. She admitted it. Don't you still believe it?"
Qiao Shiyun looked surprised, but Qiao Jingting looked proud. She pointed at Shen Zijin and said without hesitation, "Jianren, are you worthy of my brother by doing this? Are you worthy of our Qiao family? That's shameless.
Woman, you really disgust me——"
"If I say that I don't feel sorry for your brother, you may think that I am even more shameless."
Zijin clutched the corner of her clothes tightly, and some of the blood in her palms seeped into the fabric. She raised her neck. After enduring the slap, pain, and blood, those chaotic and guilty feelings seemed to slowly calm down.
When she came down, she was really dissatisfied when Qiao Jingting and Li Muhua opened and closed their mouths and called them "jumpers", and she didn't want to let herself bear such insults.
Who is not the child of his parents? Her mother is no longer here, and her father is so crazy that he can’t even recognize himself. But she, Shen Zijin, was once the palm of her parents’ hands...
She was sorry for the Qiao family, but she really didn't feel how sorry she was for Qiao Jinglian. What had he given her? Everyone in the Qiao family knew that this marriage was loveless and sexless. Maybe she was indeed selfish.
Because the Qiao family gave her too many things, which was equivalent to exchanging her own marriage, but people's feelings cannot be controlled. While she was resisting Gu Yanshen, only she knew that process.
How painful it is.
In the end, she chose this path. She had already expected that such a day would come sooner or later.
"But I don't feel how sorry I am for your brother. Everyone outside knows that the woman Qiao Jinglian loves is not my first wife. I know that it was me who exchanged my happiness and marriage for my father's peace.
, over the past five years, the Qiao family has given me a lot of material help. So something like this happened today, and I don’t want to deny it, because I have done it, and I will admit it. I am sorry to the Qiao family, and I am sorry, Dad, for what you did to me.
Expectation... But my marriage with Qiao Jinglian was originally based on such a twisted relationship. He doesn't love me. Who does he like? Everyone in the Qiao family knows it, and everyone in City C also knows it.
Over the years, if I were to say who was the first to make the headlines of such peach and sex gossip, that person would not be me. Today I am not here to find out who did more wrong, I am here today to face this problem——"
As soon as the topic opened up, Zijin realized that actually it is not that difficult to face it. When you risk everything and focus on doing something, God will give you great courage.
She wanted to divorce Qiao Jinglian, and maybe this time was the best opportunity.
Zijin turned around and knelt down in front of three faces with different expressions.
Qiao Shiyun frowned slightly, but Li Muhua sneered, and Qiao Jingting also sneered with disdain on her face.
Zijin turned a deaf ear. She didn't need to care about Li Muhua and Qiao Jingting. She just wanted to apologize to Qiao Shiyun, so she knelt down for Qiao Shiyun's sake.
"...Dad, I just feel sorry for you, I'm sorry...I know these three words can't mean anything. Thank you for your upbringing and cultivation of me over the past five years. I have told you before that I want to work with you."
Jinglian's divorce...Now that things have developed like this, I can't continue any longer. I hope you can help me and let me divorce Jinglian..."
"Shen Zijin, why don't you tell me who that man is?"
Li Muhua didn't wait for Qiao Shiyun to say anything, folded his hands on his chest, and looked at Zijin kneeling on the floor with arrogance, "You want to divorce Jinglian, isn't it easy? It's absolutely impossible for the Qiao family to do such a thing.
No matter how much I tolerate you, I also want to know who is that fighter?"
"He is not a fighter, he is the person I like."
"…………"
Li Muhua never dreamed that Zijin would say such words. She didn't know how to describe her mood at the moment. It was as if this daughter-in-law, whom she had never liked, was kneeling in front of her.
, even if she did such a thing, she still looked arrogant, said humiliating words, but still defended that man. To Shen Zijin, she seemed to have lost nothing, that share
Her so-called "feelings" and so-called "people she likes" can give her infinite power in her heart.
She looked dazed for a while, but there was an unknown emotion flowing through her heart.
For so many years, she has been avoiding this unhappy marriage, always afraid that one day it will be exposed to the public eye, fear...
If one day, she is like Shen Zijin, and everyone knows the facts that she tried her best to hide, will she still have the courage to say such things?
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No matter how sarcastic Li Muhua is, she is just a woman. No woman wants to be pampered by the man she likes. There is such a man who can stand behind Shen Zijin and give her so much courage and strength, but
However, she sadly discovered that she seemed to... never get these from the beginning to the end...
Therefore, she was even more unwilling.
Why did she get it so easily when she couldn't get it?
How jealous she actually is of this "daughter-in-law". Probably, only she knows best. This is the human heart. After seeing others get what they can't get, they don't think about trying to get it themselves, but think about it.
How could she let what she had obtained turn into nothing!
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"Whether she cheated or not is a matter between us as husband and wife. I haven't spoken out yet, so why are you asking me so much?"
The deep male voice sounded from far away, and the atmosphere was originally tense. Because of the insertion of this male voice, the atmosphere became even more subtle.
"elder brother……"
"Jinglian..."
Qiao Jingting and Li Muhua both turned their faces and looked at the tall figure standing at the door of the living room. His coat was hanging on his arm. Their eyes fell on the woman kneeling on the ground in the living room, their brows furrowed——