Chapter 33 Protecting Her

After Shen Shuangmiao finished speaking, it felt as if the air in the entire room had frozen.

Zhu Jin looked at her with eyes that seemed to want to devour her.

But Shen Shuangmiao remained fearless, returning the gaze with the same icy look.

She stubbornly tilted her head back and asked, "Tell me! Explain clearly what it takes to let me go! Stop torturing and bothering me! I'm really fed up with dealing with people like you every day!"

Shen Shuangmiao had no idea that these words had touched a nerve with one of them.

Zhou Wu stood up nervously, hesitating to speak.

"Miaomiao. No matter what happened before, I always stood by you and spoke up for you, but what you said went too far. In fact, Zhu Jin has suffered no less than you have over the years."

Shen Shuangmiao paused, feeling that this was the most ridiculous thing she had ever heard in her life.

She turned to look at Zhou Wu and asked, "What kind of torment did he suffer? Was it torment I inflicted on him? Was it because I didn't know you two were already in love and planning to be together, yet you insisted on bringing up those old, trivial matters to pressure him into marriage?"

"No..."

Just as Zhou Wu was about to explain, a figure blocked their way.

Zhu Jin frowned and stared at Chen Shuangmiao with displeasure.

He said, enunciating each word clearly, "If you have any anger, take it out on me. Don't spout all this nonsense at Sister Wu!"

Upon hearing this, Shen Shuangmiao's eyes flickered, her heart ached, and she clenched her fists, unable to speak for a long time.

She slowly exhaled, trying her best to calm down but unable to.

Seeing how far Zhu Jin went for Zhou Wu, she suddenly found it all very ridiculous.

Ironically, she realized that she was nothing in front of Zhu Jin, and even her hysterical outbursts didn't matter.

As long as what she says or does doesn't harm Zhou Wu, that's fine.

But whenever she mentions Zhou Wu, Zhu Jin will stand up to protect Zhou Wu without hesitation, as if she were some kind of man-eating beast and Zhou Wu were a little white flower in the mountains.

Shen Shuangmiao closed her eyes and calmed down.

She said, enunciating each word clearly: "Zhu Jin, I can't say another word to you. Since you've pushed me to this point, don't blame me for using my own methods to solve the problem."

After saying that, Shen Shuangmiao turned around and left without looking back. When she was about to leave, she turned back and walked up to Zhu Jin.

Zhu Jin frowned, about to speak, when Shen Shuangmiao raised her hand and slapped him without hesitation.

Snap!

The crisp sound of a slap echoed throughout the room.

Looking at the clear handprint on his face, Shen Shuangmiao felt a sense of absurdity, as if the end of the world was approaching, yet also a strange sense of pleasure.

"This slap is something you owe me. What you did disgusted me to the core!"

"The torment you've inflicted on me over the years is enough for me to repay you for everything. From now on, don't come looking for me again!"

After saying that, Shen Shuangmiao turned and left without looking back, leaving Zhu Jin standing there with a cold expression, watching her receding figure.

After Shen Shuangmiao stepped out of the room, her heart was pounding wildly.

She had never been so angry with Zhu Jin before.

But now she really couldn't hold back anymore.

If she didn't do this, she was afraid her heart would explode from the pent-up frustration.

Shen Shuangmiao took out her phone and dialed a long-unheard number.

Soon, an old voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Hello."

Shen Shuangmiao composed herself, but her voice still trembled uncontrollably.

She said softly, "Sir, it's me."

Hearing her polite and distant words, Zhu Shan was slightly surprised.

Shen Shuangmiao, who is usually very respectful when she calls, is nothing like this now.

He asked in confusion, "Why did you suddenly think of calling me?"

Shen Shuangmiao pursed her lips, unsure how to bring up this sudden topic.

Zhu Jin's grandfather has always disliked her.

Back then, she forced Zhu Jin into marriage, revealing that she had shielded him from a poisoned drink, causing him to become infertile. She then used moral blackmail to force Zhu Jin to marry her, thus interfering with the marriage that should have been arranged between the Zhou and Zhu families.

According to the marriage agreement, Zhou Wu married Zhu Jin's elder brother, which led to the Zhou family having many complaints about the Zhu family. They felt that their daughter had married a young master who was paralyzed in a wheelchair, and that their daughter had been jilted.

Overnight, everyone thought she was a rat that couldn't be seen in the light of day, who ruined both Zhou Wu and Zhu Jin, and turned the century-old friendship between the Zhu and Zhou families into this state.

It didn't matter to Shen Shuangmiao at that time; it didn't matter to her being misunderstood or treated as a villain.

She originally thought that as long as Zhu Jin stood firmly by her side and they stayed together, eventually no one would say anything anymore.

But the truth is a slap in the face, and it's laughable.

After that, Zhu Jin never returned. Everyone in the Zhu family avoided her like the plague. Everyone assumed that she was a canary kept by Zhu Jin in the villa, useless and only kept there for decoration, which everyone found disgusting.

Therefore, in the two years since Shen Shuangmiao got married, apart from the family reluctantly visiting Zhu Shan's old house at the Zhu family's residence for the New Year's banquet, no one has taken the initiative to approach her.

Shen Shuangmiao didn't even know that Zhu Jin had any close relatives besides her grandfather.

But now that things have come to this, Shen Shuangmiao has no choice but to do so.

She was forced into a corner and couldn't even find a supplier. Returning home delayed the client's normal renovation and delivery schedules. Who will pay for this loss? Isn't it hers?

The studio has only just started to turn a profit, how much money could it possibly have to cover losses?

Having come up with this brilliant idea, Shen Shuang decided to go all out.

She went straight to the point: "Mr. Zhu, I want to tell you that what your grandson has been doing lately is very unreasonable."

Shen Shuangmiao briefly recounted her story with Zhou Wu, and then told Mr. Zhu about Zhu Jin's recent refusal to register their divorce and his various actions.

Her mouth was dry after she finished speaking in one breath.

However, what followed was a long silence.

Mr. Zhu remained silent on the other end of the phone for a long time, leaving Shen Shuangmiao unable to guess what he was thinking.

She couldn't help but feel uneasy and coughed lightly.

"Sir, did you hear me? I don't want to argue with Zhu Jin about what he did, I don't want to get entangled with him to the death. I just want you to help me talk to him and ask him to stop targeting me and get a divorce as soon as possible."

The old man finally opened it.

"It's not that I didn't want to help you, it's just that I didn't expect that the person Zhu Jin liked the most deep down was actually Zhou Wu."

He sighed, as if lamenting the twists and turns of the past two years.

Shen Shuangmiao didn't know what the old man was really thinking, but she was certain that he was even more dissatisfied with her now.

If it weren't for her presence, Zhu Jin and Zhou Wu's destined romance wouldn't have been delayed for two years before they finally came together.