1. After a car accident, Xing Kui met Li Chengchuan, the man in the hospital bed next to hers. He was rigid and a germaphobe, his clothes ironed without a single wrinkle, utterly devoid of any sign...
Chapter 113 Chapter 113 I Have a Secret
Zhou Jing leaned his shoulders slightly against the wall, his eyes met hers calmly, and he paused for a moment, his Adam's apple rolling.
"When did you find out?"
"Maybe a long time ago, I don't know."
Xing Kui turned back to the mirror, lifted the small dress and held it in front of her to check the size, then poked her head with a finger.
"At first, I had a brain injury and really misunderstood it as a scam call. Later, perhaps it was a self-defense mechanism, and I deceived myself.
After all, Lawyer Zhou, you got my phone number from Li Chengchuan, but Li Chengchuan is just my bedmate, he shouldn't have my phone number."
Yes, Li Chengchuan was too worried about Xing Kui at the time and made some mistakes. Afterwards, Li Chengchuan discovered the loophole and contacted Zhou Jing.
However, Zhou Jing concealed his phone call, so Li Chengchuan was unable to make amends.
"After seeing a psychologist, some details that I usually ignored subconsciously became clearer to me, and I understood everything." Xing Kui nodded.
That makes sense.
The true identity of Mr. Swindler is related to Li Chengchuan. Xing Kui subconsciously does not want to know about his amnesia, so he believes again and again that there is a liar behind the phone number, and trusts the liar to talk to him.
"So Kui Kui dotes on me so much."
"?" How did you come to this conclusion?
Zhou Jing's lips curled up, his gentle face like a lake bathed in spring sunshine. "Kui Kui has been seeing a psychologist for four months, and she hasn't exposed me. She's even willing to chat with me. That's really nice. I don't think you're really getting married."
It is impossible for Xing Kui to really marry someone while secretly having an affair with another admirer.
"That's not what I meant by exposing you!" She wanted to use this matter to threaten Zhou Jing. Xing Kui held her forehead with her hands, a little helplessness in her eyes.
She moved, turned away from the mirror, and said solemnly, "Tomorrow is very important to me. Please don't ruin it."
"It's not a real marriage..." Zhou Jing pondered, a look of inquiry between his eyebrows, "It's not a fake marriage either?"
Xing Kui pursed her lips, and after a moment, she quietly repeated what she had said to them over the past few months: "I never said it was a fake marriage."
Zhou Jing's eyes deepened slightly: "What if after tomorrow, you still can't resolve the pressure to get married?"
"Don't say such depressing things!" Xing Kui quickly stopped him. "I made a sincere wish to the Buddha!"
Zhou Jing's expression was filled with tenderness: "It really is still related to the pressure of marriage."
"..." Having been tricked, Xing Kui looked down at the ground. Life was not easy. He was wary of Zhou Jing and slowly raised his head. "If I fail again, I'll keep looking. Don't you have forty brothers?"
Zhou Jing's stance suddenly stiffened, his shoulders lifted off the wall. His eyes flickered, a hint of surprise on his face. "Who has forty brothers?"
Xing Kui said straightforwardly: "You."
Zhou Jing was stunned: "Me?"
"What's wrong?" Xing Kui noticed his surprise and asked in astonishment, "I accidentally glanced at Li Chengchuan's phone screen before, and there was a pop-up message in your brother group, and I saw there were forty people in the group."
Zhou Jing listened to her and understood the reason. He suppressed his surprise, chuckled, and nodded his head. "Kui Kui, people are divided into groups. With forty brothers, how can we ensure that every one of them is a good person? We don't have that many friend slots. You have already met everyone in the group.
Also, the group message pop-up window doesn’t show the number of people in the group. I think what you see is probably the number of unread messages.”
Xing Kui was stunned for a moment, tugging at the small dress in her hand, heat spreading from her ears: "Is that so? I misunderstood. Please go out. I want to try on some clothes."
The door of the dressing room opened, and Jiang Yuming, realizing something was wrong, strode in. "Go out, Zhou Jing. The weather is fine, and it's suitable for you to bask in the sun with the emerald green olive green grass in the yard."
He held Xing Kui in his arms and glared at his good brother mockingly, "You covet someone else's fiancée, don't you have one yourself?"
Zhou Jing was not to be outdone: "Oh, she's in your arms."
He calmly moved towards the door, tilted his head, raised an index finger to his lips, and said to Xing Kui affectionately, "Don't tell anyone else what we just said."
It was as if they had a secret, and there was nothing they couldn't talk about. Xing Kui secretly complained, and when she saw the door closed, she wanted to continue changing her clothes.
Jiang Yuming, who was holding her, breathed hot and humid as he descended. He tugged at the dress in her hand, and jealousy turned into a sinister voice: "I'll help you put it on. What did you just say? Talk to your husband... How can you choose a gray dress? I'll go find a red one!"
After lunch, a red Ferrari drove out of the Jiang family. It was said that the young master was dissatisfied with the dress his wife was wearing for the bachelor party that evening, so he took her shopping.
An expensive Ferrari drove into the garage, and the words "Huide" were hung on the wall.
Xing Kui and Jiang Yuming walked out of the car. There was a sign saying "Psychological Counseling Room" next to a door in a building. Jiang Yuming grabbed her hand, kissed her forehead, opened the door, and let go.
The door closed, and Xing Kui smiled: "Professor Liu, this is my sixteenth time here."
Sixteenth time, psychological counseling.
Behind the table, Professor Liu waved warmly: "Xing Kui, come, sit down, how are you doing recently?"
Xing Kui sat down in her familiar chair, feeling relaxed and happy. "I feel pretty good. Everything is moving in a good direction. No one is urging me to get married anymore... Professor Liu, I'm quite happy now."
No relatives anymore said she was "too picky", and her parents no longer said they had "spoiled" her.
"Something happened this morning. I had always misunderstood that they had dozens of brothers, but how could there be dozens of brothers? When he denied it, I thought, ah, it turns out that I was dissatisfied with being alive at that time."
Professor Liu paused slightly as she wrote, her knuckles tightening slightly. Every time she talked to Xing Kui, she felt that although the child appeared sunny on the outside, he was actually full of cracks on the inside and would collapse at any touch.
But this child remains strong no matter facing strong winds or tsunamis.
In the past, Professor Liu said that Xing Kui had thoughts of dying the moment he was hit by the car.
"Did you know? On my first day in the hospital, my mother met two men of marriageable age, Li Chengchuan and Jiang Yuming, and she secretly urged me to get married, saying, 'What's the point of them being handsome? They're not her sons-in-law.' It was because of this incident that prompted me, after losing my memory, to once again embark on the path of tackling marriage pressure."
That sentence was the direct reason why Xing Kui, after losing her memory, decided to embark on the path of marriage again.
"But it was also this incident that probably stimulated the inner me."
Xing Kui is the person who knows herself best in the world.
"At that time, I probably wanted to curse. I had just come back from the gates of hell. Couldn't I at least not mention urging marriage while I was in the hospital?
I might as well be dead.
But I can't die. I haven't left enough traces in this world. Please, if anyone wants to be talked about after death, the only thing he can talk about is not being married.
I have to cheer up, leave endless traces in the world, and kill those crazy people who are urging me to get married.
So I imagined that the handsome patient next door had forty handsome brothers, so there must be someone who could help me, right?
During the last psychological consultation, Xing Kui analyzed herself to Professor Liu from the first day of the car accident. She was self-defensive and self-motivated, and what she said summarized her past two years.
If she survives and falls back into the abyss of forced marriage, it will be impossible for her not to feel pain. But no matter how deep the abyss is, the little angel will find ways to fly to the sky.
Right now, Xing Kui is closest to the sky.
"Thank you, Professor Liu, for helping me sort out these issues over the past few months. There will be lots of delicious food at my wedding banquet tomorrow, so you're welcome to come and join us."
After expressing her gratitude to Professor Liu, Xing Kui left the psychological counseling room. Jiang Yuming was on the phone, and while answering the phone, he walked over to her and held her hand, just wanting to be close to her.
"My people have picked up your relatives. There are so many people."
As expected, Xing Kui followed him: "Fortunately, Li Chengchuan was willing to give me a discount on the hotel bill, otherwise I would be heartbroken."
Jiang Yuming said sourly: "He is willing not to accept the money."
Xing Kui laughed: "That won't work, my fiancé is you."
Jiang Yuming was coaxed: "Kui Kui's words are really pleasant to the ears. Give her a kiss."
"Fever is strictly prohibited in public!"
The bachelor party was divided into two parts: the men's party and the women's party. Jiang Yuming deliberately held it at Li Chengchuan's hotel, while Xing Kui held it at her newly bought villa.
Yes, she bought a villa in full.
She used to live in a small, self-built house in a remote area, and lived frugally to prove that she was no worse than those sons who needed their parents to pay for the down payment. Now she has done it.
With a discount offered by Li Chengchuan, Xing Kui spent more than 10 million to purchase more than 200 square meters. Considering its popular location, this price is considered a bargain.
After she bought the house, the four nearby villas also found buyers. Zhou Jing, being both frugal and calculating, didn't buy. He expressed his desire to rent a bedroom in her house.
The sunset burned the sky red. Xing Kui stood in front of a full-length mirror. Her tight-fitting spaghetti-strap dress was a gradient from yellow to red, as if the sunset was flowing over her body.
There were some servants transferred by Jiang Yuming in the villa. Outside the villa, a woman wearing black-framed glasses got out of a taxi and walked to the door holding sunflowers.
"Hello, is this Xing Kui's house?" She was a little unsure and asked Chen Ma who was guarding the door. She leaned over and looked, and her big wavy hair slid from behind her shoulders to in front of her shoulders.
Mother Chen did not relax just because the other party was a woman. Xing Kui's career was at its peak, and there were a large number of paparazzi and even illegitimate children watching her. Jiang Yuming sent her here, so she would definitely investigate carefully.
"Invitation."
Dabolang took out the invitation and Chen Ma took it to look at it carefully. At this moment, several cars stopped at the door.
The car in the front was bright and luxurious. The driver got out to greet his master. Xie Chengwen, the chairman of a company with a market value of over 100 billion yuan, appeared in a black buttoned windbreaker with a red belt. He was in his forties and had a strong aura.
In the car behind her, Liang Zhaoran, who has become a leader in the entertainment industry in recent years, appeared. His hair was tied into a bun without any loose hair. He wore a camel-colored suit and matching trousers, looking unstoppable.
Further back, the car owner Zhou Li almost kicked open the car door, her short hair fluttering in the wind, she wore a white fur coat with a black hip skirt, and her fingers holding up her wide sunglasses were painted with rose-red nail polish, looking domineering.
Dabolang stared at Zhou Li. She only knew Zhou Li.
As we all know, Zhou Li, a well-known madman in the entertainment industry, is only friends with an internet celebrity named Tiantian Qimiao Lixun, whose real name is Xing Kui.
Could it be that the Xing Kui she was chatting with online was the same Xing Kui? The Xing Kui whose Helaso fandom was so popular nationwide?
"Here they are, Aunt Chen, let them in." Xing Kui hurried out of the villa, wearing a coat to block the wind. "Aunt Xie, Mr. Liang, Zhou Li, ah, Sister Shuzhi, hello, I'm Xing Kui."
Xing Kui stretched out her hand and smiled happily. She and Li Shuzhi met when she was trying to capture Zhou Jing. At that time, her classmate made up a dirty rumor about Li Shuzhi. After the incident, the two exchanged WeChat numbers, and they had been chatting for almost two years.
However, she was wearing a mask and a hat when she met Li Shuzhi, so Li Shuzhi might not know that she was Tiantian Qimiao Adventure.
Li Shuzhi was stunned: "Hello, Hera, no, Xing Kui."
They were all women, and they quickly became familiar with each other after entering the villa. In addition to them, Xing Kui also invited Sister Lan, Wu Youjia, and Xing Zhile, and prepared too much food. It would be a waste if the eight of them couldn't finish it, so they simply asked Chen Ma and other servants to eat together, and also sent a lot of food to the bodyguards hiding around the villa.
While eating, Zhou Li got drunk and started crying while shaking Xing Kui's shoulders: "My sister, my baby, my sweetheart, why did you choose Zhou Jing's friend again? I hate it!"
Is it possible that Jiang Yuming is Zhou Jing's friend, so he is fine?
Xie Chengwen took a sip of red wine, looked at the young Zhou Linao, and smiled until wrinkles appeared on the corners of her eyes: "I want to cry too. My heir is gone." As she said this, she glanced at Xing Kui, obviously guessing that there was something else going on at tomorrow's wedding.
Wu Youjia put down his phone, as if he had encountered something troubling him, and drank the wine in his glass in one gulp: "Teacher, I am relieved. I am 30 years old this year, and my mother sends me pictures of men every now and then."
Li Shuzhi echoed this sentiment: "Ever since I broke up with my boyfriend of several years, my mom has been sending me messages all the time."
Wu Youjia was excited: "Really? Those men are so picky, there's a fat guy who's 1.7 meters tall and despises me for not having straight black hair, fair skin, and skinny skin. I really want to hit him with a hammer and send him flying into the Pacific Ocean."
Li Shuzhi nodded heavily: "I've even met someone who disliked my high degree of myopia and said it would be bad for the next generation. Did I agree to give birth to his child?"
"I've encountered that before." Xing Kui took a sip of grape juice. "He asked me if I'd ever been in a relationship, trying to test whether I was a virgin."
“So disgusting!”
Liang Zhaoran, the only one present who was currently married, swished his wine in his glass and said, "Perhaps it would be a good idea to find someone to contract and marry."
Zhou Li was drunk and pointed her finger: "You and your husband are not..."
Liang Zhaoran raised an eyebrow, drank without answering, and after a while said: "My family is so wealthy that I can't spend it all in ten lifetimes, but I am also asked to marry in exchange for benefits."
"Even if we get married, we'll get divorced." Xing Zhile huddled aside, "And then we'll get scolded."
After recovering her health, Xing Zhile was afraid to return to her hometown. Xing Kui hired her as a product selector in the food track of the live broadcast room. She did not pay her much salary because Xing Zhile only needed to eat and drink and could not do any technical work, but she was very satisfied with the current situation.
At least around Xing Kui, no one looks at divorced women with tinted glasses.
"I'm sorry, sister. I didn't mean to bring up divorce tonight." Xing Zhile realized her mistake and apologized profusely. "You and brother-in-law will definitely be together forever. I believe in your judgment!"
"It's okay, speak freely." Xing Kui forked a piece of dragon fruit.
Sister Lan also took a bite, crossed her legs, and wore a large decorative diamond ring on her index finger. "I'm still happy. My parents are dead, and I've cut off all ties with my other relatives."
Wu Youjia's eyes lit up, then withered again: "I envy you and I don't envy you. I don't want my mother to die."
The drunk Zhou Li blushed and yelled, "What are you talking about—what are you talking about royal power and wealth..." Well, she went crazy and started singing.
She was the only person at the scene who was truly under no pressure to get married. Even Xie Chengwen, whose husband died when she was young, was urged to remarry by people who coveted the Xu family's property.
"Ah~ the rules and regulations..."
Xing Kui smiled with her eyes curved. Except for Zhou Li, whose adoptive mother's family was honest and educated, the other women on the scene had different ages, education levels, appearances, and wealth, but they had all experienced or were experiencing marital pressure.
"No matter what." Xing Kui raised the juice glass, "I wish that we can all freely choose our own lives."
Seven cups clinked together at the same time. Zhou Li, dazed, grabbed a bottle and rushed over: "Here I come!"
The moonlight was bright. That night was also the countdown night for Xing Kui's parents to their daughter's wedding. They were brought from another place to stay in the presidential suite of the hotel and were so excited that they couldn't sleep at all.
People always say that when their children get married, parents have completed their mission.
No one knew which superior had assigned them the task, but both Xing's mother and Li Zhengjun felt excited that the task was about to be completed. In the room, the two of them talked about everything from how many children they wanted to whether their children would go to elementary school. Even though they had talked about this hundreds of times in the past few dozen days, they never got tired of it.
Little did they know that Zhou Jing and Li Chengchuan arrived outside the door at the same time.
Zhou Jing & Li Chengchuan: "What are you doing here?"
Li Chengchuan: "I have a secret."
Zhou Jing: "I have a secret too." He rang the doorbell, and as soon as the door opened, Xing's mother saw them and her smiling face immediately turned into embarrassment.
Seeing her cheerful demeanor and then seeing Li Zhengjun smoking a cigarette in the living room, Zhou Jing guessed what the two were chatting about. He looked indifferently and said, "Would you like to come out for a moment, Auntie?"
"Come with me." The hotel belonged to Li Chengchuan. He had prepared a room for private chat in advance. He opened and closed the door and stood close to the entrance. "You talk first."
Li Zhou is a good brother with like-minded people. At this moment, the two of them are racing against time to restore their tacit understanding.
The gesture made Xing's mother nervous and uneasy: "Well, Xiao Jing, Xiao Li, Auntie knows that you still like my daughter Kuikui, but love is about fate."
I'm not going to talk about this. Zhou Jing took out his cell phone. Xing Kui wanted to solve the problem of being urged to get married. There was a cruel thing that she couldn't do, so he would do it.
He raised his phone and held the screen in front of Xing's mother: "See for yourself why your daughter got into a car accident."
The green light was counting down. Under the traffic light, at the zebra crossing, a mother and daughter were arguing. The mother dragged her daughter, who struggled and fell toward the zebra crossing.
Bang! A car ran a red light and hit the thin man.
"I don't want to go on a blind date!"
"You have to go even if you don't want to! I just don't believe it. Others have grandchildren and their families are so happy, but I don't. During the New Year's Eve dinner, I couldn't even get a word in. Year after year, you're almost thirty! What are you thinking? Come with me!"
"I'm not going! I'm not going! I'm not going!"
"Kui Kui!"
Xing's mother's pupils trembled, and the red blood vessels suddenly became ferocious. She opened her mouth, and there were streaks of saliva inside her pale lips.
The truth about the car accident, the truth about the car accident that was distorted and forgotten by Xing's mother.
The video plays to the end and then replays from the beginning, "Don't go on a blind date", "You have to go even if you don't want to", "Bang!", "Kui Kui"!
Zhou Jing coldly forced her to look, and she stared at it masochistically.
After a while, Mother Xing seemed to have lost all her strength. She could not stand steadily, and she bent over and beat her heart. Her heart was about to break. She wanted to scream, but she was so sad that she could not make a sound.