This novel avoids pretentiousness and revenge tropes, focusing purely on entrepreneurship, daily routines, emotional bonds, and family ties.
Winter Qing, a multi-millionaire tormented by regr...
Logically, Li Yuzhu should have stopped him, but she didn't, because she also believed the photos were real and that her husband had indeed cheated on her this time, and that the person he cheated with was her own sister. She simply couldn't accept this fact.
After her brother-in-law left, Li Yuzhu slapped her husband twice, tears welling in her eyes, and said, "You two have really disappointed me. Now it's just the three of us. Tell me, what's the deal with these three photos? If you can't explain it clearly, let's all get a divorce tomorrow."
This was the first time Dong Qing had ever been slapped by his wife. He was about to explain when Li Yuqiu cried, "Brother-in-law, what are you explaining? Can you even explain it clearly? Sister, if you can't handle this, hit your sister too!"
After hearing her sister's words, Li Yuzhu was so angry that she slapped herself twice. She could tolerate anything, but this was the one thing she couldn't tolerate.
Seeing this, Li Yuqiu banged her head against the wall. Dong Qing rushed forward and grabbed his sister-in-law, turning back to say, "Li Yuzhu, stop making a scene, okay? Are you only satisfied when someone dies?"
Li Yuzhu wiped away her tears and said, "I'm not making a scene anymore. Tell me, the facts are right here. Let's see what else you can say."
Dongqing recounted what happened at the park that day, saying, "Someone is framing us. Take a good look at the photos. Do your sister and I look like we're kissing?"
After listening, Li Yuzhu looked at the three photos again carefully.
The two of them definitely looked startled; this hardly resembled a sweet kiss.
If her husband hadn't pointed it out, she really wouldn't have noticed these details; it was all because reason had interfered with her thinking.
Li Yuzhu wasn't a fool. After carefully looking at the photos, she understood everything. Someone was trying to break up her family, and she almost fell for their trick.
She said, "Sister, I take back what I just said. Listen to me, don't get a divorce. The person behind this wants to break up our family. We mustn't fall into their trap. I'll handle this for you."
Li Yuzhu was able to say these words mainly because she trusted her husband and, even more so, her own sister. She grew up with her sister, and she knew best whether her sister was that kind of person.
After hearing her sister's words, Li Yuqiu said nothing and lay down on the sofa, sobbing loudly.
How could the two of them go home with their sister in her current condition? Li Yuzhu said, "Dongqing, you go home by yourself. I'll stay at my sister's house tonight. You can go about your business tomorrow. I'll handle this."
Dongqing trusted his wife's abilities and believed she would handle this fabricated matter. He said, "Yuqiu, the truth will out, and the lie will become the truth. I believe your sister will clarify things. Please don't do anything foolish. I'm going back now."
Dong Qing glanced at his wife, his eyes filled with helplessness and grievance, then turned and walked out of the living room.
He walked outside and then came back, took the car keys out of his pocket and handed them to his wife, saying, "Yuzhu, I'm leaving the car with you. I'm walking back."
Li Yuzhu took the car keys and said it was fine, and Dong Qing turned and walked out of the house.
He felt extremely frustrated and just wanted to numb himself with alcohol. He walked to the entrance of a restaurant and turned to walk into it.
Dong Qing walked into the restaurant, ordered a bottle of wine and two dishes, sat down at the table to drink, and drank half a jin of wine in no time.
When people are happy, a thousand cups are not enough; when their minds are in turmoil, half a cup is too much; and when they are in a bad mood, they get drunk easily.
Half an hour later, he finished the whole bottle of white wine.
Dong Qing was in an extremely bad mood today. One jin of baijiu was the limit of his alcohol tolerance, and he was already completely drunk.
After drinking, Dong Qing stumbled out of the restaurant, his mind racing as he staggered home.
As he was walking, a beautiful woman suddenly stopped beside Dong Qing.
She was about twenty-five years old, around 1.7 meters tall, and very beautiful. Supporting Dong Qing's swaying body, she said, "Honey, how did you get yourself so drunk?"
What can a person know when they're drunk to this extent? In his delusions, he thought it really was his wife who had come. Dongqing hugged the woman and cried, "Wife, believe me, I really haven't done anything to betray you. Your sister and I are innocent."
"I know all of this, and I believe you."
After the woman finished speaking, she stood under the streetlight and kissed him with her thin lips.
Dong Qing unconsciously pulled the woman into his arms and kissed her willingly.
In his mind, the woman in his arms is his wife. He probably won't remember anything about this scene when he wakes up, or if he does, it will be incomplete fragments.
A man next to them filmed the whole scene with a video camera. Of course, there was no sound in the video; he couldn't have recorded his companion's voice.
After filming and waving to the woman to signal that everything was done, it was time to leave.
The woman pushed Dongqing away from her embrace and walked away with the man into the distance.
After the man and woman left, Dongqing could no longer hold on and collapsed unconscious under a streetlamp.
Fang Lin's second aunt came today. After dinner, she went to the supermarket to buy sanitary napkins. She walked out of the residential area and headed towards the supermarket.
The supermarket was far from her home. On her way there, she saw a man lying under a streetlamp. He smelled strongly of alcohol and was probably drunk.
Drunkards lying on the side of the road are usually ignored. They can lie down however they want, and nobody cares. Everyone will just walk past them.
Fang Lin was no exception; she walked right past him.
As she walked up to him, she unconsciously took a closer look at the drunkard. She was too familiar with Dong Qing's physique; even though he was lying on the ground, it wasn't hard to tell from his back that he resembled him.
Since it looked like it, she couldn't just ignore it. Fang Lin stepped forward and turned the man over on his face. She wasn't mistaken; it really was Dong Qing lying there drunk.
Fang Lin helped Dong Qing up from the ground. Although Dong Qing was still disoriented, he had regained consciousness. Upon seeing the woman, he recognized her as his wife and hugged Fang Lin tightly, saying, "Wife, I really didn't do anything to betray you."
Fang Lin knew she couldn't reason with him, so she helped him walk home.
They returned to the villa entrance, where Fang Lin took the key from Dong Qing's pocket, opened the door, and helped him into the house.
Fang Lin helped Dong Qing into the bedroom and laid him down on the bed. Then she went to the living room to pour Dong Qing a glass of water.
After getting drunk, he could fall asleep as soon as his head hit the bed. When Fang Lin brought the hot water back to the bedroom, Dong Qing was already asleep. She put the teacup on the bedside table.
She was worried about Dong Qing going back to the bedroom after he had drunk so much. She found the sanitary napkins that Li Yuzhu usually kept in the bedroom, took one out, and turned to leave the bedroom.
She went into the bathroom, squatted down, relieved herself, and used a sanitary napkin for some physiological protection.
Fang Lin went to the living room and called her husband, telling him she wouldn't be going home to sleep tonight.
She didn't hide anything from her husband and told him everything that had happened to Dongqing that night.