Chapter 53 Remarriage

Wen Eryu walked in quietly, and at the end, she did not forget to close the door.

Shen Jize put the pillow aside, then stood up and walked to the window, pouring himself a glass of whiskey.

"I will help you sort out those things that are circulating on the Internet."

"How will you help me sort this out?"

Chen Ji Ze was slightly stunned when he heard this and said, "Emergency PR, removing entries, reducing trending searches, anything that can be solved with money is not a problem."

"Chen Ji Ze." Wen Eryu called him.

"Um?"

"Let's remarry."

“…”

Wen Eryu pursed her lips and waited nervously for his answer.

After hearing this, Shen Jize laughed, but the smile never reached his eyes. His eyes were so cold that they seemed to be about to freeze.

"Seriously?"

Wen Eryu nodded: "Yeah."

Shen Jize was silent for a long time, then drank the whiskey in his hand. He walked in front of Wen Eryu and looked down at her.

Wen Eryu felt that the atmosphere was not right at this moment. As soon as he approached, the air pressure around him dropped by several degrees.

"How long are you going to use me?" He grabbed her hand fiercely, his voice hoarse. "You can get married whenever you want, and get divorced whenever you want? Wen Eryu, what do you think of me?"

She didn't expect Shen Jize to get angry all of a sudden, and looked at him stupidly.

Shen Jize snorted coldly: "You remarried me, didn't you just want to shut up those people and make those rumors self-defeating?"

Wen Eryu had indeed thought so, but more importantly, she had only just come to understand her own heart. Regardless of whether that life really existed or not, the person she liked had always been Chen Jize.

“…I’m sorry.” Wen Eryu lowered her head, trying hard to hold back her tears.

When Shen Jize saw her like this, his heart softened instantly.

He couldn't bear to be mean to her.

"Fuck." Shen Jize slammed his fist on the table.

The loud noise startled Aunt Sun who was standing at the door.

She advised outside the door: "Mr. Shen, Madam, let's talk it out."

After a moment, Shen Jize took a deep breath, then turned around, picked up the pillow, opened the door, and walked towards the study.

Seeing this, Aunt Sun hurried in and patted Wen Eryu on the back.

"Are you okay?"

Wen Eryu held on to her weak body and said, "It's okay, Aunt Sun."

"Mr. Shen may have been angry for a moment and lost control of his temper. Don't take it to heart."

Wen Eryu smiled and said, "Yeah, I know."

"Have you taken your medicine tonight?"

"not yet."

Aunt Sun said considerately, "I'll go get you a glass of warm water."

After saying that, she hurried downstairs.

Wen Eryu stood in the corridor, looking at the closed door of the study, and muttered softly: "Just leave, why take my pillow with you?"

*

The next day, Wen Eryu woke up early. After she washed up, she opened the door and saw Shen Jize's tall figure leaning against the door with a small notebook in his hand.

"woke up?"

"Yeah." Wen Eryu glanced at him lightly and replied indifferently.

"Then let's go."

"Where are you going?"

Shen Ji Ze straightened himself, coughed lightly and said, "Go get the certificate."

Wen Eryu: “……?”

Didn’t he say yesterday that she was taking advantage of him?

Why was he waiting at her door early this morning with his household registration booklet, ready to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau?

She didn't say who wanted to remarry more.

"Why are you standing there? I'll take you back to get your household registration book."

Although Shen Jize's voice sounded extremely disgusted, the corners of his mouth were raised by who knows how many pixels.

Wen Eryu narrowed her eyes and looked at him doubtfully: "Are you kidding me?"

How could Shen Jize agree so easily? Isn't he the most vindictive?

"If you keep dawdling, I won't go." Shen Jize's mouth corners pulled down.

He walked downstairs on his own. Wen Eryu thought for a moment, then immediately followed him with a smile in her eyes: "Wait for me."

*

When I came out of the Civil Affairs Bureau, the sky, which had been affected by the typhoon, finally cleared up for a while.

Straight golden lines pierced through the gray clouds and fell to the ground.

Wen Eryu held the red notebook and felt like a hole was about to be burned through the palm of her hand. The sunlight was warm on her face and her heart.

After many twists and turns, she finally married Shen Jize.

She and Shen Jize returned to the car.

Wen Eryu took out her cell phone, registered a new account, took a photo of the marriage certificate she had just received and posted it on the account.

He also wrote: Thank you for your recent attention to me. Don’t believe in rumors and don’t spread them. Regarding those videos and photos that slander me for cheating, I will provide evidence and sue.

Not long after she posted it, her Weibo post went viral.

Melancholy Squid: [What's going on? They haven't divorced yet?]

I don't know what to name it: [Six Hundred and Sixty-Six, my bestie, it seems like we were set up, and I actually waited for the reversal.]

Helping an old lady run a red light: [Everyone, please be rational and don't cyberbully anyone before the truth comes out.]

Heheda: [I've met Wen Eryu in person, and she really doesn't look like the girl in the video. I told you that at the time, but you all didn't believe me.]

Wen Eryu was scrolling through the comments when suddenly Shen Jize snatched the phone from her hand.

"Don't look at me, don't I look good?"

Wen Eryu: “…”

Although she knew that Shen Jize was worried that she would feel uncomfortable after seeing those bad reviews, why didn't she realize that he was so narcissistic before?

"You're not angry anymore?"

Shen Ji Ze asked, "What are you angry about?"

"Didn't someone say yesterday—"

"Ahem, I have an appointment with a lawyer. Do you want to come with me?" He tried to change the subject with an embarrassed look on his face.

Wen Eryu restrained his expression and said seriously, "Go."

*

"ah--"

"They are all a bunch of useless things!"

The expensive ashtray was smashed hard against the mirror on the dressing table. The huge impact force instantly caused spider-web-like cracks to appear on the mirror.

The burgundy silk suspender nightgown on Xu Wenrou was torn open, revealing the undulating, snow-white skin of her shoulders and neck.

Her carefully styled curly hair was messily stuck to her flushed forehead, and her eye makeup was completely smudged by her tears, leaving two black smudges on her cheeks.

The phone screen on the table was still on, focused on the Weibo post posted by Wen Eryu.

Most of the comments in the comment section expressed support for Wen Eryu.

After a while, the account posted several pieces of evidence in succession, pointing out that those videos showed serious signs of photoshop.

The time and place did not match her movements at the time.

The whistleblower who received money from Xu Wenrou personally admitted that she had bribed him to photoshop the picture to slander Wen Eryu.

"It's over, it's all over!" Xu Wenrou's carefully planned plan to drag Wen Eryu into the quagmire and ruin her reputation not only came to nothing, but instead, like a boomerang, it hit her back hard.

She fell heavily onto the cold wooden floor.

Just when she was in despair——

"Tick, tick."

Two extremely soft knocks sounded in the corridor outside the bedroom door.

Xu Wenrou pressed her back against the cold bedpost, her body shaking uncontrollably.

She stared at the closed door.

There was dead silence outside the door.

A few seconds later.

"Click." The door was opened by someone outside.

After Xu Wenrou saw clearly who was coming, her pupils suddenly constricted.

"Why are you here?"

"Don't you want me to come?" Chang Wen asked back.

Xu Wenrou wiped away her tears silently, stood up, and looked at him with her back straight.

Chang Wen is Wen Liang's secretary and also his right-hand man.

He knew everything about the Wen family, big and small.

Wen Liang would never have thought that one day he would fall at the hands of his most capable assistant.

Back then, Xu Wenrou and Chang Wen joined forces to coax Wen Liang into giving her 10% of the company's shares. Chang Wen then gradually divided the hearts of the various shareholders, causing chaos throughout the company every day.

Wen Liang drank every night to drown his sorrows, and Xu Wenrou took this opportunity to find out the password to his safe and transferred most of his assets.

In the past few years, Xu Wenrou lived a carefree life with the money, but for some reason, her card abroad was suddenly frozen. She had no choice but to return to China.

"The incident with Wen Liang's daughter was orchestrated by you, right?"

Xu Wenrou lit a cigarette, took a puff, and then exhaled a cloud of white smoke.

"It's me."

Chang Wen sneered: "I can give you a chance to turn the tables."

Xu Wenrou paused with her cigarette in her hand and glanced at him: "Oh? What opportunity?"

Chang Wen placed a glass bottle containing a small liquid on his palm.

"It's colorless and odorless. Just one drop is enough. You can take the opportunity of apologizing to sprinkle it on Shen Jize's underwear. It won't be immediately fatal, and even the specific toxicity cannot be detected." There was a hint of temptation in his voice, which made Xu Wenrou, who was now in a desperate situation, hear it.

"Then...what if she finds out?"

Chang Wen said patiently, "As far as I know, Wen Eryu lives with him now, so she will be the first person to be suspected." He chuckled softly, "If we can create a rift in trust between them, wouldn't our goal be achieved?"

The faint flame in Xu Wenrou's eyes was instantly ignited.

The despair, fear, and collapse just now receded rapidly like the tide, and were completely replaced by an intense and exciting ecstasy.

She put out the cigarette in her hand, took the medicine from Chang Wen, and smiled at him.

"Would you like to stay at my place tonight?"

Chang Wen took a step forward, pinched the woman's buttocks with one hand, and said with satisfaction: "Bitch."

*

On the weekend, after Wen Eryu finished breakfast, he was preparing to organize the relevant evidence.

Lin Cheng suddenly called.

"What's wrong, Orange?"

Lin Cheng: "Are you home? I'll bring my nephew to play with you for a while."

"At home." Wen Eryu immediately changed the subject and said, "I'm with Shen Jize."

"ah?"

"Come here and I'll explain it to you."

After hanging up the phone, Wen Eryu sent her the location.

Ten minutes later, Lin Cheng and Zhuzhu stood at the door of the villa.

Wen Eryu opened the door for them and invited them to eat some fruit.

"Zhuzhu, call me auntie." Lin Cheng pulled her in front of Wen Eryu.

Zhuzhu called out sweetly, "Hello, Auntie."

Wen Eryu smiled and said, "Hey, Zhuzhu is so well behaved."

Lin Cheng said, "Okay, go ahead and play, but you can only play on the first floor. You can't go up."

Zhuzhu made a naughty face at her and then ran to the backyard to swing.

Lin Cheng withdrew her gaze and focused it on her best friend.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

Wen Eryu smiled awkwardly and said, "Shen Jize and I have remarried."

Lin Cheng was drinking water and almost spit it out when she heard this.

"What?!" she said, putting down her cup. "So sudden?"

Wen Eryu retorted, "I would have the same reaction if you married Lu Zhang."

"Oh... this... this is different." Lin Cheng was so annoyed by her that she was speechless.

But she thought about it carefully and decided that as long as Wen Eryu was happy, she would respect any decision she made.

"Then do you like Shen Jize?"

Wen Eryu blurted out without hesitation: "I like it."

"That's good. Congratulations, you two have finally reconciled." Lin Cheng said sincerely.

Wen Eryu waved his hand: "Stay here for lunch."

Just when Lin Cheng was about to nod, her phone vibrated several times.

She picked it up and looked at it, her brows furrowed and her expression was not very good.

"Eryu, I may not be able to eat here."

"What's wrong?"

"The hotel venue where Lu Zhang and I will get married hasn't been negotiated yet, so I have to go there now."

Wen Eryu nodded and said, "Okay, let's eat again next time."

Lin Cheng added, "I can leave Zhuzhu with you for a while. I'll come pick her up when I'm done."

"Of course you can. Just let her be here and you can rest assured. Go and get busy."

"Uh-huh."

After seeing Lin Cheng off, Wen Eryu bought Zhuzhu a big bag of snacks and toys.

When Zhuzhu saw this, she excitedly hugged Wen Eryu's thigh and refused to let go.

"Aunt, you are so nice to Zhuzhu! Zhuzhu likes you so much."

Wen Eryu smiled from ear to ear and pinched her soft little face.

"You sit in the living room and watch TV for a while. Auntie still has some things to do."

Zhuzhu responded: "Okay~"

Wen Eryu had just sat down for a while when the doorbell rang again.

She sighed, put the information away, stood up, walked to the door and opened it.

However, the person who came this time surprised her a little.

Xu Wenrou wore a pair of red-framed sunglasses and a mask that covered her face tightly. She looked as if all the bright colors had been stripped away, and she exuded a deliberate simplicity and fragility.

The air seemed to freeze for a moment, the carefully tended flowers and trees in the courtyard cast swaying shadows in the sunlight, and the wind blew through the porch, bringing a hint of early autumn coolness.

She took off her mask and sunglasses, sniffed, and tried to force a smile, but the corners of her mouth only pulled up a stiff and bitter arc: "I know that there is no point in me saying anything now. You must hate me to death."

Her voice trembled, and a tear slid down her pale cheek just in time, hitting her dress and staining it darkly. "I'm here to apologize today. Can you let me in and say it?"

Wen Eryu stared at her for a full minute, then she took a step back.

Seeing this, Xu Wenrou walked in.

After the door was closed, Wen Eryu walked straight to the sofa and sat down. She crossed her arms and looked at Xu Wenrou: "I'll give you five minutes, go ahead."

Xu Wenrou lowered her head, her voice growing fainter, her shoulders shrugged slightly, as if she were enduring immense pain. "I know I've done too many wrong things. I was blinded by jealousy and slandered you online at random."

Another bigger teardrop rolled down and hit the back of her hand: "I really... really know I was wrong. Please give me a chance to change."

She raised her tear-stained face, her eyes filled with regret, like a drowning person grasping at the last piece of driftwood: "I dare not ask for your forgiveness, I only ask that you consider my sincere repentance..."

The woman paused, her voice choked with sobs, almost unable to speak. "Give me a chance to do something to make up for the hurt I've caused you."

The words are sincere and the attitude is humble - but who can't act?

Wen Eryu looked at her without saying a word.

She wanted an apology from Xu Wenrou, but would not forgive her for spreading rumors and framing the Wen family into bankruptcy.

Let's put things one by one. She will settle these accounts with her one by one in the future.

"Are you done?" Wen Eryu stood up. "You can leave now."

Xu Wenrou didn't expect Wen Eryu to react like this. She couldn't just leave like that because the important business hadn't been done yet.

She grabbed Wen Eryu's hand and said with a forced smile: "Eryu, I came here sincerely to apologize to you, but I can't-"

Wen Eryu broke free from her hand and interrupted her impatiently: "No, if you don't leave, I'll call security."

"..." Xu Wenrou rolled her eyes fiercely behind her.

After she was kicked out, she clutched the bag tightly in her hand and thought of a solution.

After thinking about it, Xu Wenrou couldn't help feeling upset. She took out a cigarette from her bag and prepared to light it.

But even the wind was against her, and the lighter wouldn't light up no matter how close it was to her lips.

Just as she was about to lose her temper, an idea quietly emerged in her mind.

Xu Wenrou stared at the lighter in her hand for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter.

She slipped into the backyard, took great pains to light the cigarette, and threw it on the dry and yellow lawn.

The next second, the fire started.

She quickly found a place to hide.

Aunt Sun, who was picking vegetables in the kitchen, saw the fire in the backyard and immediately shouted, "Madam, it's bad! It's on fire!"

When Wen Eryu heard the noise, he hurried over to help put out the fire with Aunt Sun.

Seeing this, Xu Wenrou, who was hiding in the dark, slipped in during the chaos and went straight to the second floor.

Time was running out, so she randomly entered a room, but unfortunately it was not a bedroom but a study.

Just as she took out the glass bottle, the fire downstairs had already been put out.

In a hurry, Xu Wenrou fixed her eyes on the pillow on the sofa.

She spilled the potion on it, turned the pillow over, and hurriedly fled the scene.