Go back to grandma's house

"You're shaking like this." Zhou Xing put his arm around Shuang Axi's shoulders and pushed her into the elevator. "Why don't you wear the skirt I bought you yesterday?"

"Wash it, wash it." Shuang Axi was still in shock, and hadn't recovered yet. "Who is that person on the ground?" Who was worthy of him personally attacking? And beating him like that?

"You ask him?" Zhou Xing raised his eyebrows and looked at Shuang Axi meaningfully. His eyes revealed a bad look and more of suspicion.

Shuang Axi lowered his head and said, "It's just a casual question."

"Just asking." Zhou Xing held Shuang Axi in his arms without giving her any room to refuse. Shuang Axi's shoulders were shaking from the heavy force. He pinched her shoulders and forced her closer to him, "Come, I'll find it for you."

As he spoke, he took out his cell phone and handed it to Shuang Axi. He opened the album and scrolled through some work photos. A photo with a dim scene came into view. In the center, a man was kneeling with his back to the wine table. In the brightly lit environment, there was a row of people sitting on the sofa. Their faces were blocked by the light from the cell phone flashlight.

Without exception, their flashlights were all shining on the man kneeling in front of the table. The man was wearing the simplest white shirt and black pants.

His shirt was already soaked, and something was dripping from his hair... At his feet were all kinds of wine bottles, and even some ice cubes. It looked like he had been doused in this state by the ice bucket and the wine.

Before Shuang Axi could take a closer look, Zhou Xing slid out another photo. The scene was the same, with the man holding the bottle and pouring wine into his mouth.

This man… was the same one hunched over in agony in the office upstairs. The extravagant scene of drinking and socializing around him was completely at odds with his aura. Even though he was in a state of extreme utter disgrace, his elegant demeanor could still be seen…

"What a bastard, relying on his connection with the Zhou family, he drinks and kneels down every day to beg his mother for medical expenses. Xiaoxi, do you feel sorry for him?" Zhou Xing's low voice sounded in his ears, and he took away the phone.

All Shuang Axi could see was Zhou Xing's shiny leather shoes, and the elevator door reflected Zhou Xing's approaching figure.

Shuang Axi couldn't see Zhou Xing's expression, but she knew that if she looked up at this moment, Zhou Xing's face would definitely have a deep expression that hid all his cunning and scheming.

"I don't feel sorry for him. I'm not afraid that he will dirty your office." Shuang Axi took the initiative to move forward. "Don't say that. It's scary." She looked up and saw a sneer on Zhou Xing's lips. He was not laughing at her, but this smile made Shuang Axi feel cold all over.

She just felt that the man was in trouble.

Li Chen was crawling on the ground, and before he could stand up, several people pushed the door open and walked in.

"What are you doing!" Without waiting for Li Chen to react, those people directly held Li Chen up and pointed the camera at him as before.

"Get out! Get out!" Li Chen struggled violently, rushing forward to break free. However, the crisp sound of camera shutters rang out at this moment, one after another, recording his embarrassment again...

Li Chen stopped struggling and let the men start filming him. The camera moved closer and closer, until it was right in his face.

"Enough?" Li Chen pulled his arm out, and those people didn't stop him. Li Chen's mouth tasted strongly of blood. He licked the blood dry and swallowed it directly without spitting it out.

He calmly adjusted his collar and hair as if he had just finished a job.

But the pair of blood-stained fingers covering the door handle exposed his vulnerability at the moment. The phone in his pocket kept ringing. Li Chen didn't even have the strength to walk out of the office. He held on to the wall and entered the elevator.

Although he really wanted to squat in the elevator and cry, he held back because he knew that if he cried even a little in the elevator, the elevator surveillance video would appear on Zhou Xing's mobile phone at night.

He had lost count of how many times he had taken these photos. It seemed as if they had all become evidence of Zhou Xing's threats against him. He had only been to the Zhou family's old house a few times, and every time he went, everyone from his uncles to the guards who greeted him at the door would see those photos.

The phone kept ringing. Li Chen took out his phone. It was Chu Yan. Now that he had resigned, was there any need for him to call him? Li Chen hung up the phone and blacklisted Chu Yan.

After leaving the building, a cool breeze blew in my face, and my face was tingling with pain.

Li Chen walked into a roadside convenience store in a bad mood, "A box of gauze and a bottle of iodine."

The clerk handed it to him swiftly. Li Chen originally wanted to treat the wound in the store, but the clerks looked too curious.

He pushed the door open with his things in his pocket, and his phone rang again. He thought it was still Chu Yan, so he picked up the phone without even looking at it and started cursing: "I provoked you, can you please stop bothering me!"

There was silence for a long time, and then a black car stopped in front of them.

Tao Xingye lowered the window and said, "Get in the car."

The voice on the phone overlapped with the voice in front of him. When he took off the phone, the three words "Tao Xingye" appeared on the screen.

"Mr. Tao." Li Chen was deflated, lowered his head and opened the passenger door.

"Are you willing to come back?" Tao Xingye didn't drive. "I'm sorry about your matter."

"It's not the first time." Li Chen laughed at himself, "I shouldn't have stayed in Jincheng."

Staying in Zhou Xing's territory, he was eager to be humiliated by him and his brothers.

"I'm not firing you to help Zhou Xing vent his anger." Tao Xingye didn't want to say more. "In one word, are you coming back or not?"

"I won't reply!" Li Chen raised his voice, pushed the door open and got out of the car. He stared at Tao Xingye with a gleaming gaze, "Sometimes, I really envy you young masters."

It's easy to control people like him. Even though they clearly did something wrong, they still pretend to be doing them a favor.

Tao Xingye stared at Li Chen and sneered.

Li Chen's scalp tingled from being stared at, but he suddenly realized that his gaze didn't seem to be on him. Looking back, he saw Zhou Weijie driving a white car and parked behind him.

Zhou Weijie finally noticed Li Chen. He leaned forward and looked at Tao Xingye with a hint of sarcasm, "Boss Tao, it seems you've fired a lot of people today. Isn't this considered a good thing for us? Look at what you've done to my brother."

He put on an air of pretentiousness, his face showing no sign of gratitude for having been spared. Tao Xingye didn't bother to waste time arguing with him, so he floored the accelerator and vanished in a flash...

Zhou Weijie stared at Li Chen, unbuckled his seat belt and walked to Li Chen. Without waiting for his reaction, he raised his hand and swung it at his cheek.

Li Chen's face, which originally had few good spots left, suddenly became red and swollen. Li Chen, who had been holding his breath for a whole day, threw away the gauze and iodine and rushed towards Zhou Weijie.

"Fuck you, try hitting him again..."

"I'm hitting you! I even paid for your mother's medical treatment in college! Just for this, you should team up with others to investigate me!"

"You deserve it!"

"You deserve it!" Zhou Weijie kicked Li Chen's calf. Li Chen knelt on the ground for a long time and couldn't stand up.

Zhou Weijie spat at Li Chen and said, "I'm going to beat you up every time I see you from now on."

The white car roared away, and the clerk hiding in the store rushed out to help Li Chen up, "Are you okay?"

Li Chen lowered his head. He pulled out his arm to pick up the gauze and iodine on the ground, with overly obvious hatred in his eyes.

He looked up at the sycamore tree beside him and swallowed the fresh blood in his mouth...

Tao Xingye pulled Lin Yu out of the treatment room, and a sycamore leaf fell in front of them.

Lin Yu squatted down curiously and took it in his hand. Tao Xingye looked at He Yao.

He Yao nodded and said with her lips, let her take it.

"Aren't you leaving?" Lin Yu turned around, and He Yao quickly put on a smile and waved at her.

Lin Yu felt strange, but couldn't tell what was strange.

On the way back, Lin Yu kept looking at Ye Zi and didn't hear anything Tao Xingye said.

"Ah? Say it again." Before entering the door, Lin Yu suddenly realized that Tao Xingye was talking to her and asked embarrassedly.

Tao Xingye sighed, "Come in first." He leaned over to change Lin Yu's shoes, "I want you to live in the countryside for a few days. I have something to do at the company."

Is there something going on at the company? Lin Yu held onto the sycamore leaf, and instantly pinched the wide leaf. She shook it off, pushed Tao Xingye aside, and went upstairs.

"Xiaoyu, I..."

Tao Xingye followed, but before he could say anything, Lin Yu crawled into bed and closed her eyes.

Tao Xingye didn't know what made Lin Yu unhappy. He sighed, pulled the curtains, adjusted the temperature, and left the room.

Lin Yu curled up in the quilt, with her knees held in her arms.

After a long time, Tao Xingye still didn't come in.

Lin Yu looked at his phone. It was already eleven o'clock.

She stood up and walked out quietly.

Before I even reached the study, Tao Xingye's voice came from inside—

"Didn't I tell you what to do? Why are you all giving me trouble?"

Looking for trouble? Lin Yu's heart was beating fast. She covered her ears and squatted by the wall.

The kitten meowed, and Lin Yu rushed back to the bedroom with the kitten in his arms.

Almost at the moment she jumped onto the bed and lay down, Tao Xingye pushed the door open and came in.

Lin Yu loosened his grip on the quilt, closed his eyes and dared not move.

When you close your eyes, your ears become extra alert.

She clearly heard Tao Xingye's footsteps, and... a sigh.

"It's really worrying."

In a daze, Lin Yu felt the quilt covering him.

She really wanted to tell Tao Xingye not to take care of himself so much, and she would make him worry less.

But before she could say anything, the door closed.

Lin Yu slowly opened his eyes. The crystal chandelier above his head was exceptionally bright for some reason, and his face felt hot.

She raised her hand and touched it, and unexpectedly touched the water stain. Was she crying? Why did she become so tearful?

Lin Yu sat up self-blamingly and leaned over to get a tissue.

But the kitten jumped out of her arms and flew into the air.

What to do if the kitten breaks? Lin Yu half-jumped and wanted to rush over to hug the kitten.

But she didn't know what happened. Her strength was not as good as before. Before she could pick up the kitten, she couldn't even control her balance and fell directly onto the bedside table.

She subconsciously tried to hold onto the bedside table to maintain her balance, but she brushed past the corner of the table and grabbed the lace cloth...

Crash—

Lin Yu's ears rang, and she fell headfirst to the ground. All the items on the bedside table were overturned onto her...

Lin Yu started counting in her mind, thinking that she probably didn't hurt her brain.

"one two three……"

Before she could finish counting to ten, she seemed to be picked up.

Lin Yu opened his eyes, and Tao Xingye was obviously relieved.

Lin Yu lay in his arms, so close to him that she couldn't help but reach out and touch the bottom of his eyes, where there was a bruise.

"It turns out there isn't one..." Lin Yu murmured. Is it because he wants to take care of her?

"Are you hurt anywhere?" Tao Xingye groped Lin Yu's body with his hands, trying to see where she was hurt, but Lin Yu struggled to push him away.

"Get out! Get out!"

"Where am I going to go? I have to take you to the hospital after you fell like that."

"No need for that!" Lin Yu roared and threw a pillow at Tao Xingye, "Get out!"

"...When will you stop arguing with me?" Tao Xingye looked visibly tired and annoyed. He stood up, squatted down and started picking up the broken things on the ground.

Lin Yu's eyes were moist. She bit her lip and lay back on the bed. "I'll go to grandma's house tomorrow." I won't cause you any trouble.

"..." Tao Xingye glanced at Lin Yu, and she turned her back to him again. She liked this when she was angry.

The Liu family agency project is imminent, and Lin Yubing has not made any progress.

"Since you prefer to stay with grandma, you can live with her in the countryside for this month." Tao Xingye said angrily, with a hint of inexplicable jealousy hidden beneath his words.

Lin Yu covered herself with the quilt. Tao Xingye's grip on the glass tightened involuntarily, and blood instantly flowed from the irregular edge...

Early the next morning, Tao Xingye just came out of the study and saw Lin Yu sitting at the door.

She had a burning look in her eyes and was carrying a cloth bag. She had been waiting for an unknown amount of time.

Does she really want to find her grandma, or does she want to separate from me?

Tao Xingye felt a little bitter. Even though he was her husband in name only, in her heart, he was probably still not as important as her family.

Otherwise, how come there is no progress in the disease when I am with you...

"Would you like to have breakfast? I'll give you..."

"No! I'm leaving now." Lin Yu said sharply.

"We are leaving now..." Tao Xingye was dazed, "I'll take you there..." He reached out to take the bag on Lin Yu's shoulder, but Lin Yu dodged sideways.

He had no choice but to let him take it himself.

On the way out of the city, the two sat in silence.

Tao Xingye deliberately slowed down every time he came out of an intersection. He looked at Lin Yu's expression in the rearview mirror, and a vague sense of anticipation arose in his heart.

"Are you tired?" I've caused him trouble again. He worked all night and he has to come and see me off early in the morning.

"Not tired." Seeing that she had no intention of changing her words, Tao Xingye stepped on the accelerator to speed up.

Before even reaching Grandma Lin Yu's house, Lin Yu clamored to go down, "I can walk the rest of the way by myself."

"How can you walk so far alone?" Tao Xingye said angrily.

"I always walk alone. This is my home. I know the way, so why can't I walk by myself?" Lin Yu glared at him.

Okay, this is her home! Tao Xingye didn't want to argue with Lin Yu, so he opened the car door for Lin Yu and said, "Then go."

Lin Yu glanced at Tao Xingye and paused for about half a minute. Just when Tao Xingye thought she was about to say something, she jumped out of the car.

She walked with determination and never looked back.

Her fragrance was still in the car. Tao Xingye had never felt tired before, as if Lin Yu had never walked towards him so firmly before.

The few confessions he received were all earned through his acting.

Is a confession obtained through deception also false?

The phone kept ringing, and I knew it was something at the company without even looking.

Tao Xingye rubbed his eyes and backed up the car.

The village road is difficult to navigate. If you go further inside, reversing will probably take a lot of time.

When Lin Yu pushed open the door, grandma was sitting in the yard peeling peanuts.

The sun was glaring, and grandma's eyes were more sensitive than before, and were now completely closed.

Lin Yu felt uncomfortable watching this, as if it was wrong for her to come back, as coming back would only add to the burden on her grandmother.

She clutched the cloth bag, took heavy steps, and retreated hesitantly.

"Xiaoyu?" A half-believing and half-doubting voice came, and grandma looked at her with narrowed eyes.

Lin Yu couldn't bear it any longer, she rushed over and hugged her grandmother.

"Xiaoyu, why did you come back so suddenly? Grandma is peeling peanuts. I'll make you some steamed peanut cakes tonight..."

Lin Yu pursed her lips, not daring to say a word. She took the peanuts from her grandmother's hand and began to peel them for her.

"Grandma, I seem to be sick." Lin Yu muttered, feeling uneasy.

Grandma didn't hear clearly, so she lowered her head and came over to ask Lin Yu to say it again.

The silver hair on her head trembled, and the skin on her eyelids was dry and cracked, as if it had turned to wax.

Lin Yu couldn't continue. She held her grandmother's hand and said, "I, my work is going well. I just finished a project and my boss gave me more than a month's vacation."

"Well... okay." Grandma held Lin Yu's hand with a mysterious look on her face, "Stay with Xingye for a while. You two are finally together, and grandma still wants to hold her granddaughter..."

Granddaughter? Lin Yu was stunned. Grandma still remembered that she didn't like her brother...

That was a long time ago, when her parents sent her to be raised by her grandmother.

When my younger brother was just born, my parents put all their thoughts on him.

But her grandmother hugged her and said, "I love my granddaughter the most."

"Then my granddaughter grandma will like her too." At that time, she didn't know what to name her daughter, and her casual remark made her grandma laugh.

"If I could see Xiaoyu's granddaughter, I would become a demon." Grandma rocked like a cradle.

Lin Yu was confused and didn't understand why his grandmother was laughing. Later, when he understood, he didn't find it funny.

Thinking back on it today, I feel a completely opposite emotion, with a layer of sadness.

She has grown up, her hair has turned whiter, and even her grandmother can't stay with her for much longer.

Lin Yu felt even more uncomfortable when he thought of this.

She bit her lips to prevent tears from flowing. When she was a child, she was tossed back and forth between her mother and father, and it was not until she went to live with her grandmother that she had a temporary home.

Later, she went to school in the city and had to live alone in the town.

Later, when she married Tao Xingye, she had a place to live, but it didn't seem like a home.

Just as Tao Xingye said, she always quarreled with him and she always caused trouble for Tao Xingye.

After many twists and turns, she was sent to her grandmother again.

This time it was not her parents but Tao Xingye who brought her here.

She always seemed unpleasant.

Lin Yu clutched the peanut shells. Didn't she always not care whether others liked her or not? Why did she still feel so depressed?