Chapter 54 The Recordings from That Year
Shen Shuangmiao went back to sleep and was awakened by a phone call around 3 a.m.
She saw that it was Fu Xuan calling and answered immediately.
Fu Xuan's excited voice came from the phone.
"You really did it, Miaomiao! Me and a few other employees have been released. Let's go back, have some food, and take a shower. Don't worry about us! By the way, you weren't wronged because of this, were you?"
He rattled off a whole bunch of things, leaving Shen Shuangmiao completely stunned.
How could this be? She hadn't even gone to find Zhao Mobai yet.
A strange light flashed in Shen Shuang's beautiful eyes.
She composed herself and said to Fu Xuan, "It's good that you're back. Come over as soon as you've had a good rest tomorrow and tell me the details of the studio's situation. If there are no problems, then we can run the studio normally and give President Zhao a satisfactory explanation."
Fu Xuan agreed and hung up the phone.
Shen Shuangmiao exhaled, rubbed her hair, and looked outside.
It was still pitch black outside.
After calming down, Shen Shuangmiao quickly washed her face with cold water to force herself to wake up. After getting dressed, she prepared to go outside for a walk to clear her head.
However, as soon as she opened the door, she saw a car parked in front of the studio.
A car headlight swept past.
Shen Shuangmiao subconsciously raised her arm to shield her eyes. After her eyes adjusted to the glaring light, a tall figure walked over.
Zhu Jin, with a gloomy face, strode up to her.
When Shen Shuangmiao saw his appearance, she was also taken aback.
"you……"
Before she could finish speaking, Zhu Jin coldly took out his phone.
"You say nothing happened between you and Zhao Mobai, then what about this recording? How do you explain that!"
He pressed play, and the voices of Shen Shuangmiao and a man came through.
Shen Shuangmiao's voice flowed out clearly.
"Why else would I marry Zhu Jin? It's just so he can return to the Zhu family and I can live a good life with him. You have no right to say such things to me!"
The man chuckled softly.
"I'm not qualified? Fine, as Zhu Jin's older brother, why shouldn't I be qualified to object to you being with him? I don't believe you have no ulterior motives, but I didn't expect you to be so open about it—that you're after money!"
Shen Shuangmiao scoffed lightly: "Otherwise what? Do you think I would suffer with a poor boy?"
The man sneered, "Very well, then I wish you success in marrying this heir and living the life you've always dreamed of! I don't want to say anything more."
Shen Shuangmiao slowly frowned, sensing something was wrong from the other person's words.
The voice was so faint that she could hardly recognize it, but she still remembered from the conversation that the man speaking was Brother Zhu Jin.
At that time, Zhu Jin's brother had not yet passed away, and Zhu Jin had just returned to the Zhu family.
Zhu Yuan came specifically to find her and asked if she was willing to leave Zhu Jin, because he didn't want to marry Zhou Wu. He felt that he was wasting her precious youth by sitting in a wheelchair.
According to the marriage agreement, it would be most appropriate for Zhou Wu to marry Zhu Jin.
Furthermore, Shen Shuangmiao was merely a down-on-her-luck heiress and was utterly unfit to marry the heir of the Zhu family.
Shen Shuangmiao never thought that Zhu Jin would agree to this marriage. Even if he did, she felt that he was forced by the Zhu family.
Therefore, she was already planning to force the Zhu family to compromise and marry Zhu Jin at the engagement banquet.
Therefore, Shen Shuangmiao, the eldest son of the Zhu family, did not want to waste her breath on him, so she said some insincere things to deliberately provoke him.
So what if she says she's after Zhu Jin's money? She still has ways to marry Zhu Jin.
Somehow, her angry words were recorded, and now the recording has ended up in Zhu Jin's hands.
Seeing that Shen Shuangmiao remained silent, Zhu Jin coldly asked, "Why are you silent now? Can't you refute this? Even if I really misunderstood you and Fu Xuan, and that nothing happened between you two back then, isn't that still true?"
Shen Shuangmiao looked at Zhu Jin quietly, then suddenly smiled.
"Zhu Jin, let me ask you this: I dated you for five years, and then you wanted to be with someone else. Do you think I would have been content with that? Even if I really wanted to be with you for a better life, what's wrong with that?"
"You're judging me based on this truncated recording? Don't you find that ridiculous? Or do you think I'm really like that? Selfish, vain, and greedy?"
"For the past two years, you've kept me tied up at home while neglecting me by not coming back, all for these two reasons? Just because you listened to this recording, you want to turn me into a so-called 'caged canary'?"
Shen Shuangmiao remained calm throughout as she spoke these words.
She wasn't angry at all, nor was she upset by Zhu Jin's misunderstanding.
All she knew was that she had never done those things, that she had always been true to herself, and that she had always been worthy of Zhu Jin.
The person who misunderstood her from beginning to end, and didn't even bother to ask her a single question, was Zhu Jin, not herself.
Ultimately, this relationship was something Zhu Jin gave up on himself.
She has suffered greatly until now. She has finally seen things clearly.
Shen Shuangmiao closed her eyes briefly and whispered, "Zhu Jin, I admit it, it's not that the you who dated me was too wonderful, it's that you were just rotten to begin with!"
Zhu Jin's expression darkened, and he gritted his teeth: "Me, rotten?"
"Yes, you're the kind of person who would doubt me without hesitation at the slightest thing, without even needing anyone to stir things up! You're not worth my utter devotion. All these years of suffering have been because I misjudged you, and I deserve it! I have nothing to say now."
Shen Shuangmiao calmed her tone and curled her lips: "Whether you misunderstand or don't believe me, I don't care where you got this recording. From now on, let's pretend we don't know each other."
Zhu Jin frowned, looking at her with intense hatred in his eyes.
He hated Shen Shuangmiao, he hated her betrayal very, very much, and he hated that in the end she never truly loved him.
She only cared about the possibility of returning to the Zhu family, which is why she followed him so devotedly, even going so far as to force him into marriage despite the Zhu family's and her own reputation, just to be with him.
But now, he has laid everything out in the open.
He also punished Shen Shuangmiao for two years and tormented her for two years.
In the end, Shen Shuangmiao told him that it all seemed to be a misunderstanding.
How is that possible?
The person he loved became the person he hated. In the end, was he the one who hated the wrong person?
Zhu Jin could not accept it.
The thought that he had seemingly hurt the woman who had never changed her mind about him or wronged him for the past seven years made his hands tremble inexplicably.
Zhu Jin tried his best to hide his unease and raised his hand to pinch Shen Shuangmiao's chin.
"Let me tell you, Shen Shuangmiao, you'll never be able to sever ties with me! I will never agree to a divorce!"
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