Su Jin: "When you pushed me, didn't you feel it was vulgar? You don't think you're very polite and refined, do you?"
"It was just a little push, why are you making such a fuss?" He Ru said dismissively. She opened the wardrobe, took out a few dresses, clothes, and pants, threw them on the bed, then turned around, crossed her arms, raised her chin, and looked at her triumphantly, saying, "Choose one."
Su Jin was too lazy to get up. She needed to lie down and recover her energy, otherwise, if she really became paralyzed, her acting career would be severely damaged.
"Just tell me directly, we can skip the process of choosing clothes."
He Ru sneered, "Zheng Lin is coming back today, you probably didn't know that, did you? You can't believe you didn't know, but he called me, and not only that, he also asked me to go out with him. It's obvious that he still cares about me, so the first thing he thought of when he got back was me."
When she said that, if she had a tail, it would be sticking up to the sky.
Su Jin took out her phone and glanced at Assistant Gao's WeChat Moments. She found that Assistant Gao had posted a picture of a plane ticket three minutes earlier, confirming that he was indeed returning today.
The phone call He Ru received at the dinner table was at least ten minutes ago.
Therefore, He Ru did not lie.
Zheng Lin was the first to call He Ru and tell her that she was coming back today.
Su Jin looked at Zheng Lin's pinned message, but there were no new messages. He hadn't sent her any messages or made any calls, and this alone made her feel a little uncomfortable.
"So what? He asked you out, it's not like it was a date." Su Jin slowly sat up, her legs touching the ground, and stood up.
It seemed that He Ru's words had no effect or displeasure on her.
He Ru's lips twitched, then she scoffed coldly, "Just keep being stubborn. The feelings between you two are long gone. It's perfectly normal for him to fall for me. I'm not like you, hot and cold, making people anxious and tormented. I'm very considerate towards him."
Su Jin was speechless at He Ru's overly self-important attitude.
The cruelest way to treat someone is to let them immerse themselves in praise and then destroy them.
So Su Jin nodded, "That's right, I also think you're very considerate. If you keep being this considerate, your Zheng Lin brother will definitely love you forever. Really, your shining qualities are rare in this world. If I were a man, I would also be attracted by your charm, and I would be crazy for you, go crazy for you, and be strong for you for the rest of my life."
In the end, Su Jin even inexplicably started to rhyme.
He Ru was a little embarrassed by the praise; she actually found Su Jin rather cute.
Blinking, He Ru turned her head to look elsewhere, not daring to look at Su Jin, and said slowly, "This is the first time someone has praised me like this. I didn't expect you to have such good taste... cough, no wonder you're my rival in love. The fact that we both like the same man is enough to show that at least you have good taste."
Su Jin: "......"
She's quite arrogant.
Before leaving, Su Jin glanced at the pile of clothes on the bed. Her eyes immediately fell on the bright red, form-fitting dress, and she thought to herself: He Ru's taste is so inconsistent. This bright red dress was bought for a rural wedding.
"This red one is nice; it suits a woman of wealth and elegance like you." With that, Su Jin walked out.
He Ru picked up the red dress, held it up against the mirror, and said, "Hmm, it does look pretty good."
Su Jin was unaware that He Ru had already come to highly approve of her judgment.
She called a private female doctor to examine the injury on her back. Fortunately, it was just a bruise. After the doctor applied some medicine, she lay down on her bed in her room to rest.
Remembering what He Ru had said, she opened her chat window with Zheng Lin and stared blankly.
She was waiting for him to message her.
......
Three hours later, at the shopping mall.
Mrs. Su and Mr. Su were shopping together, each carrying a lot of things. They were about to go to the parking lot to get their car and go home when Mrs. Su couldn't help but glance at the jewelry store again. She saw Zheng Lin and He Ru picking out jewelry in the store.
Mrs. Su had seen this kind of situation many times in TV dramas, and her old friends had also talked to her about it. They always mentioned that their husbands would accompany their mistresses to jewelry stores and buy them this and that, which were all signs of a man's infidelity.
Mrs. Su put down all the bags she was carrying on the ground. "You stand here, I'll go take a look."
Old Chairman Su: "Hey? You shouldn't go."
But Mrs. Su ignored the man's advice and, wearing four-centimeter high heels, walked into the jewelry store.
He Ru was talking to the shop assistant and trying on the jewelry one by one, while Zheng Lin sat on the small sofa waiting.
"Zheng Lin," Madam Su called out.
Zheng Lin turned his head and saw that Madam Su looked angry and anxious, so he probably knew that she had misunderstood him.
He was about to explain when Madam Su rushed in front of him.
“I thought you and Xiaojin just had a little conflict, and we treated that engagement as a farce. But look at this now.” Madam Su looked at He Ru over there, pointed at her, and said to Zheng Lin, “Do you know how much Xiaojin used to like you, and this is how you treat her?”
Zheng Lin was completely bewildered by the scolding. "Mom."
"Don't call me Mom." Madam Su said, "I only allow you to call me Mom because Xiao Jin likes you. No matter how big and powerful your Zheng Group is, our Su family is not easy to bully."
Mrs. Su has a very good personality, but she is now pushed to the limit. When she thinks about what her daughter has gone through, she wants to speak out for her daughter.
“Xiao Jin did abandon you, but she had her reasons. She married Zhao Xichen not because she loved him, but for the sake of my and her father’s company.”
Mrs. Su said, "She only married him for political reasons. At the time, it was because Xiao Jin married him that our Su Group was saved. She said at the time that she really loved Zhao Xichen, but only I, as her mother, know and understand my daughter best. She doesn't love Zhao Xichen."
She paused, then looked at Zheng Lin and said, "You didn't see how Xiao Jin looked when she talked about you that year. Her eyes were shining, and she was full of energy. But when she talked to me about marrying Zhao Xichen, her eyes lost all their light."
"Later, when Xiaojin married you, I saw light in her eyes again. I thought she had finally married the right person, but I never expected you to be like this, having affairs with other women. You really did her a disservice."
Zheng Lin knew none of this.
Zheng Lin had always wanted to know why Su Jin broke up with him in college, and at this moment, the truth finally came to light.
He felt as if he had swallowed thousands of silver needles.
Over the years, he has always doubted whether the relationship between him and Xiaojin ever really existed. In fact, there has always been only one answer.
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