Chapter 136 She's petty and holds grudges.
"I know you care about Su Anran, and I've already explained it to her," Huo Zhizhou reassured her, knowing in his heart that Jiang Ruan and the promise were people and things he could never give up in this lifetime.
Jiang Ruan pushed him away forcefully!
Its eyes were bloodshot, making it look just like a wounded little animal.
"Whether you talk to her or not has nothing to do with me." Jiang Ruan was a meticulous person, but also a vengeful one. "All I know is that you made things difficult for me because of her, embarrassed me, denied my worth, and insulted my character!"
"Apart from divorce, I'll compensate you however you want." Huo Zhizhou's words were not a joke.
Jiang Ruan replied with three firm words: "No need!"
All she wants is a divorce.
Only divorce!
"Be good." Huo Zhizhou pulled her back to him, his voice and eyes exceptionally gentle.
Jiang Ruan flung him away, taking several steps back to widen the distance between them. Her eyes were filled with nothing but anger: "Why should I listen to you!"
Huo Zhizhou pursed his thin lips and walked towards her.
Jiang Ruan pointed angrily at the door and said, "Get out!"
"Let's talk this over properly," Huo Zhizhou continued to reassure him. "Okay?"
“You’re not the one who’s been hurt, so of course we can talk this out.” Jiang Ruan hated the feeling of having her fate in someone else’s hands, which made her feel like a joke. “Either you get out of here yourself, or I’ll have the police come and get you!”
Seeing her like this, Huo Zhizhou knew that she was really angry and didn't want to see him.
He raised his hand as if to pat her head, but stopped when he saw the rejection and disgust in her eyes: "I'm next door, call me if you need anything."
Jiang Ruan did not answer him; at that moment, she felt a tightness in her chest.
She didn't want to see him.
I don't want to talk to him.
I don't want to stay where he is!
Before leaving, Huo Zhizhou glanced at her, suppressing all his emotions. After returning to the next room, thinking about her intense emotional reaction, he took out his phone and made a call to Su Zhu.
She hated him, but she couldn't suppress her emotions.
Su Zhu was completely bewildered when she saw his phone call: "Huo Zhizhou?"
"Jiang Ruan isn't in a good mood right now, come over here for a moment." Huo Zhizhou's thin lips parted slightly, his voice sounding no different from usual. "If you're busy with something, I'll arrange for someone to take care of it for you."
Su Zhu: "??"
Su Zhu's forehead was covered in question marks.
She held the phone up to her eyes and looked at it; it was indeed Huo Zhizhou calling.
If this had happened before Su Anran's incident, it wouldn't have been wrong for him to call me and say these things, but lately he's been quite... well, you know.
"Do you have any questions?" Huo Zhizhou asked proactively when he didn't get an answer.
Su Zhu: "Yes."
She asked why.
Huo Zhizhou answered truthfully.
After learning that he had confronted Jiang Ruan and refused to divorce her, Su Zhu was also somewhat distraught, so much so that before hanging up the phone, she cursed at him, "Are you sick or something?!"
She saw all the efforts Jiang Ruan made to get a smooth divorce.
Now, a single sentence negates everything.
No wonder she's angry!
Jiang Ruan is still furious. In her extreme anger, all she can think about is that she must get a divorce, but she doesn't have a single usable solution. She even ridiculously considered finding someone to act out a scene and pretend to cheat on him.
But she knew that Huo Zhizhou's decision to confront her at this time meant that no matter what she did, she couldn't get rid of him, and she would be bound to him for the rest of her life.
Amidst a jumble of thoughts, she suppressed her emotions and sent a message to Xu Jiu: "Aunt Xu, something's come up on my end, so I can't set a date for the divorce right now."
When Xu Jiu saw the message, he subconsciously checked his email.
There's nothing new from Huo Zhizhou's side.
Wasn't she supposed to persuade Jiang Ruan not to get a divorce?
"It's okay, I'll talk to you when I get back." Xu Jiu sent her a voice message, still busy with work. "My work here is nearing completion. I'll be back as soon as I'm done."
Jiang Ruan replied with an "okay".
After successfully sending the message, she went back to her room and sat on the bed, looking rather upset.
When Su Zhu arrived, she was sitting on the bed, her mind blank, looking at the buildings outside the window. Her eyes were devoid of emotion, and she looked like a broken doll.
"Baby." Su Zhu called out to her from the doorway.
She knew her password.
She knocked on the door but no one answered, so she came in.
Jiang Ruan looked in the direction of the voice, and when she saw it was her, a trace of emotion flashed in her eyes, and the emotion she had managed to suppress surged up again.
"Come here and let me hug you." Su Zhu walked over and hugged her, her emotions relatively stable. "I know what happened. That bastard Huo Zhizhou is no human being. Don't be too discouraged. We'll definitely think of other solutions."
"No," Jiang Ruan replied, "I've thought about it all."
Huo Zhizhou is too meticulous in his work, so there's no way to resort to legal means.
As for other methods, she couldn't beat him.
“Who says there isn’t?” Su Zhu’s perspective was different from hers, more flexible. “In daily life, we’re not as disgusting as him, and legally we can’t compete with his legal team, but there’s still a way to get a divorce!”
A glimmer of hope appeared in Jiang Ruan's eyes: "What?"
Su Zhu: "Widowed!"
Jiang Ruan fell silent.
But she also knew that Su Zhu was just trying to cheer her up. She didn't want her to be depressed because of this, and she wanted her to know that life is not just about this one thing.
“I’m serious,” Su Zhu said, enunciating each word clearly. “If you need it, I can help you kill him! This is my promise as the eldest daughter of the legitimate wife.”
Jiang Ruan's mood improved somewhat: "If you kill him, I won't be able to see you again."
Su Zhu: "It's alright. You should be happy that I'm now working for the government."
Jiang Ruan hugged her.
It's always the same.
Whenever she's unhappy, she'll try all sorts of ways to cheer her up.
Sometimes I would join him in swearing, and sometimes I would make him happy with all sorts of funny things.
"Did he send you?" she asked.
"Yes." Su Zhu didn't hide anything from her. "But don't worry, I came because I wanted to, it has absolutely nothing to do with him!"
"You don't need to answer his calls anymore." Jiang Ruan didn't want Huo Zhizhou to always order her friends around. His simple words disrupted Su Zhu's life.
Su Zhu listened to her and said, "No problem!"
The two chatted for a long time afterward.
We've been talking about this since before.
They talked about life and their ideals.
After discussing these mundane little things, we reviewed the events of the day.
After hearing the whole story, Su Zhu looked puzzled: "Since he said he could ask for any compensation except divorce, then you should ask him to give you hundreds of billions and never come looking for you again."
“He meant that as long as I stayed by his side, he would accept any compensation.” Jiang Ruan understood his unspoken meaning.
"Then let him give you all his premarital assets and all the assets he transferred after marriage." Su Zhu didn't want to get married, so she was quite rational and realistic about things. "With money, you can live life to your heart's content."
Jiang Ruan was stubborn and inflexible: "Taking it means I forgive what happened before."
She's petty and holds grudges.
She couldn't forgive so easily, and those hurtful words wouldn't heal so quickly. She didn't want to have anything to do with him anymore, and didn't want to give him any leverage to humiliate her.
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