Chapter 4 Black-Hearted Little Bastard
"How ridiculous!" Old Mrs. Zhou slammed the table angrily. "How dare they threaten you?"
Shi Huai cried so hard that I felt pity for her. "Mom just missed me too much. Grandma, please don't blame them..."
Old Mrs. Zhou was not so confused as to not know right from wrong. She frowned and cast her gaze on Zhou Jibai, who also had a gloomy expression on his face.
No wonder Shi Huai and the Zhou family are at odds. It seems that the vicious mother and daughter have been involved!
Zhou Ji glanced at his wife, who was crying beside him. Shi Huai was in a sensitive period right now, and she was very attentive to her stepmother and stepsister. If he acted too blatantly, it would only backfire. It would be better to ask Shi Huai directly what she was thinking.
He narrowed his eyes, "What do you want to do?"
Shi Huai's heart skipped a beat. He didn't expect Zhou Jibai to take the initiative to ask for his opinion?
If it were any other time, this playboy with a bad temper would have secretly found someone to beat up the mother and daughter to vent his anger.
Why does Zhou Jibai always create problems for himself?
She couldn't just say blatantly, "I'm going to kill them both, mother and daughter. Hand me the knife!"
She lowered her eyes and bit her lower lip, her eyes and nose red, looking very aggrieved. She silently shifted her gaze to the solemn face of Old Lady Zhou.
"Grandma, since I've been married into the Zhou family for a month, I'll be open with some questions, okay?"
Old Madam Zhou had always known that there was a rift between her youngest son and his wife, but Shi Huai had been staying indoors since marrying into the Zhou family, so she hadn't had the chance to ask many questions. It was rare for Shi Huai to bring it up, so how could Old Madam Zhou disagree?
Shi Huai pretended to wipe the tears from her face, as if mentioning something sad. Her eyes wandered and she choked up, "I married Zhou Jibai because I was pregnant with my child. It wasn't my original intention. I know I was marrying into the Zhou family. But I just want to know the truth. Was it intentional or unintentional that night?"
"Is it really like what my stepmother said..." Shi Huai's tears gathered in his eyes again. In order to pretend to be more convincing, he glared at Zhou Jibai with some resentment and said the second half of the sentence with difficulty, "Was it Second Master who was mean-spirited at that time?"
Zhou Jibai's eyes were cold and his face became more and more gloomy.
In her previous life, Old Lady Zhou also had to wait until the fetus was older before she knew the ins and outs of her pregnancy. Now that she heard it in advance, she looked annoyed and picked up the flower pot beside her to throw it at Zhou Jibai's head.
"This is outrageous! Have you swallowed the Zhou family's teachings? How dare you do such a heinous thing!"
Zhou Jibai remained indifferent, as if he had long been accustomed to being treated this way. His eyes flashed with indifference as he fell on Shi Huai and sneered.
Shi Huai, you are indeed hiding a bad trick waiting for me.
Fortunately, Ruoyu, who was beside Old Lady Zhou, reacted in time and stopped her, "Grandma, don't you understand the Second Master's character?"
Indeed, although Zhou Jibai loves to play, he will not do anything inappropriate.
Old Mrs. Zhou let out a long sigh and thought about the second half of Shi Huai's words.
It's her stepmother again.
Shi Huai was a pitiful child. Her mother passed away early, and her father married a stepmother and took care of a stepsister, but he was busy with work and they only saw each other a few times a year. A child as innocent and kind as her, lacking parental love, was naturally easily deceived by superficial false affection and the deception of villains.
At first, Mrs. Zhou simply thought that Shi Huai’s stepmother wanted to get close to Shi Huai and gain some benefits from it to satisfy her vanity.
Unexpectedly, Shi Huai's stepmother is even more vicious and greedy than he imagined. Now she is talking nonsense and trying to sow discord between the couple, damaging the Zhou family's reputation. What will happen in the future?
Old Madam Zhou gave an order: "Investigate! Investigate this matter thoroughly for me! Don't alert the enemy."
With the old lady's order, I believe the truth of this matter will soon come to light.
The truth that had been hidden from her until her death in her previous life had finally come to fruition. She wanted to clear Zhou Jibai's name and resolve the entanglement of anger and obsession between them.
For Shi Huai, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
The only drawback is... she seems to have made Zhou Jibai unhappy.
Shi Huai tilted his head and glanced quietly at the cold and gloomy man beside him.
Old Madam Zhou said to Zhou Jibai in a cold voice, "As for you, go to the ancestral hall and kneel down as punishment!"
The Zhou family has had a foundation for hundreds of years, and the ancestral hall has flourished. No matter how many years the Zhou family has been updated and replaced, or how many times the family has moved, the ancestral hall has also been moved and renovated, and finally settled in Yunding Manor where the main branch of the Zhou family now lives.
After breakfast.
The Zhou family's servants asked Zhou Jibai to go to the ancestral hall in the main courtyard. Shi Huai followed him closely like a guilty rabbit and refused to let go.
Seeing the little tail sticking to him, Zhou Jibai immediately turned around and lowered his eyes to meet Shi Huai's. Looking at Shi Huai's innocent face, a sneer appeared at the corner of his lips.
"Since your goal has been achieved, and you've seen me being punished to kneel in the ancestral hall as you wished, why are you still following me?"
Shi Huai silently clenched his fists, lowered his head and did not dare to look into Zhou Ji and Bai Youhan's eyes.
This is not the first time that she has cheated on her husband.
"Zhou Jibai, please listen to my explanation."
Zhou Jibai had no intention of listening to her explanation. In her mind, he was nothing more than a wolf, a tiger, a leopard, a heartless beast who took advantage of others.
What could she explain?
The servants slowly opened the door to the ancestral hall. The Zhou family's orientation, specially designed by a feng shui master, sat west and faced east, facing the early morning sun. But Shi Huai, after only a glance, felt a heaviness in his heart, an indescribable sense of coldness and silence.
Seeing Zhou Jibai stepping in again, Shi Huai stepped forward and said hurriedly: "There has always been a misunderstanding between you and me. This time -"
"But I've explained this to you many times, and you've never trusted me. I've been investigating this matter ever since that incident two months ago. You threw the evidence in front of you, and you tore it up without even looking at it. Now you're bringing this up in front of Grandma. Isn't it what you wanted me to be punished and embarrassed? And now you're pretending to be a loving couple with me?"
Zhou Jibai glanced at Shi Huai coldly, his tone tinged with sarcasm, "Why didn't I see before that you were capable of this little turtle eating coal trick?"
Shi Huai knew he was in the wrong.
In his previous life, Zhou Jibai had told him on his wedding night that what happened was a complete misunderstanding and that he wanted to show him the surveillance footage. At the time, both of them were taking traditional Chinese medicine, and he was surrounded by a group of men. It was Zhou Jibai who saved him in the nick of time.
Then they had sex passionately, one willing to fight and the other willing to be beaten.
Zhou Jibai found out that the mastermind behind the incident was Tang Xiaoling, the stepmother who had temporarily found a scapegoat. Tang Xiaoling then learned that she had not been tricked by her stepmother and had slept with the second young master of the Zhou family.
She immediately concealed the matter and made sure everything was done properly. This gave people the impression that she was a playboy who didn't learn her lesson and liked to flirt with others.
When I was a teenager, I was really rebellious and playful, and I was a frequent visitor to bars. It was easy for people to talk about me.
Zhou Jibai was disheartened by his distrust of him and felt resentful towards him no matter what, so he did not dig deeper into the matter a second time.
Now that she has aroused the old lady's emotions and is investigating the matter again, Old Lady Zhou will definitely think about everything carefully and will dig out the mastermind behind the matter even if she has to dig three feet deep into the ground.
She looked at Zhou Jibai, her pupils shining like obsidian seemed to have crushed a pool of autumn water in them, staring at him and making people feel itchy.
Zhou Jibai couldn't bear to see her staring at him with such an innocent look, so he looked away and stopped talking.
Shi Huai took Zhou Jibai's hand and placed his palm on her belly, which was not yet visible. "Couples' love can be acted, but the baby I'm carrying is real."
"Master Zhou Er, Grandma has already asked someone to investigate the matter. What do you want to do?"
Through a layer of cloth, Zhou Jibai felt the warmth of Shi Huai's belly. Inside was his child, his and Shi Huai's child.
What does he want to do?
He is innocent, so what is there to fear?
When Shi Huai asked this question, did he still think that what happened that day was his fault and that he was the one who committed the absurd rape and humiliation?
It seems that Shi Huai still wants to have an abortion and divorce herself.
Zhou Jibai withdrew his hand, turned around, and said coldly: "What do you want to do? I still say the same thing, divorce, abortion, you can forget about it."
Shi Huai: ...
What she wanted to say was that now that the truth was out, could she start over?
Before Shi Huai could continue, Zhou Jibai walked into the ancestral hall, and the servants closed the wooden door. She could no longer see Zhou Jibai's tall and cold back.
Shi Huai sighed softly and asked the servant, "How long will it take for the Second Master to come out?"
"Tomorrow morning."
"Second Young Madam, don't worry. No one knows this ancestral hall better than Second Master. He has been kneeling there since he was a child. He can't be given food while kneeling in the ancestral hall. I remember he was caught stealing tributes once."
"Don't be fooled by the Second Master's frivolous demeanor now. He used to be both virtuous and academically accomplished, and his family background was as good as the eldest master's. Just five years ago, when he turned nineteen and returned from recuperation in Guangnan, he was getting earrings, tattoos, and going to bars. If he hadn't just recovered from a car accident during that time, the old lady would have probably worn holes in his cushions from kneeling on them."
Listening to the servants telling about Zhou Jibai's embarrassing past, Shi Huai smiled at first, but the following experience made her stunned for a moment.
Did Zhou Jibai have a car accident when he was young? Shi Huai lowered his eyes and couldn't help but recall the scene in his previous life when Zhou Jibai stepped forward to save him.
She also silently noted down that there was no food to eat while kneeling in the ancestral hall, so she would secretly bring some for Zhou Jibai at night.
Shi Huai thought of what Zhou Jibai had said to him in a sarcastic tone just now, that the little turtle ate coal.
She asked the servant beside her in confusion: "What does it mean that the little turtle eats coal?"
The servant scratched his chin uncomfortably and said, "Second Young Madam, please search the internet yourself."
You don’t know until you search, and when you search you’ll laugh out loud.
Zhou Jibai actually called her a black-hearted little bastard!
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