Bo Junyi's shirt was already soaked with cold sweat. The moment the elevator stopped at the top floor, he almost broke open the iron door of the emergency passage.
The damp wind, carrying rain, blew in his face, and the swaying figure outside the guardrail in the distance made him breathe.
Chu Wanning's thin white dress rustled in the wind. One of her feet had already stepped over the railing, and her toes were suspended in the air thirty stories high.
"Chu Wanning!" His hoarse voice was torn apart by the wind.
The girl slowly turned around, a twisted smile on her pale face, and the remaining tears at the corners of her eyes mixed with the rain and flowed down.
Bo Junyi felt his heart in his throat and subconsciously took a step forward, but froze when the other party suddenly leaned forward.
"Break up with Li Susu." Chu Wanning's voice trembled with illness. "Issue a statement now, saying that you are willing to return to your family and cut ties with the mistress."
"Otherwise I'll jump and let everyone know that the CEO of the Bo Group killed his own wife."
Bo Junyi's Adam's apple rolled twice.
There was a faint sound of sirens coming from downstairs. The security personnel on the rooftop were already in position, shouting through loudspeakers.
He looked at Chu Wanning's red eyes and thought of the quiet and introverted girl in high school.
She shouldn't have become like this because of him.
"I promise you." He raised his hands and slowly approached, "Come down first, and we can talk about anything."
"Not enough." Chu Wanning suddenly laughed, her voice filled with broken tears. "You have to hold me in your arms and walk down the hall in front of everyone. Just like you held Li Susu!"
She looked at him steadily, "Otherwise, I'll jump from here!"
The wind lifted Bo Junyi's messy bangs. He stared at Chu Wanning's rain-stained face, finally took a deep breath and opened his arms.
Chu Wanning was crying bitterly, her fingers tightly clutching his shirt, as if she was grabbing the last straw.
Bo Junyi slowly turned around holding the person and stepped into the rain.
The flash lights came down on me like a torrential rain.
The crowd automatically made way for the camera, and the sound of shutter clicks could be heard all around.
Before he had taken a few steps, reporters with microphones swarmed over him, their black recorders almost poking him in the face.
"Mr. Bo! Is it true that Li Susu interfered in your marriage with Miss Xia?" A sharp question pierced the noise.
Bo Junyi's Adam's apple moved, and his jaw tightened. "It's just a misunderstanding."
"What about your future relationship plans..."
Before he finished speaking, Chu Wanning's slender arms suddenly hooked around his neck, and her whole body clung to him like a vine.
The warm breath was so close, and when her pale lips were about to touch his cheek, Bo Junyi turned his face away without leaving a trace.
"No plans for now." He said, striding to the car, bending down to put Chu Wanning into the car, and then got into a black Cullinan following closely behind.
Li Susu huddled in the shadows of the crowd, her black sunglasses covered with a layer of fine mist.
She clutched the corner of her clothes tightly and watched Bo Junyi carrying Chu Wanning walk through the crowd.
The gentle look on the man's face when he lowered his eyes, and the intimate gesture of Chu Wanning's fingertips wrapped around his tie, were like a rusty nail piercing his heart.
"Look! It's Li Susu! The mistress who interfered with other people's marriages!"
Sharp shouts tore through the rain.
Before she could react, her mask was ripped off and the biting cold wind rushed into her throat.
"You vixen who stole someone else's husband!" The aunt in the front row held her cell phone in front of her, and the flash light made it impossible for her to open her eyes.
In an instant, she was drowned by the surging crowd. The sounds of pushing, scolding, and accusations of being a "mistress" penetrated her eardrums mercilessly.
A feeling of suffocation exploded from her chest, and Li Susu staggered backward, her lower back hitting the cold railing.
In the chaos, a pair of strong hands suddenly came through the crowd and firmly grasped her wrists.
Zhou Huaixu, wearing a black windbreaker, hugged her whole body, and used his other hand to block the mineral water bottle that was thrown at him.
"Get out of the way!" The man's voice was as cold as an ice blade. He bent down, picked her up horizontally and carried her through the noisy crowd.
It was not until she was stuffed into the passenger seat and isolated from the noise of the outside world that Li Susu felt a little relieved.
The wipers outside the car window swung back and forth, blurring Bo Junyi's receding figure.
Thinking of his words "I promise" to Chu Wanning on the rooftop, hot tears suddenly burst out. She turned her face away, but heard a rustling sound beside her.
Zhou Huaixu silently took out a tissue, folded it and placed it in her trembling palm.
The car drove a long distance before stopping.
Zhou Huaixu tilted his head and caught a glimpse of Li Susu curled up on the chair, tears still hanging on her eyelashes, her whole body wet, looking very pitiful.
"Susu, you shouldn't come out at this time." He unscrewed the thermos and handed it over, and the warm mist hovered between the two of them.
Li Susu just shook her head, tears falling uncontrollably.
Zhou Huaixu sighed and reached out to wipe her tears, but stopped mid-air and turned up the temperature of the car's air conditioner by two degrees: "Don't misunderstand my brother, he has his own plans."
"What are your plans? Divorce me?" She suddenly looked up, her red eyes filled with stubbornness.
"What are you thinking about?" Zhou Huaixu tapped the steering wheel lightly, his Adam's apple rolling, "My brother won't let you suffer any injustice."
He stared at Li Susu's red eyes from crying, and said in a softer voice, "He can't bear to see you suffer any injustice, so how can he bear to divorce you?"
Li Susu clutched the wet tissue: "But he also doesn't want Chu Wanning to suffer any injustice."
Her voice trailed off. "This is difficult. If he's really in a difficult situation, I won't keep pestering him."
"Don't be angry." Zhou Huaixu said soothingly, "Even if Chu Wanning doesn't let go, you shouldn't take the initiative to withdraw."
"My brother loves you, and at most he feels sympathy for her. Isn't that different? Besides, you already have two babies. Do you want them to grow up in a single-parent family?"
These words hit Li Susu's heart like a heavy hammer.
She bit her lower lip, and the cute appearance of her son and daughter appeared in front of her eyes.
After a long silence, she raised her head and said in a nasal voice, "I don't know what to do, and I'm worried that if I do something bad to Chu Wanning, it will make your brother angry."
Zhou Huaixu felt his throat tighten as he looked at her cautious expression.
"No, trust me...and trust my brother."
Li Susu stubbornly shook her head, looking lonely and helpless: "I know nothing about their past, and I can't convince myself to trust him completely... I can only choose to save myself. Zhou Huaixu, can you help me?"
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