Xiaohua was sleeping soundly in the middle of the night when the phone rang. She frowned and looked annoyed.
Who is it?
"Mr. Ye is my assistant, Mr. Li. Mr. Zhou is drunk at the bar and keeps calling your name. Could you come over here for a moment?"
Xiaohua sat up in bed, scratched her head. She was sleeping soundly when she was woken up and had to crawl out of her warm bed. It was too much of a struggle.
"Tell me the address, I'll be right there."
After Li gave her the address, Xiaohua got up, changed out of her pajamas, put on a tracksuit, shoes, and car keys.
Mao Dani and Ye Dazhuang are getting old and have trouble sleeping; they can be woken up by the slightest noise.
Even though Xiaohua was moving very gently.
They woke up eventually. Mao Dani put on a coat and got up, only to see Xiaohua dressed neatly with her car keys in hand, clearly about to go out.
"Hua'er, where are you going in the middle of the night? You're a woman, why are you going out in the middle of the night?"
"Why are you up? I have some things to take care of. You should go back to sleep. If I'm not back in the morning, explain to Kang'an that Mom had some business to attend to and left early."
Xiaohua opened the door and went out.
Mao Dani returned to her room, and Ye Dazhuang sighed repeatedly.
"Running out in the middle of the night, no wonder He Yan has completely lost interest in him. What man can stand a woman like this?"
“There’s no possibility between him and He Yan for a long time. You’re still nagging about it. What’s the point of nagging?”
Mao Dani guessed that Xiaohua probably went to see Zhou Musheng in the middle of the night. What could a lone man and woman do together in the middle of the night? As someone with experience, how could she not know!
"No matter how successful or accomplished a woman is, if she doesn't have a home, she will still be looked down upon. Having a stable home is the most important thing."
Ye Dazhuang still held strong feudalistic ideas, believing that no matter how successful a woman was in her career, it was still better than marrying a good man.
"Don't worry about our daughter. Don't forget that we're all living such a good life in our old age because of our successful daughter. Don't be ungrateful."
Mao Dani habitually defended her daughter.
When Xiao Hua arrived, Zhou Musheng was still drinking. He snatched the wine glass from her hand.
"What are you doing here? Who sent you?"
Zhou Musheng's eyes were bloodshot and his cheeks were red, indicating that he had drunk quite a bit.
"Alright, stop drinking. Don't you care about your stomach? You had a stomachache a while ago, don't you remember? Why do you always do things that harm your body? How old are you? You're still acting like a child, always being willful and reckless."
“I’m not young anymore, I’m almost 40, how can I be as young as your ex-husband?”
Zhou Musheng said self-deprecatingly.
"What are you jealous about now? My ex-husband and I are completely innocent. If there were anything going on, it would have happened already."
Her relationship with He Yan was truly innocent, as innocent as could be. Before, she had no feelings for He Yan, and now He Yan has no feelings for her either. It was a case of the man having no feelings for her and the woman having no interest in him.
"Then tell me why you went to see your ex-husband instead of me as soon as you came back, and even had dinner with him. What else could it be but that you still have feelings for him?"
His questioning and doubts made Xiaohua find it particularly funny.
"But you also ate with your ex-wife's sister-in-law, right? How does that mean you still have feelings for your ex-wife's sister-in-law?"
It's like she doesn't have a mouth; he brings up her ex-husband's brother, and she brings up his ex-wife's sister.
"Ye Xiaohua, you're good with words, I can't argue with you. I don't need you, just leave!"
He was about to drink again when Xiaohua snatched his drink away once more.
"It's all my fault. I made you sad again. I apologize to you, okay? Please stop drinking and stop ruining your health."
They had a very serious argument once before. Zhou Musheng drank a lot of alcohol that time, so much so that he had a stomach hemorrhage and was hospitalized for a long time. That time also scared Xiaohua quite a bit. From then on, whenever she and Zhou Musheng argued, she didn't dare to talk back to him.
I was afraid that I would upset him again, and he would drink excessively, disregard his health, and cause another stomach hemorrhage.
"Apologize? Why are you apologizing to me? You say you were wrong, then tell me what you did wrong."
After saying that, Zhou Musheng laughed self-deprecatingly: "You always treat me like a child when you apply this, but I'm not a child."
Xiaohua thought about what she had done wrong. She was wrong for being so busy, wrong for spending too little time with him, wrong for not listening to him, and wrong for making a lot of mistakes.
“Now that the company is on track, I won’t be as busy as before, and I’ll have more time to spend with you.”
Xiaohua knew she truly owed him a debt and wanted to repay his kindness. As long as he didn't mention breaking up, she would stay with him.
"Your mistake is that you never loved me. You were desperate back then, you needed money to start a business but couldn't get investment, so you had no choice but to be with me. You never truly loved me from beginning to end. In your eyes, I was just a sucker who could give you a lot of money. I know everything."
Teng had always known about this, but he never said it out loud. He kept trying to numb himself and tell himself that Xiaohua truly liked him.
It just so happens that he has some money, and it just so happens that Xiaohua needs his money to start a business.
"Do you think that now that you've made money, you can pay me back tenfold or a hundredfold and be even with me? Do you think you can break up with me without any guilt?"
"I didn't think that way."
Xiaohua defended herself.
"That's what you think. You're a liar who's full of lies. You stole my heart, but you didn't treat it well."
Zhou Musheng suddenly yelled at her, and as he yelled, he even shed tears.
It was the first time Xiaohua had seen him cry, and to be honest, it would be a lie to say she didn't feel any pain at all.
He was such a proud person.
"Zhou Musheng, I'm sorry. I don't know how to make it up to you. Why don't you tell me what I can do to make you happy?"
He was unhappy, and she felt sad seeing him like that; she had always felt indebted to him.
She is not the kind of person who would betray someone after they have served their purpose.
"Is it that you'd do anything I ask?"
Zhou Musheng questioned.
Xiaohua hesitated.
Seeing her hesitate, Zhou Musheng sneered, "What? Didn't you say you'd do anything I asked as long as I was happy? Now you're hesitating. Ha~ I told you you were lying to me. You're always lying to me. You've never been sincere with me."
"I didn't," she retorted, her voice lacking conviction.
After thinking for a few seconds, he said dejectedly, "Okay, if you say I can do it, I definitely will."
Zhou Musheng placed his hands on her shoulders, looked into her eyes, and said slowly and deliberately, "If that's the case, then marry me."
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