Chapter 16. She will choose to leave us, and go far away...
For Zhou Shiye, the month he spent in the hospital for rehabilitation felt like an eternity, with each day stretching on and on.
With the help of doctors and physical therapists, the severely traumatized body gradually regained its strength.
But in a corner of Zhou Shiye's heart, the anxiety grew more and more intense as time passed without any news from Wen Yu.
What annoyed Zhou Shiye the most was that Tang Mingzhen, who was with him at the hospital every day, never mentioned Wen Yu, whether she was really afraid of Zhou Yingchen's blame or strictly following the doctor's orders.
Whenever Zhou Shiye tried to subtly probe, Tang Mingzhen would become impatient.
"Your brother said that your most important task right now is to get your health back."
"Can't you just stop mentioning that unlucky person? You finally woke up, and Mom doesn't want to talk about her anymore."
Tang Mingzhen was deliberately avoiding the topic.
This avoidance, like a thorn, pierced Zhou Shi's ambition.
He couldn't help but wonder what Wen Yu meant to his mother before the incident.
Even if she was just an adopted daughter, after two years, there would have been some affection between them. But his mother... seemed to wish that Wen Yu would disappear forever.
However, Zhou Shiye was not in the mood to argue with Tang Mingzhen.
His mind was filled with the details before the car accident, Zhou Yingchen's controlling nature towards Wen Yu that went beyond that of siblings, and the blue diamond necklace he had given her, worth hundreds of millions, that had vanished without a trace.
Furthermore, he forcibly took Wen Yu to live in his apartment...
Scenes from the past kept piecing together in Zhou Shiye's mind, and a thought involuntarily grew wildly in his mind: Zhou Yingchen found Wen Yu and then hid her away.
That must be it.
Who is his brother?
How can a top-tier wealthy family leader not even be able to find a woman?
Moreover, since he and Wen Yu were in the same car accident, there's no reason why he was found and taken to the hospital while Wen Yu disappeared.
This is simply not plausible.
So there's only one possibility: his brother hid Wen Yu from the very beginning and deceived him.
After all, his brother's greatest skill was controlling everything without making a sound.
This thought burned wildly in Zhou Shiye's mind, like a wildfire spreading, quickly burning away the last bit of patience he could no longer control.
So Zhou Shiye, who had just been able to walk, ignored the doctor's and Tang Mingzhen's advice and drove directly to the Zhou Group headquarters.
After getting out of the car, he ignored the security guards at the front desk of the headquarters and Chen Xu's obstruction, took the elevator all the way to the top floor, and pushed open the door to the president's office.
At this moment, Zhou Yingshen was sitting at his large desk processing documents.
Hearing the noise, the man looked up and stared at Zhou Shiye.
Zhou Yingchen's face was expressionless, seemingly neither surprised nor concerned by Zhou Shiye's sudden intrusion.
Sunlight streamed in through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, outlining his cold, hard features.
Where is she?
Zhou Shiye strode in, placing his hands on the expensive desk.
Perhaps due to suppressed emotions, Zhou Shiye's voice was hoarse, and his once bright and cheerful eyes were now bloodshot and filled with extreme restraint.
Upon hearing this, Zhou Yingchen put down his gold pen and slowly leaned back in his chair.
He calmly raised his chin slightly and looked at the newcomer: "Who is it?"
"Who else could it be? Wen Yu."
Seeing Zhou Yingchen so calm, Zhou Shiye could no longer control his emotions and roared out.
He strode around the desk, gripped the chair armrest tightly, placed his other hand on the table, leaned forward, and exuded an imposing aura.
"You found her, didn't you? You hid her, didn't you?"
"Zhou Yingchen, are you even a man? If you're so capable, let her choose for herself."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Shiye's hands trembled with excitement, his eyes fixed on the man in the chair.
Zhou Yingchen looked back at Zhou Shiye with deep, intense eyes, but there was no ripple in his gaze.
It was as if Zhou Shiye's accusations and questions were meaningless to him.
Seeing the anger about to burst forth in Zhou Shiye's eyes, Zhou Yingchen lowered his gaze, his prominent Adam's apple bobbing, and slowly spoke.
"Zhou Shiye, if Wen Yu had a choice,"
The next words seemed particularly difficult. Zhou Yingchen paused for half a second, his long eyelashes concealing the dark undercurrent in his eyes, before adding, "She will choose to leave us, very far away, very far away."
Zhou Shiye was slightly taken aback.
"What, what did you say?"
Zhou Shiye's mind went blank for a moment.
His brother said that Wen Yu would be...very far away from them?
How is that possible?
They had the closest relationship.
Although Wen Yu was timid in front of him, she was also obedient, and one could even say that she was... dependent on him.
How could she possibly want to leave?
However, when Wen Yu was bullied by her roommate last time, she preferred to have the counselor call her adoptive mother, who didn't care about her, rather than contact him, the man with whom she had the closest relationship.
He was her man, but she didn't contact him.
In an instant, a strong sense of lingering fear mixed with disbelief, anger, and frustration overwhelmed Zhou Shiye's rationality.
Then look at Zhou Yingchen, who denied any connection between him and Wen Yu…
He calmly watched himself gradually go mad, maintaining control over the truth.
Oh……
"You're talking nonsense."
With a low growl, Zhou Shiye channeled his rage into a fist and slammed it into Zhou Yingchen.
With a loud "bang," a solid punch landed on Zhou Yingchen's cheekbone.
The force was too great; Zhou Yingchen's head tilted to one side, and the chair slid back half an inch.
Zhou Shiye was still not satisfied, his body trembling, his eyes red-rimmed.
"You're lying to me, you're lying to me."
Looking at Zhou Yingchen, who had just been punched, the man slowly turned his head and wiped the blood seeping from the corner of his mouth with his fingertips.
Then, he raised his eyes, his deep gaze like a still, icy pool, filled with a chilling aura.
"go out."
Zhou Shiye had never seen such a cold and dangerous look in Zhou Yingchen's eyes before.
His chest heaved violently, and he clenched his fists tightly.
After a long silence, Zhou Shiye angrily pushed all the documents off his desk.
"Zhou Yingchen, I don't believe a single word you say."
"I'm warning you, hand over Wen Yu right now. This is a competition between the two of us, you can't be so despicable."
Before he finished speaking, Zhou Shiye turned around and strode out of the president's office.
The large office fell silent again. Zhou Yingchen glanced at the mess on the floor, turned around, and looked out the window at the crisscrossing city.
The man's eyes were dark, and his lips were swollen and red.
But his eyes only showed exhaustion.
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Unable to fully vent his anger on Zhou Yingchen, Zhou Shiye drove back to the apartment that had been arranged for Wen Yu to live in.
The apartment was clean, but also deserted.
Everything that belonged to Wen Yu was cleaned up and put away.
Who dealt with them?
it goes without saying.
Even the pothos plant on the windowsill has been taken away.
Only the bottles and jars he bought for Wen Yu on the dressing table, and the clothes he bought for Wen Yu in the dressing room, remained quietly in their original places.
It was as if Wen Yu had never been here at all.
Or perhaps, it only lasted for a few days.
Zhou Shiye felt a sense of unease.
He hoped that Zhou Yingchen hadn't taken Wen Yu away.
They hoped he would take Wen Yu away.
If it's the latter, then at least Wen Yu is safe.
At the very least, he could find a way to snatch Wen Yu back from his brother.
Just then, the cell phone rang.
He was the head of the special task force in charge of the car accident case, someone Zhou Shiye had contacted privately multiple times, constantly urging him to find out the truth as soon as possible.
"Attorney Zhou, I have two pieces of news."
The captain's serious voice came through the receiver: "First, regarding Miss Wen Yu's whereabouts, we have expanded the search area and deployed the underwater rescue team, but... the waters near the old dock are complicated, and there has been no breakthrough so far."
Hearing this, Zhou Shiye's heart sank even further.
He gripped his phone so tightly that his knuckles turned white from the force.
"The second message,"
The captain paused, seemingly considering his words, before finally speaking after a while, urged by Zhou Shiye. "The case has been classified. All the suspects who tampered with your race car have been apprehended. The mastermind behind it is Dingsheng Group. Their motive was the case you handled a few months ago before your car accident, which resulted in the stripping of their core assets, causing them to lose billions of yuan and almost bankrupting Dingsheng. They held a grudge and tampered with your race car, waiting for an opportunity to retaliate."
"Dingsheng Group? Retaliation?"
Zhou Shiye's still-unrecovered body was teetering on the brink of collapse.
So, it turns out that the brake failure wasn't an accident, but someone else's revenge against him?
It was the case he took on, and the legal methods he used that were too sharp, cutting off someone's path to wealth, which provoked this reckless and insane retaliation.
So, the root of the problem lies with Zhou Shiye himself?
Was it he who implicated Wen Yu?
Zhou Shiye, a once sharp-tongued and invincible figure in court, and a proud and unrestrained young man who never bowed his head in life, now had an empty look in his eyes.
The image of Wen Yu experiencing extreme fear, with blood streaming down her forehead, flashed through Zhou Shiye's mind.
The phone slipped from his hand and fell to the floor with a dull thud.
Zhou Shiye staggered backward until his back hit the cold wall, barely managing to support himself.
He slumped down and sat on the cold floor, leaning against the wall, as if all his strength had been drained away.
The captain on the other end of the phone seemed to be saying something, but Zhou Shiye couldn't hear a single word.
His mind was filled with the scene before the car accident: the engine roaring wildly as the race car went out of control, the tires screeching as they rubbed against the ground, and Wen Yu, pale-faced and pleading with him in a broken voice, sitting in the passenger seat...
"Zhou Shiye, if Wen Yu had a choice,"
"She will choose to leave us, to go very, very far away."
Not long ago, Zhou Yingchen's words suddenly echoed in Zhou Shiye's ears.
It turns out his brother was telling the truth.
It turns out that Zhou Shiye was the one who brought disaster and misfortune to Wen Yu.
The image of him placing the blue diamond necklace around Wen Yu's neck flashed through his mind; her body trembled slightly, and she resignedly closed her eyes.
At the time, he thought that she was acquiescing to his domineering behavior, which meant she was acquiescing to their intimate relationship.
But it turns out, that wasn't the case.
After an unknown amount of time, the sky outside the window had completely darkened.
Moonlight streamed into the dimly lit apartment, and Zhou Shiye slowly raised his hand.
These hands had once perused countless files, signed huge contracts, and left a warm touch on Wen Yu's skin.
It was these hands that took on that damned case and delivered the fatal blow to the opposing side in court.
These same hands pushed Wen Yu into the abyss of losing control.
Suddenly, a wave of nausea surged up in his stomach. Zhou Shiye turned to the side and gagged a few times, but nothing came out. Only tears welled up uncontrollably, blurring his vision.
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