Chapter 35: Pretend

to be cool It was not difficult for Wen Yue to change from a fake couple who only talked about interests to a real couple who talked about feelings with Yi Huai. She also wanted to do this.

However, she always believed in saying the ugly things first, so she emphasized one thing before agreeing - she did not accept any form of open marriage.

In Hong Kong's wealthy marriages, it was not uncommon for the couple to play with each other. Of course, more often the men cheated, or even welcomed mistresses into the family.

For example, the richest family Wen and the shipping tycoon Lin family belonged to the latter.

Wen Yue was an ordinary college student before she traveled through time. Although she was more mature than her peers because of her family environment, her thoughts were still very simple when it came to feelings.

She can accept normal breakups, marriages and divorces, but she cannot accept cheating, or even the situation of having mistresses and concubines living in the same room as many wealthy families in Hong Kong.

If she encounters such a situation, she will definitely take revenge and divorce.

In fact, according to the original novel, there is no need to worry about such a thing happening with Yi Huai, because he is the male protagonist of the non-CP novel. After the death of the original body, there has been no close relationship with the opposite sex around him.

But in the original novel, Yi Huai and the original body did not develop any friendship. In fact, until the death of the original body, she and Yi Huai were still separated and could not necessarily see each other during the holidays.

After she came here, she not only lived with Yi Huai under the matchmaking of Wen Rongsheng, but also the relationship between the two of them developed, which shows that the original novel is not unchanging.

In non-CP novels, it is not uncommon for the male protagonist to have a second and third relationship after

his first relationship. Of course, this is just one possibility. It is also possible that he will remain faithful to her and stay with her all his life.

But no matter which possibility it is, Wen Yue believes that she must let Yi Huai know what kind of person she is and where her bottom line is.

Yi Huai did not look embarrassed after hearing this and said, "I don't accept open marriage either."

In terms of marriage, he is actually more conservative than Wen Yue.

Although Yi Huai has a Hong Kong hukou and has spent nearly two-thirds of his life in this city, the twelve years in the mainland had the greatest impact on his worldview.

Yi Huai had a happy family at that time.

His father was the most promising technician in the factory, and his mother managed both family and work, and everyone in the compound praised her.

He was also very smart. He could recite dozens of Tang poems at the age of three. When he was four, he went to primary school and won the first place in his grade in his first exam. Although classes were suspended for revolution not long after he started school, he read a lot of books at home during those two years. After classes resumed, he skipped a few grades in school and still ranked first in the exam.

Although not many people cared about grades at that time, graduating from university was not necessarily a good thing. You might be labeled as a "stinking ninth" one day. But being smart is always good. The elders in the compound all thought that he would have a great future.

After his father was labeled, life became much more difficult for their family.

Every time he was dragged out to parade in the streets, his mother would lock them up at home and shed tears to ask them to be good and do their homework well at home.

Parents are always like this. No matter how difficult their situation is, they always want to create a utopia for their children.

When the father was decentralized, the mother could actually choose to take their brothers to stay in the city, but the prerequisite was to draw a clear line with the divorce from the father.

But his mother was reluctant to let him go. He was still young at that time and just wanted his family to be together forever.

So the family moved to Guangdong Province.

The days of devolution were not difficult. Although the countryside was very difficult, due to the special geographical environment of Guangdong Province, many people fled to Hong Kong in various cities. Many members of the brigade had overseas connections and even had their own experiences of failed attempts to escape from Hong Kong.

What happened in his family was nothing compared to theirs.

So when Yi Huai grew up, every time he thought about the past, he didn't understand why they ran away, but the answer came as soon as the question came up, because his father was a selfish coward.

Although the man had a poor childhood, he was always respected after he was admitted to university. He was assigned to a large factory after graduation and married a gentle and beautiful wife.

After being sent down from Shanghai to the countryside of Guangdong Province, he went from a respected technical backbone to a bad element pointed out by others. The gap was too big. How could he bear it?

His mother had always loved the man unconditionally, so she took her children with him when he was sent down, and fled to Hong Kong with him. At the moment of life and death, she left the hope of living to the three people she loved most in her life.

But she didn't expect that the man would break the promise he made when he was facing life and death after realizing the cruelty of life.

He abandoned their children.

During the hardest years, Yi Huai always liked to look back on the past late at night.

He wondered what would happen to their family if his mother didn't love his father so much and drew a clear line with him at the beginning of his accident? He also wondered what would happen to their family if his mother didn't trust his father so much and voted against the decision to flee to Hong Kong? What would

happen? It

must be better than now.

In those retrospections, Yi Huai understood a truth: love is the most terrible thing in the world. It will devour people's hearts and take you step by step into the abyss.

But in his heart, home is the most beautiful existence. He always misses the time when his family supported each other in Shanghai and the countryside of Guangdong Province.

Of course, it would be better if there was no man in those memories.

Because of past experiences, Yi Huai did not shy away from love, but he did not have much expectation. But at the same time, he had fantasies about his family, and he hoped it would be warm and happy.

Such contradictory thoughts were Yi Huai's original intention for agreeing to marry Wen Yue, but life after marriage seriously deviated from his original intention.

However, no matter how stiff the relationship between husband and wife was, Yi Huai never thought about setting up another family outside. He always believed that loyalty was the obligation of both parties in a marriage.

Looking back now, Yi Huai thought that many things in this world might be like this, and the effort and reward were equal. He didn't want to give his feelings in the past, so he couldn't get the family he wanted.

Fortunately, God treated him well, and he had a chance to redeem himself.

Yi Huai leaned over and kissed Wen Yue on the lips.

...

Although there was great progress in the relationship, Wen Yue did not indulge for too long. While Yi Huai went to see a doctor to ask about her specific situation, she called the system in her mind: [Why is Zhong Lan targeting me for revenge? 】

Because she knew that the Zhong family would do anything to achieve their goals and did not care about other people's lives, Wen Yue had been careful to hide herself in this case where the rich man hired a murderer to save his life.

From beginning to end, she only stepped out in three things.

The first time was to save Zhou Xiaobing's life and followed her to Hong Kong University for a day of classes. The second time was when she heard that a female corpse appeared on Foguang Street, she went to the police station to meet Li Wenbing in person. The third time was when other newspapers suppressed the news and let the "Dongjiang Entertainment News" publish news related to the Zhong family.

But her three times of stepping out were not abrupt, especially the first two things were disguised. One was that the Yi Huai brothers had a close relationship with the Zhou family, and the other was that she asked the system to send a letter to herself. Even if someone knew that she deliberately went to class with Zhou Xiaobing, they would probably think that she was dragged into this matter.

Not to mention going to meet Li Wenbing, no one knew about this. When the media reported that she and Yi Huai went to the police station, they just thought they went to report the case because of private matters.

These two incidents did not arouse the Zhong family's vigilance, otherwise, Zhong Jun and his wife would not have been so calm when they saw Wen Yue at the banquet.

Needless to say, the third incident, although she was the first to do so, "Dongjiang Entertainment News" is a newspaper, and it is very natural to expose the heavy news submissions received. Moreover,

when the second report on Zou Jingxiu's incident was made, the media that received the submissions did not suppress it. Theoretically, this hatred should be more dispersed.

But looking at Zhong Lan's posture, it is obvious that he is only targeting Dongjiang Newspaper, oh no, he is targeting her alone.

If Zhong Lan hated Dongjiang Newspaper, he would not have mentioned the word newspaper after being arrested, and would only say that she killed his parents.

But in the matter of the downfall

of the Zhong family, Wen Yue felt that she was not outstanding. At least until now, Zou Jingxiu and his wife did not know who "Mr. Tong" was, let alone that she was the one behind the scenes. Moreover, Zhong Lan was just an ordinary high school student who had never been involved in family affairs. How could he be sure that she was behind the scenes?

The system replied: [Because he accidentally heard two people talking about it, saying that the murderers of those murders were exposed very strangely. Generally, premeditated murders would definitely choose a place where no one was around, and they could not take photos themselves to keep evidence, but the cases committed by Li Wenbing all had photos of the actions without exception. The same is true for the recordings of Mr. Zhong and Zou Jingxiu. 】

It is impossible to take photos when there are photos, and it is impossible to record audio when there is audio. These things that are impossible in theory are not uncommon in the "Dongjiang Entertainment News".

Several recordings of Lin Yongkang in the "True and False Young Master" melon, and photos of two people in the room in the "Switching Couple" melon, all came out of nowhere.

So after listening to the system's explanation, Wen Yue no longer wondered why Zhong Lan would target him, but she didn't think it was an accident that Zhong Lan heard the discussion of the two people.

In fact, when she first asked for those photos and audio recordings, Wen Yue also considered whether doing so would expose herself.

Ordinary readers don't understand the situation and will only think that the person involved is careless, but people who are in it will inevitably have doubts after seeing too much.

But at that time, she was almost dead, so she didn't care whether she would be exposed or not. In order to eat melon value, she could only be as high-profile as possible.

In addition, the existence of the system is beyond people's cognition, and few people would believe it if she told them about it, so she was less cautious. After careful consideration, she still asked the system for photos and recordings as evidence.

Those two people could guess the truth, but Wen Yue didn't believe that they were ordinary passers-by, so she asked: [Those two people are not ordinary passers-by, right? Who ordered them? ]

[Hey! Host, how do you know that they were ordered? ] The system asked in surprise. In order to keep the secret, it deliberately narrated the incident from Zhong Lan's perspective.

Wen Yue didn't intend to keep the secret, and said her thoughts in a few words.

After hearing this, the system started to flatter her, and then continued to keep her in suspense, saying, "Host, you can guess who this person is. You also know this person~"

Wen Yue thought that she knew quite a few people now, but it was not difficult to guess that the person hiding behind and planning these things was definitely not because he had a good relationship with her, but wanted to take the opportunity to retaliate.

Who would want to retaliate against her? Of course, it was the person she offended.

Wen Yue asked, "Is it Mrs. Zheng?"

The system exclaimed, "Wow! Host, you are so smart. You guessed it right away!"

"It really is her." Wen Yue, who was flattered, was not very happy. After muttering, she felt that something was wrong. "She doesn't seem to be very smart, right? How could she guess that there was something wrong with the source of the photos and recordings? Did she get the idea?" 】

【No, Zheng Xingguo guessed it and told her, intending to let her not provoke you...】

【But not only did she not listen, she also took advantage of this guess to plot a plot. 】 Wen Yue added the second half of the system's sentence, chuckled and asked, 【Tsk, should I say that this Zheng Tai is smart, or that she is stupid? 】

The system thought for a while and said: 【She's smart. 】

【This description is appropriate. 】

Thinking of the information about the Zheng family in the system's hands, Wen Yue pretended to be tough and said, "It's cold, let Zheng go bankrupt."

...

"The myth of the perfect husband is shattered, the furniture king actually has someone else in his heart!"

"The non-existent three hundred people will reveal to you how Zheng's furniture evades taxes! 】

"Shock! The chemical ingredients in Zheng’s furniture exceed the carcinogenic limit. The conscientious entrepreneur has turned into a black-hearted capitalist! 》

"Pa!"

A slap landed on the desk. Zheng Xingguo looked at his eldest son in front of him and asked loudly: "So, you are going to tell me now that all the problems in the company have spread throughout Hong Kong, and until now, not only do you not know who is behind it, but you haven't even taken any rescue measures?"

"I asked someone, and those newspapers received anonymous submissions, and the sender address of each letter was different." Zheng Yanze lowered his head and said, "As for the company's problems... I have asked the financial department to destroy the relevant accounting records, and the public relations department is also drafting a statement, but..."

However, the paint used in the furniture produced by their company does contain an ingredient that exceeds the standard. Although the amount of the ingredient that exceeds the standard is not large, it will not make people sick in the short term, but the probability of cancer over a long period of use is indeed higher than the probability of using other brands of furniture.

Zheng Yanze felt a little aggrieved when he thought of this, because it was Zheng Xingguo who decided on this paint.

Zheng Xingguo originally decided on this paint because Hong Kong had entered a period of rapid development, and both labor and raw materials were rising. Zheng's funds were tight, so he wanted to replace the original paint with this paint, which had a similar visual effect but a lower price.

Zheng Xingguo originally wanted to just make do for a while, but he would switch back when the company's business improved. Who would have thought that since then, Zheng's share of the furniture market has slowly declined, so the matter of replacing that paint was left unresolved.

Although Zheng Yanze was in the company at the time, his position was not high, so Zheng Xingguo did not tell him about this.

By the time he became president, several years had passed. Although the Zheng family ran a furniture factory, he only knew more about furniture styles and wood materials. He had no idea whether the paint was good or not, and he never asked. He just felt that there was no need to replace it if there were no problems with it after so many years.

So he didn't know that the paint ingredients used in his own factory were problematic until the news broke.

So Zheng Yanze felt that he couldn't be blamed for the furniture being exposed to have problems, and his father was more responsible. But he could only think about this in his heart. Not only did he not dare to say it out loud, he also did not dare to let Zheng Xingguo see his dissatisfaction. He could only lower his head and continue: "Consumers reacted very strongly. The result is estimated to be... hard to say."

"When the public relations department issued a statement, it focused on the paint and said..." Zheng Xingguo thought for a while and said, "Just say that we didn't know there was a problem with the paint ingredients, and we were deceived by the supplier, and then apologized sincerely."

Zheng Yanze was a little worried: "So, will the paint factory..."

"It was the paint they produced that had problems. What can they say? Not only do we have to issue a statement, we also have to sue them," Zheng Xingguo snorted, and then looked at his eldest son and said, "If you don't do business with ruthlessness, you won't succeed. You are good in other aspects, but your methods are not ruthless enough."

"Daddy."

"Okay, go and do your work." Zheng Xingguo rubbed his brows and glanced at the newspapers on his desk. "Go and contact them and see if they have any other information. If they do, buy it quickly and don't wait for them to expose it."

"Yes." Zheng Yanze responded quickly, and left the study after making sure that his father had no other instructions.

After a while, Mrs. Zheng came in with a few newspapers and said, "Xingguo, I know!"

Zheng Xingguo looked up and asked, "What do you know?"

"I know who is behind this." Mrs. Zheng hurried to the desk, spread out the newspapers in her hands and on the desk for Zheng Xingguo to see, and asked, "Did you see anything?"

Zheng Xingguo asked, "What?"

"The title!" Mrs. Zheng raised her voice, "Look at these newspapers, they are all from the Dongjiang Entertainment News. They always like to use titles like this. Look at these newspapers again. Are the titles very similar to theirs? This incident must have been caused by the girl from the Wen family!"

Zheng Xingguo did not look happy when he heard this. He said, "I asked Yanze to find out. These titles were drafted by the newspaper company's own employees."

After the Dongjiang Entertainment News published several hot news, the Hong Kong newspaper industry learned a lot from them. Those who do current affairs news may still be a little reserved, but those who do entertainment news don't have so many moral principles. They are very smooth in bending to sales.

And the first batch of people who broke the Zheng family scandal were these entertainment newspapers, so it is difficult to tell who was behind them just from the title.

But Mrs. Zheng didn't think so, and said, "It must be the girl from the Wen family. Didn't she say before that she had a lot of news about our family in her hands, and threatened to reveal one piece of news every day? Maybe the person who sent the anonymous letter was her."

Zheng Xingguo's mind moved, but he felt that it was unlikely: "She said before that she wanted to reveal news about our family because you offended her, but you have already apologized to her during that dinner, and I also compensated her. It's been so long, why did she still want to reveal news about our family?"

"Because she knows..." Mrs. Zheng reacted as soon as she started to speak, and quickly changed her words, "People like her are very narrow-minded. Maybe she took the money and went back on her word. Husband, what do you think, should we..."

Although Mrs. Zheng reacted quickly, they were not far away, and Zheng Xingguo naturally saw the guilt that flashed across her eyes. Thinking of the news Zheng Yanze had heard, Wen Yue was hospitalized in a car accident two days ago, and leaned back against the back of the chair, "Do you want anything?"

Zheng Tai lowered his voice and said, "Get rid of her?"

Zheng Xingguo was terrified. Although he had always been unscrupulous in doing things and had killed a friend in his early years, he had never done such a thing as murder.

Moreover, in his heart, although Qin Shuzhen was not smart enough and was very superficial, he always thought she was an ordinary little woman who would not even dare to look at killing a chicken.

But now, when it comes to killing people, she doesn't even blink an eye.

Zheng Xingguo no longer had the heart to test her, and frowned and asked: "Tell me, does Wen Yue's car accident have anything to do with you?"

Mrs. Zheng did not expect her husband to be so sensitive. She was stunned for a moment before blinking and asking: "What car accident? I don't know!"

They have been married for so many years, how could Zheng Xingguo not see that Mrs. Zheng was lying? He clenched his fists in anger and shouted: "Qin Shuzhen! Do you have a brain? I told you not to provoke Wen Yue a long time ago, did you take my words for granted? "Did you take it as wind?"

Zheng Xingguo became more and more angry. He stood up from his seat and turned around quickly for several times before he stopped and glared at Mrs. Zheng: "You, you. Go find a way to contact Wen Yue for me. Whether it means kneeling or begging for mercy, you must coax her into stopping. Do you hear me!"

Mrs. Zheng, who was originally feeling guilty, could not help but screamed: "On what basis? She was the one who provoked our family in the first place! I just took a small revenge, and she is fine. Why should I kneel down and apologize to her?"

"Because the survival of our Zheng family is in her hands!"

If Zheng Xingguo was skeptical about what Wen Yue said when he forced Mrs. Zheng to apologize last time, now he no longer doubted that she had a lot of information about the Zheng family.

He was also sure that the Zheng family had this experience because Wen Yue knew what Mrs. Zheng had done and was taking revenge.

"If you fail to gain her forgiveness this time and let her take advantage of our family," Zheng Xingguo said with a cold face, "I will definitely divorce you!"

Seeing Zheng Xingguo's firm attitude, Mrs. Zheng finally showed some fear in her eyes. She said with tears in her eyes, "I'll go and apologize. Isn't it okay for me to apologize?"

...

Although Mrs. Zheng agreed to apologize, the world does not revolve around her alone. It is impossible for her to do whatever she wants.

In the next day, she used various means to contact Wen Yue, but to no avail.

No one answered her calls. When she arrived at the hospital, she was stopped by bodyguards before she even got close to Wen Yue's ward. She wanted the bodyguards to report something, but the response she got was just two words - not seen.

And the revelations about the Zheng family are still continuing.

Although Zheng Xingguo and his son spent a lot of money to suppress the news, there are always newspapers that are willing to publish news about the Zheng family without fear of power or money.

Moreover, even if they bought all these newspapers, there is still Dongjiang Newspaper that keeps producing news.

Dongjiang Newspaper recently added a daily newspaper, which is published every morning, rain or shine. In recent days, this newspaper has been reporting on the scandals of the Zheng family. Although the circulation of the newspaper is not large, the impact it has caused is not small.

Under the attack of various scandals, the Zheng family was in a mess.

Seeing that the building was about to collapse, Zheng Xingguo became more and more irritable, and the pressure he put on Qin Shuzhen became greater and greater. So when she heard that Wen Yue was going to be discharged from the hospital, she came to the hospital before dawn and waited outside Wen Yue's ward.

So that day, Wen Yue had just packed up and walked out of the ward when she heard Mrs. Zheng, who was unable to get close because of the bodyguards, shouting, "Miss Wen! Miss Wen, I was wrong! Please leave our family alone!"

Wen Yue didn't intend to pay attention to her at first, but just as she walked past her, she heard a "thump" sound from behind. She turned around and saw the once glamorous Mrs. Zheng holding her hands on the ground, He kowtowed to her and shouted, "I kowtow to you, please let us go."

Wen Yue stopped and gave Yi Huai, who was worried that Mrs. Zheng would hurt her and had a disapproving look, a soothing look. She turned and walked to the person kneeling on the ground and kowtowed and said, "You don't have to kowtow to me."

Mrs. Zheng, who was about to continue kowtowing, stopped and looked up at Wen Yue with tears in her eyes: "Miss Wen, you..."

"In fact, we both know that no matter how hard you knock your head, you don't think you are wrong, nor do you really feel sorry for me. Even if there is a day when you can turn things around, you will definitely take revenge on me first, just like you did before."

Zheng was too anxious and said quickly: "Miss Wen, I didn't..."

"You don't have to explain. Your denial is useless to me. I can't believe someone who wants to hurt me again and again, and..."

Wen Yue lowered her head and looked at the woman in front of her who looked much older because of her anxiety. She smiled slightly and said: "Your borrowing a knife to kill someone this time also made me understand a truth. You must be thorough in doing things and uproot the weeds."

"So, I can't give the Zheng family any chance to breathe, understand?"

No matter how stupid Mrs. Zheng was, she couldn't fail to understand what Wen Yue meant. Thinking of the recent scandals of the Zheng family and her husband's increasingly vicious expression, her face gradually turned pale.