Chapter 179
What he saw was the eye-catching sight of the man named Wen Zhao and Shi Mei going out together. He was so angry that he took a private plane back to China that day.
If someone had not told him later that there was a little boy with gray eyes beside Shi Mei, he would never have known that Shi Ye was his child.
Moreover, he is his most successful child.
…
Jiang Zhinian felt a little uneasy.
As school was about to end, she took out her cell phone, quietly opened the album, enlarged the photo she had just received from an unfamiliar number, and looked at it carefully several times.
In the photo, Shi Ye followed a woman into a hotel.
But the angle of the photo is very tricky, and apart from the hotel entrance, no iconic features are revealed.
From an emotional point of view, Jiang Zhinian certainly didn't believe that Shi Ye was the kind of despicable man who would secretly check into a hotel with another woman while his wife was pregnant. It's not that he believed in his own charm, but he just felt that Shi Ye's character was not like that.
However, her rationality prevented her from finding a reasonable reason to explain this matter.
The ringing of her cell phone woke her up from her daze. She took a deep breath and answered the strange number.
"Hello……"
"I'm Zhou Hongyun."
"Oh, oh, it's you..."
Jiang Zhinian was completely confused and didn't know why Zhou Hongyun contacted him suddenly.
"You saw the photo. The woman in it is me."
For some reason, Jiang Zhinian suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
"So it's you..."
"Hey, what do you mean by suddenly feeling relieved? You're not worried at all about it, right?"
Although this was indeed what he meant, Jiang Zhinian was embarrassed to admit: "That's not what I meant."
"Hmph, hypocritical." Zhou Hongyun continued on the other end of the phone, "I have a secret about Shi Ye. If you want to know, I'll pick you up later and we can find a place to talk."
Secret? How come so many people know Shi Ye's secret?
Jiang Zhinian felt strange, but said, "I still have classes, so I won't go."
Zhou Hongyun was stunned and said in disbelief: "Shi Ye's secret, don't you want to know?"
"Well, to be honest, I don't really want to."
"Are you sick? Aren't you curious about your husband's secret?"
Jiang Zhinian was not angry at all, but just repeated: "I've already said it, I really don't want to know."
Zhou Hongyun paused, as if she felt that it was a bit tricky to deal with Jiang Zhinian. It was the first time she met someone as soft as cotton candy, and she always felt like she had power but nowhere to use it.
"This secret is related to whether Shi Ye really loves..."
"Oh, sorry, I have a message to reply, so I'll hang up first." Jiang Zhinian hung up the phone without waiting for Zhou Hongyun to finish, and then breathed a sigh of relief.
That was a close call.
…
When they arrived at the school gate, Shi Ye was already waiting at the gate with an umbrella. Jiang Zhinian put away his umbrella and got under Shi Ye's umbrella.
"Have you been waiting long?"
"No, I just arrived."
"Isn't the hospital busy today?"
"good."
"How about having barbecue on a rainy day? The grilled pineapple we had last time was delicious."
Shi Ye looked at Jiang Zhinian's carefree smile and smiled faintly. The hand in his arm was as soft and full of attachment as usual, but when Shi Ye thought of the message lying in his pocket, he felt inexplicably annoyed.
Zhou Hongsheng sent him a message, which was a photo.
"I hijacked Zhou Hongyun's phone and discovered that she had sent this photo to your wife and had also made a phone call."
Of course, there was no way to know the content of the phone call, but Shi Ye could probably guess what she said.
Thinking of this, Shi Ye lowered his head to look at Jiang Zhinian's face. She was still talking about the interesting things that happened in school today, but Shi Ye's ears seemed to be drowned out by the sound of rain and he could not hear anything clearly.
"Shi Ye, Shi Ye, what's wrong with you?"
After telling a funny story, Jiang Zhinian thought he would get a response from Shi Ye, but he just looked at his face quietly, which made him feel something was wrong.
"Do you have anything to ask me about the photo?"
This is actually not a good place for a conversation, not to mention it is raining. If the conversation between the two breaks down, it means at least one of them will get wet in the rain.
But Shi Ye just couldn't control himself and endured until he got home.
He wanted to know why Jiang Zhinian didn't act like a wife catching her cheating husband, and questioned why he went to the hotel with a woman.
The book says that because people instinctively want exclusivity in romantic relationships, love and jealousy are sometimes like twins. If you find that you are jealous of a person's close social relationship, then you are not far from love.
But it was obvious that Jiang Zhinian had never shown his jealous side to him.
Jiang Zhinian didn't expect that Shi Ye also knew about the photos. Then he thought that maybe Zhou Hongyun had threatened Shi Ye with the photos first, and when that didn't work, she turned to deceive him. Then he understood.
"I know you must have something going on to go to the hotel with Zhou Hongyun. I believe you."
She couldn't guess what it was, so she could only palely express her trust, but she didn't express the meaning of "I feel relieved because that woman is Zhou Hongyun."
Shi Ye looked at her with an unfathomable expression and asked, "Don't you have anything else you want to ask?"
Jiang Zhinian thought about it seriously and shook his head: "No more."
Shi Ye withdrew his gaze and looked outside the umbrella. The rain was getting heavier and heavier. They still walked home arm in arm as usual, but Shi Ye keenly felt that the people around him had become different.
…
When they got home, they washed their hands. Shi Ye did not go to the kitchen to prepare dinner as usual. Instead, he walked to the sink and put his arm around Jiang Zhinian's waist, who had just washed her face.
"Do you still have your lipstick?"
He was talking about the one she wore when they first went on a date at a western restaurant that night.
Jiang Zhinian raised her head with tears on her face, looked at the mirror in front of her, and nodded: "Yes."
Shi Ye also looked at Jiang Zhinian and himself in the mirror. He used his hand to gently touch the crystal water droplets falling on Jiang Zhinian's face.
"Do you want to put it on?"
Jiang Zhinian hesitated a little: "Shi Ye, I'm almost 7 months old."
If they were walking on the edge of the taboo line last time, this time they have stepped into the inner circle of the taboo.
"You don't dare?"
I don’t dare, and I don’t want to.
But Jiang Zhinian didn't say anything, he just looked into Shi Ye's eyes, was dazed for a moment, and smiled bitterly.
Humans are indeed greedy animals. When they have nothing, they think that just a little bit of responsibility would be enough. When she has the marriage certificate, she thinks that just a little sympathy or even pity would be enough. But when she has Shi Ye's gentleness and thoughtfulness, when she looks back, she thinks... if only he could really love me.
Jiang Zhinian smiled at the mirror, turned around and hugged Shi Ye's neck, and said affectionately, "I'm hungry."
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