Chapter 102: The Truth Revealed at the Wedding Banquet (1)
When several childhood friends saw that Lin Shuang was still going to the hotel to attend the wedding banquet after all this, they were all shocked.
"Shuangshuang, that Chen hasn't come yet. I guess he read the newspaper and doesn't want to marry you anymore. Why are you still going there?"
"Yes, Shuangshuang, the most important thing for us now is to hire the best lawyer to defend you. That guy named Shen doesn't care about you. We will protect you..."
Lin Shuang looked around at these good brothers who treated her sincerely, and felt sad inside.
If only she could like one of them!
Then she wouldn't have taken the detour and lived her life like neither human nor ghost, living in constant fear.
With tears falling down her cheeks, she bowed to these good childhood friends who had allowed her to grow up in pampering. Her voice was full of gratitude. "Thank you for believing in me and being so kind to me, but..."
Lin Shuang silently repeated these three words, "I am not worthy". She prayed to God to give each of her childhood sweethearts a loved one who would forget about her, a dirty and selfish woman.
"I must attend this wedding banquet. This is my lifelong dream. Even if there is no male lead in it, I will complete this wedding."
The sun above the courtyard is dazzling, and the warm light fills the entire courtyard, but it can't warm the hearts of many people.
Lin Shuang wore the wedding dress that she had envied Meng Shuyue for wearing. Facing the circles of sunlight, she got on the car tied with red silk alone in the empty wedding convoy.
The state-owned hotel was decorated with lights and colors.
On the big red arch at the entrance were written the four big characters "Chen-Lin Marriage".
The entrance was already surrounded by reporters without anyone noticing.
Lin Shuang glanced at the familiar faces at the door.
They were all her former colleagues, so of course she understood why they were here.
When there is breaking official news, these newspaper reporters will inevitably follow and come to the scene to report second-hand news.
In the past, she was the one who came to interview with these seniors and juniors, but now she has become the subject of their interview and a joke among people after dinner.
But she is not afraid.
Now her heart and eyes are full of the desire to become Shen Jinxiao's bride.
Father Lin watched his daughter walk resolutely into the hotel. He could no longer hold back and sat down at the door of the hotel, covering his face and crying.
Several of the daughters' childhood friends pulled up the old man whose hair had turned half white in a short period of time, and volunteered to promise, "Uncle, we will definitely catch that man surnamed Shen and marry him, and we will definitely help Shuangshuang realize her dream."
After they finished speaking, they left in different directions with clear division of labor, just to find Shen Jinxiao to attend the wedding.
Lin Shuang came to the lounge behind the banquet hall first and waited.
She stroked the wedding rings in the box in her hand.
It was the ring she carefully selected and only asked Shen Jinxiao to help her put it on at the wedding.
But this man, whose heart was as hard as stone, not only didn't care about the style of the ring, but even forgot to take the ring with him. On such an important day, he abandoned her and disappeared without a trace.
Tears dropped onto the golden ring and slowly shattered, just like her originally passionate heart which was shattered into powder.
There was a knock on the lounge door, and a tall figure walked in and closed the door.
Lin Shuang, who was still sobbing, suddenly brightened up when she heard the sound. She thought it was Shen Jinxiao who came back, and quickly got up.
When she turned around to look at the person coming, a pair of big hands hugged her tightly from behind.
"Shuangshuang, I'm actually the 'Gao' who has been your pen pal for a few years. Please don't get married. Can you change the groom to me?"
The man's low, magnetic voice exploded in his ears.
Lin Shuang couldn't help but widen her eyes as she looked at the reflection of the man's face wearing a leather mask in the mirror. She couldn't believe that the man who broke into her house and molested her was the pen pal who had been comforting her for several years.
"Let me go, or I'll call for help..."
Before she could finish, a handkerchief soaked in medicine blocked Lin Shuang's mouth and nose.
Lin Shuang scratched the man's throbbing hand for a few times, and finally his eyes went dark and he lost consciousness...
Half an hour later.
Shen Jinxiao came to the hotel by himself, and when he came over, he happened to run into a few second-generation childhood friends who couldn't find anyone else.
Several childhood friends wanted to scold him, but in the end they swallowed their anger and dared not say anything.
But they didn't see that blood was slowly rolling down from Shen Jinxiao's slightly trembling fingertips under his left sleeve, and when it was about to drip onto the marble floor of the hotel, the blood drops were completely wrapped up in a raging vein along with his clenched fist.
The sound of suonas filled the banquet hall, and an emcee livened up the atmosphere, making the guests laugh.
Shen Ting and Song Shixuan were also at the wine table.
Song Shixuan ate the food silently. When he saw his uncle, he didn't even say hello and just kept eating the melon seeds on the table.
But when Shen Ting saw Shen Jinxiao, she ran to Shen Jinxiao excitedly, helped him tidy up his clothes with a look of relief, and her voice was full of joy, "I have seen Lin Shuang grow up since she was a child. I originally wanted her to be my daughter-in-law, but now I think it's not bad to be my brother's wife."
She kept talking, mostly to say that Lin Shuang loved him very much, unlike Meng Shuyue who was fickle and coquettish, and advised Shen Jinxiao and Lin Shuang to live a good life.
Shen Jinxiao couldn't help but tear up when he looked at the sister in front of him who loved him like her own son.
It seemed that she had not read the morning newspaper at all, nor did she notice the different expressions of the people in the guest seats, and many people were pointing at them.
Without much response, he walked straight to the lounge behind the banquet hall.
As soon as I got closer, I heard Lin's father cursing in despair.
"Okay, Zhang Donghai, I didn't expect you to be such a beast. I'm going to beat you to death..."
Shen Jinxiao rushed over in two steps and saw Zhang Donghai, whose clothes were disheveled, being grabbed by the collar and beaten violently by Lin's father.
A snakeskin mask lying on the ground was eye-catching.
Lin Shuang, who was sitting on the sofa nearby, stared blankly at the ceiling, as if she had no reaction to anything.
Shen Jinxiao was completely stunned.
Seeing the guard who was traveling with Lin's father turn around and say he was going to call Political Commissar Zhang, he did not stop him.
He couldn't believe that Zhang Donghai was the mysterious man they were looking for.
He slowly approached Lin Shuang, and when his eyes met the despair in her eyes, his heart softened for a moment, and a tear fell on her bloodless face.
Lin Shuang seemed to be burned by this tear and quickly came back to her senses.
When she saw Shen Jinxiao, endless grievance and excitement instantly burst out from her eyes.
She hugged Shen Jinxiao tightly, wailing in pain with a hoarse voice, "Why do you want to hurt me, why, I just want to get you..."
With just one sentence, Shen Jinxiao's heart, which had just softened, was shaken again. His heart slowly cooled and hardened in the scenes of his father's tragic death and his eldest son entering the emergency room for surgery.
She, Lin Shuang, is pitiful, but aren’t his father, wife, and son also pitiful?
The hideous scars on Meng Shuyue's body, and the look of him tilting his head and screaming "ahhhh" as he was being bullied, instantly turned into raging anger that tore apart all his kindness towards the little girl.
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