Chapter 176 Muddy Waters
The next morning, Shen Sangsang opened her eyes while lying in bed. The moment she opened her eyes, she looked at the crystal chandelier above her head. She knew very well that she had returned to the villa.
There was no change on her face. At this moment, it was the servant's voice. She whispered cautiously in her ear: "Madam, you are awake..."
Shen Sangsang turned her head and looked towards the servant. She saw that the servant's expression was different from usual. She knew very well that today was unusual compared to the past.
After hearing her words, Shen Sangsang asked in a low voice: "What time is it?"
The servant replied, "Ten o'clock sharp in the morning."
Shen Sangsang nodded subconsciously, and then she withdrew her gaze from the servant.
At this time, the servant whispered again: "The master is back, you should get up."
Shen Sangsang replied in a low voice: "Yeah, I know."
Afterwards, the servant left her bedside.
Shen Sangsang lay in bed for about five or six minutes before she slowly got up from the bed.
But who knew that as soon as she sat down, a sharp pain started to ferment from her forehead.
Shen Sangsang immediately pressed her hand to her forehead.
She has a very low alcohol tolerance, but to her surprise, even though she drank so much yesterday, her overall condition didn't seem as bad as she had imagined.
While she was thinking in her mind, she eased the discomfort in her body. After it was finally relieved, she got out of bed completely and walked straight to the bathroom.
When she arrived downstairs, she saw Shen Yuehuai sitting at the dining table. The moment she saw him, Shen Sangsang slowed down her pace.
Shen Yuehuai, who was sitting at the dining table, looked away from the TV screen and towards the stairs to the second floor after hearing footsteps upstairs.
Early in the morning, the domestic morning news was broadcast in the hall, and the news anchor's standard Mandarin echoed back and forth in the hall.
Shen Sangsang was standing at the stairs on the second floor. When she saw Shen Yuehuai's gaze, her face finally showed some of the solemnity and tension she should have. She subconsciously continued to walk down. When she finally reached the dining table, the first thing that caught her eye was not Shen Yuehuai's face, but his bandaged hand placed on the armrest of the chair.
After seeing the gauze wrapped around his palm, she subconsciously raised her face and looked towards Shen Yuehuai's face.
The moment they saw his face, the first thing they met was each other's eyes.
Shen Yuehuai's eyes were as calm as water, and his face was even more silent.
Shen Sangsang's expression was one of astonishment.
In her stunned expression, Shen Yuehuai paid no attention to her gaze and only said, "Are you sober?"
Shen Sangsang didn't say anything; she remained silent.
The fingers of Shen Yuehuai's injured hand tapped lightly on the armrest of the chair. After tapping twice, he said, "Do you remember what happened last night?"
He asked calmly, but Shen Sangsang could hear the emotion in his voice.
That was a cold question.
There were not many servants in the hall. After hearing his question, Shen Sangsang closed her eyes: "I was...drunk yesterday, and I...don't know what I did. I was dizzy and confused."
She said this.
But what did Shen Yuehuai hear when he heard these words?
Shen Yuehuai leaned back in his chair, his eyes fixed on her.
Shen Sangsang naturally felt her gaze, which was always on her face, so she never opened her eyes.
Shen Yuehuai's voice continued to slowly reach the hall: "Who asked who out? There must have been a reason for you to meet last night."
She didn't say.
Shen Yuehuai was not in a hurry either. He just reached out with a calm expression, picked up the water glass on the table, put it to his lips, and took a sip of water.
After taking a sip of water, he put the cup back on the table and looked at her again: "Let me guess."
He frowned, thinking, and asked, "Is it him?"
When Shen Sangsang heard his question, her closed eyes suddenly opened, but she still didn't look at him. Instead, she stood there thinking quietly for a long time and said, "It's me."
"Is it you?"
This answer surprised Shen Yuehuai.
Instantly, he laughed, and that laugh actually had a somewhat sinister meaning in this empty hall: "Is it you?"
He asked her again.
Shen Sangsang said, “It’s me.”
"Why."
He asked again.
Shen Sangsang didn't answer why.
Shen Yuehuai laughed again, but this time it was a light laugh. He asked, "So I should fulfill your wish? I like him very much, right?"
“Sorry, Uncle Shen.”
She uttered these words.
These words seemed to deeply sting Shen Yuehuai's eardrums. He suddenly stood up from the dining table and walked towards her. After he walked in front of her, he lowered his eyes to look at her. After looking at her for a long time, he asked softly, "What do you mean by 'I'm sorry'?"
The corners of Shen Sangsang's eyes trembled, and her lips and teeth clenched tightly.
Shen Yuehuai grasped her chin and forcibly twisted her face up.
He was seldom so rude.
Shen Sangsang opened her eyes under his hand and had to look directly at him.
Shen Yuehuai whispered, "Should I fulfill your wish, or should I fulfill both of you?"
Shen Sangsang didn't know the difference between the two, and her wing-like eyelashes were trembling violently.
"Chen Sangsang, I never thought you were this kind of girl. It seems that I haven't understood you thoroughly enough over the years. I thought that one Chen Zhou was the end, but I didn't expect that there would be another Zhou Shiran. Why do you like him? Just because we are the same age?"
She felt pain in her jaw, the kind of pain that was almost like a dislocation.
While she was feeling the pain, Shen Yuehuai's hand wrapped in gauze was also bleeding, and the blood even dyed the gauze on the palm of his hand bright red.
But he didn't care at all, and just continued to ask with a coercive expression: "Do you know that you are cheating on me? Are you playing with fire?"
Even though it hurt, she didn't say a word. Her face was extremely stubborn in his hands, as if if she endured it, the pain would disappear.
Shen Yuehuai's hands became stronger and stronger, so strong that the gauze could not hold the blood in his palms.
He never thought that he would find it so difficult to understand someone, and that this person who was so difficult to understand was actually raised by him.
The pain in my heart was already worse than the pain in my palms.
He sneered: "What can he bring to you? Tell me?"
"hapiness."
This time Shen Sangsang answered very quickly. She replied to him almost immediately after he finished speaking.
This was also the sentence she answered actively after a long silence.
When Shen Yuehuai heard the word happy, he continued to ask: "Happy?"
Shen Sangsang's voice was choked with sobs: "Yes, happiness. After Chen Zhou's death, he was the only one who could bring me happiness. I just wanted to be closer to happiness, although I knew it was a mistake."
When Shen Sangsang said this, her eyes suddenly became extremely calm.
Those calmness were like a sharp cold knife, cutting across Shen Yuehuai.
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