"Wife, I love you!" Shen Wen Zhong grabbed Fu Qingru's hand and held it to his chest. He stared at her for a moment and then kissed her cold fingertips.
They have been married for decades, and except for the first few years of their marriage, he has never behaved so intimately in front of the children. Fu Qingru was really not used to it and wanted to pull her hand away but didn't want to be held tighter.
"What are you going to do?" Fu Qingru looked at him speechlessly.
"This is how a couple should be." Song Li smiled, and even felt a little envious. "How wonderful!"
"Just pretend we don't exist." Shen Boyue picked up the peanuts from the plate and mechanically stuffed them into his mouth one by one.
"Hurry up and find a partner! Single dog." After Shen Wenzhong mocked his son, he looked at his wife again with affection, "Believe me, I really love you. I don't know what happened to me these years, I feel like I lost my mind.
In fact, I feel bad when I ignore you, so I always numb myself with work, because I will think of you whenever I have free time.
But there is always a hurdle in my heart that I can't get over. I feel that talking to you and smiling at you is against morality.
Maybe it's just like Yue'er said, it's all arranged by the plot.
But I will not shirk my responsibility. I did it and I will atone for it.
Yue'er is right, you are the one who can accompany me throughout my life. I will compensate you little by little for what I have let you down in the past.
Starting tomorrow, I will hand over all the company affairs to Boyue. I will retire and stay at home with you. We will take Yingying and Yueer and go out for a trip together.
We can stay for a few days wherever we are tired of playing, and come back when Yue'er goes to school."
Fu Qingru: …
Is this really a plot arrangement?
It seems that what he said was not wrong. Although he had neglected her over the years, he would tolerate her no matter what she did.
She has a bad temper and is either offending this person or having friction with that person. Shen Wen Zhong always stands by her and supports her, and more often than not, he silently cleans up the mess for her.
Even if she had friction with the old lady, Shen Wen Zhong never said a word to her. If it weren't for Shen Yue, she wouldn't have known that the old lady had said bad things about her.
And...even if they sleep in separate rooms, they still have sex at the proper frequency, and he is even very considerate and gentle to her.
These are also the reasons why she has never thought about divorce.
But... whether he can change, whether he will treat her well as he promised, depends on his actions, not verbal promises.
Fu Qingru picked up a piece of tofu that Fu Wenzhong liked and said calmly, "It depends on how you perform!"
"Okay!" Shen Wenzhong was as happy as a child despite his age, "I will resign tomorrow!"
"Dad, can we stop?" Shen Boyao didn't know what expression to put on his face. "What did I do wrong? The company has given me a lot of things to do. Can I handle it? Do you still want me to find a partner?"
"Not being able to find a partner is a human problem, don't blame it on work." Shen Wenzhong slapped him and then gave him a sweet date, "Did the company spend so much money to hire senior executives to put things up for show? Aren't they just for use? You, the helmsman, just need to grasp the direction, and leave the work to them."
"You're not serious, are you?"
"Do you think I'm kidding?"
Shen Boyue looked at Fu Qingru for help, but was ruthlessly avoided by the other party.
Fu Qingru felt that it was very good, especially good, to have her husband, daughter and granddaughter by her side, so naturally she would not object.
Song Li was a little worried, "I don't know if Yue'er is willing."
"The little thing likes to watch the fun, how could it be unwilling?" Shen Wenzhong said, "It's settled, we will prepare to set off the day after tomorrow."
"No," Fu Qingru said, "Not until Jiang Zhuxin and the old lady's matter is settled."
So Fu Qingru told the whole story of how Jiang Zhuxin colluded with the human traffickers to sell Song Li.
The two men surnamed Shen jumped up from their seats in unison. Shen Boyue said, "I'll take care of this matter. It won't delay your departure the day after tomorrow."
"No," said Fu Qingru.
"Don't worry! It will be silent and cannot be detected," Shen Boyue said confidently.
"It will damage our virtue. Our family has finally been together, and I don't want anything bad to happen again."
If this had been said before yesterday, Shen Boyao would not have believed a word of it, but now he believed it.
After all, Shen Yue is an indisputable fact, and some things still need to be listened to.
"Just let her get away with it?" Shen Boyue gnashed with hatred.
"No," Fu Qingru said confidently, "If I'm right, she's on the way to commit suicide."
Although Shen Wen Zhong's plan to travel around the world has been temporarily shelved, retirement is not just talk.
Fortunately, Shen Wen Zhong did not just give up as he said, but decided to take a week to hand over the work to Shen Boyue.
Even with a week's time, the handover was still somewhat difficult because the company's business was so huge that Shen Boyue had never even heard of some of it.
There was no other choice, so the father and son went to work at the company early in the morning.
Shen Yue looked unhappy when she opened her eyes and didn't see the two handsome guys from the Shen family.
[Can you please not let the nanny hold me? I want my loved ones to hold me. I only like the smell of my loved ones.]
System: [Why are you making so many excuses? It would be better to just say that you like handsome guys to hug you! ]
[Tongzi, can you please stop exposing me? I just like handsome guys, what's wrong with that? Do you have any objection?]
System: [I do have some opinions, but I don’t dare to do anything about it.]
[I really want to grow up quickly. When I can speak, the first thing I ask for is to be hugged by a handsome, muscular guy. I will feel safe.]
System: [Is it possible that talking and walking are synchronized? If the baby can walk, there is no need to hold him.]
【……】
It was the first time that Song Li saw Shen Yue being speechless, and he felt both distressed and amused.
"Grandpa and uncle have gone to work. Can they come back and hold Yue'er as soon as they get off work? Mommy is holding her now."
[Is this the bond between mother and daughter? My beautiful mother is so awesome, I love you! Stickers! ]
"What a nagging little devil." Fu Qingru pinched Shen Yue's nose lovingly, "You and your mother stay at home obediently. I'll go see the old lady and come back to take you to the garden to play."
[Fuck! What is my grandma's body made of? The old man treated her like this, and she actually went to see her? ]
[Is it not disgusting enough that the old man coveted and defiled my grandfather and four uncles, or is it that the small shoes he wore for so many years don't hurt? ]
[My grandma is really... I pity her misfortune and I am angry at her for not fighting back! ]
Fu Qingru: Any one of the things the old lady did is enough to make her want to kill her a hundred times. Isn't this just waiting for her to take action so that she can catch her all in one fell swoop?
[Wow! Zou Xiaoman and Jiang Zhuxin, these two bastards, actually arranged so many ways for my grandma to die. ]
[Jiang Zhuxin is really enough. Shen Wenchang and Zou Xiaoman had such a ridiculous thing, but Jiang Zhuxin didn't take it to heart at all. She even cooperated with Zou Xiaoman to kill my grandmother. I just want to say that she is also a ruthless person! ]
Fu Qingru: No matter who she is, the key point is how they have arranged for her to die!
But I didn't expect that the little ancestor would start to lose his temper again.
[The more I watch, the angrier I get. My grandparents really have a lot of problems with their values. They just gave up on the revenge for my father's murder, and after being tortured for decades and finally being able to take revenge, they chose to repay evil with virtue.]
[I can’t eat any more of this melon. ]
Fu Qingru: No! If you don’t eat melons, how can I know how the old man and Jiang Zhuxin are going to deal with me!
Crowd of spectators: So you rich people are using us and Shen Yue as social animals! You don't even pay us after work. If you are so rich, can't you find two people to find out the news?
Afraid that Fu Qingru would be nervous and sad, Song Li stepped forward, held her hand, and gave her a look that gave her a sense of security, as if to say 'we are all here, don't be afraid'.
After comforting Fu Qingru, Song Li said, "I don't know what's going on over there. What if the old lady wants to attack you?"
[Look! My beautiful mother can see that something is wrong, but my grandmother is still here to praise her as a filial daughter-in-law. ]
Song Li and Fu Qingru felt relieved only after hearing Shen Yue mumbling about looking for melons.
The little ancestor is quite easy to coax.
[Fuck! I knew the old guy was a psychopath, but I didn't expect him to be this perverted.]
Song Li and Fu Qingru took a breath of cold air. What happened?