Sure enough, he was hiding many secrets.
Su Xi turned to the side, her hands seemingly boneless, and proactively wrapped around the man's neck. "Then wouldn't I become the boss's wife?"
"certainly."
Zhou Jingming rested his hands on the back of the sofa, a smug smile playing on his lips. He loved seeing his subservient woman fawning over him; it made him feel valued.
Su Xi's hands roamed freely over his body. "Besides me, which other woman have you brought here?"
The smile on Zhou Jingming's face also disappeared at this moment.
He grabbed her small hand, flipped her over, and pinned her beneath him. "Only you."
"Really?" Su Xi asked, half believing it.
Zhou Jingming lowered his face and bit her shoulder punishingly, "Am I really that unworthy of your trust?"
It seems that she had never believed him at all, from childhood to adulthood.
That's why the two drifted further and further apart.
Zhou Jingming couldn't understand why Su Xi had distanced herself from him back then, while she had such a good relationship with Lin Ye.
This question has troubled him for over a decade, and it has tormented him for so long.
"I don't believe in myself." Su Xi laughed self-deprecatingly.
Having lived in abuse by her family since childhood, her life was shrouded in darkness, devoid of any light.
This also made her sensitive and suspicious, and she didn't easily trust herself.
She was actually aware of Zhou Jingming's kindness towards her.
But she was also afraid that it was just an illusion.
Once she gave him her heart, he treated it as a joke, leaving her the only one who got hurt and fell into despair.
“But you can trust me.” Zhou Jingming picked her up and quickly walked towards the balcony.
Only then did Su Xi realize that there was another world outside.
The hot spring pool is located in the middle of the rooftop, with wisps of steam rising from it.
Zhou Jingming carried her down into the warm water, and he held her from behind, resting his chin on her neck.
“I am your husband. You can completely entrust yourself to me. No matter what happens, you are not fighting alone.”
His fingertips brushed across the top of her hair, sending shivers down her spine.
Su Xi stiffened, then gave a sarcastic laugh. "Where were you when I needed help the most?"
Back then, she was bullied time and time again, and the person who always helped her was Lin Ye.
Zhou Jingming, on the other hand, watched from afar, completely oblivious.
Doesn't it seem ridiculous that he's saying such things now?
“I’ve always been by your side,” Zhou Jingming whispered in her ear, as if speaking into her heart.
Su Xixin remained unmoved. "No, all these years, you've been with all sorts of women, while I've only ever had myself by my side."
"Xi'er, you've misunderstood me."
Zhou Jingming knew that if they didn't be honest and clear about things today, their hearts could never truly be together.
Besides, he also had many questions and doubts that he needed to get answers from her.
"What misunderstanding?" Su Xi tried to get away from him, but the man didn't give her a chance and hugged her even tighter. "I was punished and beaten, and you stood at my door watching."
"I knelt before Su Rou's memorial tablet all night long. It was pouring rain, and I was shivering with cold. Where were you then?"
"After struggling in obscurity for so many years, you support other artists while ignoring me. Doesn't that prove that I'm disliked by you and that you don't care whether I live or die?"
Su Xi, feeling wronged from who-knows-where, brought up past events and questioned him.
Perhaps the antagonism between the two of them since childhood has always been a thorn in her side, but she has never found an opportunity to confide in anyone. After keeping it bottled up inside for so long, she has become numb to it.
Zhou Jingming straightened her body and looked into her eyes. "That's not how it is. I'm here, I've always been here."
He had always been around her since they were little.
She just never knew it.
Seeing her being punished by Li Xuemei, he pretended to ignore it, but secretly he deliberately teased Li Xuemei and frightened her in various ways.
For a period of time, Li Xuemei's mental state was not quite right; it was because Zhou Jingming's prank had frightened her.
While Su Xi was locked in the ancestral hall kneeling before the longevity tablet, he secretly climbed through the window and stayed by her side all night. However, fearing she would discover him, he secretly ran away before she woke up.
Over the years, he has watched her being trampled on and humiliated in the entertainment industry while secretly controlling public opinion.
Otherwise, how could she survive in this industry with her reputation?
Zhou Jingming didn't want to hide it anymore, so he stared into her eyes and told her what happened back then.
Su Xi was able to remain calm as she listened to what was happening ahead, but the more she learned, the more her emotions began to spiral out of control.
"What did you say? Li Xuemei is mentally unstable, did you do it?"
Fifteen years ago, strange things started happening in my family.
Li Xuemei always said she could see unclean things, so she even invited a Taoist priest to her home to perform rituals, after which the family became much more peaceful.
Su Xi had always thought it was retribution for Li Xuemei's many bad deeds, but she never expected that it was Zhou Jingming who did it.
"She bullied you, so she should pay the price." Zhou Jingming said with a ruthless expression.
Su Xi was deeply troubled. "On that stormy day, when I was kneeling before Su Rou's memorial tablet, strange noises suddenly came from the house. Was that your doing too?"
Although she was delirious with fever, she could still hear screams coming from inside the house.
She was just too tired, so she fell asleep.
When she saw Lin Ye by her side at dawn, she assumed that Lin Ye was the one who had taken care of her all night.
Zhou Jingming smiled sinisterly, "I just put a ghost face by Li Xuemei's window. She's timid and thought it was a ghost, so she screamed her heart out."
I see.
Su Xi wanted to ask something more, but Zhou Jingming suddenly grabbed her shoulder, his expression extremely serious, "The person who was watching over you that night was me, not Lin Ye."
With a loud bang.
Like a thunderbolt splitting her brain, Su Xi stared wide-eyed in disbelief.
"That can't be, what I saw when I opened my eyes was clearly..."
"You had a high fever and were feeling cold, and I held you all night. What did Guan Lin have to do with it?" Zhou Jingming laid his cards on the table. He had been keeping this secret in his heart for so many years, and he had had enough.
"It was Lin who took advantage of the situation to make you misunderstand him."
"No, I woke up in the middle of the night, and the clothes you were wearing clearly had the name Lin Ye on them." Because she was delirious from the fever and the clothes were familiar, she was able to recognize Lin Ye at a glance.
Zhou Jingming gritted his teeth in anger, "Those are school uniforms, we mixed them up."
Su Xi was taken aback.
So she mistook someone for someone else?
It was Zhou Jingming who accompanied and protected her, not Lin Ye?
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