Chapter Fourteen: She Has a New Blind Date
Zhou Mengying continued to provoke her over the phone.
"Since you didn't jump off the building, I might as well tell you something more exciting. The little house you've been running for three years is a little hotel that Hengzhi and I love. We did it on that pink cushion on the sofa the very afternoon we bought it."
"The bed you slept in, the French windows on your balcony, every corner of your bathroom—all bear the scent of him and me, intertwined as one."
"You're just canceling your lease on such a nice little hotel? What are you going to do if you want to sneak into the blankets Hengzhi slept in the middle of the night?"
"How about this, his room will be reserved for you, and I'll give you a 50% discount on the rent. How about that? Don't be shy, Hengzhi and I don't come here often, just occasionally."
With each sarcastic remark she heard on the phone, Su Muci's expression stiffened a little more.
She clenched her knuckles and said in a flat voice, "No need. You can take your time here. People shouldn't watch animals mating; it'll bring bad luck."
After responding, she hung up the phone without paying attention to Zhou Mengying's heavy breathing on the other end.
Then, he picked up the hammer from the toolbox in the entryway cabinet and went to the bed where Fu Hengzhi had slept.
"Bang bang bang—!"
Smash the bed completely; consider it the deposit.
After dealing with everything, she locked the door and left the place where she had lived for three years.
That night, the door creaked open again.
Fu Hengzhi stepped in with his handcrafted, high-end leather shoes.
With a "smack," the lights came on, revealing the empty living room, kitchen, and balcony. Then, seeing his bed in his room, smashed to pieces, his brow furrowed even deeper.
She kept saying she wished him and Ying'er well, but what happened? If she really didn't care, would she have smashed the bed? What a hypocritical and scheming woman!
He should feel a sense of satisfaction seeing the woman who had bullied Ying'er now hysterically unable to win her heart.
But looking at the familiar rented room, everything had changed, and he felt a surge of frustration.
The cell phone rang.
The business director said hurriedly on the other end of the phone, "President Fu, I have received news that Mr. Zero met with the chairman of the Zhou Group tonight!"
"Who are you talking about? The Zhou family?"
Fu Hengzhi's face darkened. That was Zhou Mengying's father! His future father-in-law!
The business director was extremely anxious: "I heard they signed an agreement on the spot, but I couldn't find out the specific details. If they reach an agreement, the chairman will definitely be furious..."
"President Fu, Chairman Zhou is your future father-in-law. If you speak up, he might be willing to relinquish the cooperation. Before the Zhou Group officially announces the cooperation, you should make a decision as soon as possible..."
Fu Hengzhi's expression grew increasingly grim.
He transferred the call to Zhou Mengying: "Ying'er, can you find out if your father met with Zero, the president's special assistant at the Huo Group, today?"
"Yes, I've seen it. My dad had a big project that was stalled, but with the Huo family's help this time, it's sure to..."
Zhou Mengying changed the subject, "Hengzhi, why are you asking this?"
Fu Hengzhi lowered his voice a few degrees: "That collaboration originally belonged to my father."
"You mean my dad stole your dad's project?"
Zhou Mengying said unhappily, "Hengzhi, everyone in Jiangcheng's elite circles says that my marriage is me marrying above my station. Don't you want the Zhou family to increase its value after cooperating with the Huo family, so that it can be on equal footing with your Fu family in the future?"
Fu Hengzhi frowned even more deeply: "Ying'er, that's not what I meant. It's just that if the cooperation between the Fu family and the Huo family runs into problems, my father will revoke my inheritance rights."
"You're the only son of the Fu family. If he doesn't give you the inheritance, who else would he give it to? You actually believe that? Alright, my dad wants to talk to me about something. Let's talk about it later."
"beep……"
The call was disconnected, and Fu Hengzhi gripped his phone, his face grim.
He looked up at the rented room again and suddenly remembered Su Muci, who used to cook crayfish for him even when she was in menstrual cramps, who always put him first and made sacrifices for him.
His gaze suddenly darkened.
If it were Su Muci, she would definitely try to get her father to agree for him, she definitely would...
Suddenly, his eyes turned cold.
How could he possibly miss that vicious woman!
...
"yawn--!"
Su Muci suddenly sneezed in Huo Junjun's small apartment, feeling as if someone was crickets chirping behind her.
Just then, my best friend finished work and went home!
As soon as the door opened, Huo Junjun hung her bag in the entryway and rushed to Su Muci, who was sitting cross-legged on a yoga mat in the living room.
"Mu Ci, tell me the details of your blind date with my brother. Did he pretend to be drunk? He's quite cunning. What else did you two do?"
Su Muci avoided mentioning that Huo Zhan wasn't allergic to alcohol at all, and truthfully said, "Junjun, your brother and I aren't a good match..."
Huo Junjun understood; the two didn't make eye contact, so she didn't press the matter further.
"It's okay, I'll introduce you to other great men! Don't be discouraged!"
Turning her head, Huo Junjun secretly called her older brother behind Su Muci's back and asked, "Brother, what happened with your blind date with my best friend today?"
"this……"
Huo Junyan stammered on the other end of the phone.
Huo Junjun got anxious: "I remember when we were little, you said you wanted her to be my sister-in-law when we played house! Just because she's not the eldest daughter of the Zhou family anymore, you've changed your mind, haven't you?"
Under Huo Junjun's barrage of questions, Huo Junyan said awkwardly, "Junjun, how can you take what children say in play seriously? As for blind dates, you should ask your uncle."
"Uncle? What does this have to do with my uncle? Don't try to change the subject. I may be afraid of my uncle, but I'm not afraid to ask!"
"Then go ask."
"..."
Huo Junjun would never ask such a question. Why would she bother with that devil? After hanging up the phone, Huo Junjun immediately started trying to set her best friend up with someone new.
"His name is Gong Shichen. He's a new lawyer who returned from overseas and joined our firm. He's single, at least 1.85 meters tall, and very handsome. Mu Ci, what do you think? Want to arrange something?"
Su Muci agreed as soon as she heard the word "lawyer".
The new blind date venue was set for a coffee shop.
At dusk, Huo Zhan was in a coffee shop exchanging "marriage fraud" strategies with a dating expert.
"Mr. Huo, based on the clues we have now, Ms. Su's situation is much worse than we previously knew. Her mother jumped off the roof from the same spot where she was sitting during the live broadcast that day."
"As for her father, Zhou Wangyuan, when he officially announced at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Zhou Group last year that Zhou Mengying, the second daughter of the Zhou family, was the sole heir of the Zhou Group, he did not mention Miss Su at all."
“Miss Su not only publicly confessed her feelings to Fu Hengzhi and was rejected, but she was also completely abandoned by her family. Considering that she almost jumped off a building before, but then went on a blind date with you the next day, if you want her to agree to that agreement, you need to understand her real purpose for getting married first.”
"In my opinion, her purpose in getting married is most likely to take revenge on the Zhou family."
"Stop." Huo Zhan interrupted Cheng Siyu's analysis.
It was all because a familiar figure suddenly flashed past the glass window—Su Muci!
She was wearing a knitted dress, her hair was tied up in a bun, and the pearl hair tie shimmered under the streetlights.
This outfit makes her look exceptionally gentle and well-behaved...
Huo Zhan's Adam's apple bobbed, and he was about to get up.
However, the next second, her eyes turned bloodshot—because a strange man in a suit was gentlemanly draping his coat over Su Muchi's shoulders!
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