Chapter 115 Every hateful person has a pitiful suffering.
After Wenxi finished drinking the ginger soup and put the bowl in the sink, she saw half a trash can full of ginger and her eyelids twitched.
Just as Wen Xi sat back down at the dining table, Shang Chen suddenly received a phone call.
His already somber face instantly became even more serious.
"Okay, please bring it over."
After hanging up the phone, Wenxi ate her wontons and asked, "What should I send?"
Shang Chen stared at her with his dark eyes. "The security guard just called and said there's a takeout order at the gate. He asked if we wanted it delivered."
Wenxi immediately realized: "My brother ordered it?"
Shang Chen: "It should be."
Wenxi bit her spoon, unsure of what to say for a moment.
Her brother asked Shang Chen to make her a late-night snack, and then ordered takeout for her himself, which did suggest that he didn't really trust Shang Chen.
Wenxi forced herself to remain calm: "There's a money box under the coffee table. Take some money and give it to the security guard as a tip for his trouble."
"It's so late, and I'm still troubling him to deliver the food."
Shang Chen handed a red bill to the deliveryman, placed the takeout on the table, and said in a deep voice, "Does your brother trust you to eat takeout?"
Wenxi glanced at the outer packaging, her eyes clear: "He invested in this store."
Shang Chen: "..."
Compared to his brother-in-law, he seems to have a lot to learn.
Wenzhou ordered a box of seafood porridge. There wasn't much seafood, but the flavor was very rich.
When Shang Chen was unpacking, he saw the note on the order form, silently tore it off, and handed it to Wen Xi.
Wenxi glanced at it with a puzzled look.
Then I saw four huge words on it: "Don't eat too much."
It's obvious that her brother instructed her to make the note.
Shang Chen remained calm, but Wen Xi was quite familiar with him.
I know Daddy is really annoyed.
Wenxi opened the packaging, took a spoon, scooped out a spoonful, and handed it to Shang Chen, saying, "Thank you for your hard work tonight, President Shang."
“You didn’t eat much tonight, but you made me a late-night snack as soon as you got back.”
Wenxi wasn't ungrateful; she remembered all the good things Shang Chen had done for her.
Shang Chen stared at the spoon and slowly opened his mouth.
Wenxi only ate a few bites of the seafood porridge in the back, and fed the rest to Shang Chen.
Wenxi felt a sense of accomplishment as she watched Shang Chen's expression gradually change from serious and depressed to joyful.
When Shang Chen returned after taking a shower, he found the bedroom empty.
Finally, she was found in Wenxi's study.
Wenxi was looking at case files on her computer at the time, and there was a book about divorce cases on the table next to her.
Shang Chen knocked on the door. "It's so late, why aren't you asleep?"
Wenxi leaned back in her chair, looking languid and calm. "I can't sleep. My thoughts are a bit jumbled."
Shang Chen approached, "Would you like some wine?"
Wenxi's originally lazy eyes narrowed, and she stared at him quietly.
Shang Chen met her gaze and fell silent for a moment.
That's not what I meant.
He also realized that the conversation between the two of them could easily go astray when they talked about alcohol.
His mention of drinking at this time could easily be misinterpreted as a sexual advance.
Shang Chen explained, "Will drinking a little wine make you feel better?"
Wenxi: "After drinking, it's easy to act irrationally."
Wenxi only drinks alcohol when she is sober, and she will never drink alcohol when she is emotionally unstable.
Shang Chen didn't say anything, just sat quietly beside her.
After a while, Wenxi suddenly said, "You've heard so much from my brother today, don't you have any questions for me?"
“There are many.”
Shang Chen has always been very honest.
Wenxi: "Then why didn't you ask?"
“If you’re not going to talk, it means you don’t want to.” Shang Chen’s expression became even more composed and calm: “I’ll ask you when you’re ready to talk.”
Wenxi remained silent for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Do you think my adoptive mother, Ning Jin, is a bad person?"
Shang Chen was stumped by this question.
He said seriously, "You've been with her the longest, so your judgment is the only one that counts whether she's a bad person or not."
"I don't know her well."
"It is not appropriate to judge a person's character when you do not understand them."
Wenxi didn't think Shang Chen was playing games.
She said calmly, "There's always a reason why someone is pitiful; there's actually a second part to that saying."
"That is to say, every hateful person has a pitiful suffering."
Wen Xi: "The time she punished me by making me face the wall on the balcony was because I was tricked into going to Wen Haichuan's house by his lover."
“My brother doesn’t know what happened. He probably came home and found me frozen unconscious on the balcony, and no one in the family noticed, which is why he was so angry.”
“He felt sorry for me, but he also resented me, which is why he has been holding a grudge ever since.”
Shang Chen asked quietly, "Then what did you remember?"
Wenxi's eyes cleared, and her memories were suddenly pulled back to the past.
Wenxi doesn't really remember the specific details.
She only remembered that it was right after school when a beautifully dressed and friendly woman came to pick her up.
The teacher took her hand and asked her if she knew him.
Young Wenxi nodded and said, "She's the auntie next to Daddy."
Then, without her noticing, she was taken to that woman's villa.
Not long after arriving at the villa, Ning Jin barged in like a madwoman.
Her memories were hazy, but Wenxi still clearly remembered Ning Jin's worried face and how she rushed in like a madwoman.
"After she rushed in, she fought with Wen Haichuan's lover, and everything in the villa was smashed."
"She fought with the other person until her face was covered in blood, and she kept shouting, 'If you dare to touch my daughter, I'll fight you to the death!'"
Little Wenxi couldn't even quite understand Ning Jin's anger; she only remembered Ning Jin's furious face.
“She made me stand facing the wall because she knew I knew Wen Haichuan’s lover. Perhaps she even suspected that Wen Haichuan had taken me to meet his lover a few times and coaxed me into getting close to her.”
These are things that Wenxi gradually came to understand as she grew up.
Wenxi: "I've actually forgotten what it feels like to be locked on the balcony facing the wall."
"I only remember being bored and counting snowflakes by myself. There were so many snowflakes, I couldn't even count them all... I was thinking about why my brother hadn't come home from school yet. He promised to bring me the popular frozen pear popsicles after school. My craft homework for tonight was so hard, and my brother would have to stay up all night to do it for me again..."
Shang Chen suddenly asked, "Aren't you cold?"
Wenxi thought about it carefully, "It's starting to get a little cold."
"But kids... are more playful. When I saw that no one was watching me, I even built a snowman on the balcony. I didn't even know when I fainted."
Shang Chen smiled and said, "Didn't you say you were a very well-behaved child?"
Even the most well-behaved child has a playful nature.
Wenxi's expression was calm, her eyelids lowered, concealing the emotions in her eyes.
"I was actually very happy when I was sick for a month later."
"Because I'm sick, I don't have to go to school and can play at home every day. She also stays with me all the time..."
Young Wenxi actually longed for her parents' company.
So during the month she was sick, her memories were mostly of Ning Jin taking care of her.
“During that time, she stayed at home with me every day, from morning till night, trying different ways to make me happy.”
“I slept enough during the day, but I couldn’t sleep at night, so I pretended to be asleep. I often heard her crying by my bedside during that time… She apologized while secretly complaining.”
Wenxi said with a stunned expression, "In my memory, she has never cried so sadly before."
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