Chapter 127 Wedding Photos
This stack of love letters is colorful and varies in age, suggesting they were written by different people.
Each love letter was sealed in a transparent plastic shell and carefully preserved.
Shang Chen lowered his eyes and stared for a moment.
The door was pushed open, and Wen Zhou walked in.
"Has it been found?"
Shang Chen turned around, his expression calm and composed: "Why has elder brother come?"
Wen Zhou: "I didn't explain it very clearly just now, I was afraid you wouldn't be able to find it."
Shang Chen: "I didn't see the gift, but I did see a stack of letters."
Wen Zhou took two steps forward, his gaze sweeping over a stack of love letters in the drawer, and he chuckled frankly.
“These are all love letters that Xixi has received since she was a child. I have kept them all carefully as souvenirs for her.”
"I thought it would be meaningful for her to look back on her youth when she's older."
Wen Zhou glanced at Shang Chen and said calmly, "Mr. Shang won't mind, will he?"
Shang Chen parted his thin lips slightly, his demeanor calm and composed: "No."
“That’s true.” Wen Zhou said in a kind tone, “After all, these are all old matters. President Shang is broad-minded and won’t bother with such a small thing.”
Shang Chen: "Xi Xi is very outstanding, it's normal for her to have suitors."
Wen Zhou's indifferent tone revealed a hint of pride.
That's true.
After a moment of silence, Wen Zhou casually rummaged through the cabinet, saying, "Actually, Song Hezhou also wrote love letters to Xixi before."
Shang Chen's eyes remained calm and unwavering.
"It seems Xixi is unaware that President Song likes her?"
After a moment's thought, Wen Zhou said calmly, "That was when Xixi was in high school."
“At that time, Xixi was only focused on studying. Every day, people would stuff love letters into her schoolbag, but she wasn’t interested, so I took them all away for her.”
"I didn't notice Song Hezhou's love letter at first, but I found it when I was sorting through things later."
Wen Zhou said slowly, "I gave him a chance, but he was really useless."
Shang Chen always felt that Wen Zhou's words were a veiled criticism.
Although he doesn't think he's completely useless yet.
However, Shang Chen also realized that the opportunity Wen Zhou mentioned was probably about having Song Hezhou deliver meals to Wen Xi for a year.
So when Song Hezhou brought food to Wenxi, it was Wenzhou deliberately trying to bring the two together.
Shang Chen asked calmly, "Since you've already given Song Hezhou a chance, why don't you tell Xixi about the love letter?"
The fact that Wenxi still doesn't know about Song Hezhou's crush means that Song Hezhou has never confessed, and Wenxi has never known about the love letter.
“Xixi has her own ideas, and I respect her choices. After all, I am not a rigid, domineering, or outdated parent.”
Shang Chen glanced at Wen Zhou with a long, languid look.
rigid and domineering?
Outdated thinking?
Is he being targeted?
Wen Zhou took out a glass jar filled with colorful origami cranes from the drawer.
A hint of longing flickered in his eyes: "This gift was something Xixi wanted to keep herself. She's preserved it for many years, probably because it's very meaningful."
Shang Chen's gaze fell on the glass jar.
You can vaguely see that each origami crane has words written on it, probably some kind of blessing.
It wasn't a particularly expensive gift, but it showed how much I cherished and treasured my youth.
Shang Chen was sensible and didn't ask any more questions, calmly shifting his gaze away.
Wen Zhou continued, "Back when Xixi was sick..."
Shang Chen didn't want to hear any more stories about Xi and others.
He interrupted Wenzhou, "Did you find the gift, brother?"
Wen Zhou smiled and said slowly, "I haven't found it yet. Let me take another look."
He continued rummaging through the cabinet, taking out a stack of love letters, a glass jar full of origami cranes, and a photo frame that he placed upside down on the table.
After quite a while, they finally found a small blue box, about the size of a palm.
Wen Zhou: "I'll give the gift to Xixi first, then I'll trouble President Shang to help me tidy up?"
Shang Chen: "...I'm afraid this isn't quite appropriate?"
"What's inappropriate about it?"
Wen Zhou said meaningfully, "You are Xixi's husband, so you are suitable to do anything."
Shang Chen: "What Big Brother said is also true."
Taking advantage of the situation, he said, "Xixi and I are already married, so you don't need to be so polite, brother. You can just call me by my name, or you can call me brother-in-law."
Wen Zhou curled his lips, but there was little smile in his eyes: "Okay."
Wen Zhou left first, leaving Shang Chen alone in the room.
With a serious expression, he piled all the love letters back in their original places and put the glass jar filled with origami cranes, representing his heartfelt sentiments and youthful memories, back in its place.
When he picked up the photo frame, Shang Chen casually flipped it over.
Upon seeing the photo in the frame, Shang Chen paused, his serious and composed expression crumbling.
The photo frame contains a wedding photo of the two people.
The other half of the photo was cropped out, leaving only Wenxi in her wedding dress, smiling broadly, with an arm draped over her shoulder.
The two appeared to be in a very intimate pose.
At that time, Wenxi still had shoulder-length short hair, looking bright, spirited, and extremely happy.
Even Shang Shen's usually calm mind couldn't stay calm at this moment.
Wenxi has worn a wedding dress before!
She's even had wedding photos taken with other people!
They've had their marriage certificate for almost four months, and they still don't have a single photo together!
Besides the photos Wenxi posted on her WeChat Moments last night.
To be precise, the photo on WeChat Moments wasn't even a group photo; it was just the two of them in one picture.
Apart from their wedding rings, there were no other traces left by their marriage.
Shang Chen didn't know how much effort it took to calm himself down.
He tried his best to restrain himself and put the picture frame back in its place.
Looking at Wenxi in the photo wearing a wedding dress, Shang Chen silently flipped the photo frame over again.
Out of sight, out of mind.
As a man, he wouldn't be petty and hold onto Wenxi's past.
But Shang Chen didn't intend to suffer for himself.
He pushed open the door and left, and just as he reached the stairwell, he heard Yan Zhao's angry voice.
"What do you want to do?!"
Shang Chen lowered his eyes and saw Wen Chao, the illegitimate daughter of the Wen family, blocking Yan Zhao's way.
The two confronted each other at the corner of the stairs.
Wen Chao: "Sister, weren't you going to call Big Brother downstairs?"
"Judging from the direction you came out, it looked like you went back to your room."
Yan Zhao said unhappily, "What does this have to do with you?"
Wen Chao: "I just felt sorry for you because I saw how afraid you were of your older brother."
Yan Zhao's expression instantly turned displeased upon hearing the word "sympathy."
"I don't need your sympathy!"
Wen Chao: "Actually, I'm also afraid of my older brother, but you're his own sister, and you're afraid of him too... It seems that my older brother only recognizes Wen Xi as his sister."
Yan Zhao disliked hearing such words, and she could tell that Wen Chao was deliberately trying to sow discord.
"What does this have to do with you?"
Yan Zhao retorted, not to be outdone: "Whether my elder brother acknowledges me or Wen Xi, he will never acknowledge you!"
Although Yan Zhao disliked Ning Jin's constant use of the term "little bitch," she had been a princess in the Yan family for twenty-seven years, so of course she wouldn't like an illegitimate daughter.
Wen Chao: "Whether my elder brother acknowledges me as his younger sister or not is irrelevant, since we weren't born of the same mother."
“Wenxi holds a very special place in your brother’s heart. Even though they are not related by blood, he treats her so well… Aren’t you even a little curious?”
Yan Zhao replied without hesitation, "I'm not curious."
Even if she were stupid, she would know that Wen Chao's words were not to be trusted, and that this question was just a deliberate attempt to trap her.
Wen Chao choked on his words, then raised his hand to reveal the scar on his wrist. "This hand of mine was almost ruined back then. Aren't you curious about why?"
Yan Zhao remained steadfast: "Not curious!"
"Get out of my way, I need to go downstairs!"
Yan Zhao had watched many TV dramas and read many novels, and she was afraid that Wen Chao would deliberately fall down the building to frame her.
Wen Chao said quietly, "It was my elder brother who had it done."
Yan Zhao's face turned pale: "Why would my brother treat you like this for no reason? You must have asked for it!"
Wen Chao smiled and said, "Because back then, when Wen Zhou forced my dad to send my mom abroad, I went to Wen Xi's law firm to cause trouble."
"Wen Zhou broke my hand to avenge Wen Xi, leaving this scar."
Yan Zhao continued, "I told you you deserved it!"
Wen Chao's face twitched, ignoring Yan Zhao's idiotic words, and went straight to the point, "Aren't you even a little curious about why Wen Zhou is so protective of Wen Xi?"
Yan Zhao asked instinctively, "What's so curious about?"
If anything happens to her, Yan Xu will protect her just like this.
It was only natural for Wen Zhou to protect Wen Xi, and Yan Zhao didn't find anything wrong with it.
Wen Chao smiled meaningfully: "Their relationship is more than just brotherly and sisterly. They depend on each other for survival and have long since developed an improper relationship."
"Otherwise, how do you explain why Wen Zhou, knowing that Wen Xi isn't his biological sister, still values her more than you?"
Yan Zhao didn't understand at first, but after a couple of seconds, her face was full of astonishment.
"You're talking nonsense!"
Wen Zhou likes Wen Xi?!
How is this possible?!
This is terrible news, whether it's true or not!
Yan Zhao dared not listen any longer; her first instinct was to hide back in her room.
Turning around, Yan Zhao saw Shang Chen standing in the stairwell with a cold and stern expression.
Yan Zhao was so frightened that her heart skipped a beat.
"Brother Shang."
Shang Chen's eyes were excessively dark, and his aura was extremely oppressive.
When he stared at Yan Zhao with an expressionless face, it was as if Yan Zhao could recall the scene of being strictly disciplined by Shang Chen when she was a child.
Yan Zhao subconsciously explained, "I didn't believe her!"
She turned her head to try and pull Wen Chao out, but found that Wen Chao had already slipped away.
Yan Zhao finally realized something: "She did it on purpose!"
"She was in a position where she could see you, so she deliberately said those things to make you hear them!"
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