There was someone even faster than him, and that was Shen Dingkun.
Shen Dingkun had long known that his wife was no pushover, but he never expected that Zhao Mingyao would actually cause trouble at Su Hanze's company.
He didn't want to pose a threat to others, especially since Zhao Mingyao's personality was very unpredictable.
He didn't interfere with the entanglement between the Su family mother and son and Jiang Tian, but now that this matter involves his wife, he has to show a cautious attitude—he doesn't want his wife to be causing trouble for others all the time; he doesn't like that kind of life.
He didn't want his life's trajectory to be disrupted by a woman, but Zhao Mingyao's actions had exceeded his expectations, and he had to stop her.
After Shen Dingkun left, Su Hanze didn't think much of it and immediately followed him—the company was his, and he didn't want any unnecessary trouble.
Private matters are private matters, and business matters are business matters. Is bringing these issues to the company an effective way to resolve them?
Already in a state of confusion, he temporarily suppressed his mother's expectations and his longing for a woman. As the person in charge of the company, he needed to deal with the immediate troubles first.
On the other hand, Zhao Mingyao was indeed devastated.
She never expected that after just a few days of travel abroad, everything would change so drastically upon her return.
Her husband, her perfect lover—they had been together since their student days, weathered storms together, and reached a happy ending. They should have grown old together, but—
Shen Dingkun's performance was beyond her expectations.
He went to find Jiang Tian!
What is this? It's ridiculous!
What did Shen Dingkun take her for as his wife?
Did he ever consider that as a husband, he was betraying his wife by going to see someone else while she was traveling, and even taking their child with him?
After the private investigator sent the information to Zhao Mingyao, she suddenly felt like a joke.
In fact, she had been spending a lot of money to hire top private investigators to follow her husband.
If Shen Dingkun hadn't never checked her accounts, she wouldn't have been able to save so much money, let alone spend so much just to keep track of her husband's movements.
But she was so suspicious—sometimes she couldn't even tell what she was asking for.
Once upon a time, her life was the envy of others—she had a handsome husband, two adorable children, and was pampered, living a life free from worries about food and clothing.
It's practically the perfect life of a female protagonist in a novel.
However, Zhao Mingyao never told anyone that sometimes she felt like she was living in a nightmare.
In fact, her life plan and her focus used to be on her career.
But times have changed, and after going through thick and thin, her life now revolves entirely around others.
Aside from her husband and children, her career had long been relegated to some obscure corner.
Looking back, Zhao Mingyao thought that perhaps she had started limiting herself from the moment she married Shen Dingkun—she believed that she would not do as well as her husband.
Upon graduation, she chose to take advantage of her youth and immediately get married, thus securing a life of luxury and comfort. However, this also meant that while she gained these advantages, she would also lose something else.
As a graduate of a prestigious university, she had many job opportunities, but she chose to get married.
Now, having no work experience for many years, she is unwilling and reluctant to start from a low-level position with a salary of 3,000 yuan.
There's really no need for that. Shen Dingkun gives her more than seven figures in pocket money every year, so why make things difficult for herself?
Sometimes, Zhao Mingyao also wanted to start her own business, but she was afraid of revealing her chaotic and disorganized state to her husband.
If people don't use their brains for a long time, their abilities will really deteriorate.
Zhao Mingyao clearly realized that she was no longer the ambitious and lively woman she once was. Marriage was like boiling a frog in lukewarm water; although she enjoyed top-notch material conditions, her true nature was being buried.
She can't shed these accolades and go to the other extreme.
Life is full of unavoidable situations, but no matter how many unavoidable situations there are, they are not a reason to hurt others—Zhao Mingyao knew that she was hurting others.
She knew she was heading down the wrong path, but since she had chosen this path, she had no choice but to grit her teeth and keep going, regardless of whether it was right or wrong.
Therefore, after discovering that her husband had abandoned her for Jiang Tian, Zhao Mingyao was consumed by a strong sense of betrayal—why Jiang Tian?
This woman, who also came from a poor family and married into a wealthy family, is like an inescapable shadow.
She had countless times gained a distorted sense of superiority from comparison: Jiang Tian was as humble as a servant in her marriage, even having to ask her husband for money to buy things, while she was always surrounded by pampering.
This comparison once convinced her that she hadn't lost in life, but now her husband's choice has shattered the illusion: isn't she also trapped in a gilded cage?
She dared not give up her wealth and status, dared not face the gap between her millions in income and hundreds of millions in life after her entrepreneurial success, and dared not look directly at herself who had been tamed by marriage to the point of losing her edge.
So she transferred all her resentment to comparisons with others and onto her daughter. She instilled anxiety in her daughter with distorted "realistic education": women should not naively expect happiness, but must learn to fight in the arena of fame and fortune—just as she clearly saw through the predicament of being a frog in slowly boiling water, but would rather drown in it than not be able to grasp the last bit of illusory halo.
This absurd self-numbing led her deeper and deeper into jealousy and fear, ultimately dragging her daughter into a quagmire of distorted values.
As a graduate of a prestigious university, how could Zhao Mingyao not understand the implications?
Sometimes she knew that the ideas she was instilling in her daughter were wrong, but she couldn't help it; she was jealous, she was just jealous.
This jealousy was inexplicable, yet it prevented her from facing her own life honestly.
Moreover, the inertia of human nature is too strong—often, she no longer wants to observe any flaws in her current life.
Having been immersed in the life of the wealthy for too long, she had long taken the lavish material support for granted.
She completely understands those women who suffer domestic violence after marrying rich second-generation men or who are unwilling to divorce after marrying gamblers. How could they possibly be born masochists?
Those people are simply people who have been tamed by their comfort zones and have lost the courage to walk barefoot on new paths.
Zhao Mingyao's madness at this moment stemmed from the shame of her vulnerability being seen through by her husband—Shen Dingkun dared to tear off the mask of the "perfect wife" she had carefully maintained, and dared to push the education of their child onto Jiang Tian. He was insane, he really was insane.
Jiang Tian was even bolder, actually daring to take on the responsibility of a mother and educate her daughter. Who did she think she was?
Zhao Mingyao firmly believes that Shen Dingkun will not cheat, but she cannot ignore another form of betrayal that has been brewing in their marriage for some time.
In her panic, she tried to grasp at the last straw—to contact Su Hanze, the man she had once used as a "checking force" in her marriage.
He will definitely help her.
Every time she needed him, this man would silently stand behind her, providing her with the help she needed most.
But this time, Zhao Mingyao's heart turned cold.
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