Zhou Yanchen's eyes were devoid of any warmth, his voice unusually cold: "Compared to Shi Yan, you are selfish, vain, jealous, and full of ulterior motives. What you did before, perhaps you were just lucky that no one found out."
Or perhaps you acted cautiously and didn't give yourself away, but don't forget, even the most careful person can get their shoes wet, and don't forget, there's no shortage of clever people in this world.
He emphasized, "If you ever fall into someone else's hands because of something you did wrong, don't think that I or anyone else in the Zhou family can find a way to get you off the hook. We can't let the entire Zhou family be used against us because of you!"
The atmosphere in the living room was dull and oppressive.
Zhou Shiwei realized that her father, Zhou Yanchen, wasn't just saying it casually; she realized that if she really fell from grace, the Zhou family wouldn't care whether she lived or died.
...
The night was as dark as ink. It was around nine o'clock at night. Qin Boyan, Qin Yaxin, and the two children had already washed up and gone back to their rooms to sleep. Even Wu Dong had gone back to his room. Realizing that it was getting late, Song Lan originally planned to get up and leave the living room with Qin Boyan and the others, but unexpectedly, Qin Yanzheng kept her there.
"You have something to say to me."
The tone was light; it wasn't a question, but a direct statement from Song Lan.
Qin Yanzheng paused for a moment, then said, "We haven't had a proper conversation for a while, and I was thinking..." Since resuming work, Qin Yanzheng has been incredibly busy, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to describe him as "leaving early and returning late."
Moreover, when he came back in the evening, he didn't rest for long after dinner before he had to do rehabilitation. After finishing rehabilitation, he went to his study and worked until 11 or 12 at night. In short, he was really busy and didn't have much time to sit down and chat with Song Lan.
Song Lan had no objections or complaints about this, but she repeatedly reminded Qin Yanzheng to take good care of his health.
"You speak, I'm listening."
Song Lan smiled, waiting patiently for the man to start a conversation.
"I'm sorry you had to go through this today."
After a long pause, Qin Yanzheng uttered a sentence. Upon hearing this, Song Lan understood what he meant, shook her head, and smiled, saying, "I don't feel wronged at all; on the contrary, I'm quite happy."
"Um?"
Qin Yanzheng's dark eyes revealed confusion.
"My younger brother and sister-in-law's actions warmed my heart and made me realize that they truly consider me, their sister-in-law, as part of the family."
These were her true feelings, Song Lan said calmly: "As for what those two said, I didn't take it to heart. To put it bluntly, their words and actions were nothing more than jealousy between women."
"Jealousy? I wasn't deliberately trying to embarrass you?"
Qin Yanzheng felt his brain wasn't working properly. Were those two clueless people jealous of his wife?
He made baseless accusations, like a madwoman, and in his view, it was obvious that he wanted to ruin her reputation!
"You know one of those two. She's the daughter of Comrade Zhou and his wife who live next door. The other one is an educated youth who went to the countryside in Shisong Village. She and Chen Dongze, who is my ex-boyfriend, were childhood sweethearts from the same compound."
Because of what happened to me before, Chen Dongze chose to remain silent and break up with me. I've already told you about that.
"Um."
“But almost a year after I married you, to be precise, before I left for the branch factory with my second brother and the others, he came to our house in the factory villa area to find me. From what he said, I could tell that he regretted breaking up with me and wanted to get back together with me. He said he didn’t care that I had been married before… I should have mentioned this to you as well.”
"Yes, I did say that."
“I refused him at the time, making it clear that we had nothing to do with each other anymore. Who knew that we would run into each other by chance in this town and then meet several more times in Shisong Village. Yuan Xiaoya saw his feelings for me, which caused her to become dissatisfied with me, thinking that I wanted to get back together with Chen Dongze.”
In essence, she was in love but couldn't have him, so she took her anger out on me, jealous that even though I was already married, Chen Dongze still couldn't forget me..."
Qin Yanzheng suddenly spoke up: "Still thinking about it? What was he doing all this time!" Don't be too sarcastic.
Song Lan laughed: "I haven't thought about anyone else since I married you, so you don't need to be jealous. Besides, I have no feelings for Chen Dongze anymore. To me, he's just an ex."
Qin Yanzheng: "You may not have anything to do with him, but he's still up to no good!"
Song Lan: "So what do you want?"
Qin Yanzheng: "I don't know."
Song Lan chuckled: "There's no need to worry about it. What he thinks is none of our business. You and I are already husband and wife. I've said that as long as you don't mention divorce, I won't separate from you."
Grasping her hand tightly, Qin Yanzheng's deep, dark eyes were filled with seriousness: "No one can separate us. You are my wife, and always will be!"
"I know, I know, do you still want to hear more from me?"
Song Lan raised an eyebrow.
"you say."
Qin Yanzheng's expression returned to normal, but his eyes were gentle and doting, and he was still holding his wife's hand.
Feeling slightly uncomfortable under his gaze, Song Lan turned her head away and coughed lightly twice. Then, feigning composure, she continued, "Yuan Xiaoya likes Chen Dongze, but Chen Dongze has no feelings for her."
Knowing that Chen Dongze was thinking about me, she felt a pang of jealousy and decided to use the incident that had happened to me to hurt me and make me unable to hold my head high.
"And now she's suddenly going crazy at me because this afternoon she was tricked into going to the river and pushed into the water, and the person who saved her turned out to be some old scoundrel from the village..."
Song Lan recounted everything that had happened to Yuan Xiaoya that day. Then she said, "The police detained that scoundrel, which undoubtedly prevented Yuan Xiaoya from marrying him. But who is really going to harm Yuan Xiaoya is still unknown."
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