Chapter 47 She held firm to her principles, but he didn't.
"Huanwu, what are you doing?"
Zhou Jiuzhen swam in the seawater, splashing water everywhere, and soon reached the small boat.
As he clung to the small boat with both hands, not even having time to wipe the seawater off his face before searching for the woman inside, he was shocked by what she was doing and blushed deeply.
Ling Huanwu was just lying on the small boat, watching the seagulls chasing each other in the sky, feeling quite relaxed. When her vision blurred, she heard Zhou Jiuzhen's voice beside her, which startled her so much that she sat up on the small boat.
"You... what are you doing here?"
She was so focused on looking at the sky that she didn't notice the movement on the sea, let alone his approach.
Seeing the man on the side of the boat brace his long arms in the middle of the small boat, he took a step and flipped himself onto the boat.
"Don't come any closer."
Ling Huanwu covered her face and turned her back to him, too ashamed to face her husband.
Zhou Jiuzhen reached out and scooped her up, pulling her onto his lap. He then lifted her face with one hand, forcing her to look up at him.
"Huanwu, I'm late. I couldn't help you last time, but this time..."
Zhou Jiuzhen's voice was hoarse and choked with emotion. The warm, wet seawater clung to her back, brushing against her heart like feathers, creating ripples in her heart.
Ling Huanwu felt a lump in her throat, and tears unexpectedly streamed down her face.
In her previous life, as the deputy general manager of a department store, she often attracted all sorts of ill-intentioned glances from her male business partners.
The time Zhou Shuyao was drugged and slept with his secretary, he didn't understand why she wouldn't forgive him, and neither did his sons.
But in fact, she was also drugged at another contract negotiation table that day.
At that time, Qin Jinshen had someone control the private room and sat opposite her, allowing a minor celebrity who was very popular in Hong Kong to sit next to her.
She still vividly remembers the words Qin Jinshen spoke to her, his deep gaze and arrogant expression.
He said, "Vice President Ling, a woman like you should stay at home, take care of your husband and children, and serve your man. How can you show your face in public?"
"I'm giving you a choice: either you act like a man and sleep with this male celebrity, then divorce your man, or you can prepare to collect your own corpse. This drug is very potent..."
That night, Ling Huanwu felt that she was really going to die in that private room.
She called out Zhou Shuyao's name repeatedly in her heart, hoping he would come to save her.
But it was ultimately just her delusion.
That male celebrity is very handsome.
He was the male lead in a TV series she was watching at the time.
He knelt humbly beside her and called her "sister".
No normal woman could resist it, let alone someone who was not fully conscious at the time.
In her hazy state, she thought of her three sons and her family.
Finally, she smashed the beer bottle, pointed the sharp shards of glass at the two men, kicked them out of the private room, and locked the door.
Even without a man, how could such a strong woman be defeated by something like this?
There is more than one solution to every problem in the world.
That day, she stood firm on her principles and preserved her innocence.
While she was holding firm in her private room, her husband was having sex with his secretary in a hotel.
So when Zhou Shuyao knelt in front of her and said that he was under the control of drugs and had no choice, she cried and laughed as if she were crazy.
She can tolerate it, so why can't he?
All of this was just an excuse for him to be able to indulge himself.
Even though she had no feelings for him, she always remained faithful to her marriage and worked hard to contribute to her family.
Why should she, a father and his three sons, have to compromise and forgive them?
Seagulls flew overhead one after another.
The sound of the waves crashing was incessant.
Ling Huanwu curled up in Zhou Jiuzhen's arms, tears already streaming down her face without her realizing it...
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On a deserted island, by a campfire.
Qin Jin glared at the fish the guard was grilling, then angrily kicked the guard over. "Who told you to grill fish? Don't you know your sister-in-law is allergic to fish? I never eat fish!"
The guard was kicked to the ground, and the charred fish burned his face. He didn't dare to utter a sound and quickly got up to bow and apologize.
The other guards also looked at each other, puzzled.
I don't understand why their husband, who used to love fish so much, would suddenly say he doesn't want to eat fish anymore.
Also, where did they suddenly get this sister-in-law from?
Why don't they know that their grandfather got married?
Qin Jin looked at the guard captain beside him with impatience, "Isn't the map finished yet? What kind of goldfish memory do you have? I asked you to follow someone, and you can't even remember the route!"
The captain of the guard was sweating profusely with anxiety.
"Sir, all the islands here look pretty much the same, with no iconic buildings, so I really can't remember them clearly."
Qin Jin suppressed his anger, holding his forehead, feeling utterly remorseful.
He had anticipated that Song Yaoyao would definitely not reveal the location of the island where Ling Huanwu and that roughneck were.
So he deliberately let her lull him to this deserted island, allowing her and her husband to escape. Then he had his most capable guard captain secretly follow them and draw their route.
Unexpectedly, the guard captain couldn't tell north from south, and it took him several days to retrace his steps and find them. Now, after thinking for a long time, he still couldn't draw the location of that island.
Just as he was about to lose his temper, the captain of the guard slapped his thigh and finally remembered.
“I remember now. The typhoon was very strong at the time. I followed those two boats in a small boat. Later, they fell into the sea and were rescued by fishermen. I vaguely saw a strangely shaped rock on the side of that island. I drew the rock and searched for it on several nearby islands. I was sure I could find it.”
The captain of the guard quickly grabbed a pen and started sketching on the paper.
After the drawing was finished, the other guards gathered around and stared in silence at the drawing.
Qin Jinshen snatched the drawing paper, his lips twitching slightly as he looked at the stone pattern on it. He then ordered the captain he had brought with him, "Set off immediately. I must find her today!"
Although he hadn't seen her for only about twenty days.
But for him, it felt like an entire lifetime had passed since he last saw her.
Right now, he desperately wants to see the lively woman again, the woman who would hold a broken bottle to his throat, the woman who would slap him with bloodshot eyes.
Not the lifeless, pain-stricken woman on the ground!
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On the winding sea around Wantan Island, small boats rocked gently.
Wave after wave pushed the small boat into the depths of the sea.
Zhou Jiuzhen turned around and hugged the woman, who was crying and trembling, into his arms. He patted her back gently and helplessly, his heart aching as if it were being squeezed and pulled.
With his back to the coastline, his mind was entirely on the woman in his arms, completely unaware that a dozen or so women were rowing several small boats toward them in a grand procession.
The women originally planned to row over to rescue the people.
Upon closer inspection, they discovered that the two people on the boat were embracing each other with their backs to them, and both had stopped rowing, looking embarrassed.
Seeing that the two people on the boat had been caught in the act, Song Yaoyao, having achieved her goal, couldn't help but laugh inwardly.
But feigning concern, she covered her mouth and exclaimed, "Oh my god, how could my sister hug Engineer Qiao? Doesn't she know he's married? How could she treat her husband like that!"
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