Chapter 283 A Woman as Wise as a Demon
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Xie Shiyuan had a dream.
In the dream, Xie Tingke did not die. On the contrary, Bai Jiashu, who saved him, died.
Bai Jiashu died with a broken body, and when he was at the end of his rope, he used up his last bit of strength and planning to rescue Xie Tingke once, while indirectly protecting her at the same time.
Xie Shiyuan opened his eyes and stared at the snow-white ceiling.
The little fox doesn't dream.
The little fox has no heart.
Just because she likes Bai Jiashu doesn't mean she loves him deeply.
Bai Jiashu had planned so much for her, but she had already received his love, so everything she did afterwards would be in vain.
However, the little fox couldn't help but feel slightly touched by the man's wholehearted gaze and his smile that was so gentle that it seemed to melt people's hearts.
What is love?
Perhaps while she was learning the strategy, she was also learning how to feel.
Xie Shiyuan climbed out of bed.
The windowless room was completely dark.
The perverted devil Zhou Zongzhen's favorite thing to do is to imprison and tie people up.
This is the same as the original plot.
After many twists and turns, it finally fell into Zhou Zongzhen's hands.
She was kidnapped and imprisoned by him, but unlike in the original plot, she was not forced to have a relationship with him.
Xie Shiyuan pushed open the door and tried to walk out.
In the quiet corridor, there are no bodyguards guarding tonight, and the lit candles are swaying in the wind.
The candlelight illuminated the girl's peaceful face, casting a shadow on her soft eyelashes, with an indescribable strangeness.
Tonight seems to be a very special day.
Xie Shiyuan walked for a long time and didn't see a single person. The bodyguards stationed in the villa suddenly disappeared in an instant.
Quiet and silent.
The dark, quiet villa was empty, and the sound of footsteps echoed.
Xie Shiyuan didn't know how long he had walked before he saw a basement at the end of the corridor.
The quiet passage that seems to have no bottom is eerily peaceful.
Xie Shiyuan squinted his eyes and looked over. He seemed to see the flickering candlelight, but it was only a fleeting flash, like an illusion.
This situation seems like a scene from a horror movie.
The dark basement, the quiet corridor, the flickering candlelight...
"Mr. Zhou, are you in there?" Xie Shiyuan tried to call out.
There was no sound.
I wonder how deep the corridor leading to the basement is, and whether the sound can be accurately transmitted into the basement through the door.
"Mr. Zhou?" Xie Shiyuan called again.
“…” Still no sound.
Xie Shiyuan thought about it, then walked down in the dark.
The corridor leading to the basement is estimated to be about one hundred meters long.
Rather than calling it a basement, it would be more like a secret room. Unlike the gorgeous and luxurious decoration outside, the walls here feel a bit rough to the touch, giving off a sense of dilapidation.
The further you go inside, the more you can feel a chilly wind and an extremely strong, cold air, as if you have arrived at a cemetery.
I seemed to be able to smell the pungent smell of blood in the air again.
It was too dark, Xie Shiyuan could not see anything, but the flickering candlelight not far away became more and more obvious.
She walked over with light steps. The candlelight shone through a locked door. She gently touched the chain and roughly knew how to unlock it.
When she quietly unlocked the door, she saw rows of flickering candlelight through a layer of door curtain, illuminating a row of tablets.
Why does it feel like I'm in a cemetery?
There are too many tablets enshrined here. The people on these tablets are filled with resentment and have been squeezed in the basement for a long time without seeing the sun. The evil aura is extremely strong.
Zhou Zongzhen has been immersed in this atmosphere for many years, and Xie Shiyuan can always feel his cruelty and murderous aura.
Xie Shiyuan observed carefully and did not see Zhou Zongzhen around, so he approached cautiously.
In the center of the tablet, there is a very young, noble woman, whose facial features are somewhat similar to Zhou Zongzhen. Starting from the left side of the woman, there are people who have facial features similar to the woman, both men and women.
These people look like a huge family. The men and women who look like the woman are all her family members and children.
The two children's surnames are both Zhou.
Among them, Xie Shiyuan saw a familiar name: Zhou Zongyi.
Undoubtedly, this noble and extraordinary woman is Zhou Zongzhen's mother.
Zhou Zongzhen enshrined the tablets of his biological mother and family members here. Below the tablets was a futon, which was very old and had deep marks from years of kneeling and worshipping.
It is hard to imagine that Zhou Zongzhen is a person who would rather bow down and kneel down to pray for blessings.
In this place without sunlight, whenever he missed his mother and his hatred deepened, he would kneel on the mat for a long time and could not get up.
Xie Shiyuan couldn't help but walk closer and look at the photo of the woman on the tablet more carefully.
“Not really.”
No wonder the woman chose Zhou Zongren to enter the Xie family and disguised herself as Xie Tingke.
This fake "Xie Tingke" looks the least like a member of the Zhou family. The Zhou family has been in Country A all year round, and no one would associate that face with the Zhou family.
If my guess is correct, Zhou Zongren rarely appeared in front of the public during his childhood, so that the entire Zhou family deliberately forgot about him.
The woman did not choose Zhou Zongren to replace Xie Tingke on a whim, but it was something she had planned long ago, and Zhou Zongren was the only choice.
Xie Shiyuan took a few steps closer and looked more carefully. He also saw a diary next to the tablet and opened it to take a look.
It's a very beautiful and neat handwriting, written by a woman.
The diary is badly worn, probably because it is read so often. It records the growth process of the three brothers.
The eldest brother has had a bad temper since he was young, but he is also brave and resourceful, and extremely protective of his younger brothers and sisters. No one can bully his younger brothers and sisters.
The second child is calm and introverted, doesn't like to talk much, and looks like a cold robot.
The third child has an unconventional way of thinking and is quirky, a definite male version of the group’s favorite.
In the woman's plan, the eldest son is the most suitable person to inherit the Zhou family. He is both vicious and mean, but also has a trace of brotherhood. The second son is the most suitable person to be a substitute because he was often sick when he was a child, and it was all because of his husband's lovers who murdered him.
The woman took advantage of the situation and made the young Zhou Zongren sick often so that he could avoid appearing in front of others.
As for the silly third brother...he is a catalyst that deepens the hatred.
No one can watch their family members die tragically and remain indifferent.
No one would allow their optimistic brother to die.
In order to make the two surviving brothers more ruthless, the woman had already planned to take the third brother with her to die after her downfall, thus strengthening the determination of the survivors to seek revenge.
I have never met her, but I have to admire this...woman who is as smart as a demon.
Xie Shiyuan continued to read the diary, which recorded many stories about Zhou Zongren's childhood.
Very different from Xie Tingke today.
Zhou Zongren looked very mature when he was a child. He didn’t look like a child at all. His calm and reserved demeanor made him look more like a little adult.
As his elder brother, Zhou Zongzhen couldn't stand him. Others couldn't bully him, but Zhou Zongzhen could.
Zhou Zongzhen would order the third brother to dress up as a ghost to scare him, and he would often fight with Zhou Zongren, and would not stop even when the fight lasted until Zhou Zongren had bruises and swollen faces.
When they were young, they disliked each other.
The diary also contains photos of the two of them beating each other up when they were children.
It's weird and interesting to watch, there's a huge contrast between their appearance as children and as adults. Zhou Zongzhen has changed the most. Although he has a violent temper, he still wears diapers at the age of seven and wets the bed because he's afraid of ghosts.
"Tsk." Xie Shiyuan couldn't help laughing.
Just with this laugh, the atmosphere around him changed.
Xie Shiyuan turned around and saw a tall man with a gloomy face walking quickly towards her and snatching the diary away.
"Who allowed you to come?"
"It was boring to stay in the room, so I wandered around out of boredom and came here by chance." Xie Shiyuan shrugged and blinked mischievously.
"Hey, I seem to have seen something I shouldn't have seen. It turns out that the wise and mighty Mr. Zhou was still wearing diapers at the age of seven. Are you afraid of ghosts? Then you have killed so many people. Are you worried that they will become ghosts and come to you in the middle of the night to claim your life?"
It's quite a joke.
That kind of embarrassing thing was discovered by others.
Zhou Zongzheng's gloomy face darkened further and further, and he subconsciously reached out and grabbed the girl's neck.
Xie Shiyuan took a step back, innocent and harmless, "I'm a girl, why do you always like to pick on girls? Do you know what gentleness is? Didn't I teach you? Be gentle."
Zhou Zongzheng: "......"
He just liked to pinch her neck. Looking at her slender and fair neck, which was as white as porcelain, he wanted to twist it into pieces.
She had long flowing hair, was wearing a little white dress, black and white leather shoes, and was blinking a pair of extremely seductive and alluring big eyes. The candlelight shone in her pupils, and tiny lights were jumping around.
She raised her head and stared at Zhou Zongzheng without blinking, "Are you listening to me?"
Damn it.
Why should Zhou Zongzheng listen to a little girl?
"I'm talking to you." Xie Shiyuan took a step forward and grabbed the man's sleeve.
Seeing this detailed action, the cold light in Zhou Zongzheng's eyes changed slightly, but he did not refuse.
Xie Shiyuan was curious, "When did you come?"
"None of your business."
Zhou Zongzhen was disgusted.
I hate sweet girls the most.
The heartless sweet girl, her fake brother's life or death is uncertain, she still has the mood to joke with him, he is the one who wants to kill her, why does she continue to maintain this sweetness in front of him! ?
Zhou Zongzhen hated the girl's smiling face. Whenever he saw this kind of smile, it would stimulate endless cruelty in his heart. He stared at her coldly, and the light in the depths of his eyes became darker and darker.
Xie Shiyuan raised her lips and smiled sweetly again.
Zhou Zongzheng turned his head away, avoiding the sweetness, as if he would not be touched by it.
"Is your injury feeling better?" Xie Shiyuan's smile never changed. No matter when you saw her, you would see the corners of her mouth turned upside down, sweet and beautiful, so adorable.
This kind of cuteness looks even sweeter under the halo.
Like a pink strawberry-flavored candy.
Zhou Zongzheng's eyes turned strange.
Xie Shiyuan moved forward and sniffed gently, "The old wounds haven't healed yet, and new wounds have been added."
She has a sensitive nose.
Zhou Zongzheng avoided her approach, took a few steps forward and blew out a candle.
The light in the room suddenly went dark for an instant, which was eerie.
Xie Shiyuan walked towards the direction where he was standing. The man's tall and slender figure cast a thick shadow on the ground. Whenever he approached the darkness, his entire body was shrouded in darkness.
Xie Shiyuan moved the position of a candle, and there was a little more light around him.
Zhou Zongzheng glanced at her, and she smiled sweetly again, "Mr. Zhou, it's too dark here."
He spoke in a soft voice, slowly and softly.
No one can stand Xie Shiyuan with this expression.
"Do you often worship your mother here? Your loved ones are buried here. You care about them very much, but you hide them in an unknown corner and dare not let others see them because your revenge is not yet complete."
"Let me think about it. How far have you progressed? In fact, you are not interested in managing the Zhou family. The wealth and resources in this world are your goal."
Zhou Zongzhen's brows were stern, and Xie Shiyuan was holding a candle, the candlelight illuminating his handsome face, sharp brows, and cold, thin lips, all of which revealed the man's viciousness.
I discovered a very strange phenomenon. When the candlelight shifted to the right, half of Zhou Zongzhen's face was covered in shadow, with his long eyelashes drooping and his high nose bridge, he looked like a Shura standing in the dark night.
When the candlelight shifted to the left, half of his face was exposed in the light. His temperament was in stark contrast, and his eyes were shining with tiny lights, making him look more lively.
What a contradictory person he is, just like his inner world, full of twisted complexity.
He is a devil when viewed from a distance and he is still a devil when viewed from close up. However, there is a trace of unknown emotion remaining in the devil's heart, and that emotion restrains him and makes him have emotions.
I should be thankful that I found this place, otherwise I would not know how Zhou Zongzhen feels about his family. He tries so hard to hide it because he cares about them.
"Bai Jiashu agreed to your request and gave you everything you wanted. You have succeeded, haven't you?"
"When that research result is successfully launched on the market, you will be the undisputed richest man in the world. Why are you still targeting me? Stop saying that you are doing this because of Xie Tingke. You hate Xie Tingke, so you want to take revenge on Xie Tingke."
"In the past, I might have believed this reason, but now I accidentally saw the tablet you hid. You didn't want to take revenge on Xie Tingke. You just wanted to... feel what Xie Tingke experienced from me."
"Maybe it was a kiss, a hug, or maybe... you already regarded Xie Tingke as another self."
"He is you who lives in the light, and you are you who lives in the darkness. You are where you are today because of him. You complement each other, and he is also where he is today because of your help. So, you are not willing to fall out with him."
"You are jealous of him and want to kill him, but you also don't want to lose you who is standing in the light... So, Xie Tingke and I are close, and you can't help but get close to me. I am right, right?"
Zhou Zongzhen is a man with complex contradictions.
She finally got close to his heart and analyzed his worldview.
The finale strategy target is always special and different from everyone else.
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