Chapter 147 The Mascot is Unpredictable
Zhu Yingning came to the coffee shop that Zhu Zhiwei mentioned and sat in the corner of the shop as she instructed.
The waiter asked her what she wanted. She looked at the menu and ordered a caramel macchiato. She also borrowed a fashion magazine from the store and flipped through it casually, pretending to be a leisurely person who came here to kill time.
Zhu Zhiwei said she didn't need her to take any actual action, just sit there and it would be fine: "Just sitting there can give me a lot of strength."
After waiting for about half an hour, Zhu Zhiwei and a woman finally entered here.
The woman had short, inward-curling hair and wore a thin khaki windbreaker. She was tall and straight, and looked very capable. When Zhu Zhiwei walked beside her, he looked like a child pretending to be an adult.
They sat down by the floor-to-ceiling windows a few tables away from hers. The waiter took their order, but they didn't immediately start talking. After a few minutes, Huang Yuliang's wife glanced at her watch and said, "If you have anything to say, just say it. Don't waste time."
Zhu Zhiwei then whispered something. Her voice was low, unlike the woman across from her who spoke with such force that Zhu Yingning couldn't hear clearly. But she felt that since Zhu Zhiwei had already made her decision, it must be okay. She just needed to trust her enough and sit here as a mascot.
Zhu Zhiwei did most of the talking. Only when she reached the crucial point would the woman interrupt her, sometimes with pressing questions, sometimes with contemptuous ridicule, and sometimes with pointed inquiries.
Later on, she put those strong and sharp emotions back into the box of her facial features and turned them into serious contemplation.
Zhu Yingning still couldn't hear what Zhu Zhiwei said clearly, and could only hear the woman's cold voice say, "Can you take legal responsibility for your words?" "There will be legal consequences for spreading rumors. I advise you to think carefully before you speak."
Zhu Zhiwei and Huang Yuliang had lived together for so many years, she thought. Huang Yuliang was a human, not a god. As long as he was human, he would inevitably reveal flaws, such as that empty bottle of sildenafil. Over the years, his flaws were undoubtedly far more than just a bottle of sildenafil. Zhu Zhiwei might have learned some unspeakable secrets. Perhaps all she lacked was the courage to resist him.
The conversation lasted about twenty minutes. Finally, the woman left with a sullen look on her face. Before she left, she pointed at Zhu Zhiwei's face and said, "Don't think you can control me just by telling me this."
After the woman's figure completely disappeared, Zhu Yingning came to their table, sat down in the woman's original seat, and handed a tissue to Zhu Zhiwei.
Zhu Zhiwei took it, wiped the sweat from his philtrum, and gave her a faint smile: "I did it... I don't care what happens next."
"Well, you did a great job."
Her smile became more helpless: "You don't even know what I did, how do you know I did it well?"
"I trust you."
"After I said it, I felt that this matter was not as difficult as I imagined." Her eyes were blank and she was stunned for a while before she straightened up from the back of the chair and told what she had just disclosed to Huang Yuliang's wife.
She said she thought about it for a long time and felt that if she only told Huang Yuliang's wife that Huang Yuliang had cheated on many people, there was no guarantee that the other party would stand on the same side with her, because there were many original wives who forgave cheating men, and many women held her previous thoughts, thinking that life was so short and they could just endure it. If Huang Yuliang and his wife's marriage was based on interests rather than feelings, then the probability of his wife targeting Huang Yuliang for this would be even smaller.
So she's talking about something that really hits the nail on the head.
"What's the matter?" Zhu Yingning was aroused by her curiosity. He moved closer and showed a gossipy expression.
"Huang Yuliang and his wife have only one child, a daughter. Because Huang Yuliang's sperm quality was poor, I heard that this child was conceived through in vitro fertilization by his wife, and it was a very difficult birth. For a mother who has gone through so much hardship to have a child, there is probably nothing in the world more important than her child."
Zhu Zhiwei thought of her own family when she said this. There were so many girls in her family, so many that even if one or two were gone, it wouldn't matter to her parents. Because there were so many, their lives were worthless, and everyone's life was as light as dust.
She told the story, saying that when she was still living in the apartment provided to her by Huang Yuliang, she was sitting by the window looking at the scenery one time and happened to see Huang Yuliang entangled with a strange girl at the entrance downstairs.
The apartment had a curfew, and the girl couldn't get in. She wanted to hold up a banner and cause trouble, but was stopped by the security guard. She could only wait by the side until Huang Yuliang himself appeared, and then she pounced on him like a hunter seeing his prey.
During the years of cheating, Huang Yuliang must have dealt with similar situations more than once. He did not seem panicked at all, and let the girl hold her belly and tearfully accuse and pull him, with only a hint of annoyance on her face.
He took out his cell phone, operated it, and said something to the girl.
The girl muttered something that Zhu Zhiwei couldn't possibly hear clearly from behind the floor-to-ceiling window, and left mumbling.
She did not ask Huang Yuliang about this matter at the time, but Huang Yuliang was guilty and guessed that she might have seen it from upstairs. He was also worried that she would run into the girl in person, so he explained to her that the girl was his old lover before he met her. She did not take proper safety measures at the time and accidentally got pregnant. He took her to the hospital for an abortion. Perhaps he wanted to make some money from the abortion, so he kept chasing her.
After explaining, he added, "They are all vulgar and vulgar people. They are not even comparable to you."
He said that after he had her, no other woman could catch his eye.
He spoke with great confidence, but perhaps out of a woman's intuition, Zhu Zhiwei didn't believe his statement. She didn't believe that this girl was her old friend, nor did she believe in the so-called "abortion".
But she remained submissive to the flaws in his words, even deliberately pretending to be ignorant to please him. This action, which was born out of a self-deceptive attachment at the time, was later forced to be forgotten and banished. She didn't want to remember any evidence that Huang Yuliang didn't love her.
It was not until she finally made up her mind to resist Huang Yuliang that this incident resurfaced in her mind deep in her subconscious.
She told Huang Yuliang's wife about this incident, and believed that Huang Yuliang's wife would have the same doubts as she did, which are innate in women.
A man who needs to take medicine to maintain his sex life, a man whose sperm quality is so poor that his wife has to go through in vitro fertilization, assuming he accidentally has a child with his lover, is it possible for him to ask her to have an abortion?
As long as there is a 1% chance that this child exists, Zhu Zhiwei believes that Huang Yuliang's wife will not let him off easily.
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After chatting with Zhu Zhiwei about Huang Yuliang, since they rarely saw each other, they spent the afternoon together, wandering around the mall. Zhu Yingning rarely went shopping, so she followed Zhu Zhiwei into boutiques and clothing stores, looking carefully but not buying anything.
While Zhu Zhiwei said that she envied her determination, she demonstrated with her own actions what it meant to spend lavishly. She took the things she liked to the checkout counter and insisted on buying something for her.
"You've never worn lipstick before, have you? I'll buy you one."
Zhu Yingning refused, saying that she was still in high school and had no chance to use lipstick at all. It would be a waste to buy it and let it expire. However, Zhu Zhiwei said, "Where is there no chance? Look, you are going to be a senior in high school. Everyone will dress up during the 100-day oath-taking ceremony. You will need it then." Then he happily chose the lipstick and pulled her over to try it.
Zhu Yingning was so frightened by her blood-red lips in the mirror that she got goose bumps all over her body. She trembled and begged Zhu Zhiwei to spare her life. She also said that if she really had to give her a gift, she might as well give her concealer. If she happened to get a pimple on the day of the Hundred Days Oath-taking Ceremony, she could use the concealer to cover it up.
Zhu Zhiwei thought it made sense, so she let her go and instead picked up the concealer for her.
Zhu Yingning was wandering around the store aimlessly.
Perhaps because she was dressed like a student, the salesperson didn't follow her, instead focusing on promoting products right in front of Zhu Zhiwei. She was able to leisurely and freely admire these cosmetics that had nothing to do with her, until she came to a wall of men's perfume.
The cheapest perfume starts at five hundred yuan. Zhu Yingning was terrified, but she couldn't help but carefully study the description on the perfume brand, the top notes, middle notes, base notes and lasting time... She actually didn't know what these things were, she just thought that some of the words described them beautifully.
"Are you buying them as gifts for friends and family?"
The salesperson's voice suddenly sounded behind her, which scared Zhu Yingning.
She hesitated, and before she could answer, the salesperson asked, "What kind of person is he? Please describe his personality, preferences, and your relationship with him. I can recommend a suitable perfume based on these."
"He..." Zhu Yingning stared at the rows of perfumes and muttered vaguely, "His personality... I think he's a bit like a cat."
"Ah." The salesperson smiled with sudden realization. "Then he must be a very lovely person in your eyes, elegant, graceful and intellectual. I do have a perfume here..."
"No, he's moody."
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