Chapter 316 Don’t you want to give me an explanation?
The colleagues in the game department were so surprised that they forgot that Zhou Shuang was dealing with Du Yuqian's secret photography of the exhibited cultural relics, and everyone surrounded her.
Her fall from the horse was so sudden that no one could react.
Before, it was just speculation that Zhou Shuang was at most Mr. Qi’s secret lover, or that she was pursuing Mr. Qi.
I didn't expect that he was the real boss.
Looking at everyone's excited expressions, Zhou Shuang now felt a little embarrassed.
She had thought about letting everyone know her identity step by step, but she didn't expect it to be presented in this way.
"Shuangshuang, your last name is Zhou and you're from Haicheng. Could it be that you are really the daughter of the Zhou family in Haicheng?"
Du Yuqian became quite impatient. Even after Zhou Shuang revealed her identity, she became even more arrogant.
"Really Mrs. Qi? I'm afraid you don't know the relationship between Huai Jing and me. I just told you that we are childhood sweethearts. You, a girl still wet behind the ears, have inserted yourself into someone else's relationship. Even if we have a marriage certificate, it doesn't mean anything."
Zhou Shuang looked at Du Yuqian calmly: "Having a marriage certificate doesn't mean anything. Then someone like you who doesn't have a marriage certificate is a third party. Don't you have any shame to be a third party?"
Du Yuqian was choked so hard that her face flushed. Even with the openness of society today, women who were mistresses were still deeply detested.
"Who said I was the third party? It was obviously me who went abroad and you took advantage of the opportunity. You are the third party in our relationship. You are the shameless one who took over the relationship.
Don't think you can snatch men away just because you're young, pretty, and have a great figure. Huai Jing has always loved me. I'm going to keep this hairpin."
Du Yuqian didn't say anything and reached out to grab the jade hairpin and held it in her hand.
Zhou Shuang's eyes turned slightly cold.
"Return it back quickly."
The staff were even more anxious because these were cultural relics. If they lost or damaged them, they would go to jail.
"No one else can have what I can't have. You keep saying it's yours, so what if I take it? Not only will I take it, I'll destroy it."
Du Yuqian was so angry that she raised the hairpin in her hand and threw it to the ground.
Zhou Shuang was shocked. By the time she realized what was happening, the jade hairpin had been shattered into pieces, even worse than when it was first given to her for repair.
The staff member nearly fainted. The entire process was recorded by surveillance cameras, which clearly shows their incompetence.
"Now I've smashed it, let's see what you can do to me."
Zhou Shuang slowly squatted down and asked the staff to bring gloves. She carefully picked up the broken hairpins bit by bit and pieced them together.
She was heartbroken. Two years of hard work had suddenly been destroyed.
She will never forget the days and nights she worked on this hairpin, and the sense of accomplishment she felt after repairing it was overwhelming.
That feeling is something that others cannot experience.
Just at this moment, Du Yuqian's cell phone rang. It was Qi Huaijing calling.
When Du Yuqian faced the staff who were about to settle the score with him, he not only did not show any fear, but turned on the speaker of his mobile phone.
"Huai Jing, I accidentally broke the glass and damaged a jade hairpin at your exhibition. Now your staff are trying to embarrass me, but I've already said I'm willing to compensate them."
Du Yuqian's voice was soft and weak, completely different from her arrogant and domineering tone just now.
It was obviously her fault for being unreasonable, as if she had suffered a great injustice.
Qi Huaijing was holding his phone and was slightly stunned. Why did Du Yuqian go to the exhibition today?
Didn’t we agree to go on the last day?
"There are staff over there, I just need to tell them."
Du Yuqian looked at Zhou Shuang with provocation in her eyes.
"There's someone claiming to be Mrs. Qi. She's so fierce. Is she really your husband? She even said she'd call the police to arrest me."
When Zhou Shuang heard the male voice coming from the other end of the phone, she felt a dull pain in her heart.
The pain was ten times greater than when the lily hairpin fell to the ground.
It was indeed Qi Huaijing's voice, unmistakably genuine. So, was he still trying to deceive himself into believing that the woman before him had nothing to do with Qi Huaijing?
Zhou Shuang was also waiting to hear what the man on the phone would say, but instead she heard the call being disconnected.
Du Yuqian was a little unhappy, but the person in charge next to Zhou Shuang received a call from Qi Huaijing.
"Yes, okay, Mr. Qi, I understand."
The person in charge respectfully walked up to Du Yuqian and said, "I'm sorry, Miss Du. Mr. Qi said you can take pictures of everything here. It was our fault before."
Zhou Shuang's body swayed. She had just announced her identity in front of so many people, but was slapped in the face by a phone call from Qi Huaijing.
So why did he let me take charge of this matter? Was he deliberately trying to embarrass me?
Zhou Shuang didn't understand. Although they had only known each other for a short time, Qi Huaijing had been so kind to her these past few days. She absolutely didn't believe he had betrayed her.
"Did you hear that, Mrs. Qi? Huai Jing told me I could take photos here as I pleased. You've worked so hard for nothing."
Du Yuqian snatched her phone, her lips curled slightly, and she left, shaking her long black hair.
"What the hell is going on?"
The colleagues in the gaming department were stunned and bewildered. What kind of Shura field was this?
Mr. Qi, who just got married, started praising his lover and criticizing his wife so quickly?
"Shuangshuang, there must be some misunderstanding here."
This woman had better have saved Mr. Qi’s life, otherwise how to explain it?
Zhou Shuang's face was calm.
"After the exhibition, I'll treat everyone to a meal. Don't leave until you're drunk."
The colleagues in the gaming department looked at Zhou Shuang with concern. Even though she didn't show any emotion, they still couldn't believe that a wife who hadn't even had a wedding yet could remain so calm in the face of such a situation.
"Are you okay?"
Zhou Shuang smiled: "Of course not, I believe my husband will give me an explanation."
She slowly took off her work badge and handed it to the person in charge.
Zhou Shuang glanced at her phone calmly. There was no call from Qi Huaijing, not even a message. He knew she was at the scene.
So, he didn't plan to explain Du Yuqian's matter to her.
Apart from this misunderstanding, no one had the heart to look at the exhibition anymore.
"Mrs. Qi, what should we do with this jade hairpin?"
The person in charge looked at Zhou Shuang with the broken hairpin in his hand. Zhou Shuang's expression was indifferent: "This is not my responsibility. You should ask Mr. Qi."
Qi Huaijing authorized her to handle Du Yuqian's affairs, but he didn't know that the troublemaker was his lover. Why did he have to give himself up to be slapped in the face?
She was exposed in front of so many colleagues and was severely humiliated, becoming a laughing stock.
Zhou Shuang felt powerless, unable to muster any strength. She recalled how Wen Xin had brought her along to mock Lin Shu, yet she had sided with that evil woman and helped her bully her own mother.
Was Lin Shu as helpless as she is now at that time?
The difference is that today, the people laughing at her are strangers, while the people who laughed at Lin Shu back then are her own daughter. How does she feel, and how did she get through it?
Everyone was worried about Zhou Shuang, so she forced herself to cheer up and pretend that nothing was wrong.
"Let's go and see if there are any places we haven't visited yet. Let's continue our visit."
The rest of the trip was a bit boring. We ran into Du Yuqian in another exhibition hall, and she was taking photos everywhere with her phone.
She clearly saw Zhou Shuang, but she treated her as invisible and looked at her with contempt.
After coming out of the showroom, Zhou Shuang got into her Ferrari and tapped the car body lightly with her hand.
"Who's willing to sit in my passenger seat? Mrs. Qi doesn't have many opportunities to be a driver."
Seeing that she was still in the mood to joke, everyone instantly felt relaxed.
Everyone was vying for a seat in Zhou Shuang's car, but there was only one seat. The back seat in a sports car was small, so it wasn't usually occupied.
In the end, they could only decide by rock-paper-scissors. Seeing how serious they were, Zhou Shuang suddenly found it quite funny and couldn't help laughing.
In the end, a girl won and she sat in the passenger seat, happier than if she had won millions in the lottery.
"Shuangshuang, you really don't have any airs at all."
Not to mention that she was Mrs. Qi, everyone knew that the Zhou family in Haicheng was rich enough to rival a country. But no one could have imagined that the eldest daughter of the Zhou family would actually look like Zhou Shuang.
She is not only very friendly, but also not at all spoiled.
When he was in the company, he was so low-key that people thought he was just a college graduate, and he felt like the girl next door.
Who would have guessed that a man like him could have such a powerful dual identity?
Zhou Shuang laughed: "We are all human beings, why are you putting on such high arrogance?"
Coming to Rongcheng was her happiest time, because she could communicate freely with everyone, without the burden of no one knowing her. No one treated her as the eldest daughter of the Zhou family, trembling with fear and treading on thin ice.
Zheng Ying, who was in the passenger seat, was a little restrained at first when she learned about her identity, but after chatting for a few sentences, she began to understand her role in the company.
The two of them chatted happily along the way. Of course, Zheng Ying was very tactful and did not ask her about her and Qi Huaijing.
When we arrived at the restaurant, everyone had arrived one after another.
Zhou Shuang didn't even ask the price and directly ordered a few bottles of good wine worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Those who know the goods can't help but be amazed when they see it.
The wine alone cost over a million. The restaurant served the dishes one after another, including scallops and king crabs.
Zhou Shuangquan ordered something expensive, and the restaurant manager, noticing she wasn't a regular, approached her politely.
"Because the amount of consumption is too large, you may need to pay first."
Zhou Shuang smiled sweetly.
"No problem, just swipe the card here."
Zhou Shuang took out the black card given by Qi Huaijing and handed it to the manager very generously.
The manager's expression changed as soon as he saw the card.
He took it with both hands respectfully, almost holding it above his head.
For someone at his level, he had only heard of this card and this was the first time he saw it.
Qi Huaijing received several more spending messages, totaling over three million.
He frowned, realizing it was for drinks and food. Three million, was Zhou Shuang buying some supplies?
"Shuangshuang, actually, there's really no need for us colleagues to eat out so expensively."
Everyone felt a little embarrassed when they saw how generous she was.
Zhou Shuang's voice was soft: "It's okay, I didn't pay the bill, it was your President Qi's card. Just think of it as me treating you to a meal on his behalf."
In one sentence, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.
I see. Mr. Qi just offended his wife, and now Mrs. Qi is taking her anger out on him using his card.
This kind of thing is common in wealthy families. The wives of wealthy families are smart enough to know that their husbands are having affairs outside.
They won't cry, make a fuss, or even commit suicide like ordinary people, or chase their husbands every day, or beat up the mistress.
They have their own ways of entertaining themselves, such as spending their husbands' money like crazy.
Everyone knew what was going on. They were no longer reserved. Mrs. Qi truly had the generosity of a wealthy lady.
If they found out that their husbands were having other affairs before they even got married, they would have probably been in big trouble.
Zhou Shuang took the initiative to drink for the first time. Her bad mood was only revealed at this time.
The wine glass in front of her was empty and then full. When her colleagues urged her to drink less, she smiled and said it was okay, as she could drink quite well.
Seeing that she was still speaking clearly after drinking a bottle of red wine, and seeing that she was enjoying drinking, everyone stopped trying to persuade her to drink more.
Zhou Shuang drank one cup after another, but she gradually lost track of how much she had drunk.
The hazy, empty scene played out before her like a movie. Countless scenes of Lin Shu and Zhou Yanli quarreling surfaced in her mind.
Zhou Yanli did not come back all night, and Lin Shu seemed to have lost her soul. Zhou Shuang could always hear the laughter of her father and her from Wen Xin's place, but when she came back and faced her mother whose body was like an empty shell, she would feel a sense of disgust for no reason.
For a while, Lin Shu acted like a madman. Zhou Shuang was so scared of her that she became closer to Wen Xin.
"Shuangshuang, don't be sad. All men are actually the same. You'll know after you get married and have children. Maybe you'll be ten times more miserable than you are now."
The colleague sitting next to Zhou Shuang, who had probably drunk too much, started to feel sorry for Zhou Shuang when he thought about what had just happened.
But her words of comfort became a poisonous sword, piercing Zhou Shuang's body to pieces.
"Meihao, no one would think you're dumb if you don't speak. Shuangshuang, I think our President Qi is definitely not that kind of person. Maybe that woman is the daughter of a big client of the company, and President Qi has no choice but to have a casual flirtation with her."
Zhou Shuang's two bottles of red wine were almost empty. She didn't need them to say these words of comfort; she had already found countless excuses for Qi Huaijing in her heart.
But more than four hours had passed, and Qi Huaijing had not called her to explain what had just happened.
Back then, Wen Xin snatched her and her daddy away from Lin Shu in front of her. Lin Shu endured it for so long and didn't divorce her daddy. She must love her daddy so much.
The older Zhou Shuang gets, the more she realizes that in the adult world, sometimes once you make a mistake, there's no turning back.
Especially women, they can give men a hundred thousand chances to deceive themselves for their mistakes, but once the straw that breaks the camel's back comes, women will never give men another chance to speak or regret in their life.
Zhou Shuang continued to drink with a smile on her face, her mind a mess. She began to see double in the person in front of her.
She murmured, "Qi Huaijing, don't you want to give me an explanation?"
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