Ch. 206..210: Mr CEO Ex-wife Escapes Again Chapter 206-210
Chapter 206: Chapter 206: I’m Tired, Please Let Me Go Chapter 206: Chapter 206: I’m Tired, Please Let Me Go “Sister, you’re amazing, are all these materials for my cousin’s lawsuit?”
Jian Rou walked in and began to look around the room.
Soon, her gaze fell upon the thick stack of documents on the desk.
Yin Hehe had just sat down on the sofa.
Upon hearing this, she glanced up at the girl.
The tone was very intimate; if they weren’t family, no one would speak this way.
Yin Hehe’s gaze then lightly fell again.
“Mhm, Mr. Sheng has paid me quite a commission, so naturally, I need to prepare well.”
“…”
As her voice fell, the intense gaze of a man not far away felt as if it could devour someone.
But Yin Hehe acted as if she hadn’t seen it.
“That’s great, I’ve heard from my uncle long ago that sister is a very capable lawyer. Now, my cousin doesn’t need to worry.”
Jian Rou didn’t notice at all.
Knowing that the preparations were so thorough made her incredibly happy.
“By the way, sister, since you’ve been working so hard for my cousin, how about this—I’ll take care of you, okay? My cousin actually doesn’t know how to take care of people. He’s been served by others since he was young, and even if he stays here, he wouldn’t understand anything!”
Suddenly, as the girl looked at Yin Hehe’s feet, she came out with this statement.
Yin Hehe was stunned.
After a while, she glanced at the man beside her, whose emotions were hard to discern, and responded, “Miss Jian, you are mistaken. Mr. Sheng isn’t here to take care of me. He just said last night that his parents were at the hospital and he couldn’t sleep well, so he came here to sleep for a while.”
She recounted the events of the previous night in detail.
Of course, her heart was as clear as a mirror.
This girl was indeed smarter than Lin Shuang. She seemed innocent and naïve, but in just a few words, she expressed everything she wanted to ask.
When Yin Hehe looked away, a trace of cold sarcasm crossed the corner of her mouth.
However, what she didn’t know was that after hearing her words, the girl also stood there with a changing expression.
Last night, the elderly Mr. Sheng and his wife were not in the hospital ward at all.
She turned to look at the man.
But within those few short seconds, his expression was already shrouded in a terrifying coldness, and his dark eyes were filled with the breath of death.
“Cousin… cousin?”
“Xu Guannan, take her away!”
He finally spoke.
But every word seemed to come from the depths of Hell.
Jian Rou shuddered at once.
She looked at the man for a long time. When Xu Guannan came to take her away, she bit her lip hard and finally chose to leave wisely.
“Cousin, I am sorry, it’s Xiaorou being thoughtless again. I’ll leave first, call me if you need anything.”
Then she walked away with reddened eyes, head bowed.
The room quieted down.
Yin Hehe looked down at the doctor applying medicine to her, and after a moment, hearing someone approaching, she spoke without lifting her head, “Mr. Sheng, you should go back. It wouldn’t be good to cause any more misunderstandings.”
“Han Lina!”
The man, who had been holding back for a long time, finally gnashed his teeth and called out the woman’s name.
Yet, the woman remained cold.
“If you really don’t want to stay at the hospital, then you can have this room. I’ll go get another one.”
She said this without waiting for the doctor to finish dressing her wounds, and got up to leave.
The man, unable to bear it any longer, grabbed her arm.
“Are you doing this on purpose? I’ve already told you, she and I only have a brother-sister relationship!”
“…”
A brother-sister relationship?
Yin Hehe turned to look at him, and in that moment, she suddenly felt very bored.
“Mr. Sheng, I don’t care what relationship you have, because it has nothing to do with me. Mr. Sheng, I really don’t want to get involved in your family matters. I’m tired. Can you let me be?”
She pleaded calmly.
In her pupils, one could no longer see the slightest ripple of anger, hatred, or sorrow…
Nothing at all.
All that was left was a weariness that had reached its limit, akin to the withered leaves of autumn or the barrenness of winter, so unsettling it made one’s heart tremble.
The man felt this unease as well.
He clutched her arm tightly, his knuckles turning pale as veins bulged out.
But at this moment, he dared not say another word.
As if the slightest sound would scare her away.
Eventually, he gradually loosened his grip.
“Thank you!”
Yin Hehe immediately showed a relieved expression, thanked him, and then picked up her things from the desk and left.
Before long, the man still in the room received news that the woman had checked into a very ordinary standard room on the eighth floor of the hotel.
“President, I’m sorry, I wasn’t attentive today, I didn’t know Miss Jian would come over with the doctor,” Xu Guannan kept apologizing to the man on the phone.
But there was no response.
After a moment, the call was cut off, leaving only the busy tone.
It’s over; there shouldn’t be any issues at the court tomorrow, right?
Xu Guannan was quite worried about the situation.
However, the next morning, Yin Hehe came down to the hotel lobby on time, dressed in a neat suit and carrying all the prepared materials in her hands.
“Captain Xu, I’m already in the lobby downstairs, please hurry and ask Mr. Sheng to come down,” she said.
“Alright!”
Xu Guannan was instantly overjoyed.
Soon after he called the man out of his room, they took the elevator down to the lobby, where they immediately saw the woman waiting there.
“Mr. Sheng, you are currently out on bail pending trial, please wear this,” Yin Hehe said as she saw them.
Immediately, she took a mini breathing apparatus out of her bag and handed it to Sheng Siyuan.
Sheng Siyuan didn’t take it.
He just looked at her, his sharp, inky eyes as if trying to read something from the woman’s calm demeanor.
Unfortunately, there was nothing to read.
She passed the apparatus to Xu Guannan next to her when she saw Sheng Siyuan was unwilling to take it.
“Captain Xu, I’ll trouble you with this.”
“…Alright.”
“Also, this defense material, take a look at it first. These are all the questions I can think of that Shangguan Jianying might ask. Memorize them beforehand to avoid giving him anything to seize upon in court,” she handed over a thick stack of documents.
Xu Guannan immediately moved to take them, but unexpectedly, the man pushed him aside and took the documents himself.
“This much, you expect me to memorize now?”
He flipped through them, seeing the stack was several dozen pages high, and his already dark expression grew even darker.
Yin Hehe pondered for a moment.
“Then don’t memorize it. With your ability to respond, you shouldn’t fall into his traps. Just adapt as needed in court,” she said, moving to take back the documents.
However, when he saw she was going to take them back, the man grew reluctant.
“Let me have a look first.”
He then rolled them up, clutched them in his hand, and strode out of the hotel.
Seeing this, Yin Hehe had no choice but to follow…
Chapter 207: Chapter 207: Goodbye, Sheng Siyuan Chapter 207: Chapter 207: Goodbye, Sheng Siyuan Prosecutor’s Office.
When the group of three arrived, the other party was already assembled.
Including Shangguan Jianying!
“Miss Han, we meet again. I’m really looking forward to your performance in court later,” he said.
After seeing Yin Hehe, the man pushed up his glasses and, unlike his previous disdainful attitude in the detention room, actually reached out to Yin Hehe on his own initiative.
Yin Hehe smiled.
“Professor Shangguan is joking. Compared to you, I’m just an insignificant nobody, so please be merciful later, professor,” she said.
She shook hands with this distinguished professor of law, handling the formalities with particular grace.
Shangguan Jianying let go of her hand.
After a moment, he didn’t say anything else, only leaving behind a very disdainful expression before he entered.
He really still didn’t consider her a threat.
A cold sneer also flitted across Yin Hehe’s lips, which the man beside her noticed and even remarked, “I forgot to wear that thing just now.”
“…”
After several seconds, Yin Hehe, inflamed with anger, turned her head to glare at him, briefly forgetting that at this moment she was supposed to be a person of no desires, calm and unruffled.
Was his brain filled with water?
She entered with a dark expression on her face.
But the man behind her saw this, his thin lips curling slightly, a pleasing arc rising naturally at the bottom of his eyes…
Soon, this highly publicized case began its trial in court.
“Sheng Siyuan, this court now charges you with the murder of Shengshi Group employee Hu Cheng, who died after jumping from a building. Do you plead guilty?”
“I do not!”
The man sitting in the defendant’s seat now looked somewhat gloomy.
There was no helping it; this was already the second time he found himself in this dreadful place.
It was infuriating to him—a multinational corporation’s CEO—to be repeatedly trapped in such a predicament!
“But the evidence gathered by this court is sufficient to prove that Hu Cheng was indeed murdered by you!”
The prosecutor glanced at Shangguan Jianying sitting in his special seat before requesting the evidence to be presented.
Sheng Siyuan looked on coldly.
The court soon saw an audio recording of Hu Cheng being suspended from his duties; the recording was of Sheng Siyuan instructing him to keep an eye on those three shareholders.
Following this, a video of the day when the shareholders caused a scene at the company, which finally ended with Chen Sen taking action as advised by Yin Hehe, was also displayed.
Of course, Yin Hehe was not seen.
“This next piece of evidence shows your discord with the three shareholders, and the recording before that precisely illustrates your intention to use Hu Cheng against those three, thereby forcing him to jump!”
After presenting the evidence, the prosecutor began his statement.
It had to be admitted that the chain of evidence this time was indeed complete, intertwining each piece, except for the fact that Hu Cheng’s leap was not forced by Sheng Siyuan.
Everything else bore Sheng Siyuan’s mark.
It seemed that Shangguan Jianying was indeed formidable.
Sheng Siyuan’s eyes narrowed.
“Judgment Chief, I object!”
Just as the courtroom was buzzing with whispers, Yin Hehe finally stood up.
She stepped forward to the front of the courtroom, her gaze serene, yet as her eyes swept the room, they conveyed a sharpness that made everyone in attendance feel as if facing the blade of a sword.
“This is purely substituting one concept for another. If these pieces of evidence were enough to convict someone, then Judgment Chief, if I win this lawsuit today, does that also mean I’m in collusion with my client? Is it because I don’t want to expose this relationship that I’m arguing so adamantly in his defense?”
“!!!!!!”
The entire courtroom was in uproar.
Even the Judgment Chief, after hearing these words, was so shocked that his eyes widened dramatically.
Because there had never been such a shocking analogy used in a courtroom!
Was this not utter nonsense?
But the problem was, when they chewed over the matter, they found the analogy impossible to refute because it wasn’t wrong at all.
The Judgment Chief looked towards Shangguan Jianying.
As a result, he found Shangguan Jianying’s face had turned green with anger, and his fists were clenched so tightly that they were creaking.
“Furthermore, Judgment Chief, I also have some evidence here. I had intended to submit it separately, but since we’ve brought up this matter, I might as well show it to you now.”
Then, the woman submitted her new evidence to the court.
And it was this evidence that caused the Judgment Chief to change color on the spot!
“What’s the matter, Judgment Chief?”
Shangguan Jianying sensed that something was wrong and immediately stepped forward to ask in a low voice.
But unexpectedly, the Judgment Chief suddenly snapped the evidence shut with a “slap”!
“Jianying, you’ve disappointed me greatly. You’ve actually come to defend a murderer one day!”
He said with an ashen face and, without even announcing a recess, stormed out in a fury.
This left everyone in the courtroom looking at each other in bewildered disarray.
Only the man sitting in the defendant’s seat, after witnessing all this, casually brushed off the skin flakes he had idly picked from between his nails, stood up, and stepped down from the dock.
“Who told you to come out? Get back!”
The police from the Prosecutor’s Office responsible for guarding him immediately shouted loudly.
But the man didn’t even glance at him and walked straight to the woman opposite.
“Did we win just like that?”
“Pretty much.”
Yin Hehe was also tidying up her table; she looked up when she heard his question.
The man couldn’t help but sneer, “Wasn’t he supposed to be very tough? How come it was over just after a couple of sentences?”
“That’s because…”
“What evidence did you actually give him? Han Lina, the case isn’t even over yet. What are you packing up for?”
Right as Yin Hehe was about to answer, Shangguan Jianying rushed up to her. His initial elegance had vanished. He grabbed her and asked with surprise and anger in his voice.
Yin Hehe looked at him and suddenly, a trace of sadness appeared in her eyes.
“Professor Shangguan, don’t you investigate your clients before taking on their cases?”
“What do you mean?”
“These three shareholders, forty years ago, took advantage of the trust the old master of the Sheng family had in them and preyed on his illiteracy to create two different contracts, one visible and one hidden, in the hopes of ultimately taking the entire Shengshi Group for themselves!”
Yin Hehe detailed the entire affair, and at the same time, she took out the contract from her bag.
“Forty years later, the old master’s son inherited the company and found out about the conspiracy of these three people. They further attempted several times to put him in a life-threatening position. Hu Cheng was their pawn planted in the company. Have you checked all these things?”
Yin Hehe asked coldly in the end.
As her words fell, Shangguan Jianying’s face grew paler bit by bit. He looked at the contracts, and for a long time, his lips moved without saying another word.
He was indeed formidable.
But as a teacher who only lectured in school, he was lacking in understanding this society’s human ugliness, which was why he suffered such a crushing defeat today.
Yin Hehe left the courthouse.
Looking up ahead, she saw the rare good weather, and everywhere she looked was a brilliant golden hue.
She took a deep breath.
“Sheng Siyuan, I won this lawsuit for you.”
“Mhm.”
Sheng Siyuan responded from behind, also in a good mood.
But quickly, he heard the woman say, “Then I should leave too. I regret that I wasn’t able to keep my promise to stay. This place is just not right for me. Mr. Sheng, if fate allows, we’ll meet again.”
This time, she bid him farewell quite generously.
The man’s expression froze!
Chapter 208: Chapter 208: Let Her Leave Chapter 208: Chapter 208: Let Her Leave “Aren’t you afraid of death?”
There was probably a deathly silence for over a minute before finally, Sheng Siyuan asked from behind.
Just that one sentence.
Yin Hehe, however, smiled calmly again.
“Afraid? But in the end, it’s something I have to face. I can’t always live under Mr. Sheng’s protection because of that, right?”
“…”
Sheng Siyuan did not answer this question.
Because his currently expressionless, cold face had already made his attitude very clear.
Yet, this woman seemed not to notice.
After she said that, she really prepared to leave.
“What about the child? Don’t you want him either?”
Seeing her so indifferent to leaving, the man couldn’t let go and still asked from behind.
Indeed, she didn’t want to stay by his side, and he could understand that.
But what about the two children?
Didn’t she want them either? Previously, she had compromised with him countless times for the children.
The man stared at her back unrelentingly.
But this time, he was still disappointed.
“Just leave them to Mr. Sheng. They were originally your children. If I took them away, given my current situation, I might bring danger to them.”
She was still very straightforward.
Finally, the last bit of warmth disappeared from Sheng Siyuan’s eyes as he watched the woman’s retreating figure. For the first time, he did not explode in anger.
Instead, he returned to his original indifference.
“Alright then, when we get back to the hotel, I’ll transfer your commission to you.”
“No need,” Yin Hehe immediately refused.
“Mr. Sheng, I still owe you a hundred million. Let this commission count toward the debt. As for the remaining fifty million…”
“You don’t have to pay it back.”
Falling in line with her words, the man also very succinctly settled this financial obligation.
“You’ve cared for my children for so many years. The remaining fifty million can be considered your salary.”
“…Thank you.”
All Yin Hehe could do was express her thanks.
For a moment, just as she was about to go down, the man had already passed by her side, heading straight for the main entrance like a stranger, without a sideways glance.
Yin Hehe: “…”
She watched him walk out through the electronic gate and saw his parents’ faces light up with joy as they came to greet him, including a girl named Jian Rou.
“Son, you’re finally safe; that’s wonderful, we can finally go home.”
The old lady was the first to hug him excitedly.
Following that, the elder Mr. Sheng and the young woman named Jian Rou.
“Cousin, I knew you would be alright. I just told dad the good news, and he specifically asked when you’ll return to Jiangbei? He wants to come celebrate with you!”
“Really?”
As soon as these words came out, before the man could respond, the old lady was overjoyed and chimed in.
“Then you can call your dad to come over now; we’re going back to Jiangbei today, right away!”
“Mm!”
The elder also nodded in agreement.
Yin Hehe withdrew her gaze, no longer looking at the man’s reaction. Instead, she draped the coat on her arm over her shoulders and went down to her car.
The weather was getting colder.
It looked like it was going to snow.
She started the car, and after a short while, the vehicle slowly drove out of the Prosecutor’s Office’s entrance, passing by those people as she headed toward the hotel.
She had to go back and pack her things.
She had booked a flight for the afternoon.
“Buzz… Buzz… ”
Just as she arrived at the hotel, her phone rang.
Yin Hehe picked up the call.
“Hello?”
“He, are you really coming back? You aren’t fooling me, are you?”
Turns out, it was a call from her good friend, Caicai.
Yin Hehe pressed the speaker button on her phone and placed it on the bed, making a call while she started to pack her luggage.
“Why would I lie to you? I’ve already booked my ticket, remember to come pick me up.”
“No problem!”
Upon hearing this, Caicai readily agreed.
“But what about the child? Did you bring him? Did Sheng Siyuan agree to let you take him away?”
“No,” Yin Hehe said indifferently.
“I left him with Siyuan. Caicai, my situation isn’t very good right now, it’s dangerous for the child to be with me. Once I’m settled, I’ll figure something out.”
When Yin Hehe heard this topic brought up, her usually calm heart suddenly felt a twinge of distress, and her delicate brows furrowed subconsciously.
How could she be indifferent to this issue?
That was a part of her own flesh and blood.
She simply had no other choice.
However, upon hearing this, her friend hesitated for a moment before suddenly saying, “Hehe, actually, I think you could stay in Jiangbei. With Siyuan’s ability, he could completely protect you. Besides, you now have… towards him”
“Caicai!”
The words about to be spoken were sharply interrupted by Yin Hehe.
It was as if her friend had struck a nerve, angering her so much that she even forgot the most basic etiquette.
Caicai knew better than to continue.
Because she also knew that what this woman was least willing to admit was that she always had feelings for that man.
It had been so five years ago.
And it was still the same, five years later.
So, what she should be hating even more right now was herself!
“Sorry, that was wrong of me to say. What time will you arrive? I’ll pick you up.”
“In six hours,”
Yin Hehe also realized that her tone had been out of control and quickly responded.
“Alright, do you have any plans after you come back?”
“Yes!”
Yin Hehe did not hide anything from her friend.
“Help me contact Qiandai. After I arrive, I want her to create a new identity for me, and then I need to make Lan Yi disappear.”
“…”
Caicai was silent for several seconds.
This well-thought-out plan showed that this woman had been considering it for some time.
In other words, from now on, the chances of those who knew her finding her again were almost negligible.
The two ended the call.
At three o’clock in the afternoon, Yin Hehe was finally ready to depart, but unexpectedly, just as she was pulling her suitcase and opening the door, she suddenly found someone looking for her.
“Old lady? You… how did you come here?”
She looked at the Sheng Family’s old lady in front of her with surprise.
Wasn’t she supposed to have gone back to Jiangbei already?
Why was she still here?
“Oh, you’re pulling your luggage. Are you leaving?”
Instead of answering her question, the old lady looked her up and down before finally resting her gaze on Yin Hehe’s suitcase.
Yin Hehe nodded, “Yes, Mr. Sheng’s trial has ended, and I’m preparing to leave.”
“Is that so?”
As soon as she said this, a flicker of joy appeared on the old lady’s face.
However, she did not step aside but instead stood at the doorway, thinking for a moment, and then entered.
“It is best indeed if you can go back, but you should wait a few more hours before leaving.”
“Huh?” Yin Hehe showed a hint of puzzlement.
“Why? Old lady, I’ve already booked my flight for 4:30.”
She glanced at her wristwatch.
Unexpectedly, the old lady seemed unaffected.
She walked into the room, looked around, and then sat down on the couch.
“Rest assured, I’ll reimburse you for the plane ticket. You’ve done a great favor for my son this time. I’ll take you shopping for a few outfits, or maybe some jewelry will do.”
“…”
Yin Hehe’s frown deepened.
Chapter 209: Chapter 209: Her Downfall, Her Victory! Chapter 209: Chapter 209: Her Downfall, Her Victory! “Madam, thank you for your kindness, but I can’t accept these. I’ve already taken Mr. Sheng’s commission for his case,”
Yin Hehe could only refuse again.
She really didn’t understand why this elderly lady would suddenly pull such a stunt?
Hadn’t she despised her before?
Fortunately, after she said this, the elderly lady didn’t trouble her further.
“Alright then, let me take you out for a meal. If you turn me down again, then I’ll start to suspect that you only listen to my son,”
“…”
Yin Hehe was at a loss for how to respond.
In the end, she could only follow the elderly lady downstairs for a meal, and as for her flight, it would have to be delayed.
They arrived at the hotel restaurant.
But during the meal, Yin Hehe noticed that the elderly lady kept pouring her drinks, as if she intended to deliberately get her drunk.
What on earth was she up to?
Finally, Yin Hehe grew suspicious. Thus, although she could normally handle her alcohol quite well, after a few glasses of red wine, she deliberately acted as if she were drunk.
“Madam, I can’t drink anymore. If I drink any more, I’ll be drunk and I’ll miss my flight,”
“Okay, finish this glass and you won’t have to drink anymore.”
As expected, seeing her seemingly close to inebriation, the elderly lady stopped pouring drinks.
Yin Hehe then poured the last glass down her throat and “thud,” she fell onto the table.
“Hey? Wake up!”
Seeing this, the elderly lady reached over and shook her.
Of course, Yin Hehe didn’t react.
After a moment, perhaps convinced that she really was as drunk as a pig, the elderly lady withdrew her hand and was heard letting out a long sigh of relief.
“Finally, I got her drunk. Now, nobody can interfere with my son and Rourou’s affair,”
“…”
So, after all that fuss, it was for her son and Jian Rou.
What, were those two trying to present a fait accompli?
Yin Hehe lay there with a trace of a sneer that would be hard to detect at the corner of her mouth.
“Waiter, come help me take this person to her room.”
It wasn’t long before the elderly lady called a restaurant waiter to take Yin Hehe upstairs.
Yin Hehe was motionless.
Only after about ten minutes, when the waiter had brought her back to her room and closed the door, did she finally open her eyes on the bed.
Quite the joke.
Was this old woman so worried about her ruining her son’s affair?
Actually, there was no need!
Yin Hehe was already leaving; even if her son and that woman went at it for three hundred rounds, it had nothing to do with her.
Yin Hehe let out a cold laugh as she got up from the bed.
Not long after, having reorganized herself, she took her luggage and left the room once more.
“Ding!”
She was in luck; just as she reached the elevator, it arrived on its own.
Yin Hehe, dragging her suitcase, prepared to enter.
But unexpectedly, as the doors opened, she saw someone inside the elevator, and this person, with his collar wide open and a handsome face flushed with a thin red, looked particularly unwell.
“Sheng… Ah!!”
Before she could finish her sentence, the man in the elevator charged out.
Like a madman who had lost all reason, he fiercely grabbed her wrist, and dragging her, strode toward her room.
Yin Hehe’s mind went blank!
“Bang!”
The door to the room was kicked open forcefully.
She shuddered and finally came to her senses, struggling violently in the man’s grasp.
“Sheng Siyuan, what are you doing? Snap out of it, let go of me!”
“…”
There was no response.
All the man gave her in return was a few seconds of predatory gaze from above, and then suddenly, his pupils darkened with red, as he grabbed her hand toward himself.
Yin Hehe: “!!!!!”
In a mere moment, the change she felt at the palm of her hand caused her to gasp in shock, her eyes trembling violently.
Is he insane?!
Yin Hehe became even more desperate to escape.
But this time, she could no longer flee from the man’s grasp.
Because, once this very lucid man confirmed that the woman before him could indeed restore his dignity, he, like a wolf, never let her go again.
Defeat was also her doing.
Victory was her doing as well, and it would have been strange if he weren’t angry.
In the room, the activity had continued until late into the night without pause, concluding only when Yin Hehe truly couldn’t take it anymore, crying out softly until she fainted.
Finally, the commotion in the room came to a halt.
Jian Rou had been outside all along.
She listened to the sounds from inside, her body merely wrapped in a bath towel.
Her face was ashen.
But her lips had already been bitten until they bled, as had the palms of her hands.
Why had this happened?
Her aunt had helped her so much, and yet, why wouldn’t this man let her touch him? Even though he had been drugged, he had no reaction to her whatsoever.
And now, he had thrown himself into this woman’s room.
Like a starving wolf, he tormented her for so long without stopping.
Jian Rou trembled all over, and the resentment in her heart grew wildly like creeping vines.
“Hello? Sister Qin, is there a drug that can make a person forget what they’ve done after they consume it?”
“Huh?”
The person on the phone responded, immediately revealing confusion through the cellphone.
“What do you mean? Xiaorou, you’ve already drugged someone; are you trying to make him not acknowledge what happened after he pulls his pants up?”
“No… No, that’s not it.”
Jian Rou immediately denied it.
“I just… feel like it’s not the right time yet, it was a bit hasty, I’m somewhat regretful.”
She spoke with regret, hastily finding an excuse.
She indeed regretted it.
If it hadn’t been for the promise to her aunt, things wouldn’t have turned out this way, and she might still have had a chance.
“I see, then fine, from the drugs I gave you, find a little packet of blue powder and let him smell it, and he won’t remember anything that happened.”
Unexpectedly, this courtesan really had such a drug.
Jian Rou was overjoyed.
She immediately went back up to her room, found the packet of blue powder, and then brought it downstairs, sliding it under the door of Yin Hehe’s room.
Upon its release, a strange fragrance gradually pervaded the air.
Soon after, the man who had been entwined with Yin Hehe on the bed went limp, slumping to one side, and fell into a deep sleep.
And Yin Hehe had long since passed out from exhaustion.
——
The following day.
When Yin Hehe woke up, a fierce soreness spread throughout her body.
The images from last night immediately filled her mind.
This bastard!!
Her chest was immediately filled with a mix of shame and towering rage, and she turned to kill this damn man.
But she discovered that there was no one beside her.
Gone?
Where did he die off to?
She was stunned for a moment, several seconds passed, and as she climbed out of bed, the pain between her legs nearly caused her to fall to the ground!
This damn thing, had he taken the wrong medicine last night? She was going to kill him!
Yin Hehe washed up haphazardly, changed her clothes, and then, enduring the discomfort between her legs, she left the room.
To her surprise, when she arrived at the lobby downstairs, she happened upon the family getting ready to head home.
“Son, you seem to be in good spirits, you must have slept well last night?”
The impeccably dressed man gracefully came out from within, and the old lady, seeing him, immediately approached with a beaming smile to offer her praise.
The man did indeed look refreshed.
Yin Hehe gritted her teeth so hard behind him they made a grinding noise.
“Hmm, let’s get in the car.”
The man nodded and walked out of the hotel lobby, opened his own black Bentley, and ushered the people into the car.
Jian Rou quickly trotted over.
“Cousin, can I sit in the passenger seat? I get a bit carsick.”
“Of course, you can!”
The old lady immediately answered for him.
“Xiaorou, you took care of your cousin all night yesterday, what’s wrong with sitting in the passenger seat? Hurry on up, your aunt will make the decision for you!”
“But, cousin…”
Jian Rou was still afraid to get on, her large dewy eyes filled with anticipation as she looked at the man.
Yin Hehe was also watching…
Chapter 210: Chapter 210 No Future Meetings Chapter 210: Chapter 210 No Future Meetings “Go ahead, there are motion sickness patches in the car, you could use two.”
The man nodded, his tone still very gentle.
“Thank you, cousin!”
Instantly, Jian Rou was so happy she could have flown to the heavens.
Meanwhile, Yin Hehe stopped in her tracks, a face originally filled with rage slowly turned pale.
What was happening?
Why was it that last night this man was clearly tormenting her, yet now it had switched to this other woman?
Could it be, that upon waking up this morning and seeing her by his side, he immediately regretted it?
So he left.
He returned to his room, back to the girl named Jian Rou, after all, she was easier for him to accept compared to his much-hated ex-wife.
Yin Hehe didn’t go forward anymore. She was like a blaze suddenly extinguished, chilling her fingertips shockingly.
“Eh? Isn’t that Sister Han? She’s come down too, what a coincidence.”
Just at that moment, Jian Rou, who had gotten into the car, spotted her.
In an instant, everyone’s gaze turned to her.
Including the man still standing by the car.
“Sister Han, are you leaving too? Do you want us to give you a lift?”
Jian Rou cheerily greeted her from inside the car.
Yin Hehe didn’t make a sound.
She looked at the man, who until yesterday had made his stance very clear to her, yet at this moment, her gaze was fixed as if rooted to the spot.
She hoped to discern something from his eyes.
Unfortunately, there was nothing.
“Miss Han, do you need me to arrange a car for you?”
He asked with formality.
But his tone was very official, and their gazes were as indifferent as if last night’s events had never happened.
Yin Hehe heard something within her heart slowly freezing over.
Her fingertips dug deeply into her palm.
Her expression, if not for the mask on her face, would have shown she was no different from a corpse.
“No need, thank you, Mr. Sheng.”
Eventually, she mustered tremendous willpower and feigned calmness as she spoke.
The man nodded his head.
Soon, he got into the car, the engine roared to life, and the black Bentley disappeared from the hotel entrance.
Yin Hehe stood there dazedly watching.
After a long while, she finally turned mechanically and stepped back into the elevator.
In fact, why bother thinking too much about it?
It wasn’t the first time she had slept with him, might as well consider it… a dog bite.
She returned to her room.
Not long after, with Caicai from R country calling to inquire why she hadn’t arrived last night?
She too left the hotel with her suitcase in tow.
Sheng Siyuan, until we never meet again!
——
One month later.
Jiangbei, the city center.
“President, there’s news from the capital again. They said we should also bid for the expressway contract, and the detailed information has been sent over.”
Chen Xiaosen entered the president’s office early in the morning with a beam on his face, presenting a flyer.
The capital’s expressway contract was a juicy piece of business.
After all, that was a key city—if we secured it, other cities would follow suit.
Sheng Siyuan flipped through the material, and after a long pause, he finally asked, “Do you also think that Jian Zhongzhou is a great help to our company?”
“Of course!”
Chen Xiaosen answered without hesitation.
“In this past month, if it weren’t for Mr. Jian, how could our company have gotten so many projects in the capital? Besides, many people had canceled their cooperation with our company due to the issue with the third shareholder, thinking that it was internal chaos, and the management was unreliable. But once Mr. Jian appeared, wasn’t everything resolved?”
He recounted all the ways Jian Zhongzhou had assisted the company over the month.
The man appeared thoughtful.
Seeing this, Chen Xiaosen prepared to leave.
“Take this and cancel it.”
Suddenly, the man behind him called out again, taking something out of the drawer.
Chen Xiaosen turned around to look.
Instantly, his eyes widened, and he was utterly dumbfounded!
“President, you… you’re going to cancel madam’s registration?”
“She’s dead, isn’t she?”
The man’s expression at this moment was eerily calm as he glanced at the household register he had taken out, speaking in an indifferent tone.
Chen Xiaosen: “!!!!”
In that instant, he desperately wanted to tell this man that his wife wasn’t dead at all.
But before he could even open his mouth, the man took out two little red books as well.
“Take these too, have them canceled.”
“…”
Chen Xiaosen was not just shocked.
It was as if his entire brain had been struck by lightning, as he stood there dumbfounded, staring at the man. For a long time, he didn’t make a peep.
These were marriage certificates!
He had never expected that this man had never divorced his wife.
They… were still husband and wife!
“President, you… you actually didn’t divorce your wife? Then… then why didn’t you tell her?”
It took Chen Xiaosen a very long time to calm down before he finally managed to ask the question, his voice choked on behalf of the woman.
As the question hung in the air, the man’s gaze turned to him.
“Her?”
“Yes, President, I… I actually have a big secret I haven’t told you, Miss Han… she is your wife!”
In this critical moment, Chen Xiaosen finally divulged the secret.
The office fell silent.
In that moment, as the man stared at him, it was unclear whether the secret had startled him or if it was for some other reason, but his gaze was inscrutable, so calm that one couldn’t ascertain his intentions.
All there was… was the suffocating air around them!
The secretary knew her identity.
Yet, the woman herself never wished to reveal to him who she truly was?
The man tugged at his thin lips.
In the end, all the emotions in his chest morphed into thick irony.
“Take them to be canceled!”
His gaze returned to its original coldness as he repeated his instruction, and then he resumed his work.
He didn’t glance at those documents again, not from start to finish.
Chen Xiaosen was dumbstruck.
After a while, he hesitated to collect the documents and left the office, looking back three times with each step he took.
How did things turn out this way?
He had said that his wife was alive, that she was Miss Han, so why was the President still so indifferent?
Chen Xiaosen returned to his desk and immediately took out his cellphone to call Yin Hehe, who had already returned to the country.
“Hello, the phone you have dialed is switched off!”
Unexpectedly, the message indicating a disconnected phone came through the phone.
Chen Xiaosen panicked.
He tried calling again twice, and when it still didn’t connect, he quickly found and dialed Caicai’s number.
He had met this girl during his trip to the USA.
“Hello?”
As expected, the other party quickly answered.
Chen Xiaosen was overwhelmed with relief and immediately asked, “Miss Cai, this is Chen Xiaosen. I wanted to ask if my wife is with you?”
“Hehe?” As soon as Caicai heard this, her tone became agitated.
“No, I’m actually looking for her too. She’s been missing for two weeks now, and I haven’t been able to contact her.”
“What?”
Chen Xiaosen’s face suddenly changed.
“Why can’t you contact her? Didn’t she return to you?”
“Yes, but she went to Qiandai two weeks ago, got a new face, and since then I’ve lost all contact with her. Right now, Qiandai and I are guessing, is she using this new identity to find a new place to start over?”
Caicai expressed these concerns with a very solemn tone.
Chen Xiaosen anxiously asked, “Then how can we find her?”
“If we have her fingerprint, it will do. As long as it’s her documents, the police would have taken her fingerprints when issuing them!”
Caicai reminded him.
Chen Xiaosen’s gaze immediately landed on the documents he had just received in his hand.
After a moment, he turned and pushed open the door to the President’s office again.
“President, are you in a hurry with this household register? I just inquired, and it seems that the cancellation process might take a while?”
“…”
The man working on his notebook looked up with an annoyed glance.
“How long?”
“It could take… about half a month?”
Chen Xiaosen estimated the time needed to send them overseas and gave an approximate timeframe.
Upon hearing this, the man’s gaze narrowed slightly.