Ch. 241..245: Mr CEO Ex-wife Escapes Again Chapter 241-245
Chapter 241: Chapter 241 He’s Walking on Thin Ice Now Chapter 241: Chapter 241 He’s Walking on Thin Ice Now Imperial Capital.
Sheng Siyuan was indeed in this city at the moment.
However, he wasn’t dealing with land affairs, but bringing Jian Rou’s ashes back.
Afterward, he faced a scolding from all the elders at his grandmother’s home, including his grandma who had always adored him since he was a child.
“Xiaoyuan, what do you say, what can you do now? Your maternal aunt only had this one daughter; now that she’s dead, will they let you off?”
After scolding him, what the elderly grandma was actually most worried about was still him.
Sheng Siyuan pressed his lips together, comforting her, “Grandma, don’t worry, they can’t touch me.”
Grandma: “How could they not? Your aunt’s husband is the third in command in the Imperial Capital, and your maternal aunt is so close to your mother, they…”
Grandma stopped mid-sentence.
But at that moment, Sheng Siyuan once again interrupted her calmly.
“Don’t worry about it, this matter won’t cause trouble for me,” Sheng Siyuan was confident.
Then, he left the Wang Family’s home, preparing to return to Jiangbei.
But just at that moment, Xu Guannan made a phone call: “President, there’s a problem. Jian Zhongzhou seems to have found out about the lady’s drug use.”
“What did you say?”
As soon as those words were spoken, the man who was driving slammed on the brakes hard, and the car came to an abrupt stop on the asphalt road.
This was his Achilles’ heel.
The reason he had never disclosed the news of Yin Hehe being in the Drug Rehabilitation Center to the outside world was to protect her reputation.
So she could still do the lawyer work she loved in the future.
“Who told him?”
Speaking again, the chill in his voice could be felt even through the screen.
Xu Guannan hesitated on the other end of the phone before saying, “Recently, I inquired at the old residence, and they said that the old lady had been in contact with Jian Rou’s mother before you went to the Imperial Capital to take Jian Rou away.”
“Beep—”
He punched the steering wheel hard.
At that moment, the sharp sound from the sedan caused the traffic behind it, which was in motion, almost to collide.
He really hated this mother of his!
“So, President, you better not come back yet. You stay in the Imperial Capital and wait for Jian Zhongzhou. If he tries to blackmail you using the lady, you can deal with it immediately there,” Xu Guannan finally warned.
“Also, apart from that, you have to be wary of him suing you in court. After all, it was after you took her away that she had an abortion and then jumped to her death. If it turns into an indirect murder charge like that case with the prince from M country, it would be troublesome.”
“…”
Hearing this, Sheng Siyuan’s head grew even heavier.
He turned the car around and had just returned to the hotel when his phone rang again.
“Hello?”
“Sheng Siyuan, what are you doing in the Imperial Capital? Today Jian Zhongzhou already came to the Drug Rehabilitation Center in Y City causing trouble. Now I can’t even enter; I don’t know what’s happening with Xiaohe inside, what do you say we do?”
It turned out to be Yin Beixiao, who was far away in Y City, calling.
Sheng Siyuan stood there, his face turning pale in an instant.
He had actually been keeping a close eye on Jian Zhongzhou all along, just that today he had been called away by the elders at his grandmother’s home.
Moreover, he had never imagined his own mother would betray him!
“I’m coming over now!”
He felt a chill spread through him, and with just that one sentence on the phone, he hung up.
Two minutes later, the black Maybach that had only recently turned back halfway, once again sped towards the airport.
In this matter, he was actually not afraid of anything.
The only thing he was afraid of was Yin Hehe finding out about Jian Rou being pregnant and that he, Sheng Siyuan, had taken her abroad for an abortion.
All the way to Y City, Sheng Siyuan was restless.
After finally arriving in Y City and just about to head to the Drug Rehabilitation Center, he unexpectedly encountered several men in black clothing approaching from the opposite side.
“Mr. Sheng, our master asks for your presence.”
“Your master?” His gaze immediately turned sharp.
“Who is it?”
“Of course, it’s Mr. Jian Zhongzhou. He told me to convey that if you don’t want your wife’s drug addiction to be exposed, you’d better obediently meet with him. He wants to have a word with you.”
It was very unexpected.
Jian Zhongzhou hadn’t sent anyone to look for Sheng Siyuan in the capital.
Instead, he had sought him out upon arrival in Y-city.
Sheng Siyuan followed them.
In the Y-city winter, deep into the night, it was still very cold. Riding up the winding mountain road, Sheng Siyuan, who was only wearing a thin windbreaker, felt a chill.
“Mr. Sheng, we’ve arrived.”
When they finally reached the mountaintop, they saw lights ahead.
The car came to a stop.
Sheng Siyuan sized up his surroundings and calmly followed the people toward the light after getting out of the car.
What he found when he arrived was not some grand villa bathed in the light but an ordinary residential house.
“Mr. Jian, Mr. Sheng is here.”
“Let him in,” came Jian Zhongzhou’s voice from inside.
Sheng Siyuan stepped in.
The light inside the house was still dim, accompanied by a damp, musty smell. Sheng Siyuan soon saw a middle-aged man in a Sun Yat-sen suit curled up in a very small room.
It was Jian Zhongzhou.
The death of Jian Rou had hit him hard; although he had not lost any of the power he held in his hands.
But he truly looked as if he had aged more than ten years overnight.
“You have finally come?” Jian Zhongzhou saw him too.
Then, he shifted in his recliner and propped himself up to sit.
Sheng Siyuan didn’t move.
Instead, after looking at him, he said, “I’m very sorry about your daughter, but debts have their creditors, and grievances have their wrongdoers. If you have anything against me, come at me directly, and don’t involve my wife.”
“Your wife?”
Jian Zhongzhou let out a cold laugh, “Who’s your wife? My daughter is the one who had a wedding ceremony with you.”
Sheng Siyuan’s gaze was icy, “I said, that was just a play I directed. Yin Hehe and I have never divorced.”
“A play? You used my daughter’s lifelong happiness for a play?”
Jian Zhongzhou finally leaped out of the chair like a madman, lunging at the man before him.
Seeing this, Sheng Siyuan quickly dodged.
“Jian Zhongzhou, your daughter started that play. If she hadn’t drugged me, would there have been a wedding afterwards? What I did was merely to accommodate her!”
“You—”
“Furthermore, if you summoned me here just to try to kill me in such a manner, then you’re far too naive,” he said with a hint of irony.
At that, Jian Zhongzhou actually stopped.
“You’re right, I didn’t ask you here to simply kill you off so easily. Sheng Siyuan, I want you to bury my daughter as your deceased wife, and I also demand that you register the child she aborted into the Sheng Family register. If you comply, I’ll let you go!”
He had really gone mad.
In such a cramped room, he was spouting such absurd demands.
Sheng Siyuan looked at this madman.
Moments later, he turned and walked away!
“Sheng Siyuan, let me remind you one more thing,” Jian Zhongzhou said, “the moment you step out of this door, the video of you and my daughter in bed that night will be sent directly to Yin Hehe. Do you think, given her current state, she would be able to stay in the Drug Rehabilitation Center after seeing it?”
“You—”
Chapter 242: Chapter 242 He Dared Not See Her Chapter 242: Chapter 242 He Dared Not See Her Sheng Siyuan arrived at the Drug Rehabilitation Center when it was already very late.
The streets in the early morning were so silent that only the howling cold wind could be heard, blowing the few remaining leaves from the branches, drifting onto the empty streets.
At a glance, this added an extra touch of desolation and bleakness to the street.
“President, at this hour, they probably won’t let you in,”
Xu Guannan, following behind him, said as he saw the firmly shut gates, trying to suppress the discomfort in his heart.
Indeed, even if he wanted to go in, he couldn’t now.
However, for him, this was actually a good thing, because, even if he had gone inside, he might not have known how to start speaking to that woman inside.
Sheng Siyuan stood at the entrance of the Drug Rehabilitation Center for a long time.
Not until streaks of dawn started to show in the sky did he finally move his stiff legs and mechanically returned to the car.
“Back to Jiangbei.”
“Yes,” Xu Guannan responded as he started the car.
“Also, go to the capital and bring over Jian Rou’s urn,”
he added from the back seat.
Xu Guannan’s hands, gripping the steering wheel, stiffened in place; after a long while, he looked up at the rearview mirror at this man who seemed to have lost all his luster overnight, his chest felt suffocated as though a massive stone weighed on it.
The car disappeared in the dimly lit streets.
By seven in the morning, Yin Hehe woke up inside the Drug Rehabilitation Center. As she opened her eyes, the first thing she did was look at the cellphone on the nightstand.
[Xiaohe, are you okay? Big brother couldn’t get in all this time, how are you doing?]
[Hehe, how was your treatment today?]
[…]
There were several unread messages in WeChat.
But notably, that man was silent.
Yin Hehe’s gaze dimmed, and she flipped to the call logs, wanting to see if the number she couldn’t reach the night before had perhaps called her.
But there was nothing.
What exactly was happening? This man, what exactly was he doing?
Finally, she couldn’t sit still anymore, she got down from the hospital bed and rushed to the door of the room.
“Bang bang bang!”
She banged hard against the door of the room.
“Nurse Zhang, open the door for me, I need to go out, hurry up and open it!”
After a long time, a nurse outside ran over to open the door for her.
“Yin Hehe, what’s the matter with you? So early in the morning, are you…?”
The nurse’s face changed, thinking that it might be an early onset of withdrawal symptoms.
Seeing this, Yin Hehe waved her hand and said, “No, could you please find Doctor Qin for me? I want to go outside.”
“What?”
The nurse trembled with fright upon hearing this.
Because in this place, unless you’ve successfully detoxed, you couldn’t just leave.
“Yin Hehe, have you lost your mind? You’ve only been here for a month, how can you go out? You haven’t even detoxed completely yet?”
She exclaimed, taking out the keys to push Yin Hehe back into the room, as if fearing she might escape.
Poor Yin Hehe, after a month of torturous treatment, had already become thin as a rail, not to mention being pushed back – a gust of wind could knock her over.
Yin Hehe was pushed back into the room.
“Let me out, I didn’t mean it like that, go find Doctor Qin for me, go find her!!”
She was so upset she was on the verge of tears.
Fortunately, it was almost time for work, and soon after, Doctor Qin really did arrive.
“What happened? What are you all doing?”
She saw the scene and was so scared that she ran over without even having the time to put down her bag.
It was then that the nurse hurriedly explained what had happened.
“Doctor Qin, she… she said she wanted to go out early in the morning, and I was so scared that I locked her up again.”
Go out?
Doctor Qin walked to the doorway of the ward and saw Yin Hehe from the window, still banging on the door, her eyes already red.
“Open the door!” Doctor Qin instructed after a few seconds.
The little nurse: “…”
In the end, under the stern gaze of the doctor, she still opened the door to the ward.
“Doctor Qin!”
As expected, the moment the door was opened, Yin Hehe rushed out from inside.
She gripped Doctor Qin’s arm tightly, her eyes brimming with tears as she said, “Doctor Qin, I must go home, something has happened to my family.”
“What happened?” Doctor Qin was immediately shocked.
Doctor Qin suddenly remembered the incident from yesterday when Jian Zhongzhou came here looking for Yin Hehe; her expression grew even more anxious.
“Xiaoyin, you mustn’t believe what that person said yesterday. I’ve seen your husband, and he deeply cares for you. He wouldn’t do such a thing.”
She urgently persuaded her, worried that Yin Hehe might be affected by this and it would impact her treatment.
Upon hearing this, Yin Hehe became even more upset.
She hung her head low, standing in front of the doctor with tears steadily falling.
“Doctor Qin, I… I don’t disbelieve him. It’s precisely because I trust him so much that I’m afraid something will happen to him.”
“What?”
At this, Doctor Qin was perplexed.
Fifteen minutes later, when Doctor Qin sat at the small table inside the ward and finally heard Yin Hehe sobbingly tell the whole story of what had happened initially, she came to understand.
“Xiaoyin, that’s where you were wrong. Why didn’t you tell your husband about this in the first place? Look, because you kept silent, you’ve caused so much trouble, and you’ve ended up in this state yourself.”
After hearing the whole story, Doctor Qin looked at the girl in front of her, both annoyed and distressed.
Yin Hehe wiped her tears and didn’t dare talk back.
It was her fault, after all.
“Then why are you now worried that something will happen to him? I still don’t understand. Jian Rou jumped off the building herself, that has nothing to do with your husband, right? Moreover, after Jian Zhongzhou made a fuss here yesterday, we checked his background too. Just a third tier powerbroker in the capital, thinking he can cover the sky with one hand and take down your husband is completely impossible!”
Doctor Qin thought for a moment and then asked another question.
That’s the confidence of the Drug Rehabilitation Center.
Here, any power must bow its head, because this place is akin to a national law enforcement agency.
Yin Hehe sniffled and after a long pause, she finally said, “If that were the case, since Jian Zhongzhou made a fuss here yesterday, my husband should have come to see me.”
That seemed to make sense.
Doctor Qin suddenly found herself at a loss for words.
Yin Hehe continued, “He didn’t come, there must have been an unexpected turn of events. He might have been threatened, and this might have something to do with me.”
She laid out her analysis clearly, leaving the doctor in front of her startled and speechless for a while.
For a long time, she looked at her, forgetting what to say.
Is this what a lawyer is capable of?
Without being present at the scene of the incident, based solely on her own conjecture, she could understand the entirety of the situation. If it were up to them doctors, they would break their heads thinking and still probably wouldn’t come up with these points.
“But still, Xiaoyin, even so, you can’t go out. You’re now addicted to a new type of drug, and here at the Drug Rehabilitation Center, you are considered a key treatment object. The anti-narcotics brigade is also closely monitoring you.”
To her surprise, even after listening to everything, the doctor still refused.
Yin Hehe’s eyes reddened once again.
“Doctor Qin…”
“Let’s do this, I’ll make a call to Jiangbei, have a colleague there look for your husband. We’ll find out exactly what happened and then discuss what’s best, okay?”
The doctor changed tack, bringing her a glimmer of hope.
Chapter 243: Chapter 243: Funeral Chapter 243: Chapter 243: Funeral Jiangbei.
When Sheng Siyuan returned, the Sheng Family’s ancestral home had already received the notice.
Upon entering, he immediately saw the old man in the garden waiting for him with a cane, beside him was the old lady who had been thrown to the ground and could not even crawl up.
“Dad.”
Sheng Siyuan had never seen such a scene and couldn’t help but call out.
The old Master Sheng glanced at him and slowly walked forward.
“Although the Sheng Family is not from some noble lineage, a hundred years ago it had a notable name in Jiangbei. Today, this old hag has brought disgrace upon the Sheng Family to this extent, so I can only send her back from where she came.”
Unexpectedly, the first thing he waited for his son to come back for was not to discuss arranging Jian Rou’s funeral at the Sheng Family’s home.
But to deal in front of Sheng Siyuan with this old lady first.
Hearing this on the ground, the old lady suddenly, having already been beaten to immobility, wailed and crawled up like a dog.
“No, I don’t want to be sent back, master, I was wrong, I will never dare again, please forgive me.”
She crawled to the old man’s feet, trying to grasp the hem of his pants.
But as soon as she touched it, she was fiercely kicked away by the old man, and her scream echoed once more in the garden.
Sheng Siyuan watched with an expressionless face.
Until, she crawled in front of him and clung desperately to his pant leg.
“Son, I beg you, save your mother, she cannot be sent back, she is of such an old age already, being sent back, she will be laughed to death.”
How ironic.
Even at this critical moment, this old lady still thought of her own reputation.
Sheng Siyuan looked down and finally spoke, “Did you consider that Yin Hehe could have been killed by you doing this? Did you consider that the Sheng Family has now become a laughingstock of the whole world? That I, Sheng Siyuan, have been utterly disgraced?”
He asked word by word.
The old lady’s expression froze.
Yes, the Sheng Family had now become the joke of Jiangbei, ever since those white banners were hung outside the door.
Its reputation had been dragged through the mud.
Not to mention that during the funeral at noon today, he, Sheng Siyuan, had to hold the urn and personally attend that woman’s funeral, subject to ridicule.
“Your reputation, sure, but what about ours? Mother!” he finally called out faintly.
As he finished speaking, the old lady grasping at him seemed to be struck hard on the head.
Eventually, with a gray and ashen face, she slowly let go of his pant leg.
“But, I did this… all for you.” This was the last sentence she left behind, crying torrents like rain as she was dragged away, turned toward Sheng Siyuan.
Sheng Siyuan ignored her.
He had the servants in the old house hang the white banners around, and he walked mechanically toward the living room.
Yet even so, it wasn’t long before his phone rang again.
“Sheng Siyuan, do you think just hanging up a few white banners is the end of it? I want a funeral! Doesn’t a funeral require inviting your relatives over for a drink?”
It turned out to be Jian Zhongzhou calling again.
Old Master Sheng, hearing this from the side, finally could no longer bear it, rushing over to snatch away the phone.
“Jian Zhongzhou, don’t be too excessive. It was your daughter who shamelessly threw herself at my son. Now you still want to push this far? Aren’t you afraid that we would rather destroy both sides in the process?”
He roared furiously.
To his surprise, as soon as he finished speaking, he heard a very disdainful sneer from Jian Zhongzhou on the phone.
“Then you ask your son, is he willing to go down with me? I don’t care, but does he really care about that woman?”
He threw out this sentence so nonchalantly.
The old Sheng patriarch immediately looked toward his son sitting beside him, only to find that his complexion had indeed turned even paler than before.
It had been just mechanical until now.
But now, fear was written all over his face.
In the end, the old Sheng patriarch hung up the phone.
“Alright, you don’t need to think too much. I’m going to notify relatives and friends right now to come for the funeral,” he said.
Leaning on his cane, he made his way toward the door.
Sheng Siyuan finally called out in a hoarse voice from behind, “Dad, I’m sorry!”
“You don’t need to apologize to me. This matter never really had anything to do with you. It’s just a matter of face. Losing it is losing it. As long as Hehe comes out later, and you two live your lives well, manage the company properly, then it’s all worth it!”
The elderly man stood at the doorway, just like the big tree that sheltered this family from the storms when he was younger, leaving behind this sentence with an air of nonchalance.
He soon left.
Leaving Sheng Siyuan sitting in the living room, after a long time, he finally couldn’t hold it in anymore, turning his reddened eyes fiercely away.
He truly was unfilial.
Soon after the Sheng family sent out the notification, those relatives and friends really began to arrive one after another. Full of doubts or utterly shocked, upon entering and seeing the white funeral banners all around the house, they all started gossiping.
“Wasn’t the last wedding unfinished? How did this woman die? The Sheng family is still giving her a funeral?”
“Yeah, I remember at the wedding, the old man said Ayuan wasn’t divorced yet.”
“What’s going on then?”
They were all bewildered in the garden.
Until Sheng Huainan’s parents, Sheng Siyuan’s uncle and his family, arrived. Seeing the scene, they began to vividly recount the tale.
“Uncle, you don’t know yet, do you? Although the bride didn’t officially become part of the Sheng family, she and Ayuan had already, well, cooked the uncooked rice.”
“What?”
“Yeah, afterwards Ayuan came back, refused to acknowledge it, and took the woman abroad for an abortion, which drove the poor girl to her death, didn’t it?”
“!!!!”
With that statement, the crowded old mansion exploded into chaos.
Being abandoned after being seduced was not a good reputation in this family, especially since there were many who envied the Sheng family’s significant wealth.
Just at that time, someone else came in, and the old Sheng patriarch saw that it was Jian Zhongzhou, who he had just spoken with on the phone not long ago.
At this moment, he, along with Jian Rou’s mother, was clad in white, personally carrying the urn as they entered.
“My goodness, they actually came themselves!”
The relatives inside the mansion gasped in shock upon seeing them.
The old patriarch was also standing there with his cane, shaking with anger to the point of almost fainting.
“Jian Zhongzhou, aren’t you going too far?”
“Me, going too far?” Jian Zhongzhou walked through the parted crowd holding the urn, scoffing openly.
“How have I gone too far? My daughter died at the hands of your son, I couldn’t manage to marry her off successfully into your Sheng family while she was alive, now that she’s dead, I bring her urn here and I don’t have the right?”
“Honestly, Sheng Huang, my daughter was a pure and innocent person, spoiled by your son, and now, we, her parents, swallow our pride and bring her urn here, and yet you say we’re going too far?”
Jian Rou’s mother also chimed in, her words even harsher.
The old patriarch swayed on the spot, but fortunately, Sheng Siyuan came out from inside the house and steadied him.
Chapter 244: Chapter 244: My Husband, If He Were to Kneel, It Would Be Before Me Only! Chapter 244: Chapter 244: My Husband, If He Were to Kneel, It Would Be Before Me Only! “Jian Zhongzhou, you really don’t want to wrap this up, do you?”
When Sheng Siyuan had someone take the old master away, he turned to face the crowd. His gaze fell on Jian Zhongzhou, a high-ranking person’s indifferent scrutiny, was just a mass of deep black.
Like the depths of a dark marsh, filled with the scent of death.
Jian Zhongzhou’s scalp tingled.
Finally, he no longer dared to stir up trouble and handed the urn to a servant of the Sheng Family’s old house before sheepishly waiting in the living room.
“No matter, Sheng Siyuan, even if you put on airs now, at the funeral, you’ll still become the laughingstock of all Jiangbei, kneeling in front of me like a dog.”
Jian Zhongzhou’s eyes flashed with malevolence as he and his wife sat down.
According to funeral customs, after a wife’s death, the husband indeed had to kneel before the elders, especially the wife’s parents, not just kneel, but kowtow until they helped him up.
As Xu Guannan was helping Sheng Siyuan change clothes in the room, he thought of this as well.
Suddenly, his eyes were full of pity.
“President, I’ll kneel for you at the funeral!” his assistant was also very loyal.
However, the man looked at his reflection in the mirror and shook his head.
“Don’t anger him until we get that surveillance footage, kneeling is nothing, it won’t cost you a piece of flesh.”
He said nonchalantly while folding up his sleeves.
Xu Guannan immediately looked up at him.
A man’s knees are as precious as gold.
Moreover, he was such a proud person, who, in the past, would make anyone who showed the slightest disrespect regret being born into this world, let alone kneel.
But now, for that woman, he had lowered himself to this extent.
As Xu Guannan bowed his head, his eyes reddened a bit.
“Alright, President, rest assured, I will keep an eye on him. As soon as the funeral is over, I’ll immediately get the surveillance video from him.”
“Mhm.”
He nodded in satisfaction.
Half an hour later, the inexplicably grand funeral finally began in this old house.
At that moment, there were even some media outside.
Jian Zhongzhou was pleased with all of this.
He watched as Sheng Siyuan, dressed in a black suit and wearing a white flower on his chest, entered the mourning hall.
Straight away, he too eagerly went in.
“Condolence from guests, offer incense!”
The master of ceremonies, seeing the host had entered, started letting guests in to pay their respects.
Sheng Siyuan stood beside the mourning hall with his hands crossed in front, expressionless.
Some came to offer incense.
He slightly bowed in return as a gesture of respect.
As the “husband” of the deceased, he didn’t need to kneel before ordinary guests.
Until Jian Zhongzhou came in.
“Xiaorou, your parents have brought you here. From now on, stay here, and with this funeral, you’ll officially be a recognized member of this family.”
Madam Jian deliberately said this in front of the guests in the mourning hall.
Sheng Siyuan didn’t react much.
But when the couple came in front of him, waiting for him to kneel, his crossed hands finally tensed slightly.
“What’s the matter? It’s come to this, and you still don’t want to kowtow and call us mom and dad?”
Jian Zhongzhou deliberately urged.
The pale-faced man slowly closed his eyes, and after a short pause, when he opened them again, he bent his knees without hesitation.
“Why should he kneel to you? His wife is still standing here myself, what does kneeling for someone like you mean?”
Just like a thunderbolt out of the blue!
No one expected that, at this crucial moment, a cold and indifferent woman’s voice would come from outside the crowd.
Sheng Siyuan was struck like by lightning!
He stood upright, his eyes immediately looking toward the entrance of the mourning hall.
Jian Zhongzhou did the same.
But they saw, among the crowded people, only to hear a stern voice cry out, “Everyone make way!”
A woman in blue and white striped hospital garb was helped in by two doctors in white coats.
“…”
Sheng Siyuan lost his voice.
He stared dully at the woman who had suddenly appeared, his mind as if blown to smithereens, completely blank.
How could she be here?
Did she know everything?
The thought leapt into his mind, and he stood there, his form swaying.
Yin Hehe was helped in slowly.
She glanced over the funeral parlor, her gaze finally resting on the man before her. She then let go of the doctor’s hand beside her and walked up to him step by step.
“Why are you so silly? Wanting to shoulder everything on your own, do you think I’m in no shape to bear it with you anymore?”
She reached for his hand, and in the deathly silent funeral parlor, her amber eyes, misted with a film of moisture, looked at him.
She was actually… still joking.
Sheng Siyuan shuddered violently again, feeling the warmth on his fingers. In that moment, he lost control and fiercely pulled her into his arms.
“No, I was just… afraid you would disappear again.”
His voice trembled. That man, so tall and strong, was now nestled in the crook of this woman’s shoulder, two scalding tears falling.
He was as aggrieved as a child.
Yin Hehe wrapped her arms around him and said tenderly, “How could I? Now that you’ve found me, I won’t run away again.”
“Really?”
“Really!”
Their private conversation made the funeral parlor finally react.
Especially Jian Zhongzhou.
“What are you doing? This is my daughter’s wake. Sheng Siyuan, kneel now and let my daughter have a smooth funeral!”
“…”
At that shout, it was clear that Yin Hehe felt the man holding her tremble again.
The strength of his grip on her tightened considerably.
This was fear.
Yin Hehe, weakened from her illness, could hardly bear it. She tried to pat his back gently.
“Honey, don’t worry, let me go for now.”
“…”
As if under a spell.
At the word “honey,” he indeed let her go, dazedly.
Yin Hehe then turned to face the scoundrel behind her.
“Why should he bury your daughter? What relation does your daughter have with him?”
“What relation? What do you think? My daughter’s purity was taken by him, and she was heartlessly abandoned at the wedding because of you, Yin Hehe. Do you still have the face to ask me what relation?”
At that, Jian Zhongzhou immediately roared in front of all the guests outside the wake and blew Yin Hehe’s cover as well.
“That’s her, Yin Hehe?”
In an instant, that remark triggered a chorus of gasps around the funeral parlor.
Seeing this, Yin Hehe sneered and took out her phone from her pocket.
“How laughable. On that night, after my husband was drugged by your daughter, it was I who he came rushing down to and tormented until midnight. What does that have to do with your daughter?”
“…”
“However, there is indeed something weird. When I planned to visit the next day, he was gone. So, I asked the hotel for a copy of the surveillance footage.”
In front of everyone, Yin Hehe took out a surveillance player as well.
“I’m sorry, Mr. Jian, but this surveillance shows your daughter to be utterly shameless. After failing to climb into his bed when she drugged my husband, she shamelessly crept into my room in the middle of the night and dragged him away.
Mr. Jian, with such a shameless daughter, do you still have the decency to knock on doors asking for a funeral?”
Yin Hehe heavily laced her words with scorn and started the video in front of this man. In a flash, the funeral parlor went up in arms.
How dare someone provoke her?
They wouldn’t even know how they died!
Chapter 245: Chapter 245: Full Firepower! Chapter 245: Chapter 245: Full Firepower! A girl who was proclaimed innocent and pure, suddenly exposed as a drug addict!
And to make matters worse, she had the audacity to drug others.
The crowd outside the funeral hall exploded with chatter.
“So the truth finally comes out, how can people be so shameless these days? A thief crying ‘stop thief’!”
“Yeah, just moments ago she was so arrogant, demanding that our Ayuan kneel and conduct her daughter’s funeral, where does she get the nerve?”
“The most disgusting part is they even dared to make a scene here, asking the Sheng Family to hold a funeral for their daughter, it’s the biggest joke under the heavens!”
In just a few minutes, the outside was filled with unstoppable curses.
Even someone, upon seeing the black and white photo still displayed in the hall, charged in in a flash, grabbed the photo and furiously smashed it to the ground.
“What are you doing? Put down my daughter’s photo!”
When Jian’s mother saw this, she screamed and lunged over in the hall.
But it was already too late.
The frame crashed to the ground, instantly shattering into pieces, making the black and white photo amidst the broken glass particularly glaring.
“Xiaorou, my daughter!” Jian’s mother knelt before the photo and burst into loud crying on the spot.
Jian Zhongzhou was no better off.
His face turned beet red, but his eyes bulged when he saw his daughter’s memorial photo thrown to the ground.
A layer of blood-red rage surged in his eyes.
“You bitch, I’ll kill you!” he roared, lunging at Yin Hehe with a chokehold.
Yin Hehe’s face changed color.
But just then, the man behind her stepped out like lightning.
“Thud!”
He delivered a fierce kick that sent the man flying.
Instantly, Jian Zhongzhou was kicked away like a sandbag, landing on the ground where he lay like a lump of mud, unable to get up.
“Jian Zhongzhou, the reason I didn’t touch you before was because I thought you actually had something, but now that I know you have nothing, you still dare to seek death here?”
After kicking the man, Sheng Siyuan took the startled Yin Hehe into his arms, his gaze cutting sharply through the air, his whole being exuding a terrifyingly cold aura.
Yes, he had been patient for a very long time.
Now, with no more concerns, not kicking this man to death on the spot was already quite merciful.
Sheng Siyuan then looked outside: “Come, people!”
“Yes, young master!”
Soon, the servants of the old house came in.
Sheng Siyuan swept a glance over the white banners hanging everywhere, hatred visible through his thin spectacles!
“Take all these down, replace them with red silk, and, throw these two out, let the reporters at the door get a good look at their faces!”
“Sheng Siyuan, you dare!”
As these words fell, Jian Zhongzhou, still not up from the ground, staggered to his feet and roared at the man.
Sheng Siyuan coldly swept over: “You think I wouldn’t dare?”
Jian Zhongzhou: “…”
With just that one sentence, the once high and mighty power in the capital broke out in a cold sweat, not daring to be arrogant anymore.
“Sheng Siyuan, don’t forget, if you throw me out, it’ll also be exposed that your wife was a drug user!”
He clung to this bargaining chip in a final counterattack.
Sheng Siyuan’s face changed slightly.
But at this moment, Yin Hehe stepped forward, standing in front of him, confidently said, “Let it be exposed then. I didn’t take drugs on my own, I was framed, didn’t you see the doctors from the Drug Rehabilitation Center came specially with me today?”
She purposefully looked towards Dr. Qin outside, who was watching her with concern.
Seeing the situation, Dr. Qin immediately came in.
“She’s right, you’re Jian, right? It’s a disgrace that a public servant like you would attack a person seeking recovery from addiction. What’s wrong with having a drug problem? Just her courage to walk into our rehabilitation center is several times stronger than you, a national public servant!”
Dr. Qin rebuked him sternly, and on the spot, she berated the powerful man from the capital till he had nowhere to hide, his face flushed with shame and embarrassment.
When it comes to lecturing people, these doctors from the drug rehabilitation centers are indeed more formidable.
The crowd outside the ancestral hall heard everything clearly.
Immediately, their gaze towards Yin Hehe started to reflect sympathy and pity, and for Jian Zhongzhou, their hatred and revulsion intensified.
“The Sheng family, a distinguished lineage for a hundred years, who would have thought that in the end, they would be trampled upon by such a despicable person!”
“Exactly, it’s all because of that old man Sheng. The father and son are both too weak.”
“Useless!”
While these people were cursing father and son Sheng Siyuan, they rushed forward and dragged Jian Zhongzhou and his wife out.
At that moment, the whole old mansion was filled with their wailing cries.
By the time the elder Mr. Sheng hurried down from upstairs, he could no longer see the couple, and the white mourning decorations throughout the house had been ripped down, leaving it spotlessly clean. Now, the relatives and friends he had invited were energetically redecorating the house.
“There’s no more red cloth!”
“If there isn’t, then rummage through their trunks! I’m so angry, to be bullied like this at my age.”
“Alright!”
So, a group of people went off to rummage through their bedroom.
Seeing this, old Mr. Sheng silently hid to one side without making a sound.
He looked towards the ancestral hall.
But he discovered that the small living room, which had also been stripped bare, was now devoid of both individuals. He had no idea where they had gone.
“Where are they?” His beard bristled as he grabbed a servant and asked.
The servant, who was busy at work, jumped with fright upon seeing the old master.
“Master, I don’t know, just now I think I saw the young master carrying the young madam out. The young madam couldn’t even stand steady…”
The old man immediately released her and rushed toward the entrance.
The entrance.
At this moment, Yin Hehe was being carried out by Sheng Siyuan.
However, it wasn’t because she was physically weak, but because her drug addiction was acting up again.
“Ah…”
The pain was like tens of thousands of ants gnawing inside her bones, making her curl up into a ball within this man’s arms, trembling violently.
Sheng Siyuan’s face was completely devoid of color.
“Why did you bring her here? Don’t you know her condition?”
He was both in pain and anger, and began to blame the doctors beside him.
Doctor Qin was still okay with it.
But upon hearing this, Nurse Zhang, who had come along, became angry.
“Do you think we wanted to bring her here? It’s only because she knew something happened here and she knelt down, begging us pitifully. How can you be so ungrateful?”
“I…”
Sheng Siyuan was left speechless by the nurse’s rebuke.
But because of her words, when he looked again at the woman in his arms suffering torment, the guilt and pain in his eyes deepened even more.
Why was she so foolish?
In the end, it was Doctor Qin who stepped in. She instructed Sheng Siyuan to put the woman in the car, then took out the injection she had brought and administered it to Yin Hehe.
Gradually, Yin Hehe calmed down.
“Mr. Sheng, now that things here are resolved, I must hurry and take her back,” said Doctor Qin after retrieving the needle.
So soon?
Sheng Siyuan, standing outside the car, hearing this, immediately, without a second thought, ducked and climbed in, once again holding Yin Hehe, who had just been placed inside, in his arms.
Doctor Qin: “…”
Nurse Zhang: “…”
Even the elder Mr. Sheng of the Sheng family, who had just come out to the entrance, twitched in his old eyes upon witnessing this scene.