Ch. 271..275: Mr CEO Ex-wife Escapes Again Chapter 271-275
Chapter 271 Her White Moonlight Y City.
When Yin Hehe arrived in this city, it was already twilight.
In the midwinter season, although the temperature here was warmer than in Jiangbei, by this point, one could still feel the bone-chilling cold, especially now, as she rode in a taxi to the downtown area and saw the streets on both sides already barren of leaves.
It looked even more desolate.
“Research Institute No. 6, please,” Yin Hehe said to the driver.
She had never been to the place where Xiahou Xiu stayed.
However, the narcotics squad’s research institute was quite famous here; practically everyone knew it once she mentioned the name.
In the fiery twilight, Yin Hehe finally arrived in front of the research institute.
“Has Assistant Xiahou finished work for the day?”
“Assistant Xiahou?” The guard at the entrance of the research institute heard her asking for this person and looked her up and down several times.
“Who are you?”
“My last name is Yin. Please tell him, and he’ll know,” Yin Hehe said indifferently.
She was actually a bit tired now, having not eaten anything all day, and also not having taken her medication.
Yin Hehe sat down on the foundation stone by the entrance, feeling that piercing cold, and hugged her arms around herself, looking like she was huddled up there.
In the end, the guard went inside.
Indeed, in no time, a young man still in a white lab coat hurried out from inside.
“It’s really you!”
Xiahou Xiu approached Yin Hehe, and upon seeing her, his eyes revealed a shock.
“Didn’t you go to Jiangbei? Why are you back here?”
“…Do you have any medication here? I’m about to have an attack.”
Yin Hehe lifted her head, already nearly out of control, her whole body trembling, and her face devoid of any color.
Xiahou Xiu saw this, his complexion changed, and then he reached out to help her up and brought her into the research institute.
Half an hour later, having finally recovered, Yin Hehe sat calmly in the chair, looking at the man in front of her.
His facial features were indeed identical to Chu Yan’s, even the mole at the corner of his eye was exactly the same as Chu Yan’s.
Yin Hehe momentarily lost her thoughts.
“What are you staring at me for? You haven’t answered my question yet. Why did you suddenly come back here?”
Xiahou Xiu, busy conducting an experiment, felt the gaze from the side. Without lifting his eyelids, he asked irritably.
As his words fell, Yin Hehe retracted her gaze.
“I’m here to find you,” she said slowly.
“To find me?”
On hearing this, Xiahou Xiu finally put down his work and turned to look at the woman.
“What for?”
“I’ve recently been taking your new drug and experienced gaps in my memory. I’ve had these drugs tested, and the institution told me this kind of medication causes damage to the human hippocampus,” Yin Hehe lifted her head.
“So, I want to ask Assistant Xiahou, did you fail in developing this drug, or did you do it on purpose?”
Her unwavering gaze bore into him, like a sharp knife intent on digging out everything hidden deep inside his heart, bit by bit.
Xiahou Xiu’s expression changed, and he avoided her gaze.
“How could that be? Everything was fine when you tried it before.”
He began working again, his attitude becoming very cold and displeased.
Yin Hehe got up and step by step moved behind him.
“But this phenomenon only started after I took the new medicine!”
“Nonsense!” he immediately denied, agitated.
“You had these symptoms before, how can you blame me?”
He blurted out!
The lab fell silent.
And Yin Hehe just looked at him calmly, her amber-colored pupils under the white fluorescent light of the room, so sharp they made one’s scalp tingle.
Since he wouldn’t admit there was a problem with his drug.
Then why did he know that she had those memory disorders before?
The only reason was, he had investigated her, and then, he used drugs to exacerbate her original problem, making it more serious. That was his true purpose!
“Xiahou Xiu, you’ve been paying attention to me since I arrived at the Drug Rehabilitation Center, haven’t you? Perhaps, the initial memory issues were the aftermath of those drugs, but as it worsened, it was your doing, wasn’t it?”
Yin Hehe questioned him from behind, each word chilling to the bone.
Yet, as her words fell, he wouldn’t admit to anything!
“I don’t know what you’re talking about. If there really is such a problem, then it’s because I failed in developing the drug. What does that have to do with harming you? Do you have a persecution complex?”
He even started to scold Yin Hehe.
Seeing his attitude, Yin Hehe’s long-suppressed anger flared up from her chest, and she exploded.
“I wish I had a persecution complex, but now all the evidence is here, how can you expect me to believe you?”
She rushed to his side and suddenly pulled the pen from the pocket of his white coat, holding it in front of him, very agitated.
Xiahou Xiu glanced at it and his face finally began to turn pale.
“A 0.3 mm Wenpai signature pen, you always like to break off its cap after buying it, thinking its presence affects your writing speed.”
“…”
“Also, your mole, it’s in the wrong spot.”
Yin Hehe reached out and tore off the mole under the man’s left eye corner, then carefully repositioned it under the tail of his left eye.
Having done all this.
Yin Hehe staggered a step backwards, her body icy cold, causing her to start to shake and go numb…
The laboratory was once again deathly silent.
Xiahou Xiu stared at her, he looked like a clown stripped of his mask, or like a vicious wolf finally exposed. In that instant, as he faced this woman, his eyes churned with a deep hatred and a murderous intent!
“Since you already know, why bother asking me? Do you even have the right to ask me?”
He stopped pretending, his fierce gaze fixing on the woman as if he wanted to devour her alive.
Yin Hehe shivered again.
“Why not? I… what did I ever do to wrong you?” tears started to roll down as she looked at him, choking on her words.
As a result, just as her words fell, he exploded like a madman.
“How dare you ask me? That year, I almost died under a car to save you, but what about you? You immediately married Sheng Siyuan! Are you that desperate for a man? Do you know that if you had been just a bit more patient back then and looked into my affairs, I wouldn’t have spent these years living like neither a human nor a ghost!”
Xiahou Xiu roared.
No, to be precise, he should now be called Chu Yan.
Yin Hehe finally heard these words with her own ears. Right then and there, she staggered, her complexion turning several shades paler.
“I didn’t even know you were alive, I… I…”
Yin Hehe was almost about to spill it all to him, she had married Sheng Siyuan because she heard that he had donated his heart to him!
Chapter 272: Honey, I Miss You~ “Nothing to say now, huh?”
Chu Yan saw the woman before him fall silent, and his sneer grew even more pronounced.
However, after a long moment of rapid breathing, Yin Hehe shook her head.
“No, I just can’t figure it out. What exactly happened back then? If you didn’t die, then the person who did…”
“Xiahou Xiu!” To her surprise, this name floated effortlessly from his lips.
Yin Hehe’s eyes widened abruptly, and for a moment she found herself unable to utter a sound.
Xiahou Xiu?
Had his brother actually been there at that time?
“So, the things you just mentioned that you remembered, you actually got them wrong. The one who liked to break pen caps was Xiahou Xiu, and the one with the mole under the corner of the eye was also Xiahou Xiu.”
He reached out and tore off the mole that Yin Hehe had just corrected the position of on his face.
And placed it back in its original location.
“And this spot, now that is the real me!” He stood before Yin Hehe, speaking ominously as if he had crawled out of Hell itself.
A cold breath surged up Yin Hehe’s throat.
She was so shocked that she stumbled several steps backward.
So, the person who had been with her at school that year wasn’t Chu Yan, but Xiahou Xiu?
Yin Hehe’s mind exploded!
“No, you must be spouting nonsense. We’ve known each other since university, we were together for two years, how could you not be you?”
She was screaming out of control in the laboratory, as if she had seen a ghost.
Yet the response she received from him was only an indifferent expression.
“Yes, some of the time it was me who was with you, because my brother had to go back to the Xiaho Family to deal with things. Yin Hehe, I should actually thank you. It was your appearance that finally gave me the chance to return to the Xiaho Family!”
“What are you saying? Thank me?”
“Yes!” The man nodded.
“Our family has a history of hereditary heart disease. When my brother and I were born, I was the unfortunate one who inherited it. As a result, I was abandoned by the Xiahou Family and sent to live with my grandmother, even changing my surname to my mother’s surname!
Whereas my brother Xiahou Xiu, because he was born healthy, was raised as the Xiahou Family’s future successor from an early age. He lived a life of luxury, enjoying every day as if he were the son of heaven.”
At this point in his story, his eyes churned with powerful hatred once more.
Yin Hehe was dumbfounded as she listened.
So, he too had a heart disease.
“What happened afterward? How did he end up at your school?”
Yin Hehe asked.
No sooner had these words left her mouth than she heard a thick sneer cross the man’s lips.
“Because the son of heaven was tired of his privileged life, he wanted to experience the life of his poor brother. He escaped from the Xiahou family and came to my school.”
“…”
With just that sentence, Yin Hehe’s mind drifted far away.
She remembered, the “Chu Yan” of those days indeed seemed quite generous with money, while she often had no money for school due to her stepmother’s control over her family’s finances.
And “Chu Yan” would help her.
She also remembered that boy, who always had a bright smile, was not just willing to help others, but his gaze was also very clear and clean.
Like freshly white paper embracing society for the first time.
Yin Hehe’s fists clenched tighter and tighter.
“So you used me to keep him at school all this time.”
“Stop right there!” His response was an immediate rebuke.
“It wasn’t me using him. He really fell in love with you, Yin Hehe, do you know that? During the time he was about to have an accident, he even thought about permanently trading places with me, hahahaha…”
He burst into loud, hysterical laughter, as if mocking Xiahou Xiu for being so naive and so foolish!
Yin Hehe’s chest hurt so much that she couldn’t even catch her breath.
She had never imagined that the truth behind everything would turn out like this.
Xiahou Xiu!
So, it was this person who had been by her side all those years.
“So, was his car accident something you planned all by yourself?”
Yin Hehe forced herself to calm down and stared at this person with an icy gaze as she asked.
Chu Yan seemed to be struck by electricity in an instant.
“Are you sick? That was an accident, what does it have to do with me?”
“When he died, did your heart not finally have a place to go?” Yin Hehe immediately pointed out with fierce tone and expression.
“Besides, if your brother was the one who died that year, why are you still using his identity now? You said you’ve lived a life that was neither human nor ghost for a few years, so how exactly have you survived these years?”
Yin Hehe, true to being a lawyer, bombarded the man with one question after another as soon as she calmed down—like sharp arrows shot fiercely at him.
In a few short seconds, he was completely thrown into chaos.
“Back then, I was already impersonating him in the Xiahou family, and he died outside under the name Chu Yan. Do you expect me to drag him back?”
“…”
“I’m telling you, Yin Hehe, I didn’t do anything to betray my brother. If there was anything, it was letting Sheng Siyuan enjoy his heart and enjoy you!”
All of a sudden, he roared at Yin Hehe like a madman again. His bloodshot eyes filled with intense hatred seemed ready to tear Yin Hehe apart.
Yin Hehe trembled with anger.
“So, this is your reason for wanting to harm me?”
“Yes!”
He actually admitted it again without any hesitation.
“Because, you, and that heart, they both belonged to my brother. Starting now, I’m going to take everything back for him!”
After he finished speaking, he suddenly took a transparent syringe from the lab bench, shattered it, drew its contents into an injector, and then stepped toward Yin Hehe.
This madman!
Yin Hehe paled with shock and immediately tried to flee backward.
But this lunatic was so fast; she had only taken two steps when he was already behind her, grabbing the back of her collar and yanking her forcefully.
“Ah—”
Yin Hehe was dragged onto the lab bench, curling up in pain.
“Don’t worry, this drug won’t cause pain,” he continued. “It will just make you forget everything that happens afterward. Come to think of it, Yin Hehe, the person you originally met was actually me!”
He slowly moved the syringe in his hand closer to Yin Hehe’s arm, even bending down to gently stroke Yin Hehe’s face, his tone turning very tender.
“Get away from me! You beast!!”
Disgust surged from the pit of Yin Hehe’s stomach, making her struggle even more fiercely.
At the critical moment, something suddenly pierced through the window of the lab!
“Bang—”
The crisp sound of shattering glass.
Before Chu Yan could see clearly, a flying knife had already been stabbed ferociously and accurately into his palm.
“Ah!!” He finally screamed in agony, the syringe dropping to the ground.
Yin Hehe was still in shock.
It was then, a tall and imposing figure burst into the room through the door.
In that instant, as Yin Hehe lay on the lab bench and turned her head, two large teardrops rolled down her cheeks, her tears flowing into a river as the man rushed towards her.
“Husband…”
Chapter 273: Sheng Siyuan, Let’s Break Up “Don’t be afraid, I’m here!”
When Sheng Siyuan bent down to tightly hold the woman in his arms from the experimental platform, his whole body was also trembling slightly.
He dared not think about what would have happened if he had been even a step later.
Soon, Xu Guannan also came in.
He saw Chu Yan, who was hugging his bloodied hand, pain contorted on his face, cowering to the side; he walked over to him.
“President, how should he be dealt with?”
Sheng Siyuan turned to look.
In just that instant, a terrifying chill of murderous intent exploded from his eyes.
“Tie him up, take him to Xiahou Yi!” he finally said, with full vehemence.
In a flash, Chu Yan curled up on the ground suddenly lifted his head, his face turning even paler.
“Why should I?”
He retorted in shock and anger.
Xu Guannan heard this, and before his boss could answer, he sneered first, “Why? Of course, because of all these things you’ve done!”
He cursed angrily.
But this man suddenly started to laugh.
“What have I done? All I did was avenge my brother. Do you think my grandfather, when he finds out, will punish me?”
“…”
“You, on the other hand, one has used my brother’s heart, and the other was my brother’s girlfriend. I want to see what kind of reaction my grandfather will have when he learns about this.”
Suddenly, Chu Yan seemed as if he had grabbed onto a bargaining chip; he slowly climbed up from the ground, clutching his bloody hand, a fierce grimace actually showing on his features.
Sheng Siyuan: “…”
Unaware of the reversal in the situation, he felt rather dazed.
It was Yin Hehe who, upon hearing these words, immediately clutched the arm of the man embracing her.
“Husband, let it be, let’s go back,” she pleaded.
In that tone, there was a rare hint of fear and panic, as if she truly feared their secret being discovered.
Sheng Siyuan’s thin lips pressed together.
In the end, he still picked the woman up and ordered expressionlessly, “Keep an eye on him for now, we’ll discuss this after we get back.”
“Yes!”
“…”
A group of people went out.
As for Chu Yan left in the laboratory, once he saw them finally departing, he let out a sigh of relief.
He collapsed onto the ground.
Just now, he was merely trying to preempt them because, if he were sent to Xiahou Yi,
he truly only had one path—death!
Xiahou Yi, his dear grandfather, has yet to realize that he is no longer his little grandson Xiahou Xiu!
—
Y City Hotel.
After taking a bath and eating a little, Yin Hehe finally felt much better.
“Would you like to drink anything else?”
Sheng Siyuan had been taking care of her all this time, and seeing her complexion improve, he also felt a lot more relaxed.
Yin Hehe shook her head.
She put down the bowl in her hand, took out a paper napkin to wipe her mouth, and then looked up at the man who was tidying up.
“Sit down, I have something to tell you,” she said, gathering her courage.
Sheng Siyuan paused.
After a moment, he set down the bowls and dishes in his hand, and under the expectant gaze of the woman, he came over and sat down in front of her.
Actually, he had also been preparing for a long time, from the moment he carried her back to the hotel, to her bathing and finishing her meal, he was always looking for the right moment to apologize to her.
Unexpectedly, she spoke first.
“Husband, I want to talk to you about… the matter with Chu Yan.”
Yin Hehe looked at this man, and when she brought up the name Chu Yan, she once again revealed a cautious expression.
Sheng Siyuan, upon seeing this, responded with a gentle gaze and nodded, “You speak, I’m listening.”
Yin Hehe swallowed hard, and at last, she began to recount the incident from those years.
“I met Chu Yan when I was in college. That year, after my brother paid my tuition fee, I had no money left for food. Hungry at night, I would go to the ground floor of the dormitory to do push-ups, hoping to forget about the hunger. That’s when I met Chu Yan.”
She spoke softly about the hardships she had encountered that year, her voice now devoid of any fluctuations.
Sheng Siyuan poured her some water, his head bowed.
He had no idea what her life had been like before, but when the Lu Family came to the Yin Family to propose marriage, his heart, Sheng Siyuan’s, nearly gave out.
Yet Yin Rong still agreed to marry this daughter to him.
Probably, he also knew that she didn’t have it easy in that family.
“It was that night, Chu Yan found out I had no money for food and he began to help me. Initially, I ignored him. But later, he said I could borrow from him, and he even accompanied me in job hunting, which finally made me accept his help,” she recounted.
Yin Hehe carefully recalled those past scenes in her mind, seeking meticulously, at what point had Chu Yan become different?
When was that?
It must have been during the first time he helped her look for a job.
Because she distinctly remembered, when she first refused Chu Yan’s help, he didn’t insist much and just disappeared for a few weeks.
Later on, when she saw him again, she greeted him proactively.
His attitude became noticeably warmer after that.
“You don’t have to repay me, just think of it as a loan, oh right, I can also introduce you to a job, you can pay me back when you have the money,” he had said.
Chu Yan in the school cafeteria that day had a bright smile throughout; his passionate eyes shone with a very sincere light as he looked at Yin Hehe.
Afterward, Yin Hehe agreed.
“Did Chu Yan and Xiahou Xiu switch identities at that time?” the clever man guessed as he saw her expression and asked from the side.
Yin Hehe nodded, “Yes, Chu Yan said that Xiahou Xiu was bored at home, so he came to the school to see his brother.”
“…And then?” the man asked, struggling with a bad premonition rising in his heart.
Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, he saw a deep sadness emerge in the woman’s eyes.
“Afterwards… Chu Yan said that the person who often stayed by my side was not him, but his younger brother Xiahou Xiu, and he even said that before Xiahou Xiu had an accident, he had thought about permanently switching places with Chu Yan.”
Yin Hehe covered her face, and tears began to flow through her fingers like a burst dam.
How could she not be sad?
That was a boy who had given everything for her without reservation.
And here she was, after so many years, even getting his name wrong; she didn’t even know he existed.
Yin Hehe cried silently.
Sheng Siyuan didn’t utter a sound, sitting still in this brightly lit room, motionless.
Was he angry?
Of course!
The rage in his chest was erupting like a volcano, and what’s more terrifying than the anger was his jealousy.
This feeling, which had never existed deep inside him before, was now sprouting like crazy vines, torturing him to the verge of madness!
Xiahou Xiu!
So, he was her true ‘white moonlight’.
And his impact was even sharper than that of Chu Yan from five years ago!
Chapter 274 My chest hurts… “I understand.”
After a long while, Sheng Siyuan sat there before he finally heard himself say.
After that, he reached out his hand, drew the still crying woman into his arms, and held her close.
Seeing this, Yin Hehe immediately buried herself in his chest and cried even harder.
“I’m sorry, I know… I shouldn’t cry over him in front of you, but… but I really feel so guilty, so sad, he’s dead, and I only now learned his name.”
Yin Hehe’s sobs were inconsolable as she spoke in the man’s embrace, her emotions collapsing messily.
Sheng Siyuan held her.
In that instant, as he listened to the woman crying her heart out, suddenly, he felt as if he no longer had the right to be jealous or hate this man named Xiahou Xiu.
Because, when it came to love for this woman, he, Sheng Siyuan, truly did not possess the pure, unreserved love that Xiahou Xiu had!
Probably after comforting her for about ten minutes, at last, Yin Hehe’s crying gradually ceased.
“I’m sorry…”
Once her emotions had stabilized and she became aware of her own loss of composure, she quickly withdrew from the man’s embrace.
Sheng Siyuan looked down at his empty hands.
He was somewhat displeased.
“I’ve now told you everything. My feelings for Xiahou Xiu… I don’t want to hide them from you. I probably won’t forget him for the rest of my life. If you mind, we… can part ways.”
Yin Hehe lowered her head, as if after struggling for a very long time, she still choked up and managed to say it out loud.
Indeed, this was what she intended to say when she initiated this topic.
She had already thought it through, she didn’t expect this man’s forgiveness, nor did she dare to beg him to allow this name to exist between them.
Therefore, she had already prepared for a separation.
Yin Hehe bit her lip hard.
“And what about me?” After a long wait, finally, she heard the man’s voice.
He gazed at her, his look coming from behind the thin lenses, as if rooting into the ground under the light.
“Me?”
Yin Hehe lifted her tearful eyes.
The man nodded, “Yes, I just need one answer from you, what place do I, Sheng Siyuan, hold in your heart now?”
He asked, pausing on every word.
The room fell silent.
In that moment, as though all sound had frozen, the silence was so profound that the drop of a pin to the floor would have been heard.
“The position at my heart.” Yin Hehe’s voice, clear and distinct, at last broke the silence of the room.
In an instant, the man’s chest throbbed violently.
“I don’t know if I’m a bad woman? I clearly can’t forget Xiahou Xiu in my lifetime, yet, you cause me pain!”
She added once more.
After she finished speaking this time, the tears she had been holding back in her eyes for a long time spilled out again in grievance.
She pointed to the position over her heart, speaking agitatedly, “If you bully me, I feel upset, if you ignore me, it hurts so much I can’t breathe, I… I…”
She wasn’t allowed to continue.
Sheng Siyuan spread his arms and pulled her fiercely into his embrace, his reddened eyes filling with nothing but deep emotion and overwhelming joy.
Of course, she wasn’t a bad woman.
Because, even she herself didn’t know, her feelings for Xiahou Xiu were actually gratitude, guilt, self-reproach…
She had never forgotten Xiahou Xiu.
But that was only because the man had appeared just in time at her most helpless moment, it wasn’t love, it was a debt of gratitude!
Sheng Siyuan felt as though he had been acquitted in court.
That night, after taking care of Yin Hehe until she fell asleep peacefully, Sheng Siyuan came out of the room only to see Xu Guannan already waiting outside.
“President, someone is looking for you outside.”
“Who?”
Sheng Siyuan, under the dim light of the corridor, asked with displeasure.
At this hour, someone actually dared to disturb his rest; they must have the courage of a bear and the heart of a leopard.
Xu Guannan: “Xiahou Maolin!”
“…”
The corridor fell into complete silence…
—
Hotel café.
When Sheng Siyuan came downstairs to meet with Xiahou Maolin, he saw the latter’s gaze fixed on him like a wolf.
Was this because he had dealt with his son, and Xiahou Maolin wanted to fight him to the death?
Sheng Siyuan’s expression grew even darker.
“Mr. Xiahou, you’re seeking me out so late, what can I help you with?”
He walked into the café, sat down in front of this man with his leg crossed and asked ungraciously.
Xiahou Maolin’s stare sharpened a fraction more.
However, Xiahou Maolin, whose facial features leaned more towards the delicate and hardly inherited Xiahou Yi’s rough and hearty appearance, still managed a slight smile.
“I apologize, Mr. Sheng. I heard my unworthy son has caused you quite a bit of trouble recently, and I’ve specifically come to offer an apology.”
So he was indeed here for this matter.
A sneer crossed Sheng Siyuan’s lips, and he took a sip from the water glass in front of him.
“No need for apologies, just tell him to mind his manners from now on.”
He set down the glass and spoke bluntly.
Xiahou Maolin’s pupils narrowed for just a second, and for that moment, one could clearly see a streak of viciousness flash across his eyes.
So quickly that even Sheng Siyuan didn’t perceive it.
“Alright, thank you for the reminder, Mr. Sheng. I’ll pass it on to him.”
“Good, if there’s nothing else, I’ll be leaving.” Sheng Siyuan stood up and turned to leave.
He genuinely did not wish to interact with this kind of person any more than necessary.
However, just as he was about to leave, Xiahou Maolin suddenly called out to him from behind.
“Mr. Sheng, have you heard a certain rumor lately?”
“What rumor?” Sheng Siyuan had no choice but to stop and turn around with great patience to look at the man.
He saw the man standing up too.
Dusting off his suit, and picking up the briefcase beside him, he took several steps until he reached Sheng Siyuan’s side.
“Some say, you’re my son.”
“What did you say?” Sheng Siyuan’s pupils shrank immediately, and his mind was as thunderstruck as if he’d heard an actual explosion.
Yet Xiahou Maolin still smiled.
“It’s said that when your mother was young, she often visited the Xiahou Family, and afterwards, she had a thing with me.”
“Bullshit!”
Sheng Siyuan finally exploded with rage!
Xiahou Maolin chuckled, “Calm down, Mr. Sheng. These aren’t my words. However, I must admit I found your mother’s charm quite to my liking back then.”
Nobody would have expected such a despicable statement to come from the mouth of an elderly man of his years.
Vindictiveness burst forth in Sheng Siyuan’s eyes as he swung his fist fiercely towards the man.
“Thud!”
Xiahou Maolin stumbled back several steps from the punch.
With bloodshot eyes, Sheng Siyuan pointed at him and warned fiercely, “Listen well, if I see you again, I’ll kill your son!”
New hatred combined with old grudges!
He uttered the most bloodthirsty words.
Sheng Siyuan left.
Xiahou Maolin leaned on the chair for a long time, until his personal assistant rushed in from outside.
“Sir, why did you do that? Since you already knew his identity, you should have taken him out cleanly. Why cause a stir?”
The assistant, seeing him in such a state, hastily asked with a mixture of anxiety and confusion.
Xiahou Maolin touched the blood at the corner of his mouth, lifted his eyes, and at that moment, his icy gaze finally revealed a snake-like gleam.
“It’s natural curiosity. I wanted to see for myself what kind of person the old man hid away all these years.”
Chapter 275: Mrs. Sheng, Don’t You Miss Your Husband? “So… did you see clearly?”
The assistant, startled by the statement, cautiously asked.
Upon hearing this, Xiahou Maolin’s delicate face immediately darkened with a menacing and ruthless expression!
“Let the Chu Family take action, don’t stop them.” His eyes sinister, he left with just this statement.
The Chu Family was his wife’s maternal family.
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The next day.
Yin Hehe woke up from her sleep, and the sunlight outside the window had already risen high.
“You’re awake?”
A gentle and magnetic male voice sounded.
Yin Hehe turned her head and saw a tall and handsome figure getting up from the desk and walking towards her.
“Hmm, is it very late?” Yin Hehe quickly got up.
Her mind flashed back to the events of the previous night, and she became somewhat flustered, hardly daring to meet the man’s gaze.
But when the man reached her side, his eyes looking at her were impossibly tender.
“No, how do you feel? If you’re feeling alright, let’s go down and have breakfast before seeing Dr. Qin.”
He ruffled her messy hair, curled his lips into a gentle smile, and asked.
Yin Hehe was immediately comforted.
She was no longer overly cautious, but felt a surge of joy in her chest, making her amber eyes brighten.
“Okay,” she agreed happily.
The man then lifted her quilt and picked her up from the bed.
“You—” Hehe started.
“I’ll carry you over; it’ll be faster this way.” The man, his eyes brimming with indulgence, kissed her on the lips.
Soon, he carried her to the bathroom.
Being carried would definitely be faster.
When Yin Hehe closed the bathroom door, she glanced in the mirror at her own face, red as a boiled shrimp, and covered her face with her hands.
She sat down on the toilet.
Half an hour later, the two finally left the hotel.
“How did you get in touch with Dr. Qin? Did you tell her about last night?”
Sitting in the car on the way to see Dr. Qin, Yin Hehe couldn’t help but ask.
Sheng Siyuan nodded in the front seat: “I didn’t mention anything else, just said there was a problem with your medication.”
“Then what did she say?” Yin Hehe was also quite concerned about this issue.
She had noticed that ever since she stopped taking the medication, the gaps in her memory of the last two days had practically disappeared.
“Let’s ask her when we see her.” The man driving the car furrowed his brows.
He hadn’t told the woman that, while she was asleep, he had already had Xu Guannan inquire with the doctor.
Asking her if she would go to Jiangbei?
But the answer was no.
So, he was feeling a bit irritable now. If the doctor was unwilling to go there, then he faced the choice of either leaving the woman behind or taking her with him.
Not long after, when the two met with Dr. Qin, she indeed refused.
“I can’t go to Jiangbei just for Xiaoyin; it isn’t according to procedure, and there are many people here at the Drug Rehabilitation Center undergoing detox that I am responsible for—I can’t leave them,” Dr. Qin explained her difficulty.
The man’s expression immediately fell.
However, Yin Hehe after hearing it, chimed in: “Then since it’s like this, I’ll just continue staying here. Husband, what do you think?”
She turned her head to look at the man beside her.
The man: “…”
Could he say that was not okay?
“Mr. Sheng doesn’t have to worry. We’ve already checked Xiaoyin’s condition and she doesn’t have any mutations at all. It was Xiahou Xiu who intentionally created that impression. So, according to our original plan, Xiaoyin should be able to successfully detoxify very soon,” Dr. Qin, seeing the man’s reluctant look, reassured him apologetically.
The matter with Xiahou Xiu would naturally be dealt with by the Drug Rehabilitation Center.
But this news was indeed good news for Yin Hehe.
Yin Hehe hugged the man’s arm and looked up at him expectantly with a full face of anticipation. The man had no choice but to agree.
So, that day Yin Hehe stayed on.
And in the evening, Sheng Siyuan also returned to Jiangbei.
“Then I’ll come over again tomorrow,” he said, reluctant to leave.
Yin Hehe, however, was very generous. She waved her hand and said, “No need, since I won’t be staying for very long, you don’t need to come every day.”
“…”
With just that one sentence, the man who had already walked out the door immediately turned back.
He cornered her against the wall, and like a dangerous wolf, he looked down at her intimidatingly.
“What? Mrs. Sheng doesn’t want her husband to come over, is there a secret?”
“Ah?” Yin Hehe was so overwhelmed by his presence that she dared not move.
“I… what secret could I have? Isn’t that… just being considerate of you?” she stammered, her face flushed.
The moment her words fell, she saw a mischievous smile form on the man’s lips.
“Is that so? How can you prove it?”
He took a step forward, almost pressing his tall body against her.
Yin Hehe’s face turned even redder.
“What… what proof do you want?”
“What do you think?”
With that, the handsome man had his face so close to hers that Yin Hehe could clearly see her own reflection in his dark pupils.
This guy!
In the end, Yin Hehe closed her eyes and recklessly pecked the man on his lips.
The man froze.
He felt the soft and fragrant taste on his lips, stunned for several seconds.
He hadn’t expected this much.
He had just… wanted to hear a few kind words from her.
The man’s eyes darkened slowly, and after a moment, casting all care aside, he picked up the woman sideways, and rolled back into the room.
Yin Hehe: “!!!!”
…
Eventually, when the man left, Yin Hehe couldn’t even get up from the bed.
This was a scoundrel.
—
Jiangbei.
Inside a towering skyscraper, after a storm, as the economy began to recover, one could feel the thriving atmosphere as soon as they entered.
“Secretary Chen, has President Sheng not come yet?”
The president’s office was also busy. Chen Xiaosen finally had the chance to sit down for a drink of water when the head of the sales department came looking for him.
“Not yet, does the head have something important?” Chen Xiaosen had to put down his water cup and asked.
“There’s something. We have a batch of goods scheduled for export, but for some reason, they’ve been held up by customs,” said the head of the sales department over the phone, frowning.
Customs?
Upon hearing this, Chen Xiaosen became anxious.
“What happened? Are there prohibited items, or is it that the customs declaration paperwork wasn’t done properly?”
“There’s no issue!” the head of the sales department immediately denied.
“This isn’t the first time we’re exporting these goods; we have been in partnership with that company for many years.”
He was frankly baffled in his defense.
Chen Xiaosen was puzzled.
He hung up and pulled out the number of a contact at customs, dialing it directly.
“Hello, Secretary Chen, good afternoon,” greeted the customs official, who usually reaped many benefits from Shengshi Group, warmly as soon as the call was connected.
Chen Xiaosen didn’t beat around the bush and directly asked, “Director, I just heard that a batch of our company’s goods was held by you guys, what’s going on?”
“Ah?” The customs official sounded surprised on the phone.
“I haven’t heard about this. Hold on, I’ll go inquire right now and get back to you afterward.”
And then, the customs official hung up the phone.
Seeing this, Chen Xiaosen could only wait.