Phi-Fic Chapter 1038 What You Don’t Know
Chapter 1038 What You Don’t Know
"Huo Yan?"
Zhuang Zhoucheng called softly, looking at the silent woman.
After a moment of silence, he pulled the chair closer to her and gently pulled Huo Yan into his arms.
Huo Yan finally spoke, without looking at Zhuang Zhoucheng, and his voice was light and airy.
She said, "In front of our young daughter, please tell us why you could so easily decide someone else's life or death."
"Huo Yan!"
Zhuang Zhoucheng's face darkened, and Huo Yan turned to look at him with a cold gaze.
"You don't want your daughter to bear the reputation of her father being a murderer, right? Or are you proud of it? Aren't you afraid that all your evil deeds will be punished on your family?"
"Huo Yan, there's a reason for this..."
Huo Yan's voice suddenly turned cold, and he questioned:
"But the result is that you killed someone. You killed an innocent person. Zhuang Zhoucheng, that was a human being. He had his own family and social circle. He wasn't a stray cat or dog on the street. Who do you think you are? You used to imprison people and drive them crazy, and now you're so rampant that you kill people? Do you really think you can cover up everything with one hand?"
Zhuang Zhoucheng subconsciously glanced at his daughter and stood up with his tall body.
"Let's go out and talk."
"Are you afraid that Qiqi will know that her father is such a person?" Huo Yan asked coldly.
Zhuang Zhoucheng looked at Huo Yan, took a long breath, and asked her in a low voice:
"What do you want?"
"I'm just wondering, why don't you feel any remorse for doing something like this? Don't you feel guilty at all?"
Huo Yan's face was full of anger, and he looked at him with a frown.
Zhuang Zhoucheng's eyes were deep, like a dark night without light or breeze, dull and heavy.
"Why do you always quarrel with me because of others? In your heart, I am not even as good as strangers, right?" Zhuang Zhoucheng asked back.
Huo Yan bit her lip and looked straight at Zhuang Zhoucheng.
He sneered in his heart, why would Zhuang Zhoucheng feel that he had done anything wrong?
No matter how big the mistake is, it is the fault of the world and has nothing to do with him.
As soon as the truth was told, he used such words to block her back and forth.
Huo Yan turned to his daughter and stopped looking at Zhuang Zhoucheng.
"You don't want me to argue with you because of others, so why did you kill people in the first place? That's my friend. You can have brothers, friends, and family, but I can't have anyone except you and the baby. Zhuang Zhoucheng, this world is no longer one where men are superior to women. Why do you still demand this of others?"
Zhuang Zhoucheng didn't say anything else and just stood there without moving.
Kou Xiaoquan stood at the door looking at the two people who were arguing with each other, not knowing what to do, and just stood there silently.
Zhuang Zhoucheng left his daughter's room and took Kou Xiaoquan to the martial arts hall. He called up the fourth brother, who had been in a low mood for the past two days. The two of them had a boxing fight and had a great time with sweat flying all over.
Zhuang Zhoucheng did not return home at noon, and Huo Yan did not call to ask, as he was always with his daughter.
In the evening, Huo Yan went to sleep after feeding her baby and did not wait for anyone in the hall.
Zhuang Zhoucheng came back very late, probably intending to wait until Huo Yan fell asleep before coming back.
The lights in the hall were still on when he entered. Zhuang Zhoucheng was slightly stunned and inexplicably moved in his heart. However, when he walked into the hall, the person waiting for him was the servant of the family.
"Third Master, you're back. Do you want me to prepare something to eat for you?"
"No need. Madam, are you okay today?" Zhuang Zhoucheng asked in a low voice.
The servant nodded and said, "Madam has been with the young lady all day. She didn't go out in the morning or in the afternoon. She didn't leave the house at all."
Zhuang Zhoucheng waved his hands and said:
"I know, you go and rest."
"Yes."
The servant turned off the lights in the hall only after Zhuang Zhoucheng went upstairs.
Zhuang Zhoucheng went upstairs and gently pushed the door, but there was no one in the bedroom. Zhuang Zhoucheng suddenly panicked:
"Wife?"
There was no one in the bed and no one in the bathroom.
Zhuang Zhoucheng immediately turned around and went to the baby room. His daughter was sleeping quietly and there was still no one there.
Zhuang Zhoucheng immediately went to the study, and when he didn't see anyone, he pushed open the doors of the guest rooms upstairs one by one.
Finally, I saw someone in the guest room next to my daughter's room.
When Zhuang Zhoucheng saw the woman on the bed, a huge rock in his heart fell to the ground instantly. He turned around and leaned against the wall and sighed loudly. He wiped the cold sweat that had seeped out of his face with his big hand and let out a long breath.
Just be at home, just be there.
Zhuang Zhoucheng took a shower, then went into the guest room and sat aside with a conflicted look on his face.
After a long time, he lowered his voice and said:
"Even if I was wrong, I lost my composure because I cared about you. Do you know how sadly our Qiqi cried that afternoon and evening? She refused to eat anything and was even sick yesterday morning with lung heat. She was force-fed medicine. Yan'er, if you saw your daughter suffering like this, wouldn't you feel bad? Qiqi was starved for a whole day and night, and she was only four months old... I know you'll say this has nothing to do with the rage that killed Qian Ziang. I admit that I was blinded by anger. I wanted to get rid of that bastard a few years ago."
Zhuang Zhoucheng paused, recalled what happened a few years ago, and sighed.
He continued slowly:
"Do you know who was behind the changes in our marriage a few years ago?"
She didn't want to talk about the past, but she insisted that his prejudice against Qian Ziang was only because of that man's identity, and she couldn't understand why he was wary of Qian Ziang.
How could he not bring up the past?
"Qian Ziang and Qi Wenshan are in collusion. Qi Wenshan wants to transfer his financial power to Jingdu and has always had his sights set on the Huanan Mall. The bargain between Qian Ziang and Qi Wenshan is you. If Qi Wenshan can destroy our marriage and free you, Qian Ziang will try to transfer his father's Huanan Mall to Qi Wenshan. You are from Jingdu, so you should be familiar with Huanan Mall. Before the construction of New Huadu Mall, Huanan Mall had always been the industry leader in Jingdu. Even after the construction of New Huadu, when its performance declined due to the impact, it was not so run that it had to change hands. There are many unknown things in this matter."
"Our marriage was used as a bargaining chip by others. Huo Yan, I don't know how you feel about this, but I'm a man, and I can't forgive my family and marriage being exploited by others. Qian Ziang may not have taken any actual action regarding our marriage, but if it weren't for the conditions he put forward, how could we have reached the point where we were so incompatible?"
Zhuang Zhoucheng wiped his face and stared at the motionless woman on the bed.
He knew that she had woken up a long time ago, and woke up when he opened the door, but she just didn't want to pay attention to him.
After a moment of silence, he continued:
"During the month or so you were studying for your master's degree at Peking University, Qian Ziang was always by your side, right? That was his plan. At the time, I only warned you not to get close to that man again. I didn't know what he was up to, otherwise I wouldn't have just warned you. Yan'er, have you ever thought about why that man kept showing up during that time? Because he wanted to gain your trust, silly girl. Once Qi Wenshan succeeds and our marriage is in crisis, who else will you turn to besides him?"