Shen Feng let go.
Lin Nian collapsed to the floor.
Shen Feng said coldly, "Fine. I’ll listen to your explanation. You’d better have a good one!"
Lin Nian bit her lip, conflicted.
’It must have been Qin Jiao. She must have said something to Shen Feng, that has to be it!’
’Damn it, are the main characters really inseparable? Qin Jiao already has Shen Yi, so why is she still going after Shen Feng?!’
Lin Nian sobbed, "Ah Feng, I’ve never, ever targeted Qin Jiao. That incident at the guest house back then... Qin Jiao was the one interested in Shen Yi. And later, when her sister was kidnapped, that was all my cousin’s doing. It had nothing to do with me."
This was what Lin Nian had told him before, and he had believed her.
But his temper was growing increasingly frayed. He’d just been beaten up by Shen Yi, and on top of that, been completely ignored by Qin Jiao, leaving him seething with resentment.
Seeing Lin Nian sitting on the floor, weeping and wailing, he narrowed his eyes, yanked her to her feet, and threw her onto the kang bed...
CLICK. The power went out, plunging everything into darkness.
But a smile crept onto Lin Nian’s lips.
’As long as Shen Feng isn’t tired of my body, I can keep him wrapped around my finger!’
As for love... after seeing Shen Feng walk away from the college entrance exam without a backward glance, and after feeling her child leave her body as she lay on that cold operating table, Lin Nian no longer loved him.
To her now, Shen Feng was nothing more than a tool, through and through.
’And in the future, I will definitely have a better life than Qin Jiao! Definitely!’
Meanwhile, just as Qin Jiao and Shen Yi were leaving Rose District, she sneezed. She rubbed her nose, and Shen Yi quickly asked, "Jiao Jiao, are you catching a cold?"
"No. I think some department belle or campus belle must be talking behind my back again."
"...Jiao Jiao."
"Alright, alright. It’s not that I’m not over it. I’m just curious if that ’department belle’ senior of yours has given up yet."
Shen Yi quickly replied, "It’d be best if she has. If she hasn’t, and she dares to show her face in front of me again, my answer will be even more blunt than last time."
Qin Jiao trusted Shen Yi’s brutally honest approach. She smiled and asked, "What if she cries?"
"Let her cry. If she smiled, then I’d be the one crying," Shen Yi said lightly. "Besides, what kind of decent woman throws herself at a man who she knows has a girlfriend?"
Qin Jiao gave Shen Yi a thumbs-up. "I didn’t know you could spot a schemer."
Shen Yi leaned in, kissed the corner of her mouth, and said, "There’s a lot I can do. I’ll show you tonight when we get home."
Qin Jiao said calmly, "My dad’s walking over."
Shen Yi immediately sat up straight. He looked back and sure enough, his father-in-law, Qin Zhonghui, was walking toward their car with something in his hands. Shen Yi could only sit bolt upright, pretending that he wasn’t the one acting improperly just a moment ago.
Qin Jiao pursed her lips to hide a smile.
The group returned to the siheyuan. Sun Jianhua and Chen Sheng happened to be there, so Qin Jiao and Shen Yi joined them to discuss recent matters at the clothing factory and look over the financial statements.
They had recently caught several more people at the factory who were connected to Shen Zhengfeng in some way, and had quietly dismissed them all.
Chen Sheng looked over Donghong’s financial status and said, "Logically speaking, Donghong should have taken a huge loss this time. They have a massive backlog of clothes that they’re selling at a loss. But because the quality is inconsistent, many department stores don’t want the stock, even at a cheap price. If Shen Zhengfeng doesn’t inject more capital, Donghong will have to declare bankruptcy."