Zhou Li's hand froze in mid-air.
His originally softened mood was easily stirred up again by her words.
Zhou Li: "I said I'm not satisfied. Do you want to serve me again?"
Jiang Mingzhu: "Do I have the right to say no?"
Zhou Li: "It's a pity that I've lost my appetite."
He threw the wet wipes on her, bent down to pick up the belt and tied it on his pants.
After Jiang Mingzhu wiped her body, she reluctantly zipped up her skirt.
Although the skirt was wrinkled, it still covered her body. In this situation, she had no choice.
With a click, Zhou Li put on the belt.
Then he stopped moving, his eyes fixed on her body motionless.
Jiang Mingzhu mocked him: "Why are you so addicted? You have never seen a woman, have you?"
"Jiang Mingzhu." Zhou Li called her name, sounding cold, "I don't have to do it with you."
Jiang Mingzhu's heart suddenly clenched because of these words, her fingertips were numb, her body was cold, and her throat was dry.
This was what she had wanted to hear all this time, and now she finally got her wish, but it was not as gratifying and happy as she had imagined.
But Jiang Mingzhu laughed wildly in the end: "Really? But your shameless and persistent behavior really sounds like you can't look down on anyone else except me."
Zhou Li pinched her chin: "You're very proud, aren't you."
Jiang Mingzhu: "Yes, I feel a sense of accomplishment that the superior Mr. Zhou has become like this for me."
She licked her lips: "Remember what you said when I first hooked up with you? You said I was unworthy and that you would never like a woman like me in your life."
"What a pity. In the end, I was so fascinated that I couldn't shake it off like a piece of dog-skin plaster."
Zhou Li clearly heard the disdain in Jiang Mingzhu's words. She really looked down on him and treated his sincerity as a joke.
This was the first time someone had treated him like this since he was a child.
He likes her, but he is also a self-respecting person.
Zhou Li released her chin and said, "You really think highly of yourself."
——
The car drove smoothly back to the city on the highway.
Jiang Mingzhu sat in the back row and stared at her phone, her rapidly beating heart finally calming down after a few minutes.
At half past eleven, the car was approaching Wanghaihui.
Jiang Mingzhu: "Put me down on the roadside."
This was the first thing she said to Zhou Li recently.
Zhou Li didn't respond to her, stepped on the brakes and stopped on the side of the road, waited for Jiang Mingzhu to get out of the car and sped away.
Jiang Mingzhu looked at the business car leaving Juechen with her peripheral vision, took a deep breath and entered the mall.
Jiang Mingzhu bought a new set of clothes and changed into them before taking a taxi back to the Xiangfu Villa.
When she got home, He Chuyan was still waiting for her.
Today is Xu Siyan's wedding day, and He Chuyan is worried that Jiang Mingzhu is in a bad mood and can't think about it.
After Jiang Mingzhu came back, He Chuyan pulled her to sit next to her, "Zhuzhu, are you okay?"
She didn't ask specifically what it was, but her cautious tone and deep concern in her words said it all.
He Chuyan has always been a strong and capable woman, and Jiang Mingzhu has seen how tough she is at work.
Now that she heard her talking to her so carefully, Jiang Mingzhu felt sour in her heart.
Then the words Xu Siyan and Yuan Ye said before rang in her ears again.
Jiang Mingzhu hugged He Chuyan with her backhand, rested her head on her shoulder, and called "Mom" softly.
He Chuyan rubbed her hair and responded: "Mom is here."
After hearing He Chuyan's gentle response, Jiang Mingzhu began to feel moved by Yuanye's proposal for a moment.
But there were too many things going on tonight, and her mind was in such a mess that she couldn't open her mouth to confess to her yet.
Jiang Mingzhu
He and He Chuyan stayed downstairs for a quarter of an hour before going upstairs.
When she returned to the room to take a shower, Jiang Mingzhu's legs were still weak.
She stood under the showerhead and looked down at the shocking marks and bruises on her body. As soon as she closed her eyes, she remembered Zhou Li's words again.
——"Jiang Mingzhu, I don't have to do it with you."
Perhaps because this sentence kept lingering in her ears before going to bed, Jiang Mingzhu dreamed about Zhou Li being intimate with another woman at night.
There was no talk of intimacy, it was just a sunny day and they met by chance on the road.
She went up to talk to him, but saw a bright and beautiful woman in his arms biting her ear.
When the woman saw her, she immediately asked Zhou Li: "My dear, who is she?"
Zhou Li glanced at her indifferently, as if he were looking at a stranger.
Then he uttered three words coldly from his lips: "I don't know."
When she woke up in the morning, Jiang Mingzhu still remembered how cold these three words in her dream were.
——
Jiang Mingzhu lay on the bed and calmed down for more than ten minutes, then got up to brush her teeth.
Maybe it was because I had some adverse reactions after taking the morning-after pill last night, and I kept retching while brushing my teeth.
It was different from when I usually vomited blood.
If Jiang Mingzhu deliberately controlled her vomiting blood, she would not make any sound.
But this time the drug reaction was too great, and she couldn't suppress the sound of retching. She vomited so much that she ended up bleeding again.
When Jiang Mingzhu was feeling uncomfortable, the bathroom door was suddenly pushed open.
Jiang Mingzhu immediately turned on the faucet to flush the water, and wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth with her other hand.
Unfortunately it was too late.
He Chuyan saw it all.
He Chuyan quickly walked up to Jiang Mingzhu, turned off the faucet, and looked at her seriously.
Jiang Mingzhu couldn't hold back from vomiting. Her face was white, her eyes were red and swollen.
He Chuyan: "Why don't you tell me if your condition is recurring? I'll take you to the hospital."
Jiang Mingzhu's thrombocytopenia caused by taking medicine lasted for more than a day or two. One of the clinical manifestations was bleeding when brushing her teeth.
It's just that it has never been as serious as this time before.
He Chuyan guessed that Xu Siyan's incident had hit her too hard.
Jiang Mingzhu was dragged forward a few steps by He Chuyan.
She took a deep breath and stopped, then slowly opened her lips under He Chuyan's stern gaze: "I'm sorry, mom."
He Chuyan: "Now is not the time to apologize, you come to me right now -"
"It's not because of the old illness." Jiang Mingzhu lowered her eyes, her voice calm.
He Chuyan's right eyelid twitched violently a few times, and her eyes turned to the sink again.
"I want to hear the truth." He Chuyan's tone was unequivocal, "Tell me everything you have hidden from me."
He Chuyan took Jiang Mingzhu out of the bathroom, and the mother and daughter sat facing each other at the wooden table in the bedroom.
For the first time, Jiang Mingzhu felt a strong sense of oppression on He Chuyan.
She knew that He Chuyan acted like this because she was forcing her to be anxious.
Jiang Mingzhu: "Yes——"
"What I want to hear is not your apology, Jiang Mingzhu," He Chuyan called her by her first and last name, "Tell me the truth, I don't want to watch you act anymore."
Jiang Mingzhu thought of Yuan Ye's words again, "Everyone betrays his relatives and leaves them alone."
It came so quickly.
He Chuyan: "Have you had a checkup? What's the disease?"
Jiang Mingzhu: "Stomach cancer, malignant, early stage."
