Cheng Xi subconsciously took a step back.
His back hit the door handle, and he gasped in pain.
"Draw a line?" he repeated.
His tone was colder, and so were his eyes.
What she saw was his swollen chest, rising and falling against her.
"Don't give me money, don't give me anything." Cheng Xi turned her head away, feeling that it was too hot, and the air was boiling as if it was on fire.
"Isn't this a clear line?" Zhou Jingchen supported the wall with his palms and lowered his body, "Where is the money you paid for selling the house."
Cheng Xi sold the Cheng family's only property two years ago. He did it without telling the Zhou family, and only told Mrs. Zhou after the sale was completed.
"Left it to the nursing home."
Zhou Jingchen stared at her sharply, "Sold for four million, all of it is paid, right?"
"Two million yuan is compensation for that woman. Her son has a share of inheritance rights." Cheng Xi closed his eyes, ashamed to speak.
The father who devoted his life to his wife and daughter lived with a beautiful female medical representative for more than a year after he gained money and status.
When Cheng's father committed suicide, the woman was about to give birth and could no longer induce labor, so she gave birth to a boy by caesarean section.
She came to the house with her son in her arms and forced Cheng's mother to divide the inheritance. The neighbors criticized her in front of her. She lost her husband and gave birth to an illegitimate child. The love between husband and wife for half a lifetime was like a joke. The always proud mother Cheng was greatly stimulated and jumped from the fourth floor. Jump down.
He was saved, but his spirit was good and bad. Even Cheng Xi didn't recognize him when he got bad.
Rely on top-notch medical teams and drugs to stay alive.
The woman harassed her every day, and the lawyer even brought Cheng's father's will. Regardless of whether the child was born male or female, the Cheng family would bear the child's alimony for 18 years. Cheng Xi had to pay half of the house sale price to settle the account.
"You took the initiative to sell your house at the age of eighteen and negotiated with that woman. Why didn't you come to me?"
The man oppressed her from a high position, and the closer he pressed her, the closer he got. With her back against the door, she had no way to retreat.
"You don't want the Zhou family's money, and you don't want my money either?"
"I wasn't familiar with you at the time..."
"Is it ripe now?"
Cheng Xi remained silent again.
"There is a red mole under your belly button, a spot on your inner thigh, and a mole on your left breast."
She tensed.
"Are you familiar?"
Zhou Jingchen pushed down the suitcase and his clothes were scattered in a mess, "Go back to Zhou's house."
Cheng Xi was shaking, and his two rows of teeth were chattering.
"Whenever you speak, I will let you out."
Zhou Jingchen pulled her away, unlocked the door, stood in the corridor and took out a cigarette case and lighter.
There was a no-smoking sign hanging on the vent, but he held it between his fingers without lighting it.
"Cheng Xi, do you think you are noble?" The light was thick and focused, making his eyes dim and mysterious. "The Zhou family has helped your mother and daughter millions in the past eight years. It was the Zhou family who raised you. Your father left behind All the troubles and consequences were solved by the Zhou family."
Cheng Xi lowered his head.
The voice-activated lights in the corridor turned on and off, and his shadow became clear and dim.
Zhou Jingchen has a mature and unruly quality in his heart. His successful social status and family power make him look down upon all living beings. Cheng Xi was obsessed with his high-spiritedness in his twenties, and even more obsessed with his heroic spirit, toughness and fearlessness after years of accumulation.
He stuffed the cigarette back into the box and walked back.
"Your aloofness is worthless." His words were heartbreaking. "Aloofness requires capital. Do you have the capital to deal with all problems? Can you afford your mother's life and your natural and man-made disasters? The reality is that you didn't have any money that night. If you can't get out of the situation, Ma Mingzhao will make you strip naked and crawl on your knees. If he doesn't sign the letter of understanding, do you know what the price will be?"
Zhou Jingchen and her were so close that they could clearly smell each other's breath.
He is the sweetness of mint toothpaste, and she is the fragrance of cosmetics.
The cold taste stimulated her to wake up a little.
"Your youth will wither and rot in prison." Zhou Jingchen stroked the long hair on her shoulders and pushed back strands until her complete ears were exposed. He touched her, gentle and poisonous, "Ma Mingzhao bribed everyone present The witness committed perjury, and you, who have no money or power, don’t even have a chance to tell the truth.”
Cheng Xi choked up, "I'll pay it back slowly."
Zhou Jingchen leaned back slightly, looked at her from a different distance.
"I will pay you back the money slowly, and also Aunt Zhou."
He frowned.
"The favor owed by the Cheng family..." Cheng Xi cried more and more loudly, becoming more and more difficult to suppress. "The Zhou family wants to marry and win over, I can go, and if I am older, I will accept it."
Zhou Jingchen's calm face was filled with waves. He pinched her face and tightened it inch by inch, "I would rather use myself to repay the Zhou family's kindness, right?"
Cheng Xi knew that he didn't say a word.
——I would rather marry a strange man in a daze than ask him or follow him.
She didn't know why she was so stubborn. After following Zhou Jingchen, she no longer had to work hard, and she had everything she wanted, including money, happiness, and freedom.
Except for status.
Maybe, besides love.
There is only the lust of man and woman.
But what Cheng Xi cares about is love.
Justifiable love.
If you follow him, you will be destroyed in the name of keeping him.
It would alarm his circle, alarm the Zhou family, alarm the school...
Zhou Jingchen answered a phone call at this time.
It's the administrative assistant calling.
"Chief Engineer Zhou, your father is waiting for you in the office. It's the bureau's job of recruiting people."
Cheng Xi was shocked.
She was so flustered that she raised her eyelids to look at him.
Zhou Jingchen squinted his eyes, his face visibly darkened, "It will take me an hour to get back to the company."
After he handed over his assistant, he contacted the captain of the bureau.
"My father is gone?"
"How can Mr. Zhou come in person? His secretary is here." The captain was amused and surprised, "Your father is investigating you privately."
Zhou Jingchen hung up.
Cheng Xi grabbed his sleeve and asked, "Uncle Zhou, is he suspicious of something?"
Zhou Huaikang's eyesight is more discerning than Mrs. Zhou's. After all, he belongs to the rich and powerful. He wouldn't be able to get through today without a few tricks.
Mrs. Zhou trusted Cheng Xi too much and was too particular about ethics. Zhou Huaikang was not like that. Men believed in desire.
Desire often breaks through taboos and destroys morality.
Zhou Huaikang treated Zhou Jingchen's every move from a man's perspective.
...
Cheng Xi followed Zhou Jingchen out of the hotel absentmindedly.
There is a 100-meter-long narrow alley outside, and cars cannot enter.
Hongqi L9 is parked at the end of the alley.
She was wearing high heels, and the ground was slippery. Her stiletto heels got stuck in the holes of the manhole cover, and she stumbled forward.
Zhou Jingchen quickly grabbed her coat with quick eyes and said impatiently, "I slipped and my makeup turned white."
Cheng Xi stabilized his balance and raised his feet. Fortunately, the heels were not broken.
"I'm not wearing makeup...just light makeup."
"Isn't light makeup just makeup?" Zhou Jingchen walked behind her, "It looks better without it, but it doesn't look good with it."
Passing by the glass window of the Internet cafe, she quietly looked in the mirror.
Their eyes met, and Zhou Jingchen was also taking a look. She was taking a look at herself, and he was taking a look at her.
"Does it look good?" he asked.
The lipstick is too bright and the eyelashes are too long.
Cheng Xi felt guilty and stopped taking action.
There was a chuckle and she turned her head. Zhou Jingchen dragged her suitcase with an expressionless face and slowly moved towards her, "What?"
"Did you laugh."
"Not smiling." He said simply.
Cheng Xi turned back again.
Driving across the moat bridge, Zhou Jingchen's mobile phone placed in the storage box rang, and the screen displayed Guan Liang.
He pressed it down.
The phone rang again.
He pressed it down again.
Cheng Xi cleared his throat, "You park the car, I'll get off, you pick me up and then get in the car."
