It's hard to quit, but it's the perfect marriage!

Zhu Xi had no idea what Huo Xi was talking about.

She was still thinking about the good news of being picked up by her biological mother.

Zhu Xi now regrets her attitude towards her.

Huo Xi turned to look at her and immediately knew what she was thinking.

"Girl, the struggle for the crown prince position has always been brutal." Huo Xi moved closer to her and showed her the note, which she was more interested in.

Zhu Xi also looked at her.

Huo Xi smiled indifferently, "It's a cause for celebration that the biological mother took Snow White away. Why are you, the older sister who was disliked by the stepmother, worrying about this?"

Zhu Xi chuckled, her eyes crinkling into a smile. "That's true."

This is in a neighboring city.

Best wishes to our headquarters.

My biological mother is here, and my biological father is here.

All my distant relatives are here.

She, a lonely little grass with only her brother, barely has enough time to hug herself, yet she has time to feel sorry for the porcelain doll who grew up surrounded by love.

Zhu Xi patted her cheeks with both hands.

Quickly gathering her thoughts, she asked Hoshi again, "What did you just say?"

Huo Xiyang waved the note in his hand.

The design features a long, thin, colorful ribbon, approximately 15 cm long and 6 cm wide.

The words on the slips of paper were printed uniformly.

Always bright, always moving forward.

Zhu Xi took it and glanced at it a few times, then stared at the three handwritten characters in the lower right corner.

Zhou Yinghuai.

The black ink has spread out at the last horizontal stroke of the character 【淮】, and the brushstrokes are somewhat messy, so it probably wasn't written on solid ground.

The font is weak and slightly messy.

"This is indeed Zhou Yinghuai's handwriting."

Huo Xi seemed to have sensed destiny, his eyes gleaming. "What? It really is Boss Zhou?"

In a sweet, infatuated voice, she said, "Baby, tell me quickly, did you have a crush on him in high school and keep those feelings buried in your heart all this time?"

Seven years later, you are forced into an arranged marriage. On your wedding night, you suddenly discover that your husband is the very man you've been longing for!

Zhu Xi was convinced. "Just uninstall your brain."

Horch: "A predestined fate."

Zhu Xi ignored her chatter and thought seriously for a while, but still couldn't remember why there was this in her book.

Hoshi thought she was hiding something again. "Really? You can't say this?"

Zhu Xi shook her head, raised her right hand, and swore, "I swear, I really can't remember. I also swear, I never saw Zhou Yinghuai even once before we got our marriage certificate!"

Seeing that Huo Xi really wanted to know, she sighed and said, "I'll go ask my brother."

With that, she turned and walked towards the door.

Hoshi gently stopped him, took the note back into his hand, and gently placed it back into the book.

"I'm busy today, let's talk another day."

"What?" Zhu Xi asked, speechless. "Didn't you want to know?"

Horthy said mysteriously, "Trust me!"

Zhu Xi: "?"

Huo Xichong shook his head at her, raising an eyebrow. "You're telling me you really have no feelings for Zhou Yinghuai?"

Zhu Xi: "No."

"That face, those pecs, those abs, that..." Hoshi grinned mischievously, "His legs must be really long."

Zhu Xi: "Nonsense!"

Zhou Yinghuai has long legs; even a blind person could see that.

Frustrated that she didn't understand dirty jokes, Huo Xi explained seriously, "I mean, his legs are all very long."

Zhu Xi blushed and said, "Go away."

"Stop pretending! Let me tell you, I think Zhou Yinghuai really wants to date you. His eyes light up when he looks at you. And also..."

Before he could finish speaking, Zhou Yinghuai, his eyes shining, strode in with his long legs.

As luck would have it, Zhu Xi's gaze fell on his long legs.

Hoshi quickly slipped away.

As he passed Zhou Yinghuai, he deliberately asked, "Qin Huaiyuan, is it fun?"

Zhou Yinghuai: "..."

Zhu Xi casually slipped the note into a book, then looked at him seriously. "What's wrong?"

Zhou Yinghuai leaned closer and pointed to the boxes behind her, "This is the last box, I'll carry it."

Zhu Xi turned to the side and said, "Oh."

Her face flushed, and her heart was pounding.

While Zhou Yinghuai was bending over to move the boxes, she glanced at his buttocks again.

Hmm, perky.

The two, each with their own thoughts and desires, left the bedroom.

This gentle ripple was disturbed by an uninvited guest.

-

Zhu Tanzhi suddenly appeared, his expression unchanged after entering the room.

Zhou Yinghuai waved his hand, and the movers immediately left.

"The hero who called the police is back?"

Zhu Xi had initially given him a glance, but upon hearing this, she immediately withdrew it.

She knew her father was up to no good.

Sure enough, the next second...

Zhu Tanzhi said sternly, "Your mother called me and said you reported her to the police and called her a thief?"

"Hmm, uninvited guests are thieves," Zhu Xi said sullenly. "Now you're practically a thief too!"

Zhu Tanzhi's face darkened further, provoked. "Nonsense!"

"She's your mother, she was just trying to be kind by getting you a more comfortable sofa, and instead of appreciating it, she's ungrateful!"

Congratulations on your reply, "You didn't learn what it means to know what's good for you from a young age, did you?"

"Heh!" Zhu Tanzhi gritted his teeth. "You've really made something of yourself. One's a professor abroad, the other's a Mrs. Zhou back home. You've grown wings, aren't you? Aren't you the one asking me for living expenses now?"

He still has the nerve to bring this up.

Zhu Xi's eyes were cold, and her back teeth were almost ground to powder.

"Yes!" She straightened up, assuming a fighting stance. "When you were having fun in bed with your ex-wife, didn't you ever think about how your child would grow up?"

Then, Zhu Xi feigned a sudden realization, "I completely forgot! You two were so engrossed in your pleasure that you forgot to use a condom!"

She deliberately tried to disgust him, "Right? Dean Zhu?"

Zhu Tanzhi's anger deepened, his face growing darker with each act of defiance. "How dare you!"

"Being outrageous sounds better than farting!" Zhu Xi laughed.

Standing beside her, Zhou Yinghuai bent down, took her hand that was digging into her fingertips, gently opened it, and intertwined their fingers.

His deep gaze soothed her, he gave her a doting smile, and then stood calmly in front of Zhu Xi, blocking Zhu Tanzhi's unfriendly gaze.

"You've been enlightened?" Zhu Tanzhi said, "This is your Mrs. Zhou. She's incredibly disrespectful, defying her elders, reporting her to the police, and verbally abusing her father."

Zhou Yinghuai hummed in agreement. "Hmm, this is eye-opening. My wife is like a little lamb at home, but she's like a completely different person when she sees you and Ms. He."

"Zhou Yinghuai, you're so protective of her, but she has no heart!"

Zhou Yinghuai paused, then turned to look at Zhu Xi, smiled, and said, "I'm tough. I've seen even the worst fathers, what am I afraid of!"

He held Zhu Xi's hand tightly, speaking sincerely, "It's my blessing that she doesn't leave me! As for the rest, it must be because I haven't done enough."

Zhu Xi dared not look at him.

Because she discovered that the waves of anger stirred up by Zhu Tanzhi had been completely calmed down by Zhou Yinghuai's words.

The water plants in my heart sway gently.

She looked down at the tips of Zhou Yinghuai's shoes and heard another sentence.

"If Dean Zhu comes uninvited, or causes trouble for my wife again, I won't hesitate to do everything in my power to get justice for her."

He curled his lips into a smile, a sudden sense of oppressive authority rising within him. "Just because my wife has a good temper doesn't mean I can tolerate it."

These words caused an uproar in the room.

Zhu Xi's face, which was being blocked by Zhou Yinghuai, inexplicably turned half red.

Zhu Tanzhi was also successfully ridiculed, frowning in displeasure, but dared not confront Zhou Yinghuai head-on.

Reluctantly, he shifted the topic to congratulations.

"Now that you're back, let's go to the ancestral hall and offer incense."

Congratulations, he scoffed, "I'm not going!"

Zhu Xi knew perfectly well what her own father had used to threaten her.

He found all that nonsense he just heard disgusting.

"You!" Zhu Tanzhi was truly enraged now. "I'm your father!"

When the topic turned to her brother, with whom she had depended on for survival, Zhu Xi no longer hid behind Zhou Yinghuai.

She stood up and rushed to Zhu He's side.

Before he could even speak, Zhu He and Zhou Yinghuai stopped him.

Zhu Xi stopped abruptly as her gaze fell upon him from both sides.

She rolled her eyes and stood between the two of them.

Zhou Yinghuai took her hand again, his fingertips stroking it to soothe her, "With your husband here, you don't need to go all out!"

Zhu Xi: "?"

"Honey, you rest, I'll take over the fight!"