Five years without pregnancy means you're too weak; I remarried a powerful man and had triplets

"Who?"

Shen Zhiyi held her breath and tiptoed closer to the door, trying to see what was happening outside through the peephole.

However, whether it was due to the angle or something else, there was no one in sight.

The panic in her heart intensified suddenly, and she raised her hand and pressed it tightly against her chest, trying to calm her wildly beating heart.

Just then, the doorbell rang again.

The sharp ringing of the bell echoed in the quiet entryway.

Shen Zhiyi took a deep breath, grabbed the broom by the door, her knuckles turning white from the force, and gripped the broom handle tightly in her hand.

"Who is it? Speak!" Her voice rose slightly, with a barely perceptible tremor, but the volume was enough to penetrate the door.

However, the door remained silent, and no one answered.

Shen Zhiyi bit her lower lip, raised the broom high, and with her other hand trembling, she turned the lock on the door, carefully opened a crack, and poked half her head out to look around.

At first glance, there was no one there.

Just as she was wondering what was going on and was about to press the alarm button by the door, a figure suddenly appeared in the doorway without warning!

The speed was astonishing, startling Shen Zhiyi into screaming "Ah!" and almost instinctively swinging the broom in her hand with all her might.

"It's me!"

With a low shout and a muffled thud as the man precisely intercepted the broom handle, Shen Zhiyi's attack failed.

The voice was so familiar it made her nauseous, and it chilled her to the bone even more than a stranger's voice.

She squinted and peered through her fingers to see Xu Zhesheng standing in front of her.

He was wearing the same white T-shirt and black suit pants he had worn at noon, just like he often wore to speech contests back in college.

But Shen Zhiyi didn't have time to look at his clothes; she only felt her blood rush to her head, a mixture of fear and disgust.

Almost reflexively, the memory of being tricked into going home that night flooded back to me.

Trembling, she didn't have time to think and suddenly tried to slam the security door shut.

But she was a beat too slow. The door was only halfway opened before Xu Zhesheng blocked it from the outside.

Xu Zhesheng braced himself against the door, his voice urgent: "Don't be afraid! I really have something to tell you today, and I absolutely won't do anything to hurt you!"

"You didn't even call when you needed something? You've been following me since I got off work, do you know that's called stalking! I can sue you!"

Shen Zhiyi's desire to close the door became even stronger, and she pulled it back with almost all her might.

Even a rabbit will bite when cornered. As she pulled back desperately, the door panel that Xu Zhesheng had been blocking finally loosened slightly.

"You've blocked my phone number, WeChat, and text messages. How am I supposed to contact you?!"

Xu Zhesheng struggled against the door and retorted.

Seeing her so desperately trying to close the door, a hurt flashed in his eyes, and his tone softened: "I won't come in, I won't come in! Don't use so much force, you might hurt yourself!"

He tried to calm her down, slightly reducing the force of his grip, but worried that she might be knocked over by the reaction force, so he could only gradually reduce the force until only a narrow gap remained in the door before he resumed his grip to ensure that she could not completely lock herself out.

"Since I've blocked you, it means I don't want to see you! I don't want to receive any messages from you! If you knew your place, you shouldn't have contacted me, let alone come looking for me!" Shen Zhiyi shouted.

Even though Xu Zhesheng told her not to use force, she couldn't control the trembling of her body.

She was terrified of being alone with him.

What's more, he had a thousand ways to find her, but he chose the one she hated most.

He followed her from downstairs at her company to the supermarket, then followed her closely on the subway, and finally to her apartment complex.

Just horrible.

Shen Zhiyi clung tightly to the door, determined not to give Xu Zhesheng any opportunity to take advantage.

"I really have something to tell you!" Seeing her so stubborn, Hsu Che-sheng seemed to lose heart.

"Director Xu, I don't know what else there is to say between us. We've already talked enough about what we should and shouldn't have said."

Shen Zhiyi sneered, "There are still more than ten days left in our divorce cooling-off period. If you still want to talk about property division, I can only say, see you in court!"

"Property distribution?" Xu Zhesheng frowned. Didn't Lu Zichuan promise to compensate him for that money?

How could he not tell Shen Zhiyi about something that could improve his image?

He asked tentatively, "You don't know?"

"What do you know or not?" Shen Zhiyi stared intently at his hand braced against the door, afraid that he would suddenly exert force at any moment.

Xu Zhesheng stared intently at her face, trying to find even the slightest hint of pretense.

But no matter how he looked at it, Shen Zhiyi's attention was fixed on the door, her eyes showing no bias whatsoever.

She really doesn't know.

After confirming this, Xu Zhesheng felt a mix of emotions.

On the one hand, since Shen Zhiyi was unaware of his deal with Lu Zichuan, his image in her mind might not be completely ruined yet.

On the other hand, he couldn't understand Lu Zichuan's intentions.

He helped him fill such a huge hole and even agreed to make concessions in the future, making such a big concession, but he didn't mention it to Shen Zhiyi at all. Why is that?

Are you planning something big?

Xu Zhesheng didn't understand, but he didn't want Shen Zhiyi to know that he agreed to the matter for money.

In a split second, he changed the subject: "I came to see you not to talk about the past, nor to try to keep you here. I need your help with something."

He spoke sincerely, trying to influence Shen Zhiyi with this attitude.

But this tactic might have worked before when Shen Zhiyi had eyes only for him.

Now, in her eyes, he has no image left at all.

She was unwilling to listen to anything he said, much less help him with anything.

"There's nothing I can do to help you!" she refused without hesitation, her hand still gripping the door tightly.

"Zhizhi, does our relationship have to be like this?"

Seeing her so heartless, a trace of sadness flashed in Xu Zhesheng's eyes. "Although I cheated, I'm being punished now. I can't even have my own child, and I still have to marry Su Manman... Are you really determined to be my sworn enemy?"

"Ha, Xu Zhesheng, what are you pretending for?" Shen Zhiyi sneered, her eyes sharp as knives. "Which choice in these situations wasn't your own? Did anyone hold a knife to your throat and force you to choose?"

She ruthlessly exposed his pretense: "Get out of my sight right now! Or I'll really call the police!"

Seeing her like this, Xu Zhesheng knew that it was impossible to persuade her with kind words.

He lowered his head, as if weighing something, then gritted his teeth, looked up at her, a hint of malice in his eyes, and directly stated his demands:

"You edited my film before, but the production schedule was too tight, and the editing wasn't good. Now it needs to be redone. Don't you pride yourself on being a responsible person? Get this film re-edited for me."

His tone remained condescending, as if Shen Zhiyi was born to work for him and be exploited by him.