After five years of a cold marriage, I can no longer hide the child I secretly gave birth to.

That night, after hanging up the phone, Zhou Yanci looked at all the photos he had collected of Xu Daikui and Shen Jun, and couldn't sleep all night.

The next morning, after he had recovered somewhat, he washed away the fatigue of the night and went to the hospital to visit Wen Yayun.

*

in the hospital.

Early in the morning, as soon as it was light, Shen Jun helped Xu Daikui send Mengmeng to her art class.

Xu Daikui went to the police station.

This time, she handed over the complete set of information that Wang Guang had given her to the police.

The document contains evidence that Li Xuelan colluded with Dean Zhao five years ago to embezzle medical equipment funds from the People's Hospital, that they sold ordinary heart stents to patients at high prices, that Li Xuelan caused the deaths of two people during her diagnosis, that they laundered money, and that Xu Jiaojiao impersonated her to take her place at work.

This time, just as Wang Guang said, either the Xu family or Dean Zhao will have to go to jail.

Dean Zhao is cunning and shrewd. After being dismissed from the People's Hospital five years ago, he managed to completely whitewash his past misdeeds.

It's highly likely that the Xu family will be the ones going in this time.

However, it remains to be seen whether Zhou Yanci will make a move.

He and Xu Jiaojiao are about to get engaged, and he will definitely help her if she begs him.

It's also possible that he was an accomplice in the impersonation.

He will definitely protect Xu Jiaojiao.

"Madam, we will verify the information you submitted as soon as possible. This matter is of great importance, so please rest assured that we will take it very seriously and give you justice."

"it is good."

"I believe in you."

Xu Daikui had just recorded her entire three-hour conversation with the police officer.

If they turn against her later, or if Zhou Yanci tries to suppress the matter, then she will go all out and make a big scene.

By directly filing a formal complaint and taking the matter to social media, they are determined to make a name for themselves against the Xu family.

Not only that, she also wants to expose Zhou Yanci's extramarital affair and abandonment of his wife for five years online.

If he dares to protect Xu Xiaosan's family again, she will fight them to the death, even if it means harming herself with a knife.

...

After leaving the police station, her phone suddenly rang.

It was Fang Qing calling.

"Hey, Dai Kui, the anonymous scam call you asked me to investigate last night actually belonged to Xu Jiaojiao. She used a voice changer and a number hider to disguise her voice and number, deliberately deceiving you. Her methods are simply astonishing."

Xu Daikui had long suspected that this matter was inextricably linked to Xu Jiaojiao.

But I never expected that she would go to such lengths to deal with me.

She could tolerate all of Mengmeng's provocations, whether overt or covert, but she shouldn't have set her sights on Mengmeng.

Mengmeng is her bottom line.

"Okay, I understand. Thank you, Assistant Fang."

Fang Qing wanted to comfort her some more, but the woman had already hung up the phone.

The most violent storms always come silently. Could Xu Daikui do something extreme?

He hesitated whether to tell Zhou Yanci about it.

...

After hanging up the phone, Xu Daikui went straight into a convenience store and borrowed a phone from the clerk.

I dialed the number that Xu Jiaojiao had used to scam me yesterday.

Sure enough, the connection was established within seconds.

"Hello, who is this?"

Xu Jiaojiao's affected voice came out.

"It's me, Zhou Yanci. He's drunk and standing in front of the Week 8 Hotel. Do you want to come?"

Upon hearing that Zhou Yanci was drunk, Xu Jiaojiao immediately became nervous.

"I'm coming right now, Xu Daikui, you're not allowed to touch him!"

Xu Daikui smiled sarcastically, "We haven't touched it yet, but if you don't make it in three minutes, who knows what might happen between us."

After saying this provocatively, she hung up the phone.

In less than three minutes, Xu Jiaojiao drove her car and sped to the hotel entrance.

As soon as the car door opened, she hurried over in her high heels, her mouth agape, about to question Xu Daikui.

A sharp slap landed suddenly on her face…

She lost her balance and fell to the ground.

"Xu Daikui, you want to go to jail again, don't you?! What right do you have to hit me?"

She covered half her face and glared at her.

Xu Daikui smiled, "I hit you because you deserved it! I'm warning you, don't even think about messing with the people around me again, or I won't hesitate to take you down with me!"

Xu Jiaojiao then realized that Xu Daikui had deliberately tricked her into coming here, and she must have guessed that Xu Daikui was behind the car accident.

She got up, glaring at her arrogantly, "Xu Daikui, if you want me to leave your side, it's simple: leave Beijing immediately and leave Zhou Yanci completely."

"A-Ci likes me. Look, he even bought me an engagement ring, it's a five-carat one."

She raised her slender, white hand, the diamond ring on her ring finger sparkling dazzlingly in the sunlight.

"As long as you stop bothering him, stop having designs on him, and get out of the Xu and Zhou families' world forever, I won't even bother to lay a hand on you!"

She screamed herself hoarse.

Xu Daikui was so angry that she was speechless.

She wouldn't let go of Zhou Yanci.

That's a really ridiculous statement.

"Xu Jiaojiao, I've long since given up on dealing with you vicious people. I'm leaving, but before I go, I have to give you a big gift—consider it your engagement present. It'll make our love for the same man worthwhile, won't it?"

Xu Jiaojiao didn't understand what she meant, but she was definitely not hiding anything.

She wanted to warn her something, but the woman had already strode away.

As she watched her retreating figure, a vague sense of foreboding crept into her heart.

Subconsciously, I wanted to confide in Zhou Yanci.

So she quickly dialed his number.

The beeping sound from the other end of the line went on for a long time before the man's deep voice finally came through.

"What's wrong?"

"A-Ci, it's been several days since we last met. How about we have lunch together today?"

Zhou Yanci said calmly, "Another day."

Xu Jiaojiao was slightly disappointed. "Is something wrong? Is it about the company? Has your father been causing trouble lately?"

"Hmm. No."

Men are concise and to the point.

Xu Jiaojiao was already used to his sparing use of words, so she assumed he was genuinely busy and didn't mind.

"Then I won't bother you anymore. Let's eat together another day."

"Um."

After hanging up the phone, Xu Jiaojiao felt increasingly depressed and irritable, so she wandered aimlessly through the streets.

...

After Xu Daikui and Xu Jiaojiao separated, an indescribable bitterness welled up in her heart again.

She remembered her childhood, when she was three years old and had memories of it, she was left at her grandmother's house in the countryside by Xu Guodong.

During holidays, he and Li Xuelan would not go home with Xu Jiaojiao.

Her grandmother said that Xu Guodong brought her here when she was three days old.

She had always lived with her elderly grandmother, who supported her education by collecting plastic bottles. When she graduated from junior high school, her grandmother suddenly suffered a heart attack and passed away while she was working part-time at the town's library.

She left her a letter and a few hundred dollars in savings.

She then realized that she was not Li Xuelan's biological daughter at all. From childhood, Li Xuelan ignored her, not because she had an older sister, but simply because she was not her biological daughter and her mother was a person of unknown origin.

At that moment, she felt a deep pain in her heart.

She longs to find her biological mother, but because of her grandmother's passing, even basic necessities like food and clothing have become a problem for her.

She was originally going to drop out of high school to work, but the local community contacted Xu Guodong and persuaded him from a legal standpoint, so Xu Guodong reluctantly brought her to the city.

After that, she was an outsider in her city home.

They could only eat and wear what Xu Jiaojiao didn't want, and they didn't even have the right to speak at home.

At that time, she felt even more disgust and hatred towards Xu Guodong's family.

Like them, she felt no affection for them whatsoever.

Even if she were to watch her entire family go to jail now, she would remain unmoved.

That's what reason told her, but her emotions still made her unable to hold back her tears, which silently slid down her cheeks.

My heart aches so much I feel like I can't breathe.

Through her teary eyes, she suddenly caught sight of an old-fashioned tavern.

A sentence was pasted on the glass of the tavern with colored paper.

Dear friend, bitterness is an emotion; brew it into wine, and it will become sweet. Have a glass of wine, and happiness will be with you.

is it?

Can bitterness really turn into sweetness?

Xu Daikui wiped away her tears and, as if possessed, walked into that small tavern.

She found a seat by the window and ordered several kinds of foreign liquor.

Whiskey, wine, tequila, and plum wine.

I took a few small bites of each one.

Not to the point of getting drunk, but still able to savor the sweetness of GG's lyrics.

...

Fu Minghao and Tang Xuan walked hand in hand past the tavern, and suddenly looked up and saw Xu Daikui sitting in front of the messy bottles.

Her cheeks were slightly flushed pink, and her eyes were pure and burning.

Without hesitation, he immediately took out his phone and sent a photo to Zhou Yanci.

"Your wife can really hold her liquor, huh? I saw several young men eyeing her table. Want to come?"

He knew that the man was extremely proud, so he deliberately provoked him.