SVWL Chapter 44.1

Half an hour ago, Zhu family’s villa.

Because of the property purchase, Zhu Shoushan was livid. Qin Manwen, facing him, bit the bullet and said that she doesn’t know that such a purchase exists. 

Zhu Shoushan never trusted them. The most taboo thing was that they bought a property behind his back. After Zhu Tong’s incident, his precaution was heavier than before. At this junction, when he suddenly learned about the house, he would definitely chase after them until he uncovered everything. 

“The mortgage payment was from your card and you said you didn’t know it?”

Zhu Shoushan has completely disbelieved at this excuse. She had the same explanation as Qin Junhong just now. 

At this stalemate, just as he was about to call someone to investigate this matter, a familiar young man suddenly walked in at the gate and said loudly, “My mother really didn’t know about this. My uncle and I bought the house.”

Qin Junhong stood at the gate and took a deep breath before continuing to walk in.

Zhu Shoushan’s face showed how enraged he was. “You admit it?”

Qin Manwen also stood up from the sofa, her eyes still red. She sounded “shocked”.  “Junhong?”

Qin Junhong said, “What if I admit it? I bought the house, and that’s the truth. I want to leave a way out for my mother. Is that wrong?” 

Zhu Shoushan frowned and asked, “A way out?” 

Qin Junhong glanced at Qin Manwen, and suddenly smiled, “Uncle Zhu, it’s only a house worth a few million. Is that amount of money worth your anger towards my mother? Isn’t she your wife?”

“…”

“Since my mother married you, what have you given her? What have you bought her? Clothes? Jewelry? None! Yes, you gave her a card and let her buy whatever she wants, but do you really trust her to buy it? Two years ago, you even questioned her usage of it when she bought a designer bag worth hundreds of thousand with her friends! Who do you think she buys the bag for? To save your face! Yes! To let outsiders know how good you are to her!”

Qin Junhong changed from his normal approach, and instead made a preemptive strike when he entered the door.

It was too late to hide the house or to explain it, so he could only lessen the “sin” of what he had done.

Seeing Zhu Shoushan stunned, he continued, “But are you really good to her? Have you ever cared about her for so many years? She had to take care of you ill son and your wayward daughter. She took Xiao Tong to see a doctor and accompanied Xiao Xin to various tutoring classes. She has never been so attentive to me. Where has she wronged you? But how did you treat her in return? You think that just because you gave her a marriage license and a card, you can take advantage of her and throw everything you don’t want to do at home to her? She is your wife, not your nanny!”

Qin Junhong was almost hysterical.

Zhu Shoushan was trembling with anger, pointed at him and said, “You…”

“Yes, I bought that house behind your back.” Qin Junhong said righteously, “I feel that my mother has been treated unjustly! She loves you, she doesn’t care how you treat her, but I’m not her! If you wronged her, I will fight for her. It doesn’t matter if you hit or scold me. Anyway, I’m not your son, you married my mother for your children, but my mother married you because she liked you. I was afraid that this mistreatment would continue on for the rest of her life! What if she makes a mistake and you suspect her? Wouldn’t you just kick her out? That’s why I bought that house for her! So what if I did that!” 

Zhu Shoushan was choked by him.

His breath fluctuated violently.

Qin Manwen stood up again and said, “Junhong! How can you say such a thing? Without your Uncle Zhu, can you have your current life? Without him, can you go to such a good university and have such a good job? How can you do such a thing? You.. why are you so dissatisfied!”

Qin Manwen looked heartbroken.

“…”

The mother and son pair complemented each other. Zhu Shoushan’s original anger towards Qin Manwen has been successfully redirected towards Qin Junhong’s “accusation”. He was being contradicted by a junior, which made him feel that his authority was being provoked. But at this time, Qin Manwen was very “self-aware”, and she reprimanded Qin Junhong for him, and happened to say what he “thought”.

Zhu Shoushan’s narrow heart finally gave birth to a little guilt.

He stopped targeting Qin Manwen, and scolded Qin Junhong, “Get out! Get out of the Zhu family! Get out!”

Qin Manwen wanted him to stay and did not dare to say it.

Qin Junhong waved his hand, as if he didn’t care about it, and walked out of the villa with bravado. 

He didn’t lose his mind after he left the house.

Zhu Shoushan’s attitude today made him understand the degree of Zhu Shoushan’s selfishness and ruthlessness. As long as his interests are endangered, even his wife, who has slept in the same bed for ten years, can be easily thrown away. 

Comparatively, he could do whatever he could to reach something he wanted. 

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Inside the casual bar, after Zhu Xin hung up the call , she watched the video the maid secretly recorded for her in the corner.

Qin Manwen in the video, listening to his son’s grievances for her, changed every expression and action just right. She’s a perfect image of a virtuous wife and loving mother who commits herself to love and humbles herself to the ground for her husband.

Zhu Xin was also grateful to Qin Manwen before, because she has been really kind to her since childhood.

No one has ever been so kind to her after losing her mother.

Even when she was restricted from visiting her brother in the hospital, Qin Manwen secretly sent her to the hospital.

Qin Manwen’s concern for her can be said to be doting. She even thought of calling Qin Manwen “Mother” until she overheard the conversation between Qin Manwen and Qin Junhong.

They were kind to her because she was healthy, because she was useful, because she was… obedient.

Zhu Xin looked down at the video with coldness in her eyes.

Luo Suo took the drink from the counter, and glanced at the hall of the bar unintentionally. Standing alone in a corner without anyone near, she looked lonely. Looking at her clothes, Luo Suo immediately knew who she was. 

“Xiao…”

As soon as Luo Suo spoke, the girl suddenly raised her head, and Luo Suo was startled by her frost-covered face.

Zhu Xin also saw him, and the coldness in her expression melted. She smiled politely, “Ah, Luo Suo-ge.” 

Luo Suo: “…”

Her expression changed so quickly that Luo Suo thought for a moment that he was wrong.

Did he see it wrong?

It must be. 

How can such a beautiful girl show such a terrifying expression¹ah, Luo Suo, you silly goose. Zhu Xin is at the age when a girl has one thing in her mind: revenge.?

Luo Suo walked over with the drink and said, “Why are you still here?”

Zhu Xin replied: “I just finished answering the call.”

“Oh.” Luo Suo didn’t think too much, “Then let’s go in together, I don’t know what you like to drink, so I took some drinks that are popular with girls. You can pick one you like.” 

Zhu Xin nodded and said, “Okay, thank you Luo Suo-ge.”

Luo Suo scratched his head embarrassedly and entered the room with two big bags of drinks.

As soon as the door was opened, the original three people inside the room became two people. Lu Zheyu’s presence was similar to that of the background board, but before Luo Suo left, he was still here! 

Now he didn’t know where Lu Zheyu had gone. Meanwhile, all he saw were Zhu Tong and Shao Ming, cramped in this spacious room at the very corner of the sofa. Zhu Tong leaned against the backseat of the sofa, and Shao Ming was half-pressed on top of him.

“Don’t move.” Shao Ming said.

“O… okay?” Zhu Tong’s voice was very soft.

“Right now.”

Luo Suo and Zhu Xin at the door: “…”

“Ming… Ming-ge?” 

Luo Suo was so frightened that his drink almost dropped.

Zhu Tong’s sister is still here! Ming-ge, what are you doing to her twin brother! 

“Okay.” After Shao Ming finished speaking, he got up and turned to look at the door, “What’s wrong?”

Luo Suo: “…”

It looked like he had misunderstood something.

Luo Suo walked in with his drink and placed it on the long table in the middle of the oval sofa. “No… nothing.”

Zhu Xin was still calm, watching Zhu Tong rubbing his eyes and sitting up, worried, “What’s wrong with my brother’s eyes?”

Zhu Tong answered, “Nothing wrong, I just got an eyelash stuck inside my eyes… Why did you go for so long? Who called?”

Zhu Xin’s expression did not change. “It’s Sisi. I forgot to tell her I’ll be here and will be canceling our appointment, so she thought I stood her up. She was beating me up for that.” 

“…”

The “Sisi” she mentioned should be Qi Sisi, Zhu Xin’s first friend in high school. He knew of her because they often visited him together during his hospital stay. 

He didn’t ask anything further. His eyes were still feeling rather itchy even after the eyelash was removed. He rubbed them again. 

At this time, a hand next to him took a hold on his hand, and said helplessly: “Don’t rub it, your eyes will feel fine in a while. Try blinking more to stimulate tears production.” 

Zhu Tong tried to blink twice, and it was much better. He turned his head in surprise and said, “How did you know this method?”

Shao Ming sighed. “By experience. Us, people with long eyelashes, have this trouble. I got it stuck multiple times in the past, and find that this method works the best.” 

Zhu Tong: “…”

Is this Versailles²slang for “first-world problems”?

Shao Ming raised his hand again and said, “Your eyelashes are also quite long.” 

He stretched out his index finger, the same index finger that managed to pluck the fallen eyelash stuck on the tail of Zhu Tong’s eye. And sure enough, on the tip of that finger, his eyelash was still there.

Zhu Tong was speechless. 

Why didn’t Shao Ming throw it away! 

He pulled out a tissue to wipe it off.

Shao Ming continued, “I heard that the eyelashes that have just fallen off have some kind of wish-fulfilling properties. If you make a wish with it in the palm of your hand, your wish will come true.”

“…”

Zhu Tong was doubtful of such a bogus claim. “Really?”

Shao Ming smiled and said, “Really. Wanna try?” 

Zhu Tong: “…”

Forget it, it sounded stupid once he thought about it. 

The fallen eyelash wasn’t simply wiped off, but it instead was wrapped by a tissue. 

Shao Ming looked at him and smiled. Zhu Tong looked a bit silly this time. 

Next to him, Luo Suo couldn’t bear it anymore and opened the plastic bag, “Xiao Xin, what would you like to drink?”

Let’s choose the drink, forget about those two flirting.

Zhu Xin looked back with a complicated mood, but she still turned her head and said, “What’s the option?” 

Luo Suo took out two drinks. “Berry cola and cranberry juice are both non-alcoholic ones. You can drink this with Zhu Tong.”

Zhu Xin nodded and said, “Okay.”

Zhu Tong took a glass of cranberry juice and thanked him.

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  ah, Luo Suo, you silly goose. Zhu Xin is at the age when a girl has one thing in her mind: revenge.
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  slang for “first-world problems”