Chapter 23
Cheng Lydia almost shuddered as she walked down that corridor of roses and out of The Shen Family mansion.
Ho Gina has achieved her goal, she is really shaken by these truths, but what can be done? Her marriage to Shen Ron had been established and she had become Shen Ron’s woman.
She wiped a tear that had accidentally slipped down her face and raised her hand to stop a passing taxi and got in.
“Where to, miss?” The driver’s uncle looked at her in the rearview mirror.
“To …” Cheng Lydia hesitated for a long moment before saying, “To Shen’s group.”
In fact, she didn’t know where she was going, at this moment she just wanted to hurry up and leave Shen Mansion, to get away from Yang June, to get away from this evil.
She had always despised those third parties who destroyed other people’s families, and was determined not to allow herself to become this type of woman, even if she was poor and in need of money. But today, she was actually in the ranks of this category, sharing a man with another woman.
If she had known the truth, she would never have married, never!
“Miss, Shen’s building is here.” A reminder from the driver’s uncle rang in her ears.
Cheng Lydia lifted her tearful face from the back of her seat sorrowfully, her gaze falling through the car window on the towering Shen building next to her, the very building in which her husband was, but she didn’t know if she should go up there, and what she could do if she did.
Talking about divorce? Obviously not.
In a trance, she saw Shen Ron’s Bentley slowly driving out from the underground parking lot of the building. Without thinking much about it, she raised her hand and wiped the tears on her face with her sleeve, took out the money and threw it to the driver before pushing the door and stepping out.
She ignored the fact that the Bentley was picking up speed and dashed up the front left side of the car with a muffled ‘bang’ accompanied by the sharp sharp braking sound of the car as her forehead hit the front hood of the car and she fell to the ground with a weak knee.
A huge pain hit her head, but luckily the car braked just enough in a hurry to not cause her any other damage.
Shen Ron in the driver’s seat was confused for two seconds before he hurriedly pushed open the door and rushed up, more than surprised when he saw that the woman sitting under the front of the car was actually Cheng Lydia. Sizing her up, his tone was irritated with emotion, “How come it’s you? Where did you hurt yourself?”
After adjusting a little to the dizziness in her head, Cheng Lydia raised her head sulkily to her small face and looked at him in front of her, then flung her slap at his handsome face with a look of indignation.
Shen Ron’s eyes were quick to copy her slender wrist and his eyes were struck by a wave of irritation, “What are you mad about again?”
“You’re a liar! Your whole family is a liar!” Cheng Lydia yelled at her out of control.
Shen Ron’s handsome brow furrowed and his eyes sank slightly, “Tell me, what did my whole family lie to you about?”
He was still pretending to be confused? Cheng Lydia lost her smile bitterly. The small, plain white face had long since lost its tear stains, but had an additional desperate desolation.
“Why were you afraid to tell me that you already had a wife and had been living at The Shen Family? Why were you afraid to tell me that the Ferrari was hers? Why didn’t you … tell me anything?!” Said Cheng Lydia yelling at the end of the sentence.
She couldn’t control her emotions and was fuming without any image in front of the public because she was really too angry. It was a good thing that the security guards of Shen’s building were protective enough to blast away all those good people passing by.
Her words surprised Shen Ron slightly, so she was here for this.
Just … how could she not know of Yang June’s existence? She had already known him completely, hadn’t she? He never wanted to hide this from her, and Yang June was living in Shen Mansion, so he couldn’t hide it even if he wanted to, could he?
“I asked you the other day if you already knew me completely, and you said yes.”
“But I didn’t know that you and Yang June were married and together every day.” Cheng Lydia glared at him, “Even if I need The Shen Family’s support again, I will not allow myself to share a husband with another woman and become a shameless mistress who destroys other people’s marriages, that is my principle of being a human being!”
Her last marriage had been lost at the hands of her mistress, and she had dreamed of killing that woman Feng Ann, and she couldn’t be that woman too, that shameless person who was hated to death.
Shen Ron looked at her angry face coldly, “I am not afraid to tell you, but there is no need, you married me for money, I married you to give The Shen Family an account. Whether June and I are married or not, whether we are together every day or not, it doesn’t affect the normal dealings between you and me. And you don’t have to blame yourself or worry about how you might affect June and me, because …” He smiled vaguely, his eyes full of confidence, “You can’t influence us.”
He said it so well, so realistically, but Cheng Lydia s heart … was sinking little by little.
She could not influence them, yes … their feelings were so good and so deep, could she expect anything else? Could she still have hope in what the old lady had once said?
The old lady demanded that she marry Shen Ron, reasoning that the child could not grow up without his own mother at his side after birth, and the old lady also said that she hoped she would be faithful to Shen Ron all her life, loving and caring for him … all her life.
It wasn’t that she hadn’t fantasized about such a day, she Cheng Lydia was a woman, a relatively conservative woman in mind and body, of course she wished she could have a small home, even if it was a rough and uneventful life. It’s just that when she first secretly fantasized about a bright future, she didn’t know that Shen Ron and Yang June were already married and lived in Shen Mansion to spend time with Shen Ron.
Cheng Lydia could not breathe as her heart was blocked by the lotus heart.
Her hands clutching the corners of Shen Ron’s shirt loosened like a soulless doll.
Shen Ron flicked his fingers at the corner of his shirt that she had clutched and wrinkled, stood up from the floor and said, “June and I are inseparable in this life, if you feel lonely, you can go pursue your own love too, I won’t blame you. But it’s best not to get too close, or at least put up with it until after the baby is born, and I said I’d set you free as soon as the baby is born.”
With that, he stepped back into the driver’s seat and the Bentley slowly drove past her.
Through the rearview mirror, Shen Ron looked at Cheng Lydia sitting on the concrete floor and asked himself if he was being a bit heartless. No, it must not be heartless, his marriage with Cheng Lydia was originally a trade for what he wanted, and he had not wronged her in any way.
The golden strang light enveloped Cheng Lydia, warm but also extraordinarily blinding. She tilted her sad little face up and just felt the whole sky spinning overhead, faster and faster.
Feeling a car approaching in front of her, she tried to get up off the ground to give way to someone, but her body was too heavy to be her own. Eventually her body lurched and she fell to the ground unconscious.
And to her side, a black Bugatti sports car was dignified and dominant, just like the car’s owner.
Gu William swept a glance in the direction Shen Ron had left, his eyebrows dropping slightly as he scrutinized Cheng Lydia on the floor. then he bent down and scooped her up off the ground.
“You’re still so light, my dear.” He smiled lightly at the person in his arms, the steel in his face dispersing a few moments and adding a few moments of tenderness.
Cheng Lydia had no idea how long she had been asleep when a familiar phone ring suddenly rang in her ear, ringing louder and louder without stopping.
Her head still hurt a little, and drowsily she ran her hand under her pillow for a moment and pressed the answer button.
Before she could open her mouth, Chung Grace’s excited voice came over the microphone cheaply, “Lydia, are you off today?”
“Well …” Cheng Lydia reached out with her other hand and rubbed her eyes, struggling to open them.
An unfamiliar environment made her sleepy, and she quickly scanned her surroundings before finally circling her gaze back to the bed. When she saw the handsome face in front of her, close at hand, she rolled over in shock and nearly fell to the floor.
Gu William wrapped one hand around her waist to save her from the bed, one hand raised his index finger to his lips, his evil gaze sweeping her palm to remind her that her phone was still on the line.
“That’s great, walk me to Pensch 4S, William just gave me a sports car.” Chung Grace’s excited voice resonated through the amplified clamor throughout the bedroom.
Cheng Lydia bit her red lips as she stared at the man who should not be in front of her, Chung Grace’s rich and handsome William. her brain ached, she could not remember how she had gotten together with him, but whatever the reason, it made her want to bang her head against a wall.
The sound of Chung Grace’s happy, joyful laughter on the other end of the phone, and her cuddling with Gu William on the other end, I wonder how Chung Grace would feel if she found out?
“Lydia, are you listening to me?” Chung Grace asked.
“I … I’ll call you back later.” Cheng Lydia said muddledly and was about to hang up when Chung Grace said busily, “I’m going out for French food with William tonight, why don’t you come along too.”
“No, I don’t like Western food.” Cheng Lydia hung up the phone hurriedly.
Holding the phone in her hand that had already cut off the call, Cheng Lydia closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and when she opened them, the bottom of her eyes were already tinged with a touch of anger as she stared at the man in front of her who could be described as a stranger: “Mr. Gu, I want to know what the hell is going on here, and please let go of me.”
Gu William withdrew his arm from her waist and pivoted his head slightly to survey her with a light smile, “You fainted under my wheel and I got you back, that’s all.”
“I clearly fainted at the Shen building.” Cheng Lydia said, as she remembered that a black car did pull up to her before she fainted, but she didn’t know who it was.
“I happen to be on my way to Shen’s to meet an old friend, your husband.”
“You know I’m Shen Ron’s wife and you’re doing this …” Cheng Lydia looked down at herself and him, well both were dressed in formal clothes, not like there was any sign of something bad having happened.
“Do I look like someone who likes to take advantage of people in your mind?” Gu William laughed mockingly, sweeping his gaze over her not particularly ample chest, “Besides … Chung Grace has a much better body than you, I can’t even eat her up.”
“You … are shameless!” Cheng Lydia rolled out of bed and glared at him angrily, “Does it give you that much pleasure to play with a good and innocent girl? Aren’t you afraid of being struck by lightning?”
“Good and innocent? Do you mean yourself?” Gu William got up from the bed too, slowly straightening his shirt on his body, his smiling gaze not half ashamed.
Cheng Lydia was so angry that she wanted to go up to him and slap him twice, but she knew in her heart that even if she crippled him, he would still be horny and unchangeable.
She bit her lip, the anger on her face was replaced by a touch of pleading, and her voice softened as she stared at him, “I am grateful to you for saving me, but please let Chung Grace go, Chung Grace is a good girl, and she is not the kind of woman who is greedy for vanity, there are plenty of women under the sky who are prettier than her and better than her, I hope you can let her go and find those Chung Grace, she … can’t afford to lose.”
Gu William came around the end of the bed to her and stared at her with a mocking smile, “How do you know I’m the one picking her up and not her hitting on me?”
“Chung Grace is not that kind of person!” Cheng Lydia retorted, almost without thinking.
“That’s the kind of person I am?” His face sank slightly.
“Didn’t you?” Cheng Lydia sneered, “Didn’t you spend the night before last at another woman’s place and didn’t you just give her a Bugatti?”
“Gee, that’s quite a bit of eavesdropping and insight.”
Cheng Lydia parted her face with that slightest hint of weakness.
Gu William spoke again mockingly, “I advise you to mind that business between yourself and Shen Ron, and I won’t bother you with Miss Shi …”
It didn’t look like he was going to listen to himself, and Cheng Lydia stopped opening her mouth to plead, glanced around, found the direction of the gate and flung herself away.Content provided by NôvelDrama.Org.
Behind him, Gu William’s purposely raised voice came, “Hey, your head doesn’t hurt anymore? I cooked you thin rice specially …”
In response, the sound of the door slamming shut very ungently was heard.