Sweet Chief Secretary

Zhou Yan had just taken the medicine for Wanru and was heading for the doctor in the hall of the hospital.

“Where is she?” Shen Mo asked in the end.

Zhou Yan looked at Shen Mo and asked, “Who?” It was blindingly obvious that he asked on purpose.

Shen Mo frowned, “You know who I’m asking about.”

“You mean Wanru?”

“Yep!”

Zhou Yan said after a pause, “She’s in the ward, not very well. So I’m sorry, and please help me inform Uncle Ning.” He left with the bag in his hands without wandering after he finished.

Shen Mo suddenly strode onward to catch his shoulder.

Zhou Yan turned his head and looked straight at Shen Mo’s eyes. Shen Mo was angry while Zhou Yan was still calm. On such occasions, it is always the one who remains calm ends up winning. Yet Shen Mo could not chill, as Zhang Hanyu did a lot for him. Shen Mo tried to match Xia Yu with him, a result of his misperception of Zhang Hanyu’s emotion towards the girl. But it ended up with automatically giving up the challenge since Xia Yu chose Shen Yan, his younger brother, who had better tact and methods than him. But as for Wanru, Zhang Hanyu’s ex-wife, she should have a stronger attachment to Zhang Hanyu, so Shen Mo determined to try every means to grab her back to Zhang Hanyu.

Zhou Yan’s eyes fixed on Shen Mo with them narrowed, “What do you want?”

“What do you mean?” Shen Mo asked.

Zhou Yan looked at Shen Mo coldly, “Don’t ask while knowing the answer!”

Shen Mo laughed, “Do I? What on earth do you want to say?”

Zhou Yan’s eyes were raised, “You should have known the relationship between her and me!”

“I know, so what?” The smile on the corner of Shen Mo’s mouth fainted even more pretentiously. “Didn’t you know the relationship between Ningjing and me?”

“You ….” Zhou Yan was so furious that he was about to punch Shen Mo but was jerked by Zhang Hanyu who arrived in time.

“Young Master Mo, let’s go back.” Zhang Hanyu said to Shen Mo.

Though Zhou Hanyu was not happy with the fact that Wanru and Zhou Yan were in a relationship. After all, Wanru had divorced with him, so she had the right to choose a partner again.

He could not blame it for Wanru, or even so for Zhou Yan.

But Shen Mo didn’t think so. This bastard had a bad character and only flirted on his friends’ girlfriends. Maybe it was the bastard who persuaded Wanru to divorce with Zhang Hanyu. “Yes, we are heading back, but we must go back with Wanru.”

“Young Master Mo, what are you doing? It is your Uncle Ning’s birthday party today!” Zhang Hanyu reminded Shen Mo whose fist was almost waved in the air. They were standing next to the pillars at the door. It was not a sheltered place where from time to time staff and guests could be seen passing by.

“Stop, don’t be impulsive. We should talk about that any time other than today!” Zhang Hanyu advised when holding Shen Mo’s arm tightly, fearing that he really punched Zhou Yan.

Shen Mo stared at Zhou Yan in front of him, but Zhou Yan was expressionless. It seemed that he would not avoid even if he was gonna be punched, but would that really happen?

“Stop, do you hear me?” Zhang Hanyu pulled him once again.

Shen Mo relentlessly gulped back, holding his hand back. Zhou Yan then grunted, “Don’t judge me as indecent, because I can never compare with you in the past. Wanru has already divorced with President Zhang. It has nothing to do with anyone else what relation we are in as she is single. And…” He paused, smiling, “Wanru is my girlfriend now, decently and properly. My grandfathers from both my parents’ side agree with our relationship and we will marry in no time.”

Hearing that, Zhang Hanyu’s face turned purple suddenly and his hand loosened from Shen Mo, who then took the chance about to raise his fist. But he was stopped by Zhang Hanyu, who grunted, “Fine, just stop, Zhou Yan. Are you coming to that really just for a woman? And you…” He stared at Shen Mo, “On such an occasion, do you really want to start a fight? If so, I won’t stop you. Let all your dissatisfaction out!”

After a few minutes, Shen Mo stood by the sink in the bathroom. They didn’t really fight for sure. On such an occasion, they had to be cautious, not to mention that they were not in their early twenties.

When Ningjing was in a relationship with Zhou Yan at that time, they did fight. The two big boys fell into the mud pond seizing each other. However, in the end, nothing changed. As no problem could be solved by force, otherwise Ningjing would not end up in an accident.

As for now, Shen Mo lighted a cigarette and leaned over the sink, while Zhang Hanyu sighed.

“You know why we divorced, didn’t you? We really couldn’t live together anymore. Didn’t Li Tianci say that because she refused to leave you, he had no choice but to kill her? Are you still doubting that Ningjing loves Zhou Yan?”

Zhang Hanyu had the question in his mind for the whole night, and it was then when he finally seized the opportunity. But the man in front of the sink said nothing but kept smoking.

Zhang Hanyu was anxious, and pushed him again, “Say something!”

“… What the hell is going on?” Zhang Hanyu was really anxious. In such a situation, he was still thinking about love affair, the sort of meaningless things.

… “Hey, say something!” Zhang Hanyu was almost trying to seize him.

Shen Mo kept his eyebrows frowning and his face frozen. He didn’t feel unwilling nor intend to avoid talking about some issues, but just felt ashamed. As if they are a scar hidden for so many years that others assumed it had recovered, but only you know it’s still festering inside. You don’t want to show it to others, because it’s too dirty.

“You’d better not know. Forget it, and just go out.” Shen Mo said while puffing out smoking rings and waved his hand to signal Zhang Hanyu to leave.

Zhang Hanyu knew his temper well. If he didn’t want to say, you could never force him to do so even by pushing a knife on his neck. And his face looked gloomy all night, completely different from how he was like during work hours. He felt better to stop furthering asking, so just sighed and turned around going out.

After Zhang Hanyu left, there was only him left in the bathroom. Shen Mo took a sip of the rest of the cigarette, turned around, drowned it in the sink, and raised his head. His appearance was exactly reflected in the mirror, his face blue, his figure stiff, and his eyes covered with red blood. Suddenly laughing, he asked himself is it worthy to do so for a woman like her.

At the moment the phone rang. It was a message from First Madame, “Little Mo, where are you? Old Madame is seeking you to propose a toast with Uncle Ning.”

Shen Mo put his phone on the table, opened the tap to brush away the ashes in the sink. He then lifted his head having a glance of himself in the mirror, took his phone and walking out.

About half an hour later, the doctor finally came out of the room. Zhou Yan didn’t change his clothes yet, still wearing that blood-stained vest. He sat on the sofa, and there were several more cigarette butts in the ashtray.

“How’s it going?” He immediately stubbed his cigarette and coming up to ask the doctor seeing him coming out.

The doctor was also his acquaintance, so he didn’t beat around the bush and went straight, “The wounds on her hand were given four stitches and have been bound up, so don’t let her touch water these few days or carry any heavy stuff. There are several soft tissue contusions on her back and waist, which look like being caused by hit or kick. But the bones seem not to be hurt, so it’s not a big issue.”

Zhou Yan nodded, “Is there anything else that needs attention?”

Dr. Yun thought for a while, “So much for these, but you have to pay attention to her condition in the middle of the night. If you find her vomiting or bleeding, you must send her to the hospital immediately.”

Zhou Yan understood the point and he naturally hoped this situation would not happen.

“I know. I will pay attention to.”

Zhou Yan sent the doctor out, and it was already two o’clock in the morning, the night getting dark, and a slight breeze pouring in. He turned back to close the window but accidentally found a star hanging in the sky outside the window.

Seeing stars on the night sky in such an urban area was undoubtedly a miracle. Zhou Yan couldn’t help but look at it twice before closing the window and pulling the curtain. When he turned around, he saw the person in bed, lying quietly. There was a small beam of light hanging next to her, whose half face was as white as paper. As he walked over to the bed, the person on the bed could be seen even more clearly.

Is she asleep? Is she feeling pains or having nightmares? Why is there sweat on her forehead and her eyebrows tightened?

Zhou Yan couldn’t help but took a deep breath. He uncovered the blanket on her body, seeing her clothes have already changed to a black male one. There were blood marks and several obvious bruises on her white leg roots and knees, and further up, as the shirt lifting to her waist, where the flat abdomen rose and fell along with her breath, a large part of blue bruise was there spreading all the way to her back….

The wound on her right palm had already been bound up with bandages. The doctor said it was caused by a pointed weapon, but the truth was that some glass stabbed into her palm when she threw a goblet to Zhang Hanyu. It was hard to imagine how terrified she would be so that she used violence.

Zhou Yan put back the blanket on her, with his eyes fixed on her neck, a slim and white one, which was covered by a circle of purple and swelling print of rope, looking even shockingly obvious under the light.

Zhou Yan closed his eyes for a moment and suddenly felt that he could not bear staying in the room.

Wanru was woken up by the pain caused by the wound on her hand. She opened her eyes half unconsciously. Her body was exhausted and sore like a shattered bone, and suddenly felt her back cold. She struggled to get up.

At the same time, the birthday party continued, where the guests did not know what Shen Mo had done. All they knew was that he had been busy for so long, but the person who make the toast changed to Shen Yan.

The average guests didn’t say anything, but his hard-core supporters had opinions, “It’s no wonder that Young Master Yan is known as a little fox, as he is so blindingly canny.”

“That’s it!” Young Master Mo worked so hard to seek justice for Ningjing, and invited President Ning back. What did Young Master Yan do then?”

“Why you even ask? Of course, he was doing something secret. Take tonight, he came so late, but did nothing, just standing there as if he’s not relevant to the event.”

“Exactly! It’s OK if he should have come quietly. But unexpectedly he even played petty games. Especially Xia Yu, god knows what she has done to President Zhang secretly so that he cannot appear.”

“They are really a match. It’s a pity for them not to be together.”

When Xia Yu heard this, she could not help but smile. Fine, even she played a role.