“That’s fine, husband.”
Leng Bingning rubbed her temples and agreed readily to Zhu Tianfan’s request. Whether he slept on her bed or looked through her personal cosmetics no longer mattered.
She had already been so furious just now that her head felt like it would explode. If she hadn’t vented some of that anger through her seventh brother, she might have smashed the entire office apart.
However, before she could even catch her breath, Zhu Tianfan’s endless rambling echoed in her mind again.
[Ah! That wretched woman really deserves to die. She makes me sleep in her bathroom every day, yet she herself has such a spacious and luxurious lounge even at work. Ptui! Ptui! Ptui!]
[Right… since she’s blind anyway, why don’t I bring that beautiful secretary here to this lounge and have a little romance? Wuwuwu… just thinking about her figure makes my heart race. If I could marry her and hold her sweetly every day, that would be perfect!]
[Sigh… how should I persuade her to leave that wretched woman? With how loyal she is, there’s no way she’d just walk away like that.]
[This is troublesome. Why doesn’t that wretched woman just die sooner? Or maybe I should go talk to the adulterer and act as an informant, help him kill her earlier!]
Listening to Zhu Tianfan’s thoughts, Leng Bingning’s face turned ice-cold once more.
Hadn’t he previously said that after the divorce he would go to the countryside and find five cheap women to take care of him in his old age? Yet now, after seeing Gu Qingcheng, he had completely abandoned that idea and instead wanted to marry her, hold her every day, and live sweetly together!
Men… truly were all the same. Shameless and fickle. Where did he even get the audacity to fantasize like this?
If she could hit or scold him right now, she would have already smashed her laptop over his head.
Leng Bingning took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down. She couldn’t let anger ruin her health.
But Zhu Tianfan was simply too much. Calling her blind, planning to flirt with Gu Qingcheng right under her nose, wanting to hold her sweetly every day…
He even wanted to cooperate with that damned adulterer to have her killed early!
Wuwuwu… was he planning to kill her, the original wife, and then marry Gu Qingcheng as his precious second wife?
Wasn’t that exactly replacing the wife with a concubine? Completely outrageous!
Ah! Ah! Ah! This was unbearable!
She hated the heavens, hated the earth, hated herself!
The anger she had just suppressed erupted again like a volcano.
Leng Bingning grabbed the laptop in front of her and hurled it violently to the ground. Then she swept everything she could see off the desk, sending it crashing down as well.
For the first time, she felt the urge to cry, to scream, to vent everything out. Was Zhu Tianfan really here in this life to collect debts from a past one?
Heavens above… earth below… why torment her like this? Why make her hear his endless inner ramblings?
Hmm? Was her seventh brother also standing there just to watch her make a fool of herself? Heh…
Seeing Leng Xingche watching like a curious child, her anger flared up yet again.
“Seventh Brother! Why did you stop singing and dancing? Then go back—and don’t ever come again!”
Hearing his sister’s cold, merciless voice, Leng Xingche could only tremble in fear and move his body like a puppet, desperately singing and dancing to appease her terrifying rage.
…
Meanwhile, Zhu Tianfan stepped into the lounge and felt as if he had entered a whole new world.
As he admired the domineering CEO wife’s personal cosmetics, he continued cursing her in his heart. As for the crashing noises outside, that had nothing to do with him.
The entire lounge was exquisitely designed, almost identical to a bedroom at home. It had a large bathroom, various fitness equipment, and an enormous bed.
If there was any difference, it was that this place lacked her personal intimate clothing. Otherwise, it was practically her second bedroom.
Well… except that Zhu Tianfan himself wasn’t supposed to enter. Everyone else—her seven brothers, her parents, her younger sister Leng Xiner, her best friend Lan Ruyue, and even the male lead—could come and go freely.
At home, it was the opposite. No one else, not even the servants, could enter her bedroom. Only Zhu Tianfan was allowed in—after all, his former self had been a devoted lapdog, merely responsible for cleaning.
After taking in the entire lounge, Zhu Tianfan sprawled onto the bed in a relaxed posture. Breathing in the lingering jasmine scent Leng Bingning left behind, he rolled around lazily.
And during one of those turns, he suddenly spotted a blue item tucked into a narrow gap near the corner of the bed.
It was said that the Leng family’s adopted daughter, Leng Xiner, because of her flat figure and heart condition, couldn’t wear tight or constricting intimate clothing for long—otherwise she would have difficulty breathing. And the male lead—the adulterer—also had a preference for such figures, often becoming so engrossed with Leng Xiner that he would lose himself entirely.
[Wait… there was a time when that wretched woman mentioned something troubling. She said the adulterer lost something important and even blamed her for throwing it away.]
[I remember now—this must be that blue intimate clothing Leng Xiner lost!]
[Hehe… that wretched woman would never guess that the so-called “important item” the adulterer mentioned was actually this! The two of them must have gotten carried away here in the lounge and forgotten it afterward.]
[Ptui! That wretched woman really is brainless. She always brags about being a clean freak, saying she’d never allow a man to touch her bed. Yet the adulterer and Leng Xiner have already been here countless times without her knowing!]
[Ptui! Serves her right to have her heart and liver dug out. They’ve been sneaking around right under her nose so many times, and she never realized it until her death. Sigh… how pitiful, how tragic, how blind!]
Hearing Zhu Tianfan’s thoughts, Leng Bingning collapsed into her chair, tears streaming down her face.
The overwhelming rage that had filled her moments ago vanished completely, leaving only deep guilt and regret.
The adulterer… the adulterer…
The man she had been searching for in her mind was actually the one she trusted as a good brother—Li Chen.
All those times she had unconsciously ignored certain details about Li Chen now echoed in her mind like thunder.
She had spent the entire night thinking about who the adulterer could be. She should have realized it long ago. After all, how many people could approach her so closely, scheme against her, and freely enter her top-floor office?
Aside from her parents, her seven brothers, her adopted sister Leng Xiner… the only one left was Li Chen, the outsider brother who also doted on her deeply.
Leng Bingning laughed bitterly at herself. Had her relationship with Li Chen truly been as simple as she believed—just enjoying his brotherly affection?
Perhaps, deep inside, there had always been something else. A trace of unwillingness, a sense of jealousy. Leng Xiner, despite her frailty, had someone who loved her wholeheartedly, while she, a powerful CEO, seemed inferior in that regard.
Under such twisted emotions, it was no wonder she had subconsciously opposed Leng Xiner getting close to Li Chen. No wonder she had competed with her, trying to win his favor.
If Zhu Tianfan hadn’t been reborn… if she hadn’t heard his inner thoughts…
Then after being drugged last night by her best friend Lan Ruyue and her “good” sister Leng Xiner, she might really have rushed home as he described, forced Zhu Tianfan into divorce, and then foolishly devoted everything to Li Chen—her trillion-yuan company, her entire family, even her own heart—just to gain his attention and surpass Leng Xiner in his eyes.
There was still one thing she couldn’t understand. Back when Li Chen first approached her, it had indeed seemed coincidental. But afterward, she had investigated many times and found nothing suspicious.
So why was that?