Qining was in prison and it was irreversible. She should use this opportunity to properly maintain their marital relationship, hoping to return to the past.
Even without that passionate love, it would be good to continue to respect each other as they had before.
She kept thinking about past events and didn't pay much attention to the streetscape outside.
When she came back to her senses, she realized the driver was taking the wrong route and asked, "Where did Old Xie book the restaurant? Isn't it one of his usual places?"
The driver was a bit flustered and didn't dare to look at Feng Rou in the rearview mirror, replying, "Mr. Xie only instructed me to take you there."
"Oh, it must be a new restaurant," Feng Rou assumed.
The driver didn't say anything else and stepped on the accelerator, making the car speed up.
Seeing that the car had left the bustling part of the city, Feng Rou asked again, "Has Old Xie arrived at the restaurant already?" Thinking about having lunch, he was being so mysterious. Could it be that he wanted to apologize to her and create some romantic atmosphere?
The driver vaguely replied, "I'm not sure, I'm just following Mr. Xie's instructions."
Feng Rou knew that the drivers around Xie Zhendong were taciturn, honest, and dull people, so she didn't ask any more questions.
Before arriving at the restaurant, she closed her eyes to rest in the car.
She hadn't expected Xie Zhendong to book such a distant restaurant. The car drove for half an hour before stopping.
Feng Rou opened her eyes and looked outside. There was no restaurant at all; the car had stopped at the entrance of a mental hospital.
She asked curiously, "There's no restaurant here, did we take the wrong road?"
The driver unlocked the car door and replied, "Mr. Xie told me to bring you here."
Feng Rou asked in surprise, "Why are you bringing me here?"
Before the driver could answer, several men in white coats walked out from the gate. They were likely doctors from the hospital.
They came to the car door where Feng Rou was sitting, directly pulled the door open, and dragged her out of the car.
Feng Rou struggled forcefully, shouting for the driver to help, but the driver stood by the car, indifferent.
"What do you want! Let go of me, let go of me!" Feng Rou struggled and twisted her body, calling out to the driver for help, "Hurry up and call the police, call the police!"
A doctor, who seemed to be in charge, took out an injection from his pocket and aimed it at Feng Rou's neck. "Madam, if you are ill, you must be treated."
With that, he administered the injection, and she lost the strength to struggle.
At this moment, the driver took out some documents from the car and handed them to the doctor in charge, saying, "These are the diagnosis certificates and some examination reports from other hospitals for my madam."
The doctor took the documents, quickly flipped through them, and said, "Please assure Mr. Xie that I will treat Madam well."
"Alright, I'll trouble you then." After saying that, the driver drove away.
Feng Rou was taken into the mental hospital by these people, filled with despair and helplessness.
The driver returned to the group and reported to Xie Zhendong that he had completed the task he had assigned.
Xie Zhendong stood facing the floor-to-ceiling window of his office, waving his hand with his back to the driver.
The driver immediately understood and withdrew from his office.
He had already prepared all the information about Feng Rou's mental illness, but he had hesitated to act harshly due to some lingering affection for their marital relationship.
However, she had pushed him time and time again. Judging by her current actions, she would not stop until she endangered Jiayi and her unborn child.
Her ruthless methods had left him with no regard for their past, and the only way to find some peace for himself, Jiayi, and their child was to send her to a mental hospital first.
After she had been there for some time, he would explain the situation to Feng Rou's family.
Then, using her mental illness as grounds for divorce, she would not receive any of his assets.
This would allow him to remarry legitimately and give Jiayi and their child a proper status. This was his entire plan.
He hadn't yet shared this plan with Jiayi, intending to surprise her after divorcing Feng Rou.
As he thought of Jiayi and their soon-to-be-born child, any lingering guilt he felt towards Feng Rou vanished completely, and he looked forward to their happy future.
...
Feng Rou lay on the hospital bed in the mental hospital, her hands and feet bound. She still felt as if it were a nightmare.
However, the pain from the electroshock therapy administered by the doctor and nurses brought her back to the stark reality that this was no dream.
Fearful and panicked, she watched helplessly as the nurse injected her with some medication, causing her to gradually lose consciousness and fall asleep.
When she woke up again, she was wearing a straitjacket that restrained her hands, still unable to move freely.
A male doctor stood before her, holding a tablet. Seeing that she was awake, he began to ask her questions.
But she didn't want to answer anything. She said in a normal tone, "I'm not sick. Let me go quickly, or when I get out, I'll sue you until you go to jail!"
"Ms. Feng Rou, please answer my questions properly." The male doctor was accustomed to patients like her and said in a professional manner, "All my patients claim they are not sick. Whether you are sick or not is not for you to decide."
Feng Rou mustered her assertiveness and glared at him fiercely, threatening him, "Do you know who I am? If my family finds out you've wrongly confined someone, they won't let you off!"
"Your family? Your husband is the one who sent you here and entrusted you to me," the doctor said calmly. "Please cooperate with me for various mental examinations so that I can formulate a suitable treatment plan for you."
Feng Rou was stunned. The thought that Xie Zhendong had framed her made her tears flow uncontrollably. She hadn't expected Xie Zhendong to be so heartless towards her.
"He's not worthy of being my husband! He's the one who harmed me! I want to see him, I want to kill him!" Feng Rou's emotions surged, and she jumped off the hospital bed.
The doctor immediately called the nurses outside and shouted, "Catch her! She's gotten much worse. Take her to the maximum security ward first and conduct tests when she improves!"
Several nurses rushed in, trying to grab her.
She desperately dodged them, knocking over many items in the room, but was eventually caught and restrained by the nurses and taken to the fully enclosed ward for severely ill patients.
...
For the past two days, Shasha hadn't seen Feng Rou at home, nor had Feng Rou contacted her.
With no one nagging her, she felt much more at peace.
However, she didn't know where Feng Rou had gone. Had she gone on a trip with her wealthy friends?
Feng Rou had truly let go, willing to accept Xie Zhendong's other woman and child, thus maintaining their marriage, which was merely a formality.
Shasha couldn't control what Feng Rou wanted to do.
However, with Feng Rou gone, it was just her and Jie Jie living in the vast Xie family mansion. She felt a sense of control over everything in the Xie family.
She fantasized that the Xie family mansion would eventually belong to them, mother and son.
Today, as she was about to take Jie Jie out to play, she encountered an old servant returning from outside just as she was about to get into the car at the main entrance.
"Lian Ma, where did you go so early this morning?"
The old servant, Lian Ma, looked anxious, as if the sky had fallen. She said, "How could this happen! The master said Madam has gone mad and has already been admitted to a mental hospital."