Lin Xingwan finished speaking and decisively hung up the phone.
Jia Yanzhen, who was driving, showed a stunned expression on his usually unruly face. He couldn't help but say, "Divorce is no small matter. You need to think carefully."
He swore he wasn't speaking up for Zhou Jinbai;
He just felt that the game had just begun, and if this woman divorced Zhou Jinbai, his life would continue to be boring.
He had finally found something entertaining, how could he give it up so easily?
"I've already thought it through very clearly." Lin Xingwan's gaze fell on the bushes lining the road, her face wearing a calm sense of relief.
From the car accident until now, she had given Zhou Jinbai enough time to explain.
But the man had done nothing more than apologize to her on his phone.
Lin Xingwan had always thought this man was
Lin Xingwan ignored Jia Yanzhen.
She simply looked up at the sky. The entire sky was a deep red, indicating that a heavy rain was coming.
Lin Xingwan lowered her head again, falling into memories repeatedly.
What she didn't know was that from a hidden corner, Zhou Jinbai had been watching her secretly since noon.
Zhou Jinbai felt like a coward!
He had never imagined that he would be so pathetic one day!
But if he didn't hide, he was absolutely certain that this woman would divorce him immediately.
But what was the use of hiding?
Zhou Jinbai looked at Lin Xingwan shivering in the darkness, his heart feeling as if it were being crushed by a thousand-pound boulder, making it difficult to breathe.
Suddenly, lightning flashed across the sky, followed by rumbling thunder. Raindrops the size of water droplets fell directly from the sky.
Jia Yanzhen took an umbrella from the car and quickly ran to Lin Xingwan's side to hold it over her. But the rain was too heavy, and the effect of one umbrella in the pouring rain was almost negligible.
Jia Yanzhen wanted to pull Lin Xingwan into the car, but Lin Xingwan refused.
As they pushed and pulled, the umbrella fell to the ground.
Jia Yanzhen, losing his patience, accidentally exerted too much force. Lin Xingwan, who hadn't eaten anything, fell directly to the ground.
The ground was rough, and her elbow scraped raw.
A stinging pain shot through her, and Lin Xingwan's delicate eyebrows furrowed deeply.
Jia Yanzhen was startled and, full of guilt, reached out to help Lin Xingwan. At that moment, a strong force struck, and Jia Yanzhen was roughly pushed away.
The next second, a dark figure blocked all the light from the streetlights above Lin Xingwan's head.
She finally saw the face she had wanted to see for days, and she couldn't help but cry, feeling utterly pathetic.
Fortunately, it was raining, otherwise Lin Xingwan would have felt too spineless.
"Did you have to force me out by ruining your own body? Lin Xingwan, your wings have grown too strong."
Without a word, Zhou Jinbai picked Lin Xingwan up from the ground.
"Let go of me, Zhou Jinbai, don't touch me, let go of me."
Lin Xingwan didn't want this man to touch her, and because she had a stomach full of anger with nowhere to vent, she beat Zhou Jinbai desperately.
But Zhou Jinbai's movements were too forceful. No matter how much Lin Xingwan struggled, he remained unmoved.
He coldly put Lin Xingwan into Jia Yanzhen's car. Lin Xingwan desperately wanted to get out.
Zhou Jinbai quickly moved to the driver's seat, got in, and locked the doors, his actions seamless.
Lin Xingwan frantically pounded on the car window. Zhou Jinbai, unmoved, started the car and drove towards the exit.
"Zhou Jinbai, I want to get out, let me get out!"
"I'm going to divorce you!"
"I don't want to be in the same car as you, let me out!"
Lin Xingwan's emotions became very agitated, but in reality, the reason she was doing all this was simply that of a little girl throwing a tantrum.
Otherwise, such an unreasonable scene would not have happened to her.
"I'll take you home," Zhou Jinbai said concisely. As he continued to drive, Lin Xingwan reached out to grab the steering wheel.
Zhou Jinbai immediately slammed on the accelerator, and the car veered towards the guardrail on the side of the road.
Fortunately, it was raining heavily, and there were almost no cars on the road.
Otherwise, that collision would have been fatal.
Lin Xingwan was stunned by Zhou Jinbai's actions. She had tried to grab his steering wheel, so shouldn't he have slammed on the brakes?
Instead, he had floored the accelerator!
"Continue," Zhou Jinbai's eyes were cold and terrifying. Lin Xingwan felt that the man in front of her was extremely unfamiliar.
If she continued to try to grab his steering wheel, who knew what crazy things this man would do.
Finally, Lin Xingwan, with a cold expression, sat obediently in the passenger seat.
She had been too impulsive just now. She was here to divorce Zhou Jinbai, not to die with him.
Moreover, Lin Xingwan noticed that Zhou Jinbai's hand was still wrapped in gauze, and blood was seeping out.
Why was this man's hand injured?
Lin Xingwan pondered the reason for Zhou Jinbai's injury, but then she thought, what did his injury have to do with her?
The car sped back to the entrance of the siheyuan.
This was not because Zhou Jinbai deliberately brought Lin Xingwan home, but because it was the closest place to the Civil Affairs Bureau, and Zhou Jinbai was afraid Lin Xingwan would catch a cold.
After getting out of the car, Zhou Jinbai quickly walked to the passenger side where Lin Xingwan was sitting, opened the car door, and directly pulled Lin Xingwan out before walking into the siheyuan.
Lin Xingwan felt like a child who had made a mistake, and Zhou Jinbai was the angry parent.
But it was Zhou Jinbai who had made the mistake, so why did she have such a wrong feeling?
Soon, Zhou Jinbai pushed Lin Xingwan into the bathroom and said, "Take a hot shower. We can talk about any problems after you're done."
Lin Xingwan looked at her drenched state, her teeth chattering from the cold.
Finally, she compromised, closed the bathroom door, and began to wash.
Only when the sound of rushing water came from the bathroom did Zhou Jinbai breathe a sigh of relief.
"You should re-bandage your wound too," the old lady's voice came from behind Zhou Jinbai. Zhou Jinbai turned around and saw the old lady holding a medicine box.
"I'm very sorry to have disturbed you so late."
The old lady glanced at the closed bathroom door and said with understanding, "You should be glad you woke me up."
Zhou Jinbai followed the old lady to the living room. He removed the gauze from his hand. The injury from a few days ago had not only not healed but had also festered.
It looked particularly gruesome and terrifying, and even the removed gauze had some skin and flesh attached to it.
The old lady put on her reading glasses and began to disinfect and apply medicine to Zhou Jinbai. The man didn't even groan, let alone frown.
"Are you taking your granddaughter-in-law to the Civil Affairs Bureau tomorrow to divorce? What time? I'll make you breakfast, perhaps for the last time."
"Grandma, you should stop talking. You're saying things I don't want to hear." Zhou Jinbai was already agitated about this matter, and he hadn't slept last night. Now, the old lady was poking at his wound, which was like adding salt to his injury.
"From childhood to adulthood, I haven't seen you particularly eager to listen to anything," the old lady glanced at Zhou Jinbai and sighed as if she had thought of something. "Forget it, forget it. It's my fault for owing you and your father. When your father was pursuing your mother, he was much more tormented than you are now. Everything you're suffering is only one-hundredth of what your father went through. It's just a divorce. Since your granddaughter-in-law wants a divorce, then go ahead and divorce. A piece of paper can't guarantee anything for you."
"I don't want to hear any more talk about that woman, and I will absolutely not divorce Xing Wan. She is the woman my Dongfang Junze has chosen, the future mistress of the Dongfang family, and the woman I will be buried with after a hundred years."
Zhou Jinbai's tone was full of certainty. Seeing her grandson's stubbornness, the old lady finally closed her mouth.
Sometimes, loving too deeply makes them overlook many problems; only after losing each other do they realize how indispensable they are.
This was her grandson's destined tribulation, and no matter how much she spoke, it would be useless.
The various bitterness and sweetness could only be experienced by themselves.
When Lin Xingwan came out after her shower, she saw that Zhou Jinbai had changed into a clean bathrobe.
He was lying on the bed in the room. Seeing Lin Xingwan come out, he said in a gentle tone, "Wife, I've already warmed the bed."
If this were in the past, Lin Xingwan would have happily gotten into bed.
But now, her face was covered in a distant frost from beginning to end. Her eyes, devoid of any warmth, made Zhou Jinbai feel both helpless and wronged.
Lin Xingwan sat on the small sofa in the room and said coldly, "Take me home. Tomorrow morning, we'll go to the Civil Affairs Bureau and get divorced."
Zhou Jinbai wished he could seal this woman's mouth.
"Let's not divorce, okay? Wife, I know I was wrong. I'll never do this again," Zhou Jinbai looked at Lin Xingwan pitifully.
He was a typical wolf in public and a golden retriever in private. His flustered appearance would make any wealthy older woman's maternal instincts overflow.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Zhou. I don't have the energy to play along with you. I don't know which rich man you are, bored enough to tease a woman like me who hasn't seen much of the world. After we divorce tomorrow, wouldn't it be better if you went to be with whoever you want?"
Lin Xingwan's words were sharp and sarcastic. She suppressed her anger and forced a smile to make herself look less disheveled.
Either all or nothing!
Her eyes could not tolerate even a speck of sand.
"Wife..." Zhou Jinbai's heart pounded. He even got out of bed and walked to Lin Xingwan's side, holding her hand. She had just showered, yet her hands were cold and icy. "I really didn't do anything to betray you. I can swear that if I ever deceived you, I would die a terrible death."
In stark contrast to Zhou Jinbai's anxious desperation was Lin Xingwan's face, filled with sarcasm.
She sneered, "Men's vows are always spoken so easily. Zhou Jinbai, have you really never deceived me? Then tell me, where have you been these past few days? Who have you seen? Your identity is also not ordinary, right? Otherwise, why would Master Qin Liu and Boss Yang be so enthusiastic towards me? And why would Dongfang Group cooperate with me? From the beginning, you have been deceiving me. I, foolishly, was planning our future. I feel so ridiculous. I've been deceived time and time again, yet I've fallen for it again and again. You always tell me you're different from Gu Shaoting, but I think you're even worse than Gu Shaoting. At least he was clearly a scumbag, and his favoritism towards Lin Shirou was blatant. As for you... hehe, I know nothing about you."
Hatred flickered in Lin Xingwan's eyes. She had never liked anyone this much, nor had she ever felt this much pain.
Tears fell like large raindrops. Zhou Jinbai, in a panic, quickly wiped them away for her.
But Lin Xingwan avoided him like a plague, and Zhou Jinbai's heart ached.
"I really had something to do these past few days, which is why I wasn't by your side. My identity is indeed not ordinary, but I really didn't intend to deceive you. I don't know why things have turned out this way. Wife, I truly have my reasons."
"Then tell me, what are your reasons?" Lin Xingwan sneered.
Zhou Jinbai opened his mouth, unsure how to explain.
To be precise, no matter how he explained, he would still lose.
Even if he told Lin Xingwan now that he was actually Dongfang Junze, it would be of no use.
Because Lin Xingwan had already rejected his main account, if he told her all of this, even the chance with his main account would be extinguished.
Zhou Jinbai took a deep breath, and his voice suddenly turned colder. "So, you're determined to divorce me?"