The Visit of Xu Dingyuan's Wife and Zhuang Bao's Past

A few days later, Ken had an appointment with a client and wouldn't be home for dinner.

After taking a shower, Zhuang Bao was about to go to the back balcony to do the laundry.

"Mom, do you know a woman named Zhou Wenhui?" Weixin suddenly called her from the living room.

"I don't have an impression," Zhuang Bao shook her head. "Who is she?"

"How would I know? She said she wanted to see you, not me," Weixin shrugged. "I told her you were in the bathroom, and she said she would wait for you in the lobby downstairs. What a strange person."

"Downstairs?" Zhuang Bao tried hard to recall, but she just couldn't remember knowing such a person. And she even came to the house? "It's better if I go down and take a look. Anyway, if she's here to sell something, I'll ask the doorman to see her off." Zhuang Bao was wearing a short shirt and shorts and went downstairs like this.

From a distance, she saw a well - dressed and very delicate woman sitting properly on the sofa in the lobby, reading a newspaper.

Who was she? Zhuang Bao was sure she really didn't know her.

Perhaps she sensed someone approaching. The woman looked up. The moment she saw Zhuang Bao, her eyes revealed complex emotions - an unconcealable shock and resentment.

"Um, are you Miss Zhou? I'm Zhuang Bao. May I ask what you want with me?" And when did I offend you? Zhuang Bao added this sentence in her heart.

"You..." Along with her voice, tears naturally rolled down.

Damn it!

"What's wrong with you?" Zhuang Bao felt soft - hearted for a moment, so she took her into the small reception room behind the doorman. "Please have a seat." Zhuang Bao politely asked her to sit down. Please! She didn't want to be involved with a crying woman in the crowded lobby.

"Miss Zhuang, you... Alas!" Zhou Wenhui saw that Zhuang Bao seemed to have no guile at all. "I'm Xu Dingyuan's wife." She waited for Zhuang Bao's reaction.

"Oh," Zhuang Bao just replied blankly.

"Aren't you going to ask me what I'm here for?" Zhou Wenhui was also stunned. How could a mistress act so indifferently when seeing the wife?

"Oh, right. What do you want with me? I don't think we have any relationship, right?" Zhuang Bao asked stupidly. "By the way, he came to see me last time, but I made it clear to him that I don't want to see him again." She had already completely forgotten about him.

"But didn't you have a son for him?" When it came to this, Zhou Wenhui felt even more resentful in her heart.

"Please! That idiot! I told him that the child wasn't his. Did he not understand or not believe it when he saw the child's father?" Zhuang Bao shouted. How could someone be so stubborn!

Zhou Wenhui stared at her blankly. Why was it different from what her husband had said?

"It's true!" Zhuang Bao saw that she was already dumbfounded and emphasized it again.

"Then what should I do?" Zhou Wenhui panicked. She originally thought that Zhuang Bao had given birth to a child for Dingyuan and had been waiting for him affectionately. She must love him very much... Or have some ulterior motives. But she didn't expect Zhuang Bao to act as if they had long since gone their separate ways. "My mother - in - law wants me to accept you. She doesn't want the descendants of the Xu family to be left out. Dingyuan even wants to bring you back home. He said you two had been together long before I married him." Zhou Wenhui didn't give Zhuang Bao a chance to answer and kept talking on her own, as if accusing: "Why didn't you let me know... that you two had been together for a long time before we got married? Instead, you hid it from me? Made me think he was just angry and deliberately found a woman to anger me, so I forgave him and still married him. Why didn't you fight for your relationship with him at that time?"

"You knew about me and still married him?" Zhuang Bao shook her head. "I..."

Zhou Wenhui didn't let Zhuang Bao finish.

"All these years, I always thought I was very happy. I married a stable husband. He goes to work and comes home on time every day. He takes me to the suburbs on holidays. He invested in some stocks. But he said he had a dream, but he had to give up the chance to pursue his ideals and take a risk because he had to marry me. Now he says he can no longer get along with me because I can't keep up with his heart at all. He said only you in this world understand him, only you can give him the courage, strength, and confidence he wants. So I came to you to know what he thinks of you and what you think of him," Zhou Wenhui said a paragraph and stared fixedly at Zhuang Bao.

Alas! Zhuang Bao let out a long sigh.

"I think you'd better go back. I don't know your husband anymore," Zhuang Bao said.

"I don't understand what you mean," Zhou Wenhui was stunned.

"This is your family matter. I don't want to get involved. The person you married is the one you chose. The person I left was someone who wanted to hide me from others... So don't blame your current unhappiness on me. He wanted to marry you, and you wanted to marry him. That was your own decision. I didn't force you," Zhuang Bao was ruthless in distancing herself. Why were there always such people who couldn't accept the fact that their own decisions were wrong? Xu Dingyuan was like this, and so was this Zhou Wenhui.

"His affairs have nothing to do with me anymore. Your marriage should be managed by yourselves. It has nothing to do with me," Zhuang Bao said.

"I... I... How would I know it would be like this!" Zhou Wenhui cried. "I thought you two had just met not long ago at that time. I had a relationship with him since our student days. I thought that after we got married, he would quickly forget about you..."

"Please! When you two had been dating for so many years and were talking about getting married, I existed as his lover. But you insisted on marrying him. Why are you coming to haggle with me now? Let me ask you, did you marry him because you loved him? I loved him seriously at that time, so I couldn't bear to see him in a difficult position between you and me. So I left. What's the point of me working hard alone if I couldn't create the future we planned together with him?" Zhuang Bao said excitedly.

Zhou Wenhui just cried. "Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you say it to me? Why?" she shouted hoarsely.

"Because he said he couldn't let you down after waiting for so many years, and I was the third - party. I should know my place. Humph, then what was I? A playmate when he was in a bad mood? I didn't want him to hold you while having me in his heart. I didn't want him to be afraid of being caught by you and dare not admit me. I didn't want his perfunctory hugs and love for me as if to comfort me. Since he was holding my hand but still looking back frequently? He said he was worried that you would do something stupid, so he had to marry you," Zhuang Bao coldly recounted that sad period of her life. "He said that when everyone let down their guard, it seemed to be five years later, he said that we could be together again to pursue our dreams."

"I loved him very much, really! Even if he had wanted to marry you at that time, I still loved him without regret," Zhuang Bao finally admitted to Zhou Wenhui. "I didn't steal or rob. I just gave him all my passion and love. Before you two got married, I showed my heart to him openly. I didn't do anything wrong to you, and neither did he, because he had already mentioned my existence to you."

Zhou Wenhui was still crying and couldn't speak.

"It was you who decided to marry him after you knew about me," Zhuang Bao mercilessly told the truth.

"We couldn't let down the expectations of both parents..." Zhou Wenhui sobbed.

"Oh! Spare me. It was you who wanted to marry him, not your parents. Why don't you say that you were just unwilling, unwilling to admit that your relationship with him for so many years had turned out like this, unwilling to admit my existence? Forget it. I didn't care at that time, and now I won't compete with you to see who loves him more," Zhuang Bao really thought they were very pitiful, really pitiful!

"Then what should I do? You... I... Why didn't you come forward to stop me at that time? Why did you still let him marry me? You loved him, didn't you?" Zhou Wenhui didn't even know what she was saying.

"Yes, at that time, I really loved him with all my heart, so I would do anything he wanted. He wanted to marry you and hoped that I would be obedient and not make a fuss. I did as he said. Even though I was so sad that I was almost dying, I still listened to him and obediently hid myself so that no one would know. Because I loved him, I gave up my own dignity and my own needs," Zhuang Bao made a confession about her first love.

"Now he wants you to come back to him. He..." Zhou Wenhui felt inexplicably helpless in her heart.

"It's impossible. Consider it that I'm sorry for his expectations. Now I'm living with my son's father. He loves me very much and takes good care of me. He completely accepts my past, including me..." Zhuang Bao couldn't help but smile when she thought of her son and Ken.

Just by coincidence, she was just thinking that Ken would come back later today, and he actually showed up.