After Divorce, Hidden Marriage Husband Became Addicted to Me-Chapter 516 - 348:

Su Sheng prepared a simple bowl of clear broth with egg noodles.

She looked at the red marks on Cheng Yunlang’s neck, said nothing, but understood in her heart.

Cheng Yunlang would come every week, giving her advanced notice each time. She would then wear one of the few styles of clothes he liked, with a touch of flirtatiousness, keeping him company for the night.

Normally, he would hardly ever visit.

Even if Su Sheng asked him to stay, he wouldn’t.

The Vice President of North City’s First Hospital, and also the heir to Wancheng Real Estate Group—such a man was someone whom Su Sheng, a woman of extremely humble origins, could never hope to associate with in her lifetime.

But, by some chance encounter, she did.

This man also gave her a sum of money, saving her grandmother’s life.

She knew he had a family, and his wife was a well-known socialite.

She also knew that she was just a woman who resembled another woman that Cheng Yunlang liked; that was why she could stay by this man’s side.

However, not everyone in this world is born into distinguished families with warm homes; leading an ordinary life has already become a luxury to ask for.

Su Sheng was born into a family as worthless as garbage.

Her father favored sons over daughters. She had two older sisters; her eldest sister got a fever at the age of ten. Her mother knelt on the ground, begging her father, but he preferred to go out drinking and gambling rather than taking her sister to the hospital for treatment. The eldest sister had the fever for three days.

Her mother, carrying her and her second sister, begged their grandmother. At that time, her mother was pregnant again, and she coaxed her grandmother, saying the doctor had felt her pulse and said there was a high chance it was a boy in her womb. That made her grandmother happy enough to persuade her father, who then reluctantly gave some money to take the eldest sister to the hospital.

But it was too late.

By then, the eldest sister had already lost consciousness; the doctor said her whole body was seared by the fever.

The doctor said the only chance to save her was intensive care in the ICU, but even if she were to come back, there would be many complications to follow.

Her father immediately gave up on treatment.

That year Su Sheng was only six years old, and her mother held her, crying for a long time.

Two days later, the eldest sister died.

After her death, her father wouldn’t even allow her to be buried in the ancestral graves, saying that an unmarried daughter was not allowed to be placed there, claiming girls brought bad luck and would spoil the fengshui.

The mother couldn’t stand up to the father at home, so in the end, she buried the eldest sister on the hill at the back.

A mere mound of earth.

At that time, Su Sheng wasn’t called Su Sheng yet; her name was Su Xiaocao, a very demeaning name. Her grandmother had given it to her, saying girls were as lowly as weeds. Her elder sisters didn’t have nice names either.

Finally, her mother gave birth to a son.

She and her second sister managed to live peacefully for a few years, as the whole family’s attention was on their little brother.

Within a few years, her father’s alcoholism and gambling debts got out of hand, and he hid outside.

Her grandparents discussed and decided to sell the second sister for a bride price, forcing her into marriage. The father also returned from hiding, and after a few years of stability at home, he gambled again, ending up in jail.

After giving birth to her little brother, her mother changed entirely.

She became one with her father, grandparents, and the village, her last bit of conscience assimilated; she too agreed to sell off her daughter.

Su Sheng ran away that night.

That day, Su Sheng was 17 years old.

She met Cheng Yunlang at a bar where she was working part-time when she was 21 years old.

At this moment, in the warmly decorated apartment.

Su Sheng took some iodine, gently wiping the scratch marks on Cheng Yunlang’s neck.

A faint chilly sting.

Su Sheng asked, "Mr. Cheng, will you stay tonight?"

"Hmm."

"Then I’ll go take a shower."

Cheng Yunlang was not exactly restrained in bed. Su Sheng wondered if he didn’t touch his wife at all, otherwise, she wouldn’t believe a man could have so much energy... After continuing until the middle of the night, Su Sheng was exhausted. In a quiet voice, she said, "Mr. Cheng, let’s rest."

At this moment, Cheng Yunlang’s phone rang.

Su Sheng, leaning against his chest, heard clearly the servant’s hurried voice coming from the other end of his phone.

"Mr. Cheng, the madam... the madam suddenly took sleeping pills... I’ve already called 120."

Su Sheng was momentarily stunned.

It seemed she hadn’t expected Qiao Jing to suddenly attempt suicide, but after being dazed for a couple seconds, she immediately got up, took a suit out of the wardrobe for him, and then helped Cheng Yunlang straighten his collar. She gently whispered, "Don’t worry, I believe Mrs. Cheng will be fine."

Cheng Yunlang frowned with annoyance and responded.

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Tang Xi found out the next morning at breakfast that Qiao Jing had attempted suicide after midnight and was hospitalized.

At that moment, she was serving her daughter a bowl of soup. Looking at Fu Tingzhou, she asked, "Is it serious?"

"Nothing serious, she’s awake now," Fu Tingzhou said. "Don’t take her words to heart, forget the unpleasantness of yesterday."

Tang Xi smiled indifferently.

"I never take such words to heart. If you don’t care, then why should I?"

"I promise you, there won’t be any more of this kind of talk in the whole Fu Family in the future."

After wiping her daughter’s mouth with a napkin, Tang Xi said, "Baby, are you finished? If you’re done, go play." Watching her daughter leave, Tang Xi took a bite of the somewhat cold steamed dumplings, and softly said to Fu Tingzhou, "Fu Tingzhou, Tangtang is our daughter, I hope you can protect her well."

"No matter what happens, at any time, I will not let Tangtang get hurt."

Tang Xi looked at him, her eyes clear and resolute, "I also hope that you can do as you say, and not let anyone hurt Tangtang."

-

Tang Xi received a call from Meng Qin in the afternoon.

She rushed to the factory immediately.

The jade bracelet Rong Yanqiao had ordered was just finished. The raw material that arrived yesterday was immediately processed for cutting and preparation, and now it was finally ready. Tang Xi had messaged Rong Yanqiao several times, worried about delaying her plans to gift it.

But the top-grade raw material was rare and had been awaited.

After calling Rong Yanqiao, she said she was at home and asked Tang Xi to come over. Meng Qin was free that afternoon, so he drove Tang Xi to Rong Yanqiao’s residence, Yunshui Villa.

As she entered the living room, the servants seemed to have been informed in advance by Rong Yanqiao. Upon seeing Tang Xi, they immediately invited her to rest in the reception room.

"Miss Tang, please wait here. The Second Master is here, currently speaking with Miss Yan upstairs."

Then, the servant brought some coffee and fruit.

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Upstairs.

In the master bedroom, the window drapes fluttered.

The figures of the man and woman intertwined on the bed, with men’s and women’s clothing scattered on the floor.

Rong Yanqiao bit her lip, trembling, "My friend has arrived, I need to go down to meet my friend, Rong Qingze, hurry up!"

"A-Jiao, you’re really not behaving, did you meet Huo Yanshu again last night?"

"I’m his girlfriend, what do you think if I see him or not?"

"Girlfriend?" Rong Qingze’s lips slowly formed a slight smile, with a fleeting shadow in his eyes, "Old Master Huo doesn’t think highly of him, Huo Yanshu has no real power in his hands, being his girlfriend is not worthwhile."

"Weren’t you the one who asked me to get close to Huo Yanshu? Now that I have, I will get you what you want, you pushed me towards Huo Yanshu!" Rong Yanqiao looked at him, her fingers trailing down Rong Qingze’s back, leaving faint red marks, shaking like a beautiful and flawless rose due to the unbearable physiological reaction, the man’s eyes growing darker.