When Jing Qin woke up the next morning, it was already late.
He opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling above his head, and it took a while before he sat up violently from the bed.
This was not Jing’s home.
Rather, it was a property he had purchased outside over the past few years.
“You’re awake?”
Hearing the movement, footsteps immediately sounded outside the bedroom, and not a moment later, a young woman wearing a beige knitted shirt with a short grey skirt underneath walked in.
She also had a bowl of steaming soup in her hand.
It was the one on his marriage certificate, his legal “wife” Zhu Tingting.
When Jing Qin saw her, his brow knitted tighter.
“Why am I here? Didn’t you go back to Jing’s house last night?” He lay down again, feeling the aches and pains all over his body, and when he spoke, his tone was again questioning and unhappy.
Zhu Tingting brought the bowl of sober soup over and placed it on the bedside table next to him.
“You were drunk last night and insisted on coming here, so I had no choice but to bring you here.”
“……”
Jing Qin, who was lying on the bed, finally stopped speaking.
He withdrew his eyes from this woman and closed his eyes again to lie down for a while before he got up.
He really didn’t like going back to live over at the Jing family.
Those women were too noisy and simply annoyed him at the sight of them, but he would still give them face and go to stay at the Jing family’s place during the New Year holidays.
It seemed that he was really drunk last night.
Jing Qin went to the bathroom.
When he lifted the toilet lid he was ready to take a leak, he once again felt the soreness and weakness of his two arms, and his waist, too, as if he had done some kind of exercise.
Surprisingly, it was sore even when he moved.
What a hell, he hadn’t done anything yesterday either.
Jing Qin washed up and came out of the bathroom.
“Let’s go.”
He took his own suit jacket and prepared to go back to Jing’s house.
But Zhu Tingting, who was standing in the living room, after seeing him finally come down, was uncharacteristically not following him closely, but sitting still in the sofa.
“Zi Lan, I want to talk to you.”
“……”
Talk?
Talk about what again? Could it be that those women at home had caused trouble outside again? Want him to clean up the mess again?
As soon as Jing Qin heard this, he reflexively thought of this, and instantly, his handsome face darkened and sank.
Over the years, the Jing family had indeed been well managed by this woman, and he, Jing Qin, hardly had to worry about the family’s affairs, but because of this, he had often heard this woman talking to him about those few losers.
Jing Qin held back.
“Talk about what? If it goes too far, don’t blame it on the fact that it’s New Year’s Eve, Rao will clean them up just the same!”
“…… is not.”
Zhu Tingting looked at his expression and showed a hint of disappointment.
This was him now, yes, in his heart, what should always be loaded, was the Jing family, and his own affairs, she, Zhu Tingting, would never be ranked in his eyes.
Zhu Tingting looked down and took something out of her bag.
“It’s this, Zi Lan, let’s get a divorce.”
“What do you mean?”
As soon as the words came out, finally, the man standing there reacted a little, his eyes fell on her and for the first time, he saw a hint of surprise in his pupils.
“A divorce? Are you sure you’re not joking?”
“No, Zilan, I’m serious, my father has been in poor health for the last year and is going to go back home to recuperate, I’m going to accompany them back home, they only have one daughter in me, I can’t look at them and leave them alone.”
Zhu Tingting said calmly, that posture of mediocre face, completely unable to see any other emotions.
Like sadness and grief.
For example, the excitement and reluctance ……
The whole thing is not there.
The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you’re doing. For the sake of your father, you put your own family on the line?”
Zhu Tingting: “……”
Jing Qin: “You’re just sick, this kind of thing, need to make such a brainless decision? Go home to me!”
Then he left in a rage.
Zhu Tingting stayed in the living room and watched his back, a little stunned for a while.
Was this his …… reluctance?
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Guanyintai.
Wen Shuxu and the others were up early this morning as well, as they prepared to return to A City.
神宗御：”How will people entertain you when all of you go back with this big family? The young couple already has a child at home and is pregnant, so it’s hard to let Qiao Shiqian greet so many of you?”
The old man, once he saw that it was only the second day of the Lunar New Year, all these people had to go to their relatives, leaving him as an old man at home, was very unhappy.
Wen Shuxu saw that and was a little amused.
“Grandpa, don’t worry, there are still many sisters-in-law and girls there in the Huo family’s old residence, we’ll go over and stay there.”
“Humph!”
“……”
In the end, it was Shen Yu who couldn’t look away and stayed behind with his son, Shen Zhaohui.
And when Huo Sijiu’s side saw this, he also let the triplets choose to stay one, and Ruo Ruo then used the excuse that it was inconvenient for Lu Guan to go over there, and stayed as well.
Lu Guan, for sure, could not go there, his sister Nige was here, and the two of them had no relationship with the Huo family, so it would be inappropriate in terms of etiquette to follow them there.