Chapter 100: Forgot to Pick Up the Divorce Certificate

Shen Xi clenched her teeth, liquor spilling down from the corner of her mouth, she looked painful.

"Enough." Shen Xun immediately grabbed Jiang Lai's wrist, brows furrowed, "Jiang Lai, enough."

He knew there was definitely no confusion-inducing drug in the liquor; Jiang Lai was just pouring drinks.

But that was enough.

Ke Zhongying: "President Shen, you can't even handle Xi being given just a little drink, what about when Sister Jiang Lai was drowned in the water tank?"

Shen Xun was slightly stunned.

He didn't know what Jiang Lai looked like when she was drowned in water, but that day the cold water spread to the hallway, he could imagine.

Especially seeing Jiang Lai extremely weak at the Chi Family Medical Clinic.

At that time he also didn't know what was happening; his eyes could only see Jiang Lai and Ke Zhongyu standing together, he only cared about being angry, but now recalling, that day Jiang Lai's lip color was pallid without blood.

She also got a needle.

Shen Xun's fingers gripping Jiang Lai's wrist loosened a bit.

Ke Zhongying continued: "How is it? You Shen family just bully her because she has no brother or relatives to back her up? These days are different; Sister Jiang Lai has me to back her up."

She took the wine glass from Jiang Lai's hand and shoved it to Xi's mouth, continuing to pour.

The liquor in the glass was gone quickly; Ke Zhongying put the glass down dissatisfied.

Jiang Lai also released her chin; Xi's whole body went limp on the ground, coughing nonstop, trying to vomit all the liquor she had drunk.

Finding she couldn't vomit, she panicked and shouted: "Brother, call an ambulance, call an ambulance!"

Shen Xun looked at his sister's weak and helpless state, feeling heartbroken, he squatted down and hugged her, comforting: "There's nothing, there's nothing in the liquor, don't worry."

"There is! There is!" Xi insisted firmly.

Ke Zhongying laughed at the side.

Jiang Lai coldly looked at the two siblings, took out her phone to call a lawyer, and in front of them said she was withdrawing the lawsuit.

Afterwards she warned Xi: "Xi, don't come provoke me again; I've recorded what you said tonight, you admitted to drugging me and having motive; next time I won't withdraw the lawsuit."

Xi widened her eyes and shouted: "You're despicable and shameless!"

Jiang Lai couldn't be bothered to respond to her.

"Chongying, let's go."

Ke Zhongying lifted her bag, placed the speaker and medicine bottle in front of the red-eyed Xi: "Here you go, you're welcome."

Xi immediately tipped out a pill, lightly tasted it, it was sour.

It really was vitamin C.

Excited tears welled up.

Great!

Shen Xun helped his sister up, stepped to chase Jiang Lai, but the reacting Xi grabbed his brother's arm, red-eyed, saying: "Brother, my legs are weak."

She would absolutely not let her brother go look for Jiang Lai, that woman with a snake-heart and scorpion intestines!

"It's fine now, go back yourself." Shen Xun pried open his sister's hand and strode after them.

Jiang Lai and Ke Zhongying had already entered the elevator and pressed the button for the first floor; at the moment they lifted their eyes, both saw Shen Xun walking toward them.

Ke Zhongying's hand was already on the door-close button; Jiang Lai whispered: "Chongying, press it quickly."

"Pressed, pressed." Ke Zhongying replied softly, in fact her fingers were almost pressing out an afterimage.

Shen Xun was just two steps away when the elevator shut with a bang.

Jiang Lai and Ke Zhongying both exhaled in relief.

Good thing we didn't catch up.

Like sticky toffee.

Jiang Lai took out her phone; Shen Xun indeed had sent her a message, telling her to wait for him downstairs.

Jiang Lai reached out and randomly lit up four or five floors.

"Chongying, pick a floor."

Ke Zhongying chose sixty-six: "This floor, my suite is here; we can stay here tonight, you didn't resign, right? Tomorrow is still the weekend."

The two exited the elevator on the sixty-sixth floor.

Shen Xun took another elevator down to the first floor; the lobby had no one, and chasing to the roadside also saw no one.

He called over.

No one answered.

Half an hour later, Jiang Lai replied with one sentence: her phone had died.

Shen Xun was already on the way home sending his sister; seeing the message, he immediately called back.

"Why didn't you wait for me downstairs?"

"I didn't want to see Xi."

Jiang Lai's directness left Shen Xun speechless for a moment; even if Jiang Lai had been angry before, she could never have said something so blunt.

At least she would be more tolerant of his family because of him.

Xi in the passenger seat shouted loudly: "Making it seem like someone wants to see you! Despicable little person!"

Before she finished speaking, Shen Xun hung up; he had originally wanted to mediate their relationship, but the relationship only got worse.

A man who could handle superior-subordinate and peer relations at work with ease, yet when faced with mother-in-law/daughter-in-law and aunt-in-law relations at home, he was at a loss.

Shen Xun wore a face of fatigue.

He was completely furious, he slapped the steering wheel and shouted: "Xi, do you insist on splitting me and Jiang Lai before you'll be satisfied!"

Xi was stunned by the shout.

"Brother, whose side are you really on?"

"Which side are you on!"

"I'm obviously on Dad and Mom's side, and Shutong's side—I just don't like Jiang Lai!" Shen Xi crossed her arms, huffing, "Our whole family doesn't like Jiang Lai—is that our problem? No, it's Jiang Lai's problem! Otherwise why would we all like Shutong and dislike her!"

"Brother, you obviously like Shutong too—I'm just helping you. If Jiang Lai cheats, you'd naturally get a divorce, right? And you wouldn't have to split property—whoever cheats gets kicked out with nothing!"

Shen Xun slammed on the brakes, turned his head, and said, "Get out."

"I won't." Shen Xi sat there motionless, "If you dare to dump me on the road, I'll dare to tell Mom and Dad."

Shen Xun wasn't helpless against her; he was helpless against his own parents.

But Shen Xi's words tonight gave rise to much displeasure in his heart.

"I'll say it again: get out."

He wanted to go find Jiang Lai, and had no mood to keep accompanying Shen Xi's fuss.

Seeing he was serious, Shen Xi hastily grabbed the handle, "Don't even think about dumping me by the roadside! I'm calling Mom and Dad."

Saying that, she summoned her phone's AI butler to call her parents.

The call connected immediately.

"Dad! Mom! Help! Brother's going to kick me out of the car! He's angry with me because of Jiang Lai and wants to dump me by the road!"

Shen Xun looked at her phone with a headache.

Sure enough, the phone transmitted the elders' scolding and threats.

Father Shen: "How could you kick little Xi out of the car?"

Mother Shen: "If anything happens to little Xi, I won't want to live either!"

Shen Xi: "Wuuuu…"

"Stop the noise." Shen Xun turned his head to stare at his sister; his icy gaze made Shen Xi's heart jump, and she immediately hung up the phone and sat obediently.

Shen Xun restarted the car, sent Shen Xi home, and remained expressionless the whole way.

It was so quiet that Shen Xi felt afraid.

Shen Xi sent a message to Mom and Dad while secretly sizing up her older brother.

Shen Xun took in all her movements, yet still said nothing.

The siblings returned home together.

Opening the door and entering the house, Father Shen and Mother Shen both looked toward Shen Xun, and Mother Shen said with a smile, "Son's back!"

It was as if the life‑or‑death drama over the phone had never happened.

"I'll just go to the study to grab something and leave." Shen Xun headed straight for the study.

As the study door opened, a click reminded Mother Shen of something.

Mother Shen suddenly sprang up from the sofa and exclaimed, "The study!"

The divorce certificate was still lying on the study desk, uncollected!

She had thought it was ominous back then, so she'd casually tossed it there and forgotten about it.