Chapter 2324: A Man's Care

Zhao Desan understood that when a woman's heart is wounded, what she needs most is a man's care and comfort. At this moment, Zhao Desan seemed to have forgotten the heart-wrenching pain caused by Zheng Jie's betrayal and displayed his magnanimous side as a man. He reached out and grabbed Zheng Jie's hand, gently stroking it while saying gently: "Sister-in-law, as the saying goes, a day as husband and wife brings a hundred days of grace. Although we had the name without the reality, we did spend a period of life with feelings better than those of a married couple. If I couldn't even do this when you were suffering such great harm, could I, Zhao Desan, still be considered a man?"

Listening to these heartwarming words from Zhao Desan, Zheng Jie felt even more ashamed. She wept silently, looking at Zhao Desan with teary eyes, and said chokingly: "Comrade Xiao Zhao, sister-in-law... sister-in-law has let you down. You treat sister-in-law so well, yet sister-in-law... yet betrayed you... wuwuwuwu..."

Zhao Desan gripped her hand tightly, looking at her with a peaceful expression, and comforted her: "Sister-in-law, don't say these things anymore. Don't bring up the past. Everyone makes mistakes; the important thing is to be able to turn back from the wrong path." Although Zhao Desan said this, if Zheng Jie were to have a change of heart after this lesson, Zhao Desan would not be the same with her as before. He would no longer trust a woman who used a mouth that had licked someone else's 【private parts】 to say 'I love you'.

Zheng Jie looked at Zhao Desan with tears streaming down her face, crying softly, and said: "I deserve this. It's all because I was too greedy, sticking with a married man, which brought this trouble upon myself. Now that I'm disfigured, no man will ever look at me again..." As she spoke, a self-deprecating expression appeared on Zheng Jie's face.

Although Shanzhu had roughly explained the process of the incident just now, Shanzhu had only given a general account. Zhao Desan still didn't know the specific details. Grabbing Zheng Jie's hand, he asked suspiciously: "Sister-in-law, what exactly happened? Why did that woman who came to buy materials scratch your face like this?"

As soon as Zhao Desan asked about this, Zheng Jie's eyes filled with tears, and at the same time, two blushes appeared on her pale face. Ashamed of herself, she said: "Desan, don't ask. Sister-in-law has already... already lost the face to speak of it..."

Hearing Zheng Jie say this, Zhao Desan was even more convinced that the woman was Hu Tao's wife. He feigned indignation on her behalf and said: "Sister-in-law, tell me, who is that woman? Tell me, and I'll go help you take revenge!"

Seeing Zhao Desan's indignant appearance, Zheng Jie felt even more ashamed and cried: "It... it's Hu Tao's wife. She deliberately brought people to the store yesterday to find trouble. She said... said she had already taught me a lesson on the street that time, and was annoyed that I was still entangled with Hu Tao. She said... said she would scratch my face to give me a lesson... to make me remember. She also said Hu Tao was only with me because he liked my looks... wuwuwuwu..."

Hearing Zheng Jie explain the whole cause and effect of the incident, Zhao Desan sighed and said helplessly: "Sister-in-law, you really are something. You were already caught red-handed by her on the street last time. If I hadn't arrived in time and found a way to send her away, who knows what might have happened. Why didn't you learn your lesson and still stay entangled with Hu Tao? Sigh!" Although he reproached Zheng Jie in this roundabout way, Zhao Desan felt quite ashamed in his heart. If he hadn't gone to Hu Tao's house that afternoon to stir up trouble and badmouth Zheng Jie behind her back, Hu Tao's wife wouldn't have come to the store in person to cause trouble for Zheng Jie. Looking at Zheng Jie lying in the hospital bed with five or six long scars on her face—although it hadn't reached the point of disfigurement, having several scars left on a perfectly beautiful face would certainly be a heavy blow to her psychology. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been unable to think straight and used a razor blade to cut her artery to vent her inner pain. Thinking that he had almost caused a life to be lost, Zhao Desan felt ashamed and even more lingering fear.

"Sister-in-law, why do you have to do this? Even if you were humiliated by Hu Tao's wife, you shouldn't seek death. Think about it yourself: when Brother Zhao had the car accident and the family encountered such great difficulties, you gritted your teeth and persisted without collapsing. Now that life is prosperous, you have no worries about food or clothing, your finances are abundant, and you have such a young child. If you were to leave like this, who would take care of Brother Zhao? What would happen to the child?" Zhao Desan said, considering the long-term perspective.

Listening to these words from Zhao Desan, Zheng Jie felt that seeking death was truly too stupid and too impulsive. She shouldn't have done that, but her heart was now a mess of tangled hemp. She flowed tears silently, looking at Zhao Desan with grievance, and asked: "Comrade Xiao Zhao, then what do you... what do you think I should do?"

Zhao Desan looked at her thoughtfully and said: "Sister-in-law, don't you understand what to do? Since Hu Tao has brought you such great harm, do you still want to stick with him?"

Zheng Jie, with tears in her eyes, shook her head firmly and said: "I won't be with him anymore. After this incident, I finally understand who is truly good to me."

The 'who' in Zheng Jie's mouth was self-evident to Zhao Desan. He said: "Who is good to you is not important. The important thing is for you, sister-in-law, to live your life well. Isn't the purpose of being alive to eat well and dress well? You have everything now, so you should enjoy life."

Under Zhao Desan's guidance and comfort, Zheng Jie's mood finally improved. By the time he had arranged her into the ward and completed the hospitalization procedures, it was already evening, and the sky had turned pitch black. Zhao Desan felt he had done his utmost for Zheng Jie and couldn't waste any more of his precious time taking care of her in the hospital. So, he made an excuse that he had an important matter to handle that night, called Shanzhu over, and instructed him to take good care of Zheng Jie, or if necessary, spend money to hire a professional caregiver. After lingering in Zheng Jie's ward until around seven o'clock in the evening, Zhao Desan left.

Coming out of the outpatient building, the sky was already dark, and the city's building clusters had lit up with ten thousand lights. Walking out of the hospital and looking at the prosperous nightlife in the city, Zhao Desan felt an unusual emptiness in his heart. Although he had spent the entire afternoon sitting by Zheng Jie's bed, talking to her, guiding her, and comforting her, those were things Zhao Desan did out of shame and humanitarianism, keeping in mind their past relationship. From now on, he would not have any more feelings for this woman, Zheng Jie. The emptiness in his heart represented that Zhao Desan had completely freed himself.

Standing at the hospital entrance, he looked up at the starry sky, then lowered his head. His heart suddenly calmed down. He lit a cigarette and walked aimlessly along the neon-lit street. It wasn't until the cigarette in his hand burned down to the filter that he threw it away, hailed a taxi on the side of the road, and headed toward Su Qing's home, where he had been staying.

Sun Changsheng, who had suffered in silence at the coffee shop at noon, was finally invited to a nightclub for the second time by Liu Jianguo, the director of the Municipal Party Committee Office, as night fell. It turned out that after Zhao Desan called Ma Lan at noon to tell her the good news, Ma Lan considered it for a long time and called Liu Jianguo in the afternoon, explaining the matter in a roundabout way. Liu Jianguo knew what to do. Before getting off work in the afternoon, he called Sun Changsheng in advance, saying he wanted to have a drink with him that night. Sun Changsheng, whose spirit had been dampened at noon, had been feeling depressed all afternoon. Faced with Liu Jianguo's warm invitation, he finally stopped making excuses and agreed directly.

In a VIP box at the most high-end Tianlai Dynasty Nightclub in Xijing City, Liu Jianguo and Sun Changsheng sat on the sofa, each with two beautifully dressed singing hostesses sitting beside them. The box was filled with smoke and the smell of alcohol, and the speakers played the melodious singing of the hostesses. The entire box was filled with a 【sensual】 atmosphere.

In the flickering colorful lights, Sun Changsheng smoked with a depressed look, chatting with Liu Jianguo from time to time.

Seeing Sun Changsheng's dejected appearance, Liu Jianguo laughed and said: "Old Sun, why do you still look unhappy when we're out having fun? Do you feel the atmosphere isn't lively enough?" Saying this, Liu Jianguo patted the buttocks of the hostess beside him and said in a commanding tone: "Go, stand up and dance a striptease for Director Sun to liven things up!"

These hostesses had been specifically instructed when they were brought into the box that they were to serve municipal leaders, so they obeyed Liu Jianguo's requests. They obediently twisted their graceful figures and walked to the front of the sofa, starting to pose and dance to the dynamic music. Their seductive bodies and ambiguous gazes, following the most dynamic rhythm from the speakers, provoked wave after wave of response from the hostesses on the sofa.

"Brother Liu, let's dance together." The young girl dancing the striptease walked up, grabbed Liu Jianguo's arm, and said coquettishly.

The other hostesses were not to be outdone, chattering and surrounding Liu Jianguo and Sun Changsheng, pulling them to stand up and surrounding the two in the middle, forming a circle and starting to twist their seductive figures. Under the ambiguous lights, men and women danced passionately, their unfamiliar limbs detached from worldly rules. At this moment, in the smoky VIP box of the nightclub, there was only fascination and chaos...

I don't know which girl went to change to a more dynamic and explosive piece of music. A man's provocative opening line rang out deafeningly from the speakers: "Next, let's welcome our hottest, most exotic beauty, and let her take everyone into a brand new high world. Let me dance wildly to my heart's content!" The sound from the speakers, accompanied by the kaleidoscopic lights, brought bursts of enthusiastic responses mixed with whistles from the girls dancing around Liu Jianguo and Sun Changsheng. They began to twist their hot figures rhythmically to the dynamic rhythm, and one by one, they removed the thin-as-cicada-wings clothes on their bodies...

Before long, the two men and four women had formed free combinations, starting to rise and fall rhythmically in the kaleidoscopic box. Accompanied by the dynamic rhythm, the women's lewd moans rose and fell one after another...

After completing a grand feat of pleasure in the box, Sun Changsheng's depressed mood improved immediately. Having served this old fox well, Liu Jianguo began to gradually extend the topic toward that piece of land, finally expressing his meaning to Sun Changsheng. Upon hearing Liu Jianguo's true thoughts, Sun Changsheng did not express his stance, only saying he would try his best to handle it. But with Sun Changsheng saying this, it already indicated that he was no longer so determined to help Lin Dafa. Hearing this answer, Liu Jianguo felt confident. While drinking and making merry with him, he engaged in interesting interactions with the hostess who had buried her head in the man's wilderness 【private parts】...

1275. Chapter 1259: What a Coincidence

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