Chapter 162: Xuanxuan Returns to Her Maiden Home

Today is the day he and Jian Yixin originally got engaged; for the past five years, every time this date arrived, Sheng Hanyu spent it in agony, but today he intends to make a clean break with the past and start a brand-new life.

Keeping two women in one heart at the same time is not only crowded, but also unfair to both of them.

Therefore, he needs a ritual to say goodbye to the past; this is not only for the sake of being responsible to Shi Youxuan, but also to provide an explanation to Jian Yixin!

After Sheng Hanyu finished paying his respects, he came out of the basement and locked the door; he will never step foot in here again in this lifetime.

In the future, he will go to the cemetery to pay respects to Jian Yixin; at the cemetery, it is merely paying respects and entrusting his grief, but here, it is a tempering of the soul.

The location of the basement is the very place where Jian Yixin died back then.

He had watched helplessly as Jian Yixin collapsed into a sea of fire back then but failed to save her; a burning roof beam collapsed, he was injured and fainted, and when he woke up, people told him Jian Yixin had already been buried, not even letting him see her for the last time...

Just as Sheng Hanyu reached the entrance, the housekeeper hurried up to meet him: "Eldest Young Master, what happened between you and the Eldest Young Mistress? I saw her leave crying."

"Left crying?"

Sheng Hanyu was puzzled and asked the housekeeper: "What exactly happened?"

The housekeeper told the truth, and after hearing it, Sheng Hanyu understood everything; she must have gone to the Villa to find him and happened to hear those words he said to Jian Yixin.

Although Shi Youxuan might appear innocent and sunny on the surface, her childhood environment actually created a complex personality that is sensitive, lacking in love, and both eager to receive love yet disdainful of being given love as charity.

Sheng Hanyu immediately called her, but it was cut off after only one ring, and calling again showed it was powered off!

It's over, she must be angry!

He can understand her being angry; if she only heard half of it and left, she would definitely be angry, and if it were him, he would be angry too.

He must find her and explain clearly.

Sheng Hanyu has always been low-key, but this time he was outrageously high-profile.

He posted an apology statement on the television station, not to apologize to his wife and admit his mistakes, but to implore Shi Youxuan to come home—to come home and apologize to him!

The content was fresh and unconventional, leaving people stunned—it was both touching and cheesy, both overbearing and vulnerable.

It did not match Sheng Hanyu's usual style at all.

The content is as follows:

Dear wife, come back, come back so I can explain.

I am not wrong about this matter; the one who is wrong is you, for leaving without listening to everything I had to say; your temper is too hasty, which led to the misunderstanding.

I was never your match in arguments before, not because I couldn't win, but because I love you and let you have your way; if you don't believe me, come home immediately, and I guarantee I will make you convinced...

Once this statement was published, it immediately stirred up a thousand waves in Jiangzhou!

No one felt this was a serious matter; the statement was written more like a young couple flirting and showing off their affection with great fanfare.

Shi Yuke saw it in the office and was so angry she threw her newly bought high-end skincare products onto the floor; why?

Why is she, Shi Youxuan, better than her in every way?

Even when arguing, she can be so pampered by her husband; Shi Yuke's eyes were red with jealousy.

While Sheng Yukai was playing games at home, Bai Xue came in with her phone, making a fuss and showing it to him; he scoffed: "A spineless thing, only being good to one woman at a time; I really don't know what the point is in him earning so much money?"

Bai Xue had originally wanted to take this opportunity to sow discord and get the couple to divorce, but after being reminded by her son, she realized.

Oh, so it's a disguised way of showing off affection?

Her reaction was similar to her daughter-in-law Shi Yuke's—angry, very angry.

Wang Yingzhi and Sheng Jiang also saw the apology statement on TV.

Wang Yingzhi was indignant: "Is she, Shi Youxuan, a fox spirit reincarnated? My good son has been bewitched by her to only listen to her, only be good to her, and he has no place for me, his mother, in his heart at all!"

Sheng Jiang, standing to the side, added insult to injury unhurriedly: "Even if he didn't like Shi Youxuan, he wouldn't listen to you; don't you have any idea what kind of things you've done yourself?"

The two of them soon started arguing, and once they started arguing, they forgot about this matter and began digging up those old, stale grievances!

"Xuanxuan, did you and Hanyu have a fight? I said your complexion didn't look right, and when I asked you, you wouldn't say; what did you fight about?" Shi Yucheng turned on the TV and saw this "wife-seeking statement."

He immediately asked Shi Youxuan what was going on.

Shi Youxuan had come out of the house and originally intended to go live in her own place, but it was cold and lonely for one person, and just thinking about it made her feel desolate.

So she returned to her maiden home.

At the last cocktail party, Jiang Siwei had a big mouth and exposed what Jiang Yadan had done, scaring Jiang Yadan into immediately finding an excuse to hide away again.

Shi Yuke now has the final say in the Sheng Family and doesn't easily return to her maiden home, so she just happened to go back to keep her father company.

Shi Yucheng was quite happy to see his second daughter return, and even happier to hear that she would be staying at home for a few days to keep him company; the father and daughter even discussed going fishing tomorrow if the weather was nice...

It wasn't until he saw the statement on TV that he realized the young couple had fought.

"It's nothing, I just don't want to pay attention to him."

Shi Youxuan pouted, acting childishly as she acted like a spoiled child to her father: "You are not allowed to drive me back, and you are not allowed to answer Sheng Hanyu's calls; if he finds his way to the house, just say I'm not here, and you don't know where I went."

"Nonsense, how can that be?"

Shi Yucheng disagreed; although it seemed the conflict between the two wasn't major, conflicts must be resolved, and hiding away without answering calls and leaving people anxious won't do.

Not only did he disagree, he also wanted to call Sheng Hanyu to tell him that Xuanxuan was at home, so as to avoid Sheng Hanyu being anxious.

He had experienced the feeling of looking for someone and knew how agonizing it was!

Shi Yucheng wanted to tell Sheng Hanyu, but Shi Youxuan wouldn't let him; not telling him was fine, but there had to be a reason, right?

What were they angry about, why did she "run away from home"—his second daughter wasn't someone who would make unreasonable trouble; if she could get angry and run back to her maiden home, she must have been wronged!

Fathers are all biased; he had already judged the matter without even knowing the reason.

Shi Youxuan didn't say anything, only telling her father not to worry about it, saying it was nothing, just that she didn't want to stay at home and wanted to come back to keep him company; if he didn't want her there, she could leave, it wasn't like she had nowhere to go, and she would hide for months at a time, making sure none of them could find her.

Shi Yucheng: "You just stay at home properly, you can't go anywhere."

He didn't dare ask any more; his second daughter could truly say it and do it.

"Ding-dong—"

Before the servant went to open the door, Shi Youxuan called out to her: "Wait, if Sheng Hanyu comes, just say I am not here."

She hid back in her room, leaving a crack in the door.

Although she said she did not want to see him, Shi Youxuan still wanted to know what he had to say.

"It takes so long just to open a door; you are getting lazier and lazier when the mistress isn't home. Dad, why don't you do something about it? Look at what a mess the house is in; it's all full of things that just want to slack off and don't want to work..."

Shi Youxuan closed the door, and the sound from outside became much quieter.

It was not Sheng Hanyu; it was Shi Yuke who had returned. Why did she come back?

"Dad, where is Shi Youxuan? Did she come back?"

So she didn't come home to see her father, but to see if Shi Youxuan was at her maiden home.

"She's upstairs." Shi Yucheng pointed upstairs with a chuckle; both daughters had returned today, and although his wife was not there, he could still enjoy family time with his children.