Wen Ya didn't turn around. She could feel the warmth from the ear close to hers, and she couldn't help pinching her ear.
"Of course I'll protect you."
Just think about it.
Shen Sixing - her poor future husband - lived a furtive life in a rented apartment. After getting home, he was still forced to work by that stubborn old Shen. At work, he also suffered bullying and suppression.
Just imagining that scene made Wen Ya's heart ache.
How pitiful.
Shen Sixing didn't know what she was imagining, but he could feel Wen Ya's strong desire to protect him at the moment.
He smiled even more happily, resting his chin on Wen Ya's shoulder. His jawbone rubbed against the soft warmth of her shoulder socket, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up.
"Ahhhhh, I'm so dirty. My eyes, my ears. This useless man should go to hell -"
Shen Sigui witnessed the whole process beside them. From the moment Wen Ya said "I'll protect you" to Shen Sixing hanging on her shoulder like a boneless person and smiling, his worldview collapsed irreversibly in that instant.
He screamed and covered his eyes as he rushed up the stairs. The sound of his footsteps echoed all the way to the second floor.
With a "bang", he closed the door, leaving behind a heart - wrenching cry, "My eyes -"
After one person left, there were five people left in the living room.
Wen Ya looked up and stared directly into Shen Shu's face, which was as cold as minus eight degrees. "Shen Sixing is leaving with me today. I said so."
To show her determination, she added, "Not even Jesus can change this."
Shen Shu tried his best to calm down. He stood half a step behind Qin Ruolan and took over the conversation. "Miss Wen, do you know what it means to be with him?"
He took half a step forward, his eyes filled with a solemn look. "He will abandon everything he should have, and you -"
"You should have found a normal man, not someone like him, who is cowardly, irresponsible, and has a deep - scheming mind."
Wen Ya tapped her chin with her finger. "Really? But I think a normal man is important..."
She deliberately dragged out the ending and smiled. "But a man with a few screws loose also has a unique charm."
She just liked this kind of man with a bit of a mental disorder.
Normal and stable men whose lives are predictable at a glance are everywhere on the street.
A type like Shen Sixing, who seemed useless but could actually change his demeanor, was the only one she had ever met in her life.
Such a man was called complex in a nice way and crazy in a not - so - nice way.
But Wen Ya was crazy about the feeling of "you can never guess what he'll do next".
Shen Shu couldn't communicate with her.
He couldn't help but turn to Qin Ruolan and motioned for her to say something.
Unexpectedly, the woman just waved her hand gently, as if she were shooing away a flying insect. Her voice was full of nonchalance.
"Don't come back if you leave."
"Shen Sixing, since you're leaving, then from now on, you're no longer part of this family."
"If you've made up your mind, then take your child and your girlfriend with you."
Without a word, Shen Sixing bent down and picked up Shen Yi from the ground. He put one arm around her and let her sit in his arm, while the other hand reached out to hold Wen Ya's fingers.
Shen Yi was startled when her father picked her up with one hand.
Her weak - looking father usually held her shakily, but today he held her so steadily all at once?
Shen Yi quickly put both hands around his neck, afraid that she would slip out of his unreliable arm.
...Was it really time to leave like this?
When Shen Yi was being carried out of the living - room door by him, she looked back in surprise.
Qin Ruolan stood in front of the French window, with her hands folded in front of her, wearing a faint smile on her face.
Shen Shu stood behind her. His face was darker than the bottom of a pot, and his lips were pursed into a thin line.
She thought this scene was worth capturing.
Shen Yi immediately took out the small square hanging around her neck, turned on the camera function, and firmly captured this scene.
This picture was just like the ending shot of a movie.
The protagonist carried his child and held his lover's hand as he bravely walked out of the mansion. The background was a magnificent hall and family members with different expressions.
The music would sound at this moment.
It was simply perfect.
Shen Shu watched the backs of the three as they left. It wasn't until their figures completely disappeared that he suddenly turned his head. He whispered through gritted teeth, his voice filled with uncontrollable anger. "You just let them go like this?!"
Qin Ruolan turned her head and looked at Shen Shu's livid face. She smiled faintly. "He'll come back sooner or later. Do you believe me?"
Shen Shu squinted his eyes.
Qin Ruolan said, "Freeze all his cards."
Her tone was calm as she gave the plan she had already formulated. "From now on, as soon as you find any trace of him, immediately block all his sources of money."
"Oh, and Wen Ya's too. This little girl has an astonishing number of accounts," Qin Ruolan turned and walked towards the coffee table. She picked up her phone from it. When the screen lit up, she had already started flipping through the address book. "Hurry up and do it."
"She has so many bank cards, so there must be some that slip through the net. This little girl is different from Shen Sixing, that kind of lazy good - for - nothing.
"Wen Ya has a good sense of economic crisis. She has transferred most of her assets abroad. Her overseas assets should account for half. We'll ignore that for now. She won't touch that money. Remember to freeze all the domestic accounts that we can find."
She started dialing. When she put the phone to her ear, she said to Shen Shu, "Hurry up and call."
Shen Shu had already planned to do so.
He took out his phone from his pocket and swiped open the screen faster than ever before.
The two of them looked at each other in the living room. In that look, there was a kind of -
Diabolical understanding that only a couple who had lived together for decades could have.
Then they started making phone calls at the same time.
...
It was when Shen Sixing arrived at their destination and was about to pay the taxi driver that he noticed the consecutive pop - up windows on his phone.
He suddenly realized what had happened and immediately grabbed Wen Ya's phone, trying to salvage some of her finances.
But it was still too late.
All of their accounts were frozen without exception.
Shen Sixing didn't even need to think to know who had done it. He couldn't help covering his forehead.
What a pair of vicious hypocrites.
"What's wrong? Can't use the money?" Wen Ya took out the cash from her bag and paid the fare. She was confused. "What's going on?"
Shen Sixing didn't have time to explain it to her. He directly picked up the keys and rushed into the room. He quickly turned on the laptop. His first reaction was to try to salvage some of Wen Ya's losses.
His own accounts were already empty, completely frozen. But Wen Ya had many accounts. If he could transfer out a part of the money before Shen Shu took action.
Even if it was only half -
When the screen refreshed, Shen Sixing's fingers hovered over the keyboard.
Rows of red messages such as 'Transfer failed', 'Account frozen', 'Security risk' filled the page.
His parents were much faster than he had imagined.
Or rather, they had taken action almost the moment the three of them stepped out of the iron gate. The car ride back was long enough for them to freeze all of Wen Ya's domestic accounts that they could find.
It was too late to mend the situation after the sheep had been lost.
