Surrounded by the Billionaire's Deep Doting-Chapter 338 - 303: Different Lives in the Same Family 1
Shuangshuang reached out her hands for Grandma to pick her up, with a smiling face that melted everyone’s hearts.
The current scene in the living room was nothing unusual for Yu Xiaomeng.
Zhu Lan was kneeling on the ground, tears streaming as she cried miserably.
Yin Bowen stood aside with a cold expression on his face.
Yin Shiqing and his wife looked troubled; evidently, Zhu Lan had really done something wrong.
"Why didn’t you call ahead before coming?"
Zhou Mengqin asked.
"Shixiu is going on a business trip tomorrow for almost half a month, so I thought today, being the weekend, I’d come to see you,"
Xiao Meng said, then glanced around the living room, "Hmm, I’ll take the kids upstairs, seeing as..."
"No need, let Ah Su take the kids upstairs, you and Shixiu stay,"
Su Xiaomeng blinked and looked back at Yin Shixiu.
Ah Su had come over, holding one child in each hand.
"Auntie, where..."
Shuangshuang looked up with wide eyes, a bit puzzled but obediently walked along.
"Someone upstairs will play with you!"
Ah Su was referring to Yin Junjie.
At this moment, Yin Junjie was in no mood to play, but when the door opened and he saw Huang Huang and Shuangshuang, he immediately brightened up.
He quickly ran over and hugged one tight.
Ah Su closed the door, staying with the three kids.
And downstairs, the atmosphere reverted to its previous cold tension.
Su Xiaomeng stood to the side and soon understood.
Zhu Lan had been unfaithful, caught in the act by Yin Bowen.
Solid evidence lay before them, seemingly irrefutable.
But even so, Zhu Lan vehemently defended herself, "I was forced! I don’t even know that person... sob sob..."
Su Xiaomeng didn’t know if Zhu Lan was telling the truth or not, but seeing Zhu Lan so desperate and forlorn...
It reminded her of herself.
"Zhu Lan, we are spouses. I’m giving you some face, but even now, you’re still being so unreasonable, isn’t it too much?"
Yin Bowen’s voice was cold and heavy, like a stone in the deep sea.
Su Xiaomeng glanced at him, her heart tightened, she seemed to feel Zhu Lan’s despair after hearing those words.
Why care too much about others’ reactions?
But when it’s your own bedmate who is even crueler than others...
Su Xiaomeng whispered to Yin Shixiu, "Can’t you just find that person to confront her?"
Yin Shixiu glanced at her and "shh"ed, indicating her not to interfere.
Su Xiaomeng pressed her lips tightly. For a moment, she couldn’t understand her own feelings.
She really disliked Zhu Lan, but for some reason, seeing Yin Bowen’s attitude, she actually wanted to say a few words for Zhu Lan.
It’s not to defend her but at least to find out the truth.
Just like last time when she got into trouble, it was because someone pursued the truth that it was revealed.
"Shi Qing, she’s your daughter-in-law, it’s up to you to handle this,"
Yin Shaohui looked at Yin Shiqing.
Yin Shiqing’s face was stern.
Earlier, the son and daughter-in-law had already started making a fuss. Since the beginning of the second half of this year, quarrels were constant, regardless of occasion.
Initially, Yin Shiqing didn’t take it to heart, after all, the Yin Family rules were set in stone.
If divorced without cause, Yin Bowen wouldn’t receive a penny of inheritance from the Yin Family.
Of course, if he became the Family Head, these rules would be insignificant, but now...
He looked at Zhu Lan, then at Yin Bowen, naturally understanding in his half-gray hair. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂
This marriage couldn’t be preserved.
His son wasn’t the type to endure and compromise.
Though Zhu Lan was the one he insisted on marrying back then, her character couldn’t withstand the test of time.
Her arrogance was a personality trait in youth, but at thirty, it turned into a bad disposition.
Zhu Lan’s eyes were swollen from crying, she looked at Yin Shiqing eagerly, "Dad, I was really set up, I didn’t... I would never... sob sob... I was forced!"
She could only grasp at Yin Shiqing’s lifeline.
She knew Yin Shiqing understood situations and cared for the bigger picture.
If she were judged guilty, if divorced from Yin Bowen, it wouldn’t benefit Yin Bowen at all.
"Give me the evidence."
Yin Shiqing looked at her and spoke coldly.
Zhu Lan’s nose twitched with desperation.
If she had evidence, why would she be kneeling here begging?
"Just confront the person who forced you, wouldn’t that solve it?"
Su Xiaomeng couldn’t help but say lightly.
Yin Shixiu sighed inwardly, looking at his naive wife...
Perhaps it’s true, many things must be experienced personally to become a lesson, no matter how much others say, it remains their words.
Zhu Lan’s heart skipped a beat, fists clenched, feeling Su Xiaomeng was adding fuel to the fire!
If bringing that person to confront solved the problem, would she need to say!
"Exactly, Bowen, didn’t you catch them when you returned home?"
Yin Shaohui asked.
Yin Bowen snorted coldly, "I found out, interrogated her thoroughly, and that’s how I know what this woman was doing while I was away on business!"
Su Xiaomeng pressed her lips tightly together and unintentionally met Zhu Lan’s glaring eyes, her heart tightened.
"You just couldn’t help yourself... you just—"
Yin Bowen’s face was almost turning green.
No man would look good wearing a cuckold’s hat.
Su Xiaomeng squeezed Yin Shixiu’s hand and lowered her head, finally understanding why he hadn’t let her speak up earlier.
Even if you want to help someone, you have to see if the person you want to help actually needs it.
Yin Shixiu shook her hand, smiling at her.
Su Xiaomeng touched her own head, feeling a bit relieved inside.
Yin Shaohui looked at Zhu Lan, "Do you have anything else to say?"
Zhu Lan’s tears streamed down her cheeks, nose, and mouth as she looked up; in the room were only the Yin Shiqing family and Yin Shixiu, Su Xiaomeng.
Yet at this moment, not a single person stood up to speak for her.
Not even to plead for a chance at forgiveness...
She had no words.
It was her doing.
That man... was someone she met after Yin Bowen went on a business trip.
He was handsome and funny, and it was fun to be with him. He took her to see movies, go to amusement parks, shop around.
Made her feel like she was back years ago.
Made her feel she still deserved to be loved...
In the past six months, the little quarrels and big fights with Yin Bowen gradually wore down her feelings for her husband.
She could vaguely sense that her husband’s heart wasn’t with her, but she couldn’t do anything about it.
He’s a civil servant, a minister in the finance department.
Making a fuss would do no good for anyone...
But obviously, he was supposed to be on a business trip for two weeks, yet just on the evening she was with that man, he came home...
Everything coincided so perfectly that she had no defense, so perfectly that it filled her with despair...
She had brought this upon herself, and she couldn’t blame anyone else.
But everyone makes mistakes, don’t they?
Her gaze fell on Su Xiaomeng, on the tightly clasped hands of Su Xiaomeng and Yin Shixiu...
She doesn’t understand, wasn’t Su Xiaomeng also pressed by ironclad evidence back then?
Why did Su Xiaomeng get away with it in the end?
So many people helped her, protected her, so many people defended her.
Even Yin Shixiu, who was cuckolded, couldn’t bear to let her suffer any grievance.
"Zhu Lan, you are a daughter-in-law of the Yin Family, the people of the Yin Family must adhere to the family rules."
Yin Shaohui sighed, "Receive three strokes, be expelled from the family."
Zhong Lan’s eyes widened, and almost immediately, she roared, "Why so harsh on me! Why did you protect Su Xiaomeng when this happened to her?! I was forced too, why—"
"You are a mother, you must take responsibility for what you say, you know in your heart if you did something to betray your husband."
Zhou Mengqin looked at her quietly.
She understands Zhu Lan, just as she understands Su Xiaomeng, once you truly understand someone, the balance of trust and distrust will tilt.
Zhu Lan couldn’t produce evidence, her defense was too weak.
"Butler, bring the ivory rod to Yin Shiqing, let him deal with his own daughter-in-law."
"Grandmother! Grandmother, you can’t do this to me... sob sob..."
"Later, your parents should come, after your divorce, the details can be discussed with them, spreading this matter around would do no good for anyone."
Zhou Mengqin took a light breath, feeling a bit exhausted inside as well.
"No good for you, no good for Bowen, and especially no good for Junjie."
Zhu Lan’s lips were bitten to the point of bleeding, tears "pattering" down.
She looked pitifully at Yin Bowen, "You’re being so heartless... Bowen, are you really this heartless?!"
"We were married, and you made me wear a cuckold’s hat; not killing you is already merciful enough."
Yin Bowen was already sick of this woman.
They had a son, and with the Yin Family rules in place, divorcing her without reason was out of the question.
Besides, giving up the inheritance of the Yin Family wealth would truly be a loss.
This is fine, she cheated, so it has nothing to do with him.
The divorce wouldn’t affect him.
"Merciful enough?!"
Zhu Lan suddenly stood up, grabbing Yin Bowen’s collar with both hands, furiously threatening as if she was going to eat him alive.
"Do you think I don’t know you have a woman outside? Yin Bowen!"
Yin Shiqing’s eyes narrowed.
"You crazy woman! You do such filthy things yourself and still throw false accusations?!"
"Yin Bowen! Treat me like this and you’ll regret it sooner or later! Did I kill someone or commit arson?! It’s okay for you men to keep mistresses outside but not for women?"
Yin Bowen looked at her coldly, and no longer refuted.
He knew that in this family, everyone standing here was smart.
No one would take the words of this woman, speaking uncontrollably now, to heart.
"Yin Bowen, dare you touch your conscience and say you’ve never wronged me, say you’ve never—"
