The Billionaire's Hidden Affection-Chapter 266: Overcoming the Unyielding with the Yielding2_1

Yan Xixi remained silent, her long lashes lowered, her lips trembling slightly. Observing this, Zhou Ting’s heart went cold. My goodness, please don’t let it be exactly as I suspected, she thought.

"Miss Yan..."

Yan Xixi didn’t respond. She just slowly extended one hand and gently placed it on the coffee table.

Zhou Ting’s eyes widened. The arm was covered in bruises, some blue, some purple. Just above the wrist was a distinct scar—it was hard to tell if it was from a needle, a pinch, or a burn. Clearly, it was a mix of old and new wounds.

The horrifying scars stunned Zhou Ting. "Did he hit you?" she cried out in alarm.

Yan Xixi only bowed her head.

"Did the Third Young Master do this to you? He really hit you?"

Yan Xixi’s eyes reddened, and she lowered her head even further.

From this angle, Zhou Ting could more clearly see the dark bloodstains beneath the white gauze. She dared not imagine the extent of the injuries to her head.

She was utterly shocked. "Why did the Third Young Master hit you?"

Suddenly, Yan Xixi grabbed her hand. "Miss Zhou, save me," she pleaded, her voice urgent and filled with pain. "I know your name is Zhou Ting. I know you can help. Please, save me, or I’ll die here..."

Zhou Ting worked at the World Government Women’s Bureau. The agency’s mandate was to provide guidance and technical support to all member states on gender equality, women’s empowerment, women’s rights, and the mainstreaming of gender equality. She had flown to countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America many times for this cause, advocating for the liberation of local women.

In the struggle for women’s liberation, violence against women was the most common and intolerable offense. Zhou Ting had never imagined she would encounter such a case right under her own nose.

Moreover, this person was the one Wan Donglin kept in his "golden house."

Her mouth formed an "O" of shock, and she even forgot to pull her hand from Yan Xixi’s grasp. She heard the woman’s sorrowful and desperate voice, "There’s only death for me here. I want to run away every day, but he won’t let me leave..."

Zhou Ting slowly asked, "Does he hit you often?"

Tears streamed down Yan Xixi’s face, and she trembled like a leaf adrift in the wind.

"Why does he hit you?"

"He drinks often, and when he’s drunk, he hits people. He’ll hit with whatever he can grab—a vase, a wine glass, bowls and chopsticks, even a fruit knife..."

Zhou Ting was too shocked to speak. After a long moment, she asked, "Is that how you injured your head?" 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

"That night, for some reason, he got angry again and smashed a large vase on me... A very large vase. I fainted immediately. When I woke up, I was in the hospital. The doctor said my injuries were serious and I needed to be hospitalized for observation, but he said it was a waste of money since I wasn’t going to die anyway, so he dragged me back. I thought death would be a release, an end to everything, but I didn’t die. I just had to go on living and suffering..."

Zhou Ting’s gaze shifted from Yan Xixi’s head back to her arm. Irrefutable proof! Wan Donglin... he’s actually such a violent man!

She had long heard rumors that Wan Donglin’s private life was chaotic and dissolute. However, she’d had very little real contact with him and didn’t truly know him. Now, suddenly learning of his horrific domestic violence habit, how could her heart not be in turmoil?

"He likes to drink and gets drunk every time. Whenever he’s drunk, he starts hitting people. Later, he began hitting people even when he wasn’t drunk. As long as he was unhappy, he’d raise his hand and strike... He said his ex-wife left him because he beat her like that..."