The Temptation of CEO's Pregnant Ex-Wife
Chapter 94: What did Cheng Zhiwei do for those two years?

Chapter 94: Chapter 94: What did Cheng Zhiwei do for those two years?

But the woman was not one to be trifled with, either. She let out a sarcastic laugh, "Young Madam Zhou? Did Young President Zhou watch you get beaten and still consider you his Young Madam?"

That sentence was incredibly accurate in hitting Cheng Zhiwei’s heart.

She was momentarily speechless.

However, the triumph on the woman’s face across from her turned pale within a few seconds, and she trembled subconsciously, "Young... Young President Zhou."

Cheng Zhiwei turned her head and saw Zhou Lin standing by the door, his tall figure shrouded in darkness, his expression completely obscured.

She slightly lowered her eyes and withdrew her gaze, speaking indifferently, "So what if that’s the case? Even if I have nothing, I can force Gao Wei to go from being a principal to having nothing, to the point where he can’t even find a job in Yucheng. Are you ready to share weal and woe with him?"

The woman bit her lip in resentment. With Zhou Lin present, she didn’t dare to mock Cheng Zhiwei any further.

Yet she also didn’t want to give up the position of Madam Gao, so easily within her reach.

"Three days, right? I’ll consider it." She dropped these words and turned to leave.

Xu Tian grabbed Cheng Zhiwei’s arm and deliberately snorted coldly, "Are men all born scum, eating whats in the bowl while looking at what’s in the pot?"

Cheng Zhiwei patted her arm, urging her to hold back her words. Zhou Lin was someone who bore grudges, and she had offended him enough already.

Zhou Lin, as if he hadn’t heard Xu Tian’s comment, took long strides out of the shadows, his cold gaze sweeping past Xu Tian and finally resting on Cheng Zhiwei’s face, "Come back with me."

"I’m busy," Cheng Zhiwei refused without a second thought. Their relationship hadn’t been good lately, she had blown up several times, and she didn’t know what big move Zhou Lin was planning.

Decisively, she didn’t want to get close to him.

Something seemed to be stirring in Zhou Lin’s deep, dark eyes, but in the end, it settled back to calm. He had always been a man of action. If Cheng Zhiwei disagreed, he would simply grab her and drag her by his side.

Xu Tian immediately got angry, "Zhou Lin, let her go."

Zhou Lin merely gave her a cold glance and had his bodyguards take hold of Xu Tian.

Fearing they would hurt Xu Tian, Cheng Zhiwei could only speak up, "It’s okay, Tiantian, you can go back first."

Xu Tian huffed angrily, stamped her foot, and tried to leave, but was still stopped, "Miss Xu, Young President Zhou is inviting you for a cup of tea."

Upstairs, He Lanzhi downed her red wine in one go, her lips curling into a smirk, disliking those she disliked no matter how she looked at them.

If he wasn’t happy, then nobody else should think about being happy.

Once in the car, Cheng Zhiwei sat quietly to one side, but Zhou Lin didn’t get in and just had the driver take Cheng Zhiwei home.

As the car door locked, Cheng Zhiwei was slightly delayed in her reaction. She pressed down the window and said with a tense voice, "Zhou Lin, don’t mess with Xu Tian."

Zhou Lin didn’t look back, boarding another car instead.

Cheng Zhiwei called Xu Tian, but there was no answer. Later, the call went straight to voicemail. A chill settled in her heart; what was Zhou Lin up to now?

Meanwhile, Zhou Lin tossed the turned-off phone onto the table in front of him, his profound gaze indifferently fixed on Xu Tian, "What did you mean by what you said earlier?"

Xu Tian, irritated, replied impatiently, "I said so many things, how am I supposed to know which one you’re referring to."

Zhou Lin wasn’t angry but simply continued to ask, "What did Cheng Zhiwei do during those two years?"

Zhou Lin was a favored child of heaven, blessed with a halo from the moment he was born. Of course, in the darkness, there were countless jackals, wolves, leopards, and tigers waiting to suck the blood from him.

As expected, he was kidnapped.

He was held in a place for three days and nights, facing the kind of massive screen found in movie theaters, while the surroundings were pitch black, the type of darkness where one couldn’t see their own fingers and not even a sliver of light existed.

He wore 3D glasses that were fixed in front of his eyes, playing the most terrifying horror movies on the screen, with the glasses making everything in the movie seem as if it were right in front of him.

Crawling, scratching, dragging, and even screaming... he saw it all.

Whenever he was about to fall asleep, a bucket of cold water would be poured over his head.

The darkness infinitely magnified his fear, and Zhou Lin, a young master who knew nothing of worldly suffering, certainly wasn’t spared.

Moreover, during the three days and nights, he didn’t close his eyes once.

When he was rescued, he was completely broken down. He took a leave of absence from school and saw countless psychologists. Though they eased his condition, none could truly save him from his nightmares.

Not many people knew about this incident; even the media hadn’t reported it, but Xu Tian knew, even Cheng Zhiwei knew.

He asked because he wanted to hear some truths about the past from Xu Tian’s mouth.

Xu Tian sneered, "I’m not in the mood to talk right now."

"I don’t have time to waste on you. If you care about how Cheng Zhiwei is treated in my hands, then I suggest you answer my questions directly," Zhou Lin said, his aura becoming exceptionally imposing when he genuinely cooled down.

Xu Tian pursed her lips, her smile proud and wildly arrogant, "How could you not know... But of course, you wouldn’t know. I only know a little myself."

Zhou Lin watched her expressionlessly.

Xu Tian had always wanted to say it, but she wasn’t familiar with Zhou Lin, nor did she have the opportunity.

Moreover, Zhiwei had said she didn’t care about those things anymore.

"While you took a leave of absence, the Diamond Sutra and the Great Compassion Mantra that were with you were chanted by Zhiwei over and over again. If she didn’t recite them well once, she’d do it twice, and if not well twice, then ten or twenty times. She almost ruined her throat for you," Xu Tian said with great satisfaction, and in her expectant gaze, an unusual emotion finally surfaced on Zhou Lin’s detestable face.

"She prepared those things?" Zhou Lin’s knuckles turned somewhat white.

After he was rescued, he was completely insane, and this continued for over half a year. Lin Yu had heard some method from somewhere, or perhaps hoping beyond hope, went ahead and downloaded things like the Diamond Sutra and the Great Compassion Mantra on his phone.

As it happened, those things gradually improved his mood day by day. His mother was overjoyed and obtained even more for him to play in a loop whenever he was free.

Until he was willing to go out and slowly return to normal.

But he never recognized, it was Cheng Zhiwei’s voice.

Xu Tian’s eyes reddened, "Even if you don’t like her, you shouldn’t mistreat her and disregard her efforts. Do you deserve the scriptures she painstakingly chanted for you night after night?"

"If I had known you were such a heartless man, she wouldn’t have helped you in the first place," Xu Tian cursed fiercely, "She loved you for so many years, and you treated her like this for Seo Zhenzhen, utterly heartless and ungrateful!"

Zhou Lin’s complexion darkened, and his fingers tapped on his knee in rhythm, a habitual motion when he was pondering.

Slowly, he spoke, "You’ve known her for only a few years, how do you know she prepared those things for me?"

Meaning, it was possible that Cheng Zhi was deliberately lying to deceive people.