The wealthy military officer spoils his wife excessively

Seeing her bewildered expression, Assistant Xu sighed and said, "Mr. Lu probably knew he couldn't turn the tide, so he..."

As if struck by lightning, Su Wen suddenly understood something. She immediately pushed past Assistant Xu and ran out. Assistant Xu, carrying his large suitcase, chased after her for a couple of steps, but Su Wen suddenly stopped, turned around and asked him, "Do you know where Lu Zheng's maternal grandfather is buried?"

Assistant Xu paused for a moment, then said, "The cemetery."

She dashed out again.

At dusk, the sun was setting, and the pine and cypress trees covering the mountainside were lush and heavy, looking rather eerie. The taxi driver dropped her off and sped away. Visiting the cemetery at this time of day just felt a bit unlucky.

Suwen wasn't from Beijing, and this was her first time here. She trudged through the cemetery, struggling to find her way. She asked the caretaker, Old Master Lu, for his tombstone number and location at the foot of the hill, but once she got up there, she saw only similar tombstones, making it difficult to find her way. Finally, she found the right path and climbed all the way up the hill.

The road was long, and the location was very secluded. It got dark very early this month, and she regretted not listening to the park keeper's advice to bring a flashlight. She walked for a while, then stopped, not really having much confidence. She also suddenly realized that Lu Zheng hadn't even attended the shareholders' meeting. At this time, having lost everything, if he didn't want to see anyone, the most likely thing he would do was hide here and talk to the dead.

With that in mind, she continued walking up the mountain.

It was completely dark, and she could hardly see the path under her feet. The cemetery was deserted at night, and the wind on the mountain sounded eerie. She began to break out in a cold sweat. Finally, she stopped and looked around. Only then did she see that there seemed to be someone in front of the tombstone not far away.

A surge of joy filled her heart, and she hurried over. The person seemed unaware of her presence, sitting casually beside the tombstone, head resting against it, as if asleep. But as she drew closer, Suwen realized it might not be him, because the person had a very short buzz cut, yet their build was so similar to hers.

The light was dim, and the man's face was completely obscured by his arm, so she couldn't see him clearly. She didn't dare to rashly push his arm away, because at this time, the person sleeping in the cemetery, if not Lu Zheng, could be a drunkard or something worse...

She tentatively called out, "Lu Zheng..."

The person remained completely still.

So she went over, leaned down, and gave him a push.

The moment her hand touched him, she shuddered as if electrocuted, immediately gripping his arm tightly, kneeling down to shake him awake, and cautiously asking, "What are you doing here?"

The man sat up silently and removed his arm. Su Wen could see clearly now that it was indeed Lu Zheng!

He just looked up at her blankly, as if he didn't recognize her.

Suwen's heart skipped a beat, but she remained calm as she looked at him and said, "I've been looking for you all day, and you didn't answer your phone... Did you hear the message I left you? I was so worried about you, I..."

Lu Zheng still ignored her, only blinking wearily. Su Wen, who had so much to say, suddenly found herself unable to continue. Seeing his coat lying on the grass nearby, she mustered her courage and picked it up. Sure enough, she found the phone in the coat pocket, but when she turned it on, she found it was dead.

She picked up his clothes for him; in such cold weather, wearing so little on the mountain would make him catch a cold.

"Let's go, it'll be hard to get down the mountain after dark. Have you had dinner yet? How about we go home for dinner? We can talk about it tomorrow."

She deliberately avoided mentioning company matters, afraid of accidentally upsetting him. She knew Lu Zheng was acting a bit strangely right now, but at least he was in front of her, not the Lu Zheng she couldn't touch or contact, the one who made her anxious and restless.

Lu Zheng still didn't react, sitting like a statue next to the tombstone. Su Wen had a lot of effort to get him up and put his coat on him. Just then, her phone rang, and Teresa Teng's song "I smile when I see you" sounded particularly eerie in the empty mountain cemetery.

Suwen's face turned a little green, but Lu Zheng reacted because of the sudden ringing of the bell. He let go of her and put his clothes on himself.

Suwen answered the phone; it was Yanbei calling, asking if she had found Lu Zheng.

She looked at Lu Zheng, who seemed to be sleepwalking beside her, and frowned, saying, "We've found the person, but... something's not right."

Yanbei said, "Anyway, it's good that we found you. Where are you? Do you want me to come pick you up?"

Suwen truthfully replied, "We are at the cemetery; it would be too time-consuming to go back and forth."

"Okay, I'll come over when you get home."

After hanging up the phone, Su Wen looked at Lu Zheng again: "Did you drive here?"

He remained silent. Suwen thought about it and realized that given his current state, she didn't dare let him drive. So she simply went to the roadside to flag down a car.

Lu Zheng remained silent in the car, while Su Wen sat in the back seat beside him, nervously holding his hand the whole time.

As we approached the city, a light rain began to fall, pattering against the car windows under the gradually dimming streetlights along the highway. The driver turned on the wipers, and every now and then, they left a fan-shaped trail on the windshield.

Because Lu Zheng kept staring out the window in a daze, Su Wen was bored, so she stared at the windshield wipers. Her eyes followed the wipers back and forth twice, and she started to doze off. After all, she had been taken away by Hao Haiyun yesterday, and except for a short nap in the early morning, she had hardly slept. As soon as she was free, she was busy with Lu Zheng's affairs again, and she was really tired this time.

There were many cars entering the city at this time, and the road just inside the city was almost completely blocked. As soon as the car stopped, the air inside the car felt particularly stagnant, and as if to match the scene, the raindrops outside started to pound harder and harder, making a crackling sound as they hit the window.

Fortunately, they had already entered the city and would be home soon, which made Suwen breathe a sigh of relief.

In that brief moment of relaxation, Lu Zheng saw something through the window, suddenly opened the car door and jumped out.

Suwen reacted a step too slowly, or perhaps she never expected Lu Zheng to get out of the car in the middle of the congested road. Instinctively, she jumped out after him, only to be stopped by the taxi driver: "Hey, miss, you haven't paid yet."

In her haste, Suwen pulled out a few pink banknotes from her wallet and threw them on the car seat. When she straightened up and searched for Lu Zheng's figure on the busy road, all she could see was a blurry rain and scattered car lights.

Everything happened so suddenly, like a sudden downpour that poured over her, drenching her from head to toe and chilling her to the bone. Her heart was also ice-cold. She stood motionless in the middle of the road as if possessed, looking around blankly and anxiously.

A car sped past her in the adjacent lane, kicking up a wave of water half her height, then screeched to a halt right in front of her. The blinding headlights, like two giant swords, forced her to raise her arms to shield herself. The glare blinded her, and she could only hear a man's vicious curses coming from the crack in the sliding car window: "Are you trying to kill yourself? Don't you care about your life?!"

No one would have expected that someone would be so foolish as to stand in the middle of the highway.

Su Wen was so aloof that she forgot to apologize. The bright headlights seemed to cut a path through the darkness, and through the roof of the car, she saw Lu Zheng, who had stopped on the other side of the road and was staring at her without moving.

He seemed worried? So he did know he was concerned about her?

Su Wen finally couldn't hold back any longer and walked right past the front of the car. The driver behind her was still cursing, but she just gritted her teeth and braved the downpour to cross the road. Lu Zheng was still standing there without moving, as if he was waiting for her, or perhaps not. His face became blurred in the rain, that familiar handsome face, those lips that had kissed her, all became so blurry.

Su Wen was filled with mixed emotions. The moment their eyes met, she didn't stop, but walked quickly past him. She thought she could turn her back on him gracefully and let him taste the feeling of being missed. But as soon as she turned around, her foot slipped, and she fell heavily to the ground.

She cried out in pain, or perhaps out of resentment, why was fate against her! As soon as she tried to stand up, a piercing pain shot through her ankle with the slightest movement. She looked down at her right ankle in annoyance; it must have been sprained. Her gaze fell on the brand-new, off-white stiletto heels. It was all because the new shoes didn't fit properly. She vented all her anger and resentment on the shoes Hao Haiyun had bought for her. Without a word, she sat down on the ground and kicked both shoes away with a thud.

Lu Zheng, who had been standing there, finally walked over. Su Wen, however, was a bit stubborn and forced herself to stand up despite the pain, wanting to walk forward. But the pain did not lessen; instead, it became increasingly unbearable. The pain surged up like a torrential downpour, making her want to scream and vent her distress. Suddenly, she was pulled back by a force. The sky was getting darker and darker, and the curtain of torrential rain almost completely blocked her vision, but she knew that the person pulling her was Lu Zheng.

She whirled around abruptly, glaring at him through gritted teeth. Her raised hand froze in mid-air.

“If you weren’t in so much pain right now, I’d really want to slap you! Do you even have a heart? So what if you’ve lost everything? Don’t you have the guts to start over from scratch? Do you know that people are watching you right now? The more you give up on yourself, the happier they are to laugh! I don’t see what it is about you that makes me love you so devotedly! Just because you’re hurt, does that give you the right to hurt others without restraint?”

Since Su Su found him tonight, Lu Zheng finally spoke his first words. He seemed completely unprepared for her excitement, reaching out to pull her away, only to be forcefully pushed off by her.

"Don't touch me!" Suwen glared at him hatefully. "You really...you're really making me furious! How could I have fallen for such a pathetic man like you! I'm not going to care about you anymore, I'm leaving!"