The wealthy military officer spoils his wife excessively

Suwen gave a wry smile: "Someone's just messing around."

In no time at all, Xiang Ru was won over by Lu Zheng.

"Auntie, look at this latest massage chair. When you're tired from work, you don't have to do anything, you can just lie down. It's so convenient." He then turned on the switch to help Xiangru try it out.

He's a real shrewd businessman; he's so good at selling things. In no time, he tricked Xiang Ru into lying on the massage chair, where she was grinning from ear to ear.

No wonder he ignored her when she was staring at him in the mall, even though her eyes were practically popping out, and bought that expensive and impractical massage chair.

Suwen remained silent. Her mind was only focused on the numbers on the price tags.

Having pleased his future mother-in-law, Lu Zheng brazenly took Su Wen into her room.

As soon as he entered, Lu Zheng swaggered into her bed. Su Wen lay on his soft belly, looking up at her room, left and right, up and down, wondering if this was still her home.

Apart from her, everything else in the house has been replaced, right?

It was like Aladdin's magic; the entire room's decor was completely transformed, from the sofa and chairs to the chandelier, wallpaper, carpet, and ornaments. Apart from a few of her personal belongings, there wasn't a single thing she recognized.

She shook her head and sighed helplessly, "Tacky, so tacky."

It refers to the interior design style, which was completely changed to the same minimalist modern style as his office.

Lu Zheng laughed and tapped her forehead: "No taste, absolutely no taste."

She rolled over, scratching his chest in protest: "I still prefer the original style, what am I going to do? Give me back my house..."

Just as she was being cheeky, Suwen's phone rang. The familiar ringtone read, "I smile the moment I see you; your graceful demeanor is simply too beautiful..."

As Suwen received the phone, Lu Zheng's deep voice rang out: "This ringtone is quite unique."

Su Wen's face darkened. Of course, she couldn't forget how Lu Zheng had "praised" Hao Haiyun's phone ringtone that day!

She barely dared to look back at his face, and replied with a forced laugh, "Yeah, it seems like this song is quite popular as a ringtone lately."

Keep pretending, keep pretending, Nie Suwen, can't you pretend to be a little more convincing? Suwen couldn't help but despise herself.

Fortunately, Lu Zheng didn't press the matter further, but just looked at her with amusement: "I didn't even know when you changed your phone."

"what……"

Aren't you going to answer the phone?

The phone had been ringing for quite a while before Suwen finally snapped out of her daze, hurriedly scrambled off him, and went outside to answer it.

Her heart was pounding. She flipped the slider, and the male voice on the other end of the phone instantly made her blood pressure spike several points!

"Should I thank you for your 'generous gift'?"

Xiao Rong's voice was devoid of emotion.

Su Wen's breath hitched. She turned and glanced back at Lu Zheng inside the room, lowering her voice even further: "I won't offend others unless they offend me. Even a rabbit will bite when cornered."

Xiao Rong laughed heartily, seemingly amused by her analogy, and his voice became much lighter: "That girl does need to be taught a lesson, but..." He changed the subject, "I will take care of my own people, I don't need anyone else to do it for me."

It was eerie and gave me goosebumps.

It sounded like he was scolding Xiao Yuan, but in reality, he was giving Su Wen a stern warning.

Suwen composed herself and said, "I don't want to cause trouble for myself. It would be best if you could keep an eye on my sister."

At the dinner table, Lu Zheng drank some wine, his face flushed, and his gaze softened as he looked at Su Wen.

Xiang Ru had just received a whole room full of furniture and appliances from the other party, and insisted that the guests stay overnight. Then she started rambling on and on with Lu Zheng, having completely forgotten about the old incident where she had hit someone with a feather duster.

Lu Zheng, still maintaining a dignified demeanor despite the nagging middle-aged woman, glanced at Su Wen, who looked helpless, and was about to say something when Su Wen entered the study: "I'm reading the script." Then she closed the door.

She couldn't bear to listen to her mother and Lu Zheng's endless nagging. They talked about everything from when she was eight to when she was eighteen, practically revealing the whole family history, including, of course, her father abandoning his wife and children. Suwen felt that some things were best left in the past; if they were unhappy, why bring them up again? But Xiang Ru was clearly different. Xiang Ru would bring them up every now and then, and each version was more heartbreaking and tearful than the last. After so much practice, Suwen felt that her family's mess was almost as long as a hundred-episode drama.

The room is only about 80 square meters in total. It is called a study, but it is actually a small storage room that has been converted. It is only big enough to put a table in front and behind, and there is not even enough room for a bookcase.

Suwen sat behind the table flipping through the script, but soon became sleepy and fell asleep on the desk.

In a daze, someone pushed open the door. Su Wen was too sleepy to move. She sensed someone approaching silently and smelled a faint scent of alcohol. Knowing who it was, she remained even more still.

She was picked up and carried away from the cold little study, back to the soft bed.

A light kiss landed on her lips. Su Wen's heart stirred, and she reached out to pull Lu Zheng back as he turned to leave.

She heard a helpless laugh: "Pretending to be asleep?"

"Is Mom asleep?"

"Otherwise what? How could I dare to put her precious daughter in bed in front of her?"

"rogue."

Lu Zheng narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at her: "I can be even more of a rogue."

As soon as he finished speaking, he pounced on her. Suwen smiled and hugged the blanket, hiding at the foot of the bed. Back and forth, the two of them were entangled together, and Suwen was finally caught by him, obediently pressed into his arms. She rested her head on his chest, clearly sleepy. Lu Zheng casually circled her long hair with one hand, and murmured to her, "I didn't even know that you went through such a change when you were eighteen."

He recalled the first time he saw her; she appeared in a decadent bar, dressed in a respectable manner, yet her eyes were seductive as she tried to seduce him.

At that time, he still thought she was a prostitute.

She gave him her virginity. He so casually surrendered what should be a woman's most precious virginity, as if he didn't care about anything.

She genuinely didn't care. He gave her money for prostitution, and she accepted it with a smile; he treated her like a prostitute, and she didn't explain.

It was her nonchalant attitude, like a piece of cotton wool, so light and airy that she could fly away at any moment, that gave him a sense of powerlessness, a feeling of being unable to hold on to her.

This woman caught him off guard and left him unable to control her.

Suwen didn't even bother to lift her eyelids: "My mother told you? That's ancient history, I don't remember it at all."

Lu Zheng pinched her cheek: "But I'm very grateful to her for telling me all this. Otherwise, I would know absolutely nothing about you from the past."

When she was young, she actually had excellent grades. Her father had a background as a bureau chief, but she relied on her own abilities to become the top student in the city and enter the city's highest institution of learning.

She rarely talked about her own affairs, so much so that in Lu Zheng's mind, she was a complete blank.

Suwen didn't seem to care: "You like me now, it has nothing to do with the past."

Lu Zheng leaned down to look at her. It was nice to listen to each other's breathing in silence.

She was almost asleep when he gently kissed her forehead: "I met you at eighteen, I have you now, and I'm still trying to be with you in the future. But the one thing I can't do is be a part of you in the past."

This is a regret that can never be made up for.

He only regretted not meeting her sooner, much sooner. That way, she could have suffered less, and he could have avoided so many detours.

This is probably true for every couple in love; they want to leave their mark on every part of their loved one's life.

The news of Xiao Yuan's detention for theft never made it into the newspapers. However, on an online portal forum, someone started a thread titled "Let's expose the high-ranking female officials you don't know about," and overnight, various photos of Xiao Yuan at the time of her arrest began to flood the internet.

The poster acted swiftly; before the website could delete or shut down the post, the photos had already spread like wildfire. Seeing the astonishing number of reposts and comments, even Xiao Yuan, who had long since given up on herself, felt a sense of collapse.

Public opinion is out of control.

Ordinary people already deeply resent privilege, and the lives of children of high-ranking officials have long been a mystery to them. Now, this has suddenly been exposed, revealing a life just as ugly and unbearable, even worse than that of impoverished ordinary people. This sparked outrage online. The original post was deleted and blocked, but countless "technical" posts commenting on the matter quickly sprang up on Tianya, invariably replacing Xiao Yuan's name with the phrase "stealing a rich woman." The website was caught in a dilemma: deleting it was inappropriate, as she hadn't been explicitly named; but leaving it meant thousands upon thousands of comments constantly pushed the thread to its top.

Some people even tried to dox Xiao Yuan's address, workplace, and phone number. Xiao Yuan's phone was bombarded with calls and countless abusive text messages every day, eventually forcing her to disconnect and change her SIM card.

After this incident, the Xiao family fell silent, and no one publicly clarified the situation to the media. Then, some nosy reporters began to indirectly focus their attention on the Lu family. "Isn't it your future daughter-in-law who got into trouble? Would you still dare to have a daughter-in-law like that?"

On Lu Zheng's side, Assistant Xu had already prepared a press release, taking the opportunity to clarify that the Lu family and the Xiao family had peacefully agreed to dissolve the engagement three years ago, but had not made it public due to the woman's status. The Xiao family had no objection to Lu Zheng's unilateral statement, and Lu Haibo, after reading it, had no way to object either, as Xiao Yuan's actions this time were too damaging to their reputation.