Chapter 209 You're Seriously Ill

Chapter 209 You're Seriously Ill

"Why?" Huo Zhizhou's voice was somewhat cold.

"Because I don't like the cage you've built." Jiang Ruan suddenly felt fearless after seeing him, filled only with resentment. "I don't want to satisfy your hobby of keeping your wife at home while also supporting someone else outside."

"She has been kind to me," Huo Zhizhou explained again.

Jiang Ruan: "Of all the people in the world who have shown kindness, who repays kindness like you?"

Huo Zhizhou said, "I made a promise to her."

"Don't use promises as excuses." Jiang Ruan wasn't buying it. She was bothered by the fact that he had brought her here without telling her. "Any normal person wouldn't do something like this."

Huo Zhizhou's aura grew increasingly cold, yet his eyes became ever calmer.

Jiang Ruan knew.

He was on the verge of rage.

But this is his problem. She gave him a chance but he didn't cherish it, and he should bear the consequences himself, no matter how big they are.

"I'm giving you a chance to say it again. If you're out here with Sui Sui and Mom to relax, I can overlook all of this." Huo Zhizhou didn't want to argue with her, so he gave her chances again and again. "Otherwise, don't forget the agreement you signed."

"Huo Zhizhou." Jiang Ruan's expression had never been so serious.

Huo Zhizhou looked up.

The two looked at each other.

"You should go to the hospital to get it checked out," Jiang Ruan said, not as an insult, but as a sincere suggestion. "Your mental state isn't normal."

For five years of marriage, Huo Zhizhou was incredibly stable in front of her. No matter if she acted childish or played around with him occasionally, he never got angry, and he never even said a harsh word to her.

He cherished and protected her like a porcelain doll.

I didn't think much about it before, just assuming it was because he loved me.

It now seems that his outward appearance is that he is too emotionally stable; once his will is violated, he becomes a person whose mental cognition is not quite normal.

"I'll do whatever you say if you come back with me," Huo Zhizhou said calmly.

Jiang Ruan took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the emotions that were rising within her.

After a while.

She met his gaze and blurted out, "Can you stop being so childish and trying to pin all the blame on me? Whether you watch it or not is your business and has nothing to do with whether I go back or not."

"I waited for you at the restaurant for over an hour last night," Huo Zhizhou brought up the old story again.

Jiang Ruan: "And then?"

Huo Zhizhou: "You promised you would come."

Jiang Ruan kept her emotions under control: "I agreed because I didn't want to argue with you."

Huo Zhizhou's eyes grew increasingly dark.

Jiang Ruan didn't want to be subjected to his cold demeanor: "If there's nothing else, I'll go back first. I'm worried about Sui Sui being home alone."

"Si Ning is over there," Huo Zhizhou told her, adding the second half of the sentence, "You can't leave until you give me a satisfactory answer to this matter."

Jiang Ruan: "..."

If it weren't for her, she might have felt sorry for him in this state.

He gave himself chances time and time again, and lowered his own bottom line each time.

But as the person involved, she only felt that he was not quite right in the head: "Do you feel that you were lied to by me about what happened last night, and that you were greatly hurt?"

"Isn't that right?" Huo Zhizhou retorted. "Everyone told me you weren't in Jingzhou anymore, but I still believed you because you promised me you'd come over when you were done with your work."

"You're really quite ill." Jiang Ruan rarely said this to anyone.

Huo Zhizhou's expression was frighteningly calm.

Jiang Ruan exposed him without any hesitation: "You dare say that deep down you didn't know I was gone? Were you a little surprised when Gu Shixi and Lin Feng told you?"

“You know everything. You were just waiting there so that when you came to me now, you could pin a crime on me and put yourself in the position of a victim.” Jiang Ruan’s words were direct and blunt, even less polite than Si Ning’s.

These words were spoken.

Huo Zhizhou's eyes grew increasingly dark and intense.

"But are you really the victim?" Jiang Ruan found him quite terrifying. Unaware people would only think that he was devoted to her and that she was just trying to repay a debt of gratitude.

But what is the truth?

The fundamental problem has never been solved.

"Are you done talking?" Huo Zhizhou's voice was steady, his eyes deep and unfathomable.

Jiang Ruan let out a low sneer.

It's always like this.

Her words were like a punch hitting cotton, completely ineffective.

"Now that you've finished talking, prepare to return to Jingzhou." Huo Zhizhou stood up and walked to her, his thin lips slightly parted as he said slowly, "If you agree to go back, you'll suffer less."

"I won't go back." Jiang Ruan had indeed become bolder.

"I'm not discussing this with you." Huo Zhizhou's gaze swept over her stubborn face. "I chose to come and pick you up instead of using Su Zhu and Ye Yanzhi to force you to go back. I've already lowered my standards."

Jiang Ruan refused to accept his manipulative tactics: "You know it's coercion too?"

Huo Zhizhou: "Ruan Ruan, don't force me."

Jiang Ruan: "Don't force me."

The atmosphere instantly became tense.

The two stubborn men stared at each other, neither willing to back down, trying silently to make the other soften and listen to them.

Jiang Ruan, despite her soft name, is more stubborn than anyone else, and even Huo Zhizhou couldn't argue with her on this matter.

"Since you are unwilling, I have no choice but to have them forcibly take you back," Huo Zhizhou said. "Once you are back, you can beat, scold, kill, or torture me as you please."

"You're going to force yourself on me?" Jiang Ruan didn't expect him to act like this even after everything had gone this far.

Huo Zhizhou: "If you're unwilling, then this is the only way."

Jiang Ruan asked, "Aren't you afraid I'll hate you?"

"It's better to hate me than to leave." Huo Zhizhou's emotions remained as stable as ever.

Jiang Ruan asked one last question: "Is this your love?"

"I'll take good care of you when we get back, and I'll apologize to Mom." Huo Zhizhou took a step towards her, his large hand instinctively reaching out to pull her. "As for whether it's love, time will tell."

Jiang Ruan shook off his hand.

Huo Zhizhou didn't mind; there was still a long time ahead, and he could make up for it slowly.

“I told you I wouldn’t leave with you.” Jiang Ruan moved to pick up a fruit knife from the table next to her, her eyes filled with determination. “If you insist on forcing me, then take the corpse back and love me for the rest of your life.”

Huo Zhizhou's pupils contracted.

He calmed down in just a moment.

His gaze fell on the knife in her hand, and his words were filled with certainty: "You won't."

Forced into a corner, Jiang Ruan had no choice but to snap: "Then you try."

"You can't let go of Sui Sui, and you can't let go of your mother." Huo Zhizhou's words were unclear, whether he was telling her or himself, "You're not the kind of person who would do something reckless."

“That was true before.” There was no hope in Jiang Ruan’s eyes. “But it’s different now.”

Huo Zhizhou was about to ask what was different when she suddenly realized that her previous concern was Jiang An. Now that Jiang An was awake and had money, Jiang An could take care of Sui Sui in her place.

She might really...

The thought of this made his usually calm and collected heart start to panic.

"What do you want?" He was the first to back down.

"You promise that from now on you will not interfere with any of my freedom and actions," Jiang Ruan blurted out, "and that you will come with me to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get a divorce certificate."

Huo Zhizhou values ​​his promises; he will keep them if he agrees to something.

If he doesn't keep his promise, then his insistence on taking care of Su Anran will become a joke.