C8

Chapter 8 - Bills

Li Yin?

The moment this name came out of his mouth, Liang Jia's body faintly trembled.

How did he know about Li Yin's existence? Where did you find out?

For the first time, she was afraid to look him in the eye because of her guilt. She silently shifted her gaze to one side and said, "Don't always listen to rumors that come from nothing."

"Listening to the letter? "Rumor?" Zhou Xing Chen looked down at her enigmatically.

Liang Jia calmed herself down, then slowly lifted her eyes. Finally, she met his gaze. "Mm."

"I won't say much more. "But this Li Yin, he really is the only person in the world that you care about." Zhou Xing Chen's voice had a bewitching quality to it, slowly recounting every single word, as if trying to make the strings in his heart tighten. "I don't know. Am I right?"

From the moment he said those words, Liang Jia knew that he already knew most of what had happened between her and Li Yin.

Zhou Xing Chen lifted his head and looked out the window. There was a steady stream of traffic downstairs, and his tone was as calm as if he was talking about the weather. "You're a member of my Zhou family, so why shouldn't we investigate you?"

"You are the head of the Zhou family, so there is nothing you shouldn't do." When he shifted his gaze, the pressure on his head suddenly disappeared. Liang Jia knew that trying to argue with him now was completely asking for trouble, so she simply agreed. "So?"

She did not appear to have the panicked expression he had imagined.

On the contrary, it was a calmness and indifference that was difficult for ordinary people to attain.

But the more he did so, the more he wanted to see how she would behave when he completely tore off her mask.

"So, I think you need to see this." Zhou Xing Chen looked into her amber eyes with a smile that wasn't a smile, not letting even the slightest change in her expression slip by.

He put one hand in his pocket, walked to his drawer in an extremely casual manner, took out a piece of paper from the cabinet, and laid it lightly in front of her.

Liang Jia's intuition told her that this wasn't a good thing, but she still forced herself to reach out for it.

He held a thin piece of A4 paper in his hand, as if it weighed nothing.

It was a bill.

Ever since Liang Jia became an adult, she had been secretly contacting Li Yin with the Zhou family. She had secretly sold her jewelry and bags to fund her only brother, who went to the bank every month to make a deposit.

And this bill was the record of all the transfers she'd made to Liin at the bank over the years.

Zhou Xing Chen clicked his tongue. It was clearly a sigh, but his last words were inadvertently picked up in the end. "I wonder what my mother will think when she sees these bills?"

Liang Jia's palm was ice-cold. When she clenched her fingers, they were covered in cold sweat.

Seeing her fall silent, the nameless anger in Zhou Xing Chen's heart finally subsided a little. He leaned close to her jade earlobe and deliberately used a torturous tone to finish his words, "Speaking of which, she still doesn't know, does she? The daughter-in-law that I have painstakingly nurtured for more than ten years is actually an ingrate who raised men outside. "

The confrontation between the two of them had always been a little more intense for Liang Jia.

It was not easy to find something that concerned her, but it was still about another man. The joy of victory was mixed with a new type of anger. Complicated emotions rose up from Zhou Xing Chen's back, and he was unable to suppress them.

Liang Jia's fingernails dug deep into her palm, and very quickly, a crescent-shaped red mark appeared on her fair skin. "What exactly do you mean by doing this? "What is her purpose?"

"The purpose, of course, is there." It was clear that Zhou Xing Chen enjoyed seeing her under control. After examining her for a long time with an appreciative attitude, he casually pointed to the bill in Liang Jia's hand. "I'm a businessman. I never do business with a loss."

Liang Jia actually really wanted to tear up that piece of paper and throw it away right now, but she knew that with his degree of caution, this kind of backup definitely wasn't just one.

This was something that he absolutely could not let his mother know.

Whether it was for her or Li Yin, she couldn't let this happen.

Liang Jia took a deep breath. She had no other choice but to concede, "Then let's do the deal." What kind of deal do you want? "

With this, she was actually able to force out her original emotions.

Looking at her cold expression, Zhou Xing Chen couldn't help but feel that she was much more pleasing to look at than her usual low-hanging eyebrows and shallow smile.

"Very simple." He snapped his fingers, leaned his slender body casually against the mahogany desk, and leaned towards her. "You'll cooperate with me in the future." If I was happy, my mother would never find out. But if I'm not happy about it. "

At this point, he deliberately paused and looked at her with his index finger. "You, bear the consequences."

This man was always planning and planning.

Liang Jia bit her lip and patiently lifted her long eyelashes. "Then, what do I need to do to make you happy?"

"It's very simple." Zhou Xing Chen turned his head to the side, his gaze deep and unfathomable like a bottomless pool. "What you need to do now is to please me."