My Fortune-Blessed Leading Lady-Chapter 624: Late Retribution 32

Zhao Shuqin hummed, "So what if it is? What if it isn’t? Just tell me, will you help or not?"

Xi Zhen took a deep breath, "You’re bold, getting into unredeemable trouble as soon as you’re back in the country. Given the current situation, do you think I can still intervene?"

This trending topic, covered by all kinds of influencers and celebrity news, with the public petitioning to severely punish those who defy the law—who would dare to court trouble at a time like this?

Unless one is foolish, no one would want to get involved in this mess.

But as for Zhao Shuqin, to him,

there’s always that bit of concern.

Zhao Shuqin scoffed, her gaze indifferent as she looked at him, "In other words, you’re unwilling to help me with this favor?"

Xi Zhen held his forehead, shooing away the butler, "Why don’t you tell me why you did such a thing? The two victims in the car, they weren’t people you knew, right? Why were you so ruthless, and in such an arrogant way?"

Zhao Shuqin, seeing that Xi Zhen was genuinely in the dark, narrowed her eyes, contemplating how to respond without changing her expression, as indifferent as ever, "Just a private grudge. A yes or no to my request is all I need from you; no need for anything else."

While speaking, Zhao Shuqin anxiously fumbled for a cigarette from her bag, lit it right in front of Xi Zhen, and began to smoke, exhaling rings of smoke that soon filled the room with a pungent odor.

Xi Zhen reached out and took the cigarette from her lips. Zhao Shuqin screamed like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, "What are you doing?"

Xi Zhen knew Zhao Shuqin well, when she did something that she likely couldn’t cover up, and then found no way out, she would become irritable and lash out for no reason, and she had a heavy addiction to smoking.

Zhao Shuqin was always petty, holding grudges. Back then...

Forget it, he had done something wrong, and now Zhao Shuqin was making him pay for it twice over.

Even though so many years had passed.

Zhao Shuqin became extremely annoyed, and since she couldn’t snatch the cigarette back, she simply lit another one for herself and took deep drags, "Xi Zhen, give me a straight answer, will you help me or not?"

The development of Xi Zhen’s affairs over the years, having always been overseas, meant that speaking up now would likely come at a great cost. Even if it might work out, what if it didn’t?

He didn’t dare to give Zhao Shuqin an answer on the spot, but instead said evasively, "This matter is a bit complicated, you need to tell me the purpose behind your killing."

Zhao Shuqin glanced at him with a cold laugh, "Does killing need a purpose? Then tell me, when you slept with your son’s wife, what pleasure were you seeking?"

Xi Zhen’s face showed embarrassment, "Yes, I wronged you back then, but Zhao Shuqin, I’ve paid for it for so many years, giving you my grandchildren and son, what more are you dissatisfied with?"

"Giving to me?"

Zhao Shuqin laughed as if she had heard a funny joke, her indifferent gaze resting on him, "Don’t speak as if you’re so noble. Has your son really died out? Have your grandchildren truly died out?"

"Isn’t Xi Gu also your son?"

Zhao Shuqin’s expression was indifferent, unmoved. "Is that so? But what can be done? His existence constantly reminds me of the humiliation you inflicted upon me."

Xi Zhen snorted coldly, and his cane thumped heavily on the ground, making an angry sound, "Zhao Shuqin, between the two of us, who is more noble? I am promiscuous, are you truly pure in your emotions? That night, did you really have no way to resist me? I doubt that, so why the high and mighty attitude now? I pitied you, allowed you to play this role for so many years, be grateful!

Do you really like my youngest son that much? I doubt that too, your eyes were always glued to my eldest son, do you think I’m blind?

Moreover, do you truly love the men of the Xi Family, or is it the power and wealth of the Xi Family that you love? After so many years of living in luxury, have you developed an even greater sense of superiority?

When I cared about you, you could point fingers and accuse me in the Xi Family, but now that I don’t care about you anymore, do you think Huanya will still be in your hands? It’s better not to be greedy.

If you can settle down and live well with me, let bygones be bygones, I could overlook all those things you did to utterly destroy my family;

After all, Xi Nian was turned into a vegetable lying in the hospital because of you, have I ever blamed you for it?

Not to mention being grateful for all these years, the messes I cleaned up after you, at the very least you should have some conscience, and not look at me with such a cold and harsh attitude."

With every incident Xi Zhen mentioned, Zhao Shuqin’s face grew a shade paler, she had thought her affection for Xi Nian’s father was a well-kept secret, that no one would ever discover it, yet he had seen it all along and never uttered a word to hint at her foolishness.

A fool she was, fawning before him.

And now he casually brought up those things to strike at her, forcing Zhao Shuqin into retreat. "Xi Zhen, you ruined my life, and now you have the nerve to say this."

"No, you destroyed your life yourself, do you think I don’t know the intention behind you marrying my youngest son? It was nothing more than to be closer to my eldest son, but did he even care about you?

The longing for what one can’t have is what truly preoccupies the mind. From love to hate, you killed the couple of my eldest son, left their children destitute and orphaned, two dead, Xi Nian also on his last breath, you have all but decimated the people of the main house, is this your way of loving someone?

To ensure that he has no ties left in this world?"

Xi Zhen considered himself ruthless, but compared to Zhao Shuqin, he still lacked a measure of cruelty, something Zhao Shuqin was not short of; she even seemed to derive pleasure from such torment.

Sick, isn’t it?

A bit, but Xi Zhen still couldn’t deny the fact that he liked her, that very woman with a heart of a serpent, whom he surprisingly liked for so many years. Despite having numerous wives, it was she who was not his wife that preoccupied his thoughts the longest.

Even if she wiped out his entire Xi Family, he still couldn’t bring himself to hate her.

Zhao Shuqin found Xi Zhen thoroughly disgusting, increasing the distance between them and standing by the window, looking out at the endless night, "Xi Zhen, how righteous you sound. Aren’t you also just resentful of your eldest son, that’s why you let me take care of the two of them?

Is it because when we were in bed, I called out his name, and you felt humiliated? And then, considering how your favoured elder son liked to defy you, he got framed by me, we’re both as vile as each other, who is more noble?"

Xi Zhen’s gaze deepened, and he suddenly burst into laughter, "You’re overthinking it; I have no feelings for him, so naturally, there’s no resentment."

Zhao Shuqin chuckled, whether or not she believed what Xi Zhen said. She took several steps forward, standing in front of Xi Zhen, "So tell me your answer now, are you going to help me solve this issue? Don’t worry, after this, I will come back to you. Both of us are so shameless, we might as well be entangled with each other for a lifetime."

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