Surrounded by the Billionaire's Deep Doting-Chapter 528 - 403: When Love Has Sunk Into the Bones, How Can It Be Removed?

Chapter 528: Chapter 403: When Love Has Sunk Into the Bones, How Can It Be Removed?

After making breakfast, Xiao Meng didn’t immediately return to her room to rest, but instead stayed with the siblings to eat breakfast together.

She didn’t have much of an appetite, but Shuangshuang started playing around again, competing with Prince Huang to see who could eat more. In the midst of this silent competition, Shuangshuang noticed her mom was eating very little and kept urging her to eat more!

Xiao Meng propped her cheeks, her body already exhausted. She had waited foolishly in the cold wind all night without sleeping, yet her mind was exceptionally clear.

"I’m eating, Mommy is definitely eating more than you!"

Su Xiaomeng joked with Shuangshuang.

Holding a piece of bread in her hand, she started gnawing on it ferociously, without any trace of elegance.

On the other hand, Prince Huang sat quietly, eating large mouthfuls, but very dignified.

Once Shuangshuang and Huang Huang finished their breakfast, Su Xiaomeng finally returned to the bedroom.

When Lily knocked and came in, Xiao Meng was taking out clothes from the wardrobe.

"What’s the matter?"

"I mentioned previously to sir that I’m taking a half-month leave starting tomorrow to go on a trip with my boyfriend."

"Oh, I know."

This was something Yin Shixiu had mentioned to her a few days ago. Another helper would come by to assist for a few days then.

"I just wanted to say, ma’am, rest assured and sleep. I’ll leave when Claire arrives."

"Okay, thank you."

The door closed again, and Xiao Meng took her clothes and went to the bathroom, took a hot shower, and lay down on the bed...

If... he really has someone else, what should she do?

Staring at the ceiling, she couldn’t avoid the question she had been trying to escape from any longer.

Her hand rested on her forehead, and she didn’t know how much time passed until her consciousness gradually blurred, waking up startled from a nightmare.

Opening her eyes, Yin Shixiu was sitting by the bed, his face showing concern, his hand resting on her forehead, feeling for her temperature.

Su Xiaomeng just looked at him...

"Why did you get sick?"

Yin Shixiu asked while supporting her waist, helping her sit up,

"Take the medicine first."

He took the water from the bedside table and handed it to her.

Xiao Meng took the water, realizing she did feel unwell, her mouth dry and uncomfortable.

"Where were you last night."

She asked, it was just an offhand question; she wanted him to tell the truth, to confess everything honestly to her.

No matter the result, she was willing to accept, she had no choice but to accept it.

"At the company."

Those simple words broke the barrier Su Xiaomeng had been holding strong in her heart.

"With whom?"

She asked again, Yin Shixiu’s eyes narrowed slightly. The first question sounded natural, but the tone of the second question was noticeably cold.

"With a few senior management from the company, some have been to our home, you’ve met them."

"..."

Su Xiaomeng gripped the water cup tightly, drank the water, and took the medicine.

The cup was placed to the side.

She lay down again.

Turning her back to him... just this action alone made Yin Shixiu clearly feel her sense of estrangement. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

He took a shallow breath,

"It’s not because I’m upset with you that I didn’t come back. The Beijing Government project bid plan I mentioned to you before ran into some problems, and I had to stay to oversee it."

Su Xiaomeng listened, but felt her heart ache.

After Yin Shixiu returned, Claire told him that madam might be ill.

Lily was originally in a hurry to get off work, left in a rush. If it were a normal day, she would still chat with Claire about the follow-up to the couple’s quarrel.

Therefore, Claire didn’t know that Su Xiaomeng might have fallen ill because she was cold outside; she also didn’t know that Su Xiaomeng had made soup all afternoon, made pastries all afternoon, and at night delivered an "affectionate dinner" to Yin Shixiu.

When Yin Shixiu asked Claire how Su Xiaomeng got sick, Claire couldn’t give a clear answer.

But the recent fickle weather becoming increasingly cold was indeed a fact.

In the harsh winter, it’s normal to catch a cold easily if you’re a little careless.

Yin Shixiu had no idea she had gone to the Yin Family last night, let alone that she had seen him entering a hotel with a woman, much less that she had stupidly waited outside the hotel for him until dawn.

He only assumed that her current awkwardness was because she was feeling aggrieved from being sick, feeling aggrieved from him ignoring her all day yesterday.

"If you don’t believe me, you can ask Mary; you remember Vern from the tech department, right? And Yang Rui, don’t you still have him on WeChat?"

Su Xiaomeng bit her lip...

Mary... Vern... Yang Rui...

She didn’t need to think to know what answers she would get if she asked.

After all, he was Yin Shixiu.

A victorious general in the business field, a veteran in the field of romance.

But what made Su Xiaomeng feel more and more painful was the idea that all these people probably knew he had gone to a hotel with another woman.

In the eyes of his friends, his subordinates, wasn’t she just a joke?

"What? Suspecting I’ve done something to betray you?"

Seeing her sickly appearance, Yin Shixiu couldn’t help but feel guilty, and a bit uneasy...

He shouldn’t have... quarreled with her, shouldn’t have...

"I want to rest, can you leave..."

"..."

Yin Shixiu pursed his lips, lowered his head to kiss her hair,

"I’ll call you when dinner is ready. Don’t overthink it."

The door opened and then closed.

His usual actions now seemed particularly distant and indifferent.

The place where she was kissed by him only brought an intense chill to Su Xiaomeng, as if her stomach was churning, and tears fell from her eyes, seeping into the blankets...

Just at that moment he approached, she clearly smelled the perfume on him.

Mild, yet a familiar scent to her.

This Chanel autumn season new scent received rave reviews immediately upon release; Cherry used it, she had bought it for Cherry.

So, how could she not recognize it’s a woman’s perfume scent?

His concealment and deception seemed to affirm the possibility she most wanted to flee from...

He had betrayed her.

Su Xiaomeng’s heart tightened.

But, but why didn’t she expose Yin Shixiu’s lies?

Why didn’t she point at him and angrily shout "Yin Shixiu, you liar!"...

Su Xiaomeng was angry with herself for her weakness because she sadly discovered that she couldn’t bear the consequences of exposure.

Tears slid down, only her fist was tightly clenched...

No one could teach her how to face this, how to deal with this.

Don’t deceive her, don’t keep things from her, he hadn’t done anything that needed to deceive her, needed to keep from her.

This was the last straw she held onto, yet he personally broke this lifeline, leaving her submerged in deep waters, unable to breathe.

"Wuwu...wuwuwu..."

She should expose him, accuse him of unfaithfulness, deride his deceit!

She should tell him, she saw him with her own eyes holding another woman entering the hotel, tell him she stood at the hotel’s door all night but didn’t wait for him to come out!

While he pretentiously told her he stayed at the company all night...

"Men..."

The words Cherry said lingered in her mind, while her own firm response was now slapping her own face.

Cherry divorced, and what about her?

What about after the deceit is unveiled?

Would they still have a future...

This man she loves deeply, treated wholeheartedly.

Could she still want him anymore?

What about Shuangshuang and Huang Huang? What about this family?

She couldn’t leave Yin Shixiu, the thought of being apart from him felt like her heart and flesh being torn out.

She had already loved this man to her very bones, how could she disentangle from him...

"Wuwu...wuwuwu..."

Su Xiaomeng buried her face in the pillow, crying in suppressed agony.

No one outside this room could sense her plummet into hell, her tormented struggle.

This poor woman constantly yielding for Yin Shixiu, constantly changing, constantly striving, her heart had been poked full of holes.

She thought his love for her made her grow, made her feel warm even in the coldest winter months.

Yet, unbeknownst to her, this love had also unconsciously brought her to such humility before him...

Unable to let go, unable to forsake, yet difficult to accept.

If only there were someone, anyone, to tell her, what she should do, how to act to stop feeling so hurt, so despairing...