Surrounded by the Billionaire's Deep Doting-Chapter 560 - 434: Foolish—Isn’t It Foolish?

Yin Shixiu wiped his face and blinked his aching eyes, looking at the woman frozen in the video frame, sitting on the stone steps outside the hotel.

She had maintained this position for over an hour, motionless, as the sky gradually lightened.

Yin Shixiu self-destructively pressed the play button, and the video started playing from the beginning.

This figure, wrapped in a white scarf, dressed in a light pink down jacket, holding a thermos, shivered at the hotel entrance waiting...

Burned like a branding iron onto his heart.

At this moment, Yin Shixiu understood everything.

He was no longer confused as to why Su Xiaomeng hadn’t followed him inside.

No longer puzzled about why she returned home the next morning with a heavy and complex mood, yet pretended everything was fine in front of the servants.

And no longer perplexed about why she didn’t trust him, why she wouldn’t even give him a chance to explain.

From eight in the evening, until after seven in the morning...

She endured the world’s most excruciating torture, physically and mentally.

Yet he knew nothing.

So now, watching the video footage, the arguments between the two over this period replay in his mind, filling him with deep regret.

Yin Shixiu was also tired, he leaned back, tilted his neck, and closed his eyes.

After nearly a week of barely getting any sleep, he at least managed to nap for a while.

He didn’t sleep soundly, but it somewhat eased his physical exhaustion.

At twelve, Lily knocked on the study door,

"Sir, lunch is ready, would you like to eat a bit?"

Yin Shixiu got up,

"Leave it, I’ll come in a while."

"Oh! Okay!"

Lily was actually frightened that Yin Shixiu would be so sad and upset that he would reject a meal.

After all, even the strongest person needs food for energy, otherwise...

How can he chase his wife?!

She didn’t want to face a lifeless Mr. Yin by herself at home every day!

Yin Shixiu took a shower, shaved, changed into clean clothes, and when he came out, though not refreshed or glowing, his state was at least somewhat better.

He walked to the dining table, didn’t say anything, and began to eat by himself.

Anyway, people like Yin Shixiu at that level were beyond the understanding of these servants.

In the middle of the meal, the doorbell rang, Lily opened the door,

"...Mr. Yang?"

"Heh! Is President Yin dead?"

Lily couldn’t help but roll her eyes.

Yang Rui laughed, even at a time like this, he didn’t forget to joke a bit, but once inside, he immediately saw Yin Shixiu dining in the restaurant area.

Hearing the voice, Yin Shixiu looked up at him,

"Why did you come?"

"With the state you left in yesterday, brother couldn’t rest easy!"

Few could call themselves brother in front of Yin Shixiu.

Yang Rui had a baby face, but in Yin Shixiu’s eyes, he was indeed worthy of being called brother.

"Have you eaten?"

"Nope, Lily, add a pair of chopsticks for me."

Yang Rui was straightforward.

Sitting down, he casually placed the documents in his hand aside,

"What’s the situation with you like this?"

Yang Rui examined him from top to bottom.

Yin Shixiu looked at him once, "What?"

"I mean... I thought that the scene I would see coming over now would absolutely be much more impressive compared to the last few days, but now it seems... not so bad after all."

"Even had your hair done huh?"

Yin Shixiu didn’t answer, he just ate his meal, and once he’d finished, wiped his mouth, before asking,

"Did you bring the documents over?"

"...Uh, yes, but are you still in the mood to handle them?"

"What do you take me for?"

"..."

Yang Rui wanted to say, I originally took you for a bull, but after seeing you yesterday, I could only see you as a waste, though today, you seem like a god!

Of course, this tease was absolutely not to be said now by Yang Rui.

Yang Rui came, he didn’t actually just drop by for a meal, once Yin Shixiu finished eating, he too set his cutlery aside.

"Well then... what do you plan to do about Xiao Meng?"

Yin Shixiu swivelled his chair, turning toward the floor-to-ceiling window,

"It’s not about how I plan to handle it, but about her..."

"Since it’s a misunderstanding, just resolve it! Honestly, Xiao Meng is truly silly, is the hotel really just this one entrance?"

Yang Rui sighed.

To speak bluntly, resolving this matter was really straightforward.

Su Xiaomeng was fixated on that one door, not seeing Yin Shixiu, so she believed Yin Shixiu stayed at the hotel all night.

Knowing this knot, untying it should be quite simple.

At least, that’s what Yang Rui thought.

Not to mention, they just needed to show Su Xiaomeng the CCTV footage of Yin Shixiu leaving via the side entrance from the hotel.

Even if Su Xiaomeng was still doubtful, they could have the company team testify for their leader.

That night, though someone did approach their leader, he was gone for half an hour at most, and returned quickly.

"Yes, isn’t that quite silly?"

Yin Shixiu was heartbroken for this foolishness throughout the night, and even now, his heart ached faintly.

Because he couldn’t imagine what thoughts went through this woman’s mind during nearly ten hours of stubborn waiting.

How her mood shifted from anticipation to despair, and how she walked from full trust to painful doubt.

"Why didn’t she just rush in when she saw you entering the hotel with another woman? All she had to do was declare herself as your wife at the front desk, catch someone in the act, what’s so difficult about that?"

Yin Shixiu chuckled bitterly,

"I fear she didn’t want to make it a big issue, didn’t want to ruin my reputation, didn’t want me to leave any ground for criticism anywhere..."

These thoughts weren’t challenging to guess.

But once guessed, it left Yin Shixiu feeling a deep sense of shame.

Yang Rui was also astonished.

It necessitated incredible rationality to still consider Yin Shixiu’s situation to this extent in such circumstances.

He ought to have such thoughts, but Yang Rui himself, imagining seeing a beloved and another walk into that hotel, would undoubtedly act impulsively...

"And she just kept silent? When you got back, she didn’t even ask you?"

Yang Rui found it hard to believe.

After all, the girl seemed pretty reckless.

Cute as she was, but at her young age, it’s difficult to hold high expectations for her.

"She asked, asked me where I went that night. I didn’t tell her that Chu Jiao came looking for me, I just said I was working at the office."

"..."

Yang Rui pursed his lips, unable to speak.

Understandably, even though Su Xiaomeng stayed at the hotel all night, Yin Shixiu’s words would have been far more hurtful to her.

On reflection now, it was merely another misunderstanding.

One aims to prevent the other from obsessing over an insignificant former girlfriend, while the other detects the concealment, yet doesn’t uncover it, stubbornly guarding her defense line.

"Then, when you went to Beijing... she never said anything?"

"Since she never planned to say anything from the start, once in Beijing with the elders watching, how could she say anything? How could she let the Beijing elders worry about our marriage?"

"..."

"I can imagine how painful it was for her, when I said she changed, in reality, she never did."

"Brother Yang, you know, the year she gave birth to Shuangshuang and Huang Huang, she thought someone drugged and assaulted her, so she just endured and endured... never telling anyone..."

"The longer hidden, the longer stable, but... others got stability, while suffering was hers alone."

"Years passed, and she still is the same. She considers other people’s feelings before her own, even of someone she perceives as having betrayed her..."

Yang Rui listened to Yin Shixiu’s words.

How could anyone not be moved by such a girl?

"Finally, the prenatal test results from Chu Jiao completely crushed her..."

"But she wasn’t carrying your child..."

"Actually, Xiao Meng is right, whether the child is mine isn’t the main issue between us... but rather it’s the individual differences between me and her."

"Then, what do you plan to do?"

Yang Rui looked at him,

"Surely you wouldn’t keep the truth from her and truly let her divorce you?"