Chapter 571 - 554: If There’s No Love, Then Want Money
After eating two slices of icy watermelon, Lu Jiaxin’s restlessness subsided a bit. Zong Shimeng had a popsicle, the kind that many people in the future would reminisce about as the old-fashioned kind.
Having finished the watermelon, Lu Jiaxin asked with puzzlement, "Sister Shimeng, yesterday I asked Nie Zhan to inquire with my brother-in-law, but he actually didn’t know which hotel you were staying at. Sister Shimeng, are you and he having a conflict?"
"He didn’t want me to come to the Forty-nine City, saying the doctors here are not as good as those in Hong Kong, and that it would be a joke if it got out that I’d come this far for medical care."
Based on what Lu Jiaxin knew about her, it wouldn’t be enough to cause a conflict with Hu Zhifeng: "Sister Shimeng, is there something else?"
Zong Shimeng replied with a bitter smile, "It was my 32nd birthday a few days ago, he said he had to work overtime and couldn’t spend it with me. Coincidentally, Meitong went to an Italian restaurant with her mom that day, and they ran into him with that woman."
Great, no time to spend a birthday with his wife, but time to dine with a mistress. It was easy for her to criticize Fu Ye without any burden, but it wasn’t right for her to speak ill of Hu Zhifeng. Since Zong Shimeng wouldn’t get a divorce, she couldn’t add fuel to the fire.
Zong Shimeng continued, "I actually just have mild anemia, nothing serious. This trip to the Forty-nine City was supposed to be for seeing a certain doctor, but really, I just wanted to get away and clear my mind."
"I was embarrassed to tell you all, but since getting married, I’ve never been out of Hong Kong by myself. If it wasn’t for traveling with Zhifeng on business, it was taking the kids out. It’s been eleven years since I got married, and this is the first time."