After Becoming a Merman, I Became a Heartthrob 58

Chapter 58: Divorce

Where the sea met the sky, the setting sun cast a sparkling, brilliant light.

But soon, after the sun had completely sunk into the sea, that rosy glow was soaked in black and melted into the night.

After a whole afternoon of fussing, both film crews had been arguing for a whole afternoon. The director also didn’t want to continue to waste time and money, hoping that the few of them would quickly solve the problem so that they could pack up and go back.

The sea breeze became cooler and cooler. Occasionally, it would blow over with the salty taste of the sea, which couldn’t help but make people shiver.

Chi Xiasheng watched Wen Shu and Su Chengjian pull at each other. Although his eyes were filled with surprise and doubt, he still quickly took two steps forward and stood in front of her.

Seeing his action, the coldness in Wen Shu’s eyes dissipated completely, and she gently pulled him behind her.

“Xiaxia, don’t get involved in my business with him. You’ll just get yourself dirty.”

Hearing this, Su Chengjian looked up at Chi Xiasheng, his gaze darting back and forth between him and Wen Shu.

This suspicious and scrutinizing gaze made Chi Xiasheng feel very uncomfortable, but before he could speak, he heard Sheng Sheng say first, “CEO Su, your son is using your identity to bully people and occupy the beach. How do you plan to handle this?”

Hearing Sheng Sheng’s words, Su Chimian’s chest tightened, and he almost fell over in anger.

With a bright red handprint on his face, Su Chimian’s eyes were filled with tears, and he threw himself on Su Chengjian.

“Dad! It’s not like that. Look at my face, it was all done by that bad woman!”

Su Chimian didn’t understand why Wen Shu and Su Chengjian would be entangled together, but in his eyes, Wen Shu was gentle on the surface, but in fact, she was as scary as a mother yaksha when she struck, not at all worthy of Su Chengjian’s humble flattery.

He wanted to complain to Su Chengjian in front of him and let him know how disgusting this woman was!

Mother Su was the gentlest and most considerate mother in the world. He absolutely did not want this vixen to seduce Su Chengjian away!

He would have to have a good talk with his mother when he got back and tell her to be wary of this woman!

Su Chengjian didn’t know about his many little schemes, but when he saw the handprint on his face, his expression instantly became even uglier.

“Shu’er, this… did you do this?”

Wen Shu snorted coldly and brushed her long, seaweed-like hair behind her ear, saying softly, “I did it. I even think I didn’t hit him hard enough. What? Does it hurt your heart?”

Her tone was full of sarcasm and indifference, which made the thorn in Su Chengjian’s heart pierce even deeper, and blood gushed out from the hole.

Seeing his hurt and embarrassed appearance, Su Chimian turned and cursed at Wen Shu, “You vixen! You should quickly take Chi Xiasheng and get lost! Don’t come and destroy my family!”

Hearing Su Chimian’s curses at her, Su Chengjian felt his whole world was shaking with heartache. It was only when Su Chimian saw that he was not right and quickly supported him that he recovered.

“Dad, are you okay? I’ll take you to the hospital! Let’s stay away from this vixen, okay?”

Seeing the plea in his eyes, Su Chengjian’s heart ached again.

“Don’t say anything for now. This matter is too complicated. Su Chimian, you must remember, you can curse at anyone and hate anyone, but you absolutely cannot be disrespectful to Wen Shu!”

Su Chimian simply couldn’t understand. He knew the weakness of men, that they all liked young and beautiful women, but Su Chengjian had always been polite to his mother and had never messed around outside.

In the hearts of the Su family’s children, he was a good man who was clean and successful in his career.

But now this good man was asking him to bow down to another woman. The heart that had just wanted to help him cover up and whitewash the situation instantly turned cold.

He didn’t want to think of his father so badly, and he couldn’t accept the intrusion of another woman. He had even been defending him in his heart just now, thinking that it must be that Wen Shu was too scheming and had tricked him.

But now, hearing his words of protection for that woman, Su Chimian’s eyes instantly turned red.

“I won’t! I just won’t! What kind of soul-sucking trick did she use to make you so obsessed with her? She hit me, Dad. Why are you still protecting her?!”

After he finished speaking, he felt that everyone around was looking at him, especially Chi Xiasheng’s eyes, which were cold and disdainful, as if mocking him for being a pathetic dog who had lost his father’s love.

His mentality collapsed. He wiped his tears and, after glaring at Wen Shu and Chi Xiasheng resentfully, he ran away.

The producer of their film crew wanted to stop him. After all, the matter of renting the venue had not yet been properly resolved. But seeing Su Chengjian trembling with anger and constantly trying to catch his breath, he didn’t dare to say much more.

With one of the parties having run away, the producer and the director were very sensible and quickly apologized to Sheng Sheng, saying they had been blinded by interests and were greedy for small profits, and were bastards…

Sheng Sheng just listened coldly. Then he walked up to Su Chengjian and added another blow to his heart. “CEO Su, your son occupied CEO Wu’s beach and damaged our company’s interests. I will have Secretary Li send you the bill. CEO Wu will also be here later. You’d better explain it to him.”

Hearing this, Su Chengjian finally glanced at Sheng Sheng. This outstanding junior was targeting him everywhere because he had given up on Chi Xiasheng.

But there was nothing he could do. He and Chi Xiasheng were naturally on opposite sides, so he could only watch as Sheng Sheng turned against him.

“I see.”

Su Chengjian still maintained his composure on the surface. When CEO Wu’s assistant came, he talked with him in a good voice and took all the losses on himself.

CEO Wu was inconvenient to get out of the car with his cane, but he still rolled down the window and nodded at Sheng Sheng before having the driver drive away.

Seeing that he had directly skipped over him, Su Chengjian roughly knew that he was angry and that it would be difficult to cooperate with him in the future.

Under the dual pressure of his career and family, he only felt his head buzzing with pain and almost collapsed on the beach.

But when his assistant helped him back, he still stayed in the hospital for several days before he barely recovered.

The sky had already completely darkened. Chi Xiasheng couldn’t shoot the outdoor photos today, so he simply went home with Wen Shu for dinner first.

Sheng Sheng watched him walk away and could only stare at his back in a daze.

Chi Xiasheng looked back at him and was so scared by his direct gaze that he quickly turned his head away, his face constantly burning.

But seeing Chi Xiasheng’s small actions, Sheng Sheng’s mood instantly improved a lot, and a smile even appeared on his lips.

Liu Secretary felt the sour smell of love emanating from him and just shook his head, sighing in his heart that even the most brilliant person would have their IQ lowered when they encountered love.

Sitting in the car, Chi Xiasheng closed his eyes and leaned back in his seat to relieve the fatigue of the day.

“Auntie Wen, why did you come today?”

Li Ge, who was driving, suddenly stepped on the gas.

Chi Xiasheng, caught off guard, hit his head on the back of the front seat.

Wen Shu was also startled and quickly went to check his red forehead. “Are you okay? Why are you so careless? I heard that you were hit by someone, so I quickly came to see you.”

Li Ge, seeing that she hadn’t exposed him, let out a sigh of relief.

But in fact, Wen Shu didn’t even know that the person who had called was him. She hadn’t saved the number and didn’t care who had called, only caring if Chi Xiasheng was seriously injured.

Chi Xiasheng’s forehead was gently rubbed by her. Her fingers were even more delicate than his, and her touch was very gentle. She massaged his forehead in circles, which almost made his defenses collapse.

He really longed for someone to love and dote on him. For a moment, he didn’t even stop her and just immersed himself in her tolerance and consideration.

“It’s okay, Auntie Wen. I’m not in pain.”

She shook her head. “How can it not hurt? You’re just too stubborn. You always like to hide things in your heart. But if you don’t tell me, I’ll still worry about you.”

Hearing her words, Chi Xiasheng’s heart warmed, and he thought, This is really nice.

He was like a child who had done something wrong and was being reprimanded by his parents. Although he was flustered, he was not at all scared.

Perhaps because he knew that no matter how outrageous things he did, the other would tolerate him.

He smiled, and she shook her head helplessly, patting his head. “What are you smiling so foolishly for? You’re just like Wen Nian!”

Although Wen Nian seemed very clingy, when something happened, he didn’t like to tell her.

This was because he was afraid of worrying the person he loved the most and wanted to carry it all by himself.

“Hey, don’t say it. In this aspect, you two are really like a family. You’re both so stubborn.”

Li Ge saw that the atmosphere was so good and couldn’t help but tease them.

Chi Xiasheng burst out laughing, and Wen Shu also smiled and shook her head. The atmosphere in the car became harmonious.

When he drove the car to the entrance of the villa, Li Ge watched them walk away and thought to himself that he had finally seen Wen Shu’s temper today. She really was raising Chi Xiasheng as her own son.

Otherwise, if something had happened, she wouldn’t have rushed over so frantically, not even bothering to inform Pei Zhixuan.

Li Ge looked at their backs as they walked together under the moonlight and couldn’t help but feel happy for Chi Xiasheng.

This child had had a very hard life in his early years. If possible, he also hoped that his future life would be warmer and more comfortable.

After returning home, Su Chimian recalled the humiliation of the day and didn’t even want to eat dinner. He went straight upstairs and cried his heart out.

It was Mother Su who was worried about him and went upstairs to bring him a bowl of chicken noodle soup.

“What’s wrong, Mianmian? Is work not going well? You don’t have to worry about the online matters. Your dad said he’ll release some other celebrity’s news in a few days to divert the attention.”

Hearing her mention Su Chengjian, the grievance in Su Chimian’s heart grew even heavier, and tears streamed down his face.

She looked at his pitiful little face and quickly took out a tissue to wipe his tears.

“Mom!” He threw himself into her arms and cried his heart out before he told her what had happened today.

Hearing that Wen Shu had met Su Chengjian again, and that he had even asked Su Chimian to respect her, her hand also trembled unconsciously.

But soon, she steadied her expression and comforted him, then left with unsteady steps.

Too many things had happened recently, which had caught her off guard. It was just like before. She had gritted her teeth and endured that difficult time.

But before she could make any preparations, two days later, at the dinner table, Su Chengjian proposed that Su Chimian and Wen Shu should meet and have a good talk.

Hearing him mention that Wen Shu again, Su Chimian immediately exploded and threw down his chopsticks. “I won’t see her! Don’t you dare try to find us a stepmother! I… don’t… agree!”

Su Jinfeng had thought today would be a harmonious family time. Hearing him say this, he frowned and looked directly at Su Chengjian.

“Dad, what’s going on?”

Su Chengjian looked at his angry little son, not expecting him to have such a big falling out with Wen Shu, treating her as if she were a mortal enemy.

Sighing deeply, he stood up from the table and slowly scanned the few people present.

Under Mother Su’s pleading gaze, he still said, “Your mother and I divorced twenty years ago.”

This sentence was no less powerful than a bomb, directly stunning the two brothers, Su Chimian and Su Jinfeng.

Mother Su collapsed in her chair, holding her forehead, her lips pale.