My Wife is a Workaholic

Translator: tarararawr

Chapter 28 – Ji Shiyu is Dead Part 1

Yan Lin silently washed the bowls and chopsticks and then went upstairs.

When he tried to open the bedroom door, he realized that it was locked from the inside.

He knocked for a while, but there was no noise inside.

“Zu Jin, open the door.”

Yan Lin held the doorknob and twisted it a few times. He slowly became angry.

After half a minute, Zu Jin opened the door.

Yan Lin went in and closed the door with his hand behind him. He usually had a good temperament and was gentle and polite to everyone. However, when he was unhappy, his expression was very frightening.

His handsome face appeared a little cold and harsh. He unbuttoned his shirt and said in a low voice, “Things are more complicated now. Your mom lives alone over there and there is no security. Isn’t it easier to have her over? Why are you angry?”

Zu Jin sat at the vanity, flipping through some data. She replied in an angry tone, “Who won’t let you have her over? But can’t you tell me before you pick her up? Now it’s like I don’t want her to come, and she’s going to talk about it again tomorrow!”

Yan Lin took out his pajamas from the closet as he listened to her.

“She’s so old now and you can’t change her if you’re not happy. Why do you have to fight with her?”

Since they had gotten married, there were only a few quarrels. On the occasion that they did fight, Yan Lin would always let it go. After all, Zu Jin was so competitive that there was no point in fighting.

But this time, Zu Jin was too stubborn and she treated his kindness as a burden.

Her attitude towards her family really made Yan Lin a little disappointed with her.

Yan Lin went into the bathroom to take a shower. Zu Jin frowned and took a deep breath.

She closed the information she was looking at and laid down on the bed. She put a blanket over her head and didn’t want to think about this mess anymore.

She couldn’t control how Zu Hua treated her while she was growing up. But now that she had to let things go and forgive Zu Hua like a child, she really couldn’t do it.

It was also impossible for her to be like Yan Lin. He hid the harm that his parents caused him, as if nothing had happened.

The hurt from the past was real; the happiness right now was also real.

But they were two different things.

Zu Jin could not sleep well if had something on her mind. She woke up several times that night.

Every time she woke up, Yan Lin was behind her with his arms around her, or his head was buried in her neck, clinging to her.

If she moved to the side, then he would instinctively stick to her at once.

Thus, Zu Jin could only sigh in her drowsiness. The cold war felt really bad.

She hated having a cold war!

The next day, Zu Jin woke up early and went downstairs after tidying up. They were sitting at the table eating breakfast.

Yan Lin silently went to the kitchen and brought her a bowl of congee. Zu Jin drank it quietly and ate the egg yolk, which she hated.

Usually when they got up early to have breakfast at home, Zu Jin would feed her egg yolk to Yan Lin.

“…”

After Zu Jin finished eating, she kissed her baby daughter and was going to go to work without saying anything. When she came back in the evening, she planned on acting as if nothing had happened and would take the initiative to make a move on Yan Lin to end the cold war.

But when she went to the entryway to change her shoes, Ms. Zu Hua suddenly showed her poisonous tongue again.

“Are you just going to wave and leave after eating?! Ha!”

“…”

Zu Jin went to Xishui with a cold face, and then spent the whole morning in one meeting after another.

She didn’t even have time to go to the bathroom, and by the time she came out from the last meeting, it was already past two o’clock in the afternoon.

The lunch that the assistant ordered for her was a little cold, so she had to heat it up in the microwave.

While waiting Zu Jin walked back and forth in the office to exercise her muscles.

Suddenly, her assistant pushed the door open and rushed in. She cried in panic, “President Jin, Xia Jie is in labor in the Marketing Department. Please go and look!”

Xia Tong was only seven months pregnant right now. She was fine when she came to gossip with Zu Jin yesterday, so why was she suddenly in labor?

Zu Jin quickly took the elevator down to the Marketing Department, where there were many people already outside of the office.

But when they saw Zu Jin coming, they did not dare to stay any longer, and immediately returned to sit at their respective work desks.

Zu Jin walked into Xia Tong’s office and saw her lying on the ground with a painful expression as she held her belly. There was a lot of amniotic fluid flowing out from under her and it seemed like giving birth was imminent.

Xia Tong’s husband was kneeling next to her. His forehead was covered with sweat, and he looked nervous.

“Did you call for an ambulance?” Zu Jin asked.

Xia Tong’s husband looked up and saw that it was her. He swiftly replied, “Yes, the ambulance will be here soon.”

“Take off your coat and cover her legs. You don’t want others to see it later.”

Zu Jin warned him, and then she was silent. There was the sound of the ambulance approaching from outside.

In the middle of the commotion, Xia Tong was finally lifted onto a stretcher and taken away.

Zu Jin helped her just now, so her hands were wet with amniotic fluid. She went back to Xia Tong’s office and drew a few paper towels to wipe her hands.

When she was about to go out, she caught a glimpse of the cell phone that Xia Tong had left on the ground.

The phone’s screen was still on. Zu Jin went over and bent over to pick it up. Then, she realized that it was showing the phone logs.

And the name on the last phone call made Zu Jin raise an eyebrow.

Ji Shiyu.