The Villain's Wife

"Aw… don't use too much force." Lily said as she closed her eyes. "I think you are getting better at this." She commented.

"I need to. It's not like I have a choice." He laughed as he gently massaged her foot. In response Lily giggled before stifling a yawn.

"I am really sleepy. I feel like my eyelids are too heavy." She said. "My eyes are not listening to me." She closed her eyes and mumbled.

"Then sleep. I will finish this then I will shower before sleeping." He smiled when he saw Lily nod with her eyes closed. After the massage, Zhou Jingren tucked Lily in and went to the study that was inside Grandmother Ye's house.

"How is she?" He asked Secretary Go who was already in the study.

"She will survive. They will do another surgery in a few hours. Her mother is already on her way to the US." Secretary Go said. "Shall we cripple her?"

"Don't let her walk again." Eyeing the bookshelves to his left, Zhou Jingren sat on the old swivel chair inside the room. "Did you send Mr. Swanson and Mr. Brooke the video of Charlotte pushing her own daughter down?"

"Yes. It's done. I have not received any response from Mr. Brooke but Mr. Swanson showed his disgust. I believe he is already working on the divorce papers."

"Good." He nodded. To Zhou Jingren, it was always best to deal with these pests before they built the confidence to try and attack his wife and child. "Do you have any other news for me?"

"Mr. Qin is trying to talk to the Madam. As instructed, Yang Mi did not set up any appointment. Also… Su Ma will leave the hospital tomorrow."

"And the DNA?"

"It was a match. Miss Qin Fei is Su Ma's biological daughter. That woman is indeed Tang Lingyun. We also did our best to be as secretive as possible. If the enemy is not thorough enough, there is no way they will know we already started investigating Su Ma."

Zhou Jingren nodded. At least now they had solid proof Su Ma was indeed Tang Lingyun. Once again, he eyed the bookshelf that also acted as the secret door towards a hidden room below the house.

When Lily told him about this, he almost found it hard to believe that a sweet woman like Grandmother Ye would have such a place inside her house. Of course, he quickly understood everything when he knew that this was just given to Grandma Ye by her father who was very active during the world war.

"President… I think Zhou Huifang is really working with someone abroad. We cannot confirm this but his behavior on the outside is too calm. It is as if… he is too confident of his actions. Qi Xia however is different. He is more… nervous?"

Secretary Go continued. "I believe Mr. Qi does not fully trust Zhou Huifang. Maybe he thinks Zhou Huifang is still hiding something. But we cannot confirm this. All of these are just my deductions from the files that Bei Tian gave me."

"I understand." He responded. "It is already late. You can stay here if you want or… you can stay in the mansion just a few houses away."

"It's alright president." Secretary Go gave a wry smile. "I will go home now." Without waiting for Zhou Jingren to say a word, Secretary Go left the house with the same smile on his face.

Meanwhile Zhou Jingren only shook his head at Secretary Go's action. He then stared at the bookshelves again. Narrowing his eyes at the book, he rose from his seat and approached the shelves. Lily said she remembered coming inside the room once when she was a child.

The thing is… the books that Grandmother Ye left Lily were also the books that are used to open the hidden room. Now, this only means the old woman is telling her to open it and visit the room again.

He eyed the Latin titled books. Lily said although she cannot speak latin, she could read all of them as her mother used to read her some Latin books when she was a kid. At that time Lily thought it was pretty cool as this was a language she never heard of before.

However now that Lily thought about it, what happened when she was a kid was very strange. Why would she teach Lily Latin when the child could not even do basic math? Moreover Lily was only six or seven at that time.

Something was just not adding up. He thought inwardly before walking back to his chair. For some reason, the fact that both of Lily's grandmothers died within a month's time sounded suspicious to him.

Both women were old and both died of natural causes. However, this was what people told them. Lily was not on Lilian's side when she died and she was not also on Grandmother Ye's side when she passed. Even Lily expressed her sadness over this matter in one of their late night conversations before.

He let out another sigh before he dialed a number. "Tian."

"Hm?" the other answered on the other line.

"Can you find something for me?"

"Sure. What is it?" Bei Tian asked.

"Lily's grandmother told Lily her husband didn't have any contact with any other royalty from Luxembourg except his brother. I want to know if this is true."

"Are you sure?" Bei Tian hesitated. "I mean… is this really something we should be doing? Lily is… I mean I've never heard her talk a lot about her grandmother and grandfather."

"Don't worry. I will tell her about this." He assured him. He truly appreciated the respect that Bei Tian had for Lily.

"Alright then. If she gets angry at me I will tell her it's your fault. I will even say that you threatened to kill me if I refused."

"She won't believe you." Zhou Jingren said.

"Is there anything else you want to know?" Irritation apparent on Bei Tian's voice

"Lilian… I want to know everything about Lilian Facci and her real family." Zhou Jingren said before ending the call. Lily never actually talked about her grandmother. He thought it was because she still felt a little hurt over her death or she just wanted to keep her grandmother's life private.

Either way, Zhou Jingren did not have a problem with this. However, as Lily's husband and the father of their child, he felt that it is his responsibility to protect her. And well… he can't really do that without knowing what happened to Lily in those seven years when she was with Lilian.

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