Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 546 Keeping a Canary in Captivity (25)

He could only endure it.

Thinking of this, Gao Shenghan lowered his eyelids to soften his expression. When he raised his eyes again, all the resentment and anger in his eyes had faded, leaving only concern.

“You don’t come home at night without telling us, you don’t answer our calls or reply to our messages. Didn’t you ever think that my parents and I would worry?” Gao Shenghan said helplessly. “If my parents hadn’t stopped us last night, Xiaoyu and I would have called the police.”

Yan Zhen was not moved by Gao Shenghan's words. She stared at Gao Shenghan without blinking, taking in all the changes in his expression, which were like the changing faces in Sichuan opera.

And through his change of expression, they were able to clearly understand his change of mindset.

Seeing Gao Shenghan, who was clearly furious but dared not even unleash his impotent rage, Yan Zhen, who had originally intended to dig out evidence from Yu Yanfei to make Gao Shenghan wish he were dead, suddenly changed his mind—

She came up with a way to thoroughly disgust Gao Shenghan before he was left wishing for death.

Yan Zhen looked away and continued applying face cream: "How could I, a grown man, get lost? Don't be so paranoid."

"...I'm paranoid?" Gao Shenghan's expression couldn't hold back anymore. He stood up and walked behind Yan Zhen. "Although I don't know what's wrong with you lately, and you've suddenly become unfriendly to me, I'm your husband. I care about you, and I can't even find out where you went last night?"

Yan Zhen said casually, "Are you concerned about me, or do you just want to know where I went last night?"

"...What's the difference?"

"If you care about me, you should ask me why I didn't rest at home last night, instead of nitpicking about where I went, whether I changed my clothes, or whether I removed my makeup properly."

Gao Shenghan: "..."

His temper flared up again, and he said, suppressing his anger, "Then why didn't you stay home to rest last night?"

"Seeing you upsets me."

Gao Shenghan was taken aback.

His initial shock slowly turned into disbelief: "What did you say?"

Although his wife had been quite cold towards him lately, this was the first time she had expressed her annoyance and impatience with him so bluntly and rudely.

"Don't you think you're getting lazier and lazier?" Yan Zhen said, giving Gao Shenghan a critical look from head to toe, her eyes like she was looking at an object. "You don't take care of your figure, and you don't care about skincare anymore. You've been running a business for several years with no progress. You can't help your child with their homework. The book I asked you to read a while ago, you've only flipped through a few pages... You have no ambition at all. Tell me, what else can you do?"

"..." Gao Shenghan looked at his wife in shock.

“Marriage needs novelty. You’re always the same, which makes me feel bored.” Yan Zhen looked disheartened. “And in bed… a few years ago you could last for more than ten minutes and you would try different things to please me. Now there’s no foreplay, and the process feels like you’re just going through the motions. After you’re done, you don’t hold me tenderly anymore. You just fall asleep. I can’t find the passion I had when we were dating in you anymore.”

—When your partner discovers your infidelity and confronts you, the best course of action is to first obscure the main point, then change the subject, and finally shift the blame onto your partner.

This method worked. Gao Shenghan came to his senses after a long while. Since it was a matter of male dignity, he lowered his voice and said, "But aren't you always very excited? You clearly enjoy it too."

"That was before. When I had feelings for you, I was willing to play along." Yan Zhen rolled her eyes slightly. "As for now, I don't want to pretend anymore."

Gao Shenghan: "..."

His usually gentle and elegant wife was speaking more and more explosively today, leaving Gao Shenghan feeling like his brain couldn't keep up for a moment.

He stared blankly at Yan Zhen: "Were all your previous orgasms faked?"

“Hmm,” Yan Zhen said, “Acting is tiring, on the other hand, the more I act, the more you’ll really think I’m amazing in bed.”

Gao Shenghan: "……………………"

When Gao Shenghan left the room, his face was filled with a look of utter disbelief.

Yan Zhen watched his retreating figure and gave a soft sneer.

After finishing her skincare routine, Yan Zhen tidied herself up and prepared to leave for the company.

Just then, her phone beeped with a message notification. She opened it and saw a "tip" from a private investigator—this weekend, movie star Shen Qian had made plans with friends to play golf at a members-only golf course in Hangzhou, and Yu Yanfei would be going along.

As luck would have it, that golf course belonged to the Yan family.

After a moment's thought, Yan Zhen had an idea.

A few days passed in the blink of an eye.

These past few days, Yan Zhen has been working at the Yan Group during the day, picking up her son from school in the evening, and going to bed early at night.

However, her sleep problems remained poor.

However, when Yan's father saw that she clocked in at the company on time every day, he said that going to work was not just for fun. In addition, she could indeed handle some less important documents for him, and she did a good job. So he arranged for her to be hired as an assistant at Yan's Group, so that she could treat going to work as a pastime.

When the weekend came, Yan Zhen invited Fang Xia, the original owner's best friend, to play golf.

The two hadn't seen each other for a long time. When Fang Xia saw Yan Zhen, she was startled by the exhaustion on her face that even makeup couldn't hide.

"What's wrong with you? You look like a ghost has sucked your life force out." Fang Xia frowned. "Has your condition worsened again?"

Yan Zhen did not deny it: "I'm currently trying to quit taking medication."

What medication should I quit?

"Sleeping pills."

Yan Zhen changed into a white athletic skirt, a baseball cap, and sunglasses that covered most of her face.

Sitting in the golf cart, the sun was shining brightly outside, but to her exhausted self, the sun only felt hot and glaring.

Fang Xia looked Yan Zhen up and down, then shook her head with a tsk-tsk: "You can't do this. Why don't you stop playing ball and come with me to the temple to burn incense? My master is at the temple today. Let him take a look at you and prescribe some medicine or something..."

Fang Xia is a Buddhist lay disciple, and his master is the abbot of a temple in Hangzhou.

“I’m not going,” Yan Zhen said. “You know I’m an atheist.”

"Stubborn fool, look at your dark and gloomy face. Your luck has been sucked away." Fang Xia rolled her eyes, took off a string of Buddhist beads from her wrist, and forcefully put them on Yan Zhen's wrist. "They've been blessed. Wear them. Maybe they can protect you from calamities."

She meant well, and since the sandalwood prayer beads were quite pretty, Yan Zhen didn't take them off.

Upon arriving at the stadium, Yan Zhen immediately spotted the award-winning actor Shen Qian, as well as Yu Yanfei among the many people surrounding him.

Although Yu Yanfei, who is in his early forties this year, is tall, he has become so fat that he is deformed. In addition, his slickness from his time in the world of fame and fortune makes him look somewhat sleazy.

Behind her, the caddies were carrying golf equipment. Fang Xia noticed that Yan Zhen was staring at a group of people not far away. She followed Yan Zhen's gaze and quickly locked onto Shen Qian, the focus of the crowd.

"What, are you interested in him?" Fang Xia asked.