DBSNTM-78 Mansion On Fire

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A few days ago, Jianmin disowned him in the newspaper, but Zhan remained as a Xiao legally.

Zhan found Jingtong’s number, and made a call.

When the call was answered, he heard Jingtong’s estranged voice on the other end. “Mr, Zhan, what can I do for you?”

Mr. Zhan?

Zhan’s lips curved into a sneer, “I want to move out from the household register.”

He needed it more than ever.

After a moment of silence, Jingtong said, “It had been taken care of already. Yibo take it.”

Yibo had already done that for me?

Zhan hung up the phone and ran to Yibo’s study to find his household register.

After all, he would need it later.

Yibo did not use the study recently, but the servants cleaned it every day.

It was large. Zhan searched with no success. Then his gaze was attracted to a locked drawer under his desk.

Zhan tried to open it, but failed.

He didn’t pay much attention to Yibo’s belongings before, so he naturally didn’t know where the key was.

Zhan thought for a moment and went straight downstairs to the courtyard to find a brick.

When the bodyguards and servants saw Zhan get himself a brick, they all went to him nervously.

“Mrs. Wang, what are you doing?”

Zhan glanced at them and said, “I’m not in a good mood. I’m gonna take it in and smash something for fun.”

“…”

The on-lookers were all lost for words.

No one stopped him, so he just took the brick and went to Yibo’s study.

The bodyguards couldn’t stop him, but kept an eye on him.

Seeing Zhan entering Yibo’s study with a brick, a bodyguard called his boss, “Mr. Wang, Mrs. Wang went into your study with a brick”

“What is he going to do?”

“He said he needed to smash things to cheer him up.”

“Oh, leave him alone.”

“…”

That bodyguard was speechless again.

Perhaps that was what rich people did for fun.

In the study

Zhan sat on the floor and smashed the drawer with all his might.

Naturally, everything Yibo used was of the best quality.

Zhan took a lot of effort to break it open.

He threw the brick aside, dusted the ash from his hands and opened the drawer. Inside was a household register.

Zhan opened it and saw his name on it.

He hastily took it out. When he was about to leave, he caught a glimpse of an exquisite box in the drawer.

It looked delicate and sophisticated. The material was superior, obviously a customized item.

This was enough to show how precious the content was to Yibo.

What could it be?

It must be very important to Yibo.

Zhan wanted to see what was inside, but he stopped halfway through.

But at the end, his curiosity prevailed.

He opened the exquisite box and found a very old pen.

Zhan recognized the brand logo on the pen, which was very popular when he was a child. He remembered he even got one as a prize from school.

This brand of fountain pen was affordable, but the production of pen had stopped for years.

He never expected Yibo would keep one.

In fact, this pen had no value for collection. It was just a product from the production line, but Yibo placed it in a specially-made box.

This box was more valuable than this pen.

Zhan looked up in his phone the date when this kind of pen stopped production. He found Yibo had kept it for roughly ten years.

Ten years ago, Yibo was only sixteen or seventeen years old.

Was it from his crush?

Realizing what he was thinking, Zhan mumbled to himself irritably, “I shouldn’t care. It has nothing to do with me!”

Anyway, he was about to separate from Yibo.

Zhan pursed his lips and put the pen back. After cleaning the study, he got up and went back to his room.

He put his household register, passport and ID card together and hid them in a safe place.

At night.

Yibo came back at dinner time for the first time.

Zhan was sitting at the dining table, Just as he was about to eat, he saw Yibo’s slender figure walking in from outside.

Yibo sat down across from Zhan, smelt cold and wet, Ciao offered him a bowl and chopsticks.

Yibo knew Zhan had sneaked into his study smashed the drawer open and stole the household register.

After they finished the meal quietly, Yibo faintly asked as expected, “What did you smash for fun?”

“I smashed the drawer.”

Yibo would know it sooner or later. There was no need to hide.

Hearing this, Yibo’s face suddenly changed. He stood up and walked upstairs without saying a word.

Zhan looked at his back with mixed feelings. He had never seen him like this before.

Zhan raised his head and blinked his sour eyes. After calming himself down, he got up and followed him.

The study was wide open. Yibo stood behind the desk, holding the box containing the pen in his hand.

Zhan folded his arms and leaned against the door, his tone carrying a little jealousy, “It is just a pen, who gave it to you? Your first love?”

Yibo didn’t even look up. He just carefully wiped the pen and put it back inside.

Instead of putting the box in the drawer, he locked it in the safe.

Seeing this, Zhan clenched his hands tightly and returned to the bedroom with his lips pursed.

Out of sight, out of mind!

Men(Husband) were all bastard!

When Yibo walked in, he saw Zhan flipping through a magazine. He turned every page in less than three seconds. He was apparently not reading it.

Yibo walked up to him and grabbed the magazine away.

“Give it to me.” Zhan raised his hand to get it back. He looked up and stared at him with raised eyebrows.

Yibo opened his mouth and smiled coldly, “Do you think I will let you go just because you got your household register?”

“I’m not your pet. I can go wherever I want. Why do I need your permission?” Zhan raised his head, his face full of arrogance, not giving in.

The smile on Yibo’s face turned into a sneer. “You can try”

The confidence in his eyes looked like sarcasm to Zhan.

I hadn’t done anything, and Yibo had seen through it and knew I would definitely fail.

Zhan was annoyed.

The irritation was not only because Zhan knew he was no match for Yibo, but also because he realized that he was fighting this alone.

Facing Yibo, Zhan had no chance to resist at all.

It was the first night Yibo stayed at home since Qiren accident.

They slept on the two sides of the bed, with no intimate hug and no communication.

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The next morning.

They woke up almost at the same time.

Zhan went downstairs before Yibo.

A bodyguard was standing in the hall,

When he saw Zhan, he greeted, “Mrs. Wang.”

He handed him an envelope.

Zhan stared at it for a moment and vaguely knew what was inside.

Then, he reached out and took it.

He opened it and found it was a subpoena as expected.

The injury on Mr. Qiren had constituted a criminal offense. But Zhan was pregnant, so he was freed on bail pending an appeal.

Footsteps sounded behind him.

He knew it was Yibo coming down.

Zhan turned around and raised the subpoena, mocking, “You have a part to play here, don’t you?”

Yibo walked over with his usual cold face.

Zhan gave him a sneer and threw the subpoena on the table beside him. “So, all I need to do is stay in this birdcage and wait for the court date. I just have to stand in the dock and let your family slander me, right?”

Yibo stood in front of him, his aura cold and oppressive.

He slowly opened his mouth and said, “No.”

Zhan froze for a moment.

Yibo looked at him and repeated, “That won’t happen.”

Zhan sneered, “Whatever you say.”

Anyway, I no longer believed his words.

After all that happened, Zhan would no longer trust Yibo like a fool.

Last night, he wondered why Yibo would come home for the night.

It turned out he knew the subpoena would come today.

After breakfast, Yibo left again, Maybe he went to the company, or the hospital.

He had many things to do recently.

Zhan stood in front of the French window on the second floor and watched Yibo get into the car and leave.

He took out his phone and called Ziyi.

“Ziyi, I want to ask you a favor.”

“Go ahead.” Ziyi would never refuse him.

And Zhan would never ask her for too much.

“Get some reporters or paparazzi to Yibo’s mansion.”

When Ziyi heard this, she was confused and her tone became serious, “Zhan, what are you doing?”

“I know what I’m doing.” Zhan paused for a moment and said, “Don’t worry, I can handle it.”

When Ziyi heard his words, she asked no more.

After hanging up the phone, Zhan sat quietly for a while and began to throw things.

He smashed everything that could be smashed.

The sound brought the servants over.

It was chaos, When they saw him, Zhan was holding a lamp and was about to smash it to the floor.

His cold face and determination reminded them of Yibo.

Zhan throw the lamp onto the floor.

Bang!

It was torn into piece

When he raised his head, they saw no expression in his eyes, he said coldly. “Leave me alone.”

When the servants heard this, they didn’t dare to come in.

They just looked at Zhan nervously, afraid that he would do something to hurt himself.

If anything happened to Zhan, there would be no tomorrow for them.

A servant tried to comfort him, “Mrs. Wang, don’t worry. We won’t come in.”

At this moment, Ciao walked over.

Seeing the mess in the room, Ciao was shocked, “Mrs. Wang, what happened? Would it be fine if I called Mr. Wang?”

“Don’t call him.” Zhan took two steps forward, avoiding the rubbish, “Just leaves me alone, and you are not allowed to call Yibo. I am very annoyed now, and don’t want to see all of you, Just get out of here.”

Ciao cried out with an awkward expression, “Mrs. Wang!”

Zhan frowned and looked at her, “You, too!”

Ciao had never seen Zhan act in such an unreasonable manner.

After working in the mansion for so long, it was the first time she had seen Zhan lose his temper.

Considering what had happened recently, Ciao understood.

She turned around and instructed the others, “Let’s go.”

They went out and walked into the courtyard.

It was still cold, Zhan stood in front of the window and watched them trembling in the wind. He also saw a bodyguard calling Yibo.

He didn’t have much time.

Zhan took out his winter sports clothes in the cloakroom and found himself a cap. He put his laptop, household register, passport and other necessities together in a bag, and carried it downstairs.

He carried his bag to the kitchen.

Behind the kitchen was a lumber room with a back door for servants to handle groceries.

But the back door was also guarded by bodyguards.

Zhan put his bag in the lumber room and found a tank of gasoline. After locking the back door, he walked to the hall and closed the door, locking it from inside.

Zhan carried the gasoline up to the second floor and slowly poured it down the corridor all the way to the hall.

He lit the lighter and looked in the direction of the door.

Outside the door, a bodyguard realized something was wrong and was knocking on the door.

“Mrs, Wang! Mrs, Wang, are you alright?”

Zhan did not hesitate and threw the lighter onto the sofa with gasoline on it.

The sofa immediately lit up.

BOOM!

With a loud boom, the fire burned all the way to the second floor.

The fire spread quickly

Zhan quickly returned to the lumber room behind the kitchen, took his bag and hid behind the door.

The fire was burning from the sofa in the living room to the corridor on the second floor, which was exactly the center of the mansion, After seven or eight minutes, the fire grow stronger, the bodyguards tried to break in.

There were a lot of them. Some of them tried to smash through main entrance door, while others tried the back door.

There weren’t many bodyguards in the back door, and they quickly broke it front door open and rushed in.

Recently, the news about Mr. Qiren had gone viral online, and all the servants and bodyguards in the mansion knew about it.

Zhan was just a young boy in his early twenties. It was natural for them to think Zhan would commit suicide under such great pressure.

Therefore, they thought Zhan lit the mansion to kill himself.

They smashed the door open and rushed into the mansion.

Zhan seized the opportunity and snuck out when they were trying to put out the fire.

The mansion was built halfway up a hill. Zhan guessed that Yibo had already bought the whole area when he built the mansion because there were no other mansions nearby.

That also facilitated Zhan’s escape.

He hid in the woods and watched coldly as all the bodyguards and servants rushed into the mansion, However, they all ran out because of the fire.

Smoke could be seen rising into the air above the mansion.

Then, two cars stopped at the door.

Some reporters got off and began to take pictures, And they also kept asking the servants and bodyguards questions.

It was rather chaotic.

Zhan curled his lips and turned around to go down the hill along a path.

He had made his point.

In the past twenty years, he already had enough in the Xiao family.

He put up with it because Jingtong was his biological mother.

After what happened to Qiren, he put up with all the blame, because he trusted Yibo.

But they all let him down.

Perhaps Yibo did not lie to him. Yibo would not let him sit in the dock and be slandered by others.

But Zhan did not want to entrust his destiny to a man in such a humble way.

Zhan and Yibo were not equal in their relationship.

Yibo was domineering and always wanted to control him.

This was not the first time Yibo had restricted Zhan’s freedom.

Even if Mr. Qiren didn’t the accident, he and Yibo would have had other issues to quarrel about.

He didn’t want to wait for the hearing in anxiety and should do something to find out the truth.

Although the Wangs had huge influence and power while he was just a nobody, he believed that truth would come out eventually.

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