Entangled: Crisscross - Chapter 59

Sera was bothered.

Hot and bothered.

She looked in the direction of the master’s bedroom before she finished her second glass of water. She should have just accompanied him in the shower. Sera felt her cheeks turned hot, the heat spreading from her face to the other parts of her body. What was she thinking? Why was she so bothered by his words? She stared at her phone before she slowly walked back to her office.

The fact that she needed to walk past their room wasn’t making her feel any better. She walked inside her office and realized that she actually needed to work. After staring at her computer for a few minutes, she smiled and opened the video with Zhang Xin. After a few video manipulations, she pressed enter and sent the video to both Zhang Xin, her husband, Nick Zhang, and Zhang Ying.

Meanwhile, Zhang Xin was trying to beg her husband to believe her. She didn’t hurt Sera, it was the other way around.

“Nick, why would you believe that woman? It’s easy to create videos now! Especially for someone like her, that is very used to computers. Do you really think I would hurt her just because your father wanted to see her? Nick! I am not that dense!” Zhang Xin’s tears were already streaming down her cheeks as she slammed her palm on the table in her husband’s office. “I want to see father and talk— ”

“He refused to see you.”

“But — ” Zhang Xin was interrupted when Nick suddenly chuckled.

“All these years, I always believe whatever it is that you said. But… now…”

“Nick… what are you saying?”

“I don’t know Xin… I don’t know.” Nick massaged his temple before he let out a long sigh. The old man said something about voting for the CEO. However, Nick had been calling the board of directors and found out that the old man never mentioned this to them. What was going on?

Nick’s head had been hurting because of the current situation. Then here comes Zhang Xin and her shrill voice.

“I want to see him. I can explain everything. I am sure that— ”

“Can you stop that?”

“What?” Zhang Xin instantly paled when she heard her husband raised his voice. Nick… Nick never treated her like this before. Was it because he believed the video?

*DING*

Zhang Xin stared as her husband opened his phone. Wondering why his face darkened? A foreboding feeling suddenly hit her. “Nick?”

“Someone sent the video to me.” Nick showed her his phone. “Check your phone.”

“I — “Without waiting, Zhang Xin run towards her phone that she left on the sofa inside his office. She immediately opened her email and saw the video. “This— It must be Sera! She did this! Look! She is trying to blackmail me!”

“She wouldn’t do that.”

“Nick! How could you— ”

“How could I be so sure? Because it wouldn’t make sense. She was just announced as the heir and on the same day, she would send you some text to blackmail you? Wasn’t she scared that we will show this to father? Plus, sending us the email would be akin to telling us that she edited the video. She wouldn’t risk making my father angry. I am sure she wouldn’t want father to rescind his decision to make her the heir.”

Zhang Xin turned silent as she played the video. She lowered her head, trying her best to hide the rage in her eyes. Who would have thought that Sera would have this kind of talent? She actually hid a camera inside her house and recorded what happened? How dare she?

She fumed as her hand tightened against her phone. It seems that the current situation is really against Zhang Xin and her daughter.

Should Zhang Xin just kill the old man and frame Sera?

That would be the best-case scenario!

*BANG*

The sound of Nick’s office being abruptly open made Zhang Xin flinched. “What the — Yingying… what is happening?” she asked her daughter, who is already crying.

“Is this true?”

“Yingying… I…”

“Mother, is this true!?”

“No. Of course, it is not true! I would never do that to Sera.” She immediately approached her daughter as an idea started growing inside her head. “But… I believe Sera is trying to frame me. She must be… she must be trying to have her revenge because we kick her out years ago for hurting you.”

“Zhang Xin, what are you saying!?” Nick chimed in. He didn’t want her own daughter to hear his wife’s poisonous words. But judging from Zhang Ying’s reaction, it was clear that she was already used to this. She didn’t show any surprise or anger.

More like she was annoyed that someone is trying to fight against her.

Nick never noticed this before.

All this time, he was busy working in the company, he rarely spent time with his wife and daughter. Before the video, before his father confirmed that the video was real, he never once doubted Zhang Xin’s words and reactions before.

However now…

It seems that his eyes would automatically scrutinize Zhang Xin’s words and actions.

“Isn’t it true? Sera must have poisoned the old man’s mind. She must have said something. Nick, think about it. Our Yingying is excellent, smart, and beautiful. Everyone adored her. Everyone in Cone Lands thought that she is the heiress. Sera must have thought that everything should have been hers, considering that she was actually older than our daughter! That woman is scheming against our Yingying!”

Nick’s face instantly darkened. This was about the video! This was about Zhang Xin framing Sera. How did it become Sera, bullying their daughter?

“Mother… please calm down.”

“What do you mean, calm down? Yingying, that woman is trying to hurt you. She already succeeded and made your grandfather gave her what was rightfully yours! I am not going to allow her to continue ruining your life!”

“Zhang Xin! If anyone is trying to ruin your daughter’s life that would be you!” Nick’s sharp voice made her already panicked wife stilled. Zhang Xin stared at him in disbelief.

“What did you say?” Zhang Xin asked.