Arrogant Man VS Unyielding Woman novel Chapter 451

"He works for you. I surely shouldn't involve myself in it." Jean rolled her eyes at Zed and added,"But can you please tone down the fierceness? You look unfamiliar to me in that avatar and I get scared."

"Alright. I promise you that I will control myself from now on." Zed looked Jean in the eye to assure her of his genuineness and nodded his head.

Zed making a promise to Jean in a heartbeat gladdened her. Still, the thought of her mother's death at the back of her head brought her spirits down. She lowered her head in gloomy silence.

Noticing Jean's low spirits, Zed realized what she was thinking about at once. He consoled her with encouraging words. "Jean, don't think too much. Your mother is already gone. We can't do anything to bring her back so please don't cry any more. What boils my blood is that Joy tried to kill you too. I'll definitely make her suffer for it."

"How are you going to add to her suffering?" Jean was curious about what Zed meant by this. She shrugged her shoulders and added,"Only if she goes to the police office and confesses what she did to my mother, will she meet an end that she deserves."

"Do you prefer her to die or live to suffer?" Zed questioned Jean with a grave look.

Jean mulled over what Zed had just said. It was only at this point that Jean understood what Zed meant by "suffering".

Thinking of all the realities she could have subjected Joy to, Jean shook her head in the end. "Never mind. Though I really want to torture her, I don't want you to break the law for me. What are you going to do with Shirley?"

"Our promise to Joy will have to be honoured. It's easy. Once Shirley is condemned to a life sentence, it's done," Zed said.

"Yes." Having Zed stand by her through thick and thin had bolstered Jean's confidence greatly. She was relieved to have him by her side in facing all of this.

"Why are you nervous? It need not be done illegally. Don't worry." Zed laughed to make the matters light and to make Jean see things differently.

"I know that." Jean smiled back at Zed and added,"But I hate the fact that we'd have to get involved..." Jean held Zed's hands in affection.

"Don't think too much. It's much easier for me to do that before she gets sentenced." Zed squeezed her hands tightly and said,"I find you becoming smarter and smarter with each passing day. Did you plan all this a long time ago? Is this why you returned to the Wen Group? To look for the truth behind your mother's death? Why are you so silly? Why did you do that alone?"

"If I told you earlier that there's something wrong with my mother's death, would you have let me look into it?" Jean asked, scanning his face for any disagreeable expression.

"Of course. What made you think I wouldn't?" Ruffled by her doubts, Zed said in an assured tone,"Whatever you want to do, as long as you promise to be safe, I'll support you."

"I know you would. But you might have restricted me, and perhaps slowed me down, preventing me from getting close to the truth in time. Fortunately, I found an important clue. Or I won't have had the chance to get Joy to tell me the truth. Zed, after Joy is convicted, let's visit my mother."

Jean finally voiced the thought that had been coming to her again and again. She warmly looked into Zed's eyes.

"Sure." Zed gazed back at Jean and got excited at once. "I've been waiting to visit mother ever since we got married. Now I finally have your word on it."

Jean was flummoxed seeing Zed react this way. She couldn't get where the sudden excitement was coming from. But soon she put two and two together and felt flush with emotions as it struck her that Zed had been waiting to get formally introduced to her parent.

Overwhelmed by his niceness, she put her arms around his neck and said in a choked voice,"Zed, why are you so good to me? I'm worried that I don't deserve you. And because of this, I fear letting you down someday."

"Shh, don't say that!" Zed shushed Jean by pressing his finger on Jean's lips. He stroked her cheek gently and said,"All I know is that I'm happy to have you by my side. It'd have been better to have met you earlier so that you wouldn't have to go through so much of suffering."