Chapter 121
“You’d better take your eyes off my wife. Didn’t the teachers at your school teach you what propriety, righteousness, integrity, and shame mean?” Xu Ke interrupted Jiang Cheng’s confession coldly, the anger in his heart was like an overwhelming wave, although Xu Ke was trying hard to restrain himself, Lin Mengyao still noticed his slightly trembling body due to anger.
“With a domestic abuser, there’s no need to talk about propriety, righteousness, integrity, and shame.” Jiang Cheng retorted bluntly.
“Wait, I need to interrupt. I don’t know what you’ve imagined, or what misleading things my mother told you, but Xu Ke has never abused me. In fact, he respects me very much, our relationship is very good, and I have no intention of divorcing him.” Lin Mengyao interjected.
“You don’t need to be afraid of him, Miss Lin. With so many of us here, he won’t dare do anything to you. If you’re worried that he might abuse you after we leave, you can come and stay at my house, and stay as long as you want. If you’re not used to it, my family would also be willing to come and stay here with you.” Jiang Cheng extended his hand to Lin Mengyao, displaying a gentlemanly demeanor.
“Do you not understand human language? I said our relationship is very good, and this home is complete with just our family, we don’t need extra people coming in. Did you understand that? You’re not my savior, and I don’t need you to rescue me because I’m doing just fine and don’t need rescuing. Was what I just said clear enough? Did you understand?”
Lin Mengyao’s repeated inquiries of whether he understood made Jiang Cheng’s face suddenly darken, and even more so was Jiang Cheng’s mother’s face, which was as black as the bottom of a pot.
“Truly like a dog biting Lu Dongbin, failing to recognize a good heart. Our child was helping you out of goodwill, and you speak like this. Your upbringing is really something I dare not compliment. People like you are only fit to marry such a useless person, a wretched person paired with a lousy one, just perfect, to spare others’ sons from being harmed.” Jiang Cheng’s mother looked at Lin Mengyao with mocking eyes, sneering as she spoke.
“What did you just say, say it again, do you believe I’ll find someone to make your son’s job go up in flames?” Li Lihua stepped forward, pointing at Jiang Cheng’s mother’s nose with harsh words.
“Sure, go ahead and try, see if you succeed.” Jiang Cheng’s mother folded her arms, rolled her eyes at Li Lihua, and said mockingly.
“Truly long hair but short knowledge, I thought you had changed, but turns out you’re as shortsighted as before, only able to frighten people. Jiahe isn’t owned by your family; do you say fire someone and do it? Really makes me laugh. At your age, please lessen your watching of those bizarre TV dramas because I fear you’ll one day think you’re an angel after watching them and jump off a building and die.” Jiang Cheng’s mother covered her mouth and chuckled.
“Before the property management comes to kick you out, I’ll give you a chance to apologize, otherwise what he said will become a reality.” Xu Ke put the just-finished phone call phone back into his pocket and, with a cold voice, nodded towards Jiang Cheng’s mother.
“Hmph, really makes me laugh, no wonder you all became a family, turns out it’s not just one person who’s crazy but the whole family. I don’t need your property management to kick me out, I can leave myself. We’ll see who’s son is really fired by the company, or if your odd family floats up to heaven and jumps to their deaths. What a bunch, pfft! Son, let’s go!” Jiang Cheng’s mother grabbed her bag from the sofa, turned rather haughtily, and said coldly to her son Jiang Cheng.
When Jiang Cheng and his mother left, the other people also gradually took their leave, only Song Meishu deliberately approached Li Lihua before leaving, with a mocking tone, said, “Today’s drama was really wonderful, the movies and TV shows I usually watch can’t compete with this at all, you’re truly the joy of our class for decades without change.”
“I’ll often ask you out to play in the future, don’t refuse when the time comes. I hope your future acts can be as exciting as today’s.” After saying this, Song Meishu swayed her snake-like waist, her graceful figure leaving the sight of others behind.
In the blink of an eye, the people in the villa were gone, looking at Xu Ke and Lin Mengyao’s gazes directed at her, Li Lihua somewhat sheepishly shrank her neck back, “It’s late, I’m a bit tired, I’ll go rest.” Li Lihua gestured with her hand and turned to leave.
“Stop! Don’t you want to explain today’s incident?” Xu Ke, blocking half of Lin Mengyao’s body, said coldly.
Initially, Lin Mengyao intended to plead for Li Lihua, but considering what Li Lihua just did, it indeed touched her bottom line. Lin Mengyao hoped that Li Lihua would learn from this and not do such things like matchmaking again in the future.
“What do I have to explain to you? Nothing to say, you’re simply not worthy of Mengyao. What’s wrong with me finding someone better for Mengyao? You’ve wasted Mengyao’s three years, do you want to waste her whole life? How can you be so selfish, can’t you let Mengyao seek her happiness? Besides, Mengyao bought this house. The gap between the two of you is too big, don’t you know?” Li Lihua felt she wasn’t wrong in this matter, thus spoke confidently and assertively.
“Who told you I bought this house?” Lin Mengyao frowned, looking at Li Lihua with a somewhat complicated expression.
“I told you to greet the security at the gate before, and they really let us in. What does that signify? It shows you’re the homeowner, and he’s just taking the chance to retaliate against me. A man so narrow-minded, what’s the use of having him, not cooking, not doing housework, even not finding a job, tagging along behind you like a tail. Tell me, what can such a person give you? Besides a face, what else does he have to offer?”
“If I don’t marry you off while you’re young, what’s going to happen when you’re old and I can’t find a match for you? Who could you marry then?”
“She’s already married to me. Making her marry again would be committing bigamy.” Xu Ke remained expressionless, speaking coldly, but his eyes were filled with sparks.