Chapter 146: Chapter 146: Slapping the Stepmother Chapter 146: Chapter 146: Slapping the Stepmother When Lu Xining couldn’t find the three children, she had Monkey bring people over.
She looked around and not only found that the servants who had been following the three children were gone but also that the bodyguards following Ji Chao and Ji Ze were from the Ji Family Mansion, and not the ones Ji Muye usually left with the children.
She glanced at the people gathered near the lawn pool, Most of them were riffraff from the circle, all new faces she had never seen before.
The real tycoon heirs and key personnel were currently in the banquet hall, clinking glasses and discussing possible collaborations between their two companies.
After all, those who were invited by Old Sir Ji to attend the banquet were mostly outstanding figures.
This was certainly more convenient than having secretaries schedule a eting.
The first floor of the banquet hall had many individual resting spots, ancient-style screens embroidered with exquisite patterns sectioned off separate spaces for the big shots to talk.
Because the lawn and pool were on the other side of the hall, the crowd hadn’t seen anything happening outside.
At the mont, those attacking and mocking Lu Xining were either incompetent rich second generations, or short-sighted won with dirty tactics for climbing the ladder, just like Zhang Yuzhi.
They envied Lu Xining’s beauty, her two sons who were the future heirs of the Ji Family, and her stunningly beautiful daughter, Lu Nuonuo.
At that mont, Zhang Yuzhi’s face was an ashen mixture of green and white; she warned Lu Xining not to talk nonsense.
Lu Xining imdiately checked the red spot on her daughter’s forehead to ensure the skin wasn’t broken, and sighed slightly in relief.
She responded coldly to Zhang Yuzhi, “Zhang Yuzhi, have you forgotten the warning I gave you to not provoke and my children, or else you’d bear the consequences?”
This was the Ji Family Mansion, Zhang Yuzhi didn’t believe Lu Xining dared to make a scene here.
She brazenly said, “If you have the guts, just…”
Slap, slap! Lu Xining’s hand swiftly struck Zhang Yuzhi’s cheek before anyone could cover their ears.
The air was suddenly filled with the sound of gasps.
Nobody could believe that Lu Xining, holding her daughter in one arm, fiercely slapped Zhang Yuzhi twice with her other hand.
Even before Zhang Yuzhi could recover and retort, Lu Xining added two more slaps.
The sound was loud, and it nearly made Zhang Yuzhi unstable on her feet, her cheek instantly swelling up and showing clear fingerprints.
Little Dumpling opened his mouth wide in shock, looking at the elderly lady across from him whose cheeks and eyes were now swollen.
His watery eyes forgot to cry, wiping the corners of his eyes and quickly hugging Lu Xining’s neck.
Lu Nuonuo exclaid, “Wow! Mom is so cool!”
Ji Chao and Ji Ze were also shocked; they hadn’t expected their mother’s attitude towards dealing with bad people to be, “If you can hit, don’t talk?”
Lu Xining stroked her daughter’s head and stood in front of her two sons, giving them a sense of security with her actions.
Among the crowd ca mocking whispers.
“No wonder the Ji Family doesn’t want this woman as a daughter-in-law. She has a violent streak, it seems.”
“Doing this in front of the children, she doesn’t act like a mother at all. If my daughter-in-law dared to treat like this, I would definitely discipline her in my family’s way. What sort of example is she setting climbing on top of her elders!”
Beauty, in the face of absolute social status and background, often becos the subject of so n’s casual amusent.
In the crowd, aside from the won who disapproved of Lu Xining’s behavior, there were sleazy n making lewd comnts.
“Don’t get wrong, this woman is really good-looking. If I could sleep with her once, I’d wake up laughing in my dreams.”
The burning pain on Zhang Yuzhi’s face made her glare furiously at Lu Xining.
With so many watching, she had to regain control of the situation, or else who knew how she would be criticized.
“I’m not wrong, am I? Lu Xining, do you dare say who your daughter’s father is?”
Lu Xining stared back at Zhang Yuzhi’s ferocious eyes, never understanding why she kept coming after her.
“If you’re saying it’s because I put Zhang Yuqiang behind bars to get a taste of ‘room and board,’ then what about the first ti?”
Zhang Yuzhi still thought she had intimidated Lu Xining with her words, a surge of pleasure flooding her heart as she listened to the murmurs of the people around.
She continued, “Can’t say it, can you? You probably don’t even know who the father of your daughter is!”
Lu Xining couldn’t help but wonder, what had she done to give Zhang Yuzhi the impression that she was an easy target?
Was it because she hadn’t been harsh enough last ti?
She didn’t like the sa trouble showing up again and again before her.
Thus, this ti, she must resolve the issue with Zhang Yuzhi!
Lu Xining’s gaze was icy, briefly sweeping over her adversary as she said, “What does it matter to you who the father of my daughter is?”
Zhang Yuzhi subconsciously responded, “You wouldn’t want to break up soone else’s family, so that’s why you keep refusing to tell anyone who the biological father of this little ‘wild one’…this little girl, is, right?”
“Ms. Zhang, are you talking about yourself?”
Lu Xining landed a verbal one-hit kill.
Only then did the onlookers recall that Zhang Yuzhi was the one who had climbed into Mr. Ji’s bed while his wife was in confinent.
Zhang Yuzhi’s face turned a burning red from Lu Xining’s remark, her chest heaving in anger.
Among those around were so connections she had just recently made.
After all, having married Mr. Ji for over twenty years, it would take an especially pointed reminder from so well-inford individual for a lady who had married into Jingzhou’s elite from another city to be unaware of her specific situation with Mr. Ji.
It was relying on this information asymtry that Zhang Yuzhi had managed to stabilize those ladies and get them to invest in her family’s company.
Lu Xining waited until her daughter in her arms had cald down before placing her on the sofa.
Ji Chao and Ji Ze imdiately went to take Little Dumpling’s hands, one on each side, fearing she might get hurt again.
Standing up, Lu Xining glanced coldly at the two bodyguards following her, causing them to flinch and guiltily turn their faces away.
Lu Xining was not in a hurry; she knew she would settle this account one by one!
When she turned back to confront Zhang Yuzhi, the icy look in her eyes, coupled with her upward curling lips, hardly seed like she would let her off easily.
“What are you going to do? Don’t forget this is the Ji Family ho, I am the lady of the Ji Family, you… ah!”
Zhang Yuzhi broke down as her elegantly styled hair was caught in Lu Xining’s grasp and she was dragged all the way to the swimming pool and kicked into it.
After choking on several mouthfuls of water, Zhang Yuzhi struggled to climb out only to have Lu Xining grab her hair again, pinning her down in the pool.
“Cough cough… let… glug glug… let go… glug…”
After several attempts, Zhang Yuzhi, terrified by Lu Xining’s actions, had her pupils dilate.
As soon as she was let go, she imdiately moved to the middle of the pool, fearful that the madwoman might co at her again.
She turned to the onlooking crowd and cried, “Quick, go find soone!”
“I am Ji Lingyuan’s wife! Are you just going to stand by and watch be bullied by this madwoman?”
However, at that mont, the Mr. Ji ntioned by Zhang Yuzhi was nearby in a car, engaged in a pleasurable activity with a young girl.
His eyes were hazy, and his body soon began to tremble.
The girl wiped the corner of her mouth, looked up seductively at him and asked, “Darling, when are you going to end it with that old woman? I want to be with you every day, you know.”
Mr. Ji adjusted his trousers, stroked the girl’s head as though petting an animal, and was about to kiss her but recoiled slightly at the sight of her lipstick.
“Just a little longer, almost there.”
He opened the car door and walked towards the mansion, unaware of the kind of explosion that awaited him.
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