Jiang Qingyi has never been one to have a tolerable temper.
The slap she gave was clean and decisive, without a mont’s hesitation.
Even afterward, she didn’t regret it one bit.
She regarded Mo Yuan with cold eyes, incredulous, "I’ve long been displeased with you. Who do you think you are to flaunt your power above !"
Mo Yuan, although angry, only covered her reddened cheek without causing a conflict with Jiang Qingyi.
She looked at Jiang Qingyi and spoke coldly:
"Jiang Qingyi, this is the first and only ti. Next ti, even if Jiang Fengmian cos, I won’t let it go so easily."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Qingyi was furious and was about to swing her arm to hit Mo Yuan again when An Ge stepped in to stop her.
Jiang Qingyi turned and looked at her with reddened eyes, "An An, she’s going to ride over your neck, how can you tolerate it?"
An Ge, having dealt with Mo Yuan before, knew well of Mo Yuan’s insidious ans, so she didn’t want Jiang Qingyi to suffer at her hands.
At this mont, she spoke to Jiang Qingyi:
"She is now the apple of President Huo’s eye; opposing her ans opposing President Huo. If your relationship with President Huo deteriorates, the saddest person would be Mrs. Huo."
As they spoke, Housekeeper Su, who was close to Mrs. Huo, approached.
Housekeeper Su walked up to Jiang Qingyi and An Ge, speaking with extre respect:
"Miss Jiang, Miss An, Madam asked to co over and invite you to co along."
An Ge nodded to him, "Alright."
Housekeeper Su slightly nodded, then walked over to Mo Yuan and said:
"Miss Mo, Madam heard about your visit and specifically asked to deliver a ssage. She said she doesn’t welco you, please return."
Mo Yuan’s face turned unpleasant.
But, she too was soone capable of enduring.
She said, "Madam doesn’t welco , it’s okay." Pause, "Please trouble Housekeeper Su to pass a ssage to Huo Shaoyan, tell him I’ll be waiting for him at his East Garden."
Housekeeper Su nodded, "Sure."
...
On the other side.
Mrs. Huo called out to Huo Shaoyan, who was about to leave, "Stop."
Huo Shaoyan’s steps paused, looking at Mrs. Huo:
"I am nearing the date of my marriage with Mo Yuan, yet you haven’t formally t her, your granddaughter-in-law. I’ll bring her over to let her serve you tea..."
Mrs. Huo replied coldly, "I won’t drink her tea."
Huo Shaoyan raised his eyebrows and chuckled lightly, "If you won’t drink her tea, whose tea do you plan to drink?"
Following his words, Mrs. Huo tossed a docunt onto him,
"Huo Shaoyan, I don’t care if you’ve lost your mory or your mind is completely broken, as a human, you cannot be without conscience. Look carefully at this yourself; do you truly think you’ve treated An Ge fairly?"
Huo Shaoyan bent over and picked up the docunt scattered at his feet.
The first page was a printed A4 sheet.
On it was a pregnant woman nearing labor, having her blood drawn, with the blood bag showing a capacity of 200 milliliters.
Huo Shaoyan recognized the woman in the photo as his so-called ex-wife, An Ge.
He frowned, perplexed, and asked, "What is this?"
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Huo felt the urge to hit him with her cane.
She lifted her cane and fiercely jabbed it into his chest, anger infusing her thrusts heavily,
"What is this? This is a photo from five years ago, with An Ge risking her life in late pregnancy to donate blood to treat your strange illness. How convenient for you, with your broken mind, to have forgotten it all completely."
Huo Shaoyan knitted his brows tightly.
His Phoenix Eyes fell again on the woman in the photo.
Though she was in the late stage of pregnancy, aside from the prominently protruding belly, she looked terribly thin.
Not only thin, but she also appeared extrely disheveled.
Her hair must have gone unkempt for a long ti—
Yellowed, frizzy, yet reaching down to her waist.
This photo was likely snapped when she noticed being photographed, as she lifted her head to look at the lens.
Her gaze lacked focus, which led Huo Shaoyan to associate it with the word desolate.
Desolate, an utterly poignant word.
In those brief seconds, Huo Shaoyan felt his heart struck heavily like a hit by a hard object, a dense discomfort swelling within.
But apart from that, he felt nothing else.
He spoke to Mrs. Huo in a cold tone, "Oh, then what does it prove?"
Mrs. Huo almost fainted with rage from his words.
She started hitting him with her cane, "Are you still human?"
Huo Shaoyan stood there, not dodging the strikes, his figure straight and unyielding, allowing the cane to hit him relentlessly.
Just like this, Mrs. Huo beca even more angered, more furious.
She hit and cursed simultaneously:
"Back then, she carried your twin children, spending the entire pregnancy nourishing your life with her own blood. Even if you don’t rember her, even if she is a complete stranger to you, it is an undeniable fact that she saved your life with her blood. Just for this, you cannot be so unfeeling and ungrateful to her..."
Huo Shaoyan found Mrs. Huo’s words sowhat absurd.
At this mont, he raised his hand to stop the cane Mrs. Huo swung at him, his mood sowhat dark, and he said coldly:
"Just because I have divorced her, just because I want to start a new family with another woman, just because I’m not willing to go back to her, does that make heartless and unjust towards her?"
Mrs. Huo: "..."
Huo Shaoyan continued:
"I don’t think I was heartless and unjust. I did a rough investigation and confird that there was indeed a marriage relationship between us, but it was entangled with interests from the start, without any affection. Since there was no affection, it can be cut off. And I’m also sure,
that the divorce was her own idea. It’s said that before I got hurt in the head, I was like a dog begging for her, but it never changed her mind. So, it’s already in the past, why not just be strangers? It would be better if we don’t interfere with each other, wouldn’t we both be happy?"
Mrs. Huo was so angry that she almost blacked out.
She took a deep breath and said to him:
"You keep saying that An Ge is a thing of the past, just a stranger to you now, and you have no feelings for her. But do you have feelings for Mo Yuan? Do you even know what kind of person this woman is? You think Mo Yuan is the love of your life..."
The man interrupted her before she could finish,
"Of course she is the love of my life, otherwise why would I willingly want to marry her?"
As they spoke, Housekeeper Su brought An Ge and Jiang Qingyi in from outside.
The crisp autumn morning, the sunlight was tender, giving a very comfortable feeling.
The woman walking towards them from that tender sunlight exuded a chilling and dilapidated aura contrasting sharply with it.
Has it only been a week?
He rembered that a week ago, she disappeared into the rain at Fengqiao Villa with a large black umbrella.
At that ti, she looked skinny, but not as frail as she does now.
As she approached, she brought a breeze.
The loose dress highlighted her pregnancy belly slightly.
Her chin was sharpened by weight loss, and her originally bright and clear peach blossom eyes were now dim.
As she walked by, she didn’t even cast a glance at him.
She only walked up to the old lady, and in a tone as if a junior was acting cute to an elder, softly called out, "Grandma, I’ve co to see you."
When she called Mrs. Huo "Grandma," it brought tears to Mrs. Huo’s eyes.
She looked at An Ge with anguish, her hands trembling as she held An Ge’s hands, "Girl, how did you beco so thin?"
An Ge smiled at her and said, "I’ve been a bit unwell lately, my appetite hasn’t been good..."
Jiang Qingyi interrupted An Ge’s words, saying to Mrs. Huo:
"An An got caught in the heavy rain a week ago at Fengqiao Villa, and since then she’s been seriously ill, bedridden for a week, how could she not look emaciated?"
After saying this, Jiang Qingyi shot a fierce glare at Huo Shaoyan.
Huo Shaoyan directly ignored her glare, his eyes falling on An Ge’s paper-white face as he spoke with seemingly no emotion:
"Since your health is poor, you should take advantage of the fetus being small and get rid of it."
He paused,
"Don’t let your montary selfishness burden the baby, causing it to be born unhealthy..."
These words were too cold.
So cold that it even stirred An Ge’s emotions.
She looked up, her beautiful peach blossom eyes shooting out a chill.
She looked at him silently, without saying a word.
Huo Shaoyan raised an eyebrow at her, seemingly puzzled, and said:
"What did I say wrong? You’re a woman with a congenital heart defect, in poor health, yet you’re still risking your life to have a child who will lack paternal love, you’re clearly not a qualified mother... slap—"
The crisp sound of a slap abruptly cut off his words.
An Ge’s slap sounded heavy.
In fact, she didn’t have much strength, so it wasn’t that hard.
But for a man to be slapped by a woman, it ans a loss of face for a man.
Especially for a man like Huo Shaoyan.
His face instantly turned cold, and even because of anger, his phoenix eyes reddened.
His hands, hanging by his sides, clenched tightly into fists, and the aura around him beca more intense.
Before he could get angry, An Ge spoke coldly: "Huo Shaoyan, mind your words and accumulate so virtue for the children."
With just that sentence said, she withdrew her gaze from him and turned it to Mrs. Huo, saying:
"Grandma, I ca to see you, not him, and certainly not to be mistreated and upset. Please let him leave. Seeing him might shorten my life."
Mrs. Huo naturally sided with An Ge.
After An Ge finished speaking, she unceremoniously told him to leave,
"Didn’t you just say you were leaving, well now leave, don’t stand here being annoying..."
Huo Shaoyan interrupted her,
"I didn’t say I was leaving. What I ant was bringing Mo Yuan over to see you. She will soon be your granddaughter-in-law, according to the Huo Family’s ancestral rules, she must serve tea to you..."
Mrs. Huo: "Serve tea? I won’t drink her tea!"
Huo Shaoyan: "Whether or not you drink is your business, serving tea is ours."
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