47 You've Lost Yourself 1
Lin Qianrou shook her head slightly and smiled bitterly.
"It's alright. It can't be that much of a secret if you've already heard about the issue. Wen would have told if it was that serious."
Everyone knew except her… Her eyes were stung with tears, which she tried to suppress.
She wasn't sure whom she was trying to convince here, was it Li Yuanyi or herself?
"Listen, just in case Wen doesn't arrive tonight. I'll pick up your bill. Don't worry about it." Li Yuanyi offered but she politely declined. It was good enough for him to pull her out from the dark and told her the truth.
"Thank you, Brother Yuan." She forced a smile before deciding to excuse herself to go ho.
When she reached her car and buckled herself up, Qian couldn't stop her tears any longer and broke down into tears. How could Wen do this to her? He promised her that he would be there tonight but not even his shadow could be seen now.
Her shaky fingers dialed Li ili's number in despair. After three rings, her friend picked up her call. She didn't want to go back to an empty ho where she knew her husband wouldn't be.
"Hey, Qian. What's up? How's your date? Care to share so juicy details?" She heard Li ili's teasing voice at the other end of the line.
"ili, can I stay with you tonight? I don't wanna go ho right now." Lin Qianrou said, almost pleading.
"Where are you? Do I need to pick you up? What did that bastard husband of yours do this ti?" The sudden change in Li ili's voice wasn't lost to Lin Qianrou. Unlike Li ili's older brother who was calm and proper, Li ili tended to be playful sotis, but she was also the kind of friend that would jump in front of you to protect you.
"I'll drive. No worries. I just need so ti to calm down." Qian replied to ili.
"Alright but you better be careful. Don't overspeed, woman! I know you get thrilled when you're speed driving!" Li ili reminded her.
Lin Qianrou drove straight to Li ili's apartnt. Going back to the empty Xu Mansion wasn't one of her options right now. She'd rather stay here at Li ili's place than to face the reality that her husband would never have enough ti for her… for their child.
She pulled into a parking spot next to Li ili's car and killed the engine before making her way up to Li ili's apartnt building. This was one of the pri apartnt complexes within Shenzhen, along with the North Star complex.
The anities here were top notch, no wonder Li ili chose this place. The walls and the floor were in pristine condition, reminding her of the five star hotel anities she'd seen before.
She reached Li ili's floor and rang the doorbell.
"Co on in!" Li ili unlocked her door and let her in before she looked around, making sure that Li Qianrou arrived alone. She closed the door as soon as Qian stepped in.
"Sorry to barge in this late ili," Lin Qianrou's voice sounded defeated.
"It's alright. I have nothing to do anyway. I was thinking of dropping by Moyu's place, but she told she wasn't ho yet." Li ili yelled from the kitchen as she prepared fresh squeezed juice for Qian while she made tea for herself.
"Here." She handed the juice to Lin Qianrou while she poured herself so tea. "Mind telling why you are here, instead of celebrating with your husband?" She raised a brow at Lin Qianrou.
"Sister Yan just divorced her husband."
Li ili brought down her tea cup and frowned at her friend. "What is that supposed to an?" She was staring at Qian now.
Lin Qianrou shut her eyes and tried to rein her emotions in control.
"I an I heard from your brother that Sister Yan wants to divorce her husband because he has a child with another woman. Wen went to Guangzhou to check on her."
There was a mont of silence between them before Li ili started to spout a stream of curses at Xu Wenyang.
"You've got to be kidding !" She exclaid.
Lin Qianrou lowered her head and sniffed. "I wish I am, ili. But no."
"Bastard." She heard Li ili hissed as she took a seat across her. "Don't tell Wen didn't call you about it?"
Qian shook her head. Her own husband humiliated her by standing her up on their special dinner date.
"Wen never showed up tonight." She said almost in a whisper.
"He stood you up on your anniversary?" Li ili's eyes couldn't get wider than it already had. "What a jerk!"
She gave Lin Qianrou a look that ant 'he'd better give a logical reason for this or he's dead!'
"So you an to say that my dear older brother, who was barely in town has managed to find out about the family scandal the Xu family was in and yet you, the dear daughter-in-law, was practically oblivious to what's happening within the family?"
Lin Qianrou nodded and blinked away her tears. She couldn't deny that.
It hurts to know that everyone in the family kept her in the dark. Not even her sister-in-law inford her about the scandal her Sister Yan was in. It also hurt so much to hear it from Li Yuanyi when it should have been her husband telling her about it.
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