Chapter 81: I Will Do My Best to Break You Up (2/2)

She was so certain, so full of confidence, that Cheng Xi didn’t try to persuade her otherwise—someone who felt this deeply about a subject wouldn’t be easily persuaded by mere words.

Lin Fan’s mother hadn’t come to be persuaded by her, either; these words were ones that she had always kept in her heart, hidden away from everyone else. Once she revealed them, she could only forge forward on that path of hers relentlessly.

Cheng Xi then asked her final question. “If I’m unwilling to separate with Lin Fan, then what will you do, Mrs. Lin?”

“I’ll do my best to make you two break up.” Lin Fan’s mother’s expression was severe. “Cheng Xi, do you know how I managed to escape with him that year? He had to threaten to kill himself. He was only twelve, but he put a knife by his neck and told me, ‘Mom, if I die, will there be peace again?’ Do you know how I’ve lived all these years? I’m 38, but I married an old man whose hair is turning white. So many people have looked down upon me, and even my stepchildren guard against me as if I were a thief. They look down on Lin Fan in the same way. I was weak for half of my life, so I caused him to suffer so much. Now, I don’t want him to have to suffer anymore. I don’t want him to be looked down upon for the rest of his life…… Though you might feel that wealth won’t necessarily bring you respect, it’ll definitely at least shut their mouths! It’s just like how, if I bring their old man out to discipline those sons and daughters of his, what can they do?” As she said this last sentence, her face reflected a bit of pride, as if she had won a spiritual victory.

“Did you see that girl just now? If you know her, then you should know that she and Lin Fan are colleagues, but only colleagues. She’s a board member of Longchang Commerce—oh, perhaps you don’t know about Longchang Commerce. It’s the domestic proxy for a number of large global brands, which you’d probably recognize if I mentioned them.” She rattled off a few companies, and even though Cheng Xi herself didn’t care about these things, she knew that most people in the country would go mad over those companies’ products.

Lin Fan’s mother didn’t think that this sort of relationship was immoral, and she didn’t even acknowledge the fact that if Lin Fan had such a girlfriend, people would think that they were only together because he was eyeing her position and connections. “It’s just that we’re trying to find a higher starting point. Marriage is nothing more than a job; doing it well will bring happiness.”

It was rare for Cheng Xi to be unable to counter an argument, but she was actually struck speechless after hearing Lin Fan’s mother’s ‘confident’ speech. She didn’t argue back, as she knew that Lin Fan’s mother wouldn’t listen to her; if she talked with reason, Lin Fan’s mother would appeal to emotion; if she appealed to emotion, then Lin Fan’s mother would switch to reason.

If they weren’t on the same page, then what was the point of talking any further?

Cheng Xi politely sent Lin Fan’s mother out. They didn’t see Meng Qingyang at the entrance, and Lin Fan’s mother directly left after making a phone call.

Cheng Xi stood by the elevator. As she watched the doors close, the smile on her face finally collapsed. She rubbed her exhausted face, lightly breathing out.

As she turned around, she unexpectedly saw Meng Qingyang, who had told Lin Fan’s mother that she had already gone down. She was standing by the elevator on the other end of the corridor; it wasn’t clear if she had just come up or if she had always been standing there.

At this hour, there weren’t many people left in this area of the hospital. Only the two of them stood in the corridor.

Cheng Xi stopped moving, merely looking at Meng Qingyang.

Meng Qingyang slowly walked in front of Cheng Xi as a brilliant smile lit up her face. “Mrs. Lin likes me very much, and wants me to be her daughter-in-law. Dr. Cheng, I really want to reject her because you’re a good person, and because I like you very much.”

At this point, Cheng Xi wanted to laugh. Today, she had been told that she was a good person by two different people; they both said they liked her very much, but hidden behind their liking was a ‘but.’

Meng Qingyang’s ‘but’ was that “Lin Fan’s genuinely a very gentle person, and he looks so beautiful when he smiles. At first, I didn’t want to steal him away, but Dr. Cheng, why did you have to make him unhappy?”

After being lectured in psychology by Lu Chenzhou, Cheng Xi was now being taught how to be a better girlfriend by Meng Qingyang. This girl who had just broken free of her depression said, “Dr. Cheng, you’re not doing a very good job at being a girlfriend. Even if we ignore the fact that you don’t have any time to spend with him, you still have an unclear relationship with another man. You always make him unhappy, forcing him to drink, making him wan and sallow. For you, he even hurt me.”

As she said this, she rolled up her sleeves and stretched out her hand with an innocent expression on her face. “Look at how forceful he was. He even left such a big bruise. It hurts so much.”

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