261 You Misbehaved 4 (1/2)
Lin Mingxi was taken aback by his crude words. Reminded of what her mother-in-law said to her earlier that afternoon, she retorted bluntly, ”Are you trying to use the rest of your life to prove to me that the person you care most about, at the end of the day, is that very woman who committed suicide?”
Ye Xiaotian was enraged and agitated upon hearing the words, ”committed suicide.”
He sprung up from his seat immediately. Sensing that they were about to break out into a heated argument, Gu Beicheng hurriedly tried to calm them down. ”Xiaotian, let me send you home.”
Ye Xiaotian gestured to turn Gu Beicheng down. Glaring at Lin Mingxi, he said, ”You're right, Lin Mingxi. You're the daughter of a wealthy, upper class family. Very pretty indeed, how many times have you gone under the knife? No matter how outstanding you may be, I'll never fancy you.”
Which woman would be happy to hear her husband say such a callous thing on their wedding day?
Lin Mingxi flew into a rage out of humiliation and gave the drunk Ye Xiaotian a kick, causing him to fall back unsteadily onto the couch.
Noticing that she was about to attack him again, Gu Beicheng hurriedly intervened. ”Do you wish to make the headlines tomorrow?”
”Hmph! Send him home,” Lin Mingxi instructed, pointing at Ye Xiaotian.
”Sorry, but I'm not your bodyguard who's at your beck and call,” Gu Beicheng retorted as he helped Ye Xiaotian up and supported him towards the door.
Lin Mingxi followed closely behind his car, only to realize that Gu Beicheng was bringing him to his personal mansion in Jiangnan District.
Lin Mingxi had no choice but to hurry back to the Ye family mansion.
Upon sight of her returning home alone, Mrs. Ye asked, ”You haven't found Xiaotian?”
”I did, but he had gotten drunk and was brought home by Gu Beicheng.”
”How insensible of Gu Beicheng, he should've sent Xiaotian back here,” Mrs. Ye groused with a frown on her forehead.
”Whatever, your son said he would be making me live a virtual widowhood for the rest of my life anyway. I'm heading upstairs to get some rest.”
”Alright, go ahead.” Lin Mingxi's words had greatly upset Mrs. Ye, though Ye Xiaotian was indeed the root cause of it all.
Mrs. Ye could already imagine what their married life would be like in the future – practically almost non-existent.
She felt vexed and troubled at the thought of it.
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An Xiaoning was jolted awake from her sleep at three o'clock in the morning by a phone call from Mrs. Gu. Something urgent must have cropped up for her to call at such a late hour, An Xiaoning thought to herself.
She quickly answered the call. ”Mother.”
”Xiaoning, Dongcheng's son is running a high fever which wouldn't go away, even after taking a trip to the hospital. It's been going on for an entire day. I'm really worried that his brain would be damaged, should the fever continue to go on. Could you come take a look and see if he had met with some harmful spirits?”
”Sure. Mother, what are his birth characters?”
”I remember his birth characters very clearly. We rushed to the hospital immediately the day Chi Rui'er went into early labor,” said Mrs. Gu as she read out the child's birth characters.
Sleepy-eyed, An Xiaoning sat up and read the child's fortune before answering, ”Mother, bring the child to me.”
”Alright.”
Just as An Xiaoning was about to put on her pajamas after ending the call, Jin Qingyan grabbed her by her waist and asked, ”Where are you going?”