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  That question…… Was utterly authoritative!

  Zhuang Nainai praised Si Zhengting inwardly, then looked towards Si Jingyu.

  She was unable to tell the truth to Si Zhengting because she had promised Si Jingyu earlier not to divulge it. Inwardly, however, she thought to herself,

  It was here that Zhuang Nainai squeezed Si Jingyu’s hand to encourage her. But Si Jingyu shook her head instead. “Nothing.”


  Si Zhengting furrowed his brows and turned to leave.

  Si Jingyu grabbed him by the arm, anxious. “What are you going to do?”


  “Since you’re not telling me, I’ll ask him myself.” Si Zhengting’s eyes were now vicious and full of anger. “I’ll ask him what exactly he’s been busy with. Ever since his wife came back, why hasn’t he been able to spare even a moment for her?”


  Si Jingyu’s eyes reddened instantaneously. She shook her head. “No, don’t go!”


  Si Zhengting looked at her, and seeing that she was still unwilling to confide in him, decidedly pushed her away. “He has to pay the price for bullying you!”


  How could Si Jingyu’s strength ever exceed Si Zhengting’s?

  Watching him walk towards the staircase, Si Jingyu shouted with all her might, “Zhengting!”


  Si Zhengting paused in his footsteps and turned around.

  Si Jingyu bit her lips tightly, her fists hanging from either side of her body. It was as if her thin frame was using all its might to contain something. With her eyes turned towards Si Zhengting, she said pleadingly, “I beg you, Zhengting, don’t go. Grant me that last bit of dignity.”


  Si Zhengting heard her sorrowful tone and gazed at her trembling body. Without a word, he turned around and went into the master bedroom.

  It was only then that Si Jingyu heaved a sigh of relief. Turning to Zhuang Nainai, she broke into a bitter smile.

  Back in her room, her cell phone rang again. Si Jingyu ignored it and walked straight in.

  After a moment’s thought, Zhuang Nainai followed. “Sister, you……”


  Si Jingyu smiled at Zhuang Nainai. “It’s nothing. It’s Mother’s birthday today, so he wants me home.”


  Wanting Si Jingyu to go back home?

  This man was the worst scumbag ever!

  Did he want Si Jingyu and Bai Yue to harmoniously sit together at the dining table?

  Zhuang Nainai was suddenly angered. Seeing that the phone was still flashing, she rushed towards the phone and picked it up.

  Si Jingyu had been spending time at the Si residence recently, and Zhuang Nainai had already begun to see her as a friend and sister. With fury she picked up the phone, and out came Shi Jinyan’s voice. “Jingyu……”


  Without giving him a chance to finish his words, Zhuang Nainai gave a cold laugh. “I’m Zhuang Nainai. Are you even a man, Shi Jinyan? You’ve got a mistress and yet you still want to have the joy of having several partners?”


  Shi Jinyan was taken aback. “What do you mean? Let me speak with Jingyu.”


  “I……” Zhuang Nainai was about to continue scolding him, but Si Jingyu took away the cell phone from her.

  Si Jingyu spoke into the cell phone, “Shi Jinyan, I’ve made myself very clear already. Since we’re going to be divorced soon, I’m not attending Mother’s birthday party. You guys can have fun by yourselves.”


  Just as she was about to hang up, Shi Jinyan replied. “Have you misunderstood? Bai Yue won’t be attending.”


  Won’t be attending?

  Si Jingyu was stunned. Suddenly, she seemed to realize something. Had she been the victim of someone’s plot to sow discord?

  Indeed, right from the beginning, Shi Jinyan had never said that he was inviting Bai Yue.

  She was still in shock when a female voice rang out from the other end of the line. It was a very shoddy Mandarin, with bits and pieces of dialect in between, and could only be roughly understood. “Jingyu, how can you be absent from my birthday? Come and join us, the dishes have all been prepared! I made your favorite sweet-and-sour spare ribs, and I just went to get the lobsters that you love so much……”


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  Si Jingyu’s tears began to fall as she heard the warm, familiar voice of her mother-in-law.

  In fact, as much as she was making concessions for her mother-in-law, wasn’t her mother-in-law doing the same for her?

  Having come from a village, her mother-in-law would always haggle when she bought groceries, even for a few cents’ discount. And whenever her mother-in-law bought roadside clothes for her, she would always feel the material before telling the seller, “My daughter-in-law is from the city and she’s really delicate. If your clothes are not of good quality, I won’t buy it.”


  And now, her mother-in-law had gone so far as to buy her lobsters……

  Si Jingyu could almost imagine the scene at the dinner table already. With a table full of dishes, but perhaps only with a single lobster dish, her mother-in-law would bat away the chopsticks of her father-in-law and tell him, “This is for Jingyu, not you! Eating cabbages would be enough for someone low like you, but Jingyu has expensive taste because she’s from the city!”


  Her throat tightened. With a sob in her voice, she said, “Mother……”


  The voice on the other end paused for a moment before resuming with a sobbing tone. The words spoken became unclear and muffled. “Jingyu, I know how Jinyan’s been letting you down over this past half a year. Don’t worry, I’m on your side, so come home, okay? I miss you. If he likes to be outside so much, just let him be! The dinner tonight is a family event, so I won’t allow unrelated people to show their faces. And even if she has the nerve to appear, I’ll whack her with the bottom of my shoe! I haven’t seen you in half a year, Jingyu. Are you avoiding me? Come back, please.”


  Heavy, large teardrops fell from Si Jingyu’s face as she held the cell phone. Thinking of the relationship she had been having with her mother-in-law over the past few years, she relented. “Okay.”


  Si Jingyu put down the phone, then turned to look at Zhuang Nainai.

  Zhuang Nainai felt as if she had done something wrong. “Sister, I……”


  “Nainai, thank you.” Si Jingyu smiled. “I was wrong. My mother-in-law hates her so much. How would she allow her in the house?”


  Zhuang Nainai was stunned. “What?”


  Did her rashness in picking up the phone help to resolve a misunderstanding between Si Jingyu and Shi Jinyan?

  If this was a misunderstanding, could it be that the relationship between Bai Yue and Shi Jinyan was not as what they were imagining it to be?

  Casting her thoughts to the few times she had met Shi Jinyan, Zhuang Nainai felt that he actually looked like a good person.

  With this sixth sense, Zhuang Nainai then softly persuaded Si Jingyu and said, “Sister, if she can deceive you once, she can deceive you again. You should have a proper chat with Brother-in-law.

  Si Jingyu nodded.

  She washed up, changed into festive-looking clothing, then retrieved a gown from the drawers that she had prepared beforehand. It was only then that she left the house.

  As Zhuang Nainai watched her back view, she silently wished for her to be able to resolve all the misunderstandings.

  For a man to be liked by Si Jingyu was no easy task. And so even if she did not trust her sixth sense, she should trust Si Jingyu’s eye.

  Having thought this, Zhuang Nainai breathed a sigh of relief. Casting a glance at the master bedroom, she wondered if she should tell this piece of good news to Si Zhengting.

  ―


  At the Si residence……

  The food was cold by the time Si Jingyu arrived.

  But Mother Shi was highly enthusiastic, bringing her in while calling for her husband to heat up the food.

  Shi Jinyan made a move to take Si Jingyu’s purse. Si Jingyu was about to refuse when Mother Shi pulled at her. “Jingyu, I’ve got it all cleared up. Jinyan has stopped contacting that woman already. Trust him just this once!”