Li Tingxue followed Jiang Mianmian closely, not daring to leave for a moment, for fear that Jiang Mianmian would lose control of her emotions and expose herself.

Fortunately, Jiang Mianmian was angry, but her brain was still working. She knew that this matter could not be exposed, so she held it in tightly. She was so angry that she put the teacup on the table.

"Hmph, I'm going out for a walk!"

Jiang Mianmian said this angrily and walked out the door without looking back.

"Uh... Mother, wait for me, I'll go with you!"

Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Tingxue hurriedly glanced at the other members of the Shen family, indicating that everyone should keep in touch with each other, and then quickly followed Jiang Mianmian out the door.

Shen Xiuyan, Shen Xiujin and Zhou Jingyao looked at each other, exchanged glances, and then all breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

It turned out that today's so-called banquet was not a grand event, but just a banquet for appreciating lotus and eating lotus roots held in the Liu family's villa.

Only a few families who usually interacted closely with each other frequently were invited.

Although the Shen family and the Liu family did not have much interaction in the past, when Jiang Mianmian heard the news of this banquet, she was secretly happy, thinking that this was a rare opportunity for her family, so she specially asked someone to get an invitation to the Liu family.

Just like that, Jiang Mianmian was followed by the Shen family members with a string of candied haws. She led the Shen family members to the Liu family's courtyard excitedly.

“Ahhhhh… I’m so pissed off!”

Jiang Mianmian walked angrily to the edge of the flowerbed in the courtyard. After stopping, she slapped a leaf beside her without saying a word. The leaf crackled and swayed in the wind.

Li Tingxue followed carefully behind, not daring to say a word along the way, for fear of angering Jiang Mianmian who was angry in front.

After following for a while, until Jiang Mianmian had almost vented her anger, Li Tingxue walked over and timidly asked, "Mother, what are you doing?"

Jiang Mianmian was startled by the sudden sound. She turned around abruptly, staring at Li Tingxue with wide eyes, and screamed, "When did you come? You scared me to death!"

Li Tingxue's heart tightened, secretly thanking herself for having thought of her words in advance. She quickly lowered her head and replied in a low voice:

"It's a little dim here, and I can't see clearly, so I just found this place."

Jiang Mianmian frowned, looked at Li Tingxue, and asked in confusion, "Why are you looking for me?"

Li Tingxue took a deep breath and tried to make her tone sound more natural: "It's nothing particularly important. I just suddenly realized that you, mother, were not in the hall, and I was worried that something might have happened.

After all, we are now in someone else's courtyard, and this is our first time here, so we are not familiar with the surroundings at all. If we accidentally take the wrong road, I am afraid you will not be able to find your way back."

Jiang Mianmian rolled her eyes at her and retorted disapprovingly, "What could possibly happen? It's such a big place, you can just ask a servant and find out the direction. How could you possibly get lost?"

I'm not a three-year-old kid, I still have some common sense."

Li Tingxue quickly smiled and nodded in agreement, "Hehe, Mother, you're absolutely right. Actually, I'm not worried that you'd get lost or anything. I'm more worried that some people wouldn't know etiquette, and what if they bumped into you?"

Jiang Mianmian was about to speak when a slight hissing sound came from not far away...

She felt something was wrong, so she turned around and saw a row of glittering labels at the corner: Cannon fodder male supporting role - Liu Wenrui.

[Fuck, no way?!]

Jiang Mianmian couldn't help but exclaim in her heart. The shy words of the woman reached her ears, accompanied by Liu Wenrui's unscrupulous and tough words: "Don't want it? Humph, it's not up to you!"

The woman exclaimed in surprise, and said shyly, "Oh, no, Liu Wenrui, don't do this!"

But Liu Wenrui showed no intention of stopping his actions. Instead, he laughed arrogantly and said, "What are you afraid of? This is in my family's villa. Who can control me?"

"Humph, your wife is in there! What if your wife sees it?"

"So what if she finds out? What is there for her to be afraid of?" Liu Wenrui's tone was full of disdain and coldness.

He felt only endless resentment towards the woman who dared to betray him and cheat on him.

Liu Wenrui sneered. If the two families didn't have interests involved, and Xi's father now held a higher official position than his father, he would have killed her long ago. How could he still want to give face to that bitch and care about her feelings?

Dream on!