Xu Wan met a man from her industry at a matchmaking party. Two days later, they got their marriage certificate.
She thought she had married an unremarkable corporate legal counsel.
Afte...
"Dong Yuanyuan, it's been a long time."
Xu Wan called out the other person's name in an even colder voice.
Xu last saw Dong Yuanyuan when she was in elementary school; back then, Dong called her "cousin".
Xie Ning, who was originally struggling with Yu Shuangshuang, suddenly looked over and said, "Oh, it seems that Attorney Xu knows my Attorney Dong? Then I won't have to introduce you."
“I know him. I’m very familiar with Attorney Xu. I just never thought that just anyone could become a lawyer.”
Dong Yuanyuan's tone was full of sarcasm.
Xu Wan was too lazy to pay attention to her.
Dong Yuanyuan's mother is Xu Wan's aunt, that is, Xu Wan's father's sister.
Mr. Xu treated his younger sister very well.
Dong Yuanyuan is two years older than Xu Wan. Parents usually like to say that the older one should give way to the younger one.
But every time the whole family gathered together for the New Year, there were only two children in the family at the time. Dong Yuanyuan loved to eat candy, so her father would give her his share of candy. Dong Yuanyuan wanted to eat shrimp chips, so her father would give her all the shrimp chips.
Once, Xu Pingrong got angry and brought the candy back to Xu Wan. When he returned from keeping watch at night, he was beaten by his father, and his eyes were so swollen that he couldn't open them.
Xu Wan had no liking for Dong Yuanyuan, but she never expected that she would also become a lawyer.
Pre-trial mediation began quickly.
The attitudes of both sides are very clear.
Yu Shuangshuang insisted on getting a divorce.
Xie Ning refused to acknowledge that he was a lesbian, and after much reflection on his previous dislike of Yu Shuangshuang's figure, he refused to divorce her. His rhetoric was clearly something Dong Yuanyuan had taught him.
An hour later, the mediation ended, and Xu Wan was about to leave with Yu Shuangshuang when Dong Yuanyuan blocked their way.
"Xu Wan, I have a few words to say to you." Dong Yuanyuan looked at Yu Shuangshuang, "Could you please excuse me for a moment?"
Xu Wan told Yu Shuangshuang to wait for her in the car first.
Dong Yuanyuan crossed her arms and looked Xu Wan, who was dressed in a suit, up and down with disdain in her eyes: "You're a lawyer now? What makes you think you can?"
"With my degree from a prestigious law school, my lawyer's license, and my employment at a law firm, what's the problem?" Xu Wan replied.
"But isn't your mother in jail? What qualifications do you have to be a lawyer? And a marriage lawyer at that?"
"Are you even a lawyer? My mother being in prison doesn't prevent me from being a lawyer. Once she's released next year, I can even take the national civil service exam. What makes me a lawyer?" Xu Wan retorted without backing down. "How did you become a law student? Did you not pay attention in class? Did you pass the bar exam?"
Upon hearing that Xu Pingrong was about to be released from prison, Dong Yuanyuan's expression immediately turned ferocious: "Your mother is being released from prison? Your mother is being released so soon?! She killed my uncle, why didn't she die in prison? What right does she have to be released?!"
"Dong Yuanyuan, don't go too far!" Xu Wan shoved the woman hard. "Do you know what kind of monster your uncle is? Why is my mother like this?"
"That must be your fault too! My uncle is such a good person. If your mother hadn't become a live-in nanny and used her looks to have affairs with male employers, cheating on my uncle, how could he have..."
"Smack!"
Before Dong Yuanyuan could finish speaking, Xu Wan raised her hand and slapped her.
"Dong Yuanyuan, don't make things up without evidence!" Xu Wan said angrily, her eyes red.
Regarding this matter, at that time, Xu's father gambled every day and didn't earn any money, so his mother had to work as a live-in nanny.
After hearing this, a fellow card player casually remarked, "Is he the male employer? Is he really living in someone else's house as a maid? Or is he having an affair?"
Upon hearing this, Xu's father immediately called Xu Pingrong and asked him to come back.
As soon as Xu Pingrong got out of the car, her drunken father beat her in the street, making the whole town aware of the incident.
"You dare to do it, but you can't even talk about it?"
Dong Yuanyuan approached Xu Wan step by step, raising her hand as if to hit her!
Xu Wan blocked the woman's hand that was about to strike her, "Why should I admit to doing it if I didn't?"
"Pah! Your mother deserves to die! If it weren't for Jiang Xuanzhou defending you back then, your mother would at least have been sentenced to life imprisonment!" Dong Yuanyuan cursed angrily.