When Chen Ming saw the Xu family burst through the door, his mind went blank for a moment, and he even forgot to pull his hand away from Liu Qiaodi's waist.
In Xu Weiguo's eyes, this action of his was a blatant provocation.
Xu Fang looked at Liu Qiaodi, who was intimately leaning against Chen Ming, and felt a pang of pain in her heart. She and Chen Ming had been married for more than ten years, she had borne him children, and she had raised his younger siblings with him.
In the end, she was betrayed by Chen Ming. The more Xu Fang thought about it, the angrier she became. When she saw Chen Ming and Liu Qiaodi still sticking together, she rushed up and slapped Chen Ming.
Snap!
What are you doing!
"How dare you hit my older brother?!"
When Chen Hao saw Xu Fang hit Chen Ming, he immediately raised his hand to fight back, not because he felt sorry for Chen Ming.
The main reason was that Chen Ming had broken off relations with him before, and Chen Hao held a grudge against Xu Fang for it. Chen Hao believed that if Xu Fang hadn't interfered, Chen Ming wouldn't have been so heartless towards them.
But before he could even reach out, Xu Weiguo grabbed his hand.
Xu Weiguo stopped Chen Hao's hand, pushed him away forcefully, and said angrily, "What's wrong with hitting him?!"
"He should have expected this day to come if he dared to do something to betray Afang!"
Chen Liang was still young and didn't quite understand what had happened; he only knew that everyone was angry. So he hid behind Chen Mai.
But Chen Mai was no longer a child, and he probably knew that Chen Ming had done something wrong. He looked at Chen Ming with a sad and slightly reproachful look: "Dad, why are you with other women?"
Chen Ming finally came to his senses a little more and quickly pushed Liu Qiaodi away, weakly protesting, "I didn't, I didn't do anything to betray Afang!"
"Ah Fang, believe me, we've been married for so many years, you know how good I am to you!"
Chen Ming was so excited that he wanted to hold Xu Fang's hand, because he knew that if he wanted to calm things down, he could only start with Xu Fang.
When Xu Fang saw him approaching, she immediately dodged him. Her expression was cold, and she scoffed, "Are you saying that we're all blind, that we've all misjudged?"
"When we came in just now, you were still holding that vixen's arm. Was someone holding a knife to your head?!"
Xu Fang then turned to Liu Qiaodi and asked in a calm tone, "I want to ask you, do you know that Chen Ming is already married and has a wife and children at home?"
Xu Fang asked this question mainly to confirm whether Liu Qiaodi was deceived by Chen Ming or whether she knew about it.
But Liu Qiaodi interpreted this as Xu Fang showing off. She was showing off that she was Chen Ming's wife, implying that her marriage was illegitimate.
"So what if you know! How dare you, a haggard old woman, cling to Brother Chen?! If you knew what was good for you, you should have divorced Brother Chen on your own initiative!"
"Let me tell you, don't think you're so smug just because you're Brother Chen's wife now. Brother Chen and I have already... mmm..."
Chen Ming was already very flustered. She kept thinking about how he could explain this situation.
As a result, Liu Qiaodi actually made outrageous remarks here, and even revealed their relationship herself.
When Chen Ming realized that Liu Qiaodi was about to expose herself, he immediately rushed over to cover her mouth, but unfortunately, he was a step too late.
Everyone present understood the meaning behind Liu Qiaodi's unfinished sentence.
Xu Weiguo didn't care about anything else at this moment and raised his fist to hit Chen Ming.
Seeing this, Chen Ming didn't dare to resist and could only reflexively protect his head with his hands. However, after waiting for a while, he didn't feel any pain.
He opened his eyes and saw that Xu Fang had actually stopped Xu Weiguo. He was immediately overjoyed, thinking that he would be safe and sound today.
Xu Weiguo said with exasperation, "Second sister! Do you still want to protect him?!"
"Yes, Fang, he's already like this, he doesn't deserve your protection anymore. Just let Weiguo teach him a lesson!"
Zhang Yumei didn't understand why Xu Fang was stopping Xu Weiguo. She thought Xu Fang felt sorry for Chen Ming and couldn't bear to see him get beaten.
Xu Fang shook her head and explained, "I'm not protecting him, I just don't want my brother to be extorted by them."
Chen Ming might not use this as an excuse to make a fuss, but it's hard to say about Chen Hao.
After Xu Fang calmed down a bit, she roughly guessed that Chen Hao and his wife must have been the ones who devised the plan to make Chen Ming cheat on her.
Xu Fang didn't know how long they had secretly resumed contact, but she guessed it had been only about two months.
Previously, Chen Ming would hand over his entire salary as soon as he received it.
However, starting two months ago, Chen Ming began to hand over only half of his salary, claiming that he needed to keep some money for social obligations.
Because Xu Fang had the money Xu Weimin had previously compensated her, she didn't pay any attention to it.
Who would have thought that this favor was actually used to support a mistress?
"Chen Ming, is there anything else you want to say?"
Seeing Xu Fang staring at him coldly, Chen Ming couldn't utter a single word of the explanation he had prepared.
Seeing that the situation had reached a stalemate, Chen Hao and his wife leaned over to Chen Ming and said, "Brother, no matter what, it's wrong of them to start hitting people as soon as they came in!"
"Yes, your sister-in-law clearly doesn't respect you at all."
"Yeah, they started attacking you without any reason right from the beginning. I really feel sorry for you, brother. I bet they've given you a lot of trouble before, haven't they?"
Under the deliberate provocation of Chen Hao and his wife, Chen Ming and Xu Fang's expressions turned sour.
Some things shouldn't be overanalyzed. Before Chen Hao and his group came to find Chen Ming, Chen Ming didn't think there was anything wrong with them doing some work for the Xu family.
However, in the past two months, Chen Ming has often heard Chen Hao and the others say that Xu Fang and Xu Weiguo's family do not treat him as one of their own.
Chen Ming had paid rent and wasn't living under someone else's roof, but Xu Weiguo made him work, clearly treating him as a free laborer.
They also said that Xu Fang must have found her family and knew that her older brother was the director of the Public Security Bureau, who was powerful and influential, so she no longer took Chen Ming seriously.
Otherwise, why would the brothers have maintained such a good relationship for so many years, only to break off all ties as soon as Xu Fang found her eldest brother?
Even if they did make a mistake back then, it shouldn't have escalated to this point.
After listening to Chen Hao and his group's remarks for a while, Chen Ming gradually developed resentment towards Xu Fang and her group.
Whenever Xu Weiguo or Zhang Yumei asked him to do something, he felt that the Xu family looked down on him and were deliberately ordering him around.
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