Chapter 72
"What, you dare to do it but not admit it?" Chen Li sneered. "You ruined my reputation by divorcing me. Turns out you're no good either. You're just a cunning and scheming person who hides it well. You must be so proud of catching me with Yingying."
His face was contorted with malice, and his voice was vicious; from the outside, he exuded an ugliness emanating from his very soul.
"I thought you were so principled, but it turns out you've already found someone else while my reputation is still intact! You must have been planning to divorce me for a long time. Even if I don't divorce you because you're with the Yu family, you'll eventually go and climb the social ladder."
"Chen Li!" Li Chi'an was so angry he almost laughed. "Before, I only thought you had no class, but I didn't expect that after not seeing you for a while, you've even lost your intelligence."
"What do you mean?" He straightened his back, raised his chin, and glared at Li Chi'an. "Young Master Yu really has no taste for anything, actually wanting a middle-aged woman like you who has given birth!"
“Exactly,” Lin Ying agreed. “I don’t know what kind of spell you cast on Yu Shi, but he’s so bewitched that he’s saying good things about you in front of Mrs. Yu.”
These past few days, I've been hearing news about Li Chi'an on social media. I discovered that she's actually dating the eldest son of the Yu family, which I find hard to believe.
Why?
Why should I?
At that time.
He is one of the most prominent young noblemen in the entire Xianghai City aristocratic circle.
He was the man she had only ever dared to dream of but could never have.
He's actually with Li Chi'an!!!
A woman who has nothing, was married, had children, and whose man was stolen by her?
Is he blind or what?
Or perhaps Yu Shi was actually an oddball, with some peculiar fetish, that he just liked middle-aged women?
If it's like this, if it's like this...
Li Chi'an glanced at Lin Ying, whose face had become increasingly round, but whose eyes held a sinister glint.
"If you don't leave, I'll call the police."
"Go ahead and yell, you think I'm afraid of you?" Chen Li became increasingly agitated, a twisted expression of mockery and pain forming on his lips. "Let me tell you, Li Chi'an, don't think that just because you've climbed up to Yu Shi, you've climbed up to the Yu family and become so arrogant! A divorced woman with a child like you, how could the Yu family possibly look at you? So don't get cocky just because you've climbed up to Yu Shi! Do you think I don't know what kind of person you are? Deeply scheming, you put on a haughty facade, but actually—"
"Smack!"
A loud slap interrupted him.
Chen Li covered her face, looking at Li Chi'an in disbelief.
“First, the divorce was because of your infidelity, and I still have the evidence,” Li Chi’an said coldly. “Second, Yu Shi and I only met after the divorce. Third, you are now standing in my house, please leave immediately.”
Lin Ying screamed from the side, "You actually hit someone!"
"Slap!" Another slap, this time for Lin Ying.
“This slap is to teach you a lesson. You could have had a bright future, but you didn’t cherish yourself. You are morally corrupt and destroyed my family,” Li Chi’an said, emphasizing each word.
"You're just jealous that Chen Li wants me instead of you." Lin Ying's face showed a smug look. "You only ruined our reputation because you hate that Chen Li doesn't want you anymore. You're just malicious."
"Stop!" Li Chi'an scolded Lin Ying, and looked at Chen Li with disdain. "He has nothing to do with me. If you like to treat this rotten cucumber like a treasure, then keep it to yourself. Don't drag me into this."
Chen Li was furious and raised his hand to retaliate, but suddenly someone grabbed his wrist tightly from behind.
He cried out in pain and turned around to see a handsome young man staring at him with a cold face.
He was his former brother-in-law, Li Songshi.
"you……"
"Sister, are you alright?" Li Songshi tightened his grip on Chen Li's wrist.
But his gaze fell on Li Chian.
The latter shook his head, took a few steps back, and left room for his younger brother to demonstrate his martial virtue.
This is why she opened the door even though she clearly saw that Chen Li and Lin Ying had ill intentions.
Songshi happened to be off work today, so I came over to visit her and her son.
Song Shi was born prematurely and was weak and sickly as a child. In order to improve his physical fitness, after his parents brought him to Xianghai City, she was sent by her parents to learn painting, and Song Shi was sent by his parents to learn martial arts to strengthen his body. Song Shi also liked it and never neglected it over the years.
He had long since mastered excellent martial arts skills.
Even if Chen Li and Lin Ying came today, or even if Chen Li brought a few men, with Song Shi there, taking them down wouldn't be a problem.
"Li Songshi, let me go!" Chen Li struggled violently, but he couldn't break free from Li Songshi's grasp.
Li Songshi's gaze, like a scalpel, finally landed on Chen Li.
His face showed no exaggerated expression, only a deep-seated indifference and contempt as he swept his gaze across the other person's terrified face, as if admiring a piece of trash about to be destroyed.
He'd wanted to beat up Chen Li for a long time.
I thought I would have to wait for a while to get my revenge, but I never expected that this beast would deliver himself to my door.
That's wonderful!!!
Without saying a word, Li Songshi punched Chen Li in the face and then pinned him to the ground.
In the initial moment, Chen Li felt his mind was completely blank, and he didn't even feel any pain. He only heard a long "buzz" in his ears, like a cheap radio suddenly turned up to the maximum volume.
The world went out of focus for a moment.
Immediately afterwards, excruciating pain flooded her nerves like molten iron.
He let out a piercing scream.
Li Songshi's movements on Chen Li were clean and swift, each strike precisely hitting the most painful yet least likely to leave noticeable marks on the body.
After finishing his focused and intense beating of Chen Li, Li Songshi slammed his knee into Chen Li's back and said in a cold voice, "If you're a bad person, you have to admit it. Stay away from my sister from now on."
"If I find out you're causing trouble for her again, I'll beat you up every time I see you."
Chen Li screamed in pain, and Lin Ying wanted to go forward to help, but Li Songshi glared at her and kept her at bay.
"And you too," he said to Lin Ying, "You can't be a decent person, you just have to pick up other people's trash. Stay away from me, if you keep bullying my sister, I'll beat you up too."
This was the first time Lin Ying had met Li Chi'an's younger brother.
When I first saw him, I thought he was another of Li Chi'an's lovers. I was so jealous that I felt he was so good at seducing people. He wasn't satisfied with Yu Shi, and he was also playing around with other young and handsome men.
It wasn't until Chen Li called his name that she realized this was Li Chi'an's biological younger brother.
Her jealousy towards him lessened somewhat, but she still couldn't take her eyes off his agile skills and handsome face, but that didn't mean she wasn't afraid of a fight.
She took a few steps back. "How can you siblings be so rude and violent? You have no manners at all."
"You're so well-mannered, yet you become someone's mistress." Li Songshi had never seen such a stupid and disgusting woman.
"Didn't your sister used to be madly in love with Chen Li? Then what is your sister? A maggot who just scavenges for food in the garbage dump?"
"You believe I'll beat you up too?"
Lee Song-shi's hands, hanging at his sides, were clenched tightly.
Then, suddenly exerting force, he kicked Chen Li, saying, "You live like a greenbottle fly in the toilet, where do you get the nerve to insult my sister?"
"My sister is more noble than you, not even a single hair on her head."
People who don't love themselves are like rotten cabbages.
Li Songshi despised Lin Ying, especially since she engaged in malicious competition and hurt his sister.
"You!" Lin Ying herself has a lot of scandals, all of which are her own doing, but she never thinks it's her fault.
How could anyone tolerate Li Songshi's insults?
Her face flushed with anger, and she raised her bag, intending to hit Li Songshi aggressively.
Li Chi'an, quick-witted and agile, gave her a push, causing her bag to fall from the sky.
"roll!"
She yelled at Lin Ying, "If you don't get out of here, I'll make sure your ugly faces are trending on Weibo tomorrow, believe it or not?!"
"You bitch!" Lin Ying cursed Li Chi'an angrily. "I knew you always incited your fans to cyberbully us."
“I didn’t intend to cyberbully you,” Li Chi’an said coldly. “I’m just revealing the facts to the public. If you don’t do evil, stupid, or things that defy justice, how could you possibly bring trouble upon yourselves?”
Li Chi'an closed her eyes, feeling that the fact that she could know people like Chen Li and Lin Ying in this life must mean she did something terrible in her past life to have such a tragic fate.
"I have already called the police."
When people are extremely helpless, they really do become unusually calm.
"Li Chi'an, I misjudged you!" Chen Li was pinned to the ground by Li Songshi, struggling and writhing like an insect trying to escape. "You are so scheming and vicious. My son will not be good with you. I don't believe you can raise my son well. Give my son back to me. I can't let him have a shameless and vicious mother like you."
Li Chi'an sneered, "I have nothing to say to people like you from the third season. Song Shi, throw them out."
Li Songshi quickly beat Chen Li up again.
Immediately afterwards, they picked him up and dragged him into the elevator as if he were a piece of trash.
"You'd better watch yourself from now on."
After saying that, he turned back and looked at Lin Ying, who was staring at him warily, and asked, "Are you going to leave on your own, or do you want me to leave?"
"You just wait! Just you wait!"
Lin Ying uttered a harsh remark, her face ashen, and hurriedly bypassed him, following Chen Li into the elevator.
They were "invited" out the door like trash.
When Li Songshi returned, he saw Li Chian sitting on the sofa, his fingers trembling slightly.
"Sis," he said, handing her a glass of warm water. "It's alright now."
Li Chi'an took the water glass and suddenly sighed, "I'm fine, really. I just never imagined they would be this pathetic."
How should I put it?
I was definitely angry.
There was concern, after all, Chen Li used to be a respectable person, but unexpectedly, after not seeing him for a while, he had changed so much...
“He’s always been a vulgar person.” Li Songshi’s face was still cold. “He used to look respectable, but that was just a disguise. He’s a despicable person at heart. He’s like this today because there’s no need for him to pretend anymore.”
“I used to look at him through a filter when I was at home,” Li Chian said with a sad smile.
“Otherwise, only a person who is inherently a beast would act like one,” Li Songshi said angrily. “To know what kind of person someone is, don’t look at their appearance or listen to their words; look at their actions. What they do reveals who they are.”
"You're right."
...
That evening, when Yu Shi came to deliver something to Li Chi'an, Li Chi'an briefly mentioned this matter.
“You should have told me. I would have come over no matter what.” Yu Shi frowned.
“Song Shi was at home at the time, so he wasn’t afraid of them.” Li Chi’an shook his head. “I’ll handle Chen Li’s affairs myself.”
"Luckily, Song Shi was here." Yu Shi was very glad that his brother-in-law was home at the time, but he still couldn't help but worry about Chen Li and Lin Ying's madness and lack of restraint. "They are like stray dogs now. Who knows when they will want to bite you a few times if they are unhappy. Why don't you move?"
"Moving is such a hassle," Li Chi'an said with a headache, but he understood Yu Shi's worries. "My brother said that my parents should move in with me for a while."
"Moving is a hassle," Yu Shi sighed softly, his deep gaze sweeping around.
The apartment in front of them wasn't luxurious, but it was clean and cozy enough; it was a haven that Li Chi'an had carefully created for himself and his son.
It's not worth it to move out of here before even having lived here for a year, because of trash like Chen Li and Lin Ying.
"What if they come to cause trouble again?"
People can go crazy when they have nothing.
"I won't open the door." Li Chi'an felt a little heavy-hearted. "My parents are here."
“Have you ever thought about keeping them far away?” Yu Shi said after a moment of silence.
"You mean..." A look of surprise flashed in Li Chi'an's eyes, but he couldn't help but think about feasible solutions.
“People like them, you either have to get rid of them completely or stay away from them completely, otherwise, getting involved will only be a waste of time,” Yu Shi bluntly stated.
“You’re right.” Li Chi’an slapped his forehead. “Let me think, let me think…”
"OK, let me know when you've made up your mind." Yu Shi reached out and pulled Li Chi'an into his arms. "Don't worry, dealing with them won't be difficult."
It's just a little disgusting.
Li Chi'an buried her head in Yu Shi's arms, took a deep breath, and the warm sandalwood scent gradually calmed her down.
"Mom," came the youngest child's voice.
Li Chi'an pulled away from Yu Shi's embrace. "Baby, are you awake?"
"Uncle Yu." Chen Zui ran out of the room and quickly saw Yu Shi standing next to Li Chi'an, looking at him with a smile. "You've come to see me?"
"Yes, that's right." Li Chi'an bent down and patted his son who had snuggled into Yu Shi's arms. "He brought you lots of delicious food."
"What delicious food?" The little boy's face was rosy from sleep. "Is there pork jerky?"
"There's no pork jerky, but we have beef jerky," Yu Shi said with a smile. "It's over there, let's go take a look."
He pointed to the cabinet by the door.
There were two boxes of fruit he had sent, as well as some high-quality meat.
Chen, the youngest child, circled the two boxes of fruit, his eyes wide with surprise, and exclaimed, "Are they strawberries and blueberries?"
“You can take it apart and wash it yourself,” Li Chian said gently. “The scissors are in the kitchen drawer; go get them yourself.”
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