Chapter 132 Preference
Su Yuan's bedroom.
The heating was turned up to full blast.
Except for Lu Bingchen who was taking a shower in his bedroom, everyone gathered in front of Su Yuan's window, their eyes filled with worry.
"Yuanyuan, drink a couple of sips of ginger soup to ward off the cold."
Lu Zhizhang sat by the bed, took the bowl of soup handed to him by the housekeeper, cooled it with a spoon until it was edible, and gently handed it to Su Yuan's trembling lips.
Su Yuan was wrapped in three layers of silk quilts. She held the soup bowl with her fair hands and drank the ginger tea in one gulp, her teeth still chattering.
Chuchu said pitifully: "It's cold, still very cold, I feel like my bones are frozen..."
Lu Zhizhang's dark eyes were filled with heartache. He wrapped her in his arms along with the quilt, "Is this any better?"
"Turn up the heating temperature! Turn up the heating temperature a little more!"
"Cold, still cold..."
"Master, the temperature in the master bedroom is already set to 35 degrees." The housekeeper went to adjust the indoor heating again, couldn't help but raise his hand to wipe the sweat from his face, and gently reminded: "It can't be higher. If you raise it any higher, the human body will not be able to bear it and will suffer from heatstroke."
Lu Zhizhang's face was filled with anxiety. "Then why is Yuanyuan still complaining about being cold?!"
Xie Yiyi stood aside, sweating on his back.
She looked at Su Yuan lying on the bed and couldn't help rolling her eyes. She didn't know what brand of garbage bag it was.
It was so hot that his breathing was disordered, sweat was dripping from his forehead, but he kept shouting "It's so cold, so cold".
"Xie Yiyi, what's with that face of yours?"
When Mother Lu saw the distressed expression on Lu Zhizhang's face, she felt distressed and anxious as well. When she turned around, she saw the mocking expression on Xie Yiyi's face, and immediately the anger in her heart found an outlet.
"Housekeeper, bring the family rules to the bedroom. I'm going to severely punish this vicious woman in front of Zhizhang and Yuanyuan!"
Xie Yiyi was stunned for a moment, frowned and said coldly, "What does it have to do with me?"
Mother Lu's face darkened. "Are you still trying to quibble?"
"Last time, Yuanyuan accidentally fell in the stairwell, and as your sister-in-law, you didn't even bother to help her up. I asked you to apologize to Yuanyuan, but you got angry and left, causing chaos at home on New Year's Eve. I haven't even come to terms with you yet!"
"You came back today and pushed Yuanyuan into the ice pool with such a vicious heart. Xie Yiyi, you really bring shame to the Xie family. How could the Xie family raise such a vicious daughter like you?"
"Mrs. Lu, it's not your turn to dictate the Xie family's traditions!"
Xie Yiyi's face turned cold. This old witch was not upright herself, and her two sons had their hearts set on the Pacific Ocean and still had the nerve to slander the Xie family. If Xie Yiyi had not been worried about tarnishing the reputation of the Xie family, she would have slapped Lu's mother in the face long ago.
"Su Yuan falling into the water had nothing to do with me. She just fell down suddenly on her own. I wanted to save her..."
"Still lying!"
Mother Lu interrupted Xie Yiyi harshly, pointing her finger at the housekeeper, "The housekeeper and Bingchen saw it with their own eyes. When Yuanyuan fell into the water, it was you who stretched out your claws and pushed her in!"
Xie Yiyi's brows furrowed even tighter on her cold little face. She stretched out her hand, subconsciously trying to grab Su Yuan who suddenly fell into the water.
At Mother Lu's signal, the housekeeper said in public, "The Second Young Master and I rushed over together and saw the First Young Madam fall into the water. The Second Young Madam gave her a push. Then the First Young Madam called for help, and the Second Young Master and I hurried over to save her."
"Butler, go get the family rules immediately!" Mother Lu ordered with a cold face.
The housekeeper replied yes and turned to walk towards the bedroom door.
Xie Yiyi looked around. Inside the room, except for Su Yuan who was pretending to be pitiful on the bed, everyone was looking at her with disgust and coldness, waiting for her to be punished.
Xie Yiyi raised his chin, and met everyone with a cold gaze, not afraid at all, "I'll see who dares to touch me."
"You're trying to pressure me with the Xie family, right?"
Mother Lu's face suddenly turned pale.
The Lu family and the Xie family are competitors in business. Apart from Lu Bingchen and Xie Peizhou, who have a slightly better relationship, the Lu family actually doesn't have much interpersonal communication.
But after operating for so many years, the Lu family is indeed no match for the Xie family, whether in business or in network relations.
“Okay, okay!”
Mother Lu was so angry that she uttered the word "good" three times in a row, pointing at Xie Yiyi with a cold face, "For your uncle's sake, I won't do it! But the Lu family will absolutely not tolerate a daughter-in-law like you who bullies others, lies all the time, and has a vicious heart. Get out of the Lu family immediately. The Lu family doesn't want a daughter-in-law like you!"
Xie Yiyi clenched his fists!
It was the first time she had suffered such an injustice in public, and it was the second time she was driven out by an old witch, pointing at her nose.
She snorted and was about to turn and leave.
Lu Bingchen's cold voice sounded from the direction of the door, "The Lu family doesn't want it, but I want it."
For a moment, everyone looked towards the door.
Lu Bingchen pushed open the bedroom door and strode in, with a frosty look on his face, especially his pair of icy black eyes.
He was wearing a white long-sleeved shirt and black pants, with his black hair half-dried and not even combed. Compared to his usual gentle and refined appearance in the eyes of the Lu family, he looked a bit more unruly and cold in private in the nightclub.
Mother Lu was stunned for a moment, then coldly rebuked, "Lu Bingchen, you saw her push Yuanyuan into the water with your own eyes, and you still protected her?"
Xie Yiyi's breathing became tight, and she met his dark eyes, her body stiffening for a moment.
She had no grudge against the housekeeper, so the housekeeper should not have deliberately slandered her. It might be a matter of perspective. From the perspective of Lu Bingchen and the housekeeper, her action of reaching out to pull Su Yuan back was misunderstood by them as "pushing."
After she "hurt" Su Yuan, Lu Bingchen still chose to stand on her side?
Xie Yiyi actually doesn’t have this confidence.
At the door, Lu Bingchen heard Lu's mother's questioning, and without moving his eyes away from Xie Yiyi, he strode towards where Xie Yiyi was.
After taking a shower, he was drying his hair in the bedroom when he heard Lu's mother's sharp and angry voice, and she mentioned "family rules".
He immediately put down the hair dryer and rushed over.
At this moment, seeing that Xie Yiyi was still safe and sound, my heart was relieved a little.
Lu Bingchen swore that he would never let her suffer any injustice from the Lu family again, but he still failed to do so.
A hint of guilt flashed in the man's eyes. Amidst the indifferent gazes of the crowd, he firmly grasped Xie Yiyi's small hand, which hung stiffly at her side, and interlocked his fingers with hers.
His cold gaze swept around, landing on every face. His tone was cold and loud, and every word was clear, "She is my wife, of course I will protect her."
On the bed, Su Yuan coughed aggrievedly, tears welling up in her eyes, "Bingchen, it was Xie Yiyi who pushed me into the ice pool. You clearly saw it, so why did you indulge her?"
Xie Yiyi pursed her lips with a cold face. She didn't expect Su Yuan to frame her!
She subconsciously wanted to pull her hand away from Lu Bingchen's hand, but the moment she pulled it away, the man held it even tighter.
Xie Yiyi was surprised. Lu Bingchen just happened to look down at her and said, "When the housekeeper and I rushed over, we did see you fall into the water. Yiyi reached out to you. But she said she didn't push you. That's right."
"In my heart, even if someone lied, it would never be her."
A cold and firm voice reached Xie Yiyi's ears.
Xie Yiyi was stunned. She raised her little face and looked at Lu Bingchen in disbelief, her heart beating uncontrollably.
Between her and Su Yuan, he actually believed in her unwaveringly?
On the bed, Su Yuan's face, which had been flushed red, suddenly turned pale. She never expected that... Lu Bingchen would be so partial to Xie Yiyi!
Lu Bingchen looked at his mother again, his tone cold and submissive, no longer the usual tone of compromise and obedience. "You don't need to kick her out of the Lu family. I've already got her household registration information from the safe. Tomorrow when the household registration office opens, I'll go and handle the procedures for leaving the family. From now on, the Lu family is the Lu family, and I, Lu Bingchen, am Lu Bingchen. Xie Yiyi is my wife, Lu Bingchen, and not the daughter-in-law of the Lu family."
"From now on, Lu Jiaqiao and I will go our separate ways. Whoever bullies her will be the one I will never forgive!"
"Lu Bingchen!" Mother Lu covered her heart in anger.
For the first time, her own son threatened her with such harsh words.
It was all for a woman!
"Mom, this is the last time I'll call you mom." Lu Bingchen looked at Mother Lu, his dark eyes filled with mixed emotions, and he said with a hint of relief, "Next time we meet, I'll call you Madam Lu."
"Let's go."
When Lu Bingchen looked at Xie Yiyi, his tone suddenly became gentle. He interlocked his fingers with hers and gently rubbed her knuckles with the tip of his thumb.
In psychology, it is a soothing action.
Xie Yiyi nodded, without looking at anyone in the room, and left hand in hand with Lu Bingchen.
Since Lu Bingchen was about to be kicked out of the house, no one in this family was worth her even a glance.
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Inside the car.
Lu Bingchen leaned over to the passenger seat and helped Xie Yiyi fasten her seat belt before sitting up straight and fastening his own seat belt.
"What do you want to eat for lunch?"
Xie Yiyi was very angry and not hungry at all at the moment, "Whatever."
Lu Bingchen turned his head to look at her cold profile, smiled with his thin lips, clicked on the navigation, and chose a high-end Hunan restaurant.
Xie Yiyi caught a glimpse of the navigation system out of the corner of her eye and pursed her lips.
No words.
But I feel a little better.
The restaurant chosen by Lu Bingchen was the one she liked.
"Then let's go."
Lu Bingchen gripped the steering wheel, stepped on the accelerator, and the car started smoothly.
The car is on the way.
Along the way, Xie Yiyi didn't say a word, his eyes fixed on the snow scene outside the window.
Lu Bingchen raised his eyebrows, "Wife, are you angry today?"
Hearing the man's obviously coaxing words, Xie Yiyi pursed her lips and turned to look at the man in the driver's seat who was concentrating on driving.
She wasn't really angry anymore.
Getting angry at people who don't deserve it is a waste of energy.
Xie Yiyi was just thinking about something else, "Lu Bingchen, do you really believe that I didn't push Su Yuan, or are you worried that I will complain to my uncle, so you stand on my side?"
Lu Bingchen laughed, glanced at her through the rearview mirror, and said without hesitation, "Of course I really believe you."
"Why?"
Xie Yiyi questioned, staring at the handsome profile of the man with his thin lips curled into a smile.
The man's driving posture was very lazy, with his left hand holding the lower half of the steering wheel and the other hand lazily resting on the gear shift area.
The index finger of his left hand, as slender as a bamboo joint, was nonchalantly tilting the steering wheel.
His voice was also lazy and pleasant, "Because... based on my understanding of my wife, she is obviously an upright, kind-hearted, passionate and sincere girl, and she is also beautiful~"
"Hmph, is that so?" Xie Yiyi turned his face away and looked out the window again.
The corners of the mouth are raised two pixels upwards.
My mood gradually became brighter and brighter.
"Hmph! I wouldn't bother doing such a thing. I came out to answer a phone call and wanted to see if there were any koi in the frozen pond. I don't know where Su Yuan came from and insisted on talking to me."
"As she was talking, she let out a cry and fell onto the ice. I wanted to reach out and help her, but I shouldn't have been so kind and reached out."
Xie Yiyi said this and childishly hit his left hand twice with his right hand.
Lu Bingchen smiled, but his dark eyes darkened as he looked ahead.
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Lu family.
After Lu Bingchen pulled Xie Yiyi away, Lu's mother angrily scolded Lu Bingchen and Xie Yiyi for a while, but Lu Zhizhang thought they were noisy and disturbing Su Yuan's rest, so he asked them to go downstairs.
At this time, the heating temperature in the house has been lowered and returned to normal.
Su Yuan was only covered with a silk quilt.
Lu Zhizhang sat on the edge of the bed, looking at Su Yuan's thin back wrapped in a silk quilt.
After a long silence, he finally spoke first, "Yuanyuan, I'm sorry. I drank too much the other day and lost control of my emotions."
"I shouldn't have been so jealous and used force on you, suspecting you had something to do with Lu Bingchen."
"I know that you and Lu Bingchen have always maintained a proper distance after marriage. I am too sensitive."
"Let's make peace, Yuanyuan."
As Lu Zhizhang spoke, he gently placed his palm on Su Yuan's thin shoulders.
But the next second, Su Yuan dodged.
Lu Zhizhang's body stiffened for a moment, and a rustling sound came from the bed.
Soon, Su Yuan sat up, looked at him with a calm face, and slowly shook her head, "No, I want a divorce."
"Are you still angry with me? Yuanyuan, what do you want in exchange for my forgiveness?"
Su Yuan chuckled. Looking at Lu Zhizhang's nervous expression, she knew very well that he really loved her in his heart.
She spoke softly, "These past few days, I've been thinking seriously, asking myself, who do I love in my heart, you or Lu Bingchen? In fact, a big part of the reason I agreed to your proposal back then was because I was angry at Lu Bingchen. I was angry at him for ignoring me for two months even though he knew you liked me and that you were pursuing me."
"During those two months, every time I contacted him, he was busy. But you were so devoted to me, always available at my beck and call, and willing to do anything to make me happy. I also thought I had changed my mind and fallen in love with you."
"But it wasn't until Xie Yiyi showed up that I realized that deep down, I still loved Lu Bingchen. I couldn't accept him marrying someone else and favoring other women over me."
"Ever since Xie Yiyi showed up, I've been going crazy with jealousy every day. I even regret it in my dreams. I regret why I was so impulsive, why I agreed to your proposal out of anger, and became his sister-in-law..."
Su Yuan's eyes were red, but she looked at Lu Zhizhang and smiled: "If you really love me, divorce me and let me be happy, okay?"
Lu Zhizhang felt heartbroken when he saw the pleading look in Su Yuan's eyes.
His eyes were red and his voice was low and hoarse: "Su Yuan, Lu Bingchen has changed his heart."
"No, he didn't!"
"He swore to love only me in this life!"
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