But someone immediately remarked, "They may have retreated, but even a starved camel is bigger than a horse."
"Besides, that guy from the Ling family always does things outrageously; he's practically a scoundrel!"
As the old saying goes, it's not the thief you should fear, but the one who has his eye on you.
The third daughter-in-law of the Huo family is beautiful and young.
If you really get taken advantage of, you can only accept your bad luck.
What else can you do? Even if you make a big fuss, in the end, it's the woman who suffers.
"That's true." Most of the people present were women, and they all sighed with emotion at this point.
Of course, people just reminisce about it privately, but gossip spreads at an absurdly fast speed.
Even the large compound where the Ling family lives is still some distance away from here.
But within two days, the Ling family still heard a lot of rumors.
When the whole family had dinner that evening, Old Master Ling, who always turned a blind eye to his son's behavior, was at the dinner table.
With an unusually serious expression, he asked, "What have you been busy with lately? You're always leaving early and coming home late, and I never even see you."
Ling Yunfei was eating casually when he heard this and gave a perfunctory reply.
"I'm busy with work, what else could I be busy with?"
Busy with work?
The old man slammed his chopsticks on the table with a loud bang. "You've already been removed from the project for the international hotel, what are you busy with?"
Ling Yunfei was already furious about this, and now that the old man had yelled at him like that, his tone was quite aggressive.
"Is this my fault?"
"Everything was agreed upon, the contract was even drafted! We've been working outside in this freezing cold for over a month!"
"They were evicting residents and renovating the house. We were working ourselves to the bone every day, and now they just move us out like that!"
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