Chapter 806 Serving Tea and Water
Xu Chen curled his lips into a faint smile: "Because I have something to tell her. What, Mr. Gong, you wouldn't be deliberately refusing to release her, would you? Or are you trying to pry into my privacy?"
His words were clearly directed at him. If he released the person, everything would be fine; if he didn't release the person and insisted on knowing the reason, then it would be considered an invasion of his privacy. Either way, he would be in the right.
"So, you barging into my house so aggressively doesn't count as an invasion of my privacy?" Gong Lian raised an eyebrow with a hint of amusement. "Young Master Xu, you can't be so hypocritical, can you?"
Xu Chen couldn't help but sneer, "You have to be so hypocritical with people like you. To be honest, Gong Lian, where exactly are you hiding Qingyi?"
"No rush." This time, Gong Lian did not deny it, but instead beckoned to the maid beside him: "Someone, bring tea."
No sooner had he finished speaking than Xu Chen witnessed a scene that he could not believe—
Wen Qingyi, dressed as a maid, came over with tea, keeping her head down until she placed the tea on the coffee table. Only then did she kneel down and pour tea for the two of them.
She first poured Gong Lian a cup of fine English black tea, and then poured one for Xu Chen. As she handed the teacup over, she said, "Second Young Master Xu, please have some tea."
She had always been in charge of making tea in the living room. Although she was not used to it, she endured it in order to be able to return to his side.
Xu Chen took the tea from her hand in disbelief. Perhaps because his hands were trembling, the teacup, which was full of tea, fell to the ground with a bang the moment he touched it.
The teacup instantly burst open on the floor, soaking the high-end wool carpet with a thin layer of mist.
"Wen Qingyi! What are you doing?" Gong Lian scolded her when he saw that she had knocked over the teacup, "You've knocked over the teacup, how is Young Master Xu supposed to drink his tea?"
Whether it was intentional or not, Xu Chen's expression darkened further as he looked at him, and he exuded an aura of impending storm.
But it was Wen Qingyi, the servant, who spoke first, and quickly kowtowed and apologized: "I'm sorry, Mr. Gong, it's my fault, I'll clean it up right away."
As she spoke, she bent down and picked up all the broken pieces of the teacup one by one. But perhaps because she picked them up too quickly, she accidentally cut her skin with the sharp edge of a shard, and bright red blood dripped from between her fingers.
Despite the pain from her cut hand, Wen Qingyi continued picking up the pieces.
Xu Chen felt extremely distressed seeing this and angrily pulled her up from the ground: "Don't pick it up anymore! You haven't contacted me for so long, have you been working as a maid for Gong Lian? If you're working so hard, why didn't you call me? Do you know how long I've been looking for you outside?"
He had neglected her before because of Nan Chu, but since she disappeared, he has been doing everything he can to find her.
What he didn't expect was that during the time she was missing, she had actually been working as a maid for Gong Lian!
She is the eldest daughter of the prestigious Wen family. When has she ever done such a lowly job?
If this gets back to her parents' ears, they'll be heartbroken.
"I'm sorry, Brother Chen, I have no choice." Wen Qingyi wasn't lying; she was truly desperate. "I owe Gong Lian money, and I can't leave the Gong family until I pay back five million."
Does he owe Gong Lian money?
These words successfully caught Xu Chen's attention. He narrowed his eyes and asked, "Owe money? What do you owe him?"
Their engagement has already been dissolved, so what money does she still need to repay?
“She spent a total of 5.31 million with you. I helped her return that 5.31 million to you. You can’t let me lose everything, can you?” Gong Lian answered his question: “So I rounded it down and offered her a monthly salary of 50,000 to work for me for 100 days as my personal maid. That will stop once the debt is paid off.”
A monthly salary of 50,000 yuan is considered high in Beijing's job market.
Over the course of a year, that's an annual salary of 600,000.
This job pays more than some white-collar office workers, but maids are considered servants, so it's quite tiring.
Upon hearing this, Xu Chen was so angry that she immediately grabbed his shirt collar: "You despicable and shameless scoundrel! How can you treat your fiancée like this? Even if you broke off the engagement, she is still the eldest daughter of the Wen family! How dare you treat her like this?!"
And to make her do such hard work...
Wen Qingyi was spoiled since childhood. Although her family gave her less love, they never deprived her of material things!
And this is how this scoundrel treated her? He actually treated her like a servant!
How could he not be furious?
As he finished speaking, he was about to throw a punch, but his fist was intercepted in mid-air by Gong Lian.
"Just because she caused me to lose 5.31 million, she has an obligation to pay me back!" Gong Lian stared at his angry face and said with a half-smile, "And this is the amount I rounded down. If you add the odd amount, then she won't just be a maid for 100 days."
Moreover, he was overestimating her salary. According to the normal labor market price, he would be lucky to give her 10,000 yuan for this job, and even 50,000 yuan would be too much.
In his view, this was already a lenient gesture; how much more care did he need to provide?
Xu Chen was shocked to find that the 5.31 million he received was being repaid in this way. He exclaimed, "Gong Lian, even if you have no feelings for her, there's no need to torture her like this. As a man, do you think it's honorable to use such despicable means to torment a woman?"
"Glory?" Gong Lian murmured the word repeatedly, seemingly finding it somewhat amusing: "You already have a fiancée, yet you still want to meddle in my Gong family's domestic affairs. Is that something to be proud of?"
“Young Master Xu, we are both respectable people. I hope you can also be respectable and not meddle in things that are not your business.” This was already a warning from Gong Lian: “In addition, I had Wen Qingyi cut off contact with you out of good intentions.”
This way, Xu Chen won't neglect his own fiancée and instead spend all his time taking care of his ex-fiancée!
Upon hearing this, Xu Chen couldn't help but sneer inwardly: "Kindness? You gave me money and tortured Qingyi like this, and you call that kindness?"
"Believe it or not, I think the most important thing right now isn't this, but her finger. If you want to see her bleed until she faints, then I can answer your question."
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