"Hey, Liu Xiaoyuan, where are you going?" Just as Liu Xiaoyuan was about to leave, Zhao Chuchu spotted him and asked like a busybody.
Liu Xiaoyuan glanced at Zhao Chuchu and said, "I'm meeting an old classmate."
"Is it a man or a woman?" Zhao Chuchu asked.
"It's a woman, and a stunning beauty at that," Liu Xiaoyuan said truthfully, then asked with a playful smile, "What? Any instructions?"
Zhao Chuchu immediately said, "I want to go too!"
Liu Xiaoyuan certainly wouldn't bring Zhao Chuchu along. He was going to see Tang Xuan on his own; what would it mean to bring Zhao Chuchu with him?
"What are you going to do? I'm going to see my old classmate. Are you going to be a third wheel?" Liu Xiaoyuan said irritably.
After saying that, Liu Xiaoyuan walked forward, ignoring Zhao Chuchu's angry glare.
Zhao Chuchu immediately caught up and said, "Liu Xiaoyuan, I'm going with you!"
Liu Xiaoyuan stopped and looked at Zhao Chuchu, saying, "Miss Zhao, I'm going to see my classmate. Why are you following me? You're not my wife. Besides, even if you were, there's no need for this."
"I'm your girlfriend!" Zhao Chuchu said loudly, hands on her hips.
As soon as she finished speaking, Zhao Chuchu's pretty face turned red. It certainly took courage for a girl to say such a thing.
"Did you get my permission?" Liu Xiaoyuan asked Zhao Chuchu with a smile.
"You..." Zhao Chuchu stomped her foot in anger. A beauty of her caliber, who knows how many men would flock to her with flowers and fawn over her with just a word.
However, Liu Xiaoyuan completely ignored her, which greatly hurt Zhao Chuchu's self-esteem.
"Miss Zhao, I really am going to see my classmate. I'm leaving!" After saying that, Liu Xiaoyuan glanced at the angry Zhao Chuchu and walked out of the hotel.
After arriving at the Tang family's house, Liu Xiaoyuan called Tang Xuan to tell her that he had arrived at the Tang family's door.
A short while later, Tang Xuan came out and was very happy to see Liu Xiaoyuan standing at the door.
"How is Auntie's health?" Liu Xiaoyuan asked casually.
"My mother is in good health now. Since you cured her illness, we've been getting stronger every day." Tang Xuan was very happy.
When Tang Zhongxin, the head of the Tang family, learned that Liu Xiaoyuan had come to the Tang family, he immediately rushed over, afraid that if he was even a second late, he would displease Liu Xiaoyuan.
"Brother Liu, you've arrived without even letting me know, so I could have prepared to welcome you!" Tang Zhongxin said with a fawning smile.
After the incident with Ye Sheng, Tang Zhongxin only felt fear towards Liu Xiaoyuan. How terrifying was it that he could beat Ye Sheng, who was at the first level of the Innate Realm, to the point of dropping his realm?
"Brother Tang, you're too kind. I just came to see Tang Xuan and Auntie," Liu Xiaoyuan said with a smile, his meaning quite clear: I'm here to see Tang Xuan and my mother.
Tang Zhongxin naturally understood what Liu Xiaoyuan meant, but he pretended to be confused. There was nothing he could do; he was simply not as skilled as the others.
"Brother Liu, how about I have my men prepare lunch at my Tang family's house right now?" Tang Zhongxin asked with a smile.
Liu Xiaoyuan said calmly, "Let's see. If there's nothing else, we can consider it!"
Upon hearing this, Tang Zhongxin immediately said, "Then I will give the order right away and have my men prepare."
After Tang Zhongxin left, Liu Xiaoyuan and Tang Xuan sat down in the shade of the courtyard and chatted.
When they talked about some interesting things that happened during their school days, they couldn't help but laugh.
Time flew by, and it was lunchtime in the blink of an eye. Tang Zhongxin personally came over to invite Liu Xiaoyuan to take his seat for lunch.
"Yiting, hurry up and greet your sister!" Tang Zhongxin reminded his daughter, Tang Yiting, when she saw Tang Xuan approaching without saying a word.
Now, in Tang Zhongxin's mind, Tang Xuan's position has risen by a rocket, all because his daughter is Liu Xiaoyuan's classmate.
"Sister!" Tang Yiting was unwilling, but she dared not not call out.
Tang Xuan responded and was then seated next to Liu Xiaoyuan by Tang Zhongxin.
Tang Zhongxin acted like a hotel waiter, constantly urging Liu Xiaoyuan to eat this dish and that dish, and pouring him drinks.
“Brother Liu, you have to help me persuade Tang Xuan. She wants to take her mother back to her hometown. You see, whether it's transportation, medical care, or anything else, her hometown can't compare to Beijing. Besides, it's so far away from Beijing. If I want to see them, it won't be easy.”
Tang Zhongxin looked at Liu Xiaoyuan and said that he hoped to keep Tang Xuan in the capital.
“Brother Tang, this is Tang Xuan’s own business, and I can’t offer any advice. I respect her choice,” Liu Xiaoyuan said with a smile.
Tang Xuan took her mother back to her hometown to live, clearly because she didn't want to live in the cutthroat environment of the Tang family. In a large family like the Tang family, infighting and double-dealing are inevitable.
Therefore, Liu Xiaoyuan supports Tang Xuan taking her mother back to her hometown to live her own life, free from intrigue and scheming, and happily.
Tang Zhongxin had his reasons for trying to keep Tang Xuan. First, Tang Xuan was his daughter, and he had some fatherly affection for her, so he was reluctant to let her and her mother leave. Second, and most importantly, Tang Zhongxin wanted to keep Tang Xuan firmly under the control of the Tang family, thus binding Liu Xiaoyuan to the Tang family as well.
However, now that Liu Xiaoyuan has said such things, Tang Zhongxin knows that his plan to get Liu Xiaoyuan to help persuade Tang Xuan is going to fail.
Tang Zhongxin thought that he could only try to persuade Tang Xuan to change her mind in the next few days with his silver tongue.
After lunch, Tang Xuan accompanied Liu Xiaoyuan for a stroll around the Tang family's house. Before they even reached the courtyard where Tang Xuan and her daughter lived, they heard a burst of cursing.
Upon hearing the sound, Tang Xuan immediately ran towards the courtyard.
Seeing Tang Xuan running so hurriedly, Liu Xiaoyuan knew something must have happened, so he chased after her.
"You shameless woman, your daughter is shameless too! If I were you, I wouldn't have the face to live in this world. I would have already found a rock and killed myself..." A vicious voice came from Tang Xuan's mother's room. The one cursing was a middle-aged woman.
Tang Xuan ran into the house and saw her mother with red eyes, crying from being scolded by this woman.
"Get out! Get out!" Tang Xuan shouted, pointing at the middle-aged woman.
The middle-aged woman was Tang Zhongxin's first wife, Zhao Lanxiang. Zhao Lanxiang was in her forties, but because of her good living conditions and good maintenance, she looked like she was in her thirties.
“You’re a bastard too. Don’t think that just because you’ve hooked up with some wild boy, you can act all high and mighty in the Tang family. This is the Tang family. You and your daughter are the ones who should get out.” Zhao Lanxiang pointed at Tang Xuan and said arrogantly.
Although Tang Zhongxin repeatedly warned Zhao Lanxiang not to cause trouble for Tang Xuan and her daughter, Zhao Lanxiang, as Tang Zhongxin's first wife, was used to being arrogant. In addition, Tang Zhongxin had been showing extra care for Tang Xuan and her daughter recently, which aroused Zhao Lanxiang's jealousy. So she came to cause trouble for Tang Xuan and her daughter every few days.
(End of this chapter)
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