Wang Hong couldn't believe the news. Why? Why did this happen? He was still young then, but he had heard Wang Dong and Wang Fang talk about it. His mother used to work at the post office. When he was four or five years old, he vaguely remembered a tall, handsome uncle who would come to their house and cook them delicious food, better than what they ate at his maternal grandmother's house. After the meal, they would go into his mother's room... He couldn't bear to think about it. The more he thought about it, the more nauseous he felt. He covered his mouth and went out to vomit.
Li Qiuxiang ignored her. Anyway, that was about it. Let her do whatever she wanted!
Having gone this far, she felt she had done her utmost. It's impossible to reason with a damned ghost. Despite her harsh words to Dai Shiliang, she wasn't stupid. Dai Shiliang, a former convict, had managed to get to where he was today through sheer hard work and connections—that's wishful thinking. Besides, Wang Dong was gone. If Wang Hong wasn't thinking clearly and was still throwing herself into a trap, and she was offending those people for her sake, she felt it wasn't worth it.
Furthermore, Qi Zhifang, accompanied by Wang Fang, came to see Dai Shiliang again. Now, neither mother nor daughter has a job and they are relying on Xiao Hu's monthly subsidy of twenty yuan for a living. In this situation, the mother and daughter are about to starve. If Dai Shiliang takes the house back, how can they survive?
As soon as she entered, Qi Zhifang, looking pitiful and frail, seemed like a half-dead willow branch. She burst into tears before even speaking, sobbing uncontrollably. Wang Fang said coldly, "Uncle Dai, what do you mean? You promised to marry my mother, but you've kept delaying it, and now you've even taken back the house we live in! How could you do this?"
Looking at the mother and daughter, Dai Shiliang had lost even the desire for revenge. Killing them would be giving them a quick death. How could he possibly take revenge on them? He thought about setting a trap to send them to prison, but wouldn't that be exactly what they wanted? It would give them a place where they would live a life of comfort and ease.
Leaning back in his executive chair, he pursed his lips and said, "Don't talk nonsense. When did I say I was going to marry your mother?"
Qi Zhifang's eyes widened. "What do you mean? Didn't you say you wanted to marry me?"
Dai Shiliang laughed, "I meant I wanted to become your family, but your daughter Wang Hong doesn't agree, so there's nothing I can do..."
"Dai Shiliang, how can you be so shameless! You..." Qi Zhifang's vision went black for a moment. If Wang Fang hadn't been there, she would have collapsed.
Wang Fang was also shocked. How could Dai Shiliang do such a thing to Wang Hong, considering that the two were sixteen years apart in age!
After finally calming down, he said, "You're getting revenge on me, aren't you? You're just getting revenge on me! You shameless person!"
Dai Shiliang laughed out loud, "Qi Zhifang, who's shameless between us? I dare to swear to heaven that I've only ever been with one woman, you. Can you swear you haven't been with another man since I went to prison? I heard you even lost your job a few times because of men? You're really something!"
Qi Zhifang's lips twitched, and after a long while, she lowered her head and cried miserably, "I knew you wouldn't believe me, I..."
"Li Maocai, Xiao Hu, I've almost ruined you, and now you're pretending to be chaste with me? Do you think I was at the detention center entrance that day?"
"Do you really think I know nothing? I, Dai Shiliang, have been smart all my life but made a foolish mistake for a moment. I actually wasted half my life on someone like you, ruining my family and causing my death. I wish I could gouge out my own eyes!" Dai Shiliang roared with all his might. How could a simple word like "regret" possibly explain his feelings at this moment?
Hearing this blatant humiliation, Qi Zhifang's face turned abnormally red, and she was panting heavily. She had been beautiful, proper, and sought after by men her whole life, but she couldn't bear to see such a disparity in her love life in her old age!
"What? You're jealous of your own daughter? But honestly, Wang Hong is one of only two women I'd ever want to marry. She's steadfast, beautiful, and self-respecting, unlike you, who's just putting on an act. It's disgusting!" Hearing these words, Qi Zhifang felt as if steel arrows had pierced her chest. She stared at Dai Shiliang in disbelief. "So that's how you see me?"
"So you pursued me not entirely to get revenge on my mother?" Wang Hong walked in from outside the door, her eyes red and swollen, her face covered in tears. Qi Zhifang saw Wang Hong come in and sat down on the ground with a thud, not knowing how to face her.
Is it her own daughter, or her love rival?
Xiao Dai gave a desolate smile. "At first, it really was to get revenge on Qi Zhifang, but then I didn't go to see you for a few days because I realized I had truly fallen in love with you, and I thought about staying away..."
Wang Hong then remembered that day when Dai Shiliang knocked her to the ground after she got off work. When he deliberately tried to please her, she was wary. But after a few days he disappeared, she realized that she had been overthinking things.
In the end, they both developed feelings for each other, after all, they had hoped for something more...
Xiao Dai stood up and stood in front of Wang Hong, saying, "When I left you that day, I said you were a good girl, and leaving me was the right thing to do. I will try my best to forget you, to carve out the place in my heart that holds you. I'd rather suffer myself than let you get hurt again! My good girl, go! Go far away, don't stop! Otherwise, I'm afraid I'll lose control and go crazy, using every means to keep you by my side!..."
Qi Zhifang rushed over and stood in front of the two of them, roaring, "Shameless! Shameless! You two adulterers!..." Before Dai Shiliang could say anything, Wang Hong shoved Qi Zhifang aside.
"Isn't this all debt you incurred?" Qi Zhifang took a few steps back, steadying herself, and roared, "How could you be so shameless! Are there no men left in the world? You had to find someone sixteen years older than you..."
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