Chapter 162 Unqualified
Looking at her finished painting, Fang Lanxin was very satisfied. She looked up and saw Huo Xianxian standing outside the studio.
She opened the door and let Huo Xianxian in.
"Aunt, I heard you haven't been feeling well lately. Why did you come here? Shouldn't you be resting at home?"
Huo Xianxian looked at Fang Lanxin with some concern.
Fang Lanxin smiled gently and then said calmly, "It's alright, it's nothing serious. I'm doing just fine now. How have you been lately? Are you settling in well with work here?"
“Everyone knows that our relationship is very good to me. I’ve been here for a few months, and all I do is look around every day. They don’t assign me any tasks. Aunt, I don’t really like this.”
Huo Xianxian kept her head down, not even daring to look Fang Lanxin in the eye, afraid that she would be annoyed if she made too many demands.
Seeing Huo Xianxian like this, Fang Lanxin nodded in satisfaction, then said with a smile, "You look somewhat similar to me back then, but if you want to do something, you have to rely on your own efforts. I won't help you."
"Yes, I know."
"My mother... Aunt, can you help my mother? She can't take it anymore."
“My dad has been in a bad mood lately and often takes his anger out on her by hitting and yelling at her, but she's the kind of person who doesn't like to talk. I really don't know what to do.”
Huo Xianxian looked at Fang Lanxin with a wronged expression, having placed almost all her hopes on this person.
However, Fang Lanxin really didn't want to get involved in the affairs of the fourth wife.
She glanced at Huo Xianxian and said calmly, "Their affairs are their own to resolve. No one else has the right to interfere. However, you can go to Huo Qibang. He is now the head of the Huo family. If anything happens in the family that damages the family's reputation, he can still step in and take care of it."
"Brother Abang, will you take care of our family's affairs?" Huo Xianxian looked at Fang Lanxin in disbelief.
Fang Lanxin smiled gently and then said, "Abang may not care, but the head of the Huo family must. If the scandal of domestic violence and imprisonment of his wife gets out, it will not be good for the reputation of our Huo family!"
After saying that, Fang Lanxin waved her hand and said, "Alright, you can go out now."
Huo Xianxian originally thought that Fang Lanxin would help her, but she never expected that it would only be like this.
For some reason, Huo Xianxian felt that Fang Lanxin was very strange. She had been quite kind to her before, but after she came to work here, she seemed to have become a different person. She ignored Huo Xianxian's pleas. For a moment, Huo Xianxian had no idea what to do.
She's only a nineteen-year-old girl, and she's overwhelmed with family problems.
Seeing her helpless expression, Fang Lanxin finally softened a little.
After thinking about it, she called the fourth branch of the family and then drove there. She wasn't there to see Huo Zhenhong, but just to check on Huang Ying's situation.
Huang Ying was indeed bruised and battered, but she still pretended that nothing had happened, looking completely indifferent, and even tried to make amends: "I'm fine, I just accidentally tripped and fell."
"How could you fall and get like this?" Fang Lanxin looked at Huang Ying with a half-smile, then said coldly, "I don't want to get involved in your relationship, but don't you care about your child? Have you thought about what will happen to your daughter now that you're like this? Have you thought that your daughter will only suffer more than you do now that you're like this!"
Huang Ying never imagined that Fang Lanxin would say such a thing to her!
Her eyebrows furrowed tightly before she spoke, "Our family can't compare to yours. You're a pampered young lady, how could you possibly understand our situation? What can I do? What can I possibly do? Divorce me? If I really divorce Huo Zhenhong, how will I survive? If we really divorce, Xianxian will have nothing left. Fang Lanxin, you were born a privileged daughter, and you're just talking without any sense of the situation!"
Fang Lanxin never expected that when she came to visit her with good intentions, she would hear this.
Now, Fang Lanxin finally understands that Huang Ying's brains are absolutely deserving of her current suffering, and she deserves it all!
“I didn’t come here for you today, I came for Huo Xianxian.”
"But since you've said that, I have nothing to say. Fine, just pretend I was never here."
Fang Lanxin stood up and strode outside.
"I know you look down on me! But what gives you the right to look down on me? Do you think you're so great?"
"Your messy affairs with those men are now common knowledge. You think I'm shameful, but don't I think you're shameful too!"
Huang Ying's pride was severely hurt, and she stood up abruptly, lashing out at Fang Lanxin.
"I'm single now, and how many men I've been with is all up to me."
"But you, take a look in the mirror. Do you still look the same as you did back then?"
Fang Lanxin felt very sad looking at Huang Ying like this. After all, Huang Ying used to be a sunny and cheerful girl when she was young. She would smile happily no matter who she met, and her eyes were very cute.
Now, only twenty years have passed, and it's as if she's completely changed. Fang Lanxin can't even remember the last time Huang Ying laughed heartily.
Huang Ying took a deep breath, grabbed a cushion from the side, and threw it hard at Fang Lanxin.
Sometimes I really hate you, but I also really envy you!
"What should I do, Fang Lanxin? I envy you, but I can't be like you!"
Huang Ying covered her face and sat on the sofa, sobbing uncontrollably.
She didn't know if she was crying for herself or for her daughter.
Fang Lanxin shook her head helplessly, turned around, and strode outside.
If you don't have the courage to resist, then no matter what others say, it's useless, and all that will be left is endless suffering.
Seeing Fang Lanxin leave so easily, Huang Ying felt even worse. Her tears flowed freely, and she cried uncontrollably.
Huo Xianxian rushed back and, seeing her mother like this, hurriedly went up to her and looked at Huang Ying cautiously: "Mom, what's wrong? Are you...are you alright?"
"How could I be alright?"
"Xianxian, do you think I'm really that bad?"
Huang Ying looked up, her face covered in tears, her nose bruised and swollen, looking extremely disheveled.
Seeing her like this, Huo Xianxian took a deep breath and then nodded heavily: "Yes, Mother, you look really bad right now."
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