Madam Xu and Yu Wanqing started arguing.
Mrs. Xu had been the legitimate wife of the Xu family for twenty years, managing everything inside and outside the family, but Yu Wanqing had only been in this circle for a few years? She had spent most of her time abroad.
Before Yu Wanqing could process what was happening, she tried to step forward and hold Madam Xu's arm, but was ruthlessly pushed away.
Yu Wanqing smiled and lowered her voice, "Mrs. Xu, what's going on? We had a good talk yesterday. Our Ruan Chen isn't doing well in his studies, and your young master is just missing a 'playmate.' The two children can keep each other company and develop their relationship in advance."
She took Ruan Chen's hand and handed it to Madam Xu.
Madam Xu frowned and dodged, "Our Xu family didn't agree with you. You came to our door on your own initiative, asking if our Shanshan needed a playmate and offering to send your child over!"
Ruan Chen immediately shouted it out.
"Auntie, how are you going to explain this to my parents when you go back? You said you were just taking me out to play, how come you're going to give me to the Xu family now!" Ruan Chen's clear voice echoed in the air.
When Yu Wanqing saw everyone staring at her with looks of disdain and contempt, she panicked and reached out to shove Ruan Chen, loudly showing off Ruan Chen's grades, "You ranked over 60,000th in the city in the high school entrance exam. Apart from No. 2 High School, no school will accept you. I sent you to the Xu family for your own good. How can you be so insensible?"
On the second floor, Fu Lin whispered something in the ear of the head of the Xu family. Xu Heng looked at Ruan Chen with a slightly shocked expression.
Fu Lin smiled, said nothing more, and left the second floor.
Yu Wanqing was still yelling, "You ran away from home for a year, and your family didn't care about you. If they had taken care of you earlier, you wouldn't be like this now. If you left the Ruan family, you wouldn't even have been able to go to school!"
Just then, Yu Wanqing's cell phone rang.
She grabbed it impatiently, about to hang up, but then saw it was Ruan Zhengde and answered it again.
She was about to complain to her powerful backer about Ruan Chen's behavior today when she heard a suppressed angry voice on the other end of the phone, "The other party has a very powerful background and refuses to settle with our Ruan family privately. I have already hired a lawyer for Yunhan, and after the lawyer communicated with the other party, they said that they would only sign a letter of understanding if the second young lady of the Ruan family came forward!"
After Yu Wanqing hung up the phone, her gaze towards Ruan Chen had changed.
Although she still harbored resentment and bitterness, she hid them beneath a facade of flattery and ingratiation.
Ruan Chen knew that there was news from the Municipal Bureau.
“Chenchen,” Yu Wanqing rubbed her hands together and smiled good-naturedly, “Your dad just called and said if you don’t want to, then forget it and let me take you home. Let’s go. Mrs. Xu, I’m sorry about what happened today.”
Ruan Chen lazily tugged at the corners of her mouth, "Really? Auntie, you can't always lie."
Yu Wanqing was now clear-headed. She knew that if she couldn't say what Ruan Chen wanted to hear in front of the social elites, that brat wouldn't obediently go home with her.
The thought of her daughter, whom she had pampered for nineteen years, suffering terribly now filled Yu Wanqing with unbearable pain.
"Chenchen, it's all my fault. I lied to you. I treated you badly when you ran away from home before, and I drove you away. It's all my fault. Please forgive me and come back with me."
Ruan Chen remained motionless, looking at her with a cool gaze.
Yu Wanqing knew that her daughter's future was now in Ruan Chen's hands, and even though she had a thousand grievances in her heart, she had to swallow them down.
"It's because your aunt has always disliked you and didn't want you to stay at home, that's why she came up with this underhanded way to send you away. Chenchen, your aunt knows she was wrong, so please come back with me?"
Ruan Chen asked, "Auntie, I've always been curious why you've been so hostile towards me ever since you returned to the Ruan family, trying every possible way to drive me away? Besides that, you've repeatedly forced my mother to leave the Ruan family."
Yu Wanqing knew that Ruan Chen wanted to put her on the spot and make everyone despise her.
But she had to say it.
For Ruan Yunhan's sake, she had no choice but to go all out and reveal her shameful thoughts in front of everyone.
"Because I'm jealous of you! I'm afraid the Ruan family will value you too much! Besides, as long as your mother gets a divorce, I can become the Ruan family's legitimate wife!"
Having said all that, she stopped hiding her true feelings and cried out all the humiliation she had been enduring, "I was the one who met Zhengde first! I bore him children, and he promised to make me a wife in the Ruan family! But what happened? He turned around and married another woman!"
Ruan Chen's eyes remained expressionless, her voice cold and indifferent, "That's why my mother always says you're mentally ill, that you don't even know who you should hate. Who forced you to raise his child? Are you short of money for a lawyer or illiterate? Is it that hard to fight a custody battle? Who are you trying to fool with your act of being aggrieved? You're enjoying spending tens of millions a month on living expenses, aren't you? Why weren't you aggrieved when you were spending his money?"
Those around them basically understood the cause and effect of the matter.
"I didn't realize Ruan Zhengde was so skilled at it."
"How to put it? It's really immoral, but it's common in wealthy families. It's just that this woman is too ungrateful."
"She still wants to be the legitimate Mrs. Ruan? That's too naive. Everyone knows that the Ruan family and the Ye family are allied through marriage. Even if they divorce, the Ruan family will find a woman of equal social standing to marry into the family. How could they let her in?"
"That's why I say this woman is both stupid and clueless; she just can't bear to part with the Ruan family's money."
On the way back, Ruan Chen leaned back in the back seat, absentmindedly playing on her phone.
Sitting in the passenger seat, Yu Wanqing spoke with icy disgust, "What good has it done you by causing such a scene today, humiliating the Ruan family? It's only made your father hate you even more."
Having already brought Ruan Chen out, she was too lazy to play along with her anymore. Once they got back, she and Zhengde had plenty of ways to force Ruan Chen to come forward and make the other party forgive Yun Han!
Ruan Chen said lazily, "I like watching the show, is that a problem? Besides, this messy affair of the Ruan family isn't a secret in your circle, is it?"
She glanced out the car window.
This isn't the road back to the villa on the hillside; this is the outskirts of Jingzhou.
Sparsely populated.
She opened a mini-program on her phone.
When the car stopped, what came into view was a dilapidated warehouse.
Several burly men in black stood at the entrance of the warehouse.
The car stopped, and someone immediately opened the car door, restrained Ruan Chen, and took her phone.
Ruan Chen did not resist. She was happy to see someone make the same mistake again and again.
Yu Wanqing said smugly, "Ruan Chen, you brought this on yourself. I don't think someone with your personality would agree to step in and ask the other party to forgive Yunhan. Auntie had no choice."
She pointed to the warehouse, which had only one main entrance and not even a single pane of glass. "Ruan Chen, Auntie won't be rough with you. If you don't want to starve to death inside, cooperate with Auntie to record a video and tell Tao Ran so they can forgive your sister Yun Han, okay?"
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