Mrs. Liu Yuzhi heard the words, and her first reaction was to pounce and tear the smile off Shen Chi’s face. Fortunately, Dong Fei was quick to react and fiercely pinched her, preventing her from doing so.
But the distortion and malevolence on her face were clearly seen by everyone.
"Mother!" Han Shouyi shouted sternly.
He felt extremely embarrassed. If he had harbored some unspoken doubts about the words of his father and brothers before, after seeing Liu Yuzhi’s behavior now, he had despaired.
His mother and wife were indeed murderesses who had abandoned conscience and compassion.
When his brother-in-law, Xu Qian, passed away, he had condemned his mother and forced her to apologize to his sister. Over the years, he had done his utmost to compensate his sister, believing that his mother’s deed was an unintentional mistake, not intentionally trying to kill someone.
But now... he could not help but suspect that his brother-in-law’s death might not have been an accident?
Dark clouds seemed to gather on Han Kuang’s face as he looked at Liu Yuzhi with piercing eyes, "If you’re feeling unwell, then you should go back to your room to rest."
Though the statement seemed mild, the intimidating aura emanating from him pressed down on Liu Yuzhi. She tried to appear proud, but her trembling teeth betrayed the fear inside her.
When Han Kuang was younger, people said he was difficult to deal with. While most people would curse or displace their anger, providing some psychological preparation, he did not. At most, he would intimidate with his presence. Some might be scared initially, but after a few times, when they realized he was a "paper tiger," they would push even harder. However, when someone crossed Han Kuang’s tolerance threshold, he would crush them mercilessly, with no chance of them "playing dead."
Liu Yuzhi may have not understood this initially, but how could she not be clear after decades of living with him?
She genuinely feared the old master harbored murderous intentions against her.
Shen Chi, however, seemed unafraid of the high stakes drama, his face still full of smiles, "Did I say something wrong? What did Mrs. Liu say when she first met me?"
"’Come to think of it, you should also call me auntie.’"
"I remember it very well."
"Especially thanks to you, I survived several brushes with death on the battlefield and faced suppression when I was promoted."
"How come Mrs. Liu’s memory is so poor that she has forgotten?"
Shen Chi’s face was all smiles, but to others, it seemed filled with an ominous energy.
Lin Xiaoguai wanted to cover her face, it was over, this guy always turns so demonically charming when he gets dark. This time he smiled especially beautifully.
In her previous life, she had seen this many times. She hadn’t expected that even though she planned to live a good life with him in this lifetime, she would still see this side of him.
"And, how did you address me back then?"
"A lowlife or a bastard?"
The faces of Han Kuang and Han Shouxin, the siblings, darkened; after all, although they knew about the actions of Liu Yuzhi, they were unaware of her exact words.
Shen Chi still looked thoroughly amused, as if he was genuinely just curious.
Han Shouyi turned pale, feeling as though the air in the room was suffocating him. He suddenly had a realization: perhaps the identity of a bastard was not the most embarrassing thing; the truly shameful thing was having such a shameless mother and a cruel-hearted wife.
This time Liu Yuzhi was mentally prepared unlike before, and with Dong Fei watching, her expression was not out of line, but her angry and resentful gaze was impossible to hide.
"Are you very angry? The lowlife you once manipulated at will, deciding life and death, has actually turned the tables. This reversal must be infuriating for you."
"I guess you’re now thinking about how to take revenge, to give me a good lesson?"
"Maybe, once I leave the Han Family, by tomorrow the whole Capital will know that I, Shen Chi, am the illegitimate son of the Han Family, and as for the name Han Shoulv, it’s because General Han was too longing for the lost second son that he named his youngest son after the second?"
Shen Chi speculated based on the tactics Liu Yuzhi had used over the years: "You must think that even if the Han Family members all claim that I am the Second Young Master Han Shoulv, others will harbor doubts. After all, you’re no longer young and beautiful, for all we know, General Han might have a new love and reject the old. He might even use Han Shouyi as a stepping stone for the sake of his favored youngest son."
"By then, even if the Military Department spares my military status out of respect for General Han, my reputation among the higher-ups will have plummeted, and even my future promotions could be affected."
As Shen Chi nonchalantly revealed the scheme Liu Yuzhi and her daughter-in-law intended to execute, Liu Yuzhi’s face turned white as a sheet, and she broke into a cold sweat, "You... how could you know?"