Chapter 555: Chapter 555: She’s Sowing Discord!
Ouyang Qian lay on her side on the bed, her soul still in shock.
“Mom!” Lai Shengxia rushed over to help Ouyang Qian up and check on her.
Lai Wenyan’s neck was bulging with veins as he still suppressed his raging anger. When he spoke again, his voice was eerily calm, “Tell me, what have you been doing behind my back?”
“Why did you hit mom out of the blue, dad?!” Lai Shengxia stood up, “Mom has been busy with the company’s affairs all day, and during the two days I moved back in, she stayed at home after work. What could she have done behind your back?”
Ouyang Qian grabbed her eldest daughter, “Stop talking, please stop.”
Looking at Lai Shengxia, Lai Wenyan was reminded of what Tang Li had said at the door, “What did you say to Tang Li this afternoon?”
“…” Lai Shengxia didn’t respond.
Her reaction wasn’t slow; she had noticed something off about Lai Wenyan.
All these years, Lai Wenyan had never laid a hand on Ouyang Qian, but now he had suddenly lashed out. Nᴇw ɴovel chaptᴇrs are published on novèlfire.net
Only a person in a rage could lose control like that.
Fearing Lai Wenyan’s anger might turn towards his daughter, Ouyang Qian quickly spoke up, “It has nothing to do with Xiaxia. I did go to Diannan once, 12 years ago.”
Hearing this, Lai Shengxia turned her gaze back to Lai Wenyan.
Lai Wenyan’s face was already flushed with anger, “So, you knew about Tang Yin not three years ago. Before Tang Li came to the Capital, you had gone behind my back to Diannan to find her and her daughter, hadn’t you?”
Ouyang Qian dared not reply.
“You and your daughter have been playing me for a fool, enjoying quite a few laughs at my expense, haven’t you? Feeling quite accomplished?!” he continued.
“It’s not what you think, dad.” Lai Shengxia explained, “When Tang Yin called our house that year, mom took me to Diannan to see Tang Yin, she didn’t tell you because she cared about you; she was afraid if you knew, you would choose Tang Yin. And this is why she dared not tell you that Tang Yin had a daughter for you.”
Lai Shengxia continued, “I still remember when Tang Yin wanted to bring her child to the Capital to find you, mom knelt on the ground, begging her desperately.
In mom’s eyes, neither Yuanyuan nor I are as important as you.
It was also because she cared about you that when Tang Li came to the Capital, mom treated her like her own, I do not know what others have told you, dad, but I do not want your years of relationship with mom to be manipulated .”
Lai Wenyan’s face eased slightly, but he still sneered coldly, “So you told Tang Li that I owe everything to her mother, making her despise me, and now I, her father, have become a wretched little man in her heart!”
Upon hearing this, Lai Shengxia finally understood the crux of the issue.
Outside the villa, Tang Li must have said something to Lai Wenyan!
Before Lai Shengxia could further explain, Lai Wenyan reached out, grabbed Ouyang Qian, and started dragging her out.
Ouyang Qian fell to the ground; Lai Wenyan’s violence filled her with fear!
After thirty years of marriage, she knew better than anyone that Lai Wenyan, though suave in appearance, was hypocritical and stubborn; now that he discovered she had known about him and Tang Yin for a long time, he wouldn’t let her off easily.
Lai Shengxia clung to her father’s arm, “Dad, believe me, it’s Tang Li who’s stirring trouble, I didn’t mention anything about Tang Yin to her!”
Right after those words, she was flung aside.
How could Lai Wenyan trust their mother-daughter’s sophistry? Tang Li had described the matter in such detail, and it had just been after she left the Lai Family’s home. Besides Lai Shengxia, he couldn’t think of anyone else!
That night, shrill cries of a woman could be heard coming from the villa’s second floor.
The servants heard the sound of things being smashed but dared not go upstairs or even glance up.