Chapter 1156: Chapter 1156 Being Beaten
Old Master Zhai thought of the words Lu Yichen had said. Yes, even if the two families were acquainted, they couldn’t possibly use marital feelings as a favor. It was his own granddaughter who was lacking in ambition, and the more he thought about it, the more frustrated he became.
On the other side, after Lu Yichen had finished his phone call, he looked in the rearview mirror of his car and saw that woman chasing after him again. He stepped on the gas and left directly.
Zhai Yuyuan, furious, stamped her foot in the background.
Looking at the two concert tickets in her hand, she almost tore them up.
She had bought the tickets because she saw him at the theater last time and heard him asking about the concert schedule, hoping to please him.
She hadn’t expected this man to have no sympathy or cherishing for a woman at all; he was really dense.
She wasn’t interested in the concert herself and now didn’t feel like going either. She simply stuffed the two tickets into her pocket, out of sight, out of mind.
She turned around, hailed a cab, and gave the address.
Sitting in the car and pondering her affairs, she thought, “I don’t believe it. If I go to find you every day, someday I will move you. Besides, that woman only has two daughters. If he divorces and remarries me, I will definitely bear him a son.”
Thinking about it made her laugh, improving her mood somewhat.
But when she got home, she was greeted by a host of serious faces: “Grandpa, Mom and Dad, Big Brother, Second Brother, what’s going on with all of you?”
Zhai Yufeng spoke first: “Didn’t you buy tickets for the concert? Why are you back at this time?”
When the subject was brought up, Zhai Yuyuan was unhappy: “The person I invited didn’t have time, and I wasn’t in the mood to go alone.”
Zhai Yufeng continued to inquire: “Who did you invite? Is it a man or a woman?”
Zhai Yuyuan looked up: “Big Brother, why are you asking so many questions?”
Old Master Zhai, who had been holding back, slammed the teacup he was holding onto the table heavily: “Answer what you’re asked.”
Zhai Yuyuan looked around at everyone in the room: “What are you trying to do? Why the long faces?”
Jiao Haifang, fearful that her daughter would infuriate Old Master Zhai, hurriedly came over: “Just answer your Big Brother’s questions properly.”
Zhai Yuyuan turned her face away: “I don’t want to answer.”
Zhai Yufeng said in disappointment: “Is it that you dare to do but not to admit? Aren’t you brave enough to answer?”
At this, Zhai Yuyuan also became angry. She had always been indulged by her family and had never been treated like this. Furthermore, judging by the attitude of her family, they seemed to know about her entanglement with Lu Yi. So, she became annoyed as well: “What’s there to admit? I like Lu Yichen, what about it?”
Zhai Yufeng became so exasperated that he slapped his sister across the face, “You really dare to say it. I think you’re spoiled silly by our family. Don’t you know that Lu Yichen is married? How can you be so shameless?”
Zhai Yuyuan had not expected her brother to hit her. She covered her face and stood there stunned, then burst into crying and shouted, “How dare you hit me?”
After hitting and scolding his sister, Zhai Yufeng also came to his senses, looking at his own hand with a moment of panic. But hearing his sister’s cries and remembering what Lu Yi had said that day, his heart hardened once again.
Zhai Yuquan, who had been silent, stood up, looked at his sister, and said word by word, “Starting today, if you dare to bother Lu Yichen again, don’t blame me as your second brother for not recognizing you.
You’ve grown so much spoiled by our family that you don’t understand what ‘shame’ means, and you’ve brought shame to the reputation of the Zhai Family. You might as well have not studied all these years.”
Zhai Yuyuan, facing her second brother’s scolding, stopped crying, covered her face, and countered, “I’m pursuing my happiness; what’s wrong with that?”
“Your so-called happiness means destroying someone else’s family? Your so-called happiness means jeopardizing our family’s reputation? What kind of twisted reasoning is that?”
Old Master Zhai, holding back his anger, asked, “Don’t you want to know how we found out?”
Upon hearing this, Zhai Yuyuan looked towards her grandfather, indeed wanting to know how her family had found out.
Old Master Zhai, looking at his granddaughter who had been the apple of his eye, though previously well-behaved, made such a foolish mistake, “It was Lu Yi who called our home. Do you hear me clearly?
He said that he’s married and didn’t want his beloved to be saddened, so he asked our family to take care of you, to stop disturbing him. Do you understand what that phone call means?”
Seeing that his granddaughter did not speak, he stood up: “It means that he has no interest in you whatsoever, that he is disgusted by your shameless behavior, and that he is ready to throw away the budding relationship between the Gu family and the Zhai family. Do you understand?
Starting tomorrow, you are to stay home and reflect until you come to your senses.”
Then, turning to his daughter-in-law, he said, “Keep an eye on her. If she doesn’t repent, marry her off far away. The Zhai family shall not have a granddaughter who is a disgrace.”