"That ungrateful wretch! Not only did he not save me, but he also... I won’t let him off, even if I have to sacrifice these old bones of mine, I won’t let him off!" Ji Guoqiang gritted his teeth in hatred.
"Dad, don’t be ! I’ve finally cut all ties with that person, I don’t want anything to do with him anymore, let’s just treat him as a passerby, okay?"
"A passerby?! After what he did, you don’t hate him? How can I be at peace without making him suffer a little!"
"I hate him!" Ji Niandong suddenly shouted, "How can I not hate him?! At first, I hated him so much I wanted to kill him, but after killing him, then what? I would have to pay with my life for his, is he worth it? Dad, even touching a single hair of his disgusts me, can we not mention this person anymore?"
He rarely saw his daughter with such intense emotions; she was usually so gentle and mild, but now her eyes were red with hysteria, which showed how deeply she was hurt at the time. Ji Guoqiang glanced at Lu Beichen on the side, clenched his fist, and said, "Fine, we won’t mention him, then promise me, divorce Lu Beichen and come home with me!"
Ji Niandong was stunned, gripping his hand tightly, shook her head.
"Father-in-law, why do you oppose me and Tongtong so much?" Lu Beichen furrowed his brows, feeling like lighting a cigarette, but thinking it would be impolite.
Ji Guoqiang didn’t even want to look at him, "Didn’t I make it clear just now? People like you who are rich..."
"Is being rich our fault?!" Lu Beichen interrupted him slightly, "Isn’t letting your daughter marry someone wealthy and enjoy a good life better than keeping her confined at home, losing herself more and more? Manipulating her?"
Lu Beichen laughed as if hearing a funny joke, "From socialites to celebrities, down to young college students... if I wanted to manipulate, wouldn’t I, Lu Beichen, get any kind of woman I want? Would I need to sacrifice my marriage just because I’m caught up in the moment? Do you think a man in his thirties, who holds the economic lifeline of New City in his hands, doesn’t have the ability to discern right from wrong? Or do you think I’m not worthy of your daughter?"
"Not worthy?" Ji Guoqiang laughed sarcastically, "Having an illegitimate child with some woman, and you still call yourself noble? Only this naive girl would be fooled by you!"
His words were harsh. It wasn’t just that Lu Beichen was running out of patience; even Ji Niandong couldn’t listen anymore, "Dad, I wasn’t deceived, he’s really good to me! No one in this world has ever been this good to me! Not even you, and also, Nian Nian is not any ’illegitimate child,’ I am Nian Nian’s mother now!"
"I raised you for so many years and you say I’m not as good as him?!"
"You raised me for so many years, but you know very well how you treated me!"
"How did I treat you?" Ji Guoqiang never expected his soft-hearted daughter to speak against him so confidently, "Fine, fine, fine! You willingly become a stepmother, wasn’t it for money? If you don’t divorce him, I will disown you!"
He pushed them aside and headed towards the ward, then grabbed his luggage and stormed out.
Lu Beichen instructed, "Li Yi, take him home!"
"No, let him be!" She shouted abruptly, and everyone froze in place, not daring to move!