Volume 7: Mr. Love, Elite Lawyer, and Two Conjectures about Marriage Chapter 496 Xue Kexin Stays Overnight at Rose Garden Villa
"No, I don't want to go to work, old man, just forget it. I'm going upstairs to change my clothes. Bye!"
Giving her father a blank look, Xue Kexin skipped upstairs. Seeing her like this, Xue Guixiang couldn't help but sigh softly. Xue Kexin was just a daughter, but she had no ambition. If she found a useless son-in-law like Chen Tonggang, then the Xue family's business would really be left without successors. Thinking of these troubles, Xue Guixiang shook his head and walked towards the living room, where Zhong Qihua and her brother Zhong Qiming were waiting for him.
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In the living room, Xue Guixiang and Zhong Qihua sat on one side, and Zhong Qiming sat opposite him. Compared with Chen Tonggang, Zhong Qiming was undoubtedly much better.
Not only does he have a very good academic background, he also worked for a large investment bank in the United States for a period of time. He can barely be considered a young talent who has returned from overseas. However, Xue Guixiang does not like him and is only polite to him for Zhong Qihua's sake. Zhong Qiming is a capable person, but he is also ambitious and arrogant. In Xue Guixiang's opinion, he is a little ignorant of the immensity of the world.
If Zhong Qihua hadn't threatened to run away from home, he would never have agreed to let such an ignorant young man serve as the assistant director of Kunbo Group.
Originally, that was Zhong Qihua's position, but she gave it to her younger brother Zhong Qiming. Of course, there are relatives and strangers in everything. If Zhong Qiming was Xue Guixiang's biological son, that would be a different matter. This is probably the difference between self-confidence and ignorance.
"I asked a friend to bring this tea from Fujian. Qiming, why don't you try it?"
"Okay, thank you brother-in-law!"
In front of Zhong Qihua, both Zhong Qiming and Xue Guixiang behaved in a friendly manner.
But in fact, Xue Guixiang naturally couldn't stand Zhong Qiming's ignorance of the world, and Zhong Qiming also couldn't stand his brother-in-law Xue Guixiang. It was not because Xue Guixiang was incompetent, but because of his age. Zhong Qiming was about the same age as Chen Tonggang, only in his twenties, a few years younger than Xue Keyin. His sister Zhong Qihua was only in her thirties. Ten years ago, when she was in her twenties, she followed Xue Guixiang. Not only had they been secretly married for ten years, but they were also an old man and a young wife. In the heart of Zhong Qiming, the younger brother, he felt that Xue Guixiang was not worthy of his sister and felt sorry for his sister.
Just as the family seemed to be chatting in peace, Xue Kexin changed her clothes and came down from upstairs angrily. She looked at Xue Guixiang and Zhong Qihua and said angrily:
"Who changed the password to my mother's safe?"
"ah?"
When Xue Kexin mentioned her mother's safe, Xue Guixiang quickly stood up and interrupted:
"Come here, Ke Xin, let me introduce you. This is Zhong Qiming, your aunt Qihua's younger brother. He is now my new assistant. You two should get to know each other."
As he spoke, he looked at Zhong Qiming who had already stood up and introduced:
"Qiming, this is my daughter Xue Kexin."
"Hello, Ke Xin."
Zhong Qiming looked at Xue Kexin and stretched out his hand to greet her. Xue Kexin just glanced at him and ignored his outstretched hand. She looked at Xue Guixiang and asked:
"Who has been in my mother's room?"
"Oh, your mother's room has been empty for a long time. Now it's occupied by your Aunt Qihua."
Hearing her father say this, Xue Kexin couldn't help but take another look at Zhong Qihua who was still sitting there drinking tea. Suddenly, she noticed the emerald necklace on her neck. Xue Kexin was shocked and said angrily:
"Why is my mom's necklace around her neck?"
"Okay, okay, don't be angry, don't be angry."
"No, how did she know the combination to my mom's safe? It's my birthday!"
"Okay, I'm not angry anymore."
Seeing Xue Kexin throwing tantrums at her father like a little girl, Zhong Qiming couldn't help but smile and sat down again. At this time, Zhong Qihua, who had been keeping quiet, put down his teacup and said with a smile:
"Ke Xin, it's my birthday now. I'm sorry, I didn't know this necklace belonged to you..."
As Zhong Qihua was talking, she was about to take off the emerald necklace around her neck. At this time, Xue Guixiang quickly stopped her and said:
"Hey, don't take it off. I gave you that necklace. Why are you taking it off?"
Hearing Xue Guixiang say this, Zhong Qihua put her hand down. She was just pretending in front of Xue Kexin, but Xue Kexin couldn't accept hearing her father say this. He actually gave her mother's belongings to another woman.
At this time, Xue Guixiang looked at Xue Kexin and said soothingly:
"Ke Xin, would you please listen to Daddy's explanation?"
"Is there anything else to explain?"
Giving her father a hateful look, Xue Kexin turned to look at Zhong Qihua and said coldly:
"Zhong Qihua, you finally succeeded, congratulations!"
After that, she took one last look at her father Xue Guixiang, then turned around and left angrily. Xue Guixiang shouted helplessly at her back:
"Ke Xin, where are you going?"
"Don't worry about it. Just live your life with that woman. I'll go find Chen Tonggang to get the marriage certificate!"
"Ke Xin!"
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After Xue Kexin left, Xue Guixiang was worried that she would really do something stupid and get married with Chen Tonggang, so looked at Zhong Qihua and said:
"Call the police, call the police right away, and have them arrest Chen Tonggang. I'm afraid Ke Xin will really get married to him!"
"Call the police?"
Zhong Qihua glanced at Xue Guixiang and said:
"Why call the police? What do you want me to tell the police? Say that he cheated on your daughter and wanted to date and marry her?"
"No, didn't he steal the jewels from the house?"
Xue Guixiang said angrily:
"Just call the police and tell them your house has been robbed and a few pieces of jewelry are missing. Show the police the surveillance footage and have them arrest him!"
"are you sure?"
Zhong Qihua said with some hesitation:
"But he's not really a thief, and the jewels aren't from Ke Xinrang..."
"He is a thief. He stole my daughter!"
Before Zhong Qihua could finish her words, Xue Guixiang waved his hand to interrupt her:
"Okay, just do as I say. Since he dared to steal the jewels, I will teach him a memorable lesson!"
"All right!"
Seeing that Xue Guixiang had made up his mind, Zhong Qihua didn't say anything more. Over the years, she and Xue Guixiang had been playing the good cop and the bad cop in front of Xue Kexin. Things like calling the police to arrest Chen Tonggang would inevitably make Xue Kexin unhappy, so naturally she had to do it. As for Xue Guixiang, he just had to be a kind and good father. It was also because of this that he had secretly married her for ten years and had not told Xue Kexin until now. Therefore, Xue Kexin had always thought that she was a vixen who wanted to seduce her father.
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After Xue Kexin left home, she did not find Chen Tonggang, and she could not reach him by phone. What she did not know was that at this moment, Chen Tonggang and Gangzi were partying in a bar opened by his friend. The cell phone was in his clothes pocket, and the clothes were in the booth of the bar. Chen Tonggang and Gangzi were dancing wildly on the dance floor with the men and women around them. The deafening music covered up the ringtone of the cell phone. Under the colorful lights and accompanied by the melody of the music, Chen Tonggang was having a great time.
Not finding Chen Tonggang, Xue Kexin went to the Rose Garden Villa to talk to her best friend Shen Mingbao about her troubles.
In the living room of Rose Garden Villa, Shen Mingbao sat on the sofa. She hugged Xue Kexin who was crying sadly and said with concern:
"Ke Xin, what's wrong with you? Who bullied you?"
"It's Zhong Qihua. She wears my mother's jewelry with my father's consent, woo woo..."
Hugging Xue Kexin who was crying loudly, Shen Mingbao gently patted her back and said soothingly:
"Okay, dear, don't cry. Have you eaten yet?"
"No, I'm hungry. I want to eat wontons. Woo woo..."
"Okay, let's eat wontons. I'll ask Yuan Xudong to go out and buy you wontons, okay?"
"Okay, woo woo..."
Hearing that Shen Mingbao sold himself out like this, Yuan Xudong couldn't help but look at her with his big innocent eyes, as if to say that it was so late and he didn't want to go out to buy wontons. Shen Mingbao gave him a sanitary eye, as if to say, "You dare not go buy wontons and try." Yuan Xudong had no choice but to look at Yang Manman next to him. Yang Manman glanced at him and blurted out:
"I'm not going. If you want to go, go by yourself. I still have to catch up on some drama later!"
Rolling his eyes at the lazy Yang Manman, Yuan Xudong stood up from the sofa, took the car keys and went out. At this time, Yang Manman shouted in a strange voice behind him:
"Honey, remember to buy an extra serving of wontons. I want to eat wontons too!"
Looking back at Yang Manman who was deliberately making a fool of herself, Yuan Xudong gave her a middle finger. For some reason, Yang Manman blushed and cursed in a low voice:
"You rascal, you have no shame!"
To be honest, Yuan Xudong was a little confused. Didn't he just raise his middle finger? Doesn't this mean contempt? Rogue, shameless, I don't know what Yang Manman's little head is thinking. Anyway, Yuan Xudong couldn't figure it out. After he left, Shen Mingbao couldn't help but glared at Yang Manman and said:
"Just sit there and watch TV, and don't be sarcastic!"
“Oh~~”
Looking up at Shen Mingbao and Xue Kexin, Yang Manman nodded slightly, and then watched TV quietly. However, when her back was turned to Shen Mingbao and Xue Kexin, she couldn't help but pout her lips and imitated Xue Kexin's crying.
Shen Mingbao couldn't do anything to her, as long as she didn't make trouble so blatantly, she continued to comfort Xue Kexin. At this time, Xue Kexin raised her head and looked at Shen Mingbao, and asked with some doubt:
"Mingbao, why is she here? She even calls Yuan Xudong her husband. What are you doing..."
"Okay, let's talk about your business. My situation here is a bit complicated, and I can't explain it to you clearly in a short time."
Shen Mingbao changed the subject. Seeing her like this, Xue Kexin seemed to understand a little, but she was still not sure. If it were in the past, she would definitely ask Shen Mingbao for clarification, but now she was sad and didn't want to care about the gossip between Shen Mingbao and Yuan Xudong.
Not long after, Yuan Xudong came back with four servings of hot wontons. He gave two of them to Shen Mingbao and Xue Kexin, and took two for himself. He ate one of the wontons while protecting the other with his hand, because Yang Manman was sitting next to him, staring at his wontons eagerly. Seeing that she was about to drool, Yuan Xudong said smugly:
"I'm sorry, I need two servings of wontons to feel full, so there's no portion for you. You stay away."
"you……"
Seeing that Yuan Xudong was deliberately targeting her, Yang Manman couldn't help but pout. She ran to Shen Mingbao, hugged her arm and said aggrievedly:
"Sister, he always bullies me, don't you do anything about him?"
"sister?"
Hearing Yang Manman calling Shen Mingbao "sister" instead of "sister-in-law", Xue Kexin couldn't help but look up at her, then looked at Shen Mingbao and Yuan Xudong, but she became more and more curious. Hearing Xue Kexin's surprise, Yang Manman also looked at her, and then said as a matter of course:
"Yes, she is not my sister-in-law now, but my sister. We..."
Just when Yang Manman dared to say anything and Xue Kexin was listening curiously, Shen Mingbao quickly pushed his wontons to Yang Manman and said:
"Okay, I'll give you my wonton. Eat it while it's hot!"
"Thank you, sister!"
After getting the wontons from Shen Mingbao, Yang Manman immediately ran to sit opposite Yuan Xudong with the wonton bowl. While eating happily, she looked at Yuan Xudong, wrinkled her nose and said:
"Hehe, what a mean person!"
"You're the stingy one, okay?"
"You're a cheapskate!"
"You're a cheapskate!"
"Who are you!"
"Who are you!"
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At the dining table, watching Yuan Xudong and Yang Manman bickering with each other while eating wontons, Xue Kexin glanced at Shen Mingbao and said hesitantly:
"Mingbao, are you guys..."
Although Xue Kexin didn't say it explicitly, Shen Mingbao still understood what she meant. She nodded slightly and said a little embarrassedly:
"That's about it. Don't ask me anything else. I don't want to lie to you, okay?"
"Oh my god, you guys are having so much fun, you're even better than my dad, Shen Mingbao, you're awesome!"
Xue Kexin exclaimed, she had been crying to Shen Mingbao for so long, and now she was eating her favorite wontons again, she had almost recovered. Seeing her like this, Shen Mingbao glared at her and said angrily:
"Don't talk nonsense, I'm not like what you think!"
"Yeah?"
Xue Kexin glanced at Shen Mingbao jokingly and sighed slightly:
"Alas, it seems that all rich men are the same. I thought my dad loved my mom so much that he didn't marry for more than ten years, but in the end he was still fascinated by Zhong Qihua. Zhong Qihua is only a few years older than me. How could she really like my dad? She just likes his money. You say the old man is such a shrewd person, how could he not figure it out?"
"That's not necessarily true. What if that Zhong Qihua really likes your father?"
Shen Mingbao hesitated and said, there are still many combinations of old men and young wives nowadays, especially those rich and powerful men. Not to mention marrying women who are almost the same age as their daughters, there are also many old men who marry women younger than their granddaughters. Maybe it is really true love?
"Come on, what else would she like about my dad besides money?"
Xue Kexin rolled her eyes at Shen Mingbao and said speechlessly:
"My dad is just an old man, and his health is not very good. Zhong Qihua is at the age . How can she like an old man like my dad?"
"What do you mean like a wolf or a tiger?"
Yang Manman didn't understand and asked. In an instant, Shen Mingbao, Xue Kexin, and Yuan Xudong all glared at her. Yang Manman was shocked and said:
"You, what are you all looking at me for? Did I say something wrong?"
"Children are not allowed to interrupt when adults are talking!"
Shen Mingbao glared at Yang Manman and Yuan Xudong chimed in:
"Right, right, you are not allowed to interrupt when adults are talking. You don't even know the meaning of "like a wolf or a tiger". What did your Chinese teacher in elementary school teach you? "Like a wolf or a tiger" means to be as ferocious as a wolf or a tiger, which is a metaphor for being very violent and cruel. This idiom comes from "Wei Liaozi Wuyi". Do you understand now?"
"I see, so this is what you mean!"
Yang Manman suddenly realized that Yuan Xudong looked like a teachable child. Shen Mingbao and Xue Kexin beside him almost laughed out loud. Shen Mingbao glared at Yuan Xudong and said angrily:
"Get out of here! Your elementary school Chinese teacher taught you this, right?"
"Yeah, what else?"
Looking at Shen Mingbao, Yuan Xudong blinked and said:
"How about you tell me what it means to be like a wolf and a tiger?"
"roll!"
"Get out if you want!"
Yuan Xudong stood up from his seat, brought the remaining wontons to Shen Mingbao and said:
"You eat, I'm leaving now, bye, Ke Xin, bye!"
"Bye-Bye!"
After saying hello to Xue Kexin, Yuan Xudong went upstairs. Yang Manman quickly finished the remaining wontons, said hello to Shen Mingbao and Xue Kexin, and then followed Yuan Xudong upstairs. At the second floor stairs, Yang Manman chased after Yuan Xudong and said with a smile:
"Actually, I know what Xue Kexin meant when she said women are like wolves and tigers. You still want to bluff me, but I'm not stupid, okay?"
"Yeah?"
Turning into the corridor, when he could no longer see Shen Mingbao and Xue Kexin in the living room downstairs, Yuan Xudong couldn't wait to hug Yang Manman, pushed her against the wall and said with a smile:
"Then tell me, what does it mean when a woman is like a wolf and a tiger?"
"What I mean is... uh... don't..."
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In the living room downstairs, Xue Kexin blushed as she heard the faint sound coming from upstairs.
"I didn't disturb you guys, did I?"
"Pah, what's the bother?"
Shen Mingbao blushed and at the same time complained in his heart that Yuan Xudong didn't know how to restrain himself, and also Yang Manman, why was she speaking so loudly.
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At the same time, in the house that Chen Tonggang had just rented, not long after he and Gangzi came back, the police came to the door. The person who opened the door was Chen Tonggang. After confirming each other's identities, the leading police officer said directly:
"You are suspected of theft. We are subpoenaing you according to the law. Here is the subpoena!"
"You arrested the wrong person, didn't you? I didn't steal anything."
Chen Tonggang was surprised. He never expected that the police would come to arrest him for theft.
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After being taken to the police station, the police officer in charge of the case began to interrogate Chen Tonggang. After watching the surveillance video provided by the police, Chen Tonggang understood what was going on. It turned out that it was because of the jewelry he stole from Xue Keyin's house.
Chen Tong had just sat on the interrogation chair when the police officer opposite him asked directly:
"Where did you get the stuff from?"
"I took it from the safe."
Chen Tonggang answered tremblingly. Facing the police, he realized for the first time the seriousness of the matter and felt deeply frightened.
"Where did you get the password?"
"My girlfriend told me that the password to the safe is her birthday..."
