"Mom!" Lin ngyao exclaid in disbelief.
"Mom, how can you do this? It was clearly your own mistake, yet you’re having Xu Ke take the bla. Do you think that’s appropriate?" Lin ngyao looked at Li Lihua with an expression of absurdity.
Li Lihua had always seed rely a little greedy and materialistic in her mind, but she never imagined that she could disregard human life to this extent. Is she mad? While this thought felt sowhat rebellious, the last shred of a motherly image in Lin ngyao’s heart completely collapsed at this mont.
"Why isn’t it appropriate? Our Lin Family has fed and sheltered him for so many years; it’s ti for him to repay the favor." Li Lihua hysterically scread, "You go to the police and confess. Go on, say it was you who hit the person, it’s all your doing." Li Lihua grabbed Xu Ke’s arm with all her strength, dragging him in a certain direction, looking possessed.
Xu Ke stood firm, unmoved by Li Lihua’s tugging. He looked down at her hysterics as if she were a stranger. In fact, Li Lihua ant even less to him than a stranger. If it weren’t for her blood ties with Lin ngyao, she wouldn’t even be able to touch a corner of his sleeve.
"What are you standing there for? Go on, walk!" Seeing she couldn’t move Xu Ke, Li Lihua turned around, yelling at him. Little did she know her current deanor looked monstrous, her eyes wide and bloodshot, and her well-styled hair had sohow beco disheveled. Her mind was consud by the belief that she had to have Xu Ke take the fall for her.
"Smack!"
A crisp slap silenced all of Li Lihua’s screaming. Tilting her head, she blinked, as if in disbelief at what had just happened.
"Are you awake now?" Xu Ke, who had been mostly silent, used his height advantage to look coldly at the madwoman-like Li Lihua. "If you’re awake, let go." Xu Ke said coldly.
Li Lihua touched her face, staring blankly at Xu Ke.
The moonlight was chilly, and Xu Ke seed colder under its shine, causing Li Lihua to shiver. Though afraid of Xu Ke at this mont, fear of prison lood even larger.
In almost no ti, Li Lihua regained her composure, looking at Xu Ke with a sense of entitlent. "I won’t hold it against you for hitting , but you must go to prison and confess. This is what you owe our Lin Family, and you must repay it."
"Mom, you really are crazy," Lin ngyao looked at Li Lihua in disappointnt, saying each word seriously.
"I’m not crazy; you are! I’m your mother, and who is he? He’s nothing more than a useless man worth less than nothing. Is it worth it for you to protect him like this? Are you really so heartless as to send , your mother, to prison for the sake of a man? I carried you in my womb for ten months, half your blood is mine. You should stand by , not this useless Xu Ke." Li Lihua shouted.
"Don’t you always act like you love ngyao so much? If you truly love her, you’d take the bla and confess to the police instead of watching her mother go to jail and then giving her a slap." Li Lihua redirected her gaze to Xu Ke.
"I won’t go to prison for you, so give up." Xu Ke brushed off the spot Li Lihua touched, as if dusting off garbage.
"ngyao, look at this man you chose. He’s completely unreliable. What’s the point of having such a man? Divorce him quickly while you’re young and find another one." Despite her panic, Lihua’s mind was sharper in this situation. She knew divorce was his Achilles’ heel, and she intended to use it to bend him to her will. No matter what, Li Lihua must not go to prison!
As expected, Xu Ke’s brow furrowed deeply; divorcing Lin ngyao was sothing he couldn’t accept. Although his relationship with Lin ngyao had been stable, he didn’t dare gamble who ant more to her in her heart.
Just as Xu Ke was about to speak, Lin ngyao intervened, "I won’t divorce him, nor will I let Xu Ke go to prison for you. Whoever’s responsibility it is should bear it."
Lin ngyao’s stance was a breath of fresh spring air to Xu Ke, but to Li Lihua, it was a thunderbolt on a clear day, "How can you do this to ? I’m your mother, the one who gave birth to and raised you!"
"Have you had enough? Do you think surveillance footage is blind? Taking the fall for soone else? How could you even co up with such an idea? This matter is not up for discussion. We need to find the injured person first, and in the anti, you stay in line. Stop jumping around every day." Lin Shichang pulled Li Lihua aside and spoke sternly.
Her husband and daughter’s clear stance against her made her ntal defenses crumble, "What if we find them and they refuse to settle? Do I have to go to prison then?"
"In this matter, most things can be resolved with money. If not, it only ans there isn’t enough of it. Once we find the person, I’m confident they won’t pursue the case further." Xu Ke explained coldly off to the side.
He didn’t want to deal with Li Lihua’s ss but felt he had to, as she was, after all, Lin ngyao’s mother. He would try to prevent anything from making Lin ngyao sad or uncomfortable.
"What solution do you have? Are you saying this just to comfort then sneakily send to prison?" Li Lihua couldn’t shake Xu Ke’s image as a useless nobody, despite his past demonstrations of strength. When situations beca urgent, she habitually forgot his proven capabilities.
"Believe it or not."
"Xu Ke never lies. If he says he has a solution, he certainly does. First, let’s find out where the person is."
"Fine, I’ll trust him this ti. If he can’t solve this for , even if I have to go to prison, I’ll chase him out of the Lin Family and have him live on the streets as a beggar."
"In a while, you won’t need to chase us out; ngyao and I will be moving out. But let warn you, don’t ever threaten with anything related to ngyao again. Before, I overlooked things because you’re ngyao’s mother. I’m helping you now for the sa reason, but being ngyao’s mother won’t protect you forever, understand?"
Xu Ke spoke without avoiding anyone, each word resonating with weight. His deanor was drastically different from before, but among the three present, except for the stunned Li Lihua, the other two showed no reaction, as if it were a natural developnt.
Lin ngyao’s lack of reaction was understandable to Xu Ke, but Lin Shichang’s indifference drew his attention.
In truth, Lin Shichang wasn’t entirely clear about Xu Ke’s identity, but he had long observed Xu Ke’s actions at ho. He couldn’t guess Xu Ke’s background but knew sothing significant must have happened to change him. He had privately brought it up to Li Lihua several tis, but she never took it to heart. Alas~
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