Su Chenghui was struggling. He did not know if he should sign the divorce papers or not.
He did not have the heart to put Su Peizhen into that kind of situation. For Su Peizhen, it would be worse than if he had killed her.
He didn’t want to leave Li Qianxue either. He knew her so well. Once he signed the paper, he would have no chance of getting back together with her.
Thinking about the day before, he felt as if his heart were bleeding.
He closed his eyes for a moment, then said to her helplessly, “Qianxue, do things between us truly have to be like this?”
“Su Chenghui, do you hear yourself? Don’t you find what you said ridiculous?”
Li Qianxue was so angry that she almost laughed.
“Don’t you know what you’ve done? Did you really think that after you did something so evil to me, I would stay with you and pretend nothing happened? Did you really think that I’d turn a blind eye to what has happened and continue treating Su Peizhen like my real daughter willingly because I was her mother for over twenty years?”
If the two babies had been mixed up by accident, she might continue to look at Su Peizhen as her daughter and take care of her.
But what was the truth? The mother-daughter relationship between Su Peizhen and herself had been single-handedly planned by Su Chenghui. How could she possibly tolerate that?
Li Qianxue loved Su Peizhen, but that love wasn’t as strong as the pain that she now suffered, knowing that she had been deceived and betrayed by the man she loved the most.
She had loved him so deeply before. Now, she hated him equally.
That hatred reached its peak when she thought about how miserable Su Qingsang’s life had been in the past years. She had nearly been sent to an orphanage. If that had happened, she would never have had a chance to meet her real mother.
“Su Chenghui, I’m telling you, I even want to drink your blood and eat your flesh now. Do you think I have no idea about those dirty thoughts in your head? Listen carefully. I’ve stated things very clearly on the divorce agreement. I’ve given you what you deserve. If you want more, or if you’re brewing some other nasty scheme, I will never let you get what you want.”
“Qianxue, no, it’s not like that.” Su Chenghui couldn’t explain. He knew that in Li Qianxue’s eyes, he was an untrustworthy man.
“I don’t want to sign the papers because I don’t want to get a divorce. Qianxue, believe me, I really love you…”
“And you expect me to believe that? Do you expect me to believe that despite that you’ve been ignoring me for twenty years, on the very day you’re getting a divorce, you’ve suddenly realized that you can’t live without me?”
Even Su Chenghui himself thought that sounded ridiculous. However, it was true.
Li Qianxue would not, of course, believe him. She snorted loudly with scorn.
“Yeah, if I believed you, you’d be able to stay and give Su Peizhen more benefits, right?”
Li Qianxue spoke through clenched teeth. She’d had no idea that Si Chenghui was so shameless. “I’m done talking to you. I want to see your name on the papers by the end of today. If I don’t see it, you just wait and see what happens.”
After ending the call, Li Qianxue was still very angry.
She patted her chest heavily to calm herself down. It was hard, though. If she weren’t such a strong person, she would have burst into tears.
“Li Qianxue, look at yourself. How blind you were. Look what kind of man you’ve fallen for,” she said to herself.
Su Chenghui came from an ordinary family and didn’t love her. But before, she had believed that he was, at least, a proud man, a man with a backbone.
Perhaps he had been proud at first. The twenty years of wealth and an easy life had softened him.
“Su Chenghui, you’ve done this to me now, and I won’t let you get away with it so easily.”
Li Qianxue’s eyes turned red. She could not cool herself down.
She had planned to show Su Chenghui a last bit of respect. However, since he was so shameless, why would she bother doing that?
She took out her phone to make a call. Before she dialed the number, Su Qingsang knocked on the door and came in.
“Mom.”
“You’re home.” Seeing her daughter, Li Qianxue dropped her phone.
Su Qingsang had gone to Huo Jinyao’s house to pick up the gifts that she had prepared before. Li Qianxue had prepared some too. The gifts from her and the ones from her daughter would be different.
Gifts from different people would surely deliver different wishes.
“Are you tired? I told you to bring Yuxin with you, but you didn’t listen.”
“Mom, Yuxin needed to go to school for registration today. Why would I make him come with me? There weren’t a lot of things to take, and you sent Xiaoyu and Uncle Zhang to help me. Why would I get tired?”
When she finished speaking, Su Qingsang saw that her mother’s eyes were slightly red.
“Mom, what happened? Are you feeling unwell?”
“Nothing happened.” Li Qianxue had been infuriated just now. Seeing her daughter calmed her down.
Su Chenghui was an awful man, but still, he was Su Qingsang and Su Yuxin’s father. If his reputation went bad, Yuxin’s and Qingsang’s lives in Lin City would become difficult too.
Besides, there was also the fact that Su Qingsang had married into the Huo family. Families like that valued reputation the most.
She changed her mind. She probably owed it to Su Chenghui. For the time being, she could do no more than restrain her anger.
It was hard to pretend nothing had happened. She couldn’t help but show her feelings on her face.
Su Qingsang had experienced a lot. She was no longer an unsophisticated girl.
She pondered things briefly. At present, Su Chenghui and Su Peizhen were the only two people who could make Li Qianxue unhappy.
Su Peizhen had made such a scene the day before. Li Qianxue must have been very unhappy about that already. As for Su Chenghui, the only thing he could do to make Li Qianxue so upset was refuse to sign the divorce papers.
Thinking about the look that she’d seen in Su Chenghui’s eyes yesterday, Su Qingsang’s feelings were complicated.
She thought for a moment before sitting down beside Li Qianxue and saying, “Mom, I’ve talked to Huo Jinyao. He has houses and apartments in Rong City. Let’s go and take a look at those places tomorrow, see if you’ll prefer to stay in a house or an apartment.”
“Don’t bother.” Li Qianxue patted her hand and said, “We can stay in a hotel. This time, we’re going to visit your husband’s family. It’ll be the first time. Us staying in their house is reasonable, but that might put us in a lower place than them.”
“Mom, are you really going to stay in a hotel?”
“Silly girl.” Li Qianxue looked at her daughter. She couldn’t love her more. She tried to make it up to her, but it never felt like enough. “I sent someone to Rong City after you talked about leaving. We’ll just buy a house near the Huo family. We are not as rich as them, but we can afford our own house.”
“Mom.” Su Qingsang didn’t understand why some people loved to purchase houses so much. “I don’t think that’s necessary.”
“Of course it’s necessary.” Li Qianxue held her hand and said, “You married into that family. No matter how many things Huo Jinyao gave you, those things still belong to his family. A woman needs to be strong and rich so people will show her respect. Your independence is one thing, and your family’s attitude is another thing. I’m going to buy more than one property and put all of them under your name.”
“Mom…” Su Qingsang didn’t know how to react for a moment. “Old Master Huo gave me a house when I was in the Huo family. Now you’re gonna buy me more houses. What do I need so many houses for?”
“Who doesn’t want as many properties as possible? It’s not a bad thing. You’ll be able to live in any house you like, and if you don’t like them, you can just rent them out and take the money.”
Hearing Su Qingsang’s words, she sighed. During the past years, her daughter had missed so many things that were supposed to belong to her and suffered so much bitterness.
All of the other rich kids in the city had more than ten properties under their names.
Her daughter was the only one who had never gotten a thing from her family. Thinking about that, Li Qianxue started feeling uncomfortable again.
“Come on. Look, I didn’t even do anything for you when you got married. Even though you are already married, I’m still not feeling comfortable about it. Just let me do something for you.”
Su Qingsang prepared to say something else, but Li Qianxue held her hand tightly.
“Qingsang, you might not like me saying this, but I still want to tell you that I now understand that good men like your grandpa are so rare in this world. You and Huo Jinyao love each other now, and that’s a good thing, but who can say what’ll happen in the future? A person can’t always be lucky. You need to have your own properties in Rong City. In the future, if Huo Jinyao does something to hurt you, I want you to have somewhere to go. You can always come back to Lin City, but it’ll still be two hours flying back here. I won’t let his family bully you. Let me buy you the properties, so I won’t be so worried about you. Will you do that for me?”
When she said that, Su Qingsang didn’t have the heart to say anything else. She thought for a moment and decided to say something for Huo Jinyao.
“Huo Jinyao isn’t that kind of man. Mom, don’t worry.”
“I’m glad to hear that.” Li Qianxue thought of her own father. “I hope you two will always love each other and that he’ll always be a good man. After all, it’s not easy to find a man like your grandfather.”
Li Qianxue’s mother had gotten ill after giving birth to her and never recovered. She had died years after Li Qianxue was born.
Old Master Li couldn’t forget her, nor could he trust anyone else with his daughter. Therefore, he never married again. If he had, Li Qianxue wouldn’t have been so spoiled.
That was also the reason why she had fallen in love with Su Chenghui so irresistibly when she was young. Back then, she’d had nothing to worry about.
“Mom, I get it.”
Su Qingsang had only returned to the family for a matter of days. However, Li Qianxue was thinking about everything for her.
She could feel her mother’s love. She put her arms around Li Qianxue’s waist and held her.
But suddenly, she thought of Xiang Caiping. She was a poor woman. She wondered if Su Peizhen would accept Xiang Caiping as easily as she accepted Li Qianxue.
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