Evil Wife Young Master Lu

Chapter 9: One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Treasure

Su Xiaofei knew that he had to be careful with his actions, that he should not let others suspect that he knew things they did not know. They may think that she has gone mad and she will be forced to be separated from her mother again. It was something he did not want to repeat in this life.

When he came down to join his mother for lunch, he found Yun Qingrong speaking in a low voice through his phone, his back facing Su Xiaofei. He paced back and forth, his entire body tensed up as he thought about how he should explain his absence again to their daughter.

"Didn't you promise?" He hissed to whoever he was talking to, but Su Xiaofei guessed that it was his useless foster father.

Su Haoran would not return until a week after New Year's Day. He did not realize that Ye Xing with their daughter had come here, to Qiying City, to meet him and his wife, only for them to meet Yun Qingrong alone. However, she must have been aware of Ye Xing's health condition, given how she had ignored Yun Qingrong for the next few months in order to look after her lover.

"You promised you'd be back from your business trip as soon as possible, why do you have to stay there for another week?" Yun Qingrong asked in a frustrated tone.

If there was something Su Haoran was good at, it frustrated his wife. This was one of the reasons why Su Xiaofei was neither impressed nor disrespectful to him. Every time the man saw her, Su Haoran would turn her head away and not bother to give her the attention she should have as her father.

Whatever Su Haoran said on the other end of the phone caused Yun Qingrong to sound disappointed. He chose to hang up the phone, turned around and saw Su Xiaofei standing under the stairs with a blank expression on his face.

"Feifei, sit down and have lunch with me." She persuaded her daughter, hoping that Su Xiaofei would accidentally hear her conversation with her father.

Su Xiaofei obediently sat across from his mother and remained silent. He was thinking of a way to protect his mother from Su Haoran. She needs to convince her mother to divorce a man who only cares about her

alone for this reason.

"Mom, won't Papa be home for the New Year?" She asked earnestly, knowing that her distress would add a layer of disappointment Yun Qingrong already had towards her husband.

Yun Qingrong felt guilty hearing his daughter's question. She knew that her Feifei rarely saw and interacted with her husband, and it frustrated her that Su Haoran had deliberately ignored their daughter.

"Feifei, don't be mad at your Papa, okay? He's still on a business trip and just called to tell us it'll take another week before he can get home." He said in a soft voice.

"It's okay, Mama. I know you and Papa are working hard to give me a better future. I just hope Papa's gonna be okay by himself." Su Xiaofei decided to play the dutiful princess card to make the distance between Yun Qingrong and Su Haoran.

‘Yes. You better be fine on your own once I'm done with you.'

The more Su Xiaofei played the meek and devoted daughter to them, the more Yun Qingrong would feel sorry for her. What better way to make her mother see how incompetent Su Haoran was than this?

‘Mama, I'm sorry to have tricked you, but this is better.' He thought while holding his mother's hand.

Yun Qingrong's heart ached and thought how unfair their Feifei was to be treated like this by her husband.

"OKAY. Mama will accompany you today, is it okay, Feifei?"

"You don't have an important job, Mama? I don't want to bother you." Su Xiaofei smiled at his mother.

Since Su Haoran and Yun Qingrong were rarely at home to see him, he had become a disrespectful and ill-tempered child. When she was eighteen, she tried to persuade her mother to allow her to move into an apartment located next to the school she attended. It broke Yun Qingrong's heart, but he granted Su Xiaofei's request.

"It's okay. I'm the boss, right?" Yun Qingrong assured him. "Nobody's gonna fire the boss if he doesn't show up for work."

"But Ma..."

"No but, Feifei. Mama can only accompany you today, so what do you think?"

Su Xiaofei's expression was one filled with gratitude and happiness. His eyes became foggy as he looked at his mother.

"okay." He admits. It had been a long time since his mother had spent time with him, and Su Xiaofei obviously would not deny it.

Aunt Liu, who was waiting for them told her to start serving dishes, dried her tears as she looked between the mother and the child. He knew how Yun Qingrong struggled to take the time just to be with Su Xiaofei, even though his schedule was busy at work.

The old woman was also happy that Su Xiaofei was not raging and was more pleasant than usual, which was a good thing. Perhaps, Su Xiaofei had finally grown up and understood the struggles his mother was facing.

Yun Qingrong gestured to Aunt Liu that their lunch could be served, then he glanced at his young daughter. After hearing what Feifei said, he knew that things could be changed for the better.

Su Xiaofei waited for their food to be served fully before he decided to raise the matter regarding the Chen family. When Bibi presented her favorite panna cotta, Yun Qingrong noticed that she had not touched it yet.

"Mama, look..." Su Xiaofei hesitated, but it was just a stratagem to attract the full attention of his mother.

"You know you can tell me everything, right?"

Su Xiaofei inwardly rejoiced. As long as Yun Qingrong was by his side, Su Haoran and the others would not be able to easily bully him under his protection. He did not want to think that he was manipulating and utilizing Yun Qingrong like the other villains, but Su Xiaofei could not think of any other way to protect the two of them from others other than doing this.

"I'm not sure what to do, Mama but..."

Yun Qingrong who was still worried about his daughter's condition continued to wonder if Su Xiaofei was back in pain. She had not been able to focus on work since her daughter was rushed to the hospital, and her husband was not there to help her in the company.

Su Xiaofei then recounted how he met Aunt Chen and Chen Li before he went down for lunch and how Chen Li wore the gift Yun Qingrong gave him two years ago. Her tone was low and her words were cautious, giving her a look like a young woman being mauled by others in front of her mother.

Yun Qingrong's face hardened, while Aunt Liu covered her mouth in surprise at what Su Xiaofei had witnessed earlier. None of them suspected that such a thing was happening under their noses. If Su Xiaofei had not seen Chen Li before, they would not have known that the Chen family did not respect their master in this way.

"Mrs, please forgive this old lady. I had no idea Madam Chen and Chen Li would do such a thing..." The old woman apologized, knowing that she was also responsible for arranging and tidying the cabinets on the third floor.

He had no idea that Chen Li was doing such a thing behind his back, and wondered why Madam Chen had not reprimanded her daughter for acting this way.

"That's not your fault, Aunt Liu. You're not the only one who has the keys to Feifei's closet." Yun Qingrong muttered, his hands tightened on his teacup.

For Chen Li to act this way, wouldn't he disrespect his master by stealing clothes from Su Xiaofei? To Yun Qingrong, Su Xiaofei was his greatest treasure, and he would never let anyone bully his daughter, especially in his own territory.

Where would Chen Li dare to act like this? Did he think that since he was in contact with Su Haoran, Yun Qingrong would let go?

She had accepted Su Haoran's plea to let the Chen family work in their home after Madam Chen's husband died five years ago. To think that they would treat his daughter like this, Yun Qingrong was furious.

"I'm sorry, Mama. Mom always told me to give people things I don't use if they wanted to, but I wanted the dress you gave me. No matter if I could wear it or not." Su Xiaofei continued to pour fuel into the fire.

"It's okay, Feifei. What you did was right. Let Mama and Aunt Liu handle them, okay? It's not your fault Chen Li snuck in and used your stuff"

His Feifei shouldn't feel aggrieved like this. How could they have the courage to think that they could do whatever they wanted just because they were related to her husband?

The more Yun Qingrong thought about it, the more annoyed she became, knowing that her Feifei was the one being persecuted by her husband's relatives. If not for Su Haoran, why else would he let the three of them stay with them in this house?

"No, Mama. Obviously it's okay. I shouldn't have spoken like that to Aunt Chen in a state of anger." Su Xiaofei shook his head. He secretly wanted to see how far Yun Qingrong would go to protect him from his useless father.

He needed to break the bond between Yun Qingrong and Su Haoran to make sure that he and his mother would not be dragged into the scandal that his adoptive father would have to face in the future, and there were countless of them.

As for the Chen family, why should he be merciful to them? In her past, the three have made her life more difficult, by damaging her reputation and forbidding her from meeting her mother one last time.

Su Xiaofei could not forget the mocking expressions of Madam Chen and Chen Li as they asked for security to take her away from her mother's hospital room. With Bluemedia falling into the hands of Su Haoran and with Ye Mingyu's rapidly growing career, they didn't need to be courteous towards him.

As for Chen Hao, he wouldn't have broken his right leg if it wasn't for him. Back then, in an attempt to save herself from being sexually abused by her after her divorce with Mo Yuchen, she desperately threw herself down the stairs. This action resulted in him being paralyzed for the rest of his life. It made sense to Su Xiaofei why Lu Qingfeng crippled the man himself and made sure he could not use his third leg in the future.

However, this time, Su Xiaofei decided to take revenge against them in his own way.

Yun Qingrong remained silent and closed his eyes, trying to hold back his burning anger. Thinking that she and her daughter were looked down upon by her husband's relatives. If he turned a blind eye to this, he was sure they would overdo it in the future.

"I'll talk to your father about them. Regardless of who they are, you are right, Feifei. Aunt Liu and I will check the wardrobe on the third floor. Leave this trouble to your parents."

Su Xiaofei bit his lips, but decided not to say anything more. Since she had already gotten what she wanted from her mother, she had to know when to stop to maximize the impression she expected.

 

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