"So Cheng Zhe still didn’t tell you why we broke up?"
Xu Wenqian took a deep breath and closed her eyes. The last time Cheng Zhe’s family came to stir up trouble, she held back from speaking ill of him because she was still hoping to get back the eight hundred thousand she had contributed for the house—
Among the eight hundred thousand, three hundred thousand were from her parents.
She knew that was all of her parents’ savings...
She had thought that by sparing Cheng Zhe’s dignity, he would appreciate her kindness, but reality showed her how naive she had been.
"Dad, Mom, can we just forget about the money?"
Xu Wenqian turned to her parents and said, not waiting for their response. She had already turned back, her eyes sweeping over Cheng Zhe’s relatives and friends.
"What could it be? Isn’t it just..."
"Cheng Zhe only told you my faults, but did he ever tell you that he earned over ten thousand, yet for two whole years, he kept telling me his salary was only three thousand eight?"
As Liu Fang started to speak, Xu Wenqian interrupted her loudly, more fiercely than ever.
Facing those astonished expressions, Xu Wenqian, who thought she had adjusted her mindset, finally let the tears fall from her eyes.
"Three thousand eight..."
"Can you imagine? That’s in Ming City, and he’s a programmer!"
"But I believed him."
"Aren’t you curious as to why he would lie to me?"
Xu Wenqian no longer just looked at Cheng Zhe’s friends and family; she turned to the surrounding crowd. She was crying, yet also laughing.
"I’d rather he quietly saved that money somewhere, then at most, I’d just call him stingy, scheming, insincere towards me..."
"But he spent all that money at a club!"
"Yeah, the type of club you’re thinking of, just like the hair salon across the corner..."
"In two years, he spent over a hundred thousand on those call girls!"
"Can you imagine that?"
"And the most expensive thing he gave me in those two years was just a discounted YSL lipstick, costing 258..."
"Am I wrong to break up?"
"Marrying a man like this is as good as walking into an abyss!"
Xu Wenqian’s voice had become somewhat hysterical, stunning the entire crowd into silence, followed by a wave of chaotic discussions.
Xu Wenqian’s parents were also dumbfounded; from Cheng Zhe’s somewhat evasive expression, they could tell that their daughter’s words were true...
Xu Baosheng, both shocked and angry, quickly grabbed his daughter, "Is this true? Qianqian, why didn’t you tell me earlier..."
"Dad, since I came back, you only blamed me for quitting my job, only thought about retrieving that eight hundred thousand, you even preferred to believe I got involved with a wealthy man, but when have you seriously listened to anything I’ve said?"
Xu Wenqian wiped her tears, just smiling as she asked.
"Besides, how should I have put it, say that even I, Xu Wenqian, am not as attractive as those call girls, say that I couldn’t satisfy Cheng Zhe?"
"I..."
Xu Baosheng opened his mouth but turned away in shame after all.
He gritted his teeth and strode forward, pointing angrily at Cheng Zhe, "Cheng Zhe, you’ve wronged our Qianqian all along, and you dare make a scene, I... I’ll beat you to death today!"
With that, Xu Baosheng looked around for something to fight Cheng Zhe with.
"Uncle Xu, I..."
"Xu Baosheng, why are you acting out!"
At this moment, Cheng Long, who had been standing with his hands behind his back, stopped his son, Cheng Zhe, from speaking, snorted coldly, and said, "Just because Xu Wenqian said it, doesn’t mean it’s true, what kind of insight can a girl in her twenties have, hearsay, believing anything!"
"What do you mean by that?"
Xu Wenqian looked at him in disbelief.
It was only then that she realized, aside from the agitated onlookers, most of Cheng Zhe’s family wore indifferent expressions, unaffected by what Xu Wenqian had said.
"What you mentioned, Cheng Zhe already told us."
Cheng Long said blandly, "He did hide some of his salary, but it’s not as high as you said, in reality, he only earns about five or six thousand a month... As for why he only has three or four thousand himself, it’s because he sends some money home every month."
"Yes, our son gives us two thousand every month!"
At this time, Liu Fang shouted, "He didn’t tell you because you have complaints against us, if he told you he was sending us money, you would definitely disagree, after all, you were pressuring him to buy a house..."
"Oh, my back has always been bad, do you know how much money I spend on medicine each month, thank goodness my son is filial, otherwise, if he listened to everything you said, I would have died long ago!"
As Liu Fang spoke, she even started wiping nonexistent tears.
"Stop saying such inauspicious things!"
Cheng Long reprimanded at this moment.
Feeling like her brain had stopped functioning, Xu Wenqian, in shock and anger, said, "Then what about the hundred thousand he spent at the club?"
"That wasn’t his personal spending."
Cheng Long, looking slightly angry and giving a subtle glare at Cheng Zhe, who was shrinking back, couldn’t help but curse internally. He pretended to be calm and said,
"His boss really appreciates him, often asking him to accompany clients when hosting events, those expenses may seem like personal spending, but in reality, they were reimbursable company funds. Since he wasn’t going alone each time, it’s very normal for the amount to look higher..."
"So he just sat there each time, and did nothing?"