Xu Wenqian was almost laughing with anger, "So the photos of those women on his phone are fake too?"
"Wenxi, men have to work outside, and it’s hard to avoid some playacting. As long as his heart is still with you, it’s not a big deal, you should learn to understand him..." Cheng Long said earnestly.
"Ha, ha, ha..."
Xu Wenqian couldn’t stop laughing. She glanced at Cheng Zhe’s family and finally realized that they didn’t care who was right or wrong. Even if Cheng Zhe killed someone, they would say it was a forced act of self-defense...
"What do you guys want?"
Xu Wenqian, her heart dead as ash, had no desire to argue; she just asked dully.
"Xu Wenqian, we said it when we came last time, I’m not an unreasonable person, and neither is Cheng Zhe’s father. It’s normal for a woman to throw a little tantrum once in a while. As long as you’re willing to bow your head and admit your fault to Cheng Zhe, and apologize to me and Lao Cheng, this matter will be over."
Liu Fang said, "You can go ahead with the wedding, quit that improper job in Ming City, and live a good life with Cheng Zhe from now on..."
"Impossible!"
Before Liu Fang could finish, Xu Wenqian coldly interrupted her, "Also, you can slander me, but you can’t slander my job."
"It was a job of being someone’s mistress in the first place, how am I wrong?"
Liu Fang said sharply, "Cheng Zhe told us everything, you and that boss of yours named Zhou are having an affair, I’m telling you, in ancient times, you’d be drowned in a pig cage for this. Cheng Zhe isn’t even holding it against you, what more do you want?"
"Liu Fang, I told you, you can slander me, but you can’t slander me and my boss..."
Xu Wenqian softly repeated, but the seemingly calm look in her eyes inexplicably made Liu Fang’s heart tremble.
"That’s enough!"
Liu Fang wanted to say something stubbornly, but Cheng Long interrupted with a frown, then blandly looked at Xu Wenqian,
"Xu Wenqian, if you don’t want to marry, that’s fine, but we’ve already paid the down payment for that house in Ming City, and we can’t get it back now. You insisted on buying that house, so you’ll have to take responsibility. Besides your eight hundred thousand, you’ll compensate our family with five hundred thousand more, and we’ll let it go."
"Five hundred thousand?"
Xu Wenqian’s mother cried out, "Wasn’t the total down payment for that house only two hundred thousand? Why should we give you five hundred thousand!"
"Because of your Xu Wenqian, our Cheng Zhe quit his job. He’s been living like neither a human nor a ghost for this month. The extra money is compensation for our Xiao Zhe’s mental anguish."
Cheng Long said plainly.
"This is extortion!"
Xu Baosheng angrily said, "You won’t give back the eight hundred thousand, and still demand fifty thousand from us? Where are we supposed to find fifty thousand to give you?"
"You can’t just babble nonsense, we’re making a reasonable claim for compensation!"
Liu Fang snorted, "If you don’t have fifty thousand, someone else does, like that boss of Xu Wenqian’s, isn’t he the one with the luxury cars? Fifty thousand would be nothing to him..."
Only then did Xu Wenqian fully understand Cheng Zhe’s family’s intention.
Either she continued to marry Cheng Zhe, or she extorted Mr. Zhou through herself; either way, they wouldn’t lose...
"If you don’t give it, we’ll make trouble every day, we don’t care how far this thing goes..."
"Bring it on, I’ll fight you to the end!"
As Xu Wenqian listened to the new round of quarrels around her, the buzzing in her ears gradually became sharper, and everything in her sight started to slow down.
Liu Fang, who was still chattering with her head held high, Cheng Long sneering with folded arms, Cheng Zhe who hadn’t dared to respond to her directly until now, her father being pulled by her panic-stricken mother, and the neighbors who were shaking their heads and eagerly watching the scene...
It was all so chaotic. At this moment, Xu Wenqian only felt that it was so noisy, really so noisy...
The cold raindrops seemed to be getting bigger, soaking her clothes and making Xu Wenqian’s heart colder.
She unconsciously hugged her arms tighter, just wanting to escape this dismal world.
Just when Xu Wenqian felt her strength draining away, almost unable to resist squatting down, a splash of color suddenly came into her gradually blurred vision.
Under the somber sky, between the worn-out alley and the gray neighborhood gate, that vibrant white was so conspicuous, as if it had stolen every color in the world.
Xu Wenqian gradually came to her senses and realized that the surroundings had become much quieter without her knowing, or perhaps most of the voices were covered by the engine roar, which seemed like a beast’s roar.
Everyone’s attention was drawn, everyone turned to look, even the parents on both sides stopped quarreling. It was indeed because the scene before their eyes was unprecedented in a place like Yi County—
At the end of the alley, a pure white supercar roared in, every meticulously crafted detail, every angle of luxury, all declared its nobility.
Even residents of a small county town, who had no concept of supercars, knew that this car must be extremely expensive.
And the pure white supercar was just the beginning, soon after, a charming blue sports car turned in, this time, most people finally exclaimed,
"Ferrari!"
Xu Wenqian’s eyes lit up.
She didn’t recognize the McLaren P1, but she knew whose ride that charming blue Ferrari 812C was. After all, even the license plate was one she had personally helped Zhou Wang pick—
Though the sky was overcast, and the drizzle was persistent, the scene wasn’t one of a magical illumination, yet Xu Wenqian inexplicably thought of that movie line:
"My true love is a great hero, one day, he will come to marry me on colorful clouds."
Of course, she knew Zhou Wang wasn’t coming to marry her, but his appearance at this moment meant more to Xu Wenqian than anything.
Xu Wenqian thought she had already shed all her tears earlier, but now, her eyes became moist again.
"Boss..."
Xu Wenqian covered her face and wept, while others’ shock continued to build.
McLaren, Ferrari, Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini...
One luxury car after another, whether unrecognized or perhaps familiar, kept appearing in sight, and in the blink of an eye, they filled the entire alley.
Everyone was stunned.
Was this really a scene that Yi County, this small place, could have?
More than a dozen supercars lined up from the end of the alley to the entrance, and there were visibly more gorgeously styled supercars unable to get in...
Looking at the multicolored display of supercars in the alley, Xu Wenqian suddenly realized.
Who said Zhou Wang wasn’t arriving on colorful clouds?
Aren’t these cars, each a different hue and filled with visual beauty, the most brilliant clouds?
As she watched, the tearful Xu Wenqian gradually became mesmerized...
She knew she’d never forget this moment for the rest of her life.
Nor could she ever leave that person again.