Chapter 432: Chapter 432: Zhou Lin will never come out, you can find someone else

He Mingzhu suddenly realized and looked at He Ye with an iron-blue face, he did it on purpose.

He purposely got slapped by her.

He wanted He Rongwei to see.

Then take this opportunity to drive her away.

"Dad, I know I was wrong," He Mingzhu immediately admitted her fault. She had been hot-tempered all her life and was not used to bending now.

But she couldn’t let He Ye take everything from her.

She could only lower her head.

He Rongwei had yet to speak when He Ye had already started speaking on behalf of He Mingzhu, "Dad, sister didn’t mean it, please forgive her this once."

The imprint of the slap on his face was even redder than before, and even half of his cheek was swollen. Coupled with his pale skin, it looked extremely embarrassing.

Yu Shuhua covered her mouth and held his arm while sobbing softly. She felt sorry for He Ye but didn’t dare to speak ill of He Mingzhu.

He Rongwei got even angrier, "He Mingzhu, look at him, he’s still pleading for you after you hit him like this."

He Mingzhu opened her mouth but couldn’t find the words to speak.

She knew He Ye did it on purpose; his pleading would only make He Rongwei angrier.

She never thought this brother, whom she never took seriously, would be so manipulative.

"Mom, I’m fine, don’t cry," He Ye consoled Yu Shuhua, helping her inside.

Yu Shuhua spoke softly, yet loud enough for He Rongwei at the door to hear, "She always supported you doing your own things outside because she was afraid you’d take over the company’s power. I didn’t believe it when you told me before, but now I completely do."

"If I had known, mom wouldn’t have persuaded you to come back," Yu Shuhua went on and on, painting He Ye as particularly pitiful.

He Rongwei heard every word clearly; his incredulous angry gaze fell once again on He Mingzhu, his voice stern, "Was it you?"

He Mingzhu’s face turned pale, and she instinctively tried to explain, "No... it wasn’t..."

He Rongwei slapped her face hard, the force turned He Mingzhu’s head to the side, cracking the skin at the corner of her mouth, her cheek stinging painfully.

"Initially, I asked you to persuade him to come back, but you said he was determined to start his own business, to chase his own dreams, and that your persuasion was useless." He Rongwei’s chest heaved violently as he gasped for breath, "It turns out it was you, you were the one obstructing."

In front of him, she had said she couldn’t persuade He Ye, that He Ye was stubborn about going his own way, but it turned out she supported He Ye, and perhaps it was even He Mingzhu’s reason that initially decided He Ye wouldn’t return.

"You’re just as venomous as your mother," He Rongwei’s vision darkened.

He Mingzhu had been numb listening, but He Rongwei mentioning her mother, the pitiful woman who had been left infertile after giving birth to her and was then abandoned by He Rongwei.

And later, she died depressed.

How dare He Rongwei mention her, and to call her venomous?

"I’m vicious because you taught me to be," He Mingzhu picked up her bag, heart dead, "You never treated me as your daughter."

Before He Ye returned, she was just a tool; and after he came back, she was nothing but a castaway.

In this family, she, He Mingzhu, clearly meant nothing at all.

He Rongwei pointed at the door and roared, "Get out."

"I will leave, this place..." He Mingzhu slowly looked around, her lips curling into a cold sneer, "just looking at it makes me sick."

She walked out carrying her bag.

A black car stopped in front of her; Secretary Zhang got out from the car, respectfully saying, "Miss He, President Zhou sent me to pick you up."

He Mingzhu’s tears that she had been holding back all this while started rolling down.

She got into the car and left without looking back.

...

Cheng Zhiwei knew that day itself that Zhou Lin was taken away by the police, but Xu Tian later sent her a video of the wedding scene.

"Zhou Lin still has some conscience, knowing to send you and your child away," Xu Tian knew some things, so she understood their divorce wasn’t chaos stirred up by Cheng Zhiwei unlike what outsiders thought.

"It’s just, Zhou Chenyan won’t let him off, won’t he be convicted and locked up for life?" Xu Tian worried if that happened, what would Cheng Zhiwei do.

"We’ve already divorced, Tiantian, I don’t care about his matters," Cheng Zhiwei’s tone was calm, revealing no abnormalities.

Xu Tian fell silent, "That’s true, he’s not worth it."

"When are you coming over?" Cheng Zhiwei changed the subject.

"Probably in another half a month," Xu Tian grew irritable, "I now realize who He Lanzhi takes after—what a master of making trouble."

He Lanzhi’s father died, the He family fell apart, and He Lanzhi ended up in jail, while Mother He behaved like a madwoman, guarding Xu Tian’s apartment building every day.

At first, Xu Tian felt pity for the old lady who had nowhere to go, and took her in.

But then she secretly tried to take He Yuming away, if not for He Yuming’s cleverness, who knows where he would have ended up now.

Naturally, Xu Tian drove her away.

But Mother He persisted, not only lurking around the door every day but also telling everyone around that Xu Tian was her daughter-in-law, who wouldn’t support her, nor let her see her grandson.

Fed up, Xu Tian decided to move to Sea City as well.

These days she was contacting nursing homes, planning to send Mother He there.

She couldn’t bring herself to completely ignore Mother He but living together was also impossible.

Finding a nursing home and bearing the expenses were all she could do, out of respect for Father He.

"Given that it’s a case of family destruction and personal ruin, it’s normal to be overwhelmed," Cheng Zhiwei rubbed her temples, understanding such despair.

Yet, it was Mother He who raised such a son, didn’t reflect on herself, but blamed everything on Xu Tian, which was also unreasonable.

"There’s another thing," Xu Tian continued, "I heard that He Mingzhu was driven out of the He family."

"Huh?" Cheng Zhiwei was shocked by the news.

He Mingzhu was the He family’s daughter, how had she been kicked out?

"Didn’t expect He Ye to be quite capable," Xu Tian had once liked He Ye, but then found out He Ye liked Cheng Zhiwei, so she put aside such thoughts.

But as a friend, she was happy for him.

"If he didn’t act that way, he would be oppressed by He Mingzhu for a lifetime," Cheng Zhiwei sighed, "He Mingzhu, she would only intensify her antagonism against him."

As they spoke, the doorbell rang.

Cheng Zhiwei subconsciously opened the door, and was immediately embraced in a full hug.

"Ah," she wasn’t prepared and exclaimed in surprise.

Xu Tian hurriedly asked what happened.

"It’s nothing, it’s nothing," Cheng Zhiwei hurriedly said, pushing the man’s face that leaned in closer.

Xu Tian sighed, "Anyway, don’t bother about the situation in Yucheng. If Zhou Lin is locked up for life, you can still find someone else, perhaps even reconnect with He Ye, that’d be good."

Her phone was on speaker, so the man in front heard every word Xu Tian said.

His face darkened, and he reached out to snatch the phone.

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