Chapter 23

Ke Zhongying stepped forward, looking at Shen Xi, who was clearly afraid in her eyes.

"Shen Xi? You use your status to suppress me, but for someone like the Shen family, it's not worthy of us calling you Miss Shen, and calling your brother President Shen is only because the Fu family hired him as president."

"And Jiang Lai, whom you belittle everywhere, is a distinguished guest of our Ke family." She smiled slightly, scaring Shen Xi into shrinking behind her brother and Lin Shutong.

Lin Shutong saw her touch her arm and subconsciously moved, wanting to shake her off.

But Shen Xun was there, so she couldn't do that.

She knew Shen Xi often caused trouble; small troubles were fine, but this time she happened to provoke the Ke family.

People who could enter this mall were either rich or expensive, and she didn't know how to be tactful when speaking harshly; this time she kicked an iron plate, and she would also be implicated in leaving a bad impression in front of the Ke family.

Simply an idiot.

Shen Xun only saw Ke Zhongyu's cold gaze sweep over and immediately said to his sister: "Xiao Xi, apologize to Miss Ke."

Shen Xi was like an ostrich, walking out slowly, and said crisply: "Miss Ke, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have scolded you as an orphan."

After speaking, she retreated again.

Ke Zhongying: "That's it? You only apologize to me?"

This matter required Shen Xi to also apologize to Jiang Lai.

Shen Xun frowned: "Miss Ke, the matter between Xiao Xi and Jiang Lai is our Shen family's family affair."

Sure enough.

Jiang Lai knew that Shen Xun wouldn't easily let Shen Xi bow her head in front of her.

The Shen family's life needed her, but they looked down on her.

"Family affair?" Ke Zhongyu finally spoke, squinting his eyes, "I remember President Shen and Jiang Lai are only acquaintances; how did it become a family affair."

Shen Xun knew Ke Zhongyu was mocking him and immediately admitted: "Jiang Lai is my wife, and Xiao Xi's sister-in-law."

Lin Shutong secretly clenched her teeth.

A-Xun still acknowledged Jiang Lai's identity in front of outsiders.

"Is that so?" Ke Zhongyu asked Jiang Lai.

Jiang Lai's eyelashes flickered: "Yes."

Shen Xi smiled triumphantly, pulling at her cheek, which hurt so much she gasped.

Jiang Lai, this bitch, really hit hard!

It was like swinging the frying pan from home onto her face; it hurt her to death.

"Zhongying also said, you are a distinguished guest of the Ke family." Ke Zhongyu swept coldly toward Shen Xun, "The apology that should be made, none can be missing."

Shen Xun noticed that Ke Zhongyu stood up for Jiang Lai at every turn; men understood men best. Did Ke Zhongyu take a fancy to Jiang Lai?

No, Jiang Lai was no longer the youthful and beautiful girl from four years ago; Ke Zhongyu was in a high position, surrounded by beauties, so how could he take a fancy to Jiang Lai?

Did Jiang Lai seduce Ke Zhongyu?

Otherwise, Jiang Lai clearly went to resign, so how did she get promoted?

Thinking of this possibility, Shen Xun was furious, but for the sake of Ke Zhongyu's face, and because the store clerks were all there, he still had to maintain his demeanor.

"Wife, do you need Xiao Xi to apologize to you?"

Sudden tenderness.

Recently, when Shen Xun coaxed her like a dog, it was like this.

Ke Zhongying: "Of course I need it!"

Shen Xun: "Miss Ke, I am asking my wife."

Ke Zhongyu and Ke Zhongying looked over, a flash of the same worry in their eyes, the former fleeting.

Worried that Jiang Lai would say no need.

Jiang Lai opened her mouth: "Need."

"What?!" Shen Xi widened her eyes in disbelief; she couldn't afford to offend the Ke Eldest Miss, but couldn't she afford to offend Jiang Lai?

For so many years, Jiang Lai had been her punching bag.

"Jiang Lai, you hit me with a slap, yet you want me to apologize to you?" Shen Xi laughed.

Jiang Lai deliberately misinterpreted: "Do you need two slaps to apologize to me?"

Shen Xi's smile froze.

"Brother!"

Shen Xun called Jiang Lai: "If there's anything, let's go home and talk; it's not good to make a scene outside."

"So you also know that family ugliness shouldn't be spread." Jiang Lai said, "But I am at work now and can't go back and talk."

She didn't even want to mention the word "home."

Disgusting.

Ke Zhongyu curled the corner of his lips, imperceptibly.

"You're shopping here, and you tell me you're at work?" Shen Xi sneered, "You're lying to a fool; even a fool wouldn't believe it."

Ke Zhongying: "No wonder you didn't believe it."

Ke Zhongyu glanced at the person beside him.

Special Assistant Zhou stood out, smiling: "Today, Secretary Jiang, Secretary Cen, and Secretary Guan came here to buy things; it was President Ke's arrangement, so it is work hours."

"President Shen brought his sister and this Miss Lin to bully the Ke Clan's people under the Ke Clan's nose; I don't know if this represents a provocation to the Ke Clan, or represents the Fu family."

A hat was put on them, and Shen Xun and Lin Shutong's faces turned white.

Shen Xi saw the expressions of her brother and future sister-in-law and also trembled.

She thought, maybe it's better to apologize.

She would settle the account when Jiang Lai went back.

It was impossible for the Ke family to follow Jiang Lai twenty-four hours a day, right?

Jiang Lai saw Shen Xi rolling her eyes there, definitely calculating something in her heart again.

"I, I apologize." Shen Xi said to Jiang Lai, "Sorry."

"And that's it?" Ke Zhongying was speechless.

Ke Zhongyu looked at Shen Xun, his eyes looking down: "If President Shen doesn't teach, there are plenty of people who will."

Special Assistant Zhou understood: "Then let me teach."

"Xiao Xi, apologize to your sister-in-law properly." Shen Xun knew that if outsiders taught, it wouldn't just be teaching.

Shen Xi was about to cry again, saying aggrievedly: "Jiang Lai, sorry, I shouldn't have scolded your friend, and I shouldn't have insinuated that you were an orphan."

"Jiang Lai didn't say it was okay, so you can't stop." Ke Zhongyu's words were always unquestionable.

Shen Xun and Shen Xi looked at Jiang Lai.

Jiang Lai didn't say it was okay, just stood there, quietly waiting for Shen Xi to continue.

Shen Xi ground her teeth and continued: "I also shouldn't have scolded you as a yellow-faced woman, saying you were not this or that, and even less should I have asked my brother to divorce you..."

"That's enough." Jiang Lai immediately called to stop.

The last sentence wasn't an apology; it was a curse.

Shen Xi breathed a sigh of relief.

Shen Xun, however, didn't know that his sister had been saying such things about Jiang Lai behind his back and gave her an angry look.

Shen Xi retorted: "Brother, why are you looking at me like that?" She whispered again, "Don't you think of Jiang Lai like that in your heart too?"

Jiang Lai, who heard this, stiffened.

Shen Xi was right; Shen Xun thought of her like that in his heart too.

"Stop muttering there." After Shen Xun finished speaking, he looked at Jiang Lai, "What time do you get off work? I'll come pick you up."

To pick her up and go back to be scolded?

And wasn't picking someone up from work Lin Shutong's privilege?

Lin Shutong thought so too; her hanging fingernails dug deeply into her palms, and her back teeth bit very tightly.

Jiang Lai looked at Ke Zhongyu; save people to the end.

Ke Zhongying also looked over; send Buddha to the west.

Ke Zhongyu: "..."

"Secretary Jiang, stay and work overtime tonight."

Jiang Lai: "Okay."

Ke Zhongying: "It's okay, it's okay, I'll accompany you."

Ke Zhongyu raised his chin slightly, signaling them: "Walk in front."

"Alright!" Ke Zhongying pulled Jiang Lai out, with her brother as a solid backing behind her, not afraid of anything.

Her brother was a figure who would make the whole A City tremble if he stomped his feet.

"President Ke." Shen Xun called out to Ke Zhongyu, who was turning around, "Jiang Lai has already submitted her resignation application; according to the regulations, as long as the work handover is finished, she can leave the Ke Clan."

"The Ke Clan doesn't approve, and forcibly keeping people in the company doesn't comply with laws and regulations."

He knew he couldn't go head-to-head with the Ke Clan, but he knew even more clearly that for every day Jiang Lai stayed in the Ke Clan, her wings would harden a bit more.

Today's Jiang Lai completely disregarded his face, joined outsiders to bully Shen Xi, and joined outsiders to resist him.