Chapter 437: He Was Deceived

"Coming, coming."

Li Xuan suspected she had misheard; how did it seem like she heard the voice of a strange woman?

Although she had been gone for two years, she had not forgotten the voices of her mother-in-law and sister-in-law.

"Who are you?" Yan Cuicui looked at the woman outside the door with curiosity.

After saying this, she yawned; she had been exhausted last night and had originally wanted to sleep a while longer.

"I, I'm sorry," Li Xuan took a step back; she might have gone to the wrong place.

The woman slammed the door shut with a 'bang'.

Wang Jie watched this scene, speechless, "Big sister, you wouldn't have forgotten where your own home is, would you?"

Li Xuan felt she hadn't remembered wrong; the entrance to her house was indeed directly facing the utility pole, and there were some irregular scratches on the door.

They must have been marks left by the fierce dog the previous tenant kept; she had even used these marks to bargain with them back then.

She went back again; the marks on the door were exactly the same as in her memory.

Could it be that Shen Lan and the others no longer lived here?

Li Xuan still decided to knock and ask clearly; just then, an old woman walked over—it was her mother-in-law!

"Mom!" Li Xuan called out.

Shen Mu had picked some fresh shepherd's purse from her hometown today and wanted to bring it over for her new daughter-in-law to have a taste, but she never expected to be scared to death the moment she turned her head.

She stumbled, nearly falling flat on her face.

"Oh my god! A ghost, a ghost!"

With her daughter-in-law's funeral already held, Shen Mu thought a ghost had returned in broad daylight to claim a life.

"Mom, it's me, Li Xuan," Li Xuan crouched down to help her up, but Shen Mu was already scrambling toward the house door on her hands and knees.

Just as Li Xuan was about to chase after her, she was grabbed by Wang Jie, "Who did you just say you were? Aren't you Si Rong?"

Li Xuan had no heart to discuss this with him now; she only wanted to know why Shen Mu thought she was a ghost, and who exactly the woman in the house was.

The door was opened again, and Yan Cuicui looked on in surprise as her mother-in-law lay on the ground like a dog.

"Mom, what are you..."

"There's a ghost! Cui Cui, hurry and call my son out! He's a man, his yang energy is strong!"

Although Yan Cuicui didn't understand the gibberish her mother-in-law was spouting, she still listened to her and called for Shen Lan.

"Shen Lan! Come out quickly, see what's wrong with Mom."

After Shen Lan came out, he stood next to Yan Cuicui subconsciously; the two looked just like a married couple.

This scene deeply stung Li Xuan.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!"

Finally, Shen Lan noticed Li Xuan, his eyes also filled with shock.

However, he did not mistake Li Xuan for a ghost like his mother did.

"Mom, get up," he first helped Shen Mu up from the ground, "She isn't a ghost; Li Xuan isn't dead, she's back. Look, she has a shadow."

The morning sunlight shone on Li Xuan, and there was indeed a dark shadow on the ground.

"Oh, not a ghost then," hearing it wasn't a ghost, Shen Mu was finally able to put on her mother-in-law airs again, though now she had two daughters-in-law.

"You still know how to come back?" To avoid making things difficult for her son, Shen Mu aimed her hostility directly at Li Xuan, "A woman, not staying home to properly take care of her husband and children, running outside every day! Running off for years at a time, who could stand that!"

"I've already married a new wife for my son; we don't want you anymore, get lost right now!"

Li Xuan stared wide-eyed at Shen Lan, unable to believe that in the two years she had been gone, Shen Lan had actually married another wife.

Was this how he loved her?

Yan Cuicui was also sizing up the woman in front of her; her hair was a messy clump, her face thin with high cheekbones—she looked like a husband-killer at first glance.

Her confidence grew a little more.

She clung to Shen Lan's arm, "You must be Shen Lan's ex-wife, right? I'm Shen Lan's new wife."

"You shameless little harlot!" Li Xuan was so angry she rushed up to tear at her; it must be this shameless woman who seduced Shen Lan, otherwise how could Shen Lan have married her?

She felt so much hatred in her heart, so much hatred!

Why treat her like this? She had no maternal family to rely on, and now even Shen Lan had married a new wife, so what about her?

Where was she supposed to go? Was she supposed to just die?

No! She wouldn't die! These bad people should be the ones to die.

Yan Cuicui didn't fight back at all; it wasn't that she couldn't win—against a woman like Li Xuan, with her unsteady footing and scrawny frame, she could take on three.

But she didn't fight; they were both Shen Lan's women, and Shen Lan would naturally favor the one who was at a disadvantage.

Just as she expected, seeing Li Xuan rush up to hit someone like a shrew while Yan Cuicui offered no resistance, Shen Lan subconsciously blocked the way in front of Yan Cuicui.

"Li Xuan, have you made enough of a scene!"

Seeing him protect another woman, Li Xuan couldn't accept it at all and sat down on the ground with a thud.

Tears slid from her eyes, "Shen Lan, you're always like this; before you protected Si Rong, and now you protect this slut,"

She couldn't help but let out a shrill scream, "Then what about me? What exactly am I?"

"I've been missing for so long, have you ever thought about looking for me?"

Shen Mu didn't want her to affect her son's current stable life, "Pah! With a slut like you who goes around seducing men, who would look for you,"

She proclaimed to the neighbors, "You don't know, even if this daughter-in-law hadn't died, we wouldn't have dared to keep her! She's fickle and unfaithful, constantly cheating on my son,"

She pointed at Wang Jie for everyone to see, "And now she's brought another man back, oh, why is my life so bitter,"

Shen Mu slid to her knees and threw herself onto the ground, "Old man, why did you leave so early? This life is impossible to go on with, take me with you..."

Wang Jie:...

This chaotic scene made him feel as if he were watching a pile-of-shit drama.

Honestly, the current scene is completely different from what he had imagined on the train.

He had thought that as a savior, he would be treated and welcomed by the whole family and reap some monetary benefits, but he never expected that he would only be able to watch this endless drama on an empty stomach.

He pulled a bystander neighbor aside and asked, "What is the situation with this family?"

The neighbor looked at him with suspicion, thinking that he, an adulterer, was actually asking questions here.

But people are all gossips, "This family, they aren't decent people. Before, they went around swindling people by claiming they had birthed a Child Prodigy daughter, and the whole family relied on that to eat... When the wife went missing, no one even looked for her; they held a funeral without seeing a person alive or a corpse dead, and now he has married a new wife for himself, tsk tsk..."

Wang Jie:...

"I heard that this woman is an entrepreneur? She even runs several factories?"

The neighbor let out a snort of laughter, "She told you that? To coax you into being with her?"

Wang Jie's brain went 'Boom—', he actually felt that he had been deceived.

This damn woman!

"What did she say to you?" Shen Lan frowned, squeezing over after hearing these words.