Chapter 76

Xie Wantiang gazed at Xia Meng's face, while Shen Ye stared at her hands resting on her knees.

"I don't care — that's my business. I don't need to report every little detail to you, Miss Xia." Xie Wantiang had run out of patience; her tone was sharp and uncouth.

Was Xia Meng doing this on purpose?

Appearing before her like a victor, to show off and brag in front of her?

Is it meaningful?

"I didn't mean it that way, Miss Xie. Actually, I came today with a favor to ask, and I'm not sure if I should bring it up." Seeing Xie Wantiang's foul mood, Xia Meng suddenly stopped speaking.

"If you don't know, maybe it's better not to say it, Miss Xia. Don't you realize I want to be like Lu Yanshen, confined to a wheelchair from now on?"

"So, as a disabled person who may not even be able to care for myself in the future, what could I possibly help you with? I must have come to the wrong person, Miss Xia."

Xie Wantiang spoke with self-mockery, but her blazing eyes contradicted her sarcastic tone.

Xia Meng smiled and said, "If we hadn't known before that Miss Xie, you were an adopted daughter of the Qin family in Hai City, it wouldn't have mattered; but now that we do know, your future will certainly not be bleak — it will only get better."

After saying that, Xia Meng spread her fingers, stood up, bent down to pick up the two boxes she had brought, and smilingly bid farewell to Xie Wantiang: "Miss Xie, I'm really sorry for disturbing you today; I'll take my leave now."

After saying that, Xia Meng spread her fingers, stood up, bent down to pick up the two boxes she had brought, and smilingly bid farewell to Xie Wantiang: "Miss Xie, I'm really sorry for disturbing you today; I'll take my leave now."

"Once the date of my wedding with Yanshen is set, I hope you will have moved on by then; if you have, you're welcome to attend our wedding alongside Captain Shen."

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"Once the date of my wedding with Yanshen is set, I hope you will have moved on by then; if you have, you're welcome to attend our wedding alongside Captain Shen."

Xia Meng glanced at Shen Ye, and there was an inexplicable expectation in her eyes.

I'm leaving first.

Without waiting for Xie Wantiang to lose her temper, Xia Meng turned and walked away.

Her seductive snake-like waist, peach-shaped hips, and swan-like neck are enviable assets that many women covet.

Who would have thought that Lu Yanshen, who looks like a respectable gentleman, actually harbors a lustful heart.

He likes women who are superficial.

She doesn't have those traits, and she wouldn't train to acquire them.

Thinking that she still had serious matters to attend to, Xie Wantiang shook off all thoughts of Lu Yanshen, turned her head to look at Shen Ye, only to find him staring at Xia Meng's background, lost in a daze.

No —

Is this just men's base nature, or is Xia Meng truly that irresistible?

"Senior Brother?" Xie Wantiang called out to Shen Ye.

The first time, Shen Ye didn't react.

"Senior Brother — "

When Xie Wantiang called a second time, Shen Ye's brow twitched slightly.

Xie Wantiang stopped calling and instead reached out to him.

She believed that Shen Ye's absentmindedness, even if it was because of Xia Meng, couldn't be due to her beauty alone; there must be another reason.

"Junior Sister, sorry, I need to step out for a moment." Shen Ye snapped back to attention, yet his first words were that he was leaving?

Xie Wantiang was completely bewildered.

Was she being overly blindly confident?

Or had her trust been misplaced?

Was Shen Ye no exception either?

Did Xia Meng really have the talent to bewitch every man into a lovestruck daze?

Xie Wantiang pouted as her phone rang; she saw it was Lu Yanshen's number. She had deleted his contact, but she still remembered all eleven of his phone numbers by heart.

She didn't want to answer.

He and Xia Meng really know how to play the two-person act, huh.

Xia Meng came over carrying things, pretending to visit the sick as an opening move; she didn't accept it, and then Lu Yanshen immediately called to wrap things up?

How come, they don't even treat Xie Wantiang like a person?

Just thinking about it makes me feel really unwilling to accept it.

Before Lu Yanshen could hang up, Xie Wantiang quickly pressed the answer button and, seizing the initiative, said: "Congratulations, President Lu, you're about to become a groom again."

Xie Wantiang didn't notice that her lips were trembling as she spoke those words.

Her heart felt sour and painful.

After all, Lu Yanshen is the man she has deeply loved for many years, her hero in her heart.

She thought that, like Zixia the fairy, every girl imagines her dream hero arriving on a white horse or on colorful auspicious clouds.

Lu Yanshen is also the hero she has imagined in her dreams.

"I heard you're being discharged tomorrow?" Lu Yanshen's low voice came through the receiver into Xie Wantiang's ears.

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Xie Wantiang was emotionally agitated, while Lu Yanshen remained calm.

For Xie Wantiang, this was nothing short of a huge humiliation — and it was one she brought upon herself.

She began to look down on herself a little.

She could act indifferent and put on a tsundere front in front of Xia Meng, but in front of Lu Yanshen her true emotions were impossible to control.

But Lu Yanshen is different.

He can remain perfectly calm when facing her, able to speak to her at any time without any emotional ripples.

Even now, when she speaks to him in an agitated tone, deliberately saying congratulations, he can act as if he didn't hear and calmly ask whether she will be discharged tomorrow.

After three years, she has given him so much, yet he has given her no feeling in return — right?

How tragic.

Even though they're divorced, she still wonders whether Lu Yanshen ever loved her at all.

Even just a little bit.

"Xie Wantang, can you delay leaving by two days? Ten billion, there are quite a lot of procedures to handle, it won't be that fast." Lu Yanshen didn't hear her reply, and didn't care.

What? Ten hundred million?

We're divorcing, the financial compensation for you—your family didn't tell you? Lu Yanshen said, surprised.

Lu Yanshen, I'm not leaving with nothing, right? Xie Wantang was speechless; wasn't what she said before clear enough?

They divorced; she didn't want money, she left with nothing, just to make the split a bit cleaner, a bit more carefree.

She's not short of money; what would she do with his ten hundred million?

No, he's actually pretty generous, huh—he's actually willing to give her ten hundred million?

What exactly does he mean?

Ten hundred million is basically all his wealth, right?

What's up, he and Xia Meng aren't living together anymore?

"I told your family, if they want me to sign, they have to give me compensation—eighty percent of my personal assets; otherwise, I won't sign the divorce."

"Lu Yanshen, are you pretending to be deep in feeling?" Xie Wantang frowned; she had thought their divorce was clean, she really didn't expect him to forcefully give her ten hundred million as this ex-wife he doesn't love.

Heh—

He really is a perfect man, this persona, maintained too perfectly.

Ex-wife and first love—he gives his love to the first love, his money to the ex-wife?

Does he think doing this means no one will see him as a scumbag?

"Xie Wantang, this is what I owe you; take it. If you really must leave tomorrow, I'll call the bank people over now to handle the paperwork for us."

"No need, divorce can be done without both parties present—just a transfer. I'll ask my older brother what you need me to do for the paperwork; we'd better meet as little as possible."

Xie Wantang refused.

"Madam Qin called me earlier, asking me to come tomorrow to see you off at the airport."

"Whether you come or not is up to you." Suddenly, Xie Wantang didn't want to see him anymore.

No need.

"I'll come; maybe tomorrow will be the last time we see each other in this lifetime." Without waiting for Xie Wantang to hang up, Lu Yanshen hurriedly said.

His tone carried a hint of sadness.