Chapter 1554: The Inescapable Curse 2

Shi Youxuan said to her daughter, "Your mother-in-law has already done very well. One should be content in life; don't always fixate on other people's shortcomings, and even more so, don't use my strengths to compare with your mother-in-law's weaknesses. If you were a mother-in-law, you wouldn't even be able to do as well as she does."

Shi Ran admitted, "She does do quite well, it's just that she's not very good to Shi Yuan."

Shi Youxuan: "Shi Yuan isn't her own flesh and blood, so it's normal not to like him. What's the problem? I don't see any problem."

Her daughter complained, "Why do you always speak up for my mother-in-law?"

At this moment, Yun Qitian received a phone call, turned around, and went out.

Shi Youxuan said to her daughter, "Watch what you say; look, Qi Tian doesn't like hearing that."

Her daughter said, "It's not that, it's just that these past two days he often goes out to take calls..." Halfway through her sentence, she felt something was not quite right.

That's not right; in the past, no matter whose call he was taking, he would answer it openly right in front of her.

But now he is selective; sometimes he answers in front of her, and sometimes he goes out to answer, and it seems like his expression isn't quite right when he comes back after going out to take a call.

Her daughter's expression was off, and Shi Youxuan noticed it.

She reminded her daughter to be careful; her son-in-law is young and talented, and he faces many temptations outside, so she shouldn't let him be snatched away by someone by mistake.

Shi Ran smiled: "If he can be snatched away, then he isn't mine, and there's nothing to regret."

Although she was stubborn, she took her mother's words to heart. For the rest of the time, she remained absent-minded, always looking lost in thought.

After the two arrived home and closed the door, Shi Ran said to her husband, "Are you hiding something from me?"

"No."

He flatly denied it: "What could I possibly be hiding from you? Don't let your imagination run wild."

Shi Ran also hoped she was just overthinking it, but, she wasn't!

Three days later.

Shi Ran arrived home from work and found a woman sneaking around and peering at their front door.

"Who are you looking for?"

"Are you Mrs. Yun, Shi Ran?"

"Yes, I am."

"I'm looking for you. I am your husband's girlfriend."

"What did you say?" Shi Ran thought something was wrong with her ears and she had misheard.

The girl looked gentle and quiet, so how could she be so thick-skinned?

She said such things as a matter of course, without a shred of shame.

The girl repeated it again: "I am your husband's girlfriend. I have fallen in love with him, let's get a divorce."

"How far have you two gone?"

"Everything that should have happened, has happened. Is there any point in you asking further? Your husband doesn't love you anymore; he is with you because of responsibility and the influence of your maiden family."

Shi Ran did not lash out or curse like an ordinary woman would upon learning her husband was cheating.

She didn't even get emotional; she calmly took out her phone and dialed her husband's number: "Yun Qitian, a woman has found her way to our door saying she is your girlfriend. Do you want to come back? Shall the three of us have a talk?"

"Ranran, don't listen to her nonsense..." Yun Qitian was very nervous, but Shi Ran's heart sank; it seemed it was true, otherwise he wouldn't need to be this nervous.

"Just come back first, we'll talk when you get back." Her voice sounded calm, but a stormy sea was already surging in her heart.

"Wait for me, I'll be right back."

Since the woman had found her way to the door, Yun Zhe Hao and his wife were also alarmed.

According to Ma Ling'er's temper, she would have just spat in her face, then cursed her out or beaten her out—either would do!

But her husband stopped her, telling her not to be too impulsive, and to wait for their son to return so both sides could confront each other and get to the bottom of the matter.

Simply driving the person away would be easy, but it would confirm that their son had cheated.

One couldn't just listen to the woman's one-sided story to pass judgment; that would be too arbitrary!

Yun Qitian returned.

He was fast.

As soon as he entered the house, the woman rushed over with teary eyes: "Qi Tian, you can't ignore me, you can't abandon me. I love you, I can't live without you..."

She was the very picture of a pitiful, abandoned woman.

Shi Ran felt as if her heart were freezing over.

Qi Tian jumped to the side in a hurry, dodging her: "Xiao Ai, explain yourself clearly. I have nothing to do with you; what right do you have to say you're my girlfriend? Why are you spouting nonsense in front of my wife?"

"You do like me, don't you? Your eyes can't lie to me; you like me, I know it..." The girl repeated these few sentences over and over, and kept chasing after Yun Qitian.

"I have nothing to do with you, don't ruin me!"

The two of them, one chasing and one running.

The more anxious he was to explain, the less clear he could make it: "I have nothing to do with you. I've told you many times already, I have a wife and children, I won't do anything to wrong my wife. Can you please stop pestering me?"

"No, you clearly like me. You're just afraid of her; she's nothing but a tigress."

Ma Ling'er really couldn't watch anymore.

She ordered the servants to drive the woman out of the house and gave her a harsh scolding.

She also stated: "My daughter-in-law will only ever be Shi Ran. You are not allowed to pester my son. This time I'm being polite; if there is a next time, I will tell your parents and have them re-educate you. One must know shame and have some self-respect!"

"Seducing a married man, you are utterly shameless and disgraceful."

Ma Ling'er had used every nasty word she knew within her vocabulary.

But the woman was unmoved, as if she hadn't heard a thing, and refused to leave even after being driven out the door.

She knelt on the ground, crying and begging: "Don't abandon me, please don't leave me. I can also bear you children, I can also earn money, wash clothes, and cook; I can do anything..."

"Do you know? We once had a child, three years ago. You said my health was poor and that having a child would affect me, so you made me have an abortion when the child was five months old..."

Such an inhuman thing, yet it moved the girl to tears.

Yun Qitian was unable to defend himself and was incredibly anxious.

But Shi Ran gradually calmed down.

In the end, that woman was chased away by Ma Ling'er, and the house had been turned upside down by the commotion.

Yet Shi Ran spoke up for her husband: "Mom and Dad, please don't scold him. That woman has issues; she seems mentally unstable."

Ma Ling'er:...

Yun Zhe Hao:...

Yun Qitian was so moved he almost cried; he was truly innocent.

That woman was his high school classmate, and they had no interaction at all back in school; if she hadn't suddenly popped up to find him a week ago, he wouldn't even have remembered who this person was.

Xiao Ai appeared; at first, he thought they were just old classmates, so he met her once, but he never expected that from then on, the woman would start pursuing him crazily.

She called him and sent him messages endlessly, without resting for twenty-four hours a day.

When she couldn't get into the office building to find him at the company, she would just grab anyone at the entrance and tell them all sorts of things about her and him...

Yun Qitian had the Security Guard stand watch in front of the company building, and if they spotted her, they were to chase her away!

He never expected that she would actually find her way to his home.