Chapter 21: The Mother-in-Law Has Arrived

"Grandfather, please reconsider. Grandfather, I know I was wrong, I truly know I was wrong. You cannot make such a rash decision..." Sheng Yukai stepped forward to beg for mercy, but no matter what he said, the old man did not want to listen any further.

Sheng Hanyu's seaside Villa.

Shi Youxuan stuffed the computer back into the teddy bear, stood up, and stretched a big stretch. After three days of busy work, the task was finally complete!

Being able to finish so smoothly was also thanks to Sheng Hanyu not being around these past few days.

As long as he was not around, no one would come to disturb her. Except for appearing in the dining room for her three daily meals, Shi Youxuan hid in her room the rest of the time, and no one bothered her regardless of what she was doing.

Not being disturbed was originally what Shi Youxuan considered the ideal state, but now that the ideal had become reality, she was not as happy as she had imagined.

Her heart felt empty, and she couldn't describe the feeling, nor did she know why.

That day, Sheng Hanyu returned once and then left like the wind, as if this place were not his home, but a hotel!

That man suddenly intruded into her mind again. Shi Youxuan shook her head, attempting to shake that person out of her brain. Although the two had the status of husband and wife, they had no reality of it.

Strictly speaking, they hadn't even met many times. Shi Youxuan didn't know why her heart would race every time she saw him.

When she couldn't see him, she would always think of him. She patted her own face and whispered to herself: "Shi Youxuan, you are going to leave this place sooner or later. What is so good about that cold man? Don't be foolish, you hear?"

"Beep—"

The sound of a car horn interrupted her train of thought. She turned her head to look, and a white BMW X5 drove into Shi Youxuan's field of vision. The car soon stopped, and a middle-aged beautiful woman stepped out from inside.

The housekeeper hurried out to welcome her: "Madam, why have you come?"

Wang Yingzhi glanced at the housekeeper with disdain, her tone unkind: "What kind of talk is that? Am I not allowed to come to the place where my son lives?"

The housekeeper immediately apologized and explained: "Madam, you have misunderstood. That is not what I meant..."

"Enough, don't nag in front of me. Where is Hanyu? Take me to see him."

Wang Yingzhi, contrary to her timid and cautious behavior at home, was extremely arrogant toward her son's housekeeper.

The housekeeper said: "The Eldest Young Master is not here."

Upon hearing he was not here, Wang Yingzhi immediately flared up. She raised her voice and shrieked in a shrill tone: "Not here? If he's not here, why aren't you hurrying to find him? Are you a dead person? Does our family spend so much money to hire you to act like a grandmother? A mere housekeeper, putting on more airs than I do. Those who know will say you are a servant of our family; those who don't might think you are Hanyu's mother..."

She stood in the courtyard with her hands on her hips and started cursing. The housekeeper knew what kind of character she had; it wasn't fear, but out of respect for Sheng Hanyu, he did not lower himself to her level.

"Very well, I will call the Eldest Young Master."

"Call what phone? Call what phone?"

Wang Yingzhi stopped him: "Are you stupid? I think you are either stupid or senile. If Hanyu's phone could be reached, I would have called it long ago; would it be your turn?"

The housekeeper thought to himself: You can't reach him because the Eldest Young Master has put you on his blacklist.

But while he could think this in his heart, he said something else: "Shall I go out and look for him?"

"Hmm, go ahead." Wang Yingzhi was satisfied now.

At the Sheng Family Mansion, with the old man, the younger brother, and the sisters-in-law, Wang Yingzhi could never stand tall and speak. Although Bai Xue was the wife of the younger brother, her maiden family was prominent, far stronger than her own.

Therefore, ever since Bai Xue entered the family, she had consciously been suppressed by her sister-in-law. Later, because the mother-in-law also liked Bai Xue more, and her husband was unaccomplished, she was suppressed even more tightly.

But it was different when she was out. This was her son's home, and she was the master here, so of course, she was emboldened!

Shi Youxuan stood behind the curtains, taking in everything that happened in the courtyard. She covered her mouth with her hand to keep from laughing out loud. Who would have thought that the cold and aloof Sheng Hanyu actually had such a two-hundred-and-fifty mother?

Is she his biological mother?

Before Shi Youxuan could finish her internal monologue, she soon discovered that the flames of war had spread to her.

As soon as Wang Yingzhi entered the living room, she began shouting at the top of her lungs: "You fool, Shi Youxuan, get out here!"

She had heard that her son had married a fool and had long wanted to come and see, but the old man had given orders not to let them interfere, so she had never dared to come.

However, Wang Yingzhi had come with a mission today; she wanted to give the fool a warning while she was at it, and it wouldn't cause a conflict!

Now that she was a mother-in-law herself, Wang Yingzhi was prepared to get back with interest all the grievances she had suffered from her own mother-in-law back in the day, all from this foolish daughter-in-law!

Shi Youxuan quietly left the bedroom and went to a corner in the guest room to hide.

Watching the excitement was one thing, but having the flames of war burn her was another!

Sheng Hanyu's mother was clearly here to pick a fight, and she would not go and touch the bad luck at this time.

Shi Youxuan's assumption was correct, but she had underestimated the "ability" of such a person. Having finally found someone to bully after decades, Wang Yingzhi would absolutely not let such a good opportunity slip by!

After a carpet-style search upstairs and downstairs, she finally caught Shi Youxuan in the corner.

Although they had never met before, it was not hard to recognize Shi Youxuan. The servants here all wore uniforms, and the girl who had no uniform, was exceptionally beautiful, and was blinking a pair of large eyes, must be the fool the old man had married to his son.

She was rarely smart for once, and her guess was completely correct.

"You are Shi Youxuan?" Wang Yingzhi looked down at her from a high position, her eyes full of criticism.

"Yes," Shi Youxuan replied.

Wang Yingzhi suddenly came over without warning and twisted her ear: "Why are you hiding? Are your ears deaf? I shouted for you so loudly just now, and you didn't make a sound. Are you playing games with me..."

"It hurts, it hurts so much!"

Shi Youxuan felt as if her ear was about to be twisted off by this woman, and tears fell from the pain.

She reached out and gripped Wang Yingzhi's wrist. As soon as she applied force, the other party started screaming: "Let go, it hurts! Oh, you dare to hit your mother-in-law? You unfilial thing, I'll beat you to death!"

She raised her palm and slapped fiercely toward Shi Youxuan's face. Shi Youxuan pulled her head back and dodged it, and Wang Yingzhi's hand hit the wall solidly, hurting as if it had broken!

"Ouch, it hurts me to death."

Having missed the first strike, Wang Yingzhi was so embarrassed and angry that she became even more furious, and went up with a kick—this time she kicked at empty air again!

Her foot, wearing a slipper, kicked the corner of the table. She widened her eyes, clutched her painful foot, and hopped on the other foot, spinning in circles in place from the pain. Shi Youxuan dodged nimbly, her mouth not idle as she begged for mercy repeatedly, yet she hadn't been touched once.

"It hurts so much, you dead woman, don't you hide..."

One chasing, one fleeing!

Wang Yingzhi was older and was not as agile as Shi Youxuan to begin with, and after missing several times and hurting herself instead, she was panting for breath by the time she chased Shi Youxuan to the villa entrance, completely out of breath.

"You, you get out, and never come back!" She stood with one hand on her hip, pointing at Shi Youxuan with the other, gritting her teeth.

Leaving the Villa with this excuse was a good method, but the male bear doll was still in the bedroom, and she had to take it with her.

Shi Youxuan bit her index finger, blinking her large eyes as she made a request to her mother-in-law: "Give Zai Zai to me, and I will leave."

"Zai?"

Wang Yingzhi was furious: "Fine, your Shi Family is bullying people too much! It was enough that you married a fool to my son, but now the fool is bringing a cub along too?"

A servant reminded her from the side: "Madam, Zai Zai is the Eldest Young Mistress's doll, a teddy bear she always holds in her arms and likes immensely."