Chapter 3053: Bailing you out

Ye Chen was left speechless by Xiao Changkun.

He was on the verge of being kicked out of the house, yet he was still thinking about living in a luxury mansion and driving a luxury car.

Helpless, Ye Chen could only remind him: "Dad, if this doesn't work out, I definitely can't rent you too nice a place, and I certainly can't give you the Cullinan."

Xiao Changkun asked subconsciously: "Why..."

Ye Chen said: "Don't forget, when the time comes and you walk out of this house, I'll still be living here!"

As he spoke, Ye Chen added: "If I rent you a luxury mansion outside and give you the Cullinan to drive, who knows how much Ma Lan will resent me? I have to protect myself, too. If I rent you a run-down little place and Ma Lan blames me, I can at least defend myself. After all, I can't let you sleep on the street, right? Wouldn't Churan and I be guilty of abandonment then?"

Xiao Changkun looked at Ye Chen's serious expression, let out a long sigh, patted him on the shoulder, and said in great pain: "I understand, I understand. If I were you, I wouldn't want to offend Ma Lan either..."

Ye Chen said: "Dad, I will definitely try my best to bail you out this time, but remember, you have no way out. You have to burn your bridges and make one last gamble. If you don't succeed, you're finished!"

Xiao Changkun gritted his teeth: "Fine! I'll listen to you!"

On the other side, when Xiao Churan was brought to the room where Ma Lan was, Ma Lan was still arguing with the traffic police with red eyes: "I just don't understand, why can't you arrest everyone who cheats? Why?"

The traffic police said helplessly: "Why or why not, it's not up to me..."

At this moment, Xiao Churan pushed the door open and hurriedly shouted: "Mom!"

When Ma Lan saw Xiao Churan, her tears immediately burst forth. She cried as she rushed over and hugged Xiao Churan, wailing: "Daughter, you're finally here. That bastard Xiao Changkun cheated on Mom with his old flame behind my back. Mom doesn't even want to live anymore!"

Xiao Churan hurriedly comforted her: "Mom, don't think so extremely. Based on my understanding of Dad, he shouldn't do that..."

"Shouldn't?" Ma Lan cried and said: "His old flame has been gone for over thirty years. Who knows how long she's been back this time? He didn't say a single word to me about it. The two of them have even been working together at the University for the Elderly behind my back. Is that work? That's cheating under the guise of work! Who knows if they've been living together as a couple behind my back! After all this time, who knows how many green hats I've been wearing!"

Xiao Churan hurriedly bit the bullet and suppressed her embarrassment to comfort her: "Mom, Dad isn't that kind of person. Don't keep digging into a dead end..."

"I'm digging into a dead end? This kind of thing is like seeing a cockroach. As long as you see one, there's no way there's only one. There might be thousands in places you can't see!"

As Ma Lan spoke, she suddenly thought of something and slapped her thigh: "Damn it! These two are hanging out at the University for the Elderly all day long. Last time the city organized an exchange to South Korea, there were people from the University for the Elderly who went too. Did they both go?!"

After saying this, she immediately picked up her phone, entered the keywords for the Jin Ling cultural exchange to South Korea into the search engine, and added the name Han Meiqing. Sure enough, she found quite a bit of news content.

After all, it was a cultural exchange activity organized by the city. Including the list and introductions of the accompanying personnel in the press release was standard procedure. When Ma Lan saw that Han Meiqing had indeed participated in that exchange, she trembled with anger and cried out: "This... this isn't going for any exchange, this is going for a vacation and cheating!"

After saying this, she looked at Xiao Churan and cried: "Daughter, I hate this! Xiao Changkun has planted a whole grassland on my head! It's a pity I still wear green hats every day to mock Xiao Changgan. It hasn't been long since Qian Hongyan was sent to the black coal kiln, but who knows how long that bastard Xiao Changkun has been messing around with Han Meiqing behind my back!"

Xiao Churan pursed her lips and hurriedly added: "Mom, that Auntie Han should be quite decent. They definitely wouldn't do such filthy things..."

Ma Lan was stunned and asked: "Churan, you've met Han Meiqing too?!"

"Ah... Mom... I... I haven't..." Xiao Churan only then realized she had let it slip and didn't know how to explain.

Ma Lan asked aggressively: "If you haven't met the one surnamed Han, how do you know she's a decent person?"

Xiao Churan was speechless for a moment.

Ma Lan collapsed and cried: "Churan, is it that even you are helping him lie to me? Is it?!"

Xiao Churan was suddenly thrown into a panic. Just as she didn't know how to salvage the situation, Ye Chen suddenly pushed the door open. As soon as he entered, he said: "Mom, Churan hasn't met Auntie Han, but I have."

"Ah?!" When Ma Lan saw Ye Chen enter, she was immediately shocked and questioned: "You... you've met Han Meiqing?! Did that bastard Xiao Changkun take you to see her?"

Ye Chen nodded and said truthfully: "Dad took me to see her."

Ma Lan was driven crazy and scolded: "Then why didn't you tell me?! I called you a good son-in-law every day and treated you like my own son. Xiao Changkun cheated on me, and you didn't even tell me! Ye Chen! You... you've disappointed me so much!"

Ye Chen wasn't flustered and hurriedly explained: "Mom, this matter really isn't what you think. I did know about Auntie Han's return, and I did go with Dad to see her, but Dad and Auntie Han are truly innocent. And the reason Dad didn't tell you, or let me tell you, was mainly for your sake."

"Bullshit!" Ma Lan's curse slipped out without thinking.

But after saying it, she immediately closed her mouth in nervousness.

In the past, saying such things to Ye Chen was a daily routine. She would say it, and if she didn't say it ten or eight times a day, she wouldn't feel comfortable.

But the situation is different now.

Now she relies on Ye Chen for everything—food, clothing, housing, and transportation. Without Ye Chen, nothing works. So, having suddenly cursed Ye Chen subconsciously, she was really afraid of annoying him.

So, she hurriedly added: "Ye Chen, Mom isn't targeting you. Mom is targeting that bastard Xiao Changkun. He said it was for my sake, how is that possible?!"

Ye Chen explained: "Mom, you don't know. Auntie Han spent thirty years in the United States, and she did better than just average. She and her late first husband co-founded one of the most famous law firms in the United States, called Smith Law Firm. You can look it up online. It's absolutely a top-tier law firm globally. Their firm's valuation is at least several billion US dollars, and the share they get from lawsuits for major companies every year must be hundreds of millions of US dollars."

Han Meiqing is actually a very low-key person. She has been abroad for so many years, and her classmates in China didn't know her situation in the United States at all, as if she had evaporated from the world after going abroad.

Therefore, Xiao Changkun, Ma Lan, and their old classmates didn't know how Han Meiqing was doing abroad.

It wasn't until Han Meiqing returned to China that she mentioned her affairs to Xiao Changkun.

Therefore, everything Ye Chen said was the truth, without the slightest exaggeration.

Ma Lan was inferior to Han Meiqing in every way back then. Hearing that Han Meiqing was doing so well, she couldn't hold her face and said unnaturally: "What does it have to do with me how well she, Han Meiqing, is doing? Just because she's doing well, can she mess around with my husband?"

Ye Chen sighed and started to make up a story, saying half-truthfully: "Mom, you don't know the situation here. After Auntie Han's husband passed away, the family assets and the law firm were inherited by her and her son. Even if it's split fifty-fifty with her son, she still has ten or twenty billion US dollars, which is over ten billion RMB. And why did she return to Jin Ling? She didn't come for Dad; she came for her true sweetheart!" ===== CHAPTER 3054 =====