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She Lost Memory Before the Divorce-Chapter 14 - 00: Shall We Make a Bet?
Chapter 14: Chapter 0014: Shall We Make a Bet?
Han Yongmei was outmaneuvered by Mu Lan’s words and her face immediately dropped.
“Heartbroken?”
“Yes, as your daughter-in-law, I was almost gang-raped by a bunch of thugs yesterday. You knew about it but didn’t comfort me, and even brought people over to demand I release someone.
You tell me, shouldn’t I feel heartbroken?”
Mu Lan’s voice was choked with emotion as she spoke, her acting was so convincing that if it weren’t for the slight smile tugging at the corners of her mouth, even Huo Tingxiao would have been deceived by this little vixen.
“I… I didn’t mean to not comfort you, I just wanted you to prioritize the bigger picture.
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Moreover, you’ve always been a good child who puts the Huo Family first in the past, why have you suddenly—”
Putting the bigger picture first, huh? Mu Lan secretly rolled her eyes.
“Does that mean for the past seven years in the Huo Family, every time something like this happened, I was the one compromising, right?”
As she asked this, Mu Lan’s gaze fell on Huo Tingxiao, clearly wanting this man to listen carefully.
“It’s not exactly like that, harmony in the family leads to prosperity in all things, it’s all for the good of the family.”
Han Yongmei was somewhat unaccustomed to dealing with such a sharp and assertive daughter-in-law.
For the good of this family? More like for the good of your son!
Mu Lan couldn’t help but curse her past self, who lacked ambition and clung to one man as if no other existed.
“When you first married into this family, what kind of temperament you had, if it hadn’t been for my careful guidance, how could you and Tingxiao have managed to stay loving and harmonious?
Mu Lan, what’s gotten into you now? It feels as if… I’ve suddenly gone back to the time when I first met you.”
As these last words left her mouth, a trace of darkness flitted through Huo Tingxiao’s eyes.
So there wasn’t any sudden change in personality, Mu Lan’s character had been this way before marriage.
The wife he faced, whom he found distasteful and tiresome, the uninteresting woman, was actually shaped by his own mother!
For seven years, all he had faced was a woman wearing a mask, the so-called competent Mrs. Huo in everyone’s eyes.
At this moment, Huo Tingxiao couldn’t describe his feelings as he looked at Mu Lan with complex emotions. How deeply did she love him to have compromised over and over again, even if it meant completely changing into someone else?
“Mom, you don’t have to make things difficult for her.”
“Make things difficult? I’m doing this for her own good! Just like your aunt said, if the situation gets out of hand, do you think Mu Lan can come out unscathed? Can she endure other people’s gossip?
Even if she can endure it, what about her mother-in-law and her brother? It could have been handled much more gently, so why make it public knowledge?
If you insist on having Mingxu put in jail, the consequences will be far more severe when your aunt lashes out in desperation.
Tingxiao, give Mingxu a chance.”
Mu Lan fell silent; the second sentence truly struck home.
It didn’t matter what she went through, but the Mu Family couldn’t afford any more turmoil now.
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“Fine, I’ll drop the charges.”
Those words came from Huo Tingxiao.
Mu Lan looked up at him, involuntarily biting her lip.
“Tingxiao! Really? You’re willing to drop the charges?”
Han Yongmei let out a sigh of relief, feeling that her efforts had not been in vain.
However, her joy lasted less than a second before Huo Tingxiao spoke up again, setting conditions.
“But I have conditions.”
“Conditions?”
“I have a factory in Africa that’s short on labor, which should suit my cousin well. Besides, he’s out of work right now, so he might as well go help in the factory.”
“This…”
These conditions weren’t much better than going to prison; sending He Mingxu, who was like a wealthy playboy, to Africa to do manual labor might as well be a death sentence.
“This is the biggest concession I can make. I didn’t kill him on the spot yesterday because Mu Lan was there.”
At this, Han Yongmei cast a deep look at her son; why was he suddenly valuing Mu Lan so much?!
“I’ll discuss it with your aunt.”
“Also, from now on, please try to concern yourself less with matters between my wife and me. I moved out because I wanted some peace.
If you really get bored at home, you might as well check on my dad’s romantic affairs to pass the time.”
Mu Lan almost choked on Huo Tingxiao’s words. It was the first time she had heard a son tell his mother to go investigate his father’s love life. He really was a talent!
Seeing her son criticize her like this, Han Yongmei’s face did not look good, but she didn’t dare retort. She could only glare at Mu Lan to take her anger out on someone.
“Fine, once you have a wife, you forget your mother. You find me meddlesome, then I won’t bother you anymore.”
With that, she got up, sauntered to the door, and now and then stealthily looked back, hoping someone would say something to make her stay.
However, after waiting a while and hearing nothing, she could only huff and puff as she left the villa.
So much drama first thing in the morning, Mu Lan was a bit tired.
Giving the man beside her a glare, she couldn’t help but make a snide comment.
“Why does your family have so many issues?”
Huo Tingxiao narrowed his eyes, clearly dissatisfied with her statement.
“Isn’t it your family too?”
Mu Lan curled her lips.
“My last name is Mu, yours is Huo, we can’t exactly count as one family.”
Suddenly pressed down, Huo Tingxiao pounced like a leopard, his dark eyes seemed to be able to suck someone in at any moment.
“You still haven’t given up the thought of divorcing?”
Getting called out on her little thoughts, Mu Lan instinctively licked her lips.
“Does it matter whether I give up or not? You won’t agree to a divorce anyway.”
Huo Tingxiao was at a loss for words, blocked by her. This little fox was getting better at poking at his sore spots.
“How about we make a bet?”
“What?”
This man must be up to some trick again.
“You will willingly give up the thought of divorce.”
Such confidence in his voice? Mu Lan raised an eyebrow, her competitive nature suddenly aroused.
“Okay, I’d like to see how you can make me willingly give up… mm…”
Firstly, it was about making her submit through sleep.
The housekeeper accidentally saw the intimate scene between the two and turned her head to go to the garden. It was her first time seeing the couple acting so sickeningly sweet, like newlyweds.
Ah, if only they could always be like this, that would be great.
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Huo Qitang, in order to bail out his son, agreed to Huo Tingxiao’s terms and had no choice but to send He Mingxu to Africa, causing quite a stir within the Huo Family.
Those unaware of the truth wondered what could have offended Huo Tingxiao enough to warrant such a fate.
As word spread, rumors emerged that Huo Tingxiao was paving his own way back to the Huo Corporation by using such a tactic to shake the tree and scare the monkey.
Even Lin Yize ended up hearing about it.
Mu Lan had just finished delivering coffee to Huo Tingxiao and was returning to her workstation when she received a call from her senior schoolmate.
“Hello?”
She balanced the phone between her ear and shoulder while continuing the conversation, as she simultaneously booted up her computer to work on spreadsheets. Although not extremely proficient yet, she was slowly getting the hang of it, looking every bit the office lady.
“Is this Mu Lan? It’s me, Lin Yize. Are you free tonight? I’ve arranged a get-together with a few classmates, want to join? They’re all friends you know from working together in the student council.”
“This…”
“If you’re worried about Mr. Huo misunderstanding, then…”
“Send me the address. I’ll come after work.”
“OK.”
Mu Lan hung up the phone and plunged back into her work.