Chapter 570 - 567: Kicked Out
Chapter 570 - 567: Kicked Out
Bai Daqing returned to his residence, his face grim.
"Father, you're back." Bai Mudan quickly approached him, "What about Gao Fei... What did he say? Did he agree?"
Bai Daqing glanced at Bai Mudan but said nothing.
"What? He didn't agree?" Bai Mudan widened her eyes in surprise.
"That Gao Fei... He's so ungrateful," Bai Daqing huffed angrily, "I lowered myself to propose to him, and he actually refused. At that moment... I wanted nothing more than to slap him to death."
"Refused?" Bai Mudan's face went pale, "Why did he refuse? Am I not good enough for him?"
"Gao Fei said he's already married."
"Married?"
"And not just to one wife."
"More than one?"
"The way he looked... it didn't seem like he was lying."
"Just because of that?"
"Gao Fei said that if you insist on marrying him, you can only be a concubine."
"What?" Bai Mudan became furious, "He expects me to be a concubine? How dare he say that out loud! How could I, the daughter of a thousand-gold family, become a concubine!" Bai Mudan was truly angry, "So ungrateful! It's his good fortune that I fancy him, yet he dares to be so obstructive, it's infuriating."
"Indeed," Bai Daqing nodded, "I was angry too, and I gave him a piece of my mind right to his face."
"What happened next?" Bai Mudan asked.
"Afterward, I thought of a method."
"What method?"
"I suggested Gao Fei divorce all his wives, and then take you as his wife."
"What did he say?"
"He flatly refused, wouldn't agree to anything, and that... made me so angry..."
"I will go find him! I'll make things clear face to face!"
"He has already refused you, what's the point in seeing him again? You come back here... you... this girl..."
Ignoring Bai Daqing's attempt to stop her, Bai Mudan stormed out of the room.
Before long, Bai Mudan had arrived at Gao Fei's residence and as she entered, she shouted loudly, "Gao Fei, get out here now!!!"
"Miss Bai... why are you here?" Gao Fei came out from inside the house.
"I want to know! Did my father come to propose to you?" Bai Mudan glared with wide eyes.
"Uh, yes, that did happen."
"And you refused?"
"Listen to me, I can explain..."
"I don't want your explanations, you just need to answer yes or no."
"...Yes."
"You have a wife? And more than one?"
"...Yes..."
"I'm giving you a chance right now. Divorce all your wives and marry me instead."
"That's impossible, I can't do that." Gao Fei shook his head.
"Say that again!" Bai Mudan screamed loudly.
Gao Fei took a deep breath, "Even if I said it a hundred times, it would be the same answer. I can be a villain, I can be a bad person, but I refuse to be a heartless and ungrateful person." As he spoke, Gao Fei added another sentence, "My wives have deep affection and loyalty to me. We've gone through so much hardship to be together. I don't even have enough time to cherish them, how could I divorce them?"
"Good! Good! Good!" Bai Mudan said the word 'good' three times in a row, then raised her hand and pointed at Gao Fei's nose, cursing, "I'm the daughter of the City Lord's Mansion, lowering myself to show you love, and you actually refuse me? You really don't know what's good for you! You're beyond reasoning!"
"Miss Bai..." Gao Fei was just about to speak when Bai Mudan interrupted him.
Bai Mudan gritted her teeth, glared at Gao Fei, and yelled, "What's so great about you? You neither have the looks, the status, nor the cultivation. To think I fancied you is the fortune you've cultivated over eight lifetimes! It's your ancestral grave emitting blue smoke…" The more Bai Mudan spoke, the nastier her words became, the more agitated she got, her finger almost poking Gao Fei's nose.
Gao Fei frowned, being verbally abused to his face, how could he not feel pissed off? Not get angry? The only reason he was holding back was out of respect for Bai Daqing.
"This is the first time I've fallen for a man, the first time I've entertained thoughts of marriage, and the first time a man has rejected me!" Bai Mudan's self-esteem was directly wounded by Gao Fei's upfront rejection. At that moment, she had lost all reason, cursing Gao Fei non-stop and even rushing up to slap him.
Gao Fei endured it all, not talking back or fighting back.
Initially, Gao Fei had a fairly good impression of Bai Mudan, thinking she was smart and sensible. But now it seemed... Bai Mudan was clearly a spoiled, unreasonable, and hot-tempered young lady. Gao Fei secretly felt relieved that he had refused Bai Mudan. If he had really married her, his days would have been difficult.
Daughters of such high caliber like Bai Mudan aren't something ordinary men could handle.
Because of this incident, Gao Fei's good impression of Bai Mudan turned into a bad one...
"You don't want to marry me, well I don't want to marry you either! Listen well, it's not you who rejected me, it's me who's kicking you out! You're not worthy of marrying me! That I fancied you... was me being blind. From now on, we are strangers, you go your sunny path, and I'll cross my log bridge, never to interact with each other again for our whole lives!"
"..." Gao Fei didn't know what to say.
"Get out! Get the hell out!" Bai Mudan shoved Gao Fei, cursing, "This is my home! You don't deserve to stay here, get the hell out right now! Go!!!"
Gao Fei had his pride too, being verbally humiliated and driven away to his face, even with his good temper, he was getting angry. He nodded, "Okay, I'm leaving now." After saying that, Gao Fei walked out of the room without looking back, heading towards the main door.
At that moment, Gao Fei felt indescribably stifled. To be insulted and expected to bear it, to be driven out and bear it, he truly felt wronged. He knew clearly that from now on, his relationship with the City Lord's Mansion... would become distant...
Having a powerful father sure is awesome, one can curse and bully others recklessly, and others wouldn't dare to provoke them.
As Gao Fei walked, he pondered whether Bai Mudan's cursing and sending him away was her own idea, or Bai Daqing's. If it was just Bai Mudan herself, it was bearable, but if it was Bai Daqing's idea... then it would be problematic.
Bai Daqing was Gao Fei's backer, having helped him quite a bit these days. It was precisely because Bai Daqing had his back that the lower-ranking officers didn't dare to look down on Gao Fei.
Without Bai Daqing's protection, Gao Fei's life would definitely become difficult.
Forget it, there's no use thinking about it anymore, what's happened has happened. Thinking more about it is pointless. Take it one step at a time. I refuse to believe that without Bai Daqing's protection, I can't survive?
When you get down to it, this matter really wasn't Gao Fei's fault. Was there anything wrong in him standing by his principles? Not at all! But why... did it lead to such a big mess?
Where was the reason?
After leaving the City Lord's Mansion, Gao Fei looked up to the sky and let out a long sigh, "I really don't want to swear, but I just can't help it... Damn it all!!! Damn it all to hell!!!" Gao Fei looked up at the sky, eyes wide open, and bellowed at the top of his lungs.
He vented the frustration in his heart through his shouts.
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