novelraw Chapter 1019 - 70: Brilliant as Sparks, Only Deep Affection Must Not Be Betrayed
Chapter 1019 - 70: Brilliant as Sparks, Only Deep Affection Must Not Be Betrayed
Feng Chengjie exploded, roaring, "Lven! You dare say you were squeaky clean back then! That you slept a whole night with that actress and didn’t do anything!"Lven exploded too. "Feng Chengjie! How many times do you want me to explain before you believe me! I didn’t, I didn’t! I didn’t do a damn thing!"
"Who’d believe that!" Those two words, firm as a verdict yet laced with a light laugh, made the already explosive quarrel in the bedroom blow up even more!
Lven’s smoky gray pupils darkened. "You woman are insane!"
...
Downstairs, listening to the commotion upstairs, Li Zhi was so stunned she was left with absolutely nothing.
She lifted her gaze and looked at Qiu Zhixuan, who had just come out of the kitchen with some water. Li Zhi’s eyes trembled like a tractor rattling; she paused, then asked with her eyes: You invited him back?
Qiu Zhixuan simply smiled without answering. She only lifted the delicate European-style floral teacup, sweeping a glance at Feng Jingguo and Ye Xilan over there, who had also had their attention drawn and were staring strangely upstairs.
On the sofa, Ye Xilan, startled by the fight, couldn’t help asking, "Tell me, these two women... who on earth called this Lven back? The third one?"
Back then, when the second sister got divorced, the third one was also going through a breakup, so he didn’t say much. But the way Feng Chengjin had frowned in disapproval then, the two of them still remembered clearly.
Feng Jingguo frowned as well, equally puzzled. "No idea. I haven’t heard that little bastard mention it. But other than him, who else in this family knows French well enough to drag this even bigger bastard here, and give him our address and the villa’s door code? And what are they even fighting about?"
Another burst of jabbering French came, mixed with "bang bang" noises. Feng Jingguo and Ye Xilan both stiffened.
After sitting up straight, they slapped their chests in unison. Feng Jingguo cursed, "They’ve been fighting for so many years! Either make up or split up—who still has that much fire and energy to keep at it? And if you must fight, at least fight in Chinese. Worst case, use English so we can all understand. This is just outrageous!"
He wanted to at least catch a few lines, put on the airs of a divorced ex–father-in-law and scold that rebellious brat Lven a couple of times, but no such luck!
Feng Jingguo and Ye Xilan were both stifled with anger, yet they couldn’t help and couldn’t butt in.
Li Zhi just watched that face clearly written all over with innocence, yet the owner was tipping her teacup at her in a little salute and smiling. Li Zhi understood instantly.
Her heart was shredded into ten thousand tiny pieces right then and there!
What the hell did Qiu Zhixuan mean by this? Fine, she herself wouldn’t leave, whatever. But she brought people like Yu Yuanshen and Qiu Mingyan into the house, and now she’d even dragged someone like Lven—who was a disgrace to the Feng Family’s face—back here to torment her? And Lven didn’t have a damn cent’s worth of relation to her! How familiar could she and Lven be, why would she help a total outsider?
Besides... once upon a time, taking on the posture of the elegant eldest sister-in-law of a rich family, she had made the most important and most correct decision for Chengjie. And now, eleven years later, this down-and-out little socialite who had just married into Feng Mansion wanted to overturn the case?
Who gave her the guts!
Li Zhi was furious out of her mind.
She shot to her feet in anger, too worked up to care about anything else for the moment. Her fingertips were shaking with rage as she yelled, "Little Third Sister-in-law! You’re the one who dragged that bastard back into the Feng Family, aren’t you?"
The sudden accusation made Qiu Zhixuan freeze for a second. She looked at Li Zhi with infinite innocence. "Sister-in-law? What are you talking about? Who is that? I don’t even know him, okay?"
Her soft voice was very pleasing to Feng Jingguo’s ears. Compared to Li Zhi’s way of speaking—always a proper socialite, but her tone was a bit too forceful.
Feng Jingguo frowned. "Li Zhi, what are you saying? Xuanxuan has only been married in for a few days. She doesn’t even know about Chengjie’s situation. How could she know who Lven is? How can you talk to your third sister-in-law like that? Apologize."
The word "apologize" almost made Li Zhi’s eyes go blank, like a sharp dagger stabbed into her chest, making her want to cough blood and jump off a floor for good measure.
She stood there, noble and elegant, in the middle of the villa. For a moment, she knew that if Qiu Zhixuan really hadn’t been involved in this, then with her own sudden accusation, proper ladylike etiquette said she should apologize.
But what was that look in Qiu Zhixuan’s eyes!
Beneath that pure and harmless, excessively beautiful face, those captivating autumn eyes were flickering with a complicated light at this moment.
That light was laced with alertness, with sharpness, and under the seemingly gentle, watery sheen, it concealed layers of icy frost. The kind of beauty that could bewitch someone’s mood.
How could someone act with their eyes like this?
But Qiu Zhixuan had done it. After more than ten years of dizzying ups and downs, she had grown from a simple, pure little girl into a patient, resilient young woman. Then, after going through the utter collapse and upheaval of her family, she had now become a stubbornly mature career woman.