Why Did My Ex-Wife’S Aunt Treat Me Like That? Chapter 15
byChapter 15 The Allure and Indulgence of That Night Were the Only Things That Were Real…
Little Yuan Waiting to Get Rich: What’s going on, Xi Xi? Isn’t He Xun in a meeting?
Zhang Xi replied instantly: Yuan Yuan, what you did—how did that picture get sent everywhere? It ruined an important collaboration for Ah Xun. She’s still coming to find you. Make sure you apologize properly when she arrives.
Little Yuan Waiting to Get Rich: But you were the one who sent it to me, so I can’t really lie to her.
Zhang Xi was utterly confused.
What did she mean, “I sent it”? Didn’t Yuan Yi want to see it herself? Besides, they always did things this way, and He Xun tacitly allowed it.
But nothing serious had ever happened before. This time was a major incident; the collaboration with Yunhang was gone.
When Zhang Xi realized the implications, her face went pale.
Little Yuan Waiting to Get Rich: Your sister is always targeting me at the company. She just told me she likes He Xun too.
Wei Xingjie: ? Little Yuan, what are you talking about? When did you find out she’s my sister… and that she likes He Xun???
Yuan Yi rolled her eyes in exasperation. It was obvious from their surnames. Wei Xu and Wei Xingjie—one was openly malicious, the other secretly so. They clearly came from the same family. One bad apple spoils the bunch, truly.
But in the previous life, Wei Xingjie and Wei Xu always maintained a facade of sisterly affection, and Wei Xingjie had no idea Wei Xu liked He Xun.
In fact, Yuan Yi didn’t know either. She was purely spreading rumors. It didn’t matter; once you start spreading rumors, who cares if they are true or false?
After sending that, she sent another message.
She took a moment from her busy schedule to send a message to Sun Xueyu: How can fifty thousand yuan be enough? Pay back five more yuan, and you have three days.
Sun Xueyu was shocked: You… you! How can you be so untrustworthy? Yuan Yuan, are you trying to force your mother to die?
Yuan Yi replied: Which loan shark is trustworthy? Three days, fifty thousand, you must transfer it to me.
The other side fell silent.
Yuan Yi’s face was starting to ache from smiling. She could imagine how furious these people were upon receiving her messages.
Arriving at the company, the receptionist greeted her warmly: “Yuan Yuan, you’re finally here!”
Yuan Yi could tell at a glance that He Xun had likely already caused a scene.
No, wait.
He Xun was very concerned about appearances. It was unlikely she would cause a scene herself. She must have brought people with her to maintain her dignity.
Most likely, she had her friends loudly proclaim: “Yuan Yi is resigning! Yuan Yi is resigning to become a golden phoenix! Call her out!”
Then He Xun would pretend to stop her friends, saying: “Don’t do that, don’t do that. It’s not good for Yuan Yuan. She doesn’t want others to know. She just loves me and wants to stay with me.”
If you didn’t know better, you’d think they were haggling at a wet market, going back and forth.
If this had been before, her colleagues would have chimed in with sarcastic remarks. But not now.
Director Cheng had designated her for a collaboration, and the copyright for the original work was still in her hands.
Was she going to resign when she had nothing better to do? Director Cheng! That was Director Cheng!
Even if He Xun was a charmer, that was still Director Cheng.
The kind receptionist whispered considerately: “There were too many people just now, and we were afraid of gossip, so Director Li invited her to the reception room. She’s waiting for you now.”
Yuan Yi reached the meeting room door, opened it, and saw Li Yujun pouring tea for He Xun.
“Director, there’s a misunderstanding here. Let me clarify things with He Xun,” Yuan Yi smiled, taking the kettle from Li Yujun’s hand.
Li Yujun felt rescued and quickly gave Yuan Yi and He Xun some space. As she passed Yuan Yi, she quietly instructed: “If you’re being bullied, just shout. We’re all in the company, and there are cameras.”
Yuan Yi cheerfully replied: “As long as I don’t scare you all.”
Li Yujun felt Yuan Yi’s tone was a little too cheerful, but she didn’t think much of it and quickly left.
As soon as Li Yujun was gone, Yuan Yi placed the kettle down on the table with a thud. He Xun’s face was ashen, but she patiently softened her tone.
“Yuan Yuan, I know I’ve neglected you recently, but there has to be a limit to your tantrums. First, you refused to propose to me, then you sent those strange photos to the company group chat, and now you’re breaking up with me.”
“I can indulge you, but I have boundaries.” He Xun sighed, sounding like she was at her wit’s end. “Why didn’t I realize how much you could throw a fit before? Where did you learn this tactic of playing hard to get?”
She sighed again, her tone softening further, as if the previous arguments with Yuan Yi had never happened: “Yuan Yuan, you wanted me to take the initiative to help you resign, and now that I’m here, you should be satisfied.”
Yuan Yi picked up the kettle again.
He Xun settled back, waiting for Yuan Yi to show weakness, so they could move past this, just like before.
But Yuan Yi simply sat down slowly, poured herself a large cup, and drank it all down with a gulp.
“I got thirsty listening to you talk for so long. Are you done?” Yuan Yi smiled, her eyes curved like crescent moons. “I have no intention of explaining myself further to someone who is willfully deaf and mute, so you can leave now. Otherwise, I don’t know where the rest of this kettle of water might end up.”
He Xun frowned deeply: “Yuan Yi, what exactly has gotten into you lately?” She looked at the person in front of her.
She wasn’t wearing the designer brands He Xun had bought her, nor any exquisite jewelry. Even her makeup was so light it was negligible.
Strange. Yuan Yi had suddenly reverted to the way she looked when He Xun first met her, yet there was a distinct difference. The Yuan Yi of those days was drab, her face unremarkable except for her features, like a gray and white rag.
After getting together with her, Yuan Yi became a rag piled high with money, yet He Xun could still see through her poverty and distress. No amount of financial influence had nourished Yuan Yi.
Now, Yuan Yi had shed the expensive cosmetics, jewelry, and clothing, revealing her purity, making her exceptionally bright and dazzling.
He Xun hadn’t paid close attention when they argued recently, so she hadn’t noticed such a significant change in Yuan Yi…
When He Xun realized this, she found her gaze had unconsciously lingered on Yuan Yi for too long.
He Xun suddenly smiled: “Yuan Yuan, this move certainly caught my attention. I appreciate you putting effort into this for me. You made such a fuss about breaking up, I almost believed it, but your mother came to see me.”
Yuan Yi’s eyes widened in astonishment.
He Xun was very satisfied with Yuan Yi’s reaction. She knew Yuan Yi was always ashamed to talk about her family, and her mother’s appearance was, without exception, always about money.
He Xun said: “She borrowed fifty thousand yuan from me.”
Yuan Yi immediately said: “The debt is owed by the debtor. Don’t ask me for the money she borrowed.”
Yuan Yi knew Sun Xueyu had a backup plan. She hadn’t used her own savings for that fifty thousand. The three days she had given her were too generous.
He Xun: “?”
She hadn’t expected Yuan Yi to react this way at all!
Was that the point? The point was that Yuan Yi wasn’t embarrassed at all, as if the matter had nothing to do with her.
“You willingly lent money to Ms. Sun; I didn’t ask you to. Why are you looking at me like that?” Yuan Yi was afraid He Xun would try to pin the debt on her and quickly distanced herself.
He Xun’s temple throbbed violently. The double blow of a career setback and now a setback with Yuan Yi caused her thoughts to momentarily stall. The patience that Yuan Yi’s stunning appearance had inspired was completely worn away. She gritted her teeth and said: “I didn’t just lend money to your mother; haven’t I spent and given you a lot of money this past year? You want to break up with me? Don’t you think about what that means?”
What could it mean? Yuan Yi smiled honestly: “It means you are very rich.” She didn’t mention paying it back at all.
He Xun spent money on her, and she provided He Xun with emotional value. Asking for only this small amount of money already made Yuan Yi an honest person.
He Xun could only think of four words: impervious to reason.
Yuan Yi truly couldn’t understand why, being family, He Xun could be so different from Peng Cheng.
She was a mutation.
Humans in the twenty-first century had mutated. How could someone like He Xun appear before her? She should be sent to a laboratory as a specimen.
Start arguing, hurry up and argue.
Her hands were getting itchy.
Seeing Yuan Yi’s hand resting on the kettle handle, He Xun rubbed her temple for a long time and said: “I don’t know how long you plan to be angry… I’ve already told my Aunt that I’m bringing you back for dinner tomorrow night. I knew about your proposal, and bringing you back is also to discuss wedding preparations.”
Yuan Yi wasn’t interested in knowing about He Xun, but He Xun had mentioned Peng Cheng.
She remembered.
This incident had also happened in the previous life.
After she proposed to He Xun, He Xun coaxed her into signing a prenuptial agreement. Then, it was a slap followed by a sweet treat: she said she would take Yuan Yi to have dinner with Peng Cheng.
But that time, she didn’t see Peng Cheng. When they arrived at the villa, He Xun said that Peng Cheng was busy with work and had left temporarily.
It was also that night that He Xun proposed a plan that went against all common sense, asking Yuan Yi to cooperate.
She said that Peng Cheng was the real decision-maker in the family, and as long as Peng Cheng agreed to their marriage, her parents’ opinions wouldn’t matter.
Everything was ready; she just needed to cooperate.
Yuan Yi just needed to wait in Peng Cheng’s room at the appropriate time.
Now, Yuan Yi recalled some forgotten details.
Peng Cheng’s room had no surveillance cameras, and the door wasn’t locked. Before the night she went to the villa, He Xun had already placed her photos inside.
The important thing wasn’t the revealing photos, but the one from her high school days. How did He Xun get that?
Some conjectures flashed through Yuan Yi’s mind, but they moved too fast for her to grasp.
Did He Xun genuinely just want to get married smoothly, or did she have ulterior motives from the start?
Had the deeper scheme begun even earlier, starting from this point?
Because she had retrieved the photos from Peng Cheng’s room, even if she wanted to tell Peng Cheng about He Xun’s malicious intentions, the evidence would seem insufficient.
If she could film He Xun entering Peng Cheng’s room this time, Yuan Yi could logically tell Peng Cheng about the photos and make her wary of He Xun.
The morning after that night, the scene was chaotic. When He Xun burst in with people, Peng Cheng handled it with dignity.
She had Yuan Yi tightly covered, and even though she wasn’t fully awake, she had already shielded Yuan Yi.
He Xun never worried that Yuan Yi would betray her. She even praised Yuan Yi for making it look so realistic, as if something truly had happened.
But who knew?
The promises in the previous life were fake, the photos were deliberately planted, the accusation that Peng Cheng had ulterior motives for Yuan Yi was premeditated, and Yuan Yi herself was deceitful—everything was a lie.
Only the allure and indulgence of that night were real.
No one knew, including Peng Cheng.