LWDC Chapter 82

Chapter 82 – Internal Conflicts

Chapter 82 – Internal Conflicts

Chapter 82 – Internal Conflicts

The lady of the house clearly came to make trouble.

The atmosphere in the dining room immediately froze, and the three Ji family members stopped eating.Ji月驰 and Ji星喆 didn’t dare to speak, after all, they had no position to say anything at this moment. Ji震威’s face was livid, and he looked ready to explode. Only Duan Yunhong silently observed the situation for a while and decided to continue eating a few bites.

There was no helping it, he had skipped dinner with Ningfei to watch this drama. If someone overturned the table later, he wouldn’t have anything to eat. Just imagining how Ningfei would tease him after he got back, “You’re so rich, and you can’t even get dinner?” Duan Yunhong decided to eat at his own pace first.

And watch the show.

Madame Ji was still descending the stairs, her heels clacking loudly on the wooden floor. With each clack, Ji星喆 felt his heart pound. Even though it was a warm interior and a familiar home, he felt a chill down his spine, and the sense of impending doom became more apparent.

The sound of the heels was also making Ji Zhenwei more and more irritable, and he finally couldn’t help but speak first, “What are you talking about? The children are here, and the New Year is coming, stop talking nonsense and embarrassing yourself!”

Actually, it wasn’t that he was really afraid of his wife mentioning the incident of being caught with a prostitute, it was just that being questioned with such a stern face as soon as he returned, especially in front of his children and younger brother, was a matter of losing face for him.

“Nonsense?” Madame Ji walked down the stairs and sneered, “Dare you say that you weren’t detained for soliciting prostitutes in Shenzhen? If you didn’t have a bit of money to get a lawyer to bail you out, you’d have to spend the New Year in jail, wouldn’t you? Who’s embarrassing whom? People will laugh at us!”

Ji Zhenwei, hearing her becoming more and more energetic and detailed, couldn’t help but look at Ji Yuechi with a stern face, “Why did you tell her all this?”

Ji Yuechi had already put in effort and got nothing in return, and now he was being wrongly accused, so his temper also flared up. He was an adult, after all, and his fear of his father wasn’t so deep anymore; one could even say he was in a period of silent rebellion, and he immediately retorted with a cold face, “I didn’t say it. Figure out the situation before you lecture people!”

Ji Zhenwei glared at Duan Yunhong.

Duan Yunhong glanced at the things Madame Ji was still holding, and his face remained calm and relaxed, “Your sister-in-law kept pressing me and said she was going to hire a detective to investigate you, so I had no choice.”

This was purely adding fuel to the fire, and Ji Zhenwei, as expected, couldn’t suppress his temper and exploded, looking at his wife, “You want to investigate me?!”

“What’s wrong with investigating you? Shouldn’t I?” Madame Ji said coldly, “Even if I don’t investigate you, there are plenty of police officers who will! One day you’ll be detained in Nancheng too, and no one will be allowed to bail you out. You’ll have to sit your time and lose enough face!”

“Enough, stop being unreasonable!” Ji Zhenwei shouted, “Stop being crazy here. Which man in business isn’t like that? Do you think your father and your brother haven’t done this? You came from a wealthy family at least, how can you be so narrow-minded! You don’t even understand playing along, you have to make a mountain out of a molehill. Which mistress of the house is as petty as you!”

“Ji Zhenwei, do you think I never noticed before? I just didn’t bother to argue with you. Don’t think too highly of yourself!” Madame Ji was so angry she laughed. She walked to Ji Zhenwei’s side and slammed the things in her hand forcefully on the table. A stack of papers landed with a “thud” in front of Ji Zhenwei.

They were several photos, sliding into the plates, beside the bowls, and even onto Ji Zhenwei’s body. The splashed broth also splattered onto Ji Zhenwei’s suit cuffs. In that instant, Ji Zhenwei’s shock was greater than his anger.

“What are you doing?” Ji Zhenwei shouted, “What is all this?!”

“What is it? Won’t you know when you look at it?” Madame Ji sneered as she picked up one of the photos and poked it a few times with her index finger. “This face, you wouldn’t not recognize it, would you?”

Ji Zhenwei didn’t need to look too closely. He picked up the photo and glanced at it, and he immediately realized what she was talking about, “Who is this…?!”

“Good question.” Madame Ji said coldly, “I also want to ask you, who is this? Huh?”

“How would I know?” Ji Zhenwei threw the photo back on the table. “If you saw a stranger on the street who looked similar, would you directly ask them who they were?”

Ji Yuechi finally couldn’t help but turn his head to look at the photos, and then his face also showed surprise, “Whose photos are these?”

Good question.

Instantly dividing the people present into three factions with a good question.

Duan Yunhong and Ji Xingzhe didn’t need to look at the photos to know the real answer; the Ji Zhenwei couple were the core figures at the center of the event, but now one was completely misunderstanding, and the other was bewildered; and Ji Yuechi was the most peripheral person to the event, and the entire sequence of events had basically nothing to do with him.

Of course, the one who was truly panicking was Ji Xingzhe. He couldn’t figure out what was happening now, so he could only shut up and wait for things to develop. He didn’t even dare to raise his head to look at Duan Yunhong a few more times, afraid that Duan Yunhong would suddenly jump out and interject, “Actually, I also have something about the child to tell you.”

But Duan Yunhong was still in a spectator mode at this moment, and he was casually texting Ningfei “live-streaming” under the table: 【His wife came to throw photos, it looks like she wants to say he got a illegitimate child.】

Ningfei, who had been “watching the fun online,” replied quickly: 【Only photos taken at school? The chain of evidence is too weak, what can Ji Zhenwei do if he insists it’s not him?】

Duan Yunhong: 【I don’t know, I’ll watch more.】

Ningfei: 【What’s Ji Xingzhe’s reaction?】

Before Duan Yunhong could reply, he heard Ji Zhenwei say, “Andrew, you go back first. Xiaozhe, Yuechi, both of you go back to your rooms.”

“Why are you leaving? They’re all family, so let’s listen together!” Madame Ji immediately stopped him. “You really have a bad memory. I told you before, Xiaozhe’s classmate Lin Shengjia looks a lot like you. This is Lin Shengjia.”

“It’s him, so what do you want to say?” Ji Zhenwei said coldly. “You wouldn’t want to say that this is my illegitimate child, would you? Tang Huilan, I just had a little accident, and you want to use this as an excuse? Does your family know? Does the Tang family not want to cooperate with the Ji family anymore?”

“Even if this Lin Shengjia has nothing to do with you, you still had an accident, and you’re so confident? You’re using this to threaten me, so what reason are you going to use to tell my family to cancel the cooperation? Are you going to publicize your ‘great achievements’ to the whole world?” Tang Huilan was warned by her husband, but she didn’t back down. “To tell you the truth, I’ve already hired someone to investigate Lin Shengjia. Now I already know that he’s not his parents’ biological son, he’s adopted. As long as I keep investigating, I’ll always be able to find out his true origins. If you don’t have a guilty conscience, then don’t stop me from investigating.”

“Also, you write a will now. In the future, your inheritance can only be given to Yuechi and Xiaozhe. No other riffraff are allowed to touch it, not even a cent!”

“Have you had enough of this nonsense? Going crazy here like a shrew!” Ji Zhenwei felt extremely absurd when he heard her start arranging his affairs, “If you want to go crazy and investigate people, then go crazy yourself. Don’t drag others down with you. You want to investigate any random person you don’t know, and say that I got an illegitimate child. Then I’ll also say that you cheated, would you admit it?”

“If you dare to slander me, then I dare to do a paternity test. Do you dare?” Tang Huilan stared at Ji Zhenwei. “Do you dare to do a paternity test with this Lin Shengjia?”

Ji Zhenwei finally couldn’t help but stand up, “Crazy person!”

Tang Huilan widened her eyes, “You dare to hit someone?!”

“…You’re really sick! Get treated if you’re sick!” Ji Zhenwei turned around and walked out. Tang Huilan stared at his back and shouted loudly, “Where do you think you’re going? Get back here!”

Ji Zhenwei didn’t reply and strode out of the house without even turning his head.

Bang!!!

The sound of the door slamming was deafening. After this commotion, the room fell into an eerie silence.

A few seconds later, Ji Yuechi couldn’t help but speak to his mother, “Mom, he’s just a classmate who’s totally unrelated, why are you making such a fuss? It’s almost the New Year, why argue with Dad to this extent?”

Tang Huilan didn’t have a good temper with this eldest son either. She raised her chin and glared at him, “When your father was caught with a prostitute, the son went to bail him out. You went to Shenzhen and learned this set?” She glanced at the other two again. “If I hadn’t asked, you wouldn’t have said a word. You’re all Ji family members, and I, a Tang, can’t afford to offend you. It’s not like I’m the one going out to prostitute, and it’s become my disgrace.”

After saying that, Tang Huilan also turned around and left. But she was going upstairs back to her room, and the clacking of her heels continued until it disappeared after the sound of the door closing.

Ji Yuechi was very stunned. He couldn’t understand how things had inexplicably become like this tonight. He turned his head to look at Ji Xingzhe, “What exactly happened at home? Why is she like this?”

How could Ji Xingzhe casually answer? He could only reply in a low voice, “I don’t know…”

Ji Yuechi frowned, “You’ve been at home with her ever since your leg was injured, and you don’t know?”

“I really don’t know. Mom didn’t tell me, and she didn’t ask me about Lin Shengjia either. I only just found out that he was adopted.” Ji Xingzhe lowered his head. “I have to exercise my leg every day and make up for my studies. I really didn’t pay attention. I’m sorry, brother.”

Just as Ji Yuechi was about to feel a bit guilty seeing him like this, Duan Yunhong suddenly spoke, “Your dad didn’t tell you that the Tang family wants more shares in the Shenzhen company?”

“…What?” Ji Yuechi’s attention was immediately diverted. “My maternal grandfather’s side said that?”

“Yes. But your dad and I both disagree, so we’ve put the matter on hold for now.” Duan Yunhong was actually making a big deal out of nothing, deliberately misleading him. But as he spoke, he was skillfully spinning his phone under the table, and his tone was extremely natural. “Your mom is making trouble at this time, probably because she wants to use this matter to force the Ji family to give up some shares.”

“So that’s how it is…” Ji Yuechi believed him, but his brows were still tightly locked together. “But even so, why make a fuss at this time? It’s almost the New Year, if we keep making a fuss like this, our family will lose all face!”

His style of speech was simply in the same vein as Ji Zhenwei. Duan Yunhong, relying on his status as an uncle, directly asked, “So what are you going to do?”

“What else can we do? Xiaozhe and I can only try to persuade both sides first. No matter what, we have to get through the New Year first. Our family always has people coming and going every year for the New Year. If there’s suddenly no activity this year, not to mention our family, the Ji family’s company and stock will have problems.” Ji震威 had finished causing trouble in Shenzhen and was now causing trouble in Nancheng, and he was very annoyed in his heart, so his tone was inevitably impatient. “The three of us are probably all considered to be on the same side by my mom, so Xiaozhe will go persuade Mom, and I and Uncle will persuade Dad.”

Ji Xingzhe was really afraid of what was coming. He didn’t want to face Lin Shengjia’s background the most.

“Uh, Mom’s situation, I’m afraid she won’t listen to me…” Ji Xingzhe looked embarrassed. “How about we talk to our maternal grandfather and let him persuade Mom?”

“Talk to maternal grandfather? Do you think it’s not chaotic enough? Mom loves you the most and listens to you the most, it’s most appropriate for you to go…”

Duan Yunhong was too lazy to listen to Ji Yuechi’s long speech. Anyway, the show was over, and the meal was finished, so he decided to retreat.

When he stood up, Ji Yuechi and Ji Xingzhe were still stunned. When he reminded these two that he wouldn’t be coming for New Year’s Eve and the first day of the New Year and that they would have to deal with the unknown chaotic situation themselves, the two brothers were even more bewildered.

Duan Yunhong didn’t bother with any more nonsense from them. He turned around and left, and he even messaged Ningfei as he left, 【I’m going back now.】

Ningfei quickly replied: 【The submarine is waiting for your arrival!】