Chapter 13

“You…”

Biting her lips, Tang Mengyu suddenly found herself speechless when facing this most familiar woman to her.

She knew that Xue Zhupei had disliked her since she was young. Xue Zhupei’s attitude towards her was the opposite extreme to that of Mengxue. But for the past years, Xue Zhupei had never been too aggressive to her.

No, she was not aggressive but ruthless!

“What? Don’t you have any pocket money given by Lu Zhengnan after you married him?” Xue Zhupei checked Tang Mengyu from head to toe in disbelief.

Tang Mengyu held back the sadness spreading through her body and asked coldly, “How much do you want?”

Upon her words, joy jumped into Xue Zhupei’s disappointed face. She stretched out her five fingers without hesitation. “This much!”

“Deal!” Tang Mengyu grabbed the pen and paper from her hands. “Fifty thousand yuan. I will repay it to you in half a year!”

“Fifty thousand yuan?” Xue Zhupei retook the pen and paper, rebuking, “Tang Mengyu, are you kidding me? Don’t look down upon yourself. Are you worth only fifty thousand yuan? Now I tell you, it’s a total of five million yuan involved interest. Not a penny less!”

After saying so, Xue Zhupei threw the pen and paper on the table. She turned around and blocked the door, saying, “If you don’t write the IOU today, don’t even think about walking out from this door!”

“Mom, are you indeed going to take the money at the cost of cutting off our mother-daughter relationship for so many years?” Tears suddenly welled up in her beautiful eyes, but Tang Mengyu held them back. “Did you raise me just for selling me to a rich family?”

Xue Zhupei paused for a second when she saw Tang Mengyu’s emotions inflamed, but soon she was back to her greedy and philistine look. “You may think whatever you like. Anyway, over these years, the money and efforts that I have spent on you are worth much more than five million yuan! If you have any conscience, give them back to me!”

Tears finally flooded out from Tang Mengyu’s eyes, rolling down her cheeks.

She turned around and lifted her hand to wipe away the tears, then took the pen with her trembling hand. “Listen to me carefully! When I return the money to you, it will be the time when I cut all the ties with the Tang family!”

There was a tremor in her voice which she could barely control, but her tone was determined beyond doubt.

Words finished, she wrote down a few lines quickly on the paper and signed her name.

Xue Zhupei glanced at the IOU being written secretly. When the letters “five million yuan” came into her sight, the fireworks of celebration could almost pop out her greedy eyes at any moment.

“Bang!” Tang Mengyu slammed down the pen on the table. She pulled the door open and went downstairs without looking back.

Farewell! The Tang family!

The car was driven into a luxury villa area and stopped in front of a black wrought iron gate.

When Tang Mengyu lifted her eyes to see, the iron gate was opening slowly under electronic control. What jumped into her eyes was the view of green vegetation and a sparkling swimming pool, with a small three-story foreign-style building behind.

Compared with the park-sized yard of the Lu family, this one was not so big. Without too many tall trees, the villa had a good view since everything could be seen within a glance.

“Young Master and Young Mistress, here we are,” Zhao Shu reported ahead and ordered the driver to stop the car.

Tang Mengyu didn’t ask much. She got off the car, helped Zhao Shu to get Lu Zhengnan out, and pushed him into the building.

Lu Zhengnan patted her hands and said, “Mengyu, it's a little small. But it was bought by Grandpa after he had written our marriage contract. I've been coming over for a few days now and then through these years.”

So that’s it.

Tang Mengyu shook her head with a smile, “It is a nice place, and it is quiet.”

Lu Zhengnan nodded his head. “It’s good that you like it.”

As they entered the living room, a middle-aged maid came forward respectfully, greeting, “Young Master, Young Mistress, dinner is ready.”

“Mengyu, this is Auntie He. From now on, she’ll be here to take care of our daily life.” Lu Zhengnan paused for a while and added, “Zhao Shu and Auntie He lives on the first floor, and we live on the second."

“Nice to meet you, Auntie He! Thank you!”

“Young Mistress, it’s very kind of you! I suppose you are hungry. Come for dinner!” Auntie He smiled shyly and led them to the dining room.

Looking at this big double bed, Tang Mengyu was in a trance for a moment...Married as they were, she still lacked the courage to sleep with a strange man in the same bed.

Though Lu Zhengnan was disabled in the lower part of his body and could do nothing to her.

However…

While Tang Mengyu was thinking to herself, the man’s voice came from behind her, “Mengyu, you must be tired after such a long day. Take a bath and go to bed early. I’ll sleep on the sofa in the study tonight.”

“What?” Tang Mengyu went blank but soon waved her hands. “No, you don’t have to. You’d better sleep in the bed to have a good rest!”

“Haha.” Lu Zhengnan raised his lips and laughed. Despite his blindness, there were beams of bright light reflected from his eyes. They were like sparkling shivers of the broken diamond. “I have some business to deal with tonight. The bed is big enough, and I won’t disrespect you even if we sleep on it together. So don’t worry.”

After saying this, the man controlled the wheelchair accurately and turned it around. He left the room and, with a precise turn, drove toward the study next door.

Staring at that handsome figure from behind, all sorts of feelings came to Tang Mengyu at once.

Did they just start living together like this?