nycdaug Chapter 515 I was truly blind to have followed you.
Chapter 515 I was truly blind to have followed you.
Ilya made a phone call, and soon a car pulled up beside them.
The bodyguards who accompanied them put the purchased items into the trunk, opened the door for them, and escorted them into the car.
At first glance, Luo Shiyu found the driver to be somewhat familiar.
[This person's face...it looks a bit like that male corpse. What was his name again? Lu Jinchuan?]
The man adjusted the rearview mirror and spoke to Ilya, "Madam, who is this child?"
“I’ll take it back to keep Xiao An company.”
"You're planning to adopt her for free?"
Xu Xiao said indignantly, "Do you have any objections, Master Lu?"
[Goodness, the surname matches up! If I'm not mistaken, this should be Lu Jinchuan's father.]
"No, I just feel there's no need to support someone who just freeloads."
“Lu Qi, I call you Master Lu out of respect, not fear. You need to know what's important when you speak, understand? What do you mean by ‘eating for free’? My sister-in-law said she’s going home to keep An’an company, which basically means taking care of the child. Isn’t she more valuable than you, a driver who barely drives three times a month but earns over ten thousand? If it weren’t for connections, where would you find such an easy job? Besides, my brother and sister-in-law can support whomever they want with their money. How much does a child cost? You’re the one who’s so worried about it.”
Xu Xiao took a deep breath and continued, "If you can do it, do it well; if you can't, then bring your wife along and act like a scoundrel! I've disliked her for a long time. She looked down on my brother when he was poor. Now that he's made it big, she's trying every means to seduce him, saying she's broke and can't survive, and that she'd be willing to work as a maid at the villa. But she always dresses more scantily than anyone else and doesn't do much work. Everyone knows what she's thinking."
"Alright, Xiaoxiao, stop talking." If Ilya hadn't stopped her, Xu Xiao would have kept rambling on for who knows how long.
Lu Qi apologized with a forced smile, "I'm sorry, I'll talk to her when I get back."
Xu Xiao: "I think you just enjoy cheating on yourself!"
Ilya: "Xiaoxiao~"
Xu Xiao: "Let me tell you! Destroying someone else's marriage will bring you bad luck for eight hundred lifetimes!"
Ilya: "Okay! Okay!"
Xu Xiao: "Sister-in-law, it's because you have too good a temper that they bully you. And my brother too, he's just a good-for-nothing, all he knows is to be sentimental."
Ilya: "Xu Hao is a very, very good person. Don't say that about him."
Xu Xiao: "Seriously, I'm defeated by you."
Xu Xiao sighed and whispered to Fang Hui, "See? My sister-in-law is a soft-hearted person, and people like that are most likely to suffer. And my brother is also overly kind-hearted. I'm really worried about what kind of child they'll raise. As for you, when you play with An'an in the future, make sure he scolds people more often. He can't always be the one suffering."
Fang Hui nodded in understanding.
As the car pulled into the villa, the door opened, and a child's innocent voice called out, "Mommy!"
The child, like Ilya, had azure eyes and looked to be only three or four years old.
He ignored Xu Xiao, who was about to hug him with open arms, and went straight for Ilya.
"Tch! An'an doesn't care about me as her aunt at all."
"Alright, stop being jealous." Ilya picked up Xu Yu'an, gestured for the nanny who was with him to go and rest, and then introduced her child to Fang Hui.
"Huihui, this is my child, Xu Yu'an. I'll trouble you to take care of him from now on."
Xu Yu'an called out in his childish voice, "Draw...draw..."
"Hahaha! Isn't he cute! My nephew." Xu Xiao snatched Xu Yu'an from Ilya's arms, rubbed his face against Xu Yu'an's, and kept saying, "So cute! Who's so cute? It's our An'an!"
“Sister-in-law, if you ever decide you don’t want to raise her anymore, just give An’an to me.”
"Forget it."
"Sister-in-law~"
"Calling me won't help; your brother won't answer."
"Really, you two are still young, why don't you have another one! With a beauty like my sister-in-law, my brother will definitely want a second child."
"Xiaoxiao!"
"Hahaha~"
Their playful banter was broken by a "gurgle~".
Xu Xiao put her ear close to Xu Yu'an's stomach and listened carefully.
"Is An'an hungry? Didn't the nanny feed you milk?"
Fang Hui fidgeted with her fingers sheepishly and said, "I'm sorry, it was me."
"It's almost time for dinner." Ilya casually called over someone and asked her to take Fang Hui to wash up and then come down for dinner.
The person who was summoned by Ilya looked clearly unwilling, and Luo Shiyu felt that her appearance was familiar.
[Could this be Lu Jinchuan's mother?]
She led Fang Hui to a bathroom upstairs, pushed Fang Hui into the bathroom, and then slammed the door shut.
Then I heard conversations coming from the other side.
"She reeks of poverty and shabbyness. Is that woman out of her mind? She always likes to throw money away. Foreigners really don't keep their wealth."
"Don't you know how to speak in a way that's beneath you?"
"Lu Qi! When did you get here? Didn't you make any noise? You scared this old lady half to death."
"Is that girl still in the bathroom?"
"What's wrong? What could a little girl like her understand?"
"Honey, you need to be more careful next time you do something. Xu Hao's sister saw me and scolded me in the car."
"What do you mean? Who am I doing all this for? Isn't it all for you! So that our child can have a good life. Do you think I want to be a vixen? This isn't because you're spineless! If I had known he would end up like this, why would I, Shi Ying, have married you!"
"Okay, so did you succeed in seducing her?"
"No, that guy's heart is still set on that foreign old woman. He's doing well, even eating Western food. This war is useless. Why didn't we just bomb their little country with an atomic bomb instead of letting her come here to cause trouble?"
“You… Ilya is indeed beautiful; after all, she’s a supermodel.”
"What did you say! She's a supermodel, and I'm just a local beauty pageant contestant! Xu Hao pursued me so passionately back then, how could this foreigner compare?"
"My wife is right."
"You good-for-nothing bastard! You only earn so little money each month, not even enough to pay for our son's tutoring. If you keep being so unambitious, I'm going to remarry with our son!"
"I...I see."
Luo Shiyu looked at Fang Hui, who was standing still and had listened to their entire conversation, and shook his head with a complicated expression.
These two guys really don't hide anything from Fang Hui at all; they're treating her like an ordinary child!
"Why are you taking so long? The rice is ready, hurry up and wash the child!"
[This is...? Xu Xiao's voice.]
Shi Ying's voice had completely lost its previous arrogance, and she said meekly, "Okay, okay, I'll go wash her right away."
The bathroom door was opened again. Shi Ying rolled up her sleeves, tore Fang Hui's clothes, threw them on the ground, grabbed the showerhead, and started spraying water on Fang Hui.
"Honestly, even this wild girl I picked up thinks she's superior to me. She stinks, doesn't even know how to take a bath, does she really think she's the master just because I brought her home?"
When Shi Ying was giving Fang Hui a bath, she didn't seem to treat her like a human being, but rather like a stray cat or dog on the street. She was rough and didn't care at all whether Fang Hui would choke on the water.
Xu Xiao's urging voice came from outside the door again: "Are you done yet?"
"Almost done! Almost done!"
"Honestly, it's so slow, there's absolutely no efficiency in getting things done."
"Yes, yes, I'll do it right away."
As Xu Xiao's footsteps faded into the distance, Shi Ying said angrily, "What's she doing acting so arrogantly? She's just a little sister-in-law, yet she dares to order me around." As she said this, she scrubbed Fang Hui's face more vigorously.
She gasped in pain.
"pain?"
Fang Hui let out a muffled "hmm" from her throat.
"Hold it in."