The sky had long since turned dark. The dozen tables of banquet food prepared by Wang Hailong’s family were a mess of scattered dishes. Guests, full and content, began to leave. Only a few relatives and friends, like the gossipy Aunt Yang Pinru and Second Aunt Wang Xiaoxia, remained, gathered together, chattering and gossiping about Chen Xiao.
Yang Pinru, with her golden, wavy hair, spoke indignantly.
“Hmph! It’s this late, and that brat surnamed Chen wouldn’t dare to show up, would he? He hasn’t even settled the bill for beating my star into the hospital, and now he’s beaten up Hailong and Wang Dong. He deserves to die!”
Xie Dan, Wang Hailong’s wife, with a gloomy expression and clenched fists, gritted her teeth.
“If he dares not to come, I’ll bring people to Jishi Hall tonight to demand medical fees! He’s just a brat who’s good-looking and nothing else, and she’s a slut who’s been with everyone. It’ll be a piece of cake for me to deal with that mother and son!”
Yang Pinru nodded in agreement.
“Right, right! If we don’t teach that mother and son a lesson soon, they’ll end up defecating and urinating on our heads!”
Second Aunt Wang Xiaoxia saw that Yang Pinru wanted to use Xie Dan to deal with Chen Xiao. She frowned and said, “Sister-in-law, you know Chen Xiao is not what he used to be. Why are you still instigating my sister-in-law to deal with him?”
Yang Pinru’s gaze flickered, but she refused to admit she wanted to use Xie Dan against Chen Xiao. She retorted stubbornly, “What nonsense about not what he used to be? That brat is just using his good looks to latch onto the daughter of a vice-director at the airline where our Mingyue works and a female deputy chief physician at the central hospital. To put it bluntly, he’s just a gigolo!”
Nearby, her cousin Chen Mingyue, who was playing on her phone on the sofa, chimed in at the right moment.
“Second Aunt, my boyfriend said that Vice-Director Zheng’s family is furious that Chen Xiao is harming Miss Youen and is preparing to teach Chen Xiao a harsh lesson! I guess the family of that Deputy Chief Physician Zhou at the central hospital won’t allow Chen Xiao to hook up with her either, and they’ll make a move sooner or later. After all, what parents would agree to let their precious daughter, whom they raised with so much effort, be ruined by a good-for-nothing like Chen Xiao?”
“This…”
Wang Xiaoxia was speechless. She suddenly felt tongue-tied because she also felt that Chen Xiao, who was “standing on two boats,” would eventually “capsize.” Therefore, even though she worked in the cafeteria of the central hospital and had heard that Chen Xiao was already a doctor in the emergency department’s outpatient hall, she still pretended not to know him.
After hearing what Yang Pinru and Chen Mingyue said, Xie Dan, who had always been arrogant, began to disregard Chen Xiao even more. She sneered repeatedly and said, “I’ll call the security room right now and tell them not to let Chen Xiao into Swan Lake district no matter what. We’ll humiliate him thoroughly, and then I’ll take the opportunity to go to Jishi Hall to trouble Chen Qing, hehe!”
As she spoke, she indeed took out her phone, as if to show off.
In the adjacent bathroom, Chen Mingxi, who was secretly calling Chen Xiao, could not stand it any longer. After hanging up, she quietly slipped out and rushed towards the community gate to wait for Chen Xiao.
However, no matter how fast Chen Mingxi was, she couldn’t be faster than Xie Dan, who was already on the phone directing the security room. By the time she arrived at the community gate, panting, seven or eight on-duty security guards were already waiting in formation. The security captain, Yang Xiaoyong, in particular, was constantly comparing the photos of Chen Xiao on his phone with the unfamiliar faces occasionally entering the community on foot, clearly waiting for Chen Xiao.
Yang Xiaoyong inadvertently saw Chen Mingxi, who was tall, sweet-looking, and radiant with youth. His eyes lit up. After whispering a few words to the security guard beside him, he prepared to approach her.
Just then, Chen Xiao appeared outside the community gate, driving a fiery red Maserati.
Song Yan owned a luxury villa worth tens of millions in Swan Lake district. As the security captain, Yang Xiaoyong recognized Song Yan’s car at a glance.
In an instant, he forgot about approaching Chen Mingxi. He quickly strode towards the Maserati’s car door like a wagging puppy, clearly intending to curry favor with Song Yan.
However, before he could even speak, he saw that the person driving was Chen Xiao, whom Xie Dan had called him to stop. He was stunned. In his impression, Song Yan’s car had never been driven by a man, and the drivers and代驾 (designated drivers) were always women.
At the same time, Chen Mingxi, not far away, also recognized Chen Xiao. She panicked and quickly hurried forward, nervously urging him, “Brother, hurry back. My aunt is determined to deal with you…”
As soon as she finished speaking, she belatedly realized that Chen Xiao was driving a luxury car worth millions. She was dumbfounded and stammered, “Brother, after not seeing you for half a year, how are you driving a Maserati? Did you rent it?”
In front of outsiders, Chen Xiao was too lazy to explain. So, he nodded along with Chen Mingxi’s words. “Yes, I rented it. Get in the car first.”
Yang Xiaoyong was full of questions. Seeing Chen Mingxi get into the car, he finally reacted and reached out to stop them, saying sarcastically, “Kid, tell me, which car rental company in Quanjuxian City can rent out this Maserati?”