Xie Dan was furious, gritting her teeth as she rushed to the car window and cursed in a low voice:
"Chen Xiao, do you have to be so absolute? Don't forget, our two families are relatives..."
"Bullshit relatives!"
Chen Xiao interrupted Xie Dan without politeness:
"If you really considered me family, would you have that dog block me at the entrance?"
Xie Dan's eyes widened, her tone becoming even more vicious:
"You bastard born of a mother but no father, you know my family relies on Liu Xin for a living, yet you deliberately sabotage us. Aren't you afraid I'll tell your mother?"
"You bastard, your mother!"
Chen Xiao was enraged. He fiercely pushed open the car door, sending Xie Dan tumbling to the ground. Then, with a cold laugh, he said to Liu Xin,
"Sister Liu, why aren't you leaving? Are you planning to stay for the banquet?"
"Dr. Chen is joking. If it weren't for your sake, why would I be here? Since they don't even welcome you, how could I possibly stay for the banquet?"
Liu Xin had already noticed the tense atmosphere between Chen Xiao and Xie Dan's relatives. Seeing Chen Xiao make a move, she dared not hesitate any longer. She quickly retrieved the red envelope she was about to offer as a gift and fled into her car.
Seeing this, the other people present also began to disperse. Yang Pinru and Chen Mingyue, mother and daughter, were the quickest to leave. Even Wang Xiaoxia, ignoring that Xie Dan was her sister-in-law, dragged the reluctant Chen Mingxi away.
Lying on her back on the ground, Xie Dan watched helplessly as her friends and relatives scattered at Chen Xiao's mere words. She was utterly dumbfounded and finally realized that Chen Xiao was no longer the person he used to be. In a panic, she quickly scrambled to her feet and pleaded desperately:
"Chen Xiao, Auntie was wrong, please call Mrs. Qin back quickly! If she and Mr. Qin get angry and fire your Uncle Hailong, my family will be completely ruined. Don't worry, as long as you can get Mrs. Qin to return, I promise not to hold you accountable for beating my Uncle Hailong and cousin Wang Dong into the hospital."
Chen Xiao chuckled and said:
"Aunt Xie Dan, thank you for the reminder. Otherwise, I wouldn't have thought of directly asking Mr. and Mrs. Qin to fire Uncle Hailong! Your family's apartment was bought with a mortgage, right? Without income, I'm really curious how long you can afford the monthly payments!"
Saying this, he leisurely drove away.
As the night deepened, he passed a villa complex with landscaping like a Jiangnan garden. Under the neon lights, he saw rows of luxurious villas and an idea struck him:
"Since my mother and I don't lack a place to live for the time being, I'll have Song Yan help me sell the villa Liu Zihao's family gave us another day."
Coincidentally, as Chen Xiao slowed down his car, contemplating how to deal with Villa No. 8, a beautiful woman with waist-length hair, graceful and elegant, suddenly ran past the front of his car and into the villa complex.
Chen Xiao recognized her at a glance as Ye Qingxin, the campus belle from his five years in university. He was momentarily lost in thought, thinking:
"No way, is Gou Shunfang not lying? Is Campus Belle Ye really her distant niece?"
Even more coincidentally, Gou Shunfang suddenly called:
"Dr. Chen, I heard you've already got the key to Villa No. 8 in Swan Lake小区? I'm truly sorry, my distant niece whom I was going to introduce to you was supposed to move out of the villa today, but she suddenly fell ill and can't get out of bed. Could you trouble yourself to treat her? Don't worry, if you don't like her, I'll have her move out tomorrow morning, regardless of whether she recovers or not."
Chen Xiao watched Ye Qingxin's slender and sexy figure gradually disappear near the entrance of Villa No. 8. His gaze turned cold, but he deliberately tested Gou Shunfang with a half-smile:
"Mrs. Liu, you keep saying you want to introduce your distant niece to me, but you've only shown me photos and never even told me her name. Now you're asking me to treat her. I'm really afraid you're just using a random online picture to set a trap for me!"
On the other end of the line, Gou Shunfang explained without hesitation:
"Dr. Chen, my useless son snatched your girlfriend first. It's only right that I introduce you to a better one. Why would I set a trap for you? She's lying in the villa right now. If you don't believe me, you can go and see for yourself. Oh, by the way, her name is Ye Qingxin. She's a campus belle who graduated from Provincial Medical University and is currently teaching there. You two are truly a match made in heaven, a talented scholar and a beautiful woman!"
How could the person who was supposedly ill and bedridden in the villa have just walked past me? Gou Shunfang, Gou Shunfang, no matter how deep your schemes, how can you possibly hide them from me?
Chen Xiao sneered inwardly, but showed no emotion outwardly. He said with a mixture of truth and falsehood:
"Alright, I'll go take a look now. It should take about half an hour."
He was very curious to see what tricks a mere Gou Shunfang could pull!