Chapter 368: Chapter 368: Who Allowed You to Interrupt?
Huo Tingdong said, “You really know how to give yourselves gold stars.”
Zhou Qin’s facial muscles twitched awkwardly: “I…”
“Mom!”
Lin Qianqian ran downstairs: “Dad is coming downstairs.”
Followed closely by a rush of footsteps, Lin Cheng hurried downstairs and his face changed upon seeing Huo Tingdong: “Mr. Huo, what brings you here!? It’s so late…”
He hesitated as he walked towards Huo Tingdong and was about to sit down.
Huo Tingdong coldly lifted his eyelids: “Did I permit you to sit?”
Lin Cheng’s body stiffened, and his bent knees instinctively straightened.
He was also someone who knew how to read the room and felt that Huo Tingdong’s visit must be for a reason.
He asked sheepishly, “Mr. Huo, what’s wrong? Is there something wrong with my daughter?”
There was a hint of murderous intent in Huo Tingdong’s eyes, Lin Cheng didn’t even dare to look him in the eyes. Just one glance made him feel terrified.
Huo Tingdong: “Lin Cheng, I have several questions to ask you. Next, answer whatever I ask, remember, I want the truth, if you lie even a little, you will bear the consequences.”
Lin Cheng: “Please ask…”
Huo Tingdong: “How did Lin Qi’s mother die?”
Lin Cheng was greatly shocked.
He did not expect Huo Tingdong to ask such a sensitive question right off the bat.
Lin Cheng stammered: “She… she died of an illness.”
Huo Tingdong sneered: “Have you forgotten what I just said to you? I want to hear the truth. Or is it, a lie told so often that you believe it yourself?”
Zhou Qin came over and roundly stated: “Lin Qi’s mother really did die of illness! We have the medical records at home, we can bring them out! She had uterine cancer, and her entire uterus was removed… Ah, she truly was a woman of sufferings, just as her life was getting better, she didn’t even have the chance to enjoy it and passed away too soon… She died when Lin Qi was still very young…”
Huo Tingdong: “Enjoy what fortune? The fortune of having a cheating husband? Or the fortune of being kicked out of home?”
Zhou Qin: “I don’t understand what you are saying…”
Huo Tingdong: “If you don’t understand what I’m saying, then it’s not your place to interject!”
Zhou Qin stepped back half a step, scared by his look.
Huo Tingdong turned to Lin Cheng: “Back then, when Lin Qi’s mother was sick, did you force her to divorce and try to kick her out of the house without anything?”
Lin Cheng bit his lip and retorted: “Did Lin Qi tell you all this?”
Zhou Qin suddenly had a realization!
She figured it out, that little wench must have climbed up the social ladder and spoke ill of her own family to her husband. Hence, Huo Tingdong was so aggressively here to stand up for his wife!
She immediately said: “Don’t listen to her nonsense! We’ve treated her well as she’s grown up!”
Huo Tingdong twisted his brows, piercing Zhou Qin with a deep glare. Clearly, he was already running short on patience, and seeing Zhou Qin interrupt repeatedly, he was reaching his limit.
The man leaned lightly on the couch, his long fingers pressing against his temples, his gaze sideways towards Mo Ke.
Mo Ke immediately got the message and said coldly: “Come in.”
“Clang!”
A group of bodyguards dressed in black suits broke through the door and stormed in.
Mo Ke ordered: “Smash it.”
“Yes!”
A group of bodyguards rushed over, the leader kicked the coffee table over first, shattering the tea tray and teacups on it upon impact.
TV cabinet, dining table, chairs…
A crowd picked up objects and started smashing everything visible in the villa, except for the area where Huo Tingdong was sitting. Everything within a three-meter radius centered on him was immediately wrecked!
Even the sofa behind Lin Cheng was overturned by a foot.
Zhou Qin and Lin Qianqian were so frightened that they backed away, screaming repeatedly.
She saw a bodyguard aiming at an antique vase; she screamed, rushed over to protect it but was kicked away.
Lin Cheng looked around, panic-stricken: “What are you doing! What are you all doing…”
In the midst of chaos, Huo Tingdong elegantly crossed his legs, his slender hands slowly intertwining, he lifted his eyes expressionlessly, a chill appearing in his gaze: “Haven’t I said, who are you to talk back to me?”
Zhou Qin started crying from fear, Lin Qianqian hid behind her, looking at Lin Cheng: “Dad… What on earth is happening!? What do they mean, smashing our home like this for no reason?”
Lin Cheng looked at Huo Tingdong: “Mr. Huo, please calm down…”
Huo Tingdong said: “I am very calm. Perhaps we haven’t met before, you don’t know my principles. First, I don’t like ineffective negotiations and meaningless talk, second, I dislike wasting time, third, I despise being lied to. Did you understand? I already said, I ask and you answer, no lying…”
Lin Cheng said: “I didn’t lie at all!”
Zhou Qin said: “It must be Lin Qi who told him something! Mr. Huo! You just said you don’t like being lied to, didn’t you ever think she might be deceiving you? Who knows what hearsay she heard, speaking ill of our family! Or, call her here and let us confront her face to face! We are not afraid to clarify things we haven’t done!”
Huo Tingdong said: “If you interrupt again, I will have people smash this house down.”
Zhou Qin immediately shut up out of fear.
Tremblingly, she walked over to Lin Cheng and tugged at his sleeve.
Lin Cheng said: “Ask away! I’ll hide nothing.”
Huo Tingdong said: “Same question as before, did you force Lin Qi’s mother to divorce when she was ill?”
Lin Cheng furrowed his brows, Zhou Qin was about to say something, but he immediately raised his hand to stop her.
He looked at Huo Tingdong, admitting with difficulty: “Yes…”
Huo Tingdong: “Reason?”
Lin Cheng: “Breakdown of affection, we no longer felt anything for each other.”
Huo Tingdong: “So you forced her to leave with nothing?”
Lin Cheng was speechless.
Huo Tingdong said: “Is that so?”
Lin Cheng asked: “Who told you this?”
Huo Tingdong, with a faint smile: “Is it? Isn’t it?”
Lin Cheng bit his lip hard: “Yes…”
Huo Tingdong said: “Because you forced her to leave with nothing, disregarded your own daughter just to marry your kept mistress, elevating your lover officially. After all, Lin Qianqian was not young at that time, she was about the same age as Lin Qi, this only indicates, you had an affair not long after marrying her mother, your relationship was tainted long ago.”
Lin Cheng: “I…”
Huo Tingdong said: “If you had any humanity, you should have divorced back when you had the affair, why didn’t you?”
Lin Cheng: “Because… at that time, she had just given birth, she was still in her postpartum period, I thought, wait until the child is a bit older…”
Huo Tingdong impatiently: “Is that really the only reason?”