Chapter 660: Chapter 660: I Refuse to See Her
Rong Ling’s eyes were a bit dazed.
He looked at Li Yufei but saw that she had already bowed her head and picked up her phone, scrolling through work emails.
After a while, a little girl came running over carrying a plate of fruit in a disposable plastic bowl: “Sister, here’s the fruit you wanted! It’s 30 yuan in total!”
Li Yufei looked at her hand.
In the bowl, there were watermelon, pineapple, and strawberries, various fruits cut into pieces and placed together, with some crushed ice. In this scorching heat, such a fruit plate was sweet and refreshing.
Li Yufei said, “Thank you.”
She paid, and the little girl thanked her and turned to leave.
Li Yufei kept watching the little girl’s back until she walked to another table. Only then did she curiously ask, “Why is such a young girl out here selling flowers?”
Rong Ling: “Because the family conditions aren’t good.”
He often saw many little girls like this one on this street.
Some sell flowers, and some sell night lights.
Due to poor living conditions, or perhaps because the elders in the family are busy with work, most of them are taken care of by grandfathers or grandmothers.
The elders, in order to supplement the household income, sometimes come out to set up stalls. Therefore, the children also follow them to set up stalls or sell other things.
Li Yufei said, “However, I look at that little girl, she’s very cute. Clearly, life isn’t easy, but her face is full of innocence, carefree.”
She remembered once when Li Siyao had her eye on a doll, but the doll was out of production, and she couldn’t buy it for her. Li Siyao had been upset for a long time, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t be appeased.
In the end, she made a call to the toy factory owner, restarted the production line, and when she gave the doll to Li Siyao, she had already lost her initial interest and didn’t like it after a few days.
Very soon.
The waiter brought their spicy hot pot to the table.
Li Yufei and Rong Ling started to eat.
Although it was only mildly spicy, Li Yufei got so spicy that her face turned red, her eyes were red, and her nose was red too, clearly from the spiciness.
Rong Ling chuckled: “Is it very spicy?”
Li Yufei ate a piece of watermelon, the icy watermelon briefly eased the spiciness, she looked at Rong Ling, seeing that he was completely unfazed, she couldn’t help but be surprised: “You can eat spicy food?”
Rong Ling: “Mm, spicy food goes well with rice.”
Li Yufei: “You’re amazing.”
After finishing the hot pot, Li Yufei went back to the company.
The car stopped in the underground parking lot.
Rong Ling opened the car door and got out.
Li Yufei said, “Thank you for accompanying me shopping for clothes.”
Rong Ling: “You’re welcome, thank you for treating me to a meal.”
Li Yufei: “You should go back.”
Rong Ling turned and walked towards the elevator hall.
Li Yufei sat in the car, massaging her temples, sat quietly for a while, and just thinking of the fully packed schedule for the afternoon made her head ache.
She leaned her head back against the headrest, took a little rest, and slowly calmed her mind, just about to turn off the car and get out.
Suddenly, a shadow flashed in the rearview mirror.
Immediately after, Li Yufei sharply realized a man was trying to force open her backseat car door.
Li Yufei instinctively raised her hand and pressed the lock button.
The car doors and windows were locked with one button.
She quickly calmed down, adjusted the rearview mirror, and only saw a man wearing a black trench coat.
He pulled at the car door, realized it was locked from the inside, turned around, and headed toward the driver’s side window.
Li Yufei looked towards the sound, and until the man stopped at the driver’s door, she saw clearly—Li Cheng.
Li Yufei lowered the car window to a narrow slit, coldly said, “What are you doing here?”
Li Cheng: “I have something to talk to you about.”
Li Yufei: “There’s nothing to talk about between us.”
Li Cheng: “We are divorced, but it’s not like we’re completely cut off from each other!”
Li Yufei: “Yes, if you want to see me, please go through the front desk to make an appointment. I am not someone you can meet whenever you want. Since we’re divorced, you don’t need to disturb my life anymore.”
Li Cheng: “I already went to the front desk, she said you weren’t at the company. How do I know, maybe you’re avoiding me? Are you treating me like I’m the plague? Yufei, we were husband and wife, even without love, there were feelings, right!”
Li Yufei: “Don’t talk to me about feelings, you don’t deserve it.”
Li Cheng: “What about Yaoyao? You’ve been her mother for so many years, even if there’s no blood relationship, do you have no feelings for her? Do you only care about blood relations?”
Li Yufei: “My time is very precious, please get to the point.”
Li Cheng took a deep breath, his voice trembling a bit: “Yaoyao… her condition has worsened. Just the day before yesterday, she was diagnosed with uremia.”
Li Yufei listened, her eyes flickered slightly, but her face remained unmoved.
Li Cheng clenched his fists tightly, and knocked hard on the car window: “I admit, I did some despicable things, but Yaoyao is innocent! She still doesn’t believe you’re not her mom. She knows about her illness, and she’s extremely scared now. Also, she wants to see you, would you spare some of your precious time to see her?”
Li Yufei looked up: “She is not my daughter.”
Li Cheng: “But you’ve been mother and daughter for so many years.”
Li Yufei: “That’s because you were always lying to me. I don’t accept deceit.”
Li Cheng: “What about Junjun! I always thought Junjun was the son you gave birth to for me, Li Yufei. Back then you married me while pregnant with another man’s child. I’ve been taking care of Junjun all these years. If it weren’t for me, he would have starved to death in the orphanage! Just do it for the sake of me taking care of him for so many years, meet Yaoyao once!”
Li Yufei was so angered by his nonsense that she trembled all over.
She took out her phone, wanting to contact the security department, but there was only one signal bar in the underground parking lot.
Annoyed, Li Yufei tossed the phone onto the passenger seat, and angrily through the window she said: “Don’t bring up Junjun again! Li Cheng, how dare you even mention this, how can you still argue! If it weren’t for you, Junjun wouldn’t have suffered so much! He wouldn’t have ended up in an orphanage!”
Li Cheng gritted his teeth: “Yaoyao is my life. This is her only wish right now, can’t you fulfill it!?”
Li Yufei: “No, I don’t want to see her! After finding out about her background, I just feel that for all those years, I treated her so well, so much love, makes me sick to think about! The worst decision I’ve made in this life was marrying a man like you! I will not see your daughter again! Please tell her, I am not her mom, and I will not meet her again!”
Li Cheng said: “Have you always thought of me as a worthless freeloader?”
Li Yufei lightly curled her lips, asked back: “Aren’t you?”
Li Cheng was completely enraged, swung his fist, and madly punched the car window.