Li Huaiqing was surprised when she saw Gao Lang. “Why are you here? Please sit down.” She wouldn’t simply think that Gao Lang was here to buy flowers.
Lele was changing the water for the flowers. Realizing something was wrong, she quietly took out her phone and sent a WeChat message to Li Huairou.
Li Huairou saw the text and immediately called Zhou Minglang.
Zhou Minglang had been on the way to the flower shop; when he received the call, he sped up and rushed there.
Zhou Minglang parked the car and ran all the way into the flower shop. He even forgot to retrieve the little cake he’d specially bought for Li Huaiqing. He was standing at the door, panting, when he heard something that made him a little angry.
“Please leave Wancheng and stop appearing in my life. You can do whatever you want as long as you leave!”
Zhou Minglang frowned slightly and strode in. “I wonder what authority Mr. Gao has to make such a request to my girlfriend?”
Li Huaiqing was shocked. Girlfriend. She’d always known what Zhou Minglang thought of her, but she hadn’t considered it yet!
But she also knew that Zhou Minglang’s move was made to help her.
Li Huaiqing did not refute what he said. Zhou Minglang stood beside her with his left hand casually resting on her shoulder, half-hugging the person in his arms. “Go busy yourself. Leave this to me, okay?”
Li Huaiqing nodded. Although Gao Lang was aggressive, she still thought about her upbringing in the Gao family, and there were some things she couldn’t say.
Zhou Minglang looked at Gao Lang and smiled. “Mr. Gao, please.”
Gao Lang subconsciously ignored the unhappiness in his heart. He didn’t want to admit that it was due to the fact that Zhou Minglang claimed to be Li Huaiqing’s boyfriend and Li Huaiqing had no objections, and he didn’t want to admit that it was because he saw the couple’s intimate behavior. He thought that his unhappiness was because of Zhou Minglang’s attitude.
The two went to a coffee shop not far away. Zhou Minglang put his phone on the table.
“Mr. Gao, forgive me for being rude. This is my girlfriend’s hometown. It is the city where she has lived since she was a child. Whatever is Mr. Gao’s reason, and in what position are you to make my girlfriend leave?” Zhou Minglang was thinking about that little cake. He’d ordered it last night. It was fresh from the oven, and it would be best to eat at this time.
“My wife is very concerned about her existence. She has seriously affected my life and my family. She must leave!” Gao Lang replied impassively.
Zhou Minglang smiled disapprovingly when he heard those words. “As far as I know, after Mr. and Mrs. Gao established your relationship, Huaiqing had moved away from the Gao family. For so long, she’d never had any contact with Mr. Gao alone. Mrs. Gao’s suspicions are born out of nothing. The most important thing was that it was able to let Mrs. Gao have this suspicion. Isn’t it Mr. Gao’s fault? As a husband, you couldn’t give your wife enough sense of security, and so she had a miscarriage. Mr. Gao should reflect on himself instead of accusing others. Huaiqing is an independent person—she is not someone who can come and go as Mr. Gao asks. I will not let others humiliate my girlfriend like this!”
Zhou Minglang’s words made Gao Lang furious. He stared at Zhou Minglang. “What do you know?!” He didn’t think he was wrong at all. The person who was clearly wrong was Li Huaiqing!
Zhou Minglang smiled disdainfully. “I know everything. I know you discovered that you actually like Huaiqing. You can’t let it go, and you don’t want to admit it; you can’t explain it to your wife, so you choose to vent your anger on Huaiqing. Haha, Mr. Gao’s words and deeds are really the same as before! But what is wrong with Huaiqing? When she likes you, she truly likes you, and when she leaves, she leaves completely. You’re the half-hearted one—why make her pay the bill?”
Gao Lang suddenly became violent, and he said angrily, “You’re speaking nonsense! I love Duoduo! I have never liked Li Huaiqing! I’m just—I’m just…” He couldn’t say any more.
“I understand. You’re just unreconciled. If Huaiqing was reluctant to leave you, you might not have cared about it so much. So just because Huaiqing withdrew in time and walked mercilessly away, you felt unwilling instead. Is that it?” Zhou Minglang said persuasively.
“It’s all her fault! Didn’t she like me for a long time? Didn’t she always call herself my future wife? If her love was true, then shouldn’t she be jealous and angry now, desperately trying to win me over? As for her, she said she’d leave, and she really did leave. So ruthless that she found her next home so soon! Haha, what a liar! She is a liar!” Gao Lang raged. He no longer knew what he was talking about; he just wanted to vent out the emotions deep in his heart.
Zhou Minglan’s mouth quirked, but his eyes fell on his cellphone, his fingers gently tapping the table.
Over there, Gao Lang continued to vent: “I love Duoduo! We were about to become parents, but all because of her, all because of Li Huaiqing—! She must leave, must disappear. Only when she leaves can my life be restored to peace. Yes, that’s right! As long as she leaves!”
Zhou Minglang felt that it was almost over. He picked the phone up and ended the voice call.
When Gao Lang had entered the flower shop, Li Huairou pulled him into a group chat; there was also another person in the group chat that he didn’t know. Li Huairou had also initiated a voice call. Guessing who that person probably was, Zhou Minglang smiled slightly, followed Li Huairou’s thoughts, and started the conversation just now.
“Mr. Gao. I have said before that this is the city where my girlfriend has lived since childhood. She will not be leaving. I believe that your father and mother will not agree—to the contrary, I think that in the current situation, it would be best for Mr. Gao to consider bringing Mrs. Gao away and go to other places to relax and balance your mood,” Zhou Minglang sincerely suggested.
Gao Lang was suddenly stunned. Take Duoduo out of here? Yes, he could take Duoduo out to travel—maybe she’d be happy.
When Zhou Minglang saw this, he knew Gao Lang had listened to him, and he laughed. “Mr. Gao might as well think about it. I really think this is a very good idea. Also, it would be best for Mr. Gao to not come to Huaiqing alone in the future; I trust Huaiqing very much, but I am afraid that your wife will misunderstand. I have something to do, so I shall take my leave first.”
After Zhou Minglang left, Gao Lang was still thinking about traveling. It took a long time before he responded. He’d been fooled by that bastard, Zhou Minglang; led by Zhou Minglang’s train of thought, he’d been unknowingly abducted.
He kicked the table abruptly and violently, but the table didn’t move at all. There was only a sharp pain in his feet, as if his nails had been stabbed.
Although there were not many customers in the coffee shop in the morning, there were still many employees.
For the sake of face, Gao Lang didn’t dare to show anything on the outside, so he could only endure the pain and slowly walk out; ignoring other things, he first went to the hospital.
Now, the Gao family—
Bai Duoduo looked at the phone, her tears raining down.
In the beginning, when Li Huairou had added her as a friend on WeChat, she was very vigilant. When she found out that she could not be a sister-in-law to Li Huaiqing, and when she discovered that Gao Lang still had unclear feelings toward Li Huaiqing, she made up her mind and didn’t want any contact with the Li sisters.
But the phrase “Want to know the truth? Add me” in that friend request made her curious, and she accepted.
Then she was pulled into a group chat, and Li Huairou started a voice call.
She wanted to speak, but unexpectedly, she heard Gao Lang’s voice.
Bai Duoduo immediately closed her mouth and listened carefully. She wanted to know why Gao Lang had gone to see Li Huaiqing alone! She also wanted to know how Li Huaiqing stood in Gao Lang’s heart.
She was also a woman, had been in love before, and had met many people. In fact, she also somewhat guessed the workings of Gao Lang’s mind, but she didn’t want to admit it. “My husband is obsessed with another woman”—this was something that no woman could bear or want to admit.
But the next words confirmed her guess.
Regret came after loss. Such an old-fashioned, dramatic plot had actually happened. And right in front of her.
Bai Duoduo’s grief came from it; tears rained down, and she suddenly didn’t understand the meaning of her existence. For love—for Gao Lang—for marriage, she had given up her career and her freedom, and all for what?
Not long after the wedding, she had lost her first child. Her husband held another woman in his heart.
Bai Duoduo sat on the sofa, listless and vulnerable.
Suddenly, she picked up the phone. She didn’t call her mother, because she knew that even if she did, it would be useless. Instead, she directly opened her streaming app. She urgently needed something to prove the meaning of her existence, to prove that she was needed.
When she entered the password, the app showed that it was incorrect.
Bai Duoduo frowned. Who had changed her password? Bai Duoduo chose to reset the password, then successfully logged in.
A lot of private messages followed, and the phone crashed.
Bai Duoduo smiled—see, she was not useless. She still had fans, and there were many people who liked her—loved her, and she had her own business.
But when she restarted her phone and logged in again, she saw countless people flaming her. Fans accused her of not keeping her promises, saying that she had drifted off after marrying a wealthy family; they verbally abused, humiliated, and framed her…
Bai Duoduo couldn’t stand it anymore after reading a few. With shaking hands, she uninstalled the app. It was not enough, so she turned the phone off.
She fell to the floor, disheartened.
In fact, such abusive, humiliating private messages had not stopped since she became a livestreamer. At that time, her heart had been strong enough to ignore them.
But now, she couldn’t do it.
Who knew how long it took before the housekeeper knocked on the door and said that her meal was ready. Bai Duoduo emotionlessly went downstairs, finished the meal like she was chewing wax, and greeted Mama Gao before going back upstairs.
Mama Gao felt that Bai Duoduo’s mood was a little off, and she wanted to ask a few more questions, but Bai Duoduo had already gone upstairs. She had no choice but to dispel this idea, thinking that when Gao Lang came back in the evening, she would discuss with him and take Bai Duoduo to see a psychiatrist.
Sitting on the sofa alone for a while, Bai Duoduo suddenly stood up, briefly cleaned up, and went downstairs with her bag.
Mama Gao heard the movement and came out to ask about it. Bai Duoduo told her that she was bored at home and wanted to go out for a while.
Mama Gao thought that it would be okay to go out for a while—shopping could really make a woman feel better. She also transferred 20,000 yuan to Bai Duoduo so that the girl could buy whatever she wanted.
[20,000 yuan = $3,132.70 USD]
Bai Duoduo’s eyes were a little sore. She could see that, these days, Mama Gao was a good person with a hard mouth and a soft heart, but it was a pity that she was not lucky. No—if Bai Duoduo hadn’t come into the picture, Gao Lang would have married Li Huaiqing; Mama Gao would be happier than now, Gao Lang might be happier than now, and everyone would be happy.
She was, indeed, redundant.
