Bold and passionate love: Acting coquettishly in Mr. Huo's arms

"Otherwise..." She smiled, her tone gentle but cold: "Since you call me Mrs. Huo, you probably don't mind me relying on the Huo family. Let me let you experience what it means to... bully others by taking advantage of your power, right?"

In his previous life, wasn’t Zhong Shaoyang also determined to marry her and refused to be with Li Mian?

What happened? After a few years of marriage, despite claiming that they didn't like girls like Li Mian, and that they were just like siblings, didn't they end up together as Lin Rou wished?

The Zhong family is just like the book, they all have holes in their brains.

"Snapped."

She hung up the phone without hesitation.

On the other end of the phone, Lin Rou listened to the busy tone and held the phone tightly. While she was angry, she couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

As early as when Zhong Shaoyang ran to the slums again and again, she was full of dissatisfaction and contempt for Ruan Xingchen, thinking that she deliberately hooked up with her own son in order to climb up.

Now that she had married into the wealthy Huo family, Lin Rou didn't have time to change her mindset and started to scold her directly.

Only after being threatened did she realize that Ruan Xingchen was no longer the slum girl who was at her mercy.

Li Mian came out, using the excuse of going to the bathroom to fix her makeup. Seeing her distracted and slightly regretful expression, his eyes flickered for a moment, and he pretended to be puzzled and asked, "Auntie, what's wrong? Did someone offend you?"

Lin Rou looked over when she heard the voice and saw that her eyes were red, but she still had to put on a smile as if nothing had happened, full of concern for her.

This made Lin Rou feel a pang of pain in her heart, and she felt resentful and angry.

How come that naughty boy of ours is blinded by the vixen outside and can't see such a filial, sensible and presentable girl?

"Auntie is fine." Lin Rou took her hand and sighed, "Xiao Mian, please don't be angry with Shaoyang. Shaoyang is still young and arrogant, always trying to go against the family. When he grows up, he will understand your kindness... Don't worry, you are the only daughter-in-law of the Zhong family that I recognize."

Li Mian's eyes dimmed slightly.

She had pretended to be casual when she mentioned Ruan Xingchen before, and Lin Rou clearly hated her to the core at that time. She should have caused trouble while she was in the bathroom.

Why is it that now he has stopped making trouble and seems to have no intention of getting into trouble with her?

Although she was puzzled, Li Mian remained calm on the surface and nodded considerately, "Auntie, don't worry. Shaoyang is so outstanding, he wants to prove that he is normal. I don't blame Shaoyang, it's... someone else's deliberate scheme, Shaoyang is naive and was fooled."

means something.

Lin Rou, as she wished, hated Ruan Xingchen. She gritted her teeth and said, "The vixen outside is just a novelty. When he suffers, he will know how good you are, Xiao Mian."

He actually took a step back.

"I'll listen to my aunt." Li Mian nodded obediently, pretending to be surprised. "Did my aunt also receive the invitation from the Huo family? My father said yesterday that he would prepare a suitable gift for Miss Huo Wu."

Lin Rou didn't take it to heart. Instead, she nodded with a hint of pride: "It's time to prepare well. When the time comes, you and Shaoyang will go together."

"Shaoyang is going too?" Li Mian couldn't help but twist his expression for a moment, but before she looked over, he quickly put on a smile: "That's great."

Ruan Xingchen is the current Mrs. Huo, but the Zhong family has no intention of preventing her from contacting Zhong Shaoyang.

"Didn't Shaoyang close a project at the company during winter break?" Lin Rou, oblivious to everything, beamed as she spoke of her son, her tone brimming with pride. "Your Uncle Zhong is just being ridiculous. He praises his son to the skies over his little mischief, insisting he's gifted. So... he's rushing him out to network, waiting for him to take over after he graduates from university."

Show off in a complaining tone.

Li Mian couldn't laugh at this moment, and forced himself to agree: "It's also because Shaoyang is so outstanding. Uncle Zhong has a successor."

Her nails dug into her palms and she held them tightly to prevent herself from losing control.

For the sake of personal connections, Lin Rou completely disregarded her thoughts. It was obviously not possible to rely on her.

"Madam, are you in a bad mood?"

Here, Ruan Xingchen had just hung up the phone when he saw Huo Yan, who was reading a document on the sofa, raise his head.

The other brothers and sisters who were sitting in groups on the sofa also looked up, with concern in their eyes.

Before his leg was broken, Huo Yan was a complete workaholic, either at the office or in his study. After the leg was broken, he fell into a gloomy mood, locking himself in a dark room all day and never leaving the house.

The other brothers and sisters rarely come home, and when they do, they stay in their rooms.

The entire Huo family is immersed in this cold way of getting along. The time spent together by blood relatives is less than that spent by ordinary classmates and colleagues, and the communication between them in a year is very few.

However, after she got married, everything seemed different.

Her younger brothers and sisters all surrounded her, wishing they could stick by her side 24 hours a day, and those who were away from home also took root at home.

So everyone moved from the bedroom to the living room. Whether they were reading, studying, or playing mobile games, they would gather in the living room, even if they had to quarrel with brothers and sisters they disliked from time to time.

Even he...couldn't help but take the small elevator down every day and move his office to the living room.

"A strange person." Ruan Xingchen shrugged indifferently and waved his hand, "Nothing."

She didn't care, but Huo Yan looked thoughtfully at the phone she had put back in its place, with a dark light in his eyes.

The younger ones also put down their work temporarily, looked at each other, and seemed to have reached some kind of tacit understanding.

Ruan Xingchen didn't take it to heart. He sat back on his own sofa and continued reading.

"Madam, have you ever considered retaking the college entrance exam?" Huo Yan asked carefully, looking at the cover of the advanced mathematics book. "I see that Madam is very interested in studying."

Huo Qianqian nodded in agreement, looking at the book in Ruan Xingchen's hand with a hint of awe in her eyes.

This is terrible. What kind of person would spend all day and night reading books on advanced mathematics, probability theory, and university physics to kill time? She was dizzy just reading high school mathematics and wished she could go back to school and start over.

Ruan Xingchen was stunned.

She had never thought about it, and studying was just her habit.

In her previous life, she dropped out of school due to her grandmother's illness, and she was always short of money. Later, she married into the Zhong family and was busy with her work. Even after she became well-off, she had no chance to return to school. She could only read books in her spare time with a nostalgic feeling.

For her, textbooks are also full of infinite charm and she does not find them boring.

At this moment, when Huo Yan mentioned it, it felt like something in her heart was ignited, secretly flashing small sparks.