ACBNHTS Chapter 63

Chapter 63: Severing Ties

Sheng Yiguang’s face was cold.

“Is this your new trick? Playing hard to get?”

“No, Yiguang, believe Mom—”

Sheng Yiguang interrupted, “Don’t call yourself that; you’ll make me feel like you’re insulting the word.”

Yin Xue was speechless, wanting to curse.

Regardless, she carried him for ten months to give birth to him, so what’s wrong with asking him for some money?

But she didn’t dare to say it.

Her son’s boyfriend was too scary!

It turned out that the saying “My boyfriend has money and power, the rule of law won’t let him kill anyone, but making someone wish they were dead is still possible” was true.

Yin Xue’s words were earnest.

“Don’t worry, I’m serious.”

Sheng Yiguang didn’t speak.

Yin Xue couldn’t wait to leave, directly taking his silence as agreement.

“Then I’ll go.”

“Wait.”

Sheng Yiguang stood up and threw the cake directly into her arms.

“Take it away, I don’t want it. From now on, we’re severing ties.”

“If I ever see or hear of you trying to target me or my boyfriend again, I will sue you for child abandonment and send you to prison!”

He didn’t believe that someone in prison could still ask him for money and burden Pei Du.

Yin Xue’s eyes widened, her face pale.

She didn’t expect Sheng Yiguang to be so ruthless.

“You…”

Sheng Yiguang didn’t look at her.

“Leave.”

Knowing she couldn’t win, Yin Xue bit her lip, hugged the ruined cake, and hurried away.

Back home, she smelled a strong smell of alcohol.

Hu Jiawei was drinking again.

She subconsciously wanted to escape, but before she could take a step, Hu Jiawei heard the door open and rushed out.

He stretched out his arm and grabbed Yin Xue’s hair, pulling her back.

Yin Xue screamed.

“Help—!”

A neighbor happened to come out to throw out the trash, heard the sound, and glanced over. Hu Jiawei immediately glared at them.

His eyes were bloodshot and cloudy from a hangover, looking fierce and menacing.

“None of your business! If you dare interfere, I’ll beat you too!”

The neighbor naturally didn’t dare to interfere, shrank their neck, and scurried away.

Yin Xue was dragged into the house by Hu Jiawei.

The door closed, and the two started fighting.

“You bitch! Going out to cheat on me, huh? If I had known you were so restless, I wouldn’t have wanted your used goods!”

Yin Xue was equally unwilling to be outdone, scratching Hu Jiawei’s face with a claw.

“Who am I cheating with!? Isn’t it because you owe so much gambling debt that I had to swallow my pride and apologize to my son!”

“Who’s fault is it that I owe gambling debts?”

“You’re the one who wanted to gamble! No ability, can’t win, and still owe a mountain of gambling debts, needing a woman to clean up your mess, what kind of man are you!”

Yin Xue spat on Hu Jiawei’s face, completely enraging him.

Hu Jiawei slapped her hard.

Yin Xue was knocked to the ground, her vision blurring with pain, blood flowing from her ear.

She felt it, touched it, saw the blood on her fingertips, and screamed.

“Hu Jiawei, I’m going to fight you to the death!”

–

After driving away Yin Xue, Sheng Yiguang sat in the cafe for a while, feeling a sudden urge to see Pei Du, so he went to his company.

Secretary Wang came to pick up Sheng Yiguang.

“General Manager Pei is in a meeting.”

“Is it a shareholders’ meeting?”

“Yes, but it’s almost over.”

Secretary Wang said jokingly, like Pei Du.

“Now the company’s shareholders’ meeting has almost become a daily routine. Some shareholders find it boring and don’t even come anymore.”

Sheng Yiguang didn’t find it funny.

The more frequent the shareholders’ meeting, the more dissatisfied the shareholders were.

He followed Secretary Wang upstairs, just in time to meet the shareholders’ meeting dismissing.

A group of people came downstairs, muttering and complaining.

“The stock price has been falling for more than ten days in a row! Cheaper than when I bought it by 20%! Who would dare to hold this company’s stock if it continues like this!? Little Lu, what do you say?”

Lu Zhengyang heard this, just about to answer when he saw Sheng Yiguang going up the stairs.

His thoughts flickered, his eyes uncontrollably following Sheng Yiguang, while he perfunctorily answered the other shareholders.

“Don’t worry, let’s see.”

What was he doing here?

Coming to find Pei Du?

The shareholder who spoke paused, muttering.

“Don’t worry? It’s about to be stuck in our hands!”

Downstairs, a shareholder asked Lu Zhengyang to have dinner to discuss business.

He made an excuse to decline, then pulled out his phone.

On WeChat, Wen Heng had sent him a message.

[Brother Lu, why haven’t you watched my livestream lately?]

Lu Zhengyang glanced at it, swiped the screen, found Sheng Yiguang’s WeChat, opened it, and typed.

[How’s my project going?]

[Can’t you go out to date until the project is done?]

[If something goes wrong with my project, I’m holding you accountable]

Three messages in a row were sent.

No reply.

Lu Zhengyang checked his phone eight hundred times a minute.

Still no reply.

He sneered, throwing the phone on the passenger seat.

Just as he was about to start the car, the phone rang.

He immediately picked it up.

It was Wen Heng.

This time, he didn’t even look at it, put down the phone, and started the car.

Sheng Yiguang heard the phone ring and took it out to look.

It wasn’t worth answering, so he returned to the home screen and ignored it.

He hadn’t been sitting for long when Pei Du walked in.

“You’re here? I thought you’d be a little slower than me.”

He walked directly to Sheng Yiguang, pinched his chin, gently raised his face, and placed a kiss on his lips.

“Why did you come suddenly? I wasn’t prepared at all.”

“I missed you.”

Pei Du smiled and kissed him again.

“So flirtatious?”

“Not flirting, just missing you.”

Pei Du’s smile deepened, glancing suggestively at his lounge.

“My lounge is pretty big.”

Sheng Yiguang’s face turned red, “I have something to talk to you about.”

Pei Du deliberately made a serious face.

“Oh, so there’s something. But…”

He changed his tone, speaking leisurely.

“What could be so important that you couldn’t say it on the phone, making you come all this way? You just wanted to see me, right?”

Sheng Yiguang pursed his lips and nodded.

Pei Du smiled and kissed him.

Sheng Yiguang asked, “Was the shareholders’ meeting smooth? Did those people make things difficult for you?”

“They were pretty agitated, but they don’t have the ability to make things difficult for me.”

“The stock price has been falling for more than ten days in a row, have you bought enough shares?”

“Not enough, but I can’t buy any more. If it falls too much, I won’t be able to pull it back up. It’s almost time to close.”

Sheng Yiguang saw that Pei Du didn’t seem to be bragging, so he felt relieved.

“Yin Xue came to me, apologized, and said she wouldn’t try to target me again and would stay far away from us.”

Pei Du raised his eyebrows, “Isn’t that great?”

“It’s just that her change is so sudden, I find it strange, and the comments about her haven’t changed on the screen.”

Pei Du frowned.

Yin Xue was so scared by him, no matter how bold she was, she wouldn’t dare to cause trouble in the short term.

How could the comments not have changed?

“Maybe the comments don’t believe her either?”

Pei Du guessed.

“After all, Yin Xue has a lot of tricks up her sleeve. She can even think of ways to use Tongtong, that little one. What else is she incapable of?”

As soon as he finished speaking, Old Man Pei walked in.

“What happened to Tongtong?”

Sheng Yiguang’s heart skipped a beat, feeling flustered.

If Grandpa Pei knew that his mother wanted to use him and leech off Pei Du, he definitely wouldn’t agree to him continuing to associate with Pei Du.

Pei Du frowned, “The shareholders’ meeting is over, why haven’t you left yet?”

“I came to see you.” Old Man Pei asked again, “What happened to Tongtong? Who wants to use Tongtong?”

Pei Du casually brushed it off, “Nothing happened to Tongtong.”

Old Man Pei didn’t believe him, “If you don’t tell me, I can find out myself.”

Pei Du was impatient, “Are you so bored at home that you’re itching for trouble? Is the yard too small for you to walk around, or is there too little work at the company to bother you? Do you have to ask everything in detail?”

Pei Du wouldn’t let him get a word in, so he could only look at Sheng Yiguang.

Sheng Yiguang hesitated slightly.

Rather than Old Man Pei finding out, it was better for him to explain, to avoid anyone adding fuel to the fire and exaggerating the situation.

Sheng Yiguang then told him about Yin Xue.

After speaking, he also assured him.

“I have evidence of her abandoning Tongtong. As long as she dares to come again, I will send her to prison and won’t let her affect Pei Du.”

Old Man Pei’s voice was serious.

“Even if your evidence is sufficient, once she finds a lawyer and the lawsuit begins, you don’t know how long it will drag on. She can even hurt your brother, what can you guarantee me that Pei Du won’t be affected?”