Chapter 14 The Wife in Poverty (14)

"You, a single guy with no kids, why did you even prepare a baby chair and children's supplies?"

Su Li was still clueless and didn't know where Xi Muqian had rummaged those from.

"Ah... um... a friend left them here..." Xi Muqian averted his gaze and stammered.

Su Li instantly felt like she was being foolish.

It was obvious that Xi Muqian had prepared these in advance.

Seeing Su Li not speaking for a while, Xi Muqian grew anxious. His mind racing, he quickly tried to explain with regret, "These are all new, they've never been used before."

He was afraid Su Li would misunderstand and think the items for Yaya were second-hand, which would make her feel uncomfortable.

Su Li couldn't help but chuckle. She did understand something - Xi Muqian had returned to the country to take up the post of CEO of an international conglomerate.

Upon his appointment, he had ruthlessly subdued a group of people and completely consolidated control of the conglomerate into his hands.

Such a determined man, why did he look so anxious and insecure at this moment?

Indeed, love makes people blind...

Su Li didn't plan to reciprocate such sincere feelings; she felt it was necessary and her duty to make things clear to him.

If it had been her in her previous life, perhaps she would have been gradually moved by Xi Muqian, but she wasn't.

How could a man like Xi Muqian not notice the emotional fluctuations in Su Li that moment? Moreover, Su Li wanted him to notice.

But before Su Li could say anything else, Xi Muqian smiled and changed the subject, "Let's eat quickly, Yaya is hungry..."

"Mommy, I want the little piggy bun and the bunny-shaped bun..."

Yaya's eyes were sparkling as she intently gazed at the whimsically shaped pastries on the dining table.

Su Li had to set aside what she wanted to say and focused on taking care of Yaya.

"I'll help Yaya eat, you should eat too. Your porridge will get cold, and it won't taste good anymore."

Su Li noticed that, aside from the special dishes prepared just for Yaya, the rest of the breakfast items on the table were all of her (Su Li's) favorite flavors.

"These were what you liked to eat when we were studying... After so many years, I don't know if your tastes have changed..." Xi Muqian said slowly, looking down.

Su Li could only feel pity for her original self; she never knew there was such a deep affection once looking her way from afar.

He didn't get a response as expected, and he had grown accustomed to it.

But a layer of disappointment still rose uncontrollably in his eyes.

"Ding-a-ling-a-ling...."

Su Li's phone rang.

As soon as she picked it up, Mr. Su's frantic voice echoed in the room.

"Do you really want to anger us to death?"

"Old Su, take it easy... I'll talk to our daughter."

Yaya, startled by the sudden shouting, trembled, and the food from her spoon fell back onto her plate.

Her little mouth puckered up as if she was about to cry.

Xi Muqian quickly picked her up from the high chair and held her close, soothing her non-stop.

"I'll take Yaya over there to eat..." Xi Muqian whispered to Su Li.

Then, he carried the child in one hand and a small bowl in the other, taking Yaya away, leaving Su Li alone to deal with the family matters.

Listening to the voice on the phone, it seemed that the call had been transferred from Mr. Su's hands to Mrs. Su's.

Mrs. Su's stern voice came through the receiver, "Just now I heard a man's voice, Su Li, are you with another man right now?"

Next to her, Mr. Su's loud yell was inescapable, "A man? Su Li, how can you be so shameless..."

Mr. Su then snatched the phone back from his wife.

The insults coming from inside were unbearably appalling.

Su Li had no choice but to hold the phone's receiver away from her ear, finding it hard to imagine how parents could so wantonly use such venomous words to describe their own daughter.

A normal person, if not resolute in temperament, might be driven mad by such a situation.

Su Li's expression grew colder and colder, the Su Family's parents crossing her boundaries again and again—it's no wonder the original host's wishes never once mentioned her own parents.

The pain inflicted by one's own relatives is the deepest of all.

On the other end of the phone, seeing that the person on the line remained silent no matter how much they cursed or lectured...

There still was not the slightest reaction.

The anticipated groveling compromises from Su Li did not come as the Su Family's parents had expected.

Only through the wireless connection did a silent, cold mood linger.

Mrs. Su, feeling a vague anxiety in her heart, remembering her daughter's recent rebellious reactions, suppressed her strong dissatisfaction and tried to soften her voice, asking, "Su Li, are you insisting on divorce because of the man we just heard?"

The Su Family's parents' willful and insulting guesses wiped away the last shreds of warmth Su Li felt toward them.

"Why?" Su Li asked calmly.

"What?"

"You both know exactly why I'm getting a divorce, so why blame me instead of the one at fault... your own daughter?"

"Every parent inherently has the instinct to protect their offspring, but it seems I've never seen that in you."

Su Li spoke slowly and deliberately, seemingly unaffected by the turmoil around her.

Mrs. Su was at a loss for words, shamed into silence by Su Li's remarks.

Yet the dignity of being an elder made her refuse to admit she was wrong, feeling instead that it was her daughter who was disobedient and disrespectful to her.

"Chen Jin only made a mistake once, it is OK if he corrects it, why be so petty..."

Seeing that Su Li remained unmoved, Mrs. Su ran out of options.

"If there's nothing else, I'm hanging up," said Su Li, her impatience reached its limit.

"And Doudou..." Mrs. Su hastily interjected, "Don't you worry about Doudou? The child is so young; to lose his mother would be so pitiful..."

"This morning he was sent to his grandparents' house with swollen eyes..."

"I didn't say I didn't want him; it's Chen Jin who won't give him to me... Otherwise, he'll just drag out the divorce..."

"Then don't get divorced," Mrs. Su suggested casually, treating Su Li as if she were merely an object, never caring about the feelings of the person involved.

It was all their assumptions...

"But I find Chen Jin disgusting... I can't stand him for even a moment."

"Doudou is still my son, and I will take him back eventually."

Actually, it wasn't that Su Li didn't feel heartache for Doudou or suffer inside; it was just that she had no better way to ensure everyone's happiness and had to make a temporary sacrifice.

Seeing that they couldn't persuade Su Li no matter what, and Chen Jin's divorce with their daughter was already a done deal,

The Su Family's parents could only issue a harsh ultimatum, "If you won't listen to advice, then don't call us mom and dad anymore...."