Chapter 252: Chapter 107: The Fox Spirit_4
After all, Lu Tong belonged to Pei Yunmeng.
But now things had changed.
Lu Tong, having been abandoned by Pei Yunmeng, was alone and helpless in Shengjing as a girl from outside the city, naturally seeking a new benefactor.
Lady Dong had felt a touch of sympathy for Lu Tong, but when she learned that Dong Lin had secretly helped Lu Tong buy a medical practice, that sympathy vanished into thin air. Her son had always been obedient and sensible, unaware of worldly affairs; how could he think of asking others for help on his own? It must have been instigated by someone.
Without a doubt, it was Lu Tong’s doing behind the scenes.
Seeing no future with Pei Yunmeng, Lu Tong then turned to seduce Dong Lin.
Lady Dong clenched her fist. She should have realized that a woman who had captured Pei Yunmeng’s heart was no ordinary female doctor. Her own son, so naively earnest, must already be in the palm of Lu Tong’s hand.
She had underestimated Lu Tong!
Dong Lin, facing his mother’s aggressive glare, took a step back, feeling somewhat guilty, "Mother, Doctor Lu wanted to take part in the Spring Examination, and I simply mentioned it in passing to the Medical Envoy... She saved my life; one should be grateful."
"Grateful?" Lady Dong laughed in anger, "Am I short of her medical fees? She’s a doctor, you’re a patient; it’s only natural to take silver for treatment. What need is there for your gratitude?"
"I see, her wish to take the Spring Examination is a pretense; wanting to get close to you and harboring ulterior motives is the truth!"
Upon hearing this, Dong Lin became anxious, "This has nothing to do with Doctor Lu; it was I who volunteered to help her!"
Still taking the blame for Lu Tong?
Lady Dong felt even more stifled, convinced that Dong Lin was completely bewitched by Lu Tong, she angrily exclaimed, "I think you’ve been so deceived by this vixen that you can’t tell north from south! I’ll have you know, I’ve already returned to the medical practice and removed her from the list of the Spring Examination. Our Dong Family will not help with this, and you better not think of having any further association with her!"
"Mother!" Dong Lin’s eyes welled up with tears, "How can you be so unreasonable?"
"I’m being unreasonable?"
Lady Dong became incensed.
Her son had always been well-behaved, never talking back to her over the years, and now he was arguing with her for an ordinary female doctor. Such abnormal behavior must have been instigated by someone.
The lady walked forward two steps, her glance catching sight of the brightly colored clothes on the bed, feeling more irritated, she scoffed, "Right after our visit to Wan’en Temple, I noticed how you had eyes only for that little vixen. I thought that in time, you would lose interest, but here you are, being foolish to the end."
"That vixen has been scheming to get close to you, all to enter the doors of our Dong Family. Dream on!"
"Mother!" Dong Lin stamped his foot, "Doctor Lu has never acted inappropriately with me, it’s all been my own wishful thinking."
"You’re still taking her side!"
"Mother!"
Lady Dong’s face was cold as ice, the more Dong Lin defended, the angrier she grew, "You are Young Master Dong; she is merely a doctor from some shabby clinic, always seen in public, without the slightest propriety. You’re not yet married; do you wish to become the laughingstock of Capital City? Do you intend to take that lowly vixen as your concubine?"
Her words were particularly harsh. Dong Lin’s head heated in the moment, and without thinking, he blurted out, "What if she becomes my concubine? I don’t just want to make her a concubine; I want to marry her as my wife!"
"Smack!"
The room fell into silence.
Lady Dong covered her chest, trembling with fury, as her maid quickly supported her, fearing she might collapse and harm herself in her anger.
Dong Lin stood his ground stubbornly, as a red mark swiftly appeared on his face.
Lady Dong glared at him bitterly. After a long time, she turned her head away and, still with a hard tone as if to vent her frustration, walked out hurriedly.
"Lock the door!"
"From today onwards, confine the young master in the estate, and don’t let him step out of the main gate!"