"She, who doesn't know? Shameless. Back in school, she was a trash who always stole other people's things. Not only Zhou Ruyu, but the campus heartthrob from the next class, I heard he also hinted at her."
Everyone looked surprised: "Really? How come I never heard about it?"
"She's got her ways. She acts demure around women, so you don't get to interact with her much, which is why it's normal you don't know."
"Tsk, so she's that kind of person. No wonder... Why didn't you say so earlier?"
The woman said: "What's the point of saying it? You know me, I hate talking about others behind their backs. If it weren't for the fact that I really can't stand what happened to Tiantian..."
"There's more juicy gossip. I'm telling you, she's not her father's biological daughter. I heard she only entered the Pei family when she was seven. Her two brothers could be her father."
"Since they could be her father, why didn't they raise her? Why did they have to acknowledge the old man who could be her grandfather as her father? Hmm? I heard the old man doted on her, and he was the only one in the entire Pei family who protected her. Why do you think that is?"
The crowd exchanged glances, no one said why, but their eyes conveyed everything.
Fu Duoduo never expected that coming over to relax and have a drink would lead her to hear such things.
Pei Kexin was actually being gossiped about by these gossipy women behind her back!
Damn it, they talked as if they had seen it themselves. How shameless!
She was so angry she lost interest in handsome men and was about to rush over to argue with them.
Before she could make a move, Zhan Jingchen, sitting beside her, spoke first.
"Who were you talking about?"
Hearing a pleasant male voice, the women simultaneously stopped and looked over.
They couldn't see his features clearly. The woman in the lead said, "And who are you?"
Zhan Jingchen sat in a relaxed posture, but his tone was cold and sharp.
"Never mind who I am. I'll ask you again, who were you talking about just now."
Hearing his unfriendly tone, the woman also got angry.
"What business is it of yours who I was talking about? Are you also Pei Kexin's lover? Can't stand it when someone says a few words about her?"
Zhan Jingchen turned to look at Fu Duoduo, "Do you know her?"
After not seeing Xia Tiantian for a long time, Fu Duoduo finally recognized her: "Zhou Ruyu's wife."
"Oh."
Zhan Jingchen put on a look of sudden realization.
"The wife of a scumbag, no wonder she spews nothing but venom. I say, why aren't you with your husband on your wedding anniversary, but here gossiping?"
Xia Tiantian also recognized Fu Duoduo.
She stood up with a "swish," taking off her mask.
"Fu Duoduo? You're here too?"
"You really haven't changed in ten years, always sticking around Pei Kexin. You have no self-respect."
Fu Duoduo, with her fiery temper, was instantly enraged.
She hadn't even settled the score for Pei Kexin being insulted to her face, and now she was being insulted too? Don't think I won't hit you just because I'm at your place!
She also yanked off her mask and stood up, her eyebrows raised in anger as she looked at Xia Tiantian.
"Who has no self-respect? Xia Tiantian, you're not as good-looking as Kexin, not as good in studies as Kexin, not as good in family background as Kexin, not as charming as Kexin. If you can't compete with her, your only option is to spew nonsense, right?"
"She doesn't even bother with you, yet you're still grinning and spreading rumors outside. And you say I have no self-respect? Look at yourself, aren't you degrading yourself!"
As the saying goes, don't hit someone's face, don't expose their shortcomings.
Fu Duoduo's remark, "She doesn't even bother with you," struck a nerve with Xia Tiantian, making her furious with shame.
"Don't think I won't hit you just because there's a man sitting next to you! Fu Duoduo, I've disliked you for a long time!"
"Pei Kexin is not a good person, and neither are you! She's a green tea who likes to snatch things, and you're her lackey! Many ideas came from you, don't think I don't know!"
"Pretending not to associate with us on the surface, but secretly hooking up with Zhou Ruyu. If it weren't for you two, would we have gotten divorced?"
"You two vixen! All you do is act like pure white lotuses in front of men. If you push me, I'll expose everything about you tonight!"
Only now did Fu Duoduo realize how deep Zhou Ruyu's ambition was.
He had divorced Xia Tiantian, but the excuse given to the public was their anniversary...
"Talking to someone with a mental illness like you is also a sign of my own mental illness. I shouldn't have come tonight!"
"If we can't deal with a lunatic, can't we avoid them? You can spread whatever rumors you want, Kexin doesn't care, and I can't be bothered with you anymore. Don't worry, I'm leaving now."
"But before I go, I want to make a statement. Xia Tiantian, your trash husband, besides you cherishing him, no one else does! There are thousands of men in the world, and any random one you pick off the street is better than him!"
"If you spread rumors again, please don't put my name and Kexin's name together with his. Otherwise, if I hear it, you know my temper."
Fu Duoduo's loud voice and Xia Tiantian's retort drew countless gazes.
Everyone else had masks on, but she didn't. The shame of being stared at and scrutinized drove her mad.
She grabbed a wine glass and was about to smash it at Fu Duoduo's face, but Zhan Jingchen stopped her in time.
"Everything you just said has been recorded by me, regarding Pei Kexin being a mistress and breaking up relationships."
"Tomorrow, I will sue you in court for infringing on her reputation. You'd better have sufficient evidence to support these words, otherwise..."
"Also, if you don't mind adding intentional assault, you can hit me too."
"You!" Xia Tiantian's face flushed red and then pale as she looked at him, "Who exactly are you? Who do you think you are to talk to me like this?"
Zhan Jingchen said coldly.
"Pei Kexin's husband. Slandering my wife in front of me, do you think I have the right to intervene?"
"Let alone suing you, I even have the right to hit you."
Xia Tiantian hadn't expected Pei Kexin to be married, and she looked good, and she knew how to protect her.
Her jealousy intensified.
"You? Hit me? You must be tired of living! Do you know who my brother is? You've got a lot of nerve. If you dare touch me! If I don't make you rot in jail, then I, Xia Tiantian, am useless!"
So arrogant. It was a shame that among the influential people in Nancheng, Zhan Jingchen had never heard of anyone named Xia.
He found it a bit amusing and turned to ask Fu Duoduo.
"With such a big mouth, who is her brother?"
Fu Duoduo said his name was Xia Huaizheng. She heard that in recent years, he had been cooperating with Zhan Corporation in the electrical business and made a lot of money, which was why she was so arrogant.
In that case, he was just a downstream supplier relying on Zhan Corporation for his livelihood.
He dared to act tough in front of Zhan Sansanye. He was courting death.
He didn't want to get into a physical altercation with a woman, but since Xia Tiantian had brought her brother into it.
"Splash!"
Zhan Jingchen grabbed the wine glass on the table and splashed it on her face.
"I just laid hands on you. Go ahead, quickly call your brother to deal with me."
Xia Tiantian was going crazy. In front of so many people, Pei Kexin's man actually laid hands on her, a woman!
She immediately burst into tears and called her brother.
While waiting for him to arrive, Zhan Jingchen leisurely sat there texting Jiang Jingyu.
"I need to ask you about someone. Do you know Xia Huaizheng?"