Bai Lian smiled gently at Bai Xi and said, "My father and I are staying at Brother Wen's place. Brother Wen was afraid I wouldn't be used to it, so he brought me here specifically and asked Director Li to help me redecorate my room. I never expected to run into you here, what a coincidence."
Her smile was demure, but her eyes held a hint of boasting and smugness.
She was showing off Zhou Wen's thoughtfulness towards her and gloating about stealing Tong Yao's reserved designer.
Indeed, her arrival here today was a coincidence. But after arriving in the morning, she had overheard Li Li, who had just come to work, tell the receptionist that she was scheduled to meet with Tong Yao and would not be accepting other clients. So, she intentionally requested Li Li as well.
Using a bit of coaxing, she had Zhou Wen make a call to the company's owner. The owner immediately pressured Li Li into handling their matters first.
Bai Xi's arrival, however, was an accident.
Zhao Minghan had been so aggressive in confronting her father yesterday, why hadn't he targeted her? She had even specifically hinted to him that Bai Xi attached great importance to the Bai family villa.
Upon seeing Bai Lian and Zhou Wen, Tong Yao's anger flared even more intensely. She put one hand on her hip and pointed a finger at Bai Lian and Zhou Wen with the other, saying, "What coincidence? I booked Director Li yesterday to discuss renovating Xi'er's Bai family villa. You are deliberately using your status to pressure them and snatch my appointment!"
Seeing this, Bai Lian immediately leaned into Zhou Wen's embrace, striking a posture of "Brother, I'm so scared." "Brother Wen, I didn't know Director Li was meeting with Miss Tong, nor did I know she was helping Sister Xi'er renovate her room."
Zhou Wen stood on the elevated platform, looking down at Bai Xi, who remained silent below. He proudly patted Bai Lian's arm, which was around his. "Tong Yao, Bai Lian is my fiancée. You'd better watch your words!"
Tong Yao retorted, "Fiancée? Pfft! Why use such flowery language? You two are a perfect match, a pair of trash. She's a slut who doesn't even let her own sister's fiancé go, and you're a dog who can't stay out of loneliness and can't control your own lower half. Bitch meets dog, forever together."
Her words turned Zhou Wen and Bai Lian's faces ashen.
Zhou Wen's eternally refined and mature expression finally gave way to a hint of ferocity. "Tong Yao, you are a lady of status, yet you utter such filth. Aren't you afraid of embarrassing the Tong family?"
Tong Yao sneered, "Heh, if speaking such shameless things is embarrassing for me, then didn't the eldest daughter of the Zhou family consider the Zhou family's reputation when she did it?"
Bai Xi looked up at Tong Yao, who stood beside her, with a doting expression in her eyes.
After so long, she hadn't expected Tong Yao's sharp-tongued skills to have improved so much.
Tong Yao's sharp words instantly attracted the attention of other customers coming to order custom furniture and the staff of the furniture world, who began to chatter.
"I didn't expect ladies of high society to curse so fiercely."
"Heh, but she's not wrong. If the person doing it isn't ashamed, why should the one scolding be?"
"But it's hard to tell. Look at that girl, so gentle and weak, yet she seduced her own fiancé."
"This is nothing. Look at her elegant and luxurious attire, yet she's wearing flats. Could it be she's already pregnant?"
"Impressive. So it's about gaining status through a child, using a pregnancy to get ahead. I didn't think such a wealthy young master could be so easily fooled."
"..."
The low whispers were filled with indecent comments, making Bai Lian's face turn pale.
Bai Lian covered her ears, her face full of terror. Her large eyes filled with tears, which rolled down her cheeks. She looked pitifully at Zhou Wen, "Brother Wen, I just love you, I just want to be with you. Why are they all saying this about me?"
Zhou Wen looked at the person before him, who seemed so vulnerable, and his heart felt as if it were being fiercely squeezed.
Yes, she just loved him, cared for him, and was concerned about him. What was her mistake? Moreover, she was now carrying his child.
The wrongdoer was clearly Bai Xi, who was engaged to him but had run off with another man!
He held Bai Lian tightly in his arms, pulled out a black card, and threw it directly at Li Li. His eyes were cold as he said, "I'm booking this place today. Send security to kick out all these people who are talking nonsense!"
Li Li, clearly not having grasped what was happening, was hit by the card and watched it fall to the ground.
Seeing this, Tong Yao immediately exploded again, "Zhou Wen, who are you insulting? Is this how your Zhou family raised you? Do you think you're so great just because you have a little money? Booking the whole place? I'll pay as much as you do. Who's afraid of whom!"
Zhou Wen no longer wanted to deal with Tong Yao.
Because if he engaged with her, who knew what astonishing things this crazy woman would say.
He merely looked at Li Li standing before him with his condescending eyes and arrogantly said, "Aren't you going to pick it up?"
Li Li did not want to pick up the card because she felt insulted. But... the person opposite her was none other than the eldest young master of the Zhou family.
Given the Zhou family's current status in M City, it was easier for them to crush her than an ant.
With this thought, she gritted her teeth slightly and was about to squat down to pick up the black gold card.
Just then, a voice came from not far away, "Director Li, don't pick it up!"
As soon as the words fell, the person had already walked up, stomped hard on the black gold card on the ground several times, and finally kicked the card a short distance towards Zhou Wen. "Pick up your own trash!"
Zhou Wen said angrily, "You!"
Tong Yao raised her eyebrows, "What about me? I'm the most reasonable person. If you don't want to pick it up, you can let the Bai Lianhua next to you pick it up. Anyway, she just likes picking up trash."
This was a double entendre, implying Zhou Wen was trash.
Zhou Wen, having been cursed by Tong Yao repeatedly, finally lost his patience. "Tong Yao, shut up!"
After saying that, he raised his hand high, about to slap Tong Yao.
Tong Yao was stunned and momentarily forgot to react. Her mind, however, drifted to irrelevant thoughts.
Yes, how could she forget? Zhou Wen was no gentleman; he was certainly capable of hitting women.
It was over. Would this slap mar her cute little face? How would she captivate thousands of young men in the future?
But just as everyone thought the slap would land on Tong Yao's face, it was firmly caught by another hand. The hand was clearly slender but possessed great strength, so much so that he couldn't move at all.
Zhou Wen turned his head and saw Bai Xi's stunning yet serene face. At such close proximity, his pupils involuntarily contracted.
Bai Xi's red lips parted slightly, and she said faintly, "Dare to touch my person, are you looking for death?"