Chapter 291 Are you feeling sorry for your ex-husband?

Chapter 291 Are you feeling sorry for your ex-husband?

"What kind of attitude is this?" Huo's mother scolded her, her face very bad. "Is this how the Jiang family teaches you manners?"

Jiang Ruan didn't reply, but just gave Mo Mo a wink.

Before Mo Mo could act, Huo Cheng spoke first: "Your aunt said some unpleasant things, but don't take them to heart. She came to see you today on important business."

Jiang Ruan didn't think she had anything important to do with them. Putting aside the previous conflicts she couldn't forget, she couldn't be calm towards them either, based on what she heard yesterday and what Gu Shixi told her.

"What is your relationship with the Qin and Li families of Haicheng?" Huo Cheng asked directly.

"What do you want to ask?" Jiang Ruan met his gaze, her attitude even more distant and unfriendly than before.

Huo Cheng looked around and suggested, "Shall we go inside and talk?"

"No, thank you." Jiang Ruan didn't have a good attitude towards him and refused very directly. "My relationship with you is not good enough for me to invite you into my home. Let's talk here."

They did everything they could to stop her from marrying Huo Zhizhou and treated her with complete disdain.

If it weren't for Huo Zhizhou protecting her, she would probably have faced a lot of trouble from them during these five years.

"Don't you think your attitude towards your elders is a bit inappropriate?" Huo Cheng's face darkened. "No matter what, we were once your parents."

"When you asked for custody of Sui Sui, didn't you say they weren't my parents?" Jiang Ruan was a vengeful person and remembered everything from back then very clearly.

Huo Cheng stared at her with eyes as sharp as swords.

Huo's mother had a harsh expression.

Neither of them liked her, but they wanted to get to know her better because of her current status.

“We acted impulsively back then.” Huo Cheng rarely suppressed his anger. “We were worried that Sui Sui wouldn’t be well raised by you. If we had known earlier that your maternal grandfather was Old Master Qin and your father was Chairman Li, we would have given you custody of Sui Sui even if you hadn’t told us.”

Jiang Ruan just watched them.

She didn't understand Huo Cheng's purpose in trying to mend their relationship. Even if she acknowledged the identities of the Qin and Li families, what difference would it make? Based on what had happened before, it was impossible for her to have a good relationship with them.

Why would they go to such lengths and lower themselves to come to her?

"Why didn't you tell us about your relationship with the Qin and Li families back then?" Huo Cheng said again. "If you had told us, we would have definitely made your wedding even more grand."

"Is there anything else?" Jiang Ruan had no intention of engaging in small talk.

Huo Cheng looked somewhat embarrassed.

He never expected that even after he had been so humble and subservient, this brat would still be so disrespectful.

So what if it's the Qin family? So what if it's the Li family? They still raised such an ill-mannered girl!

"If there's nothing else, I happen to have something I'd like to ask you both." Jiang Ruan's eyes swept over the two of them. "I heard that you threw Huo Zhizhou into the sea and river to teach him to swim?"

Huo Cheng: "Yes."

He admitted it very readily.

Jiang Ruan looked at him and asked, "Aren't you afraid he might accidentally drown?"

“He’s a member of the Huo family, he won’t die so easily.” Huo Cheng said this without a trace of worry in his eyes.

“He’s a human being.” Jiang Ruan couldn’t believe there could be such heartless parents in the world. “A single giant wave could have killed him.”

"How I discipline my child is none of your business," Huo Cheng said with a stern face. "He's doing just fine now, isn't he? Don't think that just because you're Chairman Li's daughter you can meddle in other people's family affairs."

Jiang Ruan suddenly understood why Huo Zhizhou was so insistent on that promise.

It wasn't just the death of a childhood friend, but also the rebirth from despair when someone pulled him out of the abyss while he was drowning.

If they can be so cruel to a child who is only a few years old, how can these two people be kind?

"Mo Mo, see the guest out." Jiang Ruan felt a lump pressing against her chest.

Mo Mo quickly did as instructed.

Mr. and Mrs. Huo wanted to say something, but Mo Mo forcibly shoved them into the car.

Huo Cheng's driver didn't want to drive, but when he saw Mo Mo's extremely strong sense of oppression, he obediently started the car and left, disappearing from Jiang Ruan's sight in no time.

"You think you're all grown up now that you've found your biological father." Huo Cheng couldn't swallow this insult. In all these years, when had he ever been treated like this? "Whenever you saw us before, you were always as obedient as a quail."

"I just don't understand, why are you looking for her?" Mrs. Huo was very puzzled.

"If she really is the child of the Li and Qin families in Haicheng, then her value is much greater." Huo Cheng only had eyes for profit.

"It has nothing to do with us. She's already divorced Zhizhou." Mrs. Huo frowned. "If you ask me, she's not a good person. She's not suited to enter the Huo family."

"Look at how much of Zhizhou's property she took in this divorce."

"If we do it again, that would be terrible."

As Huo's mother spoke, she became increasingly agitated, her face turning pale, clearly concerned about the share of property Huo Zhizhou had given to Jiang Ruan.

"If she can marry into the Huo family with the identities of the Qin and Li families, it will be a powerful alliance. At that time, all other families will be left behind by us." Huo Cheng's eyes were full of calculation. "The Huo family can remain number one for a hundred years."

Huo's mother is very satisfied with Huo Zhizhou now: "Zhizhou can do it just as well without her."

"Why take the long way around when marriage can bring us something?" Huo Cheng made no attempt to hide his thoughts.

“She and Zhizhou just divorced, and it’s impossible for them to get back together in a short time.” Thinking about how her son had been in trouble and Zhizhou hadn’t shown up at all, Mrs. Huo said, “Instead of thinking about these things, we should wait for Zhizhou to lead the Huo family further and further.”

Huo Cheng looked out the window: "Even if they don't merge, there's still the boss."

Huo's mother: "You mean Si Nian?"

Huo Cheng: "Mm."

Mrs. Huo looked at him in disbelief: "Are you crazy! It wasn't enough that she ruined one of my sons, she also wants to ruin my other son."

“Zhi Zhou leading the Huo family forward and the benefits Jiang Ruan brings us are not contradictory.” Huo Cheng felt more and more confident in his idea. “Call Si Nian and tell him to come home for dinner tonight.”

Jiang Ruan had no idea that they had such outrageous thoughts.

After watching them leave, she walked towards her bedroom, and scenes from her childhood involuntarily surfaced in her mind.

Although the memory of that period wasn't particularly clear, I could still recall the image of Xiao Huo Zhizhou desperately struggling and crying for help in the water, his voice growing softer and more helpless...

Nobody paid him any attention.

Now that he has a voice and the ability, even Huo Cheng and the others are like this. What must he have experienced when he was just a child?

What Gu Shixi knows is perhaps only the tip of the iceberg.

Or perhaps those brief mentions reveal Huo Zhizhou's dark and tragic childhood.

"Boss," Mo Mo knew what she was thinking just by looking at her, "Are you feeling sorry for your ex-husband?"

Jiang Ruan: "?"

Ex-husband?

Mo Mo reminded her, "Don't forget what I told you when we came."

Jiang Ruan asked, "What?"

Mo Mo remembered it clearly: "No matter how miserable President Huo looks or how bad his situation is, don't say sweet words when you're emotional. You can show concern and ask after him, but please maintain your usual distance until the very end."

Jiang Ruan: "..."