Li Haina got out of the car, with her typically sarcastic words following.
“Yo, Ye s.h.i.+wei, what are you doing here? This’s not a place for people like you to enter. Save yourself some face and go back quickly.”
Though unfamiliar with the woman who got out of the car, the security guard recognized the car so he stepped aside quickly lest he got himself into unwanted trouble.
With a cold glance over Li, Ye said disdainfully, “Why can’t I enter if a b.i.t.c.h as barefaced as you can do it?”
Li was dumbfounded for not expecting Ye would rebuke her with these words. Ye of the past was weak and easy to bully. How could she …
“You … How dare you call me …? You’re really in such haste to ask for death!”
Ye just laughed slightly, “You are asking for death.”
“You!”
With fury, Li suddenly raised her hand, intending to give her a slap. However, her arm was stopped in mid-air.
Ye grabbed Li’s arm and raised her eyebrows coldly at her, “Haven’t you hit enough?”
Then, she directly threw off her arm and made Li slapping on her own face.
Feeling totally unbelievable, Li’s eyes went wide with fire.
“Ye s.h.i.+wei, how dare you hit me?! Are you crazy?”
Was this frightening person in front of her really Ye s.h.i.+wei, who used to be weak and obedient? Li thought to herself.
Li tried to calm herself down. She trimmed her sleeves and tried to maintain her elegancy. Then she snorted, “I’m the future Mrs. Mu. If you don’t want your life in the city to get too hard, get down on your knees and apologize to me now. Maybe I can forgive you!”
“Mrs. Mu?” Ye was amused. “Still not giving up daydreaming after you’ve been fooled for once?”
“You!” The corner of Li’s lips twitched as she tried to hold back her anger.
Li fiddled with her disheveled hair, and deliberately made her neckline wider open, revealing a pink strawberry-shaped hickey.
Then, she said boastfully, “Oh, of course you don’t know men. It’s funny to play cat and mouse. But he just couldn’t help expressing his love to me. Like last night, he just wouldn’t let me go.”
In face of her coquetry, Ye coldly raised the corner of her lips.
“Wouldn’t let you go? Or you refused to go?” Ye tossed her sharp eye at Li. “How’s it possible for a person like Mu Tingchen to let you leave disheveled if he has really slept with you? I guess some idiot must have obviously made this herself in the car just now in order to brag. As for …”
Ye leaned forward slightly, had a glance at the strawberry-shaped hickey around Li’s neck and shook her head rather helplessly, “As for this strawberry-shaped mark, even if it was left by him just before you left, it can’t be still so red now. I’d rather … say the red mark was just left by your own pinch.”
With each word Ye said, Li flushed more.
As the real situation disclosed, Li was too ashamed to find any word to refute Ye. Instead, she was reduced to furious roars at Ye, with her shoulders tensed up.
“Ye s.h.i.+wei, you are no longer that princess you used to be! How’re you gonna fight with me?”
“Hmm.”
Ye’s sneer broke the brief silence. She took half a step forward and got closer to Li Haina.
And then she threw her pair of sharp eyes straightforwardly at Li.
“At least I used to be a princess. But you, Li Haina, used to be the daughter of my father’s driver, and now you are just a disgruntled woman who has been discarded. You’ve never been a princess; not in the past, and won’t in the future.”
With penetrating eyes, Ye said word for word with strength as if she had gone through a reincarnation.
So far, Li Haina had evidently lost the battle.
She was pale and couldn’t make a word out of her mouth.
Fang Ze, who had been waiting in the car watching this exciting drama, also began to change his view about Ye s.h.i.+wei.
Although it felt very exhilarating to watch the whole process of her making a fool of Miss Li, is was now the time for him to stop it from getting worse.
Fang Ze got out of the car and stood in front of Li Haina.
Still with due politeness, he said, “Miss Li, it’s getting late. We should leave.”
Li, on the other hand, was still full of angry and glared at Ye viciously.
“Miss Li, if you make this a big fuss and let Mr. Mu know, it won’t end well for you.”
Mu Tingchen …
In a trance, Li realized that she couldn’t make a scene and quarrel here, or her efforts to maintain her refinedness would all be in vain.
“Just you wait. I won’t let this go like this!”
Li got in the car and left, leaving her last harsh sentence behind.
Before getting back into the car, Fang nodded to the security guard at the gate, indicating it was safe for Miss Ye to go in.
Then the car sped away, leaving Ye standing alone at her original place.
With all her previous momentum gone, she suddenly looked like a deflated ball.
She had never treated anyone so arrogantly before. In the past, she was forbearing and avoided making others displeased for the sake of her mother.
But now …
Her mother’s death made her understand that meekness wouldn’t grant her a peaceful life, but instead, it would only legitimize others’ riding roughshod over her.
She endured so much, but still failed to save her mother’s life.
And now she was finally powerful after stripping all her worries away.
She wanted to seek justice for Family Ye and make those bad people get what they deserved.
The most important thing was to find out about the case of three years ago and figure out the whereabouts of her father.
Standing at the gate of Dihao Garden, Ye took a deep breath but still couldn’t contain her anxiety in face of all the magnificence before her.
What was more, she kept quailing at the thought of facing that man.