Only today, when Song Yao saw Cen Mo"s adoptive mother, this abominable woman who used to treat Cen Mo terribly, that she restrained her own emotions, holding back her temper and not directly chasing her away.
The minute the servants saw that Cen Mo had returned, they hurriedly gave way to him. "Sir…"
Cen Mo walked to Song Yao"s side, his black and deep eyes staring at Song Yao.
Song Yao smiled slightly at Cen Mo. "You"re back…"
Cen Ruo"s heart was beating extremely fast. She hadn"t expected Cen Mo to return so soon. She decided to complain before the other party could do so. "Brother! You didn"t know Song Yao this b*tch…"
"What are you waiting for?"
Without waiting for Cen Ruo to finish speaking, Cen Mo had already turned around, his chilly gaze sweeping over the bodyguards standing outside. "Hurry and chase these two b*tches out!"
Cen Ruo"s fists clenched tightly by her sides. Two b*tches?
Wasn"t that referring to her, Cen Ruo, and her mother, Chu Wenjuan?
Cen Ruo wore a look of disbelief. "Brother! Have you gone mad? You"re asking them to chase Mother and me away?"
"What is there to be surprised about? Cen Mo… the adopted son of the Cen family, he"s so ambitious he even occupied the Cen family, so what can"t he do?" Chu Wenjuan sat there steadily and snickered.
"No! Mom… no! I don"t believe Brother would do this!" Cen Ruo gazed at Cen Mo, as if looking at her last hope. "Brother… you weren"t the one who did that to our family, right? It"s merely because you were seduced by Song Yao and canceled your marriage agreement with Miss Zhong. Everything that happened to our family was done by the Zhongs, right?"
Cen Ruo was no fool. It wasn"t that she had no idea Cen Mo was indeed the one who reduced the Cen family to nothing.
However, with the Cen family ruined now, if Cen Ruo wanted to continue living like a rich missy, she had to cling to Cen Mo!
That was why Cen Ruo had begged Chu Wenjuan to travel so far to Morocco to look for Cen Mo!
Cen Mo"s net worth today was immeasurable. So long as Cen Mo was willing to take in the mother-and-daughter duo, she would still be the big missy of the Cen family…
However, Cen Ruo truly didn"t wish to live under the same roof as Song Yao. She hated Song Yao to the core!
If it weren"t for Song Yao, Cen Mo wouldn"t have been so ruthless towards the Cen family!
But she knew, since Cen Mo could act so ruthlessly for Song Yao"s sake, he would absolutely not chase Song Yao out for her sake. Cen Ruo"s original intention was to come over to insult Song Yao and stop before Cen Mo returned. Who knew that Cen Mo would catch her in the act.
"Brother, our Cen family already has nothing. Dad and Mom have divorced, so Mom and I can only come to seek you. If you ignore us, we"ll have nowhere else to go! We don"t even have the money to buy a plane ticket home…" Cen Ruo said pitifully to Cen Mo.
Cen Mo"s lips turned up in a cold arch, and he said coldly, "Why should you fear not having enough money to buy a plane ticket home? Haven"t you heard of getting deported?"
Cen Mo"s black eyes looked extremely cold, so cold they chilled one to their bones and caused one"s back to s.h.i.+ver.
Cen Ruo"s face turned pale. She looked at Cen Mo with quivering pupils, her fair and delicate hands tightly gripping the sides of her clothes as she looked towards Chu Wenjuan. "Mom…"
"Cen Mo, I didn"t come here to act like a loving mother-and-son duo with you…" Chu Wenjuan said. "Regardless of how I used to treat you, it was me who rescued you from that filthy place. Else… you would either be starved to death now or reduced to being a male prost.i.tute somewhere. Who knows, you might have even contracted some STD like AIDS, making you better off dead than alive now! I merely came to get you to sign this contract as a form of repayment to me for saving your life!"
Chu Wenjuan took a doc.u.ment from her bag and placed it on the coffee table. She even prepared a pen and opened the lid, resting it on the paper.
What Chu Wenjuan had done to Cen Mo made one bristle with anger. She had different plans than Cen Ruo, who was acting oblivious and wished to cling to Cen Mo. She merely wanted to take back one small subsidiary company once owned by the Cens.
Cen Mo didn"t even look at the doc.u.ment. His gaze fixated upon the bodyguards standing at the door. "Are all of you dead men?"
Seeing that their boss"s tolerance had been maxed out, the bodyguards dragged Cen Ruo out, no questions asked. They then charged in and dragged Chu Wenjuan out of the room by her arms.
Chu Wenjuan struggled to break free, using her bag to smack at a bodyguard. She pointed at Cen Mo"s nose and started scolding him. "Cen Mo! Regardless of everything else, I did save your life, and I"m your adoptive mother! Aren"t you afraid of being struck by lightning by treating me this way? Even if I didn"t treat you well, I did save your life! You owe your life to me, and one must repay debts of grat.i.tude! I"m only asking for a subsidiary company, and after that, we"ll have nothing to do with each other! Otherwise… back then, when I adopted you, I went through all the proper procedures. Legally speaking, you need to provide for me! If I"m driven to a corner, I"ll certainly sue you until your reputation is ruined! Or those events of the past, I can take those matters being exposed… but can you take it? To let others find out that you used to be a dog who wagged your tail pitifully before me!"
"Human? In your eyes, am I human? I"ve always been nothing but a dog!" Cen Mo"s smile was sinister. "If you wish to sue, go ahead! I dare to bet with you, the minute you step out of the law firm, you"ll be dragged to G.o.d knows where to be a prost.i.tute, and then you"ll contract some STD like AIDS, making you feel better off dead than alive. Most importantly, no one will know about it."
Chu Wenjuan tightened her grip on her bag…
With Cen Mo"s current status and means, Chu Wenjuan had no doubt that he would live up to his words!
"The only reason I let you stay alive is that I want to see you fall into the kind of marketplace you used to despise. I want to see you struggle in the dust, unable to stand up again!"
Cen Mo took out a handkerchief from his pocket, then picked up the doc.u.ment on the table with the handkerchief between it and his fingers. He tossed the doc.u.ment into the trash without even blinking once, along with his handkerchief.
"You"re planning to recover your long lost dignity by torturing a woman who can"t even defend herself?" Chu Wenjuan asked with a sneer.
Even though Cen Mo"s words made her blood run cold, she still forced herself to keep her back straight.
"You ought to be glad that I"m not planning to reenact everything you did to me on you… and your daughter!" Cen Mo said with the corners of his lips turned up.
Chu Wenjuan felt her throat tighten.
"Throw her out!" Cen Mo repeated.
The bodyguards dragged Chu Wenjuan out of the room. Cen Ruo bit her lower lip and cried out loud, calling Cen Mo "Brother" as she did so, but it didn"t help matters.
"Let me go! I"ll go by myself!" Chu Wenjuan struggled free of the bodyguards, then tidied her clothing and turned around.
Cen Mo turned his head towards Song Yao, his smile a little frozen. He saw the clearly visible fingernail scratch on Song Yao"s jaw…
"How did this come about?" Cen Mo held up Song Yao"s jaw.
"It"s nothing…" Song Yao grabbed Cen Mo"s large hand, not wanting him to worry.
The servant by the side spoke timidly. "Madam did this just now, we… we couldn"t stop her…"