CHAPTER 231: CHAPTER 231 THE SCUMBAG’S CHANGE OF HEART

Chu Tingting was overjoyed and immediately picked up the glass of wine on the table. "Yan Ting, I offer you this toast. Thank you for helping me find a job."

Yan Ting smirked coldly in his heart. This Chu Tingting might seem innocent and naive, but her methods were certainly seasoned and cunning.

He had merely said he would look into it, never promised to actually arrange the job for her. Yet, with this toast, she was acting as if her success was already guaranteed.

Lin Banxia had turned into an unemployed drifter. Early in the morning, she grabbed a bucket and a shovel, intending to loosen the soil and pull weeds in the garden.

She used to do such tasks often alongside her grandparents. By now, she was extremely skilled at it.

While she was bent over pulling weeds, suddenly, Aunt Lan walked over hurriedly. "Banxia, Second Young Master Huo has come. I couldn’t stop him, he’s already inside!"

Lin Banxia looked up briefly and said to Aunt Lan, "Aunt Lan, go about your business. It’s okay!"

Huo Qinglin spotted Lin Banxia from afar. She was dressed in the simplest casual clothes, wearing a white sunhat and a pair of waterproof shoes—looking completely like a countryside girl. If it weren’t for her delicate and beautiful face still tugging at his heartstrings, he might’ve questioned whether his constant thoughts of her lately were some kind of madness.

Lin Banxia’s face was slick with sweat, and a few playful strands of black hair stuck to her fair, snow-white skin. It made her appear even more radiant and pure, exuding an almost primal beauty.

Huo Qinglin stood before Lin Banxia, looking down at her from above. His eyes radiated warmth and intensity.

"Banxia, I really didn’t expect you to have been married to Yan Ting. You two truly managed to keep it hidden from everyone in the world," Huo Qinglin said with a touch of ridicule.

Lin Banxia leaned half her weight onto the shovel, her beautiful eyes calm as water. "Why are you here? If it’s to kick someone when they’re down or gloat, you can leave."

"Now you believe what I said, don’t you? Yan Ting never loved you. He was just tired of playing and tossed you aside," Huo Qinglin said, his judgment clouded by ignorance of the real reasons for their divorce. Old Sir Huo had kept the secret well, and the public unanimously assumed Lin Banxia had been coldly discarded by Yan Ting.

Lin Banxia shrugged indifferently and chuckled lightly. "So what? I was willing to be played by him and gladly allowed him to toss me aside."

Her words rang sharp in Huo Qinglin’s ears, unbearably grating.

His face immediately turned ashen, and his tone grew even more mocking. "Lin Banxia, do you have any self-respect left? You demean yourself to such a degree, no wonder everyone ridicules you—you deserve it."

Lin Banxia was well aware that plenty of things about her had already been reported everywhere online. She also had no doubt that the one who spared no effort to hire trolls to smear her name was Lu Huan Ning.

In her previous life, every time rumors about her and Huo Qinglin’s engagement surfaced, it would spark a wave of insults online.

Back then, she had been naive and oblivious, not realizing it was Lu Huan Ning pulling strings behind the scenes. Now, reflecting deeply, she realized many of those rumors were rooted in things she had personally shared with Lu Huan Ning.

"Even if it’s deserved, that’s my own affair. No need to trouble Second Young Master Huo with concern," Lin Banxia said calmly, unfazed by Huo Qinglin’s words.

Last night, Yan Ting had personally come to confess his feelings for her, giving her enough courage to face all the judgment and ridicule from others.

That man said he loved her—what did she have to fear?