CHAPTER 671: CHAPTER 666: WHY ARE YOU SO CHEAP

The person standing in the distance was Luo Cuilan.

Xu He really couldn’t have imagined her luck being this terrible. In such a large provincial city, where it’s usually hard to find someone intentionally, how could she have run into her by chance today.

What Xu He didn’t know was that it wasn’t just this time. From the very first time Shuanzi and Xu He were intimate in the woods, Luo Cuilan was already aware. The reason she didn’t speak out wasn’t out of kindness to cover for Xu He, but rather she was waiting for an opportune moment to bring it up for her own benefit.

After all, a secret this big warranted some benefit for herself.

Thus, Luo Cuilan had always harbored suspicions about Xu He’s pregnancy, but seeing how Zhou Yunmei and Luo Zhiming were placing great importance on Xu He’s belly, and considering her own child needed Zhou Yunmei’s care, she pretended to be in a good mood for Zhou Yunmei’s sake and casually reminded her about it only once, without disclosing the whole affair.

Today, she finally understood the truth about the child in Xu He’s womb, no, she understood all the intricacies involved.

Originally, she could have continued to feign ignorance and kept the matter hidden, but unfortunately for Xu He, she had bad luck today and Luo Cuilan was not in a good mood, so she did not want to keep it secret for Xu He any longer.

Moreover, Luo Cuilan was not just in a bad mood at this moment, but when she saw Xu He, she felt as though she was looking at an enemy, and she wanted to tear Xu He apart.

Because Xu He having another man behind Luo Zhi’s back had some similarities to her current predicament.

Luo Cuilan had been forced to leave her child of only a few months old with Zhou Yunmei and go to the city to work because she suspected her husband Zhang Jianguo and his non-blood-related sister Xue Hua were having an affair in the city. Not wanting to lose Zhang Jianguo, she had left her young child and come to the city.

After arriving in the city, for the initial period, Zhang Jianguo seemed genuinely honest, and there appeared to be nothing suspicious between him and his sister Zhang Xue Hua. They did not meet often, and when they did have a meal together, it was very courteous. Luo Cuilan thus thought she might have been overthinking.

However, just that morning, feeling unwell, Luo Cuilan had left the factory and gone home, planning to rest for a while. But as she approached her rental home, she heard a man and a woman jesting with each other from inside the room.

Luo Cuilan recognized those voices as belonging to Zhang Xuehua and Zhang Jianguo, and from the sounds they made, one could clearly guess what was happening. Luo Cuilan didn’t think twice and furiously kicked the door open, proceeding to catch the adulterers in the act.

Zhang Xue Hua and Zhang Jianguo were startled by Luo Cuilan’s sudden intrusion, and they leaped out of bed trying to find their clothes. But Luo Cuilan couldn’t bear such affront, especially after witnessing them embrace each other on the bed, she was consumed by a rage that left no room for rational thought. She didn’t think about how life would go on after this; she just wanted to punish these betrayers.

At that moment, she threw their clothes out of the room, leaving both of them naked and scrambling around, and with a shout, she brought a crowd of nearby onlookers to witness the scandal.

Furthermore, Luo Cuilan explained very clearly to everyone that the pair were siblings engaging in incestuous acts behind her back, the wife’s.

Under the public eye, Zhang Jianguo’s humiliation was so great that, consumed by rage, he assaulted Luo Cuilan fiercely after finding clothes, and even drove her out, declaring he wanted a divorce from Luo Cuilan.

After Luo Cuilan came to her senses, she also felt that she had truly been too impulsive, to have let the situation become like this.

She did want to speak with Zhang Jianguo properly, but Zhang Jianguo was already ignoring her, just insisting on one thing: they must divorce, and he wouldn’t even let Luo Cuilan enter the house.

All of Luo Cuilan’s extra possessions were inside that house, and now that she couldn’t enter all of a sudden, she planned to go out and take a walk, wait until Zhang Jianguo left later in the evening, then go back and gather her things. No matter what, she had to retrieve the money she had hidden in that room.

As for whether or not she wanted to continue her life with Zhang Jianguo, Luo Cuilan no longer had such a strong desire.

One could say that ever since she married Zhang Jianguo, after all the things that had happened, her heart had grown cold, and she felt exhausted.

Who would have known that while she was out to clear her mind, she would actually run into Xu He and that Shuanzi pulling and tugging at each other in a store, and eventually even heard Xu He say that the child in her belly belonged to Shuanzi.

Therefore, in Luo Cuilan’s eyes at this moment, Xu He was just as despicable as Zhang Xuehua.

She had been observing from the sidelines the whole time, watching Xu He, without making a sound, which is why Xu He had also not noticed her.

It was only after those trying to console Xu He had left that Xu He, intending to return to Luo Zhiming’s place, saw Luo Cuilan staring at her coldly from a distance.

Xu He was so frightened that she gasped, her face turning ashen. After a long stun, she finally managed to approach Luo Cuilan and pulled her to a less busy side, then stammered, "Big sis, how... how come you’re here? You... when did you get here?"

Luo Cuilan looked at Xu He and sneered coldly, "I arrived just as you said the child in your belly was Shuanzi’s."

Xu He now felt like she wanted to die; she had been worried that Fang Pingying might leak the secret, which is why she came to find Shuanzi, thinking that if it came to it, she could just silence Fang Pingying when she got back. She didn’t expect that there would be another person who knew now, and so her risk of exposure had just increased.

And Luo Cuilan was a witness with evidence; she was so scared she couldn’t speak properly and began to plead incoherently with Luo Cuilan, "Big sis, don’t misunderstand, I just..."

Before Xu He could finish her sentence, Luo Cuilan said, "Xu He, I’m not a fool. I saw it with my own eyes, I heard it with my own ears. Do you think you can still lie your way out of this?"

"I..." Xu He opened her mouth, wanting to explain, but it seemed like no explanation would be right.

Luo Cuilan observing Xu He for a while, then looked at her with utter disdain and cursed, "Xu He, how can you be so cheap? In our Luo Family, hasn’t Zhiming been good to you? Although the Luo Family isn’t extremely wealthy, have you ever lacked food or clothes? Why did you have to get involved with another man, and now you’re even carrying someone else’s illegitimate child?"

"Big sis, hear me out, I had no choice." Xu He looked at Luo Cuilan with a pleading expression, her eyes brimming with tears, looking pitifully woeful.

Xu He tried to appeal to Luo Cuilan’s sympathy, but she didn’t know that in Luo Cuilan’s eyes, her act was as identical as that of Zhang Xuehua’s despised wretchedness, inciting even more rage in Luo Cuilan’s heart.