Chapter 49 - Shutting The Dirty Mouths
Chapter 49 – Shutting The Dirty Mouths
The socialite Miss Li continued, "You don't love Mrs. Han Xinyi and now your old love is back."
Murmurs ensued.
"This is pathetic. Who thought Han Zhiyuan would turn out like this still entangled with his past love?"
"He shamelessly entered her room."
"Yes, I even heard Caihong raising her voice in anger. She is clearly against this."
"Of course. If she had been cheating, then she won't be stupid enough to call him in her own room."
"This is harassment."
All the fingers pointed at Zhiyuan. His credibility and image were starting to crumble. His reputation was worsening to being a harasser and a cheating husband.
Xiaosi silently appeared behind the crowd and leaned on a pillar as he smirked and watched the show. He said nothing, yet Zhiyuan was getting destroyed.
Caihong was getting completely overwhelmed. Inwardly, she was panicking about how to deal with this. She wasn't the type to let these things get her affected.
But the target wasn't her. It was Zhiyuan. Her silence was worsening the situation, but she knew that even if she talked, it might do more harm than good for him.
But…
Zhiyuan shot a deathly glare at everybody and they shut up. The power he held still intimidated them.
"You all might have time to chit-chat, but I don't because my son is missing."
That made them frown.
"Your son is missing? Do you think we are going to believe that excuse?" One woman loudly said from the back.
"So, you say that you were trying to find your son and ended up here?"
"Heh. What a nice coincidence for you."
"Hah! First, you make your wife sick and now you even use your son to get out of our accusations. You are so pathetic!"
Caihong quickly said, "He is right. He only came here to find Siying."
"And you believe him?" They snickered.
Zhiyuan's gaze darkened. His aura turned threatening and dangerous. His smile was so chilly that they felt as if the Arctic had descended right in that room.
"I hope you are ready to eat your words back and apologize to me because something disgusting such as using my family is not what I do. It suits people like Miss Li who is engaged to Mu Chuanli's son."
Miss Li flared. "What do you mean?"
"After all, you are using his son and Mu family's wealth to save your family's dwindling business, isn't it?
Miss Li widened her eyes. Panic set in.
Zhiyuan smiled. "Very few people know this and I am one of them."
She clenched her jaw. Her words came right back at her.
"Li business is on the verge of bankruptcy and just after that, we got news of your engagement. What a nice coincidence. Your father is trying really hard to make it look like the business is flourishing, but it's not. I know the truth. In the end, your family will stand up once again solely based on marriage connections."
The others instantly looked at her in disdain and suspicion.
Miss Li tremblingly pointed her finger at him. "You…Now you are defaming me to get revenge! You are spouting all lies and nonsense just because I said the truth."
Mu Chuanli quickly came as he heard the commotion and made way.
Miss Li immediately rushed to his side and showed a wronged expression. "Uncle, just look at what Han Zhiyuan is saying. He is spouting all lies just because we caught him cheating on his wife."
Zhiyuan glowered. "You do whatever you want because I am leaving. If anything happens to my son then I will hold all of you accountable for delaying me."
Caihong came forward and said, "Finding Siying is more important now."
Miss Li quickly said, "Uncle, you cannot let him leave. He is not only cheating, but he defamed me too. He is lying about his son's disappearance as well! I don't think we should collaborate with the Han Corps for this project."
"Yes, yes. Remove him from this project."
"If Han Corps would be a part of it, then we will withdraw from this collaboration."
"We cannot work with such a disgusting man."
Even Mu Chuanli was finding it difficult to calm down everybody when they heard a voice.
"Zhiyuan!"
Everybody saw Xinyi rushing towards him. Not just Xinyi, they were shocked to see Siying with her as he held her hand.
"Dada!" He hugged his leg.
Zhiyuan widened his eyes. "Siying you…"
How is he here? He called me to say he was lost.
Miss Li took advantage of this situation. "Hah! Didn't I tell you all? Han Zhiyuan was lying. Just look. Siying came with Han Xinyi safe and sound."
Siying's appearance confirmed the suspicions and now they openly looked at him in disgust.
"Oh, God. So it's really true."
"He lied to gain our sympathy!"
Xinyi quietly looked at everybody and then stared at Zhiyuan. She held his hands and said, "I am sorry Zhiyuan. It is my fault."
"What?"
"I-I mean that I was feeling too dizzy and got up from having a nightmare. Then I didn't see Siying anywhere so I panicked. I-I got afraid by the dream and so…" she bit her lip, "I thought he got lost…So I called you and said that Siying disappeared."
Silence.
Everybody was stupefied.
Xinyi looked at him hesitatingly. "But then I realized that he was just in the bathroom. I am really sorry, Zhiyuan. I made you unnecessarily worried. T-that please forgive me…it's because of the bad dream that I got too anxious to check in the room…"
Siying blinked his eyes in confusion as he looked up at her. He didn't know why his Mama was lying because nothing like that had happened at all.
But somehow he instinctively knew not to question it because, with the way everybody was looking at Zhiyuan, he sensed trouble for his parents if he did.
Zhiyuan slightly squinted his gaze. Of course, he knew she was lying because it was Siying who had called him. But he understood her intentions of trying to help him.
"The moment I saw Siying, I tried to call you, but it didn't connect. So, I rushed here to tell you as soon as possible."
Miss Li's expression was terrible. She suddenly got proved wrong in front of everyone.
"So it was a misunderstanding?"
"Well Mrs. Han was sick and on top of that, she had a bad dream, so it isn't impossible to panic not seeing her son…"
Everybody felt as if they were tightly slapped by Xinyi.