Chapter 159

Chapter 159: The Long Road to Win His Wife Back

It was not just Li Man Zhi. Even Lv Jing Zhu was amused by Li Zhao Yang’s strange and messy appearance. The panic and helplessness of meeting her ex-boyfriend again after so many years faded a lot.

She asked: “Did someone beat you up?”

Covering the bruises on his face, Li Zhao Yang gave a silly smile and asked: “Are you worried about me?”

Lv Jing Zhu: “[??? Where did he even get that idea!]”

Li Man Zhi: “[… Did this cousin of Yu Xi’s get his brain beaten silly?]”

Rolling her eyes, Lv Jing Zhu said helplessly: “I am just curious which righteous hero was so strong that they beat you into this sorry state. They are a model for all of us. It really makes me happy.”

Hearing this, Li Zhao Yang not only did not get angry, he became even more excited: “You think so highly of her. Do you want to meet her? She really wants to see you too.”

Lv Jing Zhu: “[… Does this guy not understand human speech? How did I never notice before that talking to him was so hard!]”

Li Man Zhi looked at him with sympathy. [Sure enough, his brain really was beaten silly. He was already starting to talk nonsense.]

“Mama…”

The air between the two of them was very tense when a young child’s voice suddenly sounded from behind them.

“Yi Heng.” Lv Jing Zhu instinctively pulled her son behind her, afraid that Li Zhao Yang would see him. Then she grabbed the child’s hand and was about to leave.

But Li Zhao Yang had come today exactly for the mother and son. How could he watch them disappear right in front of him? He took a big step forward, rushed in front of them, and said with a shameless grin: “Are you not going to introduce us?”

“There is no need. It is getting late. We are going home. Please move aside, mister.”

Hurt by her cold and distant attitude, Li Zhao Yang let out a slightly sad sigh and said: “Jing Zhu, I know I was wrong back then. I only later found out that the person who slept with me that night was you. That woman lied to me. I thought I had really done something to betray you, so when you said you wanted to break up, I…”

“Enough! If you really did not do anything, how could you not doubt her at all when she lied to you? I think you already had those dirty thoughts, you just did not have the guts. Then you drank, the alcohol made a coward brave, and your true nature came out at once!”

What Lv Jing Zhu said was actually a bit like robber logic. One would think that this time Li Zhao Yang would definitely get angry.

But his brain worked differently from other people’s. Hearing her words, his face suddenly turned red. He touched his cheek, his mood a little dreamy, and said: “So you could tell. I really did have dirty thoughts about you but not the courage. I never thought that drinking that night would be so strong that I would end up having a child with you…”

Lv Jing Zhu: “[… What are you proud of? How can someone be this shameless!]”

Watching from the side, the corners of Li Man Zhi’s mouth twitched nonstop. She felt more and more that this cheap cousin of hers was truly a piece of work.

No matter what the girl said to him, he could twist it into something he could accept. It was like punching a pile of cotton. It was enough to suffocate someone.

The tug-of-war between the two of them continued. The line of luxury cars had been parked at the kindergarten gate for too long, and more and more parents, like Li Man Zhi, stayed to watch the scene.

Li Man Zhi had only watched the show for a short while when she heard two older ladies who had come to pick up their grandchildren whispering together and pointing at the two people involved.

“Young people these days have so many tricks. They already have a child, and they still put on such a big show. It really opens the eyes of us old ladies.”

“But I heard Mama Yang from the next class say that the child’s mother got pregnant before marriage when she was very young and raised the child all by herself. I never heard that the child had a father.”

The elder lady who started the topic suddenly opened her eyes wide: “Pregnant before marriage? No father? Then this man is… could they be…”

Seeing that their talk was about to run toward guessing some improper relationship between the young couple, Li Man Zhi quickly spoke up to cut them off: “Aunties, it really is not like what you think. I have a relative who knows these two. That man really is the child’s biological father, it is just…”

“Just…” The two grandmothers smelled gossip and focused all their attention at once.

“It is just that they had a misunderstanding before…”

Li Man Zhi had meant to tell them that Li Zhao Yang and Lv Jing Zhu really had been boyfriend and girlfriend before. But because some scheming people set them up, the girl misunderstood and thought the boy was two-timing her, so she ran away while pregnant.

But the two grandmothers only heard half of what she said. When they heard that the man had been seeing two girls at once, their attitude changed one hundred and eighty degrees at once.

“Oh my, that is way too awful. He actually dated two girls at the same time. He already had a girlfriend and still fooled around. You cannot want a man like that. Little girl, do not be softhearted. Two-legged frogs are hard to find, but two-legged men are everywhere. You do not need to hang yourself on one tree.”

“Exactly. If he is already doing this while dating, would he not be even worse after getting married? You must not let him sweet-talk you into giving in. How does a scumbag like this deserve a wife?”

Li Man Zhi: “[… No, let me finish talking first! (Erkang hand)]”

Li Zhao Yang: “[??? What is going on? I did not offend these aunties, did I? Why does it feel like someone is dragging me down?!]”

“Jing Zhu, it is not what you think. I have only ever been with you. That woman is a liar, she…”

“I do not care what your relationship is. Move.”

“Mama, who is this uncle?”

Seeing that talking to Lv Jing Zhu was not working, Li Zhao Yang tried to take a roundabout path: “Hello, child. I am your papa.”

“Li Zhao Yang, do not go too far. Who allowed you to claim a child at random? My son has nothing to do with you.”

“Jing Zhu, I already checked everything before I came. He really is…”

Li Zhao Yang’s words did not calm Lv Jing Zhu down. Instead, they made her even more agitated. The fear of losing her child filled her mind and made her instinctively want to stop Li Zhao Yang from going on.

“I told you not to say another word!” Lv Jing Zhu grabbed the bouquet of roses in Li Zhao Yang’s hand, treated it like a weapon, and hit him hard on the head several times.

In an instant, petals flew everywhere, and someone’s face became even more colorful.

It had only been a moment of impulse. When Lv Jing Zhu calmed down and realized she had caused trouble, she quickly threw the flowers on the ground, picked up her child, and ran away.

Li Zhao Yang stood there stunned for a few seconds from the beating. When he came back to his senses, he hurriedly chased after them. If nothing unexpected happened, the classic scene of him chasing and her running, with her having nowhere to escape, would soon play out.

Li Man Zhi clearly saw all of this. While sighing that Mr. Li still had a long road ahead in winning back his wife and needed to keep working hard, she shamelessly sent everything that had happened at the school gate to the family group chat so everyone could watch the fun together.

And so, all the members of the Du family who had already gone home early and were waiting for dinner felt their phones vibrate at the same time. They took them out and looked…

“Pfft…”