Chapter 260
Chapter 260: Don’t Be So Sure
Du De Sheng also felt like he had taken a president-level critical hit from Du An Rao’s words. But when he thought back to their back-and-forth just now, even if she had exaggerated a bit, the main point was almost the same as what the two of them had just been saying.
His face darkened at once, and he slammed his cane on the floor twice, fully showing his anger.
He snapped: “You and your families, do you have some problem with my Du family or with me, Du De Sheng? You picked my big happy day on purpose to pull this stunt, you just can’t stand to see me happy, is that it? Fine, fine. Since you want to make my life hard, then none of you should think about having it easy. A’Miao, tell our people that from now on, these two families, and all their relatives and friends, are to be added to our blacklist. Every business under our name is to refuse them entry!”
“No, don’t!” Madam Shen and Madam Kou had never thought that just a few sentences from Du An Rao would be enough for Du De Sheng to hand down a death sentence like this.
On the surface, all he did was put their families on his business blacklist. It did not look like any real harm to them. But in the Imperial Capital, every move these big shots made was a sign of which way the wind was blowing for high society and even other circles.
What Du De Sheng had just done was clearly telling the outside world that their two families had badly offended him. Anyone who dealt with them would be standing against him, Du De Sheng.
That way, without even needing to lift another finger, plenty of people would happily give him face and kick those two families while they were down. For those families, this was no doubt a disaster that could drown them.
The two women only had to think of the consequences of this order, and of the anger waiting for them at home from their husbands and relatives, and their vision went black. Their whole bodies shook uncontrollably.
“Elder Du, please listen to us explain. It’s not like what this girl said, we really didn’t mean it that way.”
“Then what did you mean?”
“I… we…” Madam Shen’s face went pale. She was flustered and panicked, and in her rush she did something even dumber. She pointed straight at Du An Rao and shouted: “She’s lying! We didn’t say those things at all just now. All of that… all of that was made up by her!”
“Yes!” Madam Kou quickly understood what Madam Shen was trying to do and hurried to agree: “We really didn’t say those things just now. I don’t know why she would say this kind of thing to smear us, but this really isn’t like what you think, Elder Du. Please, see the truth.”
Listening to their defense, Du De Sheng did not say whether he believed them or not. He only turned his head to look at Du An Rao.
“An An, they say you framed them on purpose. What do you say?”
“What did I frame them for?” Du An Rao blinked, looking innocent. “Was it that you didn’t call my grandmother a fox spirit and an embarrassment, or that you didn’t say my grandfather would definitely suffer in the future because he married such a wife?”
She stared at Madam Shen for a while, then suddenly understood.
“I get it now. Your husband has women outside and keeps his proper wife at home. You, on the other hand, are keeping seven or eight male models and three or four young college boys. The two of you play your own games, and your marriage is a hollow shell, so you don’t believe there is such a thing as loyal, lifelong love in this world. I can understand that.”
“But the worst thing in this world is thinking ‘because I am like this, the whole world is like this.’ You hit everyone with the same stick. Just because you can’t do it, you assume no one else can either. Isn’t that a bit too overbearing?”
The people watching around them were suddenly hit with a huge piece of gossip, and they all looked stunned. Auntie in Yellow in particular, once she realized Du De Sheng did not seem to be lumping her in with the other two, relaxed all over. She instantly switched into eager-melon-eating-onlooker mode.
Right now her face was full of excitement at this big scoop, and her eyes were shining.
“Madam Shen, you…” Madam Kou also stared in shock, eyes wide. She pointed at Madam Shen, her face full of disbelief.
You had to know, Madam Shen usually loved bragging the most about how good her relationship with her husband was, how much he doted on her and their child, how he remembered every kind of anniversary and always prepared all kinds of gifts for her with great care. And now it turned out all of that was fake?!
Not only had her husband already cheated long ago, she herself had put a whole pile of green hats on him. This was really…
Facing all the shocked, curious, or mocking looks around her, Madam Shen was both scared and furious: “You’re talking nonsense, you’re talking nonsense! My husband and I are not like what you said at all, we…”
“How are you not like that? Is it that your husband doesn’t have a bunch of mistresses outside, number four, five, and six, or that you haven’t secretly kept male models and college boys?”
“None of that!!!”
“Don’t be so sure of your words.” Compared to Madam Shen, who was almost jumping with rage, Du An Rao looked calm and relaxed.
“Do you know why your husband didn’t come to my granduncle’s wedding with you today?”
“He…” A bad feeling suddenly rose in Madam Shen’s heart, but she still tried to lie to herself: “He’s very busy. He didn’t have time to come to this kind of social event.”
“Busy? How busy? Busier than the big bosses worth tens or hundreds of billions?”
Only today did Du An Rao get a clear idea of just how wide her granduncle’s network was. Of the guests who came to his wedding banquet today, she had already seen more than half of them on TV before.
There were even some bosses from all over the place, each carrying titles like richest man in some city, richest man in some district, or richest man in some country.
No matter how busy Madam Shen’s husband was, could he really be busier than these people?
“You already have a guess in your heart. You just don’t want to believe it, right?” Du An Rao looked at the paper-white face of Madam Shen, and a bit of sympathy showed in her eyes.
“The reason your husband didn’t come to the wedding with you today is that his little N just happened to be having a baby today. He had to be there with her for the delivery, so he didn’t have time to come with you.”
“Impossible!” As soon as the words left Du An Rao’s mouth, it was like something sharp stabbed into Madam Shen. She screamed: “I don’t believe it! He promised me that in this life he would only have one child, our Mengmeng!”
Mengmeng was the daughter of Madam Shen and her husband. What she said was no different from admitting that what Du An Rao had just said was true. The air instantly turned awkward.
But right now Madam Shen had no mind left to keep denying it. All she could think about was confirming whether her husband had kept that promise from back then or not.
Seeing her like this, Du An Rao could not help sighing: “By this time, the baby is probably already born. It’s a boy.”
Madam Shen’s eyes shrank. Her straight back seemed to suddenly be crushed by something and went limp. She staggered and almost fell.
Auntie in Yellow, who had been quietly hiding behind the two of them like a wallflower, hoping not to be dragged into this as a little salted-fish victim, finally couldn’t hold back her pity and stepped up to support her.
“You… are you okay…” she started.
Before she could finish, she saw that Madam Shen’s eyes were full of tears and her rims were completely red.