In the past, his clothes were washed clean every single day, and his work uniforms were always neatly pressed by her.
But now, things had changed. When he returned today, he discovered that all the clothes he had taken off were piled up in the small study—she hadn’t washed any of them at all.
Li Yue treated Lu Xiao as if he were air, going about her business as usual.
She found their marriage certificate, tucked it into her bag, then climbed into bed, lay on her side, and reached out to turn off the lamp.
“Li Yue, have you lost your mind?” Lu Xiao’s temples throbbed, veins bulging at his temples as he strode over and switched the light back on.
Seeing that the person on the bed hadn’t even taken off her shoes, Lu Xiao angrily yanked her up.
“Speak,” he said, his grip tightening slightly around Li Yue’s wrist.
Li Yue’s foot was poised to strike.
Lu Xiao seemed to sense her movement and immediately leaned over her, using his leg to pin down her restless one.
This time, Li Yue began to struggle.
How dare he press down on her like this? It disgusted her to the core.
“You dirty pervert, let go of me now, get off—disgusting, you reek of fox stench.”
Li Yue thrashed wildly, never expecting this scumbag to break the usual script and dare to pin her down.
It infuriated her.
Lu Xiao looked down at the restless figure beneath him, one large hand tightly gripping her two slender wrists.
Feeling how easily he could hold both wrists in his hand, Lu Xiao paused for a moment.
It seemed he hadn’t expected her to be so thin.
“Didn’t you say I’m not a man? I’ll show you whether I am or not…”
Li Yue’s frightened pupils trembled. “Lu Xiao, if you dare touch me, I’ll report you. Even between husband and wife, forcing yourself on someone without their consent is still rape.”
She was gambling—betting that Lu Xiao was acting on a whim, feeling his pride wounded after she, who had always endured everything, suddenly asked for a divorce.
That’s why this idea had come to him in the heat of the moment.
Sure enough, after she finished speaking, the clarity gradually returned to Lu Xiao’s eyes.
Just then, Feng Jing’s voice, tinged with tears, came from the doorway.
“Second Brother~ What are you doing?”
Hearing her voice, Lu Xiao immediately released his grip on Li Yue.
Li Yue looked up toward the door and saw Feng Jing staring at Lu Xiao in disbelief, as if he had committed some unforgivable sin.
A flicker of cunning flashed in her eyes.
As Lu Xiao’s expression shifted to urgency and he moved to get off the bed, she grabbed him and pulled him back down beside her.
The spring mattress emitted a faint, strained creak.
She smiled at Feng Jing. “Sister-in-law, what’s the matter? Are we, a married couple, not allowed to sleep? Do you want to watch a live show?”
Lu Xiao was stunned.
Feng Jing even forgot to cry.
Neither of them could understand how Li Yue’s mouth could utter such shameless words.
Recovering her senses, Feng Jing covered her face, turned, and ran away.
“Xiao Jing~” Lu Xiao instinctively moved to chase after her.
Li Yue took the opportunity to release the scumbag’s wrist.
“Li Yue, you made Xiao Jing cry again,” Lu Xiao said, his steady eyes filled with gloom.
“Go chase her. Your Xiao Jing is jealous, tsk tsk. Why don’t you just marry her after we divorce? Remember, we’re getting divorced tomorrow. Go on, go on, close the door on your way out.” Li Yue waved at Lu Xiao as if shooing away a dog.
She rolled over, clutching the pepper spray in her hand.
If he dared touch her again, she’d make him suffer.
Fortunately, Lu Xiao seemed genuinely worried about Feng Jing getting hurt, as he actually left the room and thoughtfully closed the door behind him.
Only then did Li Yue quickly jump off the bed, slide the bolt shut, and twist the small lock.
At that moment, an inexplicable emotion surged in her chest.
She knew it was the original host's residual feelings acting up. Clutching her chest, she slipped into the Dimension.
"Men are all worthless pigs. Don't be sad. I'll find you someone better in the future. A scumbag like him deserves to be locked down with a trashy woman like Feng Jing."
After saying this, she wasn't sure if it was her imagination, but her racing heart seemed to return to normal.
She took off her clothes, took a hot shower, and curled up on the sofa to rest.
While at it, she counted the money she had.
From the Lu Family, she had taken exactly 170,000 in large bills, over 3,000 in small change, plus the 5,000 from "selling her kidney" and Feng Jing's 2,700.
In total, it was a little over 180,000.
After much thought, she decided to open a hotpot restaurant first. If the shop was cheap, she would buy one; if it was expensive, she would rent one.
She would discuss it with Gu Huaichuan later.
The most urgent matter now was getting a divorce. She needed to find some leverage over Lu Xiao, or she felt he wouldn't agree to it easily.
All these messy thoughts gave her a headache. Bored, she turned on the TV, but it was all static.
Her phone had no internet either.
Suddenly having nothing to do, she didn't know what to occupy herself with. She read some novels she had previously cached on her phone for a while.
Just as Li Yue was about to sleep, she accidentally stumbled upon the video she had recorded last night.
Thinking of Feng Jing, she recalled Li Shaohua's evasive eyes from earlier that evening.
Could she really be Li Shaohua's illegitimate daughter?
Suddenly, an ear-splitting, roof-lifting wail came from outside, startling Li Yue awake and wiping away any sleepiness.
She hurriedly put on her ankle-length T-shirt, quickly returned from the Dimension to reality, and rushed out of the bedroom, pulling the door open.
Coincidentally, Lu Qing was also coming downstairs at that moment.
She asked, "What happened?"
Li Yue shook her head. "I don't know."
Lu Xiao emerged from Feng Xiao Jing's room, and when Feng Xiao Jing came out, she was straightening her clothes.
Li Yue felt as if she had discovered a new continent.
"Adultery during marriage, Lu Xiao. You should leave with nothing."
Lu Xiao was about to open his mother's bedroom door when he suddenly heard Li Yue's voice. He turned around, his eyes filled with undisguised disgust. "Who do you think you are?"
He had almost fallen for her trick earlier.
Just as Xiao Jing had said, Li Yue was causing all sorts of drama to get his attention.
And she had succeeded in getting his attention.
But it only made him despise her even more.
"Don't think that just because you've changed your attitude, I'll pay any attention to you. Dream on. You'll never be worthy in this lifetime."
"Pfft—what a shameless man. You just got out of your widow sister-in-law's bed, and now you're cursing me? Wipe your mouth clean before you speak. Disgusting. Ugh—"
Li Yue deliberately pretended to gag.
Furious, Lu Xiao was about to explode, but fortunately, Li Shaohua's suppressed sobs came from the room again.
Lu Qing, now captivated by Li Yue's words, scrutinized Feng Jing.
She noticed that Feng Jing's clothes were indeed disheveled, and she was staying silent out of guilt.
"Second Brother, you're disgusting," Lu Qing said with disdain, pushing Lu Xiao aside and walking straight into the bedroom.
Inside the bedroom.
Li Shaohua was clutching her empty secret compartment drawer, crying as if her heart would break.
"Tell me. Where has all my money gone? I don't care, you have to pay me back. Pay me back…"
She sat on the floor like a child, rubbing her feet, throwing a tantrum, rolling around—she tried every trick in the book, but Lu Jianguo remained seated on the bed, silent.
Where would he know where the money had gone? He wanted to know where the account book had disappeared to himself.
Lu Jianguo glanced at Feng Jing by the door, hoping it wasn’t her colluding with outsiders.
If he ever found evidence, she shouldn’t blame him for being ruthless…
“Mom. Last night, my sister-in-law came into this room. In the middle of the night. My other sister-in-law caught her red-handed.”
Lu Qing felt heartbroken watching her mother cry. Even though her mother hadn’t treated her well these past two years, they say a mother and daughter share a heart, and she believed it was true.
Otherwise, why would she also feel an uncontrollable urge to cry when her mother wept?
Hearing this, Li Shaohua’s sobbing abruptly stopped.
She stared blankly at Lu Qing. “Who did you say?”
“My sister-in-law. In the middle of the night, while you were away, she went into your room rummaging through everything. My other sister-in-law saw it all.”
Lu Qing repeated it once more.
In that brief moment, Li Shaohua regained a bit of her composure, but she still couldn’t withstand the shock. As she tried to get up from the floor, perhaps due to a sudden lack of blood flow to her brain, she fell straight backward.
Lu Qing, who was closest to her, instinctively stepped aside, clearing a space for her mother to land.