Chapter 103: Li Meiqing’s Furious Demand for Divorce
Security Guard: “…”
The security guard had seen too many social climbers in his time. The people living in this villa district were either rich or influential, and people trying to exploit connections showed up at the gates constantly.
Furthermore, the homeowner himself had explicitly stated he didn’t know them. If the guard actually let them in, that would be a true dereliction of duty!
Never mind his five-figure salary.
Even his job would be toast!
Standing behind the gate, the security guard looked at the couple and said, “I truly do not know who you two are, but the homeowner you mentioned said he doesn’t know you. Therefore, I cannot let you in.”
Li Meiqing nearly collapsed from rage.
She glared at the guard with resentful eyes before looking past him at the cluster of villas inside. Her words were ground out through clenched teeth, sounding as if they were dipped in venom.
“That unfilial wretch!”
“I gave birth to him and raised him! I gave him his very life! To think he actually won’t come home and has abandoned his parents all for the sake of a man! Giving birth to him was worse than giving birth to a wooden club!”
“Why doesn’t he just die already? Get hit by a car or drown in a river! Any death would be better than living like a beast right now!”
The security guard was stunned as he listened. His relationship with his own parents wasn’t great, but they had certainly never cursed him to die like that.
The homeowner inside didn’t look like a bad person; in fact, he often did charity work. He didn’t seem like the type to be truly unfilial. Could there be some misunderstanding, or were his parents just mentally unstable?
Or perhaps these two weren’t his parents at all?
Whatever the case, the guard didn’t care. His job was to guard the gate.
Since the homeowner said he didn’t know them, then whether they actually knew each other or not, he had to treat them as strangers.
Li Meiqing cursed for a long time.
And she cursed loudly.
She knew Huo Chen’s house wasn’t far from the entrance of the complex. She wanted to scream; it would be best if Huo Chen heard it, if everyone heard it, so everyone would know exactly what kind of character Huo Chen had!
However, things didn’t go as she wished.
No matter how foul or loud Li Meiqing’s cursing became, Huo Chen never showed his face. Not even a shadow appeared by the windows of the first or second floor of the villa visible from the gate.
The guard tried persuading them and tried being stern, but he just couldn’t drive them away and ended up receiving a barrage of insults himself.
Tsk.
The recruitment process for security in this district was very strict. He had undergone a lot of training when he first started and had memorized the homeowners of every villa and their family members.
He knew exactly who this Huo Chen was that the couple was looking for. The recent news online had been a massive uproar, and he had heard about it. But he only followed the gossip; it was hard to say who was right or wrong.
After all, the lives of the wealthy were a mess.
But setting everything else aside, if people said this woman was a control freak, he truly believed it.
She had stood here cursing for so long, and almost every sentence was an accusation about how disobedient and unfilial Huo Chen was. Those words were truly suffocating to hear.
Moreover, for someone dressed so expensively—someone who looked like a high-society lady—she could curse so filthily.
Indeed, wealth could not mask one’s true nature.
“Stop it!”
Huo Chengzhang, a man who loved his dignity, was very sensitive to the gazes and comments of others. He soon noticed the security guard’s mood and hissed at Li Meiqing to stop.
Li Meiqing was in the middle of a roll, as if all the grievances and humiliations she had suffered over the past few days were being vented through her words.
Suddenly hearing Huo Chengzhang tell her to shut up, she thought he wanted to give Huo Chen face.
Or perhaps he was feeling sorry for Huo Chen.
“I won’t! For an ungrateful wolf like that, what’s there to feel sorry for or give face to! I want everyone to know that Huo Chen is an unfilial son who disrespects his parents!”
“I want to make it impossible for him to live here!”
“Look at the life we’ve been living these past few days! We’ve suffered endless disdain while he actually has the nerve to enjoy his life here!”
“By what right?!”
Huo Chengzhang felt utterly humiliated. He was about to say something when he saw people coming out of several nearby villas. One person with a short temper directly started shouting through a small megaphone.
“What’s all this noise! We can’t even have a peaceful New Year!”
“Can the security guard do his job or not! If you can’t stop them, don’t you know how to call the police?!”
This time, Huo Chengzhang truly felt he had lost face. The security guard didn’t matter—he was an inferior—but the people inside the villa district were not inferiors. Although they might not compare to the Huo family, they were still people of status.
“Slap—!!”
“Enough! Shut your mouth right now!”
Huo Chengzhang slapped Li Meiqing without hesitation. The crisp sound of the slap was deafening to Li Meiqing, leaving her dazed and her cheek burning with pain.
“Huo Chengzhang, you hit me?”
Li Meiqing’s voice was full of disbelief.
In all their years of marriage, they were said to be incredibly affectionate and treated each other with mutual respect. Let alone hitting her, Huo Chengzhang had rarely even spoken a harsh word to her.
Now, he actually slapped her in the face?
“You dare blame me for hitting you! What were you doing, screaming like that in broad daylight! You don’t have the slightest bit of grace expected of a high-society lady. You’ve utterly disgraced the Huo family!”
Huo Chengzhang’s words were sharp, and his tone was full of condemnation.
But in reality, he was the one who suggested coming to Huo Chen’s place today. If he truly felt it was disgraceful, he wouldn’t have let Li Meiqing stand outside and curse from the beginning.
It was only because he was now receiving disdainful looks and felt humiliated that he hit Li Meiqing. He felt that by striking first, only Li Meiqing would be the disgraceful one, and he was just an unfortunate bystander.
Li Meiqing and Huo Chengzhang had always gotten along reasonably well.
For so many years, she and Huo Chengzhang had worked in perfect tandem to keep Huo Chen under their thumb. With just one look from Huo Chengzhang, she would know what he meant.
Just like now.
She knew something was probably wrong and that Huo Chengzhang wanted her to retreat.
But Li Meiqing had had enough these past few days. She had thought that removing Huo Chen from his position as chairman of the Huo Group was a threat—a way to teach him a lesson.
She had it all planned out.
As long as Huo Chen admitted his mistake and was willing to break ties with Lin Huaizhi, she would let him return to the Huo family and the Huo Group to continue as chairman.
She never intended to let anyone else take over the Huo Group.
Huo Chen’s surname was Huo; he belonged to the Huo family. No matter how rebellious or disobedient he was, as long as the Huo Group was in his hands, it was essentially in theirs.
Who knew that Huo Chen wouldn’t admit his mistake.
Not only did he not admit it, but he had also completely broken off with them. Now, the Huo Group had fallen into someone else’s hands, and projects were failing one after another.
Everyone was mocking and ridiculing them, calling them fools for handing over their own company to outsiders.
And because of this matter, they had fallen out with their own son. They were stupid beyond belief.
However, those were just external voices.
The one whose life was truly difficult was Li Meiqing. Because her cards were restricted, her life as a wealthy socialite had come to an end. This time, many wealthy ladies actually started inviting her out.
But not to comfort her.
But to mock her.
Li Meiqing only felt agony. She had no money left for beauty treatments, and she didn’t dare accept any invitations.
This kind of life was suffocating her.
She was under high pressure and misery every day, and now, Huo Chengzhang had actually hit her.
Her ears were ringing.
Her emotions hit their breaking point in an instant—
“Huo Chengzhang! You actually hit me!! You actually dared to hit me! I want a divorce!!”
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