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Chapter 36 You're the one who ruined my life
Liang Jiang was taken aback, having been preoccupied with Lu Xingzhan's rambling, and was startled by the sudden turn of events.

In the past, when Lu Xingzhan came, Yu Ma would consciously stand guard in the yard. Today, everyone was too complacent, and since Fang Chengxu was originally a martial artist, no one noticed him entering the yard.

When confronted with Fang Chengxu's questioning, she retorted sarcastically, "What's it to you?"

"We just got divorced!"

"Aren't you getting married in a couple of days? No, your baby's almost a month old. I'm still far behind."

Fang Chengxu choked: "At least I'm upright and honest, unlike you guys who hide things!"

Liang Jiang seemed to have heard the funniest joke: "You openly and honestly brought Tong Zhao'er into the Fang family, and even made me take care of her with such concern, and you felt no guilt or shame at all. It can only be said that you, Fang Chengxu, are utterly shameless!"

"You've already invited your lover into your home, and you're still talking to me about propriety and shame?"

Lu Xingzhan, who was enjoying watching the two's verbal sparring, coughed lightly when Fang Chengxu mentioned him and earnestly corrected him: "I can't be considered an adulterer yet, I'm working on it."

Liang Jiang rolled her eyes at him: "Who I associate with is my own business. Fang Chengxu, it has nothing to do with you."

"But this is my home! Shouldn't you at least be a little more discreet?"

“No,” Lu Xingzhan chimed in, gesturing towards the property deed on the table, “This is my home now. I’m in my own house. Is there a problem?”

Fang Chengxu glared angrily at the property deed on the table, veins bulging on his forehead.

"You've conspired to seize my family fortune!"

“You’re being so rude,” Lu Xingzhan said, picking his ear. “I just saw that your Fang family was being too arrogant, so I bought this house to curry favor with her. I don’t care about your little bit of wealth.”

"You two have been in cahoots all along, haven't you? So the matter of the heart-saving pills was also a scheme you, Liang Jiang, orchestrated beforehand!"

Liang Jiang blinked in surprise: "Does this have anything to do with me? Or do I have connections that allow me to manipulate so many people to help me deceive your Fang family?"

"But why do you still have nitroglycerin pills? And why can you just give them away?"

"If you can buy these heart-saving pills, why can't I? A few hundred taels of silver is a huge sum for your Fang family, but for me it's just the cost of a cup of tea."

"However, I don't have your extensive information network, otherwise I would have bought them all, leaving not a single one. And that one used to save your child that day—I absolutely must charge you for it."

With just a few simple sentences, Fang Chengxu was rendered speechless. Even though he knew that this matter was definitely related to Liang Jiang, he could only swallow his anger.

"Then today's events must have been orchestrated by you, right? Otherwise, how could those people know so much about our Fang family's residence?"

Liang Jiang scoffed: "I have your IOU. If I wanted to take advantage of your ancestral home, why would I need to spend another four thousand taels? I could just let you pay off the debt directly."
Even if I did scheme against you, so what? Did I force you to do anything? Wasn't it your own choice? I solved your immediate problem; shouldn't you be grateful to me?

Fang Chengxu choked again.

"But it's a fact that I'm now penniless."

"You went bankrupt? Was it because of me? It was because your Fang family was greedy, opportunistic, and wanted to marry Tong Zhao'er."

“Yes, a calf pulling a cart! A dog trying to bite the moon, a dung beetle trying to push a mountain—you’re overestimating yourself,” Lu Xingzhan agreed.

"Shut up! If you hadn't schemed against me, how could I have ended up in this state?"

Liang Jiang sneered: "If it weren't for me taking care of your family this past year, not only would you be bankrupt, but your mother might not even have survived to this day! How dare you say such a thing?"

Lu Xingzhan clicked his tongue repeatedly: "If I had known you, Fang Chengxu, would be so ungrateful, I would never have been willing to generously spend money to buy your dilapidated house. Liang Jiang doesn't care for it. Sigh, I was just being presumptuous." Fang Chengxu's eyes turned red with anger, feeling more aggrieved than ever before, with no way to express his suffering.

He then realized that the woman opposite him was incredibly clever.

It was clearly she who orchestrated all of this behind the scenes, making me willingly walk into her trap, step by step losing everything, yet I couldn't say a word, and even had to be grateful to her, thankful for her tolerance and generosity, and grateful for her help.

What's even more ridiculous is that just a few days ago, she simply softened her cold demeanor towards him, and he happily apologized and tried to appease her, wanting to get closer to her, having the illusion that their old feelings could be rekindled.

It was as if Liang Jiang had merely beckoned to him with a finger, and he, like a dog wagging its tail and begging for favors, was fawning over her in every way.

Feeling both ashamed and angry, Fang Chengxu immediately lost control of his emotions.

Lu Xingzhan's gloating infuriated him even more.

He vented all his anger on Lu Xingzhan: "This is a matter between my husband and me, why are you getting involved?"
Even if you really are the city lord, so what? You're just a merchant with a few stinking bucks! Seducing another man's wife, aren't you afraid of ruining your reputation?

Lu Xingzhan gave an exaggerated shiver: "I'm so scared! Since ancient times, the common people have never fought against the officials. I'm really afraid that Young Master Fang will use the General's Mansion to target me!"

Fang Chengxu heard the sarcasm in his words: "We'll see! I want to see how long you can keep laughing!"

Lu Xingzhan looked pitifully at Liang Jiang: "It seems I'll have to ask you to protect me from now on."

Liang Jiang sneered: "You've offended the General's Mansion. You're finished. I can't protect you anymore."

"You're such a heartless woman. Actually, Mr. Fang, I'm really not her lover. I just got caught up in this mess because I couldn't get the mutton. Forget it, I'm leaving. You two keep having fun."

Lu Xingzhan walked to the door, then turned back to mediate the fight:
"You two should calm down. You're not children anymore. Why are you arguing and bickering? Can't you sit down and calmly resolve things? A couple of slaps would have solved everything, wouldn't it?"

After saying that, he swaggered away.

What a disappointment!

Liang Jiang immediately gave the order to leave: "Aunt Yu, I'm tired, see you out."

Aunt Yu stepped forward: "Young Master Fang, please."

Fang Chengxu remained motionless, staring intently at Liang Jiang, and asked in a deep voice, "Liang Jiang, I just want to ask you, do you really hate me? Is that why you've gone to such lengths to take revenge on me?"

Liang Jiang stood up and said calmly, "So what if it is? So what if it isn't?"

"Even a day as husband and wife is a hundred days of kindness, do you really have to be so heartless and ruthless?"

Liang Jiang sneered: "I'm trying to wipe you out? Fang Chengxu, if I, Liang Jiang, didn't have the ability to protect myself, I would be a discarded woman now, and your Fang family has slandered my innocence. I would be the one truly being wiped out. And you still have the nerve to question me?"

"But you were drinking and chatting with me just a few days ago."

"And who is it that's spreading rumors that I, Liang Jiang, have been relentlessly pursuing you, begging for your pity? If my gentle manner towards you has caused any misunderstanding, I apologize. Please leave!"

Liang Jiang once again dismissed him, and Fang Chengxu felt as if he had been doused with ice water, leaving Tingzhu Garden dejectedly.

The servant who had been sent to inquire about the city lord had returned and was searching for him everywhere. Upon seeing him, he immediately reported:
"Young Master, we've found out the news."

Fang Chengxu forced himself to stay alert: "What did you find out?"

(End of this chapter)