Mr. Song, you have crossed the line.

Lu Peichuan immediately stood up and grabbed Bai Yuxiu, "Mom, what are you doing?"

Bai Yuxiu was furious, her chest heaving violently. She glared at Lu Peichuan and said angrily, "So that's why you didn't go to the blind date I arranged for you tonight. You were having dinner with this vixen."

Lu Peichuan's face darkened, and he lowered his voice, saying, "Mom, what are you doing? There are so many people watching."

Bai Yuxiu noticed that everyone around them was staring at them. In her anger, she didn't think things through and even thought it was better this way. She raised her voice and shouted, "Everyone, come and see! It's this vixen..."

As she spoke, she pointed at Rong Zheng, "She's already divorced from my son, but she can't bear to give up her life of wealth and luxury, yet she shamelessly clings to my son."

People around immediately started pointing and whispering.

"This is so shameless, still clinging to me even after the divorce."

"Didn't you hear what she said? She couldn't bear to give up a life of luxury. She's probably from a poor family."

"But you can't abandon all basic human decency for money, can you?"

Rong Zheng was caught off guard and slapped hard across the face. By the time she recovered, she had become the target of everyone's criticism.

She stood up, looking coldly at Bai Yuxiu, "I have never bothered your son!"

Bai Yuxiu pointed at Rong Zheng's nose and said, "I heard it with my own ears just now. You want to get back together with my son? And you still want to deny it?"

Rong Zheng frowned. "I wanted to tell your son that there's absolutely no chance of them getting back together!"

Lu Peichuan originally wanted to pull Bai Yuxiu away, but upon hearing Rong Zheng's words, he stared at her blankly.

Bai Yuxiu scoffed coldly, her voice full of sarcasm, "Last time you seduced Pei Chuan so much that he neglected his company and rushed to Beijing to take care of you. This time you traveled all the way here to have dinner with him. You say you don't want to get back together? Do you even believe that yourself? If I hadn't come, were you planning to seduce him into going to a hotel after dinner?"

Rong Zheng was almost amused by Bai Yuxiu's vivid imagination. "This meal was your son's insistence. I just came to pick up the things he bought for Tangtang."

"Take something?" Bai Yuxiu sneered. "Where is it?"

Rong Zheng paused for a moment.

"Speechless now, aren't you?" Bai Yuxiu looked at Rong Zheng with a contemptuous expression that seemed to say, "I know exactly what you're up to." "Trying to use your daughter as an excuse to pester Pei Chuan? Don't even think about it. He's just a money-loser; the Lu family doesn't need him!"

She could tolerate being insulted, but she couldn't tolerate being cursed at Tangtang!

Rong Zheng took two steps forward and slapped Bai Yuxiu across the face.

Lu Peichuan's eyes narrowed sharply, not expecting Rong Zheng to attack his mother.

Bai Yuxiu never expected that Rong Zheng, who had been so meek and subservient to her before, would dare to hit her. After a brief moment of shock, a surge of anger welled up inside her. "You bitch, how dare you hit me! I'll tear you apart today!" she said, lunging at Rong Zheng.

Rong Zheng took two steps back, picked up the red wine on the table, and splashed it directly onto Bai Yuxiu's face.

Bai Yuxiu's face was splashed with red liquid, her vision blurred for a moment. The red liquid dripped down her exquisitely made-up face and onto her luxurious clothes. One moment she was a refined lady, the next she was a disheveled drowned rat.

She wiped the wine from her face, looking like a raging tigress, her eyes bloodshot, veins bulging on her forehead and neck. She roared through gritted teeth, "I'm going to kill you!"

Rong Zheng looked coldly at Lu Peichuan, who was in a daze, and said, "Are you just going to let your mother act like this?"

Lu Peichuan grabbed Bai Yuxiu, who was about to rush forward again, and coldly rebuked her, "Enough! Aren't you ashamed?"

Bai Yuxiu looked at Lu Peichuan, the son she had raised with such hardship, feeling both angry and aggrieved. Tears streamed down her face. "I'm your mother! This bitch has bullied me like this, and you're still siding with her?"

People around them were talking about it.

"This man is really infatuated with that woman; he doesn't even care about his own mother."

"I don't think she was being difficult. If she really wanted to be difficult, she wouldn't have had such a bad falling out with her mother-in-law."

"Who knows? There are plenty of people these days who want to have their cake and eat it too."

Hearing the surrounding whispers, Lu Peichuan's face darkened completely, his eyes blazing with suppressed anger. "You think the company is too normal, is that it?"

Bai Yuxiu's heart skipped a beat. She realized that if this matter were to escalate, it would likely affect the company's stock. Although she was so angry that she wanted to kill someone, she could only try her best to hold back.

Lu Peichuan pulled Bai Yuxiu toward the restaurant entrance.

Bai Yuxiu kept turning back to glare at Rong Zheng as she walked. If looks could kill, she would have killed Rong Zheng countless times over.

That evening, Rong Zheng sat on the carpet next to the coffee table, organizing the research materials from the day. Her cell phone rang; it was Wei Shuyan calling.

Rong Zheng put down the documents and answered the phone, "Sister Rong, why are you back in Jiangcheng?"

How did you know I went back to Jiangcheng?

"A video of you arguing with your ex-husband's mother has been uploaded online. Is your ex-husband's mother sick? She hit you without even asking what happened. That's too much. Luckily, you stood up for yourself and slapped her back. That was super powerful and domineering."

Rong Zheng frowned. Why were these people so idle, spreading everything online?

"Are you alright?" Wei Shuyan asked with concern.

"It's okay. I have work in Jiangcheng, not for Lu Peichuan." Rong Zheng may not care about other people's opinions, but Wei Shuyan is someone she cares about, and she doesn't want her to misunderstand her.

"Yes, I believe you. We don't want scumbags who cheat on their wives."

Wei Shuyan was referring to "us"; in her heart, they were all one.

Although it was just a short sentence, it instantly brightened Rong Zheng's cloudy mood, and the two chatted for a while before hanging up.

Rong Zheng continued organizing the documents. A moment later, her phone on the coffee table rang again. She glanced at it and saw that it was a video call from Song Shiyan.

This was the first time Song Shiyan had sent her a video.

Besides, when she was having dinner with Lu Peichuan, didn't he just call her? It's only been two or three hours, why is he sending her a video again?

Rong Zheng suddenly became a little nervous. She quickly put down the documents in her hand, looked down at her clothes, and thought, "Hmm, normal, no problem." She straightened her clothes and smoothed her hair. Just as she was about to answer the video call, she felt that sitting on the carpet seemed inappropriate, so she quickly picked up her phone and got up to sit on the sofa.

She held up her phone with the camera pointed at herself, but then felt it was too deliberate, so she sat back down on the carpet, rested her phone against the tissue box, held the documents in her hand, and then answered the video call.

Soon, Song Shiyan's aloof and ascetic face appeared in the shot. He was wearing a smoky gray shirt and sitting in an office chair. The environment behind him seemed to be his home study.

"Brother Yan, why did you send me a video? Is something wrong?"