In name only: I will break the chess game in Handong!

Mao Ya, who had been able to remain calm, was instantly enraged. She straightened up and looked down at Chen Hai, saying, "Chen Hai, what do you mean? Don't you know whether it's your child or not?"

"Now you actually agree to let me go to the hospital for testing? I'm an older mother, don't you know this will affect me and the baby?"

Or do you simply not care about the child in my belly?

Seeing Mao Ya's rejection, Chen Hai's anger was gradually ignited.

"What's wrong with sending you for testing? Whether this child is even mine is still uncertain! Let me tell you, this isn't up to you; you have to go whether you like it or not!"

"I'm not going! What can you do to me!"

Mao Ya isn't stupid. She herself isn't sure whose child it is. If it's Chen Hai's, that's fine. She can rely on the child to control Chen Hai for the rest of her life. But if the child isn't Chen Hai's but Wang Dalu's, she knows all too well how cold-blooded businessmen can be. She's afraid she'll be kicked aside as soon as she gives birth.

Therefore, she absolutely refuses to undergo any testing!

"How about it? Mao Ya, don't think I don't know what you've been up to all these years. Tea is selling well in Luzhou, isn't it?"

"What's the catch with tea costing tens of thousands of yuan per kilogram? Although I have no evidence, there will always be clues if you investigate!"

"Ha, go ahead and investigate. It's a mutual agreement. What's wrong with me selling tea for tens of thousands of yuan per kilogram?"

Mao Ya didn't care at all. This kind of thing was too secretive. Those businessmen weren't stupid. They had already made their profits. If they were to reveal the truth, they would not only have to give up what they had eaten, but they would also have to go to jail with them. Who would be willing to do that?

"Mao Ya! I'm asking you one more time, are you willing to get tested or not!"

"Then let me tell you clearly, don't even think about it!"

At this moment, they were evenly matched, neither willing to give in. Chen Hai's veins bulged, and his anger was about to erupt.

In the end, he held back.

Picking up his briefcase, Chen Hai slammed the door and left.

Watching Chen Hai's departing figure, Mao Ya sneered. She and Chen Hai had already completed their legal binding; they were now husband and wife, and divorce was impossible. Mao Ya would not give Chen Hai any chance.

As for money, does she lack it?

After leaving home, Chen Hai first went back to the nursing home to visit his mother, Wang Fuzhen, and his son, Xiao Piqiu. Then, around nine o'clock in the evening, he left again to go to a food stall and ordered some barbecue and beer.

He just drank like that...

Until a series of clicking sounds came.

"Tsk tsk, who was I drowning my sorrows in alcohol back then? It turns out to be our District Chief Chen."

I heard that District Chief Chen recently married Yi Xuexi's wife?

That woman must be almost fifty, right? You have such good teeth, I can't compare to you. All these years I've been associating with college students in their late teens and early twenties.

"Hey bro, I just don't understand. You're a golden bachelor, what kind of woman couldn't you find? Why are you so fixated on older women?"

Hou Liangping, very outgoing, sat opposite Chen Hai.

The two stared at each other, and Chen Hai felt as if he had been seen naked.

"Hou Liangping! You're like a persistent ghost, I run into you everywhere I go!"

"Hahaha, thank you for the compliment!"

Hou Liangping was very happy and took the initiative to pick up a glass, and then opened a bottle of beer from the table.

"Chen Hai, to be honest, my family and yours have a deep-seated grudge. We've retaliated against each other several times, and now it all seems so pointless!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Hai frowned.

"You were the one who provoked my family first!"

"I'm not going to argue with you, it's pointless. Neither of us is doing very well right now."

"You, Chen Hai, married an older woman you don't like. I, Hou Liangping, have lost my status as the Zhong family's son-in-law. From now on, it will be extremely difficult for me to reach a position at the ministerial level."

That's somewhat true.

Even Chen Hai wasn't in a hurry to catch up with Liang Ping.

"You know about Zhong Xiaoai's situation, right?"

Suddenly, Liangping brought up Zhong Xiaoai.

"I know. I've been transferred to the position of Chief Prosecutor of the Jingzhou Municipal People's Procuratorate, which is still a position at the level of a department director."

Hou Liangping nodded.

"People from big families are always superior. Even with all that, I was still able to become the chief prosecutor of the procuratorate. This position was originally reserved for me by the people behind me in a few years, but now I have to wait another two years."

However, I'm not in a hurry, after all, I've only been the head of the Anti-Corruption Bureau for less than a year.

"Are you here to show off to me?"

Chen Hai frowned.

"Show off? There's no need for that anymore. I've come to terms with it now. At this age, we're already incredibly lucky, one in a million. No matter how much you hate me, I'm going to just give up."

During this time, I met a pretty nice college girl. She's sexy and sweet, a hundred times sweeter than Zhong Xiaoai, and she's very obedient to me.

I plan to marry this girl in a while. I'm still young, only forty-two, and I can build a family centered around me. After all, we were classmates. I want to tell you not to dwell too much on the past, cherish the present, and like me, find someone young and beautiful to live a simple life.

Chen Hai remained silent for a moment. He could sense that Hou Liangping had indeed changed, but he was caught in a dilemma. Was it that he didn't want to? No, it was that he was already deeply mired in the mire.

In perfect harmony, the two temporarily put aside their grudges and drank one cup after another until they were drunk.

Just as the event was about to end, a clean-cut college student wearing a helmet and riding a small electric scooter stopped next to the two of them.

As soon as the girl waved, Hou Liangping smiled and put down his glass, looking at Chen Hai and saying, "My girlfriend is here to pick me up. Remember to pay for the drinks. I'll treat you next time."

After saying that, Hou Liangping quickly walked over to the girl, sat down behind her, put his arms around her waist, and left quickly.

Chen Hai stared blankly in the direction Hou Liangping had left. If there was anything about Hou Liangping that he could envy at this moment, it was that Hou Liangping had someone who cared for him!

"Right and wrong, success and failure, all turn to nothing in the end..."

Muttering to himself, Chen Hai laughed and cried intermittently. He was somewhat lost. What was the point of striving to climb up the ladder?

The next morning, Chen Hai returned home. On Saturday, he did not go to work at the district government, but instead sat calmly on the sofa, quietly watching Mao Ya's room.

Until Maoya opened the door to the room.

Mao Ya frowned the moment she saw Chen Hai.

"I thought you weren't coming back."

"It's as if he didn't come back at all, even though he did."

"What do you mean?"

"This is the divorce agreement. Please sign it."

Chen Hai pointed to the divorce agreement on the table, and Mao Ya immediately flew into a rage.

"You want a divorce? We've only been married a few days and you want a divorce? I don't agree! Let me tell you, I'm pregnant right now, even if we go to court, they won't let us get a divorce!"

Chen Hai shook his head calmly.

"Whether we get a divorce or not is just a matter of waiting a year. I can afford to wait. This marriage is a must-get divorced!"