The Delicate Darling with Her Rough Man

Chapter 526: Chapter 522: In a Sorry State

Leng Shuyue had always held herself in high regard. In the Leng Family, she was the youngest and most doted-on daughter, and she had married an extraordinary man. Anyone who spoke of her did so with envy.

The first time she’d ever felt wronged was at Leng Yuan and Gu Jiaojiao’s wedding.

But she had sworn then that it would be the last time she was ever humiliated.

Now, Gu Jiaojiao was plotting with the two children right in front of her face about how to deal with their aunt. If she didn’t teach Gu Jiaojiao a lesson, this niece-in-law would be walking all over her and doing as she pleased in the future.

"Leng Yuan, listen to what your wife is saying! She has absolutely no manners."

Leng Yuan’s expression instantly darkened. "Leng Shuyue, no one asked you to wait here. You can leave. And now you’re at my doorstep, insulting my wife. Was I not clear enough last time?"

Ding Jiangchuan was also displeased with Gu Jiaojiao’s earlier remarks. When Leng Shuyue voiced her complaint, he didn’t object, simply waiting for Leng Yuan to open his mouth and teach Gu Jiaojiao a lesson.

In his view, if a wife was unruly, it was the husband’s duty to discipline her properly.

But he never expected Leng Yuan to fly into a rage over it. He had come this time hoping to mend his relationship with Leng Yuan and couldn’t afford to make things worse. Knowing his wife’s temper, he preemptively grabbed Leng Shuyue’s sleeve, his tone somewhat stern.

"Shuyue, watch your attitude."

Ding Jiangchuan gripped Leng Shuyue’s sleeve tightly, pinching her arm until it hurt.

Leng Shuyue’s lips twitched, but she remained silent.

Seeing that Leng Shuyue had behaved, Ding Jiangchuan finally turned to Leng Yuan with a broad smile and apologized.

"Leng Yuan, your aunt misspoke just now. Don’t stoop to her level."

That remark made Gu Jiaojiao let out a laugh.

"Mr. Ding, it’s hilarious how you two show up at our doorstep out of the blue, telling us first not to stoop to her level, then not to stoop to her level again. Why on earth shouldn’t we take this seriously?"

’Do we look like pushovers?’

Gu Jiaojiao had initially held back because she didn’t want Sweet Girl and Xiao Yang to witness adults arguing, fearing it might scar them. But now that the two children were inside, she couldn’t tolerate it any longer.

Ding Jiangchuan frowned.

"We’re family. There’s no need to be so petty."

"It’s easy for you not to be petty when you’re the ones taking advantage. The two of us were just berated by your wife for no reason—why shouldn’t we make an issue of it? Who do you think you are? Family, my ass. We cut ties with you long ago, so don’t you dare come around trying to associate with us."

Gu Jiaojiao never held back when she was telling someone off.

She ignored the dark expressions on Ding Jiangchuan’s and Leng Shuyue’s faces and continued her verbal assault.

"I seem to recall that at our wedding banquet, you were pretty resolute when you left. Why have you suddenly come running back now? It couldn’t be because you saw the news in the paper and decided to come suck up to us, could it?!"

"How ridiculous. An aunt we’ve already cut ties with runs over here to berate us and thinks that’s going to re-establish a connection? I don’t know if there’s anything more laughable in this world."

"You run your mouth about being ’family,’ but has my Leng Yuan eaten a single meal at your home in all these years? I don’t think so! When Leng Yuan’s parents passed away, did his dear aunt come to help? It seems not. Instead, she berated him for supposedly trying to snatch the house from her brothers. Tsk, tsk. And now you have the nerve to show up at our door?"

"But don’t you worry, we absolutely will not go soft."

Gu Jiaojiao rolled her eyes, pulled Leng Yuan beside her into the courtyard, and quickly slammed the main gate shut, giving the couple outside no opening whatsoever.

Having been thoroughly dressed down and their true motives exposed, Leng Shuyue’s and Ding Jiangchuan’s faces burned with humiliation. Before they could even react, Gu Jiaojiao and her husband had already gone inside and closed the gate, looking as if they were afraid the couple might be contagious.

This maneuver left the pair looking utterly disgraced.