Became a vicious male mother

74

"is it?"

Li Taihe's smile didn't reach his eyes, and it carried a subtle sense of oppression.

The hall was already rife with tension, but nothing much has changed since then.

However, when Gu Xinglan faced Li Taihe's terrifying gaze alone, she couldn't help but feel her blood rushing, as if she had encountered a hungry black bear in the deep mountains and forests.

"President Li."

Jiang Chuzheng lowered his eyes slightly, called out, and blushed as he said, "Actually, it wasn't entirely by chance that I came so far and met Madam Li. I had been looking at Madam Li with admiration and curiosity since I came here, and... I wasn't satisfied with the interview with Madam Li just now. I was just following my instincts, and I didn't expect things to turn out this way..."

“Really?... I’ll believe your reasoning for now, but what about your other journalist friend? Why would he walk under a big tree in the wind and rain?” Li Taihe narrowed his eyes.

"Brother Qi must also want to take a good set of pictures. Our trip is not only for the interview, but also to answer the public's curiosity." The female reporter replied to Li Taihe with a focused look, and then looked at Gu Xinglan: "I'm sorry, Mrs. Li, our people overstepped their bounds."

"Xiao Jiang! Apologize right now!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Chuzheng immediately walked up to Gu Xinglan, bowed at a ninety-degree angle, his eyes filled with tears, and shouted, "I'm sorry."

His voice even cracked slightly.

The other four reporters all wore expressions of anger and sadness.

If you set up a tent and assemble an elderly band to play drums and gongs, the opera you'd be performing would be either "The Injustice to Dou E" or "Autumn in the Han Palace," or at the very least, "The Rain on the Wutong Tree"—that would be such a tragic injustice!

The scales of victory seemed to tip in favor of the reporters.

But this is not the situation that anyone wants to see.

Soon, someone came out to refute it.

Yu Jin stood next to Li Taihe, looked up and said, "Uncle Li, I didn't see this woman in the room, really!"

"Yes! I saw them in the passage!" Chen Hao, whose eyes were lifeless on the ground, heard Yu Jin's words and felt as if he had seen a hand of hope appear on a cliff. He said fiercely, "There must be something fishy about those two. I'm not lying! Master, you have to believe me!"

“Since you’re so sure, tell me everything that happened today,” Li Taihe said calmly.

"I...I..." Chen Hao stammered for a long time before finally saying, "I got up at seven o'clock sharp and stayed in my dormitory. Around eight o'clock, I took the housekeeper to the vicinity of Quanlu Shopping Mall. After that, I went home. You know, I have an elderly wife to take care of at home. I was worried about her during the typhoon. At nine o'clock, I went to the underground parking garage of the villa on time. I had to wipe the car and check the doors and windows. The wind outside was so strong that I almost got blown away while walking." At this point, Chen Hao broke down in tears: "At noon, I saw that the water had flooded in, so I braved the rain to get a cleaning brush and went to the west garage. And then...I saw Reporter Jiang and this woman standing at the young master's door wearing white bathrobes and with their hair completely wet..."

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Yu Jin interrupted, frowning. "I already said that He Tai's room has absolutely nothing to do with this!"

On the surface, the young master of the Yu family is a little sun, a little prince, and a little cotton-padded jacket, but when he gets angry, he is no different from other rich young masters. He is just as irritable, self-centered, and arrogant.

Chen Hao quickly changed his tune, saying, "Yes, there's hardly anyone living along that entire corridor except for Young Master Tai. This woman has only been at the villa for less than a month, and she doesn't even know the way to her own room. How could she possibly know the way to Young Master Tai? She's just up to nosy schemes, going to some secluded corner to meet with outsiders. I've been loyal to you for so many years at this villa, I have no reason to lie to you."

After listening, Yu Jin nodded in satisfaction, then glared angrily at Jiang Chuzheng and Gu Xinglan: "He's finished. Do you have anything else to say? Your guilty conscience and reluctance to reveal the timeline means you're hiding something. I've seen plenty of people like you..."

"Yu Jin".

Li Taihe interrupted Yu Jin's increasingly unrestrained demeanor.

The hall fell silent instantly.

"Reporter Jiang, it's your turn. You have the chance to speak." Li Taihe said with a forced smile.

Jiang, feeling utterly ashamed by Chen Hao and Yu Jin's words, seemed ready to rush outside and burst into song, "June Snowfall," to prove her innocence...

“President Li, it’s true that I admire Mrs. Li, but I absolutely have no such thoughts. I asked Mrs. Li why he married you, and do you know what she said? She said he loves you to death…” Jiang Zheng said emotionally, stirring up the people in the hall.

The female reporter also stepped forward, frowning as she said, "Do you remember me saying that you and Madam are very much in love? When Xiao Jiang and I interviewed Madam Li, he talked most about you."

Immediately afterward, another reporter chimed in, "Mr. Li, don't kick your spouse out of bed just because of an outsider. He's the one you're living with, not this slanderous, arrogant outsider!"

They kept talking, giving Li Taihe no chance to speak.

Dark thoughts churned in the man's eyes.

Seeing this from not far away, Gu Xinglan knew that Li Taihe was getting impatient.

The back-and-forth passing of the buck in the lobby would eventually exhaust even the most patient person.

These reporters clearly knew that they were deliberately downplaying the important issues, saying useless things to confuse the public, and trying to avoid explaining the timeline.

"Madam, why don't you tell us?"

Li Taihe's gaze was cold and hard as ice. His eyes moved and landed on Gu Xinglan.

With an inexplicable sense of coercion, Gu Xinglan didn't even dare to breathe.

That's just how this person is. When they speak nicely to you, you feel closer to them. They seem like a nice guy. But when something really happens, they will abandon everyone and everything without hesitation, and even exploit and oppress you without mercy.

Gu Xinglan cleared her throat and said weakly, "I just told you, I'm going to find Li Hetai..."

This person didn't believe his previous explanation, which is why he asked him again.

“He Tai.” Li Taihe looked at the person wearing a dark green coat: “You tell the story, and don’t lie.”

Oops.

Gu Xinglan's heart skipped a beat.

He had just threatened Li Hetai, even saying he would tear up the boy's homework, not to mention making a mess of the child's room.

This person is vindictive. Like that time in the garden, or the trash can just now, or that pair of leather pants, if he doesn't like something, he'll take revenge on the spot.

To be honest, he was filled with a little bit of expectation and hope.

Gu Xinglan's eyes were filled with intense pleading as she looked directly at the child not far away.

He hoped the child could let bygones be bygones about the slap he had given him, and that the child could forget his harsh words.

These thoughts flashed through my mind and quickly disappeared like bubbles.

Gu Xinglan gave a self-deprecating laugh.

……

Quiet.

All eyes were quietly focused on that small figure.

After a while, a slightly hoarse and deep child's voice rang out:

"My mother helped me with my homework."

The sound was soft, but it was more powerful than the wind god, rain god, thunder god, and lightning goddess outside, and it almost shocked everyone.

No one expected it to go in this direction...

A stepmother in a wealthy family tutors a rich young master who has no shortage of money.

That's utterly absurd!

"He Tai!"

"Master!"

Yu Jin was the first to lose her composure. She ran up to Li Hetai, hesitant to speak, almost grinding her teeth to powder. Her voice trembled slightly as she weakly said, "You...you're lying! You finished your homework a long time ago, how could you possibly need someone to tutor you..."

Besides, the teacher is right there in the villa. Why would they need a stranger, especially a stepmother, who has only recently moved in, to tutor them?

"It's not finished."

Li Hetai's voice was flat and mechanical.

The situation was one-sided.

Meanwhile, someone else had completely shaken off their dejected state, instantly becoming overjoyed and exclaiming repeatedly after Li Taihe's words, "Page 156! The page number is 156!"

Gu Xinglan looked at Li Hetai, then at Li Taihe, her face flushed: "Hetai hasn't finished half a page!"

"The school is really something, giving out Olympiad math problems. It's just elementary school math, I can figure it out."

“Taiga, I actually… also want to try to be a good mother. Isn’t helping others a way of setting a good example for my child? Saving a life is like building a seven-story pagoda. If even you don’t trust me, then I really don’t know what to do…”

After speaking, Gu Xinglan wiped her eyes, looking pitiful as if she had finally been exonerated after suffering countless injustices.