Speaking of expectation versus reality

"Is it not?" Liang Yinqiu hissed. "Others might not know what you're up to but I do. You, scammer, still have the nerve to badger my son!"

Mu Bai immediately reached to pull Liang Yinqiu back. "That's enough, Mom!"

He tried to stop her. Instead of shutting up, Liang Yinqiu escalated it further by enumerating Shen Chen's criminal past.

"Cheating while you were still young is entirely excusable. So many years have passed, yet you still have not repented!"

"I tell you what, a lazy woman like you doesn't deserve to marry into the Mu family!"

"I'd feel disgraced speaking about it!" 

A loud bang ensued as Shen Chen flipped over a table.

Liang Yinqin was wide-eyed as she saw the expensive wine shattered on the floor, her voice shuddering. "Are—are you mad or something?"

Crack! Shen Chen stepped on the broken crystal glass on the floor. "So what if I'm mad?"

"You…"

"I'm fine."

"If you don't apologize for what you have done just now, Shen Chen, I will make sure that you pay!"

"Oh, yeah?" Shen Chen smiled as she turned to look at Shen Zhongming. "You have any cash with you, lousy gambler?"

"My dear girl, I don't have cash but a card!" Shen Zhongming said without thinking.

He handed her the gold card as he spoke

Shen Chen took it in between her slender fingers. With the flick of her hand, she threw out the card, and it landed right in front of Liang Yinqiu's feet.

"Five million, is it enough?"

Shen Chen's lips curled up in a broad smile.

Mu Bai remained silent as if he had a hint of stubbornness and unyieldingness in her smiling eyes.

She had become mature, but also strange.

Looking on as Shen Chen left, Mu Bai clenched his fists. He still could not pick up the courage to go after her.

Liang Yinqin could not care less about his son's reaction. She reached into her LV handbag to fish out her mobile phone and make a call.

"Why hasn't the girl arrived? What? She has arrived? Wait for a second, what was her name that you just said?"

"What? Shen?"

Liang Yinqin had fallen ill when she was back at home.

That five million had really hit her hard.

She had tried to use money—tens of thousands of them—to keep Shen Chen away. Little did she expect the roles could be reversed after a few years.

She had not only lost her dignity in front of her prized son but has also been slapped with a large wad of money across her face. 

After the dust settled, Shen Zhongming kept his promise not mentioning about finding her a boyfriend, blind date, and such in Shen Chen's presence.

"Do you still remember that I said I would prepare chicken soup for you but it didn't work out, girl? What about making you one today? It's going to work, I promise!"

Shen Zhongming came up to Shen Chen early in the morning, patting his chest as he made his promises.

Shen Chen did not even want to look at him, her face expressionless.

"Sigh, could you please give me an answer, girl?"

Shen Chen shot him a sideways glance with a forced smile.

Shen Zhongming was struck dumb. "What kind of response is that? Are you all right, girl? Are you sick?"

"You are the sick one!"

Every time he talked to Shen Chen, he always ended up having to keep his mouth shut.

He started to doubt his life.

Did they not say a daughter was her father's lover in their past life? By the looks of things, they were more like enemies than lovers.

Speaking of expectation versus reality.