In the study, Wei Hongmei quickly followed up.
"Sir, what on earth happened? Where are we moving to? Why are we moving all of a sudden? What did you mean by what you just said?"
"What else could it mean? The Lin family is finished, and I've lost my job. From now on, we'll live in the shantytown." Lin Jiancheng forced a calm expression, but there were already bloodshot eyes in his eyes.
"Shantytown?" When Wei Hongmei heard these three words, she flatly refused and started to shout, "I used to live there. That place is no place for a human being. Not only me, but how could you, sir, live in such a place?"
Lin Jiancheng's eyes flickered. He struggled for a moment, and finally could only say, "Do you think the Lin family can still be as glorious as before?"
They lived in a villa but were deeply in debt. They had to sell the house to pay off the debts, and then they would be penniless.
"If you're not willing to live there, divorce me right now. I'm already in negative assets and can't give you anything. I..." Lin Jiancheng felt more and more ashamed as he spoke. Falling from a high - and - mighty position to the dust all of a sudden, he couldn't adapt to such a huge gap at all.
"Sir, I won't divorce you. I'll follow you." Wei Hongmei replied firmly on the spot. She knew how hard it would be for a woman to live alone.
Lin Jiancheng snorted, seemingly a bit impatient. "Hurry up and pack your things. We're moving."
"Sir..." Wei Hongmei's heart skipped a beat, and she quickly asked, "Why did you suddenly lose your job? Is it because of Xia Weilan again..."
"Just go and pack when I tell you to. When did you become so talkative?" Lin Jiancheng habitually kicked Wei Hongmei.
Wei Hongmei felt a sharp pain in her foot and quickly responded. She went out to pack, crying as she did so. Big teardrops fell on the back of her hand and she couldn't stop them. But she didn't dare to cry out loudly. She knew that if she annoyed Lin Jiancheng, he would dislike her even more and take all his anger out on her.
"How could our nice home just disappear like this?" Wei Hongmei stuffed all the valuable jewelry she had into a box in one go. Then she picked up some designer bags. Suddenly, she thought of something and ran into Lin Xuefei's room. She rummaged around and found some valuable things, all of which she packed into the box.
How many pieces of jewelry could she, Wei Hongmei, have on a normal day? Lin Xuefei was the one with the most jewelry.
When Wei Hongmei passed by Xia Weilan's room, she didn't even glance at it.
Because the few clothes Xia Weilan had in her room had been packed and taken away by Xia Weilan earlier.
Looking at the box full of things, Wei Hongmei felt a bit more at ease.
But she was still not reconciled.
Why did she have to go back to that shantytown? What on earth had she done wrong to deserve such a life?
A few minutes later, Wei Hongmei stormed out of the house. She drove the only car in the family and headed straight for the Grand View Mansion.
The Grand View Mansion was a well - known luxury residential area in the capital. With its lush trees, it was almost like a suburban park, yet it was actually the most expensive area in the whole capital.
"May I ask who you're looking for?" The guard saw Wei Hongmei getting out of the car and asked in a business - like manner.
"I'm Wei Hongmei. I'm looking for Xia Weilan. I'm her biological mother." Seeing how strict the security was here, Wei Hongmei didn't dare to cause trouble and quickly replied politely.
"Okay, please wait a moment." The guard didn't dare to be negligent and quickly called the villa.
"Sir, there's a woman named Wei Hongmei here who wants to see the young mistress..."
At this moment, Mo Beichen was sitting in the hall, reading the news. Hearing this, he glanced at the figure that had just entered the room upstairs and directly replied, "Don't let her in."
The guard put away his phone, looked at Wei Hongmei suspiciously, and said, "Mr. Mo said he's not seeing guests. Please go back."
"Not seeing guests? Am I a guest? I'm his mother - in - law. He's clearly being unfilial. I'll call my daughter right now." Wei Hongmei's eyes were red with anger. She took out her phone and made a call.
"Hey, girl. I'm at your door. Hurry up and let me in." Wei Hongmei said angrily.
"You're at my door?" Xia Weilan was carrying two books and answering the phone while standing in the corridor in surprise. "At the Xia family's or the Mo family's?"
"The Mo family's." Wei Hongmei said coldly.
"Oh." Xia Weilan glanced at Mo Beichen downstairs who was sitting with his feet up, and casually asked, "What do you want from me?"
Xia Weilan squinted her eyes. Every time Wei Hongmei came to her, it was never a good thing. This so - called biological mother was even more vicious than a stepmother. It was really something.
"Let me in first." Wei Hongmei said anxiously.
Judging from her voice, Xia Weilan knew that she came with ill intentions, so she hesitated.
"Weilan, I'm your mother. Are you just going to block me outside the door like this?" Wei Hongmei suddenly softened her tone and said gently.
"You don't need to come in. I'll come out." Xia Weilan directly hung up the phone.
A few minutes later, Xia Weilan appeared at the gate.
She didn't want to let Wei Hongmei in, so she walked out herself and said coldly,
"What on earth do you want?"
With that extremely cold tone and a blank face, Xia Weilan stood in front of Wei Hongmei distantly.
"Daughter, your father was fired. Did you do this..." Wei Hongmei rolled her eyes, thinking about how to coax Xia Weilan well.
Xia Weilan interrupted her. "What does Lin Jiancheng's resignation have to do with me?"
"How does it have nothing to do with you? You're the boss's wife. You can't just fire someone for no reason. There has to be a reason. How can you just fire him like this?" Wei Hongmei grabbed her arm tightly. "Do you know where we're moving to now? It's the shantytown. Is that a place for a human being?"
Xia Weilan coldly glanced at the scratched arm and suddenly pushed Wei Hongmei away.
Wei Hongmei staggered a few steps and looked back at her in disbelief. "How could you treat your mother like this? I've worked so hard to raise you, but in the end, I've raised an ungrateful daughter. You just want to ruin the Lin family, don't you?"
The angrier Wei Hongmei got, the more she forgot her plan to plead nicely. She started to swear without thinking. "I should have strangled you when you were just born. Raising you, a jinx and a scourge."
Xia Weilan felt a pang in her heart. She looked at Wei Hongmei with a very cold look.
"Are you done? If you're done, just leave. Don't come again in the future."
After saying that, Xia Weilan was about to turn back.
"Stop right there, you unfilial daughter. I'll beat you to death today." Wei Hongmei's eyes were red with anger, and she was about to pounce on Xia Weilan.
Seeing this, the guard quickly blocked Wei Hongmei outside.
Xia Weilan stopped walking. She could hear Wei Hongmei's scolding and vulgar words in her ears.
She slowly turned around. Looking at Wei Hongmei's ugly state at the moment, she suddenly laughed.
"You wanted to cling to Lin Jiancheng, so you just used me. Wei Hongmei, you've lived a pretty miserable life."
After Xia Weilan finished speaking, she left without looking back.
In fact, Wei Hongmei was just a pathetic person who fawned on the powerful and bullied the weak. Since she had no skills of her own, she could only rely on others.
"Daughter..." Wei Hongmei suddenly called out to her anxiously from behind. People who didn't know would think that she cared so much about Xia Weilan.