Chapter 225 - You're Fired!

Zhang Yu Han heaved a sigh of relief when he saw his wife's silhouette. Steadily, he stepped towards the stairs and waited for her as she reached the bottom. 

Of course, his movement was noticed by Li Ren Xin. The elderly nodded to his granddaughter and motioned her to go downstairs. Then, he turned to Li Mu Chen with an angry look on his face. "You, come with me to the office."

"Grandfather!" Li Mu Chen wanted to plead, but upon meeting her grandfather's gaze, the words she wanted to say got stuck in her throat.

Li Mu Chen shot an angry look at Li Qin Yao as she watched her cousin walked down the stairs. She could not understand why someone as excellent as Zhang Yu Han would take interest in someone as plain as her cousin.

Angrily, Li Mu Chen stomped her feet as she climbed up the stairs. Her hand tightened into a fist. There was a malicious glint in her eyes as she imagined pushing her cousin down the stairs.

"Hurry up!"

Her grandfather's bellowing snapped her out of her thought. Li Mu Chen tore her gaze away and walked over to her grandfather, but soon, her gaze paused on the bespectacled man beside her grandfather.

It felt as if she had seen this man before. 

Sensing her grandfather's angry stare, Li Mu Chen hurriedly went after her grandfather.

Mu Ling Xi had come out from the kitchen with a puzzled look on her face when she heard her husband's angry voice. She accessed the situation for a while and immediately guessed at what had happened.

It was not the first time that her husband had raised his voice to their grandchildren. But after being married to her husband for years, Mu Ling Xi knew that her husband would not get angry without reason. Seeing the look on his face, Mu Ling Xi decided not to intervene and instead, turned to their guest, Zhang Yu Han.

Meanwhile, Liang Sheng immediately excused himself and bid everyone goodbye.

Mu Ling Xi gave an awkward smile to Zhang Yu Han and apologized for the unexpected event. "Come on, let's go to the dining room," she said to both Zhang Yu Han and Li Qin Yao. "The dishes are almost done. Your grandfather will join us later when he is done."

"Un, I know," Li Qin Yao nodded. "We'll be right there shortly."

Mu Ling Xi cast another glance at the young couple before she returned to the kitchen.

When her grandmother had left, Li Qin Yao went over to Zhang Yu Han's side and held both his hand. She tilted her head up to look at his face and asked, "Are you alright?"

The look on Zhang Yu Han's face at the moment was as if he was complaining to his wife for leaving him for too long that he had to face someone like Li Mu Chen. 

Zhang Yu Han nodded before he let out a long sigh. Now that he was holding his wife's hand again, he felt more at ease. It felt as if a heavy burden was lifted his shoulder when he could hold her again.

Earlier, when he saw Li Mu Chen stepped into the room, Zhang Yu Han was suddenly repulsed by her presence. 

Zhang Yu Han was not someone who would be disgusted with a random woman's presence without reason. However, it would be a different story towards someone who had a bad intention. Moreover, with Li Mu Chen, she had tried to harm his wife in his presence more than once. 

It was not something that he can forgive.

If it was not because Li Mu Chen was his wife's cousin, Zhang Yu Han would not hesitate to throw her out. Unfortunately, he was at Li's residence. As a husband, he needed to save some for his wife. 

Moreover, he was still trying to curry favor with his wife's grandparents. 

He had married their granddaughter without telling the elders anything. It would be bad if the elders did not like this union. Though he did not mind much if the elders were not satisfied with him, Zhang Yu Han did not want his wife to be unhappy.

Fortunately, both Li Ren Xin and Li Qin Yao had appeared before Zhang Yu Han's patience reached its limit.

"Are you alright?" Li Qin Yao rubbed her thumb against his palm. It was the only thing she could do to coax her husband at the moment.

The crease on his face gradually disappeared when she saw the smile on her wife's face. "Hmm," he nodded.

Li Qin Yao gave a little squeeze at Zhang Yu Han's hand before she led him into the dining area where her grandmother was waiting.

Meanwhile, Li Mu Chen trembled in fear as she entered her grandfather's office. She shut the door behind her and turned around slowly only to be hit by a hardcover book on her arms.

"Grandfather!" Li Mu Chen touched her slightly reddened arms and felt her eyes started to sting.

"Don't grandfather me! Li Mu Chen, do you know what you have done?" Li Ren Xin took a deep breath to calm his anger, but he could not calm down as he recalled the scene that happened in front of his eyes. "It seemed that I was too lenient when I gave you your punishment the last time. You still have not learned your lesson!"

Li Mu Chen watched as her grandfather lifted the phone receiver and pressed at the numbers angrily. She did not know who her grandfather was calling, but suddenly, Li Mu Chen had a sense of foreboding.

"Li Jing, you come here and pick up your daughter," Li Ren Xin spoke as soon as the phone was connected. After he finished that one sentence, Li Ren Xin immediately hung up the call.

Li Mu Chen had a look of horror at hearing her father's name. "Grandfather, how could you call my father?"

"Since you won't listen to me and I cannot discipline you, then I can only let your father discipline you himself," Li Ren Xin said angrily. "I told you not to mention that those accidents from two years ago, but did you ever listen to me?"

"I'm sorry. I promise I will never mention that incident again," Li Mu Chen begged. 

"I gave you a chance once, I am not going to give you another chance," Li Ren Xin said. "Li Mu Chen, from tomorrow onwards, you don't have to come over to the company anymore."

"What?"

"You're fired! Since you refused to learn properly, then you don't have to come and waste anyone's time at the office," Li Ren Xin said. "It has been decided. You cannot do anything to change my mind."