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The summer solstice is the old man's birthday every year.

It was still early in the morning when people began to bring gifts in succession. Lu Qingli went back and forth on the floor barefooted as she moved the gifts one by one to the room upstairs.

Beads of sweat rolled down her forehead. She wiped her forehead, walked over to the vertical air conditioner, picked up the remote control, and pressed a button.

Suddenly, a gentle male voice came from behind him, "Don't blow on the air conditioner, you'll catch a cold."

Her back froze for a moment, she turned, and suddenly saw a smiling Xi Muyao.

Qingli did not make a sound, she only walked towards him and swept a cold glance over him before taking the box from him. On top of the box, it said: Wishing Father-in-law luck and good health.

Heh. The rest of the family were all upstairs, so she didn't feel the need to put on such a show here.

"Qingli, you should be obedient." He looked at her, still standing under the air conditioner, and frowned.

Obedient!?

If she hadn't been so obedient from the start, she wouldn't have fallen to such a state! Although Lu Qingli wasn't as tyrannical and stubborn as Lu Qinghuan, she,, wasn't someone who would allow others to trample over her character!

"I'm sorry, Mr. Xi, but I think you have no right to interfere with my freedom. Your former father-in-law is upstairs. If you want to act out the role of a good son-in-law, you shouldn't waste your precious time here. "

She pointed to the stairs.

He looked at her angry eyes, which were sparkling like fireworks, bright and proud. The current her was no longer the same docile Lu Qingli.

In the past, although she was proud and stubborn, she would always listen to him. Think of everything for him.

Every family party, every trip, she had silently helped him take care of everything, and sometimes he thought that doing that for himself was like simply doing the duty of a wife. And in her heart, did she ever have him …

Xi Muyao silently looked at the calm and collected her, and after a long while, he turned and went upstairs.

Lu Qingli stood on the spot, and looked at his tall and straight back, and only felt a fiery, stinging pain in her eyes.

If she could, she wished that she could stay away from him, even further.

If she didn't see him, she wouldn't love him, and she wouldn't hate him, right?

However, from the beginning, she was the one who could not decide on their marriage.

As the daughter of a mayor, her background and identity undoubtedly affected her life, including her marriage.

She had thought that it would be good to marry him, to be a docile and competent wife, and since they were not sincere, she didn't have to worry about being hurt one day.

However, she had actually thought of herself as being too powerful. That man called Xi Muyao, was so outstanding, how could she not fall into depravity?

She had even naively thought that they were a match made in heaven.

You see, he's so good, so young, so good at business, and so gentle and considerate. As the mayor of the city, she was a dazzling genius, and she had always been the object of public interest and discussion.

However, she didn't expect that after only two years of marriage, it would still end in a crushing defeat.

A bell sound suddenly broke Qingli's train of thought, she picked up the phone, but before she could speak, the other party had already started shouting: "Sis! I got off the plane! We still have twenty minutes to get home on time! "

Hearing Qinghuan's voice, Qingli's brain immediately became a lot calmer. She smiled and replied.

"Of course, it's not that far. It'll only take a few hours to get there. "I'm hanging up. Bye bye!"

Just as Qingli said "good", she heard the little girl add another sentence. "Tell Brother-in-law to prepare some osmanthus cake for me!"

Qingli silently hung up the phone, pretending she did not hear anything.