Chapter 115 - Giant Misunderstanding
Translator: Lav
Editor: Levs
Shi Lei had lost his patience to talk to Zhang Liangliang. This woman was way too stiff and didn’t even have a glimpse of idea of what life was really like.
In her perspective, perhaps life was waking up early to work, get extremely tired, earn money to support the family, go to bed. Then, on the second day, she would repeat the cycle like the first day again.
She was a woman with no sense of interest. Shi Lei even viciously thought that Zhang Meimei had great responsibilities on why her previous husband had no desire for improvement and even cheated on her. It wasn’t Shi Lei speaking for the bad guy, but he felt sorry for this guy because no one would be happy to have a wife like this. Although he was the bad one and should be punished, but Zhang Meimei deserved this.
Zhang Meimei didn’t expect Shi Lei to talk to her like this and she was shocked. She didn’t even react when Shi Lei had already walked back towards the room.
Shi Lei’s hand was already on the doorknob but he didn’t open it. He pondered for a while and spoke again: “This is your family, er’jie is your daughter, usually, an outsider like me really don’t have a say in this. But, you thought that your bad communication would only end in arguments, so you think that if you are only going to argue, then there’s no point to communicate. This isn’t a case at your office, she’s your daughter. Whether you fight with her or laugh with her, you can’t just abandon her like a case at your office. At the same time, she’s in the same boat as you because even though she can’t receive the love that she should from you, there’s no way that she can leave you and choose another mother. I can’t say that what I spoke about is for the sake of your family, I just want er’jie to be happier. Her feelings towards me aren’t as complex as what you think and I’m not dumb enough to see it the complex way. You pay for it and I accompany her when she’s doing homework, it’s that easy. Or, perhaps, as an older brother who’s only a few years older, I would eat with her if she doesn’t have anyone to eat with. Have you ever considered why she wanted me, someone she’s not very familiar with, to eat with her?” With that, Shi Lei opened the door and walked in.
Zhang Meimei froze in the living room and her legs even stopped shaking, she was as still as a statue.
Shi Lei’s last sentence seemed too loud that it made her deaf. “Have you ever considered why she wanted me, someone she’s not very familiar with, to eat with her?” Zhang Meimei believed that Shi Lei didn’t finish the sentence, and that was —— “She’s not willing to call you to come back for dinner because she knew perfectly well that even if she made the call, your answer will only be ‘no’.”
It couldn’t be ignored that Shi Lei really taught Zhang Meimei a lesson today.
Before, Zhang Meimei listened to Shi Lei and hence, there was the situation of her taking Zhang Liangliang out to play, Except, everything went wrong and Zheng Meimei didn’t even know that she had lost her daughter.
Shi Lei couldn’t imagine how careless a mother had to be to realize that she had lost her daughter after she finished working?
And, this mother even had the face to blame her daughter for not being independent enough.
If Zhang Liangliang really was not independent enough, she wouldn’t have returned to Wu Dong by herself, but was probably kidnapped by someone.
Looking at the tightly shut room, for the first time in her life, Zhang Meimei realised how much she failed as a mother.
Shi Lei didn’t know whether Zhang Meimei would reflect on herself or not, nor did he know the outcome of saying such words. He simply couldn’t let this woman keep doing things like this.
Shi Lei sat on the bed and felt heart broken towards Zhang Liangliang, who was concentrating on her homework and wanted to finish as soon as possible so that Shi Lei could take her out for dinner, then watch a movie or go to a karaoke.
It was only a bit over five o’clock when Zhang Liangliang stretched and yawned, but extremely excited: “I finally finished. Dashu, let’s go get food, I’m so hungry that I can eat a cow!” Zhang Liangliang picked up her phone as she spoke, realizing that there were a few unread WeChat messages.
Shi Lei laughed and said: “You can boast like a cow, not eat a cow!”
Suddenly, Zhang Liangliang laughed loudly as she jumped up from her chair and waved her hands around frantically, Shi Lei thought she was crazy.
“Are you crazy?”
“Hahaha, dashu, prepare a present for me! Hahaha, awesome! Er’jie, you are the best, you are too good!” At the end, she even spoke in Cantonese.
“Why?”
“Because the marks for the half yearly are already out. Although I’ll get the report card tomorrow, but my best friend is the daughter of the teacher who’s in charge of the class, so she already knows the ranks for the half yearly. I came third in class with the average of 87.6 points! She even said that I could be ranked in the top ten of the entire grade! Hurry up and tell me, am I too good or what? Shouldn’t you give me a present?!”
Shi Lei laughed whilst nodding and he was happy for her too. She went back to her state of being a study god and nothing was better than that.
“Fine, I promised you that I’ll give you a present if you score an average of 85 marks. Alright, what do you want?”
“I want you to be my boyfriend!” She couldn't care less and yelled.
Shi Lei’s expressions changed drastically and said: “Cut the nonsense……” Before he could finish, he heard a loud thump as someone shoved the door open. Zhang Meimei stood outside with a cold and stern face.
Just then, Zhang Meimei was touched by Shi Lei and thought a lot. She sat on the couch without moving and thought that she failed epically so she wanted to make up for everything.
She called her office and expressed that she couldn’t attend the dinner anymore. Although the opposite side emphasized that this dinner was extremely important as it would affect them next year, but Zhang Meimei still said that she wasn’t feeling well and really couldn’t go, then she hung up the call firmly.
Initially, she wanted to check whether Zhang Liangliang finished her homework or not, she thought that she could eat with Zhang Liangliang or watch a movie. If Zhang Liangliang was willing, she could even go with her to the karaoke where she usually went. Of course, she wouldn’t allow Zhang Liangliang to drink, but it wouldn’t hurt to drink non-alcoholic drinks.
Just as she walked to the door, she heard Zhang Liangliang’s shocking statement. She couldn’t control herself but to push the door and go inside.
Even with Shi Lei’s words of “cut the nonsense”, Zhang Meimei still glared at Shi Lei furiously.
Shi Lei quickly explained: “Mrs. Zhang, this is a misunderstanding, er’jie is just saying nonsense and joking.”
Zhang Meimei looked at her daughter but spoke to Shi Lei coldly: “Is that something to joke about? Er’jie is only 15 years old, she’s not even legal yet! This is your tutoring fees for today, don’t come again!” Zhang Meimei took out 200 yuan, chucked it in front of Shi Lei and her eyes were filled with anger.
Shi Lei felt indifferent towards it as he never expected to live off of this as he just urgently needed money.
Looking at the 200 yuan, Shi Lei didn’t pick it up. He nodded and was ready to leave.
But Zhang Liangliang suddenly grabbed Shi Lei and yelled towards Zhang Meimei: “No, dashu, you can’t go! Zhang Meimei, I’m warning you, if you dare to chase him away, I’ll leave with him too!”