Chapter 73: Chapter 73: Don’t Mess with Me

"Don’t be sad. If this skirt is ruined, it’s ruined. I’ve seen another one that would suit you even better," Xu Ke gently patted Lin Mengyao’s back to comfort her.

"It’s not the same," Lin Mengyao shook her head, biting her lower lip tightly, then said.

"I never thought I’d see it for the first time under such circumstances, disappointing your intentions. I didn’t even get to wear it once."

Xu Ke saw a crystalline tear swiftly fall from the corner of Lin Mengyao’s eye onto the long skirt. Xu Ke’s heart ached and tingled. He suddenly pulled Lin Mengyao into his arms without any warning, letting out a satisfied sigh.

"Mengyao, how can you make me like you so much?" Xu Ke held Lin Mengyao tightly, suppressing all her struggles in his embrace, not heeding her words like ’let me go.’ He just held her tightly and gently whispered in a voice only the two of them could hear, "I will stand up for you and teach them a lesson, so don’t be sad because of them, okay?"

"What are you going to do?" Lin Mengyao, trapped in Xu Ke’s embrace, struggled to create space with her arm and curiously looked up and asked.

"It’s a secret, you’ll find out then."

question, and the gloomy and somber atmosphere brightened up because of Xu

family stayed home like lords, waiting for Xu Ke to come back with the money from the bank. They had slept uncomfortably at the Lin Family’s place the

bit low to only ask your sister for fifty thousand when she’s so well-off now? Maybe we should have doubled it," Zheng Chunhua said with a tone of regret as she

ask for more, we won’t get a single penny,"

guy coming back? I’m dying here; I want to go home," Li Chengcai, whose

Zheng Chunhua reached out a hand to gently scratch the rash on Li Chengcai’s body. "This

Ke returned carrying a black bag. Seeing the three slumped lifelessly on the sofa, Xu Ke tossed the black bag directly in front of them, "Here’s the fifty thousand, count


front of them, the Li family didn’t care about Xu Ke’s attitude. They pounced on it like beasts smelling

his body, grabbed two bundles of banknotes from the bag, and sniffed them deeply, a look of ecstasy on his face. "Fifty thousand! It’s my first time seeing this

you need so much money for? When we’re old, everything we have will be yours anyway," Li Dacheng said, tossing the money in

just by looking good, become a live-in son-in-law, comfortable as a kept man with endless money to spend without lifting a finger," Li Chengcai said, glancing pointedly at Xu Ke with

speaking with a

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