Even though Shen Ruoxi tried her best to stay calm, her trembling voice still betrayed the panic in her heart, "I'm just about to get up. Mom, please go out first while I change clothes."
"Ruoxi, something's not right with you today." Zhao Ruoxi, who noticed something was wrong, looked serious and sat on the edge of the bed, raising her eyes and staring at her.
Shen Ruoxi's eyelashes trembled slightly and she said hurriedly, "I'm not used to being here. I didn't sleep well last night."
She dealt with it verbally, but secretly hid her cell phone under her pillow.
Zhao Yiru looked at her in surprise for a long time, but said nothing and walked out of the room silently.
After she left, Shen Ruoxi breathed a long sigh of relief, took out her mobile phone, and read through the text messages repeatedly. Only then did she believe that what just happened was not a dream...
She lowered her head and lay on the bed, feeling a deep sense of despair.
There were rumors outside that she was a third party, seducing someone else's husband. Once the photos were leaked, the rumors would be confirmed.
Shen Ruoxi held her forehead and told herself, calm down, now is not the time to panic.
She braced herself, her eye circles still red.
Looking at the photos on her phone with dull eyes, powerlessness and panic occupied her entire heart.
Shen Ruoxi was really desperate and didn't know what to do. An impulsive idea suddenly appeared in her mind, but she quickly suppressed it.
She clenched her fists tightly, woke up from the pain, cleaned up and went to the kitchen.
She arrived the latest, the dinner table was already full, and there was only one empty seat next to Zhao Chengze.
Shen Ruoxi was at a loss where she was. Thinking of what Zhao Chengze had done, she couldn't help but feel nauseated.
"What are you doing standing there? Sit down!" Zhao Yiru, who didn't know why, hurriedly urged her to sit down.
Everyone's eyes fell on her, and the atmosphere suddenly became subtle.
Shen Ruoxi had an unspeakable expression on her face, but out of everyone's favor, she had no choice but to sit next to Zhao Chengze.
Zhao Chengze's big evil eyes showed a glint of malicious intent.
"Look at how these two children are still separated." Sensing the cooling atmosphere, Zhao Yiru spoke up to smooth things over.
Shen Ruoxi frowned slightly, and her heartbeat couldn't stop accelerating.
"Hey, our eldest lady is awake." Chen Hong certainly didn't have a good expression when he saw her, and he spoke sarcastically.
Shen Ruoxi gritted her back molars and said hello.
Chen Hong pouted, waved his hand, and said in an extremely exaggerated tone, "Do you have any eyesight? Why don't you hurry up and bring the eldest lady's breakfast!"
Zhao Yicheng realized that she was going to act like a monster again. His hand holding the chopsticks paused, and he glanced over with an impatient look, but was ignored by Chen Hong.
The nanny brought the breakfast to the table, but Chen Hong cut her off halfway, passed Shen Ruoxi, brought it to Zhao Chengze's table, and said in a confident voice, "Come on, son, eat more, look at you, you've lost weight!" "
Shen Ruoxi's eyes were full of frost, and she glanced sideways at Zhao Chengze's plump figure. She obviously hadn't eaten anything, but her stomach was churning.
"You don't even have to look at how fat you are, and you still eat!" Shen Ruoxi couldn't bear it any longer, and she slammed the table and stood up.
Zhao Chengze felt that he was offended, his face turned red with anger, he slammed his chopsticks, pointed at her and yelled, "You bitch, what are you talking about!"
"Ruoxi, stop making trouble!" Zhao Yiru's face suddenly turned ugly. She took Shen Ruoxi's hand and asked her to sit down.
Zhao Yiru quickly regained her smile, pushed the plate in front of Shen Ruoxi, and comforted her gently, "It's okay, you can eat mine."
Shen Ruoxi took a breath, suppressed the anger in her heart, and said, "No, Mom, you can just eat."
Chen Hong looked at the actions of these two people, raised his eyebrows, and twitched the corners of his mouth in a mocking manner.
"If you're not happy living here, leave!" Chen Hong said fiercely with a deep look in his eyes, cutting off a piece of meat with a knife and putting it into his mouth.
"Brother and sister! Children are ignorant, don't argue with her." Zhao Yiru hurriedly said with a smile.
Chen Hong snorted coldly, not hiding his disdain for the mother and daughter, and said sarcastically, "You sleep here until midnight, don't prepare breakfast, and wait for others to serve you. You really think you are the eldest lady, don't you?"
"It's just that our family can't afford the eldest daughter." Zhao Chengze was not too big to watch the excitement at the game, so he also came to fan the flames.
When Zhao Yicheng heard this, he became angry, slammed his chopsticks on the table, and scolded sternly, "Shut up, both of you!"
Chen Hong was not someone to be trifled with either. She curled her lips and retorted without any sign of weakness, "Am I wrong? Do you really think that our home is a hotel, and outsiders can stay there if they want, and rob our family of their wealth?"
"Those are my sister and niece, how can they be outsiders!" Zhao Yicheng's beard trembled with anger, feeling that Chen Hong was simply unreasonable!
Zhao Chengze and Chen Hong were both virtuous, so he protected her behind him and yelled, "Dad, how could you talk to my mother like that!"
Seeing that he had intervened, Zhao Yicheng transferred his anger to him again, "And you, don't think that I don't know about the shameful things you do outside."
The quarrel intensified, and the source was Shen Ruoxi. Zhao Yiru looked embarrassed and came to break up the fight, "Stop the quarrel, we are all one family!"
Chen Hong was still angry and pushed her away, still cursing, "Get out! Who is your family?"
Zhao Yiru was pushed down and her head hit the corner of the cabinet hard, causing a big bag to form immediately.
"Mom!" Shen Ruoxi's pupils dimmed slightly, she walked forward quickly and stretched out her hand to help Zhao Yiru up.
She raised her hand to cover the wound, fearing that Shen Ruoxi would be worried, so she pretended to be relaxed and said, "Mom is fine, please go and persuade aunt."
Zhao Yiru was used to being weak. Even if she was injured, she would never forget to think about others.
Shen Ruoxi's brows knitted together. She had just seen with her own eyes that it was Chen Hong who pushed the person. How could she still swallow such a sigh of relief!
She raised her fists and was about to step forward, but Zhao Yiru reached out to stop her.
"Ruoxi, stop messing around!" Zhao Yiru frowned and accused sternly.
Shen Ruoxi felt unwilling and angrily defended, "Mom, she did this to you! I really can't bear it."
Zhao Yiru took a deep breath and said seriously, "We live in other people's homes, eat other people's food and use other people's food, so we shouldn't cause trouble to others."
"But..." Shen Ruoxi lowered her eyes helplessly, feeling pain in her heart.
She only regretted that she was incompetent and could not give her mother a safe place to avoid risks. She had to depend on others, look at other people's eyes, and suffered from the feeling of cowardice!
As soon as the words left her mouth, she was interrupted sharply by Zhao Yiru, who pushed her in front of everyone, "Okay, go apologize to aunt and the others."
Hearing this, Shen Ruoxi was shocked for a while.
It turned out that Chen Hong was rude and made things difficult for her in every possible way. Why should she apologize?