Chapter 416: Seventies: The Mature Husband 16

Hearing Chen Cheng's words, Tang Wan gave a light scoff.

“What the hell does it have to do with me whether you and Huo Shaoting get divorced or not?”

Then she added, “If you don't leave now, believe me, I'll make sure the whole village knows that you framed Comrade Xue!”

“You!” Chen Cheng's face twisted with anger.

But with more and more people going out to work now that the first lunar month was over, she couldn't let anyone see her current state. So she had no choice but to pick up the basket and dried noodles from the ground before angrily saying to Tang Wan, “Just you wait! I absolutely won't let this matter go!”

Then she stormed off, carrying the basket.

……

After Chen Cheng left, Tang Wan finally turned to Xue Xingtong.

“Comrade Xue, why didn't you dodge just now? It wasn't your fault,” Tang Wan said.

Hearing this, Xue Xingtong opened his mouth, but after a moment, he could only say, “I didn't react in time.”

Tang Wan took him at his word and immediately couldn't help laughing.

“You're a grown man, yet your reactions are that slow?”

Looking at her curved eyes and sweet smile, Xue Xingtong couldn't bear to blink.

The next moment, he asked, “You… saw everything just now?”

“Oh, no. When I came over, I happened to see her grabbing your arm.” Tang Wan immediately replied.

If she had seen everything and only appeared now, who knew what he would think?

……

Hearing her words, Xue Xingtong's gaze deepened.

Anyone who had come over at that moment and seen the scene would probably have thought he was bullying Chen Cheng.

Yet she had stood on his side without hesitation, saying that Chen Cheng was framing him.

She was the first person… to believe in him so completely.

For a moment, Xue Xingtong felt his throat grow somewhat dry as he said, “Thank you.”

“Hm?” Tang Wan looked at him in confusion.

“Thank you… for speaking up for me just now.” Thank you for believing me.

Hearing this, Tang Wan waved her hand. “What's there to thank me for? You're nothing like the kind of person she described! If you really pounced on every woman you saw, wouldn't you have already pounced on me several times? She's only acting so fearlessly because the villagers don't like you!”

Xue Xingtong's lips curled up slightly when he heard this.

At this moment, Tang Wan said to him, “Your clothes have been dirtied by her. Hurry home and change.”

“Okay. Goodbye, Educated Youth Tang.” Xue Xingtong nodded.

“Goodbye!” Tang Wan waved at him before turning around and leaving.

……

After Tang Wan turned away, Xue Xingtong watched her back disappear from sight before coldly glancing at the egg yolk on the ground and straightening his back as he walked home.

Even if he remained a bachelor for the rest of his life, he would never take a liking to a woman like Chen Cheng!

Meanwhile, Chen Cheng didn't return home. Instead, she went to her parents' house.

The moment she entered, her mother was stunned. “Cheng'er, what happened to you? Why are you covered in mud?” Chen Cheng's mother looked heartbroken.

This was a hundred-yuan woolen coat!

Hearing this, Chen Cheng immediately reddened her eyes and complained through tears, “Mom, isn't it all because of that shameless hooligan from the Xue family?!”

“He saw that I had brought so many things when I came back to my parents' home, deliberately pushed me down, and even tried to molest me! I barely managed to escape back here!” Chen Cheng said tearfully.

Anyway, she had already fallen out with Xue Xingtong. If that was the case, what did she have to be afraid of?

No matter how powerful he would become in the future, wasn't he still just a disgraced old lecher whom everyone looked down on right now? Didn't he still have to answer to her father?

He had dared to push her. This year, he could forget about earning any more work points!