261: Chapter 261 Emotional Conflicts - 2

The group walked out of the Public Security Bureau branch building, each preoccupied with their own thoughts, the atmosphere heavy and oppressive.

Just as they reached the roadside, Sun Na, who had been silent all along, suddenly spun around and pointed at Lin Haoxuan's nose to start her attack:

"Lin Haoxuan! Are you even human?! How have I, Sun Na, ever wronged you? Why did you have to disgust me like this?!"

Lin Haoxuan's face flushed red then turned pale; he felt humiliated, but since he was indeed in the wrong, he could only wave his hand irritably:

"What are you shouting for?! Why are you yelling in the middle of the street?! I... wasn't I just confused for a moment?! I already said I know I was wrong and won't do it again, what else do you want?!"

Sun Na had originally intended to use the situation to emphasize her grievances and victim status, making it easier to manipulate the mother and son later. But seeing Lin Haoxuan's attitude, she flared up with genuine rage:

"A simple 'I'm wrong' and it's over? You ran off to that filthy place to find those unclean women?! What do you take me for?! You're already like this before we're even married; once we are, will you be keeping mistresses and side-pieces outside?!"

"That's enough!"

Lin Haoxuan already felt unable to hold his head up in front of his mother and brother-in-law. Being scolded while pointed at in the street by Sun Na, he stiffened his neck in humiliated rage:

"You have the nerve to talk about me? Look at you these past two days! Acting like some chaste martyr! You won't even let me touch you! I'm a normal man! I have needs! I was frustrated from holding back, so what's wrong with finding someone else?!"

"Needs?! You have the face to mention needs?!"

Sun Na's eyes turned red with anger. "So what if I didn't let you touch me?! We're not married yet! Even if we were, it's my right to refuse! You're using that as an excuse to go to a prostitute? Have you no shame!"

Although Zhao Yumei was also angry at her son for being a disappointment, seeing Sun Na being so relentless and getting louder, her protective maternal instinct took over. She couldn't help but chime in with a sarcastic tone:

"Nana, Haoxuan made a mistake and deserves a scolding! But you young people in love shouldn't take some things too seriously, right? He's young and full of vigor; he does have needs. If you suddenly stop letting him touch you, what's he supposed to do? He just made the kind of mistake any man would make! Is it necessary to blow it out of proportion and shout it in the street for the whole world to hear?"

Sun Na was almost driven to laughter by the mother and son's bottomless double standards:

"So what if I didn't let him touch me? Why should I let you touch me before marriage? Even after marriage, if I don't want to, you can't! So because I don't let you touch me, you can go to a prostitute? What kind of bandit logic is this?!"

The more she spoke, the angrier she got. She suddenly turned toward Zhao Yumei, firing on all cylinders:

"The kind of mistake every man makes? Why don't you look at Brother-in-law?! Why doesn't Brother-in-law make that kind of mistake?! Brother-in-law is rich and powerful; does he have fewer temptations around him? Why haven't I seen Brother-in-law running off to those filthy places?!"

Seeing his mother speak up for him, Lin Haoxuan's confidence grew:

"Brother-in-law? If I had as much money as Brother-in-law and as many beautiful women throwing themselves at me, would I need to go to places like that? Would I be standing here listening to you yell? I would also keep... cough, I wouldn't make such a low-level mistake that gets me caught!"

"What are you, to even think you're worthy of being compared to Brother-in-law?!"

Sun Na sneered, her face full of disdain. "Lin Haoxuan, let me tell you! This marriage is off! Go marry whoever you want! Go marry your little hookers!"

"Fine, then we won't marry!"

Lin Haoxuan was completely enraged, especially by the phrase 'worthy of,' which stung his pathetic pride. He roared:

"I'll just save myself the two hundred thousand yuan bride price! Those Girls outside can be handled for a few hundred yuan; they're good at their jobs and not clingy. Are you fucking lined with gold that you want two hundred thousand?!"

These words were like a spark dropped into a gasoline barrel, instantly detonating all of Sun Na's fury.

"Lin Haoxuan! Fuck your ancestors!"

Sun Na exploded instantly. With a scream, she lunged forward, claws out, to tear into Lin Haoxuan. "You compare me to those kinds of women?! You bastard! I'll kill you!"

Lin Wanxing was terrified and quickly grabbed her from behind in a tight hug. "Nana! Nana, calm down! Don't start a fight! There are so many people watching in the street!"

Unfortunately, her attempts to stop them seemed utterly weak and futile in the face of the three people who had completely dropped all pretenses and were hurling the most vile insults at each other.

Zhao Yumei felt Sun Na was being unreasonable and overbearing; Sun Na felt she had suffered a supreme humiliation and was not being respected; Lin Haoxuan was purely in a state of humiliated rage, acting out of desperation.

The three of them went back and forth, arguing incessantly, saliva flying everywhere; the scene was extremely chaotic.

Lin Wanxing was caught in the middle, trying to persuade one then the other, but her voice was drowned out by their shouting. No one took her seriously at all.

She tried fruitlessly for a long time until she was panting for breath, when she suddenly realized something—

After all this arguing, didn't it seem like someone was missing?

Eh?

Where was Jiang Ye?

She instinctively looked back. Jiang Ye had, at some point, retreated several steps away. He was leaning against the hood of the car, holding up his phone with a beaming face, muttering a "live commentary" under his breath:

"Hello, hello, Cheng Cheng, Little Su, can you hear me? See that? The battle has escalated! The male side's mother has joined the fray, suspected of using the 'Traditional Double Standard' skill! The female side's HP is dropping, but her rage meter is through the roof! Oh ho! The male side has unleashed the 'Bride Price Taunt' ultimate! It's super effective! The female side has entered 'Berserk Mode'! Here she goes, here she goes!"

"Jiang! Ye!"

Lin Wanxing squeezed the words through her teeth, feeling as if smoke were coming out of the top of her head.

She rushed over in a few steps and peered at the phone screen—it was indeed a video chat interface, with Ye Cheng and Su Ning's faces squeezed together on the other side, full of excitement.

"What are you doing?!"

Lin Wanxing lowered her voice, so angry she nearly exploded on the spot. "Hurry up and come help persuade them! You're still here live-streaming?!"

"Huh? Live-streaming... no, no, no, it's a misunderstanding. It's just that it's late and my family was worried, so I'm letting them know I'm safe!"

Caught red-handed, Jiang Ye didn't even blink. He quickly said into the microphone, "This concludes the report from your field reporter, Little Jiang. Please stay tuned for further developments," and then hung up the video at light speed.

He glanced at the three people over there who were arguing more and more fiercely, their words leaving less and less room for reconciliation. He felt the timing was about right.

If they kept arguing and actually broke up on the spot, with Zhao Yumei's personality, she would definitely start frantically arranging the next one for Lin Haoxuan. Then he'd have to redesign the plot all over again, which would be a hassle.

The best state was like this—several people with their own hidden agendas, manipulating and annoying each other, yet unable to separate because of various interests, just dragging it out.

Drag it out for a year or two, or even three. The longer it dragged on, the more peace Lin Wanxing would have.

Hmm... in the current situation, the outnumbered Sun Na was clearly at a disadvantage. He had to back her up a bit to maintain the "triangular balance," otherwise, fighting alone, she would easily be suppressed by the mother and son.

Jiang Ye stuffed his phone into his pocket, instantly switching off "Spectator" mode and urgently activating "Steady Brother-in-law" mode.

He walked quickly to the three people on the verge of a physical fight and shouted with a deep breath:

"Alright! Everyone stop arguing!"

With just that simple sentence, the three people whom Lin Wanxing had failed to stop even by shouting herself hoarse instantly fell silent.

Sun Na, in particular, looked at him as if he were a savior, her eyes red, her face full of grievance, waiting for her "Brother-in-law" to get her justice.

"Haoxuan, it's not that I'm scolding you."

Jiang Ye first looked at the defiant Lin Haoxuan, his brow slightly furrowed. "Men like beautiful women and seek a bit of excitement; that's understandable."

Lin Haoxuan was stunned, completely not expecting his brother-in-law to first validate the rationality of his "lust."