Chapter 357: Chapter 344: My Ex-Husband is Leng Yan
"Auntie, I’ll just wait here." Qu Min, after hearing Mrs. Tan’s "order" to leave, held Mrs. Tan’s hand and acted coy: "I want to hear what she has to say."
"Minmin, don’t make a fuss." Mrs. Tan frowned slightly: "Go back to the hotel. Tomorrow, come back to T City with me. Running out like this, your mom is very worried. Luckily, I called her last night, otherwise, who knows how worried she’d be."
"Then... okay." Qu Min pouted, reluctantly leaving, then returned to sit at one of the outdoor seats at the entrance.
From Tan Qing, Wen Nuan knew that Mrs. Tan was a person who paid great attention to style. Today, she dressed more casually, hesitated a moment, and took a taxi to the nearest mall. She changed into a new outfit and deliberately put on light makeup before entering the hotel.
Even though she checked herself again and again in the mirror at the mall, there was nothing amiss. However, upon arriving at the hotel, every step she took made her increasingly nervous, her palms were sweaty.
Qu Min, sitting nearby, watched Wen Nuan come in nervously and snorted through her nose: Scared already? Just wait and see what you’ll do later!
Led by a waiter to the luxurious private room Mrs. Tan had reserved, Wen Nuan stood at the door as a graceful and elegant woman immediately approached her. With good maintenance, she looked quite young and had a kindly smile: "Are you Miss Wen? Hello."
"Hello, Auntie." Wen Nuan earnestly tried to smile, striving to control her nerves.
"Miss Wen, you were previously an employee at the MT headquarters?" Mrs. Tan asked as she motioned the waiter to bring two glasses of orange juice. She took a sip through the straw and maintained her smile while asking.
"Yes, I was at headquarters before, then came here on a business trip with my mentor Lin Xue and ended up staying." Wen Nuan answered honestly.
"I specifically inquired about your designs." Mrs. Tan smiled with an appreciative tone in her voice: "The director here spoke highly of you, saying you’re a rare designer."
To be honest, her first impression of Wen Nuan was very good. She was dressed elegantly and appropriately, understated yet possessing not only beauty but also a distinct air.
But her family background...
Recalling the words of Mr. Tan prior to coming here, she temporarily set aside this concern and didn’t ask further.
After receiving a call from Qu Min last night, she and her husband talked about many things. Tan Qing was strongly opposed to marrying Qu Min, so they wanted to see what kind of girl had attracted Tan Qing’s interest.
If she had broken up with her boyfriend and was outstanding, there was a possibility they might accept her.
So in truth, when Mrs. Tan called Wen Nuan, she had a bit of expectation in her heart. And for this reason, she hadn’t let Qu Min sit in on their meeting.
"Thank you, Auntie, please just call me by my name." Wen Nuan smiled politely. Hearing such a formal address felt very distant. However, she could sense Mrs. Tan wasn’t completely opposed to her, which gave her a slight sense of relief.
After asking where her family was from and the dishes had been served, Mrs. Tan, still smiling, asked her while inviting her to eat: "I heard from Qu Min that you had a boyfriend. What was the reason for the breakup?"
Wen Nuan’s heart trembled, not knowing how to respond.
She didn’t want to lie, nor did she want to deceive Mrs. Tan and then have to cover it up with more lies later. This would be exhausting and went against her honest nature.
After hesitating for a moment, she looked up sincerely at Mrs. Tan: "It wasn’t a boyfriend, I have been through a marriage."
"What? You... you were married?"
Mrs. Tan’s eyes widened, her hand holding chopsticks started to tremble with excitement, having considered many scenarios with her husband the previous night, yet not imagining she had once been married.
Because she didn’t want Tan Qing to know, apart from what she heard from Qu Min, she knew nothing about Wen Nuan.
"Does Qing know?"
Mrs. Tan tried hard to calm herself, asking quietly with her internal anger searching for an outlet.
She felt Tan Qing surely didn’t know and must have been deceived by this woman!
"Yes." Wen Nuan bit her lip tightly, her fingers quietly clenched, trying to keep calm: "He knows everything about me."
"He knows and still wants to be with you?"
Mrs. Tan was filled with disbelief. She nearly reached for her phone to call her son. Gripping the juice glass tightly, the shock and anger in her eyes turned into a thick layer of disappointment.
Not only towards Wen Nuan, but towards her own son as well.
The son she had always been proud of, was his head squeezed in a door? Of all the choices, he chose a divorced woman. How could he disgrace himself like this?
"You’re actually a divorced woman?" A sharp voice suddenly came from the door, making Wen Nuan’s heart jolt. She saw Qu Min had already closed the door and come in.
Mrs. Tan was momentarily taken aback, her beautiful brows furrowing: "Minmin, weren’t you going back to the hotel?"
"I couldn’t help but worry, so I didn’t leave." Qu Min clung coquettishly to Mrs. Tan’s arm: "Auntie, now you see what kind of woman she is?"
She looked provocatively at Wen Nuan: "Miss Wen, I remember not long ago in T City, you even bought clothes for your husband, didn’t you? You seemed very affectionate then, right? Now that you know Tan Qing likes you, you abandoned your poor husband? Hmph, you can tell at a glance you’re a woman who loves wealth and despises poverty! Auntie, she wants to be with Tan Qing because she’s eyeing the Tan family’s money."
"Miss Qu!" Wen Nuan’s face flushed with both red and white from the humiliation. Would she really covet Tan Qing’s money and abandon a poor husband?
"Oh, still glaring at me with such anger. Did I say something wrong?" Qu Min’s eyes were filled with deep satisfaction: "A woman like you, with your eyes full of money, who knows, might run off with an even wealthier man someday - or rather, the money."
"Qu Min!" Wen Nuan felt her entire being ignited by Qu Min’s words, fueled with anger. She looked directly at Qu Min, her voice cold: "In terms of money and status, the Leng Family should be more capable than the Tan Family, isn’t that right? If I cared about money, I wouldn’t have left Leng Yan..."
At this point, she suddenly stopped, her face reddening intensely.
She hadn’t wanted to reveal her past with Leng Yan. But Qu Min was so aggressive, and to prove herself, she hadn’t restrained herself. The only thing that made her feel proud was that, in front of Mrs. Tan and Qu Min, her tears didn’t fall.
Facing the questioning and astonished looks from Mrs. Tan and Qu Min, Wen Nuan decided to be honest. She spoke softly: "My ex-husband is... Leng Yan."
"Leng Group’s Second Young Master, Leng Yan? My heavens, I only knew the second young master was married, but didn’t know he’s divorced now." Qu Min shrieked.
Mrs. Tan’s eyes widened, staring at Wen Nuan, her lips moved, but she couldn’t utter a word.