Chapter 1174: Chapter 1173: Kick Someone When They’re Down

“Dad, are you still mad at me? Dad, I know I was wrong.” Wei An slowly lowered his head, blinking his eyes. His movements resembled those of Jiang Yang unintentionally, but due to the lack of thick, curling eyelashes, it came off as an awkward imitation.

Minister Wei felt a surge of irritability.

The people in the living room then realized something was amiss. In fact, Tang Qian’s attitude had already been problematic, but since Tang Lan was usually unreliable around the compound, no one had paid attention. But now Minister Wei’s attitude was clearly indicating a problem.

Everyone looked at each other, seeing a hint of fear in one another’s eyes.

Had they, with good intentions, done something terrible?

Thinking back on the recent relations between the Wei Family and the Lu Family, it seemed… they really had fallen out. But that couldn’t be right! Even if the Wei Family and the Lu Family had reasons to fall out, it shouldn’t have involved Wei An!

After all, Wei An was Minister Wei’s cherished youngest son, doted on even more than Wei Qin.

“Gentlemen, there’s a bit of trouble at home today, everyone, please leave!” Minister Wei straightforwardly suggested they leave.

The group hastily got up to leave, but Lu Dongxin, who had been feigning unconsciousness with her eyes closed, panicked upon hearing everyone was leaving. Although she had entered, she hadn’t yet settled into a room! With her uncle now suggesting they leave, she and Wei An were both at a loss.

She absolutely couldn’t let everyone leave.

“Ow!” Lu Dongxin cried out in pain, confusedly opening her eyes. Suddenly, she saw a gleam of joy burst forth in Minister Wei’s eyes. “Uncle, uncle, you must stand up for me.”

She shifted on the sofa, nearly rolling off from the pain, but was quickly supported by someone with fast reflexes.

“It hurts…” Lu Dongxin’s forehead was dotted with sweat. “Uncle, Jiang Nanfei sought personal revenge under the guise of official duties, because you don’t like me, she deliberately added insult to injury and broke three of my ribs.”

The surrounding people gasped, wanting to say something, but ultimately remained silent.

They weren’t fools; any inward conflict could be freely discussed. However, in matters involving personal disputes with others, without clear understandings, they absolutely wouldn’t recklessly express conclusions.

And who didn’t know Jiang Nanfei now?

The wife of Third Master Huo, the Closed-door Disciple to Professor Dai, a world-famous painter.

She featured on Time Magazine as a Chinese painter; when Time Magazine published this half a month ago, Jiang Nanfei had overnight become famous worldwide.

Only someone like Lu Dongxin, who had always stayed in the military and wasn’t in touch with the outside world, would be completely unaware of the situation.

It would be idiotic to oppose Jiang Nanfei, treating her as if she were just a naive country bumpkin freshly arrived from the countryside–believing you could bully her and slander her however you wished, not realizing she wasn’t someone you could bully at all.

No–it should be said that even if Jiang Nanfei had just come from the countryside, she had neither the right nor the ability to bully her.

Thinking about how they had viewed Jiang Nanfei in the past, it was simply embarrassing.

Others were low-key, but they had been too self-righteous, which was utterly inappropriate. Although they hadn’t joined Tang Lan and Wei Shufen in bullying the young girl, their condescending attitude was unacceptable.

Indeed, they had been slapped in the face.

It hurt!

Among them, the one who looked the most upset was Tang Lan; she hung her head in shame, wishing she could burrow into the ground. Now, remembering the scene when Lifu came home from work with the American edition of Time Magazine for her, she almost wished she could slap herself.