Chapter 370 — A Slap

The most astonishing thing was that the boyfriend Xiaofen had found now seemed to be Kang **!

Hearing Zhu Xiaozhang's words, Xiaofen trembled all over with rage, clutching Kang **'s hand in a death grip, her eyes brimming with stubborn fury.

She knew this Zhu Xiaozhang—one of Kang Jingming's hangers-on. Back when she and Kang Jingming were together, he had trailed after her calling her "sister-in-law" at every turn, so sweetly it made her teeth ache, and now he was calling her a **!

"I don't know you. Who are you?" Hearing Zhu Xiaozhang's words, Xiaofen understood exactly what Kang Jingming meant by them, and at last she was completely dead to him.

If Kang Jingming had harbored even a shred of feeling for what they had once been, he would never have let Zhu Xiaozhang say such things—and after Zhu Xiaozhang had said them, Kang Jingming still looked as though it were only natural. That told her plainly enough: Kang Jingming had never loved her, not from first to last; he had only been playing with her feelings... Painful as it was, Xiaofen understood completely now. He was not her lover! He was a devil!

She believed all the rumors she had heard before, too... They said Kang Jingming changed girlfriends as often as other men changed clothes. She hadn't believed it at first, but seeing the look on his face now, she had no choice but to believe.

"Huh? You ***, do you think just because you've latched onto someone important, you don't have to own up to your past?" Zhu Xiaozhang bared his teeth at Kang **. "Boy, has she fooled you? Do you know she's used goods? Second Young Master Kang here wore her out and threw her away, and you picked up the leftovers and brought them home like treasure?"

"That's right, **, this woman is what I tired of and tossed aside—how could you take her home? If my uncle finds out, the shame of it would kill him!" Kang Jingming came over wearing an expression of kindly concern and said to Kang **, "Don't let the fact that she looks so pure and innocent fool you into falling for her!"

"Kang Jingming, you're shameless!" Xiaofen was trembling with fury, pointing at him and gasping for breath. She had never imagined Kang Jingming could be so utterly shameless—dumping her was bad enough, but to slander her like this!

"Shameless? I don't see it that way." Kang Jingming shrugged. "Some people are cheap and like to throw themselves at men to be played with—whose fault is that? I'm only reminding my little brother not to be taken in by some ***."

"That's enough!" Seeing that Xiaofen was about to cry, Kang ** suddenly bellowed. "Kang Jingming, you won't come to a good end! How can you talk about Xiaofen like that? She was your first love, she loved you deeply, she gave you everything—and this is how you speak of her? Have you no conscience at all?"

"Huh? For the sake of a cheap woman, you won't even call me cousin anymore—you use my name outright?" Kang Jingming sneered. "Her first love? So what? Who told her to be so stupid? I got tired of playing with her, so naturally I didn't want her anymore—was I supposed to keep her around forever? My family may have money, but I've dumped at least eighty, maybe a hundred women. If I brought them all home to keep, they'd eat me out of house and home!"

Hearing Kang Jingming's shameless words, Xiaofen could hold back her tears no longer; they burst from her eyes. He was truly too shameless, and the last faint hope in her heart shattered. Even if he had only said calmly, "I don't like you anymore, so we're through," she could have accepted that.

But Kang Jingming had called her stupid! Said that giving him everything was stupid! Xiaofen wept—wept in grief.

"How can you talk like that? I always knew you were no good—I should have broken the two of you up by force back then!" Tang Zhi was furious too, and pointing at this ungrateful wretch Kang Jingming, she could not help but curse him. "You're utterly despicable!"

"Oh? Who's this but Tang Zhi? Haven't seen you in years—you've grown even prettier. What, is this your boyfriend? He's nothing much!" Kang Jingming glanced at Wei Zhao, a flicker of jealousy passing through his eyes. Back then his pursuit of Tang Zhi had come to nothing, and only then had he turned to chasing Xiaofen; he had never gotten over not having her. "Driving that beat-up car—how tacky. Tang Zhi, I never thought your taste would be this bad!"

"Exactly! Dump him and come with our Second Young Master Kang—tomorrow he'll buy you a car worth two hundred thousand!" Zhu Xiaozhang jumped in, making Tang Zhi promises. "You've got no future following this idiot man!"

Wei Zhao had not wanted to meddle in Kang **'s family affairs. Whatever happened, it was a family matter, and the best solution was to let Kang ** settle it himself. Wei Zhao was only a bystander here, there to make sure Xiaofen didn't fall ill.

But he had never expected that Zhu Xiaozhang would redirect the trouble onto him and start bullying him! To be called an "idiot man"—if Wei Zhao could swallow that, he wouldn't be Wei Zhao.

"Smack!"

A crisp slap lashed out, sending Zhu Xiaozhang staggering and nearly sprawling to the ground!

With a howl of pain, Zhu Xiaozhang spun around three times on the ground before spitting out two bloody teeth, his cheek swelling up in an instant like a giant steamed bun.

"Guards, guards! Seize them!" Stunned by the blow, Zhu Xiaozhang came to his senses and immediately began shouting furiously—cursing and spluttering—that Wei Zhao had dared to hit him!

The guard captain had been hiding off at a distance, watching the two groups of the Kang family face off. He had meant to enjoy the show, never expecting Zhu Xiaozhang to be slapped by Wei Zhao. That in itself was nothing much—but the crucial thing was that after being slapped, Zhu Xiaozhang was shouting for the guards...

The guard captain was at once in a quandary, regretting that he hadn't simply slipped far away just now. He found himself stuck between a rock and a hard place: if he stepped in, he would surely offend Wei Zhao—no one knew what this fellow's relationship with Li Yixun was, and offending him would likely bring nothing but trouble!

But Zhu Xiaozhang had called them, and they could hardly ignore him—they had, after all, just accepted several hundred yuan in tips from him, and it would seem rather dishonorable to turn their backs on him so soon.

Besides, Zhu Xiaozhang was staring fixedly at them; as security guards of the resort, they had no choice but to step forward.

Just as the guard captain was caught in a dilemma, another squad of guards came running over. Their leader, a plump guard captain, had rushed over the moment he heard Zhu Xiaozhang's cry for help: "Brother Xiaozhang, what happened to you?"

This plump guard captain was named Zhong Dingwei, and he was the captain in charge of security inside the banquet hall. He had previously accepted a two-thousand-yuan red envelope from the Kang family, so he devoted himself wholeheartedly to the Kang family's affairs.

When the guard captain who had been hiding saw Zhong Dingwei come running, he breathed a sigh of relief—and at the same time felt a secret satisfaction! Zhong Dingwei had always been at odds with him, and this time, rushing over to curry favor with Kang Jingming, he would surely be in for a fine show!