The Time-Limited Love and Marriage
Chapter 114

Chapter 114: Chapter 114

Everyone watched as Luoxia cried and confessed, their expressions somewhat odd.

Especially Bu Yan, who even questioned Jiang Moxi directly, "What does this forced confession count for? It still can’t cover up the fact that you were the other woman."

Indeed, not just Bu Yan, everyone else also felt that Luoxia’s confession was coerced by Jiang Moxi.

And when Luoxia heard Bu Yan’s questioning, her tears fell even more, as if truly coerced by Jiang Moxi, forced to admit her lies.

Yet Jiang Moxi suddenly glanced at her, her seemingly light gaze inexplicably filled the entire space with a suffocating pressure.

Luoxia had accompanied her father in meetings with countless high-rankers before, but none were like Jiang Moxi, whose mere look could overwhelm with such daunting force, almost too much for her to handle.

Thinking about it, Jiang Moxi, a young girl, had such an overpowering presence, and just then, Jiang Moxi suddenly smiled at her.

"If you don’t fully disclose everything, it won’t be as simple as just a beating."

When Jiang Moxi wasn’t smiling, her features were beautifully cold and distant.

This smile, like a beam of light in chaos, was so beautiful and yet so dazzling.

While everyone was captivated by Jiang Moxi’s enchanting smile, Luoxia was incredibly panicked inside.

Because in her eyes, Jiang Moxi’s smile at that moment seemed more like a death warrant.

Her intuition told her that if she didn’t follow Jiang Moxi’s advice, not only would she be doomed, but her family would also face disaster.

So ultimately, Luoxia, choking up, said, "I didn’t see Jiang Moxi and Lin Xian together; I made it all up because Si Lin took her to Old Master Si’s birthday banquet yesterday, and I lied out of jealousy."

This statement left everyone in disbelief.

Especially Bu Yan, who looked at Luoxia as if she was seeing her for the first time.

Others might not be aware of the Si Family secrets, but Bu Yan was quite familiar.

In fact, Old Madam Si wasn’t related by blood to Si Lin and Si Ruo; she was Old Master Si’s second wife.

She always wanted to have her own child to inherit everything of the Si Family, but unfortunately, she could never conceive.

After getting older, Old Madam Si finally gave up on having children and turned her attention to Si Lin.

She wanted to marry her brother’s daughter, Luoxia, to Si Lin, so that the Luo Family could also control half of the Si Family fortune.

Because of this, Luoxia even styled herself as the "future matriarch of Si Family" among socialites.

Thus, Bu Yan knew that Luoxia’s obsession with Si Lin was not a bit less than her modest attitude towards Lin Xian.

At this moment, as Luoxia mentioned Si Lin, the matter was likely true.

After hearing Luoxia’s clear confession, Jiang Moxi lightly patted her cheek.

"Don’t talk nonsense again in the future, or it won’t just end with a few slaps."

After speaking, Jiang Moxi flung Luoxia aside and then looked towards Bu Yan.

"Now you know what happened, right? Think twice before you act in the future, don’t let yourself be manipulated!"

Now that Bu Yan understood the situation and considering how intensely Jiang Moxi beat up Luoxia, making her legs tremble, she dared not object and hurriedly nodded in agreement.

After resolving the disturbance, Jiang Moxi turned, ordered two cups of coffee, and then left with Ling Hua.

Once the key figure left, the surrounding onlookers also dispersed.

Luoxia, enduring the pain all over her body, got up from the ground and tried to apologize and explain to Bu Yan, "Bu Yan, I..."

But before she could finish, Bu Yan slapped her.

"How dare you use me as a tool? Wait and see, this isn’t over yet."

After slapping Luoxia and leaving these harsh words, Bu Yan left angrily.

Other ladies, having seen through Luoxia’s character from her recent clarification, also followed Bu Yan and distanced themselves from her.

Knowing Bu Yan was furious, Luoxia realized pursuing her to explain would be futile, so she could only meekly leave the café...

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Soon, Jiang Moxi carrying two cups of coffee, returned to the Ling Family with Ling Hua.

But even though she personally put a straw in the coffee and placed it in front of Ling Hua, Ling Hua didn’t drink it, instead was secretly sizing up Jiang Moxi.

"What’s wrong? Weren’t you the one who was clamoring for coffee?"

Upon this question by Jiang Moxi, Ling Hua hurriedly grabbed the cup and guzzled it down, as if afraid of getting punished for not drinking enough.

After gulping down half of the cup of coffee, Ling Hua sneakily glanced at Jiang Moxi again, and seeing that she was not angry, finally spoke timidly.

"Sister Moxi, can I ask you a question?"

Due to witnessing firsthand Jiang Moxi’s cool and beautiful demeanor when hitting someone, Ling Hua unintentionally began to refer to her as "sister".

"Ask." Jiang Moxi, who was looking through Ling Hua’s test papers from the last test, said without looking up.

Seeing Jiang Moxi flipping through the test papers without any aggression, Ling Hua moved a bit closer, and cautiously asked: "Have you learned Kung Fu?"

"Hmm, learned a bit." Jiang Moxi still did not look up.

After some hesitation, Ling Hua asked again, "Then... would you hit me?"

Jiang Moxi, upon hearing this bizarre question, finally looked up at Ling Hua.

But the moment she looked up, Ling Hua quickly moved away.

Now, it was difficult for Jiang Moxi not to notice that Ling Hua was afraid of getting hit.

Jiang Moxi stared at Ling Hua’s uneasy appearance for a long while, then suddenly smiled and said: "If you’re not good, I’ll knock your head crooked!"

Ling Hua’s eyes immediately widened, looking extremely frightened.

But how dare she contradict Jiang Moxi, in case Jiang Moxi hit her like she did to Luoxia?

"I’ll be good, I’ll be good!" Ling Hua quickly picked up the pen and the test papers she had been reluctantly handling before, and started to write furiously.

Seeing Ling Hua immediately get into a studying mode, Jiang Moxi suddenly realized what method she should use to get Ling Hua to study seriously...

When Ling Ye came home after playing basketball, he happened to see Ling Hua writing furiously and couldn’t help asking her:

"Are you possessed?"

Normally, filling out a test paper would take her forever to start, but today she was so urgent and exceptionally focused, which was completely baffling.

"Shut up, what do you know?" After cursing Ling Ye, Ling Hua sneakily glanced at Jiang Moxi, who was playing with her phone, and then said: "I love studying, studying makes me happy! No one can stop me from studying!"

Having declared her grand aspirations, Ling Hua continued to bury herself in her work.

Ling Ye frowned: "Isn’t this still being possessed?"

But by this time, Ling Hua was already too engrossed in her studies to even respond. Ling Ye could only look towards Jiang Moxi.

"Staying for dinner tonight? My uncle is also coming over for dinner later."

"Does your uncle often come to your house for dinner?" Jiang Moxi asked casually.

"Not at all! Today there’s a new shipment of King crabs and tuna at the harbor, and uncle is bringing them over for us."

The Fu Family has a special seafood supply chain at the harbor, but they rarely send anything this way.

Especially with Fu Youhan personally delivering it.

Ling Ye wondered for a moment, could it be that uncle knew that Jiang Moxi was at their house today, and that’s why he specially sent these over?

But then again, it seemed impossible; what kind of beauty hasn’t his uncle seen, how could he possibly take a fancy to Jiang Moxi, a young girl still wet behind the ears?

So probably the uncle was just worried about Jiang Moxi, fearing that this academic struggler might not be good at tutoring Ling Hua, and specially came to check.

While Jiang Moxi was thinking about how delicious the fresh King crab must taste, she nodded and agreed to stay for dinner.

As for the matter of Fu Youhan asking her if she was going to tutor Ling Hua in the afternoon when she left the house this morning, it was all pushed to the back of her mind...