The Time-Limited Love and Marriage
Chapter 42

Chapter 42: Chapter 42

Yu Man’s eyes lit up at the sight of Xiao Qingyun, and she quickly took the initiative to greet her.

"Oh, isn’t this Weiwei’s younger auntie? Are you bringing friends over to see only one of Sibei’s works being exhibited?"

Xiao Qingyun could naturally tell that Yu Man was simply belittling her and Sibei, feeling self-satisfied about just one work on display at the cultural center, something completely incomparable to their family’s Jiang Weiwei!

She also realized that Yu Man, this despicable woman, deliberately chose today to run into them, wanting to make Jiang Sibei a mere background to Jiang Weiwei.

In that instant, Xiao Qingyun was contemplating turning back.

However, she had brought quite a few friends today, and leaving like this would definitely make her the subject of ridicule.

Therefore, Xiao Qingyun ultimately swallowed all her frustration.

"Yes, elder sister-in-law, you and your friends are also here to see Weiwei’s works, right? Then we won’t disturb you."

After sidestepping the issue, Xiao Qingyun took Jiang Sibei and her friends to enter the exhibition area first.

After giving Xiao Qingyun a good tongue-lashing, Yu Man also felt a lot more comfortable and led the others into the exhibition area.

None of these people were photography enthusiasts, and they quickly walked through most of the exhibition area, stopping only briefly when they came upon Jiang Sibei’s work.

Coincidentally, Xiao Qingyun and her group also stopped in front of Jiang Sibei’s work, commenting on the pieces with gusto.

"The artistic conception is so good, no wonder it was selected for the exhibition."

"Sibei’s artistic accomplishments are so high, if she doesn’t want to be a star in the future, becoming a director would also be excellent."

"Yes, yes, I’m already thinking about the title of ’most beautiful director’..."

When Yu Man passed by, she couldn’t help but burst into laughter at the mention of "most beautiful director."

Jiang Weiwei then asked her, "Mom, what happened?"

"Nothing, I just suddenly thought of a joke," Yu Man sneered.

Listening to their mother-daughter exchange, Xiao Qingyun and Jiang Sibei were itching to tear their mouths apart.

But today, they had invited so many friends to see the exhibition; if they started a fight, it would definitely end up as a joke.

So they had to endure it!

Yu Man, after mocking Xiao Qingyun and her daughter, continued on into the depths of the exhibition area with her friends.

Yet, the deeper she went, the more distracted Yu Man became.

"Weiwei, are you sure your works were really included for exhibition?"

As the exhibition area was nearing its end, Yu Man couldn’t find Jiang Weiwei’s two pieces and started to get anxious.

"It’s confirmed, someone from the cultural center personally notified me."

Though Jiang Weiwei said this, she was unsure in her heart.

Because she hadn’t had the time to visit the cultural center in person after receiving the notification.

Later, when Yu Man learned the news, she directly arranged today’s visit.

She dared not imagine what would happen if Yu Man didn’t see the two works here today.

But after hearing her reassurance, Yu Man said, "Then it must be further back. The more valued works are generally presented last."

Jiang Weiwei nodded, beginning to reassure herself as well.

The cultural center personally called her, so her works must have been exhibited.

Yes, they must just be positioned towards the end.

Just a little further in, they would see them.

So, she and her mother continued to lead the others further inside.

Jiang Moxi followed throughout, watching all this indifferently.

Until they reached the final piece in the exhibition area and still did not see Jiang Weiwei’s works.

Yu Man became frantic, "What’s going on? Is there some mistake?"

Jiang Weiwei’s face was deathly pale by now, "I, I don’t know either."

"Could it be that we walked too quickly before and overlooked Weiwei’s pieces?" Mrs. Liu, who had a good relationship with Yu Man, quickly suggested.

Yu Man glanced at Jiang Weiwei and felt that she couldn’t possibly be joking about such a matter, so she said.

"Right, right, right, we must have walked too fast earlier and missed seeing the artwork."

Then she hurriedly led a group of people back to look for Jiang Weiwei’s work.

As they turned back, Xiao Qingyun and Jiang Sibei and others were still standing in front of Jiang Sibei’s work.

Xiao Qingyun couldn’t help but take a few extra glances at them, and then she noticed that Yu Man and Jiang Weiwei no longer had their previous air of triumph, quickly perking up her ears...

"There’s none! Still none! What on earth is going on?"

"Weiwei, why don’t you call the cultural center to see if it was included in another gallery?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Qingyun roughly guessed that they hadn’t found Jiang Weiwei’s work in this gallery.

She leaned forward, looking at Yu Man with a barely suppressed smile.

"What happened? Can’t find the work? Could it be that it never existed from the beginning!"

Yu Man was already worried about not finding the work and becoming a laughing stock.

Xiao Qingyun’s intrusion was almost like stepping on her face.

If it weren’t for the consideration of causing trouble in public and bringing shame upon Jiang Weiwei and Jiang Guosheng, Yu Man would have wanted to go up and scratch Xiao Qingyun’s face.

She tried to contain her anger, glanced at Jiang Weiwei, and said: "No, that won’t happen. Weiwei wouldn’t lie to me!"

Jiang Weiwei was on the verge of crying and hurriedly explained: "I didn’t lie to Mom, I really received a notification from the cultural center that my work was selected for exhibition."

"Call the staff to verify it, maybe they just switched to another gallery temporarily."

Mrs. Liu watched the anxious mother and daughter and reassured them.

"Right, Weiwei, you call the staff to verify."

Yu Man gave Xiao Qingyun a cold look and urged as well.

Just you wait!

If it turns out that Jiang Weiwei’s work was merely moved to another gallery, she would trample Xiao Qingyun’s face into the ground.

Urged by the others, Jiang Weiwei called back the number that had informed her of the selection.

However, the staff informed her: "I’m sorry, your work has not met the standards for our exhibition. It was a staff error that led to the mistaken notification. We sincerely apologize for not informing you in time to correct the information."

Despite the sincere apologies from the staff, Jiang Weiwei still cried out in protest: "How can you play with people like this?"

The staff apologized over and over again.

But what use were apologies?

With so many people watching, she had lost so much face...

Seeing Jiang Weiwei in tears, Yu Man had guessed what had happened but couldn’t let it go: "What did they say?"

But Jiang Weiwei couldn’t say anything and just sobbed uncontrollably.

How could she bring herself to say that her work hadn’t met the exhibition standards?

Xiao Qingyun, leisurely and comfortably, scoffed: "Crying like this, there must have been a huge mix-up. Lacking that talent, why didn’t she think things through when she received the call? Instead of jumping to conclusions, bragging about it..."

Xiao Qingyun mocked them just as Yu Man had scorned her and Jiang Sibei earlier.

Unable to withstand such verbal barbs, Jiang Weiwei ran out of the cultural center in tears.

Yu Man, despite being furious, was still very worried about Jiang Weiwei being so emotionally disturbed and quickly followed her out.

The socialites who had come with Yu Man saw the photography exhibition visit turn into this mess and found it uninteresting, each going their own way.

Watching Jiang Weiwei and Yu Man disappear into the distance, Jiang Moxi’s gaze was dark and unfathomable.

At first, she only intended to give Jiang Weiwei a small punishment.

If Jiang Weiwei and Yu Man hadn’t been so arrogant, inviting so many people to witness, this wouldn’t have happened.

She was well aware that Jiang Weiwei’s work had been withdrawn, yet she still rushed over, intending to stop this farce.

It’s just that Yu Man detested her so much that she didn’t even give her the chance to speak.

So who is to blame for all this?

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