Prove It To Me

She pondered for a moment.

She had indeed noticed some changes in her body recently.

Her craving for cigarettes had grown stronger and stronger. If she went an hour without smoking, she started feeling uneasy.

She was an extremely self-disciplined woman and had never become dependent on anything.

But this situation had caught her completely off guard.

"Gao Le bought all your cigarettes for you. It would be very easy for him to tamper with them," Su Rui said again. "He makes you breakfast every day. Haven't you ever wondered whether those Fried Eggs and slices of bread might contain something else?"

Ma Xiumei remained silent.

If what Su Rui said was true, then this was no longer merely a matter of Gao Le keeping a mistress behind her back.

Gao Le wanted her dead!

"You can test him. In his WeChat, there's a contact saved as..." Su Rui leaned close and whispered something else into Ma Xiumei's ear.

Su Rui finished speaking.

Ma Xiumei nodded, then calmly walked back. With a blank expression, she crooked a finger at Gao Le.

Gao Le raised his head, trembling.

After living together for nearly a year, he knew Ma Xiumei's temper very well. Whenever she was expressionless and showed no emotional fluctuations, that was when she was closest to reaching her limit, at the brink of rage.

"Darling, you..." Gao Le swallowed.

"He told me some things. I don't quite believe them," Ma Xiumei said flatly.

Gao Le froze, then was immediately overwhelmed with joy. "Darling, I knew you would believe me. Don't listen to other people's nonsense..."

"Prove It To Me!" Ma Xiumei cut off Gao Le's rambling and said word by word, "Prove It To Me. Prove that you didn't lie to me."

"H-how do I prove it?" Gao Le was clearly uneasy.

"Open your WeChat. Find the person saved as 'Clearwater Merchant,' start a voice call, and say, 'The goods are gone. Contact someone immediately and bring in a new batch!'" Ma Xiumei said.

Gulp...

Gao Le's Adam's apple bobbed, and cold sweat visibly dripped down his face.

"Listen to me, that merchant just sells fabric..."

"Do as I say!" Gao Le's unnatural reaction made Ma Xiumei feel a thump in her heart, and veins faintly bulged at her temples.

Deep down, she did not want to believe Su Rui's words, because she simply could not accept that what she had always considered true love was fucking nothing more than a vicious wolf lurking beside her bed!

Gao Le's hands and feet turned ice-cold.

If Ma Xiumei discovered that he had kept a mistress, at most he would get a brutal beating and be thrown out. But if his plan to slowly poison Ma Xiumei to death was exposed, things would be much more serious!

It would be enough to make him vanish into thin air!

"I... I forgot my phone's lock screen password..." Gao Le had already panicked. All he could think was to stall for as long as possible.

"2871." Su Rui smiled as he spoke.

"Don't make me do it myself." Ma Xiumei stared at Gao Le and spoke word by word.

Gao Le's breathing quickened. His hands shook as if he had Parkinson's, and his face was as pale as a corpse's.

He could not stall any longer. He glanced at the expressionless Ma Xiumei and tremblingly started the voice call.

It was answered very quickly.

"The... the goods are gone. Immediately... contact someone and bring in a new batch!"

Gao Le sounded as if he had suffered a stroke. He broke off three or four times just trying to say one sentence.

He prayed frantically that the person on the other end would notice something was wrong and adapt accordingly.

Silence.

"Haha... Husband, you're amazing! You used up all the goods so quickly! Hey... that old fat hag didn't notice anything, did she?"

An excited woman's laughter came from the voice call.

Her voice was crisp and clear.

"You need to hurry up with the marriage... After you get married, we can increase the dosage. Send that fat hag to her grave sooner, and we won't have to sneak around anymore..."

"Hello! Hello! Husband, are you listening?"

Clatter!

The phone slipped from his hand and crashed onto the ground.

Gao Le stiffly raised his head like a corpse.

With a thud, he dropped to his knees.

Smack!

A crisp, resounding slap rang out, so sharp it made people's scalps tingle.

Gao Le was sent flying nearly two meters, his head slamming into the counter in the hall.

Blood welled from his forehead.

His cheek swelled.

His eyes were panicked to the point of despair.

"Darling, listen to my explanation, it's not like that..." Gao Le couldn't bother to cry out in pain. He scrambled and crawled to his knees before Ma Xiumei, tears and snot streaming down his face as he clung to her leg. "I never wanted to hurt you. It was all that woman's idea!"

Ma Xiumei's heart went completely cold.

What did it mean for one's heart to turn to ashes?

Being betrayed by the person one trusted most!

"Have two people from the Security Department come down." Ma Xiumei's voice was somewhat weary as she took out a walkie-talkie and gave the order.

Orderly footsteps sounded.

Two burly young men, both over six feet three inches tall, came down from upstairs.

"Take Manager Gao to Clearwater Garden and find that woman named Han Mei. I want to see her in an hour." Ma Xiumei's expression remained blank as she turned to her bodyguard and ordered, "Keep a close watch on Manager Gao. Don't let him run."

"Yes, Boss!"

The two bodyguards nodded, strode over, and directly hauled up Gao Le, who had been frightened limp, before dragging him toward the door.

Gao Le's entire body had gone limp, shaking like a sieve.

He could not even force out a plea for mercy.

Ma Xiumei turned to Su Rui again. She said nothing, only took a deep breath and gave an apologetic smile. "Mr. Su, Miss Li, I'm truly sorry! Such a disgraceful family scandal... I've made you watch a joke."

Ma Xiumei controlled her emotions extremely well.

Even though she was so furious that she wanted to kill someone, she could still smile and speak normally in front of Li Ruobing and Su Rui.

This woman's mental fortitude was simply unbelievably strong.

Li Ruobing felt somewhat speechless.

She had clearly only come to pick out an evening gown for a banquet, yet she had passively witnessed a spectacle even more exciting than a television drama.

Wherever Su Rui was, things apparently were never peaceful.