Madam Li froze.
She had not expected Su Rui to say something like that.
She had originally thought that even if he refused her demands, he would not tear things apart with her; after all, in name, she was the madam of the Li family and Li Ruobing's elder.
If Su Rui wanted to maintain his relationship with Li Ruobing, or take it a step further, he needed her or the Li family's approval.
Given that, she believed that no matter how excessive she was, Su Rui would swallow his anger... or fly into a rage.
Yet unexpectedly, Su Rui had calmly spoken words that left her unable to refute him.
It was as though he had forcibly torn away the disguise and outward appearance she had worn for years, exposing the thing she could least bear, naked beneath the daylight.
"You have no manners at all!" Chen Dong's expression darkened. He knew Su Rui's words had struck Madam Li's sore spot. "Are you looking to die?"
Sure enough, Madam Li could no longer maintain her composed, noble expression. Veins faintly bulged at her pale temples, and the chill in her brows and eyes grew heavier.
Over the years, she had always regarded herself as the mistress of the Li family. Whether handling the company's affairs or managing the family's internal matters, she did everything in perfect order, as though she had been born to sit in that position.
Countless people's flattery had raised her to the heavens. She seemed to have forgotten how she had married into the Li family in the first place...
An old husband and a young wife.
Such arrangements were not uncommon among wealthy families, but everyone knew what brought such couples together. For a man and woman separated by more than twenty, even thirty