Chapter 162

Shen Lantang: Not necessarily. Maybe he's flirting with her right now.

"His wife works so hard, and he goes chasing other women and breaking her heart. Unforgivable! Absolutely unforgivable!"

She was so angry her head hurt.

Shen Lantang hurried to calm her down. "There must be a misunderstanding. My husband isn't that kind of man."

"I saw it with my own eyes. How could there be a misunderstanding?"

There certainly could.

"All right, don't be angry. I'll ask him about it when I get back."

After much coaxing, Shen Lantang sent the young woman home. She shook her head and laughed for a while. The whole thing was absurdly funny, though Xie Jin himself would not find it funny.

She shook her head again and returned to work.

Elsewhere, Xie Jin returned to the Residence and immediately sensed a change in how people treated him. Thanks to Shen Lantang, everyone had greeted him with smiles before. Now, however—

"Hmph!" A young maid snorted at him as she passed.

Xie Jin: "..."

He was not about to take issue with a young maid. He was simply baffled. What had he done to upset anyone?

Xie Jin rarely interacted with others. Though everyone was polite to him, his refined air was hard to miss, so they generally avoided conversation. The rest of his walk back was quiet.

That afternoon, Xie Jin grew tired of staying in his room and went for a slow walk through the garden. There, he overheard someone talking.

"Have you heard? That Liu Mingyue has hooked another man, and this time he's from our Residence."

"And the man already has a wife! She works herself to the bone to support their household—and him—while he carries on with another woman. I hear he's even plotting to divorce his wife."