Contract Marriage: Billionaire and His Deaf Wife
Chapter 115: The Four Tigresses of the Xiao Family (1)

Chapter 115: Chapter 115: The Four Tigresses of the Xiao Family (1)

On their way, Xiao Yebai made another call to Zang Xiaolian, telling him to get the medicine and go straight to the car instead of coming to pick them up.

Zang Xiaolian seemed to have walked somewhere and seen someone, and suddenly exclaimed, "Second Brother, don’t go through the front entrance, there are people—"

The hospital elevator dinged, and suddenly opened. Xiao Yebai, alert, stretched out his arm to encircle Gu Nuan beside him.

Gu Nuan clearly felt that his action was meant to cover something up.

But obviously, it was all too late.

In front of the hospital building doors that faced the elevator, in the middle of the night, a man and a woman approached.

The man, dressed like a secretary or driver, carried a bag for the woman in front and followed closely behind her.

The woman walking in front was about forty years old, dressed in an elegant and luxurious manner.

Her hair was curled fashionably, falling to her shoulders, resembling a lady from the cover of TIME magazine, her lips painted with a thick layer of lipstick, diamond studs sparkling on her ears.

A purple and red skirt symbolizing wealth and status wrapped around her slightly plump figure.

The woman, upon seeing the silhouette of people in the elevator ahead, was clearly caught off guard by the unexpected encounter and abruptly halted her red high heels.

The driver by her side exclaimed in surprise, "Young Master."

Who is this woman?

She isn’t Xiao Yebai’s mother, is she?

Gu Nuan felt the age didn’t match. The woman seemed younger than what her mother-in-law would be.

A stepmother?

No.

In fact, Gu Nuan did not know how many people were in the Xiao Family.

About the internal structure of the Xiao Family, Xiao Jianming had always kept it a well-guarded secret. This was for the safety of his family.

The general public had no idea who was in Xiao Jianming’s family.

As Gu Nuan was guessing the answer but couldn’t be sure, she suddenly felt the hand beside her gripping her hand bone tightly.

His fingers may have been slender and long like a woman’s, but the strength was far greater than she imagined.

He gripped her hand bone so tightly, as if he was about to crush it.

Gu Nuan endured the pain from his grip while covertly sizing up the woman from the Xiao Family standing in front of the elevator facing them.

The woman’s gaze had already shifted from Xiao Yebai to Gu Nuan’s face.

From her eyes, Gu Nuan clearly discerned a hint of surprise, astonishment, and narrowed disdain.

Because of this, Gu Nuan had every reason to believe that the woman had misunderstood something.

"Yebai, why are you at your family’s hospital in the dead of night?" the woman asked.

"And what about Second Sister? Why is Second Sister showing up here at such a late hour?" Xiao Yebai countered her words sharply.

Sister—Brother!

It seemed the relationship between this brother and sister was very delicate. Gu Nuan pondered the reasons behind it. Of course, she had a great relationship with her own brother back in the day, so she couldn’t imagine a sibling relationship like what she was witnessing now—her husband and his second sister looking at each other like wary strangers.

Xiao Shulan, the Xiao Family’s second daughter, was nearly ten years older than Xiao Yebai. This was because Xiao Jianming had his son late in life, in his forties, finally having Xiao Yebai.

"You’ve forgotten, your brother-in-law twisted his waist a few days ago, and tonight, he suddenly complained of unbearable pain in the hospital. I had to come and see," Xiao Shulan said, her eyes fixed on Gu Nuan’s face without wavering.