Win My Husband Over to Find My Child
Chapter 58: Our Daughter Did Nothing Wrong

Chapter 58: Our Daughter Did Nothing Wrong

"If not for his family, does he think we’ll let ourselves lose face?"

"That brat is so rude! How did the Xu family teach him?"

"Urgh... I almost got heartburn because of him!"

Geoffrey balled his hands into fists, veins popping up on the back of his hands. He kept complaining while sitting on the bed, enraged by how blatantly Calix showed him no respect.

In the midst of Geoffrey’s whining, his wife Deena was busy applying her skincare in front of the vanity table. She had already changed into a silk nightdress.

"That boy’s blind and rude," Deena huffed out of frustration. She spread a thin layer of moisturizer on her skin, "I don’t know what he sees in that useless girl. She’s even in a coma. Like a corpse."

"That’s what I’m saying!" Geoffrey’s face reddened, his eyes glowering ferociously, "Huh! I bet Rowan’s gloating about it now. He gets the Xu family’s heir as his son-in-law!"

The husband and wife were so irritated by how Calix deliberately humiliated them. He also dared to reject their beloved daughter, causing Gladys to weep.

Their beautiful daughter had never been treated like that by any man before.

"Oh... our princess is so pitiful..." lamented Deena quietly.

Since Calix left the dining room with Rowan’s family, Geoffrey had been in a bad mood. He almost lashed out right there and then but, Deena quickly stopped him.

In the end, Geoffrey, Deena and Gladys were forced to return to their quarters while bearing the shame. Smokes came out of their ears as their complexion twisted in fury.

Only Derek remained calm. He said nothing at all about the disgrace their family had to endure because of Calix.

"Dear, I’m thinking of something," Deena patted her cheeks gently while rising to her feet. She turned around to head to the bed, "What if Brother-in-law uses this chance to topple you?"

Geoffrey gritted his teeth. He had been thinking of the possibility from the first day he heard of Calix and Charlene’s marriage.

Everyone knew the immense power yielded by the heir of the Xu family. No one wanted to make him their enemy.

But!

Why did that formidable Calix Xu have to pick his useless and comatose niece?

Was he dead blind?!

"Over my dead body! He’s only fit to be my lackey!"

Geoffrey racked his brain, thinking of everything he could do to stop Rowan from rising to power.

His elder brother’s only purpose was to serve him! Not to be the heir!

Even though Geoffrey was the current CEO of Li Corporation, he acknowledged that most things ran smoothly because of Rowan. But, he kept undermining his elder brother’s ability in order to save his own face.

Geoffrey was certain that Rowan didn’t know his full potential. Perhaps, the decades of being deemed worthless by their mother broke his confidence beyond repair.

Ding!

Geoffrey’s attention shifted to his phone. It lay flat on the bedside table.

"Hurm? Who is it? It’s almost midnight."

Deena lay on the bed, still looking at her husband, "Is it Steven? Maybe there’s an emergency?"

Steven was Geoffrey’s chief assistant. The younger man had been working under the latter for over a decade.

"Whose number is this? It’s a message."

Geoffrey frowned seeing the unfamiliar string of numbers without a name. Tapping on the notification bar, the screen immediately displayed the content of the text attached to a video.

[Unknown: Good evening, CEO Li. Have a look at your wonderful daughter in this video]

"What? Gladys?"

Geoffrey blurted out, confused by the message. His words reached Deena.

"Huh? Is it related to our daughter?"

Geoffrey showed his phone, "I don’t know. This person said our daughter’s in the video."

Perplexed by the sudden arrival of the unknown video, Geoffrey and Deena huddled closer as the former tapped the Play button.

At once, Gladys appeared on the screen. Geoffrey and Deena’s eyes almost popped out of their sockets by how their daughter was dressed.

A semi-transparent night dress! Even though the silk night robe covered her shoulders, the plunging neckline still showed most of her bosom!

"What... did she record herself?" Geoffrey shouted, his eyes glowering, "Did she send this kind of video to a man?!"

Geoffrey couldn’t care less what kind of night dress Gladys wanted to wear. But! He didn’t expect to see his daughter roaming around or recording herself in that kind of getup!

"Wait, wait, dear..." Deena quickly tried to appease her husband. She stroked his arm and back, "Let’s us see it first. This..."

Deena’s words were cut off when a familiar voice of a man’s came from the video.

"Second Young Miss Xu, what are you doing here? It’s almost midnight."

"Isn’t that..." Deena gasped, "Young Master Xu’s voice?!"

"What?"

Geoffrey and Deena’s eyes were glued to the screen as they listened to the conversation happening between Calix and Gladys. They also saw how their daughter acted, including when she cried because of Calix’s harsh words.

"If that’s true, why didn’t she rely on those men? At least they cared for her, unlike your family!"

"B-brother Calix! How could you not care? You don’t know that she’s preg..."

"Shut up!"

BAM!

The video ended with Calix flinging the door shut right in front of Glady’s nose.

For a moment, a pin-drop silence enveloped the bedroom, until...

"This is crazy! Why did Gladys do this? She’s embarrassing herself!"

Enraged, Geoffrey quickly got out of the bed. Puffing in anger, he marched toward his daughter’s room.

"Dear! Dear!"

Deena scrambled to her feet, also running to Glady’s bedroom. She had yet to register everything in her mind. Her husband’s action perplexed her.

He had gone crazy!

"GLADYS! What have you done?!"

Geoffrey’s voice blared once he barged into Gladys’ room. His entire face was beet-red, ferocity blazing in his eyes.

Gladys was crying under the blanket. In confusion, she peeked at Geoffrey. Her swollen eyes caught the scary appearance of her father.

"W-what... what did I do?" asked Gladys hoarsely, "Dad! Get out! I’m not in the mood for your lecture!"

"You scoundrel! You dare talk back?! After shaming us with your action?"

"Argh! What did I do?!"

Gladys sprang up from the bed. Curling into a fetal position, she continued crying.

"Sob sob... why do you come here just to scold me ah? What have I done?"

Gladys was so irritated and sad. She was crying out of shame but, her father suddenly barged in her room just to berate her.

This was so unfair!

"Dear! Don’t scold her like that!"

Deena yelled. She quickly closed the door, afraid of alerting people of their family’s dispute. She heard the father and daughter’s shouting match even before reaching the room.

"How could I not scold her? She did something stupid and got found!" Geoffrey shouted back.

Deena smacked her husband’s arm before hurrying to Gladys’ bed. She brought her daughter into her arms, trying to calm her down.

"Hush, hush... it’s not your fault. Nothing’s wrong with you, my precious daughter."

"Mom!"

More tears gushed out of Gladys’ eyes. She quickly hugged Deena, trying to hide in her mother’s embrace.

Geoffrey’s chest heaved up and down. His anger reached its peak!