You're Just My Ex-Husband,My Lord-Chapter 53- freely and wonderfull

Mother Cassy returned to the house, and Father Alex immediately rushed out. He glanced at Laurent’s phone and luggage, angrily muttering,

"He still has the nerve to send him off? If he hadn’t shamelessly blocked Laurent at the airport, who would care for him to send the luggage!"

Then he huffed in frustration,

"If you guys hadn’t stopped me just now, I would have gone out to give him a beating!"

Cassy gave him a resentful glare,

"What’s the use of going to beat him now? The marriage is already over, what right do you have to hit him? Why didn’t you do it a few years ago?"

Alex was choked by Cassy’s words, but quickly retorted,

"I didn’t want to hurt Laurent’s feelings!"

At that time, their daughter loved him so deeply and always protected him. If he had beaten him then, it would not only have embarrassed their daughter, but also made her heart ache. He didn’t want to make their relationship worse with her.

While they were talking, Laurent walked out of the room. Cassy handed her the phone.

"He came all the way here to deliver your phone and luggage? Looks like he really wanted to see you."

As soon as Cassy finished speaking, Alex got anxious.

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

Alex felt that Cassy’s words were clearly trying to ease the relationship between Laurent and Dave, which made him very unhappy.

Cassy didn’t actually mean to ease anything; she was just speaking the truth.

He had dropped off the things but wasn’t planning to leave. He had glanced at the house several times—if he wasn’t trying to see Laurent, could it be that he wanted to see the two of them, an old couple?

"Mom, you’re overthinking it."

Laurent took the phone from her mother’s hand, calmly removed the SIM card, then grabbed a pair of scissors, cut it in half, and finally threw it into the trash.

She raised the phone towards her mother and said,

"I can return your phone now. I’ll get a new card after lunch."

Cassy gave her a long look before turning to the kitchen to continue preparing lunch, hoping that her daughter’s heart was as free and letting go as her outward appearance.

Cassy went into the kitchen to cook, while Alex, still angry, sat sulking on the couch.

Laurent walked over, took a large apple, and shoved it into his hand, asking him in a cheerful tone,

"Dad, what are you mad about? Didn’t you always dislike him? Now that I’ve finally left him, shouldn’t you be happy?"

Alex snorted,

"I’m obviously happy that you divorced him, but when I think about how he’s bullied you all these years, it just makes me furious. I feel like I need to teach him a lesson to calm down!"

"Dad, why are you so childish?"

Laurent helplessly tried to reason with her father.

"Violence doesn’t solve anything, okay?"

In an attempt to cheer up her sulking father, Laurent playfully beckoned to him with her finger and said mysteriously,

"Come, come, come, let me teach you a trick. Almost all the books you want to read are there. It’s a lot more stable and faster than regular novel websites, and there are no ads on the full-text ones."

Alex was intrigued by her trick, and Laurent continued,

"Now, if—I’m saying *if*—you ever run into him again, just ignore him completely. If he tries to greet you or talk to you, just look confused and say, ’Who are you? I don’t know you.’ See how he continues after that!"

After hearing this, Alex still wasn’t fully convinced, 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

"I still think a good punch would be the only way to feel better."

Laurent sighed in frustration,

"Cold war! This tactic is called a cold war. Think about it—when you argue with Mom, she always ignores you. Doesn’t that make you feel terrible? You can’t eat properly or sleep well, right?"

Alex huffed as if angry,

"Stupid girl, can you really compare these two things?"

"How can’t it? Think about it—when you’re ignored, it makes you feel bad. Similarly, when others are ignored, they’ll definitely feel bad too, especially someone as proud as him."

Laurent explained this to her father.

"So, next time you see him, no need to argue or fight. Just ignore him."

After finishing, Laurent got up to pour herself some water. She hadn’t had a sip since earlier.

As for why she understood how painful it was to be ignored, well, she knew it all too well.

For the past five years, Dave had treated her with a half-ignored, half-attentive attitude. She had endured it all these years, even though Marylin and the others called her foolish.

Now, looking back, what had she been hoping for? But at that time, she just couldn’t make sense of it—she had been completely enchanted by him, thinking that no matter what, he was perfect.

She didn’t regret her past self because people always grow over time, and each stage of life brings new perspectives.

Maybe back then, all she saw was love. But now it was different—love wasn’t as important in her eyes. What mattered to her now was how to enrich and improve herself, and how to live life freely and wonderfully.

On the way back to the county, Dave received a call from the public relations manager of Washington Corporation.

"Lord Washington, a media outlet just broke the news that you’ve been closely involved with a woman recently. They even captured footage of you sending her back to her apartment and spending the night there. The media is... suggesting that you might be having an affair."

The public relations manager sounded a bit nervous as he said this, and then asked,

"Since this concerns your personal * matters, I’d like to ask for your guidance on how to handle this situation?"

After hearing this, Dave’s expression darkened. It seemed that someone had secretly photographed him during the time he had been accompanying Clark to the hospital for treatment. He had been very careful, but somehow, he had still been targeted by someone with ill intentions.

He had been working on a new overseas investment project with Morrison. Both the development prospects and the final profit were very attractive. They had already begun the initial preparation work.

However, the CEO of the partner company was known to be a grumpy old man. Even though Dave was a wealthy man, the thing he hated most was men who indulged in debauchery and had messy relationships.

Now, with a cheating scandal being exposed about him, it was clear that a competitor was trying to use the affair to push him out of the project.

This tactic was the same one used against Daniel a few years ago.

At that time, Daniel had been competing for an important project, and suddenly, it was exposed that he had a child out of wedlock abroad, and he had been supporting them for years.

Because of Daniel’s scandal, Washington Corporation had been pushed out of the project, suffering a huge loss, and Daniel was forced to step down from the position of chairman.

Originally planning to go abroad with Clark to study together, Dave had no choice but to temporarily take over Daniel’s position at Washington Corporation, while Clark went abroad alone.

He had hoped that once Washington Corporation weathered this crisis, he could step down and go abroad to join Clark. However, Clark then told him that she had fallen in love with someone else, while his father, Daniel, forced him to continue running the company. This chain of events led to the current situation.

Now, years later, the same tactics were being used against him. Without needing to guess or send people to investigate, he knew exactly who was behind it. Who else could it be other than his half-brother Bert?

Thinking of this, a cold smile appeared on Dave’s lips. After stealing Clark from him, was Bert now planning to take the company as well?

How naive of him to think he could have it all! The saying "you can’t have both the fish and the bear’s paw"—he, Dave, didn’t grow up in traditional Chinese culture, but if Bert didn’t understand it, Dave wouldn’t mind teaching him a lesson.

He coldly instructed the public relations manager,

"Stay silent for now. We’ll talk when I get back."

Then, he hung up the phone.

Shortly after finishing the call with the PR manager, Dave received another call, this time from Morrison, who was furious on the other end.

"You know about the media leak, right?"

"Yeah."

Dave’s eyes, which had been looking ahead at the road, suddenly flashed with a ruthless glint.

"I think I have a pretty good idea of who did it."