Chapter 251: Chapter 251: Wait, Is There Something Wrong with Her Family?

After finally managing to clean herself up, Meng Wei was on the verge of tears. "Jianfeng, can we talk?"

Lin Jianfeng didn’t refuse.

It happened to be lunchtime, so Lin Jianfeng found a restaurant.

After they sat down, Lin Jianfeng not only ordered a cup of hot water for Meng Wei, but also asked the waitress, "Do you have anything on the menu that’s good for warming up? Please give a portion to this lady."

The waitress glanced at the beautifully dressed but freezing Meng Wei and said knowingly, "We have sweet fermented rice with Tang Yuan. That’ll warm you right up."

"Great, we’ll have a bowl of that."

Meng Wei was both touched and delighted.

She had been in such a sorry state earlier, yet not only did Lin Jianfeng not look down on her, he was even showing such care and concern.

She found herself falling for this man even more.

After the waitress left, she looked at Lin Jianfeng with deep affection and said:

"Jianfeng, I was too impulsive last time. Let’s get back together. I’ll support your work wholeheartedly from now on!"

Lin Jianfeng was clearly surprised. "You regret it?"

Meng Wei said shyly, "I’ve discovered that I like you more than I imagined. I want to spend the rest of my life with you."

"But I don’t regret it."

Meng Wei’s expression froze. "What?"

Lin Jianfeng looked at her. "I’m a very serious person, in both my work and my relationships. I was serious about being with you, and I’m serious about my decision to break up. Xiao Wei, I just don’t have those kinds of feelings for you anymore. Of course, we can still be friends."

Meng Wei felt like her world was collapsing.

She never would have dreamed that Lin Jianfeng would reject her attempt to reconcile.

However, her inherent pride wouldn’t allow her to pester him endlessly, so she immediately stood up and politely excused herself.

Once outside the restaurant, she could no longer hold back her emotions and began to sob.

"Sister Weiwei? What’s wrong?"

Looking up to see Lu Tingting, Meng Wei couldn’t help but feel a surge of anger.

"Tingting, I’ve treated you well since we were kids, haven’t I? Why would you do this to me?"

Lu Tingting was baffled. "What did I do?"

"You gave Jiang Moli’s work to Jianfeng! We fought and broke up because of it!"

The more Meng Wei spoke, the more agitated she became. "I really regret being nice enough to give you a ride that day! If I could, I’d wish I had never met anyone from your Lu Family in my entire life!"

Lu Tingting became upset as well. "What does you two fighting and breaking up have to do with me? One man doesn’t want you, and now a second one doesn’t either. Sister Weiwei, you should really take a good look at yourself and reflect on whether there’s a problem with your personality."

Meng Wei was choked with anger. "A problem with me? What problem could I possibly have?!"

"The fact that you can’t see your own problems is the biggest problem of all."

The two had a huge fight and parted on bad terms.

Lu Tingting was incredibly frustrated too.

’When she’d had dinner with Lin Jianfeng last time, she hadn’t revealed a single word about Meng Wei’s infatuation with her third uncle. She had already been more than decent.’

’She couldn’t even hold on to a man’s heart, and now she was trying to pin the blame on her.’

’Damn it, did she think she was some kind of sucker?’

Being heartbroken was a big enough blow, but then getting insulted by Lu Tingting on top of it... one can only imagine how Meng Wei felt.

When she got home, she locked herself in her room and cried until her eyes were swollen like peaches.

Mrs. Meng’s heart ached for her, and her hatred for Jiang Moli deepened to the bone.

’It was bad enough that she stole the Lu Family’s third son before, but now she’d messed things up between her daughter and Lin Jianfeng too.’

’What a black-hearted, rotten monster!’

...

The next morning, as soon as Lu Tingting arrived at school, Wu Meixia and Song Ke pulled her aside to gossip.

"Tingting, did you hear? Meng Wei and Lin Jianfeng broke up!"

Lu Tingting looked at them, puzzled. "How did you know?"

Wu Meixia said, "Meng Wei’s mom was telling everyone in the residential compound herself."

Wu Meixia and Meng Wei lived in the same government residential compound.

Lu Tingting was incredulous. "Is her mom crazy? Is something like that really something to be proud of, that she has to go around telling everyone?"

Wu Meixia looked at her and hesitated for a moment. "Meng Wei’s mom is saying that Jiang Moli instigated Lin Jianfeng to break up with Meng Wei. And she mentioned you, too... said you repaid kindness with malice and ruined Meng Wei’s romantic prospects..."

"Bullshit! Her daughter is the one who can’t hold on to a man. What does that have to do with us?"

Mrs. Meng had always held a grudge about Meng Wei failing to marry Lu Cheng.

She had moved heaven and earth to find her daughter a man, Lin Jianfeng, who was in no way inferior to Lu Cheng in any aspect.

Just when it seemed like a happy union was on the horizon, who knew it would fall through again.

Her daughter was already getting on in years, and plenty of people were already gossiping behind her back. With these successive relationship failures, there was no telling what other nasty rumors would spread.

So, she decided to go all in and pin all the blame on Jiang Moli.

Besides, Mrs. Meng truly believed from the bottom of her heart that Jiang Moli was the one who had caused her daughter’s breakup with Lin Jianfeng.

...

In the middle of the night, Lu Tingting suddenly shot up in bed. "No, seriously, is their family crazy?!"

Lu Nana, in the opposite bed, was woken up. She asked groggily, "Sis, who are you cursing?"

"Not you. Go back to sleep!"

"Oh."

Lu Nana rolled over and went back to sleep.

But Lu Tingting couldn’t get back to sleep. The more she thought about it, the more furious she became.

Early the next morning, she skipped class and ran to Lin Jianfeng’s workplace, determined to get a clear explanation. She refused to be scapegoated for no reason.

Lin Jianfeng told her the reason he and Meng Wei had separated.

"While it’s true that the conflict between Xiao Wei and me arose because of ’Chasing Dreams,’ it wasn’t your fault. The main issue is that our personalities are incompatible. ’Chasing Dreams’ just brought that problem to the surface sooner."

Lin Jianfeng’s explanation put Lu Tingting at ease.

What made her even happier was that Lin Jianfeng’s approval of Jiang Moli’s work indirectly proved that she herself had good taste.

Of course, she didn’t hold back, telling Lin Jianfeng how Mrs. Meng and her daughter were trying to pin the blame on her and Jiang Moli.

Upon learning what the Meng family had done, the Lin Family was also left speechless.

Dating was a matter between two young people. If it didn’t work out, it was an issue for both sides.

’The Meng family had shirked all responsibility. So, was it all their Lin Family’s fault? Was their son so spineless and brainless that he couldn’t tell right from wrong?’

"No wonder Meng Wei is like that. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree in their Meng family. It’s a good thing this marriage didn’t happen!"

It wasn’t just Mr. Lin who was angry; even Mrs. Lin had grown to detest Meng Wei.

’She hadn’t even complained that Meng Wei was being unreasonable by using their relationship to threaten her son’s work, and yet the Meng family had the audacity to turn around and blame her son? No wonder their daughter was so old and still unmarried!’

Lin Jianfeng made a special point to call Jiang Moli and explain the situation.

"Manager Jiang, I am truly sorry. Because of my personal relationship issues, you’ve had to endure unwarranted slander. I will go talk to Meng Wei in person and make things clear so that they don’t involve you any further."

Only then did Jiang Moli understand why her disdain points had inexplicably increased by several dozen over the past two days, even though she hadn’t left her home.

’In a way, she even had to thank the Meng family for helping her earn points.’

"It’s no problem! Idle gossip is just like the wind; it’ll blow over. Director Lin, you don’t need to take it to heart."

Hearing the genuine lightheartedness in Jiang Moli’s voice and realizing she wasn’t angry, Lin Jianfeng couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

He had been worried that this incident would cause Jiang Moli to terminate their collaboration on "Chasing Dreams".

While admiring Jiang Moli’s magnanimity, he also grew curious about the history of bad blood between her and Meng Wei.

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