Chapter 38 You might as well let Assistant Xie be your son-in-law!

Pei Ling instantly sensed that the man beside him had changed his way of addressing Tang Man from before.

Unlike the distant manner in the ward corridor earlier, he now directly called Tang Man by her name.

With a particularly intimate and familiar tone.

He looked at Xie Li for a while and smiled. “Mr. Xie seems to have hostility towards me.”

Upon hearing this, Xie Li fell silent. He was quiet for a moment. Just as Pei Ling thought he wouldn’t speak again, he said, “As far as I know, Mr. Pei has some connection with Mr. Gu.”

Pei Ling looked over.

Xie Li smiled. “Perhaps Mr. Pei is not very clear about President Tang’s temperament. President Tang is not very friendly towards any news related to Madam Yang’s boyfriends, especially the people.”

“With Mr. Pei’s relationship with Mr. Gu, I’m afraid President Tang will find it difficult to accept.”

Pei Ling had heard about Tang Man’s father. Some elders in the family had mentioned it a few times, mostly in a joking tone. After all, Tang Zhengfeng and Yang Qing’s divorce had caused quite a stir back then, and people in the circle had all heard about it.

Moreover, Yang Qing had been in several relationships afterwards, and Tang Zhengfeng had ruined several of them. Many people speculated that this might be the reason why Yang Qing had not remarried for so many years.

Furthermore, this time, the person had even been beaten into the hospital, causing an even bigger gossip. This matter had almost rubbed the Gu family’s face into the ground.

Pei Ling looked at Xie Li for a long time. His hand rubbed the outline of the headphones in his pocket. In that instant, he was certain that the man in front of him truly had hostility towards him, and it was intense. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have said such things to a stranger.

It looked like a threat, both explicitly and implicitly.

Perhaps men were born with such keen instincts. The polite smile on Pei Ling’s face also fell. When he wasn’t smiling, he appeared very distant, clearly a child born into a good family background, with an innate aloofness that looked down on others.

Sometimes, it gave a similar feeling to Tang Man, as if born with a cold indifference.

Xie Li sometimes really disliked this feeling. He still remembered the first time he met Tang Man. That was the first time he felt a sense of disparity, and that gap had only deepened in the days that followed, making him feel like they were from two different worlds.

Meeting Xie Li’s gaze, Pei Ling smiled, stood up from his seat, and put his headphones back on. Then he said, “Mr. Xie, this is a matter between Tang Man and me.”

And Xie Li was just an outsider. Saying such things in front of him was a bit too meddlesome.

It wasn’t that he hadn’t noticed Xie Li’s hostility or the possible feelings Xie Li might have for Tang Man. But thinking about it carefully, for so many years, this Mr. Xie was still Mr. Xie, without the addition of a prefix like Tang Man’s ex-boyfriend or boyfriend. This undoubtedly proved a point.

Tang Man had no feelings for this person.

Although there was a saying about the advantage of being close at hand, and flowers leaning towards the sun were easily swayed by spring, wasn’t there also a saying that rabbits don’t eat the grass by their burrows?

Xie Li felt the dull pain from his thumbnail and also realized the absurdity of his actions. He had lost control of himself just now. But he really couldn’t bring himself to like the person in front of him.

It was like a blend of certain aspects of Si Jiahe and Du Henian. He knew well that Tang Man had always been defenseless against this type of person. Although for her, Pei Ling’s identity might be troublesome, that woman sometimes acted recklessly, only caring about her own happiness, and it wouldn’t be surprising if she made choices that went against her own principles, just like Yang Qing.

He felt that, in some ways, Tang Man was very similar to her mother, Madam Yang, in this regard.

With a glance, Pei Ling saw the blood oozing from Xie Li’s thumb resting on his knee. He shifted his gaze and said to the person in the seat, “Mr. Xie, you should go and treat your wound. My matters with Tang Man don’t require the interference of an outsider like you, saying some absurd things.”

“And,” Pei Ling added, “I don’t think Mr. Xie understands Tang Man better than I do.”

Having said that, he was about to leave. He had originally planned to wait here for Tang Man and leave together later. He didn’t expect to encounter… Pei Ling thought for a moment but wouldn’t give Xie Li the title of a rival in love.

He thought, from the first glance, he disliked this man.

He was too self-righteous. He hated the way he called Tang Man’s name and the way he acted like he knew Tang Man’s father so well, like the male family head in TV dramas who came with a check to drive people away, giving off an overbearing feeling.

Moreover, Xie Li gave him a sense of potential danger, different from the feeling Si Jiahe and Du Henian gave off, and also different from Tang Man’s previous boyfriends he had seen. Xie Li carried a hidden forbearance, and this lurking made people uncomfortable.

At the same time, although he appeared indifferent on the surface, he had indeed been successfully put off by Xie Li’s words. He couldn’t help but start to worry. If there was someone in this world who could influence Tang Man’s thoughts, Pei Ling believed that her father would definitely be one of them.

He took a few steps but heard a sound coming from behind him, the sound of leather shoes hitting the floor.

“Mr. Pei should know that Tang Man currently has a boyfriend, right? His name is Si Jiahe. To be honest, Mr. Pei’s temperament is a bit similar to that person.”

Pei Ling turned around upon hearing this.

If the previous words had some hidden hostility, now it was somewhat unleashed. The malice was practically in his face.

As soon as he turned around, he found that Xie Li had already walked up to him. Meeting his gaze, the person opposite smiled, lowered his head to pinch his own wound, pressed it without any concern, and then said with a half-smile, “If Mr. Pei doesn’t mind being a third party in a relationship, then you can be a bit bolder.”

Pei Ling’s expression remained unchanged. He looked at Xie Li for a while and suddenly found him somewhat ridiculous. Even he had noticed that Tang Man and Si Jiahe’s relationship had problems, yet the person in front of him didn’t know and was acting like a know-it-all in front of him. It was truly laughable.

However, Xie Li’s words did indeed make him angry. After remaining silent for a while, he spoke, “What is Mr. Xie’s stance now?”

“What are you to Tang Man, or what are you to that person called Si Jiahe, for you to say such things to me?”

Xie Li pressed harder on the wound until the small wound tore even more, oozing more fresh blood, even making himself smell a damp and gloomy scent.