Arrogant Man VS Unyielding Woman

Chapter 272 Why Did You Say I Would Destroy Him

On hearing a female voice, Jean's beautiful face contorted with displeasure. Her eyebrows scrunched

up in mild anger and resistance as she recognized who it was.

It was Jesse — the last person Jean wanted to see right now.

Maranda looked at Jean right in the face. She could see how Jean's eyes spelt pure irritation on seeing

that it's Jesse.

'Jean must dislike that person!' was the first thought that came to Maranda's mind. The irony of seeing

her pretty hazel eyes fill up with hostility stoked Maranda's anger towards Jesse. And so, Maranda

asked coldly, "Who are you? Have you come to the wrong place?"

The dislike in her tone was clear.

Jesse entered the ward and saw two strangers around Jean. The hostility between the women was so

strong that you could cut the air with a knife. "It seems that you are hostile to me? But it's only the first

time we have met. I don't remember when I offended you before."

"In that case, you must be often offending people without knowing it, " Maranda sneered.

"Well, with a magnificent face like me and a noble family background, it's only natural that I arouse

envy in others." A coquettish smile played on Jesse's voluptuous lips as she praised herself. She dared

Maranda to come up with a repartee as she looked at Maranda square in the eye, playing with her silky

hair.

"Ugh, disgusting!" With big angry eyes, Maranda mocked Jesse, "Oh my God! I have seen many

narcissists, but none of them are as narcissistic as you. Are you mentally unstable?"

Jesse's face hardened as she gritted her teeth on hearing Maranda speak bitingly to her again. Jean's

silence and not stopping Maranda further irked her.

With sarcasm dripping from each word of her sentence, Jesse said, "Jean, huh? Are all your friends so

rude and impolite? What would brother Zed think of you if he knew it? Please don't bring your old

vulgar habits into the Qi family. This is highly disgraceful!"

The haughtiness on Jesse's face didn't suit her beauty at all. The perfectly chiselled nose and high

cheek bones looked for the worse as Jesse condescended towards Jean.

Trying to distance herself from what happened in the morning, Jesse breathed deep breaths to calm

down. Coolly, she judged the moment when she could strike Jean hard.

Recalling how disconcerted brother Zed looked when he saw the video and heard rumors on the

Internet about Jean, anger bubbled inside her. Even when Jean saw Zed and Jean sleep on a bed

together all night, he didn't want to catch up with her to explain. Clearly, their relationship involved

indifference as Zed had turned a blind eye on Jean.

'And what about Jean?

It must be hard for her to digest the scene this morning!

Let me help her!' Jesse thought proudly.

As soon as Jesse got the news that Jean fainted soon after leaving the Qi Group's office, she decided

to dash to the hospital to teach Jean a lesson that she would never forget.

Once here, Jesse hadn't imagined meeting this disagreeable woman who was hellbent on mocking her

as soon as the woman laid eyes on her.

Despite Jesse's reserved and sophisticated behaviour, she went all out. She spared none — neither

Jean nor the low-life that stood in front of her.

Jean was indifferent to Jesse's coming at the hospital. She gave her a black look without uttering a

single sound.

The sharp, brutal attack charged on Jesse in fact made Jean secretly congratulate Maranda for her

smart rebuttal.

As a retort, when Jesse turned towards Jean and started letting her mouth fly with accusations, Jean

couldn't keep calm anymore. "It's none of your business who I make friends. It's my choice and this is

who I choose. If you don't want to see us, get the hell out of here! I don't want you to come here,

either."

To be honest, Jean was poor at swearing.

Because her skimpy abuse was hardly enough to do justice to her disgust towards Jesse. Otherwise,

all the dirty words in the world would not be enough to vent her spite.

"You..." Jesse was so mad that she tremblingly pointed at Jean. "Jean, how dare you talk to me like

this? Aren't you afraid I'll tell brother Zed this and get him to drive you out of the Qi family?"

"Oh, I'm so scared! Don't just frighten me here. By all means, go ahead and tell him all this right now!

I'd like to know how he would react if he knew you are as meek as a lamb in front of him but as

aggressive as a tigress in front of others." Instead of feeling threatened, Jean had shredded Jesse's

menacing attack to bits.

"Jean, well done!" Maranda jumped with joy and applauded her friend for her courage.

Somehow, she had disliked Jesse at first sight.

Before seeing the woman, Maranda wondered why Jean's reaction was so strange. The complex

expression on Jean's face on hearing that woman's voice had puzzled Maranda too.

But as soon as those venomous words came out from Jesse's mouth, the truth dawned on Maranda.

Jesse, a full-grown adult, hardly passed the muster as a mature person in Maranda's eyes. Calling

Jean's husband "brother Zed" all the time felt kiddish and petulant in Maranda's eyes.

At first Maranda didn't understand what the undercurrent between the two women was. The

insinuations cast by Jean cleared up Maranda's doubts as well.

It could only be one thing. Jesse was a shameless and indecorous woman.

Think of it the way you like, Zed was still Jean's husband legally.

How could the woman, an unmarried girl, openly call him "brother Zed" in front of his wife? Was she

even not afraid of being laughed at.

Maranda really didn't know what Jean was thinking.

As all these thoughts tumbled inside her mind, she came to one conclusion on what Jean should really

do. 'Give the woman a hard slap and tell her go to hell!'

"Jean, I didn't come to quarrel with you this time. I came here to visit you out of kindness. Yet your

attitude towards me is too unfriendly for me to say anything cordial to you. Don't forget who you are

now. Think before you speak or behave in a certain way. Remember your status in the society or else

you'd lose favour with the Qi family. Do I need to remind you again?" Jesse curled her lip in derision.

The enigmatic Jesse conceded defeat to Jean and the woman beside Jean in her head.

"Thank you for your reminder." With an icy cold look in her eyes, Jean retorted, "Jesse, you don't have Belongs to (N)ôvel/Drama.Org.

to wear a mask in front of me, and you don't have to coax me, either. You know very well that after what

happened this morning, we can no longer talk calmly. If you really wish me well, please leave at once."

Fed up with her non-stop interference, Jean was impatient to get rid of her.

"You... How can you misunderstand my kindness?" Unable to hold it in any longer, Jesse turned ugly as

she spat out, "Do you know how badly your online videos and rumors have affected on brother Zed? If

you don't want it to get any worse, you'd better do something right now. Stop hiding in the hospital like

a coward and getting others to help you clean up your mess!"

"What?" When Maranda heard Jean being called a coward, she barked back, "Don't you have eyes?

Or are you crazy? Do you think a healthy person will be in a hospital?"

"Maranda, don't talk in between." A visibly touched Jean looked quickly in Maranda's direction. She

reassured Maranda that everything was under her control. With some thought, Jean spoke to Jesse,

"So, what do you want me to do?"

The truth hadn't hit Jean until now. She finally understood why Jesse had come all the way to the

hospital.

But in front of Maranda and Ron, wouldn't Jesse be embarrassed in saying such things?

Jean couldn't imagine how shameless Jesse could be.

She also wanted to see whether what she thought of Jesse was true or not.

"At the very least, you should clarify to the public what really happened on the day the video was taken.

Whether you want to find a PR company or news media, I can help you with that. Now that you are in

the hospital, this is a good chance to make your case in front of the public, " Jesse said with all

sincerity.

Jean was taken aback by what Jesse had suggested. She hadn't expected Jesse to come up with such

an idea this quickly.

In this way, regardless of whether the public believed it or not, the public image of the Qi Group would

be saved.

But after what had happened in the morning, what made Jesse think that she was still willing to do it?

"No matter what you saw this morning..." Aware of Jean's deliberate silence, Jesse looked at Maranda

and Ron with some embarrassment first and finally turned to Jean and explained vaguely, "After all,

you once loved each other, you should do this for brother Zed's sake. Please don't destroy brother

Zed!"

Aghast, Jean spoke with a hint of displeasure on her face. "Why did you say I would destroy him?"