Thoughts tumbled, and the conversation between Jiang Ning and the System happened in the blink of an eye.
Watching Madam Huo deliberately popping out to make her presence felt and hearing her words that ridiculed both overtly and covertly, Jiang Ning was not one to be trifled with.
For the woman who carried her for ten months and gave birth to her, Jiang Ning had already settled their mother-daughter relationship with one hundred thousand yuan.
To Jiang Ning now, Madam Huo was an entity even less significant than a stranger; since that was the case, she couldn’t blame her for being discourteous.
What Madam Huo had just said in the office informed Jiang Ning of what mattered most to her. Thus, Jiang Ning intentionally stabbed at her sore spot: "I wasn’t the one eager to come here, it was your eldest son who urged me relentlessly."
"Besides, who wouldn’t be happy to suddenly receive five percent of the shares of a listed company without spending a penny? Speaking of which, having married into the Huo Family for so many years, you must have quite a few shares yourself, right?"
"You...!" Madam Huo’s eyes were wide with fury. She had intentionally provoked Jiang Ning, thinking that if Huo Li insisted on giving the shares, she would mock Jiang Ning into feeling too awkward to accept them.
However, she had not anticipated that not only did Jiang Ning not get angry, she did not resort to the insanity of hitting people as she did in the past; instead, Jiang Ning retorted with a sneer and genuinely infuriated her.
Madam Huo’s fingers trembled as she pointed at Jiang Ning, and overcome with rage, she couldn’t help but curse loudly: "You shameless thing, you actually have the audacity to accept it?!"
Having married into the Huo Family for so many years without a single share, why should Jiang Ning, the daughter who was kicked out, get so much!
"Mother! What nonsense are you spouting!" Huo Li immediately changed his expression and turned to coldly chide Huo Kaiping and Huo Kaian, "You two, take mother back now!"
He should have had Chen Qi come up earlier and send Madam Huo and the others out.
Jiang Ning’s gaze also turned cold, and she grabbed the teacup from the table and hurled it fiercely at Madam Huo.
Madam Huo, terrified, immediately withdrew her hand.
The porcelain cup smashed to the ground, shattering into countless pieces in an instant.
"Have you lost your mind?!" Madam Huo’s body trembled slightly, her heart skipping a beat.
She was certain that if she hadn’t been quick to react and withdraw her hand, the teacup would have definitely smashed right into it.
This was a ceramic teacup!
With human hand bones being so delicate, it could have easily caused her a comminuted fracture!
Jiang Ning was trying to cripple her hand!
Huo Kaiping and Huo Kaian had not expected Jiang Ning to become violent without a word, especially when she showed no sign of anger when she spoke just moments before.
Both brothers had a strong dislike for Jiang Ning and instinctively wanted to protect their mother, but recalling the severe beating Jiang Ning had given them months earlier, just before she left home, they hesitated.
They had been hurt badly in that beating and had to recuperate at home for a whole week before daring to go to school.
The two brothers, initially intending to stand up for Madam Huo, had only extended their foot for half a second before silently retracting it...
"My apologies." Jiang Ning casually withdrew her hand, her expression unruffled, "My hand slipped."
The calmer Jiang Ning was, the angrier Madam Huo became, her voice becoming extremely shrill: "Call the police! I’m going to report this!"
Madam Huo looked around, searching for cameras: "There’s surveillance here, right? I want to charge her with attempted murder!"
She believed that if the surveillance footage from just now was reviewed, anyone with eyes wouldn’t believe the excuse of an accidental slip Jiang Ning offered.
A person audacious enough to hurl a teacup at their own mother, she wanted to see if the netizens would continue to like Jiang Ning if this surveillance video leaked online.
Anyone with a brain would never like someone who dared to attack their own mother!
Madam Huo might have had wishful thoughts, but Huo Li, standing to the side, had a completely darkened expression, suppressing the anger in his eyes.
From his own office to Jiang Ning’s office, he had told Madam Huo and the others at least three times to leave first.
Yet, his words were ignored time and again, and Madam Huo even deliberately sought trouble in front of him.
Huo Li was usually patient and seldom angry.
But this time he could hold back no longer.