"Li Bin! You!! You!!! You're talking nonsense!! This is twisted, perverse logic!! You!! This kind of argument! It's simply!! Simply!!~~"
Cui Tianjiao was sent reeling by Li Bin's barrage of feminist-crusader logic, so angry his head was spinning, his face flushed crimson. Filled with indignation, he wanted to retort furiously, but for a moment he couldn't organize the words to fight back. He just felt a breath caught in his throat, almost suffocating him!
A set of ultimate arguments, summarized after years of research by hundreds of major feminist influencers and millions of their followers—the ultimate doctrine of "'My Parents Raised Me So I Deserve a Bride Price; I'll Show Up Empty-Handed, and My Child Will Take Your Name'"—how could it possibly be refuted so easily by a hardcore traditional guy like Cui Tianjiao? Faced with Li Bin's eloquent, methodical, and impassioned accusations, the traditionalist Cui Tianjiao was so angry he could have coughed up blood!
"Bang!" Cui Tianjiao slammed his palm on the table and, like an enraged rooster, shot out his hand and grabbed Li Bin by the collar: "Ah!! I'll fucking kill you, you dog!"
"Smack!"
Just then, the sharp sound of a slap echoed. Ling Hanrui had slapped Cui Tianjiao directly across the face!
"Cui Tianjiao!! What are you doing?! Li Bin is reasoning with you properly, so why are you cursing at him?! Huh? You want to resort to violence when you can't reason?!! Don't you see where you are?! So many people are watching! Is this a place for you to act wild? Don't you have any class! If you're not ashamed, I'm ashamed for you!!"
Ling Hanrui, her face flush with anger, pushed the raging Cui Tianjiao away. With her head held high, she stood firmly in front of Li Bin, fiercely shielding him as she berated her husband.
"Ling Hanrui, you!! You hit me for another man?!! I'm your husband!! You—you hit me in front of so many people?!"
Cui Tianjiao stared in disbelief at Ling Hanrui, who stood before Li Bin, shielding him. For a moment, he felt a sweet taste in his throat, and a mouthful of old blood choked its way up!
"Cui Tianjiao! What did Li Bin say that was wrong? Li Bin is just trying to reason with you properly! He's also doing it for your own good! Why did you want to hit him? It's a rare occasion for us to have a nice late-night meal together, and you want to start a fight for no reason! What is wrong with you today? Have you gone mad?! If you want to hit Li Bin, you might as well strike me and the child in my belly dead! I can't bear this shame!"
Ling Hanrui's face was red with agitation as she stared in disbelief at her normally gentle, calm, and prudent husband acting like a madman. She simply couldn't comprehend why her husband, Cui Tianjiao, was so furious, so out of control! It seemed completely unreasonable to her! In Ling Hanrui's eyes, everything Li Bin said was perfectly reasonable, every word a gem, and he hadn't said anything excessive! This was all just Cui Tianjiao being irrational and hysterical.
"Hanrui, forget it! Don't say any more! It was just a misunderstanding! Let's all sit down and talk nicely! It's rare for us to get together, how did it turn into this?" Wen Wan shot Li Bin a death glare, then pulled the furious Ling Hanrui to gently console her.
"Forget it, forget it, Hanrui, don't say any more! Seeing as he's your husband, I'll just pretend today's incident never happened! With this kind of person, who lives so self-righteously in his own world, so selfish and self-serving, there's no reasoning with him! It was my fault for saying too much."
Li Bin deliberately put on a helpless expression and shook his head, but his eyes, as he looked at Cui Tianjiao, were incredibly provocative.
"You motherfucker! Bastard! I'll fight you to the death!" Cui Tianjiao was already fuming with rage from Li Bin's feminist rhetoric, and now, he felt the betrayal of his wife.
He felt as if the entire world had betrayed him in that moment! He wanted to retort but was rendered speechless! He clearly had countless valid arguments to refute Li Bin's feminist talking points, but he had no idea how to organize his words! Faced with Li Bin's demented provocation, Cui Tianjiao felt he was being driven mad!
"Cui Tianjiao! Come on! Hit me! Go on, kill me! Kill me and the baby in my belly, and then you'll be satisfied! Then you won't have to worry about someone splitting the family assets with you! Then I won't spend your family's money! Come on! Hit me! Kill me!" Ling Hanrui held her head high, fiercely shielding Li Bin, thrusting her belly out for Cui Tianjiao to strike.
Looking at his wife Ling Hanrui's round, protruding belly, Cui Tianjiao ultimately couldn't bring himself to strike.
"Fine!! Fine!! Since it's like this, since it's like this! Then give me back my BMW keys! Don't be with me anymore! And don't come back to this home!! Since you protect Li Bin so much, since you think Li Bin is so great, then you can be with Li Bin from now on!! You two!! Very good!! I'm the third wheel! I'll leave! I'm leaving right now!!"
Cui Tianjiao had completely lost his sanity. In a fit of anger, he snatched the BMW keys that Ling Hanrui had flaunted on the table, turned around, and stormed out the door without looking back.