Such a Rude and Noisy Woman

Chapter 127 Just Don't Want To Open The Door

In the Rong family house

Hiram was going to head back to the XH Village, because Rachel didn't answer his calls and he was

anxious and worried.

Hiram had done a lot of work to improve their relationship and now it had finally gotten better. If

something went wrong at this point, all the things Hiram had worked hard for would be in vain.

"Is that you, Hiram?" asked Joanna. There on Joanna's desk was a document.

Hiram walked into the room and his eyes fell on the document on the desk. He frowned. It seemed that

someone had delivered two copies of their divorce agreement. One was delivered to the Ruan family.

And the other one…

"Mom, " said Hiram.

Joanna didn't keep Hiram guessing. She grabbed the document, put it in front of Hiram and said,

"Explain this to me. What happened?"

Hiram slowly walked to the sofa and calmly sat down. He picked up the document, turned a few pages

and put it back on the desk.

"Well, mom. I wasn't satisfied with you and dad's arrangement for me, so I asked someone to draft this

divorce agreement for me, " said Hiram. His eyes were half closed trying to fight the ache that was

trying to drill into his head. He was thinking about Rachel. She must have received the same copy of

their agreement.

Copy of their agreement.

Who else would have a copy of their divorce agreement?

No one else other than that woman.

"Then? Tell me, Hiram. Did you two divorce or not?" Joanna looked at Hiram intently. She never

thought that Hiram would hide such a thing from her.

But Joanna calmed down and cleared her mind, trying to recover from the shock. It was exactly what

Hiram would do.

Joanna and Gavin seldom interfered with their son's life. And they knew clearly that once Hiram made

up his mind, no matter what they did, they could never change his mind.

"Mom, this divorce agreement is meaningless to me now. You don't have to worry about it, " said

Hiram. He rolled up his sleeves and checked his watch. "Mom, things have changed."

Hiram was still thinking about going back to the XH Village. It was still early. If he hurried, Rachel might

still be up when he got there.

"Rachel is my wife now. I mean it. She's as important to me as you and dad, really. This divorce

agreement is nothing but a meaningless blank sheet of paper."

Hearing all this, Joanna breathed a sigh of relief. As the matron of the Rong family, she needed to

make sure that no incident would affect their family's honor and dignity. Positive PR was all she cared

about.

"Alright then, you'd better fix this as soon as possible. I'll tell the reporters that all of this is just a rumor."

"Although grandfather fixed you up with Rachel, I also love Rachel. She's gorgeous as well as sensible.

I can tell you do love her too. Alright, do what you need to do now. Hurry up! Don't let this get out of

hand and be the talk of the town."

Hiram couldn't help smiling. A wise goose never lays a tame egg. As long as the result was good

enough, his mother and himself wouldn't care about all those insignificance details.

"Alright mom. Bye~" Hiram stood up, walked out of the room and left the house.

Now that those things had already happened, it was no use thinking about why they did. It was wiser to

just find a solution.

Before Hiram got in the car to drive back to the XH Village, he called his secretary.

"Book me a flight to the US. The sooner, the better."

Lydia thought, now that she was abroad and with her father's protection, Hiram could do nothing to her.

She was grossly mistaken.

If Lydia kept making trouble like this, Hiram wouldn't know what crazy things he would do to her.

When Hiram arrived at the XH Village, it was already ten at night.

"Rachel! Open the door!"

In the courtyard, Rachel was sitting on a chair and enjoying the breeze. She was eating the fresh

cucumber she just picked up that afternoon. Hiram had been waiting outside the door, trying to get in,

for at least, ten minutes. Still, Rachel didn't feel like opening the door at all. She ignored Hiram's calls

from the outside.

"Rachel, why don't you open the door for Hiram? Put down that cucumber and let him in!" Hiram's

mother-in-law, Fannie, couldn't stand it anymore. How could Rachel keep sitting on the chair like that,

while a man was outside the property, yelling like a crazy village man, late in the night. The neighbors

would not only be disturbed, but they would also have something new to talk about in the morning.

"Mom, I got this. I know what I'm doing. Why don't you go to sleep?" said Rachel. She just stayed in her

chair and didn't seem to mind the scene Hiram was making.

Outside the door was Hiram, the CEO of Streams Company! How dare Rachel!

Now Rachel was almost finished eating the cucumber. She threw the blossom end of the juicy

vegetable into a nearby trash can. Then she stood up and slowly walked towards the door.

"Rachel, if you still don't open the door, I swear, I'll break it down!" Hiram had become really impatient

for having waited for such a long time. Waiting for one minute was his limit. If it weren't for Rachel,

Hiram might have already…

Click-clack.

The door swung open. Rachel leaned her head forward. Seeing Hiram all ruffled up and irritated like a

lion, she faked a smile. "I'm terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for such a long time, sir."

Hiram was furious. But when he saw Rachel's fake smile and heard her lame apology, he mellowed

down. He pushed the door further and walked into the yard.

What Hiram saw on the table in the courtyard were sunflower seeds, fruits and snacks. It seemed that

Rachel had been hanging out under the evening sky for quite some time.

Was it possible that…

Rachel had been waiting for him to come? Did she keep him waiting on purpose to get even with him?

The courtyard was very quiet. Emma and Jean had gone back to their room.

They could only hear the cicadas from the tree and the frogs from the pond outside the courtyard. It

was the typical noise at this time in the village and it was quite idyllic.

"Have a seat." Rachel brought another chair to the courtyard. She sat on her chair and continued to eat

sunflower seeds and drink tea. She appeared calm and composed, showing no uneasy feelings for the

untoward incident that happened in that same courtyard earlier that day.

The old-fashioned chair had a cushion sewed onto it. Hiram furrowed but he sat down anyway.

"Rachel…"

"Hiram, I know why you came and what you want to say. As for what happened today, you'd better go

ask your good sister!" Rachel took the lead. She was holding a tea cup while her face turned gloomy.

She began, "This kind of thing didn't happen for the first time. What am I going to do? Should I just put

up with all this and let it happen again and again and again? I can't do that!"

Hiram realized that he and Rachel both knew Lydia did this. After all, no one had access to their

divorce agreement except Lydia.

"I'm flying to the US tomorrow. Lydia has my father's support and protection. She must be so confident

to think I would't do anything to her even if she pulls a stunt like this. How mistaken she is." Hiram

sighed. In the Rong Family, Hiram's father was the most indulgent person towards Lydia. ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

Because he felt sorry for Landy, Gavin showered her with almost all his love and let her do whatever

she wanted. This quite spoiled her.

Rachel knew this well as she heard all about it from Joanna, her mother-in-law. Although Lydia was

adopted, Gavin and Joanna treated her as their own daughter.

Since he was a little boy, Hiram had been very independent and they seldom had to worry about him.

Although this was a good thing, Gavin and Joanna didn't experience the pleasure being parents to him.

Hiram always wanted to do things on his own. That was why when Lydia came along, they focused

their love and affection on her.

"Oh? So if you father keeps defending her, what are you going to do?" Rachel put her chin on her

hands and sighed. There was no way one could get the best of both worlds.

Their married life was supposed to be happy. Her in-laws were gentle and had welcomed her into the

family with open arms. The only trouble was her mean and ill mannered sister-in-law who was always

using her weakness and vulnerability to get what she wanted. This also got Rachel in trouble a lot.

"The only reason she could have the power is because she has something on us. For now, that is the

divorce agreement. What else could she have besides that? If you and I go to the court house and

have that fixed or even nullified, she would have nothing to use against us, "

Said Hiram. He didn't want to treat Lydia in the way he treated his competitors. What he needed to do

was to make sure that Lydia could no longer give them any problems.

Besides, he would also try to let Gavin know what his adopted daughter had done.

If Lydia kept spinning a cocoon around herself, Hiram was sure that Gavin's patience for her would

eventually run out. She would then have no one to protect her.

Rachel leaned back on her chair. She looked at the dark sky dotted with little stars and said calmly,

"When you come back from the US, I want you to draft a prenup. After all, your family owns several big

businesses. I think it would be better for both of us to have everything clear."