Chad Nixon lapsed into silence. He didn't talk to his angry wife anymore.
He no longer persuaded her to eat, but looked away from her and kept eating.
However, his complete silence infuriated Christine even more.
She lunged at him and swept all the food on the floor with her hand.
All the plates on the table were smashed.
Chad's clothes were splashed with greasy oil.
He paused for a moment, then his face darkened.
He looked calmly at Christine, who was flushed with anger, saying in a low voice, "What do you want?"
Christine snapped, "eating is all you can do? Can you do something more useful?"
Chad's frown deepened, feeling that his wife was getting more and more irrational.
He rubbed his eyebrows warily and bit back his anger. "Christine, I don't wanna pick a fight with you."
Christine froze.
A sort of undefined grievance and sorrow struck through her, bringing tears to her eyes.
She sneered, "Of course, you don't. You don't even bother to talk to me. You don't love me at all, do you? I guess I can't count on you at the end of the day! You still want to have dinner? Fine! Let them clean up the mess and cook for you again! And I'll leave you alone! GOODBYE!"
Then she left.
Tears fell from her eyes as she turned around.
Chad frowned as his wife walked away disappointed. "Who pissed her off?"
He thought for a moment, frowning. Then he asked the servants to clean up the dining room and he left the house.
Outside, he called his assistant with his cell phone.
"Bedell, find out where Mrs. Nixon went and who she met today. I want every little detail."
His assistant immediately sprang into action.
And beyond that, Christine's schedule today had been monotonous.
So it was easy to find out what she did.
Chad frowned deeply when he heard his assistant's report.
Laura Davis...
Max's wife?
She met Christine?
He sighed with profound resignation, seeming to think of something.
Even an upright official found it hard to settle a family quarrel. Although he was the chairman of the Nixon Group, he was not good at handling household affairs at all.
Now that he knew the whole story, he couldn't shut his eyes to the problems.
Then he made a phone call to Max.
"Max, come home for dinner this weekend with your wife. You're married now. You should introduce your wife to the family. I'll see you then."
...
So on the weekend, Max took Laura to the Nixon's mansion.
They were not allowed to come home according to the deal he made with his mother.
But Chad personally invited them over and promised over the phone that everything would be OK, Max then agreed, thinking that it would indeed be disrespectful not to visit his parents with Laura now that they were married.
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