Mrs. Nangong shrank further behind Nina and avoided looking into Jett's cold eyes.
One of the bodyguards took out his phone and played a video for Nina.
In the video, Mrs. Nangong grabbed Jett's wife's hair and scratched her face. A few servants rushed over to break up the fight, but Mrs. Nangong could not be stopped. She was like a bull charging at a matador's cape.
Like Jett said, his wife was left distressed and bleeding.
"The evidence is conclusive." Jett waved his hand and asked the bodyguard to put the phone away. His eyes burned with almost tangible anger. "I'm not about to sit around and pretend that my wife didn't get hurt."
Nina frowned. It seemed that Jett would not let this go unless she gave him what he wanted.
"It's already done. What do you want?"
"It's very simple." Jett restrained the anger in his eyes and shifted his gaze from Nina to the shaking Mrs. Nangong. "I want her left to me."
"That's not going to happen." Nina refused decisively and stood protectively in front of her mother-in-law.
Jett knew Nina was going to say that, so he said, "Then let me speak to Vicente."
"He's not home yet." Nina vigilantly looked at Jett. She knew that he did not just want a simple talk with her new husband.
On their wedding day, Nina could tell from the attitude of the elders of the Nangong family that Vicente was not welcomed in the clan. It also showed through the way Vicente spoke around them. Every word she uttered was impeccable and calculated, making Nina think that she was treading on thin ice.
On the contrary, the attitude of the elders toward Jett was completely different. They smiled kindly at him and spoke to him in an easygoing way.
Why was there such a big difference?
Although Nina was suspicious, she did not ask Vicente. She would tell her the reason when she was ready. It was not her place to force it out of her.
"I'll tell him about it when he gets home. Please leave now."
"Fine." Jett nodded and ordered the bodyguards to tie up Mrs. Nangong.
Knowing that Jett would not give up so easily, Nina reached out to stop his bodyguards.
"What are you doing?"
The two bodyguards only followed Jett's orders and insisted on going forward to grab Mrs. Nangong. With cold eyes and clenched fists, Nina considered dealing with the men herself, but thinking about the three-month-old baby in her belly, she decided against it.
The doctor had told her that women in their first trimester had an extremely high risk of getting a miscarriage if they were not careful. Now that she had a life to protect inside of her, she had to be more cautious.
"I'm the princess. Who dares to be presumptuous in front of me?"
As expected, the two bodyguards stopped dead in their tracks. They turned their heads to look at Jett and awaited his further orders.
With Nina's identity as the princess, no one dared step out of line in her presence.
This was the first time that Nina felt that her identity as a princess was not that bad because she could use it to protect the ones she cared for.
Jett looked displeased for a moment and suddenly smiled. "Nina, since you have married into the Nangong family, you're already one of us. This is a family matter.
She scratched my wife's face, so she pay for it. I'll take her back, and only Vicente can get her back from me. This is how we do things in Nangong family, and it's about time that you learn it."
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