When Vivian Xi sent Alyssa Jing off, she went to find her son. Knowing him, she headed straight to the kitchen and saw him opening a bottled water.
"Matt, this is why they were saying you were..."Her words trailed off as she halted from continuing that forbidden word — at least for her, it was. She didn't want to say it from her mouth because it might come true!
"What? Gay? What if I am?" Casting his mother a blank stare, Matthew Xi continued her sentence.
"Son, don't say that!" Helpless, Vivian Xi looked around. Fortunately, her son's servants were not around. Who knows that they would talk about her son behind her back if they heard his misleading remark.
"Why do I need to care about what other people say?" Matthew Xi said flatly before chugging down half of the water.
Indeed, Matthew Xi had always known about this long running rumor that had lived longer than he could remember. Despite that, that rumor never hindered him from doing business.
