"What are they saying?" he asked quietly, his voice deadly calm in a way that was infinitely more threatening than shouting. He could tell they were foreigners and he knew the languages slightly.
"They're using English and French," she said without thinking, still too distressed to guard her words. "They are calling me a gold digger, saying I have no shame, that I'm probably here to trap some rich man..."
She stopped abruptly, suddenly realizing what she'd just revealed, that she understood foreign languages the current Tang Fei supposedly had no knowledge of.
But Huo Ting Cheng didn't question the revealing slip. Not now. Now, he was focused on something else entirely: the fact that his wife had been viciously disrespected in his own establishment.
