Chapter 5 How dare she! How dare she!!!

Ling Yue blocked all three members of the Ling family. No matter how many times Guan Xuemei called, she couldn't get through.

Guan Xuemei was furious. Her already mean-spirited face twisted together, looking just like a wrung-out rag. "How dared she! How dared she!!!"

"Let's forget about her!" Ling Guofu said, his face full of anxiety. "We already paid the bride price. If Hu Shiyao wants to break up, what happens to the money?"

Guan Xuemei stood up indignantly. "Right, the money must be returned! If she wants to break up, fine, I'm done with her! Son, don't be afraid. If this one doesn't work, we'll just replace her. With my son's physical attributes, I'm not worried about finding someone better!"

Guan Xuemei knew clearly that Ling Yue had completely slipped out of her control.

It would likely be impossible to get money from her in the future.

Therefore, the urgent priority was to get the bride price back; they absolutely could not suffer a double loss.

But Ling Hui wouldn't have it. "No, I want Hu Shiyao. She's the best-looking one within my range of options!"

Ling Hui knew exactly what was going on.

In this day and age, with his conditions, it wasn't easy to sweet-talk a pretty girl who had both looks and a bit of money.

It wasn't like he hadn't tried before Hu Shiyao, but he had failed repeatedly.

Women these days were very realistic; they all wanted to find someone of equal social standing or climb the social ladder, making them hard to manipulate.

Only Hu Shiyao, although her family background was slightly inferior, had the advantage of being good-looking, having a decent job, and being a hopeless romantic. Even then, it had taken him two years of effort.

How many two-year periods does one have in life?

If he blew this, he would never find a woman with similar conditions again.

Guan Xuemei tried to persuade him earnestly. "What's so good about Hu Shiyao? Listen to what she just said—how she belittled our family! Unreasonable and shrewish; if you marry such a woman, she won't be a wife, she'll be an ancestor to be worshipped!"

"I'm happy with it! Stay out of this!" Ling Hui slammed the door and went back to his room.

Ling Guofu clenched his fists and punched the sofa hard, his face full of frustration at his son's lack of ambition. "What a sin, what a sin!"

"Stop talking about sins! Think of a solution!" Guan Xuemei felt overwhelmed.

Ling Guofu sighed deeply and shook his head vigorously.

Guan Xuemei was the one who was truly frustrated. Her son was disobedient, and her husband had no backbone. She had worried herself to death! She was the one managing the whole family!

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Ling Yue got her new phone.

As she tinkered with it, she glanced at the popping-up notifications from time to time.

She couldn't suppress the smile on her lips.

It was making her grin like the Slit-Mouthed Woman.

Importing data to the new phone, downloading apps, logging into accounts. The whole process was incredibly smooth!

Buzz, buzz, buzz—how was it that someone was messaging her right after she switched?

Oh my god!

The message reception was so fast!

Ling Yue scrolled through the WeChat page for a good while before finding the source of the message from the long list of pinned work groups.

Hu Shiyao: "How can you prove that the 80,000 yuan in the bride price is yours?"

???

Why was she asking this?

Had Ling Hui brainwashed her?

However, Ling Yue did have ready-made evidence, which she had previously posted in the family group chat, so she forwarded the chat content from the family group to Hu Shiyao.

In the past, to make Ling Yue willingly hand over most of her salary every month, Guan Xuemei had suggested that Ling Yue open a separate card using her own identity information.

Therefore, the money Ling Yue transferred to Guan Xuemei was actually transferred to her own other card.

It was just that only Guan Xuemei knew where the card was and its password.

Every time Ling Yue made a transfer, she would take a screenshot and save it; the screenshots contained the bank card holder's name and other information, which was clear at a glance.

After a while.

Hu Shiyao: "That's not enough. I need the bank statement to prove that 80,000 yuan was withdrawn from the card recently."

Ling Yue: "?"

Hu Shiyao: "You're sick, aren't you? If it weren't for your parents giving me the money as a bride price, leaving you without money for treatment, you wouldn't have exposed your family's true colors to me."

Yes.

Hu Shiyao was right.

In the past, Ling Yue had been servile and ingratiating toward the Ling family.

She knew the dark side of her family, but she was afraid that telling Hu Shiyao would bring about her family's accusations and disappointment.

To some extent, she was an accomplice in this deception game.

Ling Yue: "Sorry, I was too stupid before."

Hu Shiyao: "Get me the proof as soon as possible. Holding someone's life-saving money in my hands burns."

Ling Yue understood.

She was very shocked.

Ling Yue: "Are you planning to return the 80,000 yuan from the bride price directly to me?"

Hu Shiyao: "Is that not allowed?"

Ling Yue: "Aren't you afraid they'll come and make a scene?"

Hu Shiyao: "If 80,000 yuan was really transferred from your card recently, it means it was given to me. If I return the 80,000 yuan to you personally, isn't that a matter of course? No one stipulated that money must be returned to the same card."

Hu Shiyao: "Make a scene? Even if they don't come, I'll go there."

Hu Shiyao: "Hurry up, I'm out on leave right now, and I'm about to go to the bank to withdraw money."

Ling Yue: "Thank you!"

Ling Yue didn't delay any further. She went to the office to greet her attending physician and then walked to the bank near the hospital.

Before canceling the card, she asked the teller to pull up the bank statement.

It showed that 80,000 yuan had been withdrawn from the card three days ago.

As soon as Ling Yue got the statement, she took a photo and sent it to Hu Shiyao.

Afterward, Hu Shiyao asked for the account number of the bank card she was currently using.

Five minutes later.

80,000 yuan arrived.

[Balance: 1,080,920.1]

Even though there was already a million in the card, the nature of this 80,000 yuan was different.

This 80,000 was her hard-earned money that she had genuinely saved up over three years.

Ling Yue was very happy that the money could come back.

She opened the dialog box with Hu Shiyao.

Ling Yue: "Money received. If you need to align our stories, let me know in advance."

Hu Shiyao: "OK."

Hu Shiyao: "You won't mind if I hit people, right?"

Ling Yue: "As long as you're happy, stay safe!"

Hu Shiyao: "Wow, this is explosive! Do you want to watch live?"

Ling Yue's nostrils flared with excitement.

Ling Yue: "You're already there to beat them up? You're awesome, girl! You're too fierce!"

Just as she was looking forward to it, Hu Shiyao sent a video call.

Before her brain could react, her hand had already clicked accept.

The scene on the screen was exactly her family's living room back home.

The rice cooker was smashed on the floor, overnight rice was scattered everywhere, clothes and pants were all over the place, underwear was torn and hanging on the refrigerator, the fabric sofa was completely shredded, and the television had a huge hole in it, looking strangely fragile.

Immediately after, Ling Yue saw a few familiar figures in the video.

It was bound to get intense in a moment, and not wanting to disturb the other patients in the ward, Ling Yue held her phone and went to the end of the hospital corridor.

She saw that the Aunt still had her heroic spirit from years past, grabbing Guan Xuemei's hair and dragging her down with all her might.

"I've been unable to stand you for a long time! You think you're so special, huh?"

"I'll smash your foul mouth, let's see if you can still spout nonsense!" Fourth Aunt's slaps swung with such speed they left afterimages, landing repeatedly on Guan Xuemei's face, making Guan Xuemei howl in pain.

Ling Yue touched her face; it was too immersive, she felt the pain in her face even through the screen.

"My god, among relatives, let it go, let it go!"

A neighbor from next door popped out to break up the fight, but was pushed away by Youngest Aunt, who then sat on the floor and began to howl: "Oh heavens! They are really going to bully us to death! That old bitch Guan Xuemei cursed my sister-in-law, saying her baby wouldn't be born; this is cutting off someone's lineage, she deserves to be struck by lightning!

I just bought a house in the county last year, and she said that one of these days there would be an earthquake to collapse my house and bury our whole family alive. Is this something a human can say? Is this something a relative can say?

It's the New Year, I didn't want to come here to make a scene; it's embarrassing for everyone if we do. But I really can't take it anymore. I want to ask you today, Guan Xuemei, do you still acknowledge us as relatives!"

Things had reached this point, and there was no turning back.

Guan Xuemei didn't care about saving face anymore.

If she didn't curse back and fight back today, that would truly be tearing off her own face to use as a doormat for others!

Guan Xuemei looked like a wild boar gone mad; she laughed wildly and spat out a bloody phlegm with a 'wah':

"Bah! Who cares about being relatives with you! May you have no offspring, may your whole family be crushed to death! I'll say it, I'll curse you! If you have the ability, kill me! Oh my god! Murder! Murder! I'm calling the police!"

The shrill screeching had immense piercing power.

Youngest Aunt was trembling with anger.

Fourth Aunt signaled the two sisters-in-law to pin Guan Xuemei down and slapped her a few more times. "I'll let you howl! I'll let you howl!"

"I will howl! May your granddaughter get hit by a car when she goes out, may your construction project collapse... Ah! Ah! I'll fight you to the death!"

The four women were tangled in a fight.

Guan Xuemei had never done farm work, so in terms of strength, she was no match for the sisters-in-law.

She was kept pinned to the ground and rubbed into it, her face swollen like a pig's head, and two teeth were knocked out.

At this moment, the video shook and changed direction.