"Youwei, our stocks are up again! They’re almost back to their original price!"
At that mont, in the old Su family house in the urban village, Su ngqing pushed the door open with a vacant look in her eyes, only to hear Zhang ili’s cries of joy coming from the inner room.
"Mom, have you gone senile? Su Pharmaceutical has been taken by Lin Fan. It has nothing to do with us anymore..."
She took off her shoes and walked barefoot to Zhang ili’s bed, her mind a complete blank. After leaving the International Convention and Exhibition Center, she had wandered aimlessly, on and on, as if the road ahead stretched into infinity. But in the end, her feet had unconsciously carried her back to the old house.
"Who says it doesn’t matter? As long as you refuse to divorce, you’re entitled to half of Lin Fan’s wealth!"
Zhang ili cheerfully put down her phone and struggled to move her obese body.
"ngqing, you have to be strong. You must relentlessly pester and nag Lin Fan until he gives in!"
"Mom, can you please stop daydreaming?" Su ngqing hung her head low, clenching her teeth as she struggled to keep tears of humiliation and anger from falling.
"Do you really think that after how our family treated Lin Fan, a simple marriage certificate would be enough to make him forgive us?"
"Humph, why not? He used to like you so much, which ans he really did have feelings for you!" Zhang ili’s smile faded, and her expression soured. "Everyone thinks our family has fallen from grace, that we’ve been knocked right back to where we started? But I’m Zhang ili! Even the heavens wouldn’t let suffer!" she snorted, her eyes glinting with pride. Then, as if suddenly rembering sothing, her chubby face sank.
"Where are the bird’s nest and sea cucumber I asked you to buy? Your mother is this sick, yet you don’t seem to care at all! You ca back empty-handed?"
"I... I don’t have any money left to buy you tonics," Su ngqing said, feeling both angry and wretched.
Ever since they moved back to the old house, Zhang ili had been making a scene nonstop. One mont, she’d demand to stay in a private luxury suite at the hospital. The next, she’d complain that Su ngqing’s cooking was inedible, throwing a tantrum and demanding signature dishes from a fancy hotel. If Su ngqing refused to give in, she would cry and scream incessantly. She even retaliated by defecating and urinating in the bed, then saring the filth on the headboard and wall!
Su ngqing was being tornted to the point of exhaustion, almost driven mad. Scolding her didn’t work, and she couldn’t bring herself to hit her mother. All she could do was grit her teeth and quickly spend the few tens of thousands she’d gotten from selling her jewelry. Now, the family was so destitute they could barely afford to eat. On top of that, she had just lost her temporary cleaning job. If Zhang ili kept carrying on like this, they truly wouldn’t be able to survive!
"I don’t care! I’m your mother, you have to be filial and obey !" Zhang ili craned her neck and yelled furiously. "If things get tough, just go sell yourself! Go be an escort at a high-end club!
"I worked so hard to give you such a pretty face and raise you to be so beautiful. What’s wrong with you suffering a little so I can live more comfortably, huh?"
At these words, Su ngqing’s entire body trembled. She clenched her fists so tightly that her nails dug deep into her palms, drawing trickles of crimson blood.
"Zhang ili, do you even consider your own daughter anymore?! What kind of mother pushes her child into prostitution?!" she shrieked, unable to hold back any longer. She lifted her swollen, tear-filled eyes and let out a piercing, choked sob.
"Do you have any idea how much I was humiliated today? How much I suffered? My face is still swollen from being slapped!
"Your precious son, Su Gang, stole your dical money to go gambling! Now he’s been caught by Lin Fan and is about to be sent to prison!
"Your husband, Su Guang, who ran off after swindling people, ca back today. But he couldn’t care less if we live or die. He’s already disowned as his daughter and plans to move to Sha Country to remarry and start a new family!"
Her heart-rending cries echoed throughout the room.
Zhang ili’s eyes went wide, and she drew in a sharp, cold breath.
Su Gang is going to prison? And Su Guang, that old bastard, dares to dump ? He’s even planning on finding a new wife?!
"Damn it all! Why is my life, Zhang ili’s life, so miserable?!"
It was like a bomb went off in her head. Zhang ili let out a heart-wrenching scream as her vision swam and she began to weep uncontrollably.
"You’re all useless, every single one of you! It’s you people from the Su family who have ruined !"
"You have the nerve to bla us? I’m the one who has suffered the most because of you!" Su ngqing trembled with rage, tears streaming down her cheeks. "I don’t want to live anymore! If you push any further, I’ll jump off a building and leave you here to rot in this bed alone!"
"Go on then! Hurry up and do it! I’m sick of the sight of you!" Zhang ili was enraged now too, her chubby face twitching as she cursed loudly. "My only regret is marrying the wrong man and giving birth to the wrong children! That’s why my life is so miserable!"
Still seething, she yanked a used adult diaper out from under herself and hurled it straight at Su ngqing’s forehead. SPLAT! It struck her squarely on the face, covering her in filth. The putrid stench of urine and feces was so overwhelming she nearly choked.
"Fine... fine! If you all want dead, then I’ll go die for you to see!" Su ngqing shot to her feet. She viciously wiped the filth from her face and rushed out of the room, crying her heart out.
"Go on, go die now! If you don’t die today, you’re not human, you’re an animal!" Zhang ili scread, pounding the bed furiously with her barely mobile left hand.
But then, she saw Su ngqing, who had just rushed out, slowly backing her way into the room again.
"What are you doing back here? If you’re not going to die today, then get on your knees, apologize, and go buy that bird’s nest and sea cucumber!" Seeing this, Zhang ili stopped her wailing. A smug look flashed in her beady eyes, though her tone remained relentless.
Hmph. I knew it. You don’t have the heart to abandon your own mother, Su ngqing!
"Well, well, if it isn’t Mrs. Zhang. It’s only been a few days. How did you end up bedridden?"
Before a pale-faced Su ngqing could respond, a familiar voice dripping with sarcasm called out from the doorway. Then, several figures strode inside. They all wore unfriendly expressions, looking around and sizing up the place as if they were picking vegetables at a market. The person in the lead was none other than Liu Fang, whom they hadn’t seen in days.
"...So it’s you, Xiao Liu. Did you hear that your Mrs. Zhang was sick and ca especially to visit?" Zhang ili’s heart skipped a beat, and she forced a smile onto her chubby face. There’s no way soone our family ruined would co here with good intentions.
"No need to bring so many people just for a visit. You’re too polite, Xiao Liu, hehe..."
"If I hadn’t brought enough people, how could I kick you out so easily?" Liu Fang’s mouth twitched, her eyes filled with loathing.
She slamd a gambling IOU down on the bedside table. SLAP!
"Cut the crap! Zhang ili, Su ngqing, open your dog eyes and take a good, long look!" Liu Fang pointed to a crooked signature inside the red thumbprint on the IOU. "Su Gang took out a loan at a gambling den and put this old house in the urban village up as collateral. He can’t pay back his debt, so I’m here to repossess the property!"
The words hit Su ngqing like a physical blow. Her pupils constricted in shock, and her face went deathly pale.
On the bed, Zhang ili’s whole body trembled, and she nearly wet herself.
That damn mutt! A dog will always go back to eating shit! Our family is already in this ss... how could you, Su Gang, be so heartless as to gamble away our old house?!
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