Chapter 26

Chapter 26: What a Reversal of Right and Wrong

Yang Jian Tao lay on the bed, listening to the old couple arguing and making trouble. His already pale face looked even worse.

His daughter Yang Xiao Xiao stood by the bed, her face cold as she tightly held his uninjured hand. She did not say a word.

Yang Jian Tao took a deep breath and barely calmed down, then said: “I will not withdraw the case. I am not withdrawing it. If you two have the guts, go ahead and throw yourselves to death right here. This is a hospital. If they can save you, they will. If they cannot, they will pull you straight to the crematorium. When your son and daughter get out, they can come burn incense for you together.”

The two elders of the Huang family stared at him in shock. They never imagined that their usually gentle, cowardly son-in-law, who was always easy to control, would suddenly become this forceful.

Seeing that their threats were useless, the two elders exchanged a look. Mother Huang dropped to the floor with a thump and started wailing.

“Oh heavens, there is no justice! Everyone, come judge this! Who calls the police to have his own wife and brother-in-law taken away and locked up? I only have one son and one daughter. What you are doing is trying to kill us old couple! What sin did I commit to meet such a cruel son-in-law?”

Father Huang stood to the side, sighing again and again, acting like a heartbroken old drama king as he said: “Do you have another woman outside? Even if you do, we can still part peacefully. We will not cling to you. Why do you have to be this heartless?”

He let out a long sigh, then kept playing the emotional card: “Zhao Di has been your wife for more than ten years. She raised a daughter for you, and she will never be able to have another child in this life. Now you want to wipe her and her own brother out completely. Your mother and I are old. We do not have many years left. Do you really want to kill all four of us?”

Hearing this whole speech, anyone who did not know the truth would think Yang Jian Tao was some scumbag who used a woman and then tried to kill his first wife.

There were other patients and family members in the ward. When they heard this, many of them started whispering to each other.

Yang Jian Tao’s face was as dark as iron, and he was shaking all over with anger.

Instead, it was Yang Xiao Xiao, who had been watching coldly from the side, who suddenly spoke up: “They already tried to kill me and my dad. Why can’t my dad call the police and have them arrested?”

“Shut up! When adults are talking, what right does a child have to butt in?” Mother Huang, still sitting on the floor putting on a show, suddenly glared and pointed at Yang Xiao Xiao as she shouted.

Father Huang also gave Xiao Xiao a disapproving look, as if he were looking at a very thoughtless child: “Xiao Xiao, that is your real mother and your real uncle.”

“So my dad and I deserve to have knives pointed at us? We deserve to be threatened and blackmailed, and to work ourselves to death paying off my uncle’s gambling debts?”

The murmurs in the ward paused for a moment, then grew even louder.

Father Huang and Mother Huang’s faces both changed slightly. They had just opened their mouths to say something when Yang Xiao Xiao cut in first.

“You do not need to guilt-trip me. I am not a little kid anymore. I know right from wrong. You just made it sound like she has done so much for my dad in the ten-plus years they have been married. But is that really the truth?”

“All these years, besides giving birth to me, has she ever taken care of me for even one day? Every expense at home has been paid by my dad. Since I was little, my dad and the nanny he hired have taken care of me. Everything I eat, wear, use, and play with was bought by my dad. Even my baths were given by the nanny he paid for. As for her money, if she is not giving it to her brother, then she is giving it to you two.”

“She has never spent even a cent on me and my dad. Instead, she keeps asking my dad for money and keeps making my dad take care of you. Sometimes I even wonder, it is only because her brother does not have a child yet. If he did, I am sure she would treat his child better than she treats me.”

Yang Jian Tao’s heart ached for his daughter. He wanted to stop her from going on: “Xiao Xiao…”

But Yang Xiao Xiao smiled, squeezed his hand, and said softly: “Dad, I have held these words in for a long time. If I do not say them today, I probably will never get another chance.”

From today on, she and her father were going to cut ties with this family completely.

Yang Jian Tao understood what she meant. When he thought about how the Huang family had treated his daughter all these years, he gritted his teeth and finally did not stop her again.

“I may not be very old, but I do know some basic principles. If you dare to have a child, you should dare to raise that child. But your good son asked my dad for money when he was in school, asked my dad for money when he did not have living expenses, asked my dad for money when he wanted to travel, and asked my dad for money when he wanted to get married. Now he has run up a pile of gambling debts and still wants money from my dad. He even wants my dad to help him borrow from loan sharks and be his guarantor. Is he my dad’s son, or is he your son?”

“You little brat, how dare you talk nonsense like that! I will tear your mouth apart!” Mother Huang jumped up from the floor and rushed at Yang Xiao Xiao to grab her.

Yang Jian Tao’s face changed. He moved on instinct, trying to get up and stand in front of his daughter to protect her.

Director Gao and the others had been watching the scene for a long time. Now that it was about to turn into a fight, they rushed forward to hold Mother Huang back.

Mother Huang was suddenly blocked by several strange men and got a fright. She shouted: “Who are you? Why are you blocking me? Help, they are harassing me!”

Director Gao and the others, who were suddenly accused out of nowhere: “…”

Yang Xiao Xiao and her father were also startled to see so many people rush in, but she quickly calmed down and went on: “It is a fact that they took out a knife to threaten my dad and me when they could not get money. It is also a fact that, after we refused, they flew into a rage and stabbed at us with that knife. They were arrested by the police because they broke the law. They brought this on themselves. It has nothing to do with my dad.”

“If you two feel so wronged, why don’t you go make a scene in front of the police station? Why did you come to trouble my dad, who is the victim? Isn’t it just because you think my dad has a good temper and is easy to bully? I am telling you, from today on, we have nothing to do with your family. They all have to go to jail.”

Yang Jian Tao held his daughter, whose face was flushed red with anger and who was trembling slightly. His own face was colder than ever as he said: “Whatever Xiao Xiao says is what I say. They broke the law. Let the court sentence them however it should. After this, I will divorce Huang Zhao Di. From now on, there will not be even a single cent of connection between me, Xiao Xiao, and your family. If you dare to disturb us again, I will call the police. I want to see if all four of you are planning to go in there and have a family reunion.”

Father Huang and Mother Huang were terrified when they heard this. They wanted to make more trouble, but just then a voice suddenly called from outside the door: “The police are here.”

Their faces changed at once. Thinking that Yang Jian Tao really had called the police, they turned and ran off.

When they reached the door, they still did not forget to throw out a weak, fake-tough threat: “Just you wait, we will be back!”

After Father Huang and Mother Huang left, everyone in the ward waited for a while, but no police officer came. Instead, the four members of the Du family slipped in, clearly there to watch the drama.

It turned out that the shout of “The police are here” just now had been Du An Rao’s quick thinking. Because the scene had been so chaotic, it really had scared those two off.

Yang Jian Tao let out a breath of relief and patted his daughter’s hand to comfort her as he said: “Don’t be afraid. These are all Dad’s colleagues from the crew. Thank you all so much for what you just did. I am sorry you had to see that.”