Chapter 92

Chapter 92: That Hurt, Bro

Li Zhao Yang’s almost ruthless attitude made Xi Jing Yue a little surprised. After a moment, he tested the waters and asked: “What did she do this time?”

“What can she even do in her situation now? At most she’s just using that favorite trick of hers again, playing the victim and complaining first so she looks like the good one.”

Maybe because she realized her sob story was not getting the result she wanted, Li Qian Xi finally panicked.

Still lying in the hospital, she could not wait to complain in a soft, pitiful way to those guys she kept as backups. Thanks to that, all the big families in City J now knew that the Li Family was hypocritical. On the surface they said how much they loved their brother’s orphaned child, but in private they ignored her and just stood by coldly.

“She probably thought we would be afraid of public opinion. Even if we were unhappy with her, at least we would keep up appearances. But she guessed wrong. What my parents and I hate most is being threatened. At first, we thought we had lived together for more than ten years, so we wanted to part on good terms. Now that she’s stirred things up like this, we have no choice but to tear the mask off.”

Xi Jing Yue raised his eyebrows and chuckled: “Or maybe she thinks we have no proof that she isn’t your second uncle and aunt’s real daughter. Are people still saying you’re treating her badly on purpose so you can grab your second uncle and aunt’s inheritance?”

Li Zhao Yang suddenly came to his senses: “That’s true. Why didn’t I think of that? My brain really got stupid from being so busy lately.”

Without meaning to, Xi Jing Yue remembered what had happened at the banquet that night and stabbed him without mercy: “You weren’t that smart even when you were not busy.”

Li Zhao Yang: “…” [That really hurts, bro!]

“So, what are you planning to do? Make public the paternity test between your Xiao Er and your second uncle and aunt?”

“Of course. If Li Qian Xi wants to swallow my second uncle and aunt’s inheritance all by herself, she at least has to be their real daughter. Since she dared to use the dead as her shield, she should be ready for the backlash. It just so happens that in two days it’s Xiao Er’s birthday. When the time comes, my parents and I will go over in person and give her a huge surprise!”

“You’d better take it easy. Don’t let your surprise turn into a fright.”

Li Zhao Yang: “…” [Will you die if you stop tearing me down, bro?!]

On this same day, far away in another province, Du He Xuan was also feeling attacked. The guest list for Mother Du’s birthday banquet was being updated in real time in the family group chat.

Most of the time no one paid attention to it, but that day, because he was bored, Du He Xuan happened to click in. Then he saw a name that really stabbed his eyes.

[Du Family Gossip Group]

Er Le Ge Er: “Why is that pig’s name also on the guest list? Who invited him? Is he one of our relatives? Or a friend? [angry][angry][angry]”

Wei Yu Ruo Xi: “Which pig? Who invited a pig? [question]”

Er Le Ge Er: “That guy with the last name Xi!”

Even through the screen, Du Yu Xi could picture her second brother grinding his teeth. Mother Du just had to pour oil on the fire.

Big Parent No. 2: “Oh, that President Xi. An An invited him. And by the way, An An only invited him.”

As soon as this message came out, Du He Xuan instantly sent a row of fire-breathing emojis.

Er Le Ge Er: “That bastard actually hooked up with An An behind my back! We should make An An delete his contact info. That guy clearly has bad intentions!”

Big Parent No. 2: “It’s not like they were secretly in touch. They just happened to run into him at the hospital yesterday. She probably just mentioned it casually, and then he got invited.”

Er Le Ge Er: “Yesterday? ‘Just happened to run into him’? Isn’t that guy from City J? What hospital did he ‘run into’ you at? Why were you at the hospital anyway? Who’s sick?”

Only then did everyone remember that because what happened in Du Lian Shuang’s family was too shocking, Father Du and Du Jun Yan were in a hurry to find evidence to pull Du Lian Shuang out of her misery as soon as possible, and Du Yu Xi was busy comforting the two younger ones. No one had remembered to tell Du He Xuan about it, so up till now he was still in the dark.

Once they realized this, the group suddenly went quiet.

After a long moment, Du Jun Yan sent a file.

Boss Is Reliable: “Gossip File 4 – The Love and Hate in Aunt Du Lian Shuang’s Family.ppt”

As soon as this file was sent, everyone in the group was stunned.

Big Parent No. 1: “Boss, you…”

Big Parent No. 2: “Boss, you…”

Wei Yu Ruo Xi: “Brother, you…”

As the only one who did not know what was going on, Du He Xuan was now busy reading the whole story his brother had put together, along with the parts of the investigation they had already confirmed.

The more he read, the more shocked he was, and he also felt a little sad. A small, sour feeling rose in his heart: [I’m out there working myself half to death to earn money for the family, and you all are secretly eating fresh gossip behind my back.]

For the moment, the story of Du Lian Shuang’s family fully grabbed Du He Xuan’s attention. He temporarily let go of his resentment over Du An Rao inviting Xi Jing Yue to the birthday banquet on her own, and instead started caring about what Du Lian Shuang was planning to do.

Er Le Ge Er: “Things have gotten this far. What is Aunt planning to do?”

Boss Is Reliable: “She’ll just go through the legal process.”

They still could not find clear proof that Old Master Du’s death was related to Cui Jue Yan.

But the matter between Cui Jue Yan and Cui Dong Mei was rock solid. The two of them never got a marriage certificate, but in some areas, holding a wedding banquet was seen as more real than getting those two little red booklets.

Even though the events were almost twenty years ago, many people from their village had attended their wedding. You only had to ask a bit to get the facts.

According to the current rules, deciding whether someone is guilty of bigamy does not mean they must have two marriage certificates. You only need to prove that, while his marriage with Du Lian Shuang was still valid, he was also living with Cui Dong Mei in the role of husband and wife.

For the Du Family, who already knew the two of them had held a wedding banquet, this was not hard at all.

From their investigation, they found that the people in Cui Jue Yan’s home village still believed that his wife was Cui Dong Mei.

When he brought them into the city, in their eyes, it only meant that he had made it big outside and was bringing his parents, wife, and child to the city to enjoy life.

From start to finish, no one knew that Du Lian Shuang and her two children even existed, much less how Cui Jue Yan had “made it big.”

Boss Is Reliable: “Aunt will file for divorce in court on the grounds of bigamy and also ask to get back the shared marital property that Cui Jue Yan has spent on Cui Dong Mei and her son all these years.”

No matter on what grounds you sue for divorce, it is unrealistic to force the other side to leave with nothing.

But luckily, when Old Master Du agreed to their marriage back then, he had kept a backup plan and made them do a property notarization. That meant a lot of the money Cui Jue Yan had spent over the years actually came from Du Lian Shuang’s premarital property.

When they were still one family and deeply in love, Du Lian Shuang never cared about these things. Now that their feelings had broken and they were about to split up, if you really calculated it, the amount was an astronomical number.

Cui Jue Yan had indeed made quite a lot of money over the years, but compared to what he had spent, his income was nothing. In other words, if they attacked from this angle, once he divorced Du Lian Shuang, not only would he not be able to take a single cent from her, there was a high chance he would end up owing her a huge sum of money.