“Dad’s friend received word that someone will be coming down here soon. That person—his methods are unethical, he’s cruel, and he’s a womanizer. I’m afraid if he sees you…”
Xia’s father looked helpless. He didn’t want his daughter to get married so early. Although her older brother was married, he lived a very carefree life, as if he were single.
The time was too short, and if the person he found treated his daughter badly, he, as her father, couldn’t forgive himself.
Xia Canglan was unaware of how much her father and grandfather had thought about for her in such a short time.
However, hearing her father mention someone reminded her of a short-lived, intensely devoted admirer of the female lead in the original story.
Why short-lived? In the original story, this person immediately took a liking to a newlywed woman and wanted her to divorce her husband and be with him.
When she refused, he cruelly murdered her entire family, including her newborn baby, and forcibly took the woman home.
The matter was initially suppressed by this man’s influence, remaining unknown to those in power.
However, as such incidents increased, the families became increasingly frantic.
One night, the man was brutally murdered in his bed during a party he organized at his home. He was completely naked before death, with no part of his body unharmed. His genitals had undoubtedly been shoved into his mouth with a slit.
Everyone who witnessed the scene reportedly vomited uncontrollably and had nightmares for months.
What was even stranger was that all the women who had been forcibly taken by the man had vanished without a trace.
For ordinary people, what was terrifying wasn’t the man himself, but the powerful force protecting him.
“Lanlan? Were you frightened by what Dad said?” Xia’s father called several times without getting a response from his daughter, fearing she was overthinking things.
“No, Dad, it’s not urgent. We can find him slowly, right?”
Xia Canglan thought to herself. If they found him, great; if not, what if he came? She could strangle him in the middle of the night, and who would know how he died? What did it have to do with her!
Little did Xia Canglan know that what was going smoothly would be turned into a complete mess by someone.
A day later,
Xia Canglan had just returned home when she heard someone inside cursing at her. The voice was sharp and shrill.
“Mom and Dad, are you both sick? Huh? What did Wenlan do wrong? You’re just letting your little sister cause trouble and you’re not even going to get her out of there?”
“And isn’t our little sister being too immature? She makes a mountain out of a molehill over such a small thing. Otherwise, people outside would say that she’s so old and still can’t get married because you spoil her.”
“Hurry up and make our little sister apologize to Wenlan and pick her up from the police station. Honestly, she’s so old and you still want me to…”
“Bang!”
A loud bang on the door startled everyone inside.
Xia Canglan leaned against the door, looking at her swaggering sister-in-law, Kong Miaomiao, and her niece, Xia Panbao, who was eating by herself.
Kong Miaomiao’s heart nearly jumped out of her chest in fright. Turning around and seeing it was Xia Canglan, her anger flared instantly.
“Xia Canglan, do you have…?”
“Slap slap slap…”
“Ahhhhh, Xia Canglan, you little bitch, you dare to hit me… Aww, I’ll fight you to the death!”
“Bang!”
Before Kong Miaomiao could even touch Xia Canglan’s clothes, she was ‘lightly’ kicked away and slammed against the wall.
Xia’s parents looked up and down, and Xia’s grandfather was wiping the floor with his bare hands. No one dared to speak or look at Kong Miaomiao.
At this moment, Xia Panbao, who had been silent until now, saw her mother being hit and roared as she rushed towards Xia Canglan.
“You bad woman, you dare to hit my mother, I’ll kill you!!”
“Bang!”
Another kick landed on Kong Miaomiao’s face, who had finally managed to stand up, and then she slammed into the wall behind her with a thud. The pain brought tears to her eyes.
Before she could even catch her breath, the weight on her suddenly lightened.
“Xia—Panbao, what did you just say? Didn’t ‘Auntie’ hear you? Say it again in front of ‘Auntie’.”
Xia Canglan picked up the little brat, looked into her eyes, and asked with a wicked smile.
“You’re not my auntie! My auntie is back in our hometown! You’re a bad woman, a slut! Mom said that once we marry you off, everything in this house will be ours, and then we’ll kick you all out… Ugh—”
Kong Miaomiao’s face turned ashen, and she tightly covered her daughter’s mouth, forcing a sheepish smile.
“Uh… Lanlan, don’t listen to Panbao’s nonsense. What does a child know? Mom, Dad, Grandpa, you… Hehe…”
Before she could finish speaking, Xia Canglan grabbed her by the neck and lifted her up.
Kong Miaomiao was terrified. She was extremely frightened and kept hitting the hand that was choking her neck, twisting her body desperately, but the hand did not budge.
“Kong Miaomiao, do you remember what I said? Behave yourself, and you might still be able to live in this house, but—”
She paused, her gaze fixed on her stomach, and looked up at Kong Miaomiao. Kong Miaomiao covered her stomach in fear.
Xia Canglan laughed and casually released her.
Kong Miaomiao fell to the ground and retreated away from Xia Canglan, this devil.
“Cough cough cough… You, Xia Canglan, you’re really, crazy cough cough…”
Xia Canglan squatted down, looking directly into Kong Miaomiao’s terrified yet resentful eyes.
“Kong Miaomiao, tell me yourself, who told you Xia Zhaodi was locked up in the police station? And who sent you to call me to rescue Xia Zhaodi? If you don’t answer either of these questions, do you believe I’ll break your arm right now?”
“You…” Kong Miaomiao’s eyes flickered. “No one called me. I heard it when I came back today. Am I wrong? You framed Wenlan and got her locked up.”
“Oh, you think she’s right. Then you must really want to go in with her, right? How about it? Should I send you both in now?”
Kong Miaomiao was truly terrified. She hadn’t expected Xia Canglan to say “you” in front of her parents and grandfather.
Didn’t that mean she was going to send her and Panbao to the police station together?
“Are you crazy?! I’m your sister-in-law! How can you treat us like this? Aren’t you afraid people outside will say you’re unfilial and morally corrupt?”
Kong Miaomiao hugged Panbao tightly, afraid that this madwoman would snatch her away if she wasn’t careful.
To her words, Xia Canglan simply ‘gently’ tugged at her hair, bringing her close to her ear,
“Kong Miaomiao, what do you think you’d do if I told Mom, Dad, and Grandpa right now that Xia Panbao is your bastard child with another man at your parents’ house?”
“And do you think I’m too good-natured? Do you think I don’t care that you keep going back to your parents’ house? Hehe, guess how much information I already have about you?”
Releasing her, Xia Canglan smiled at her parents and grandpa, who had been eavesdropping,
“Mom, Dad, Grandpa, let’s eat. I’m hungry. Can we start eating now?”