The child had no sense of proportion when he made a move. Cheng Huan, the family’s pampered eldest young master, had a sturdy build, was two years older than the little male lead, and stood nearly a head taller than Xu Yangxia.
With one fierce shove, the little guy was immediately startled. He lost his footing and landed on his butt.
He did not dare cry, but his big eyes welled up with tears, quickly fogging over.
Qi Du’s expression turned sharp. He hurried forward and helped the five-year-old Xu Yangxia to his feet.
He gently brushed the dust off Xu Yangxia’s clothes. “Did it hurt when you fell?”
Xu Yangxia looked at him and slowly shook his head. He did not dare say much, his small mouth pressed tightly together, clearly frightened by today’s scene.
After his parents passed away, no one looked after him anymore. As soon as the relatives arrived, they started discussing how to split up the property his parents had left him. They even moved in and occupied the house.
Though he was young, he was not stupid. His living environment had changed drastically, and he understood all too well the warmth and chill of human relations.
The elders who had once flattered him with sycophantic smiles had now put away that pleasant facade. Behind his back, all they did was scheme.
Without his parents backing him up, he was no longer the beloved little young master of the family. These past few days, Xu Yangxia had not even been eating properly.
Qi Du still did not know what Little Treasure was thinking. Seeing that he was fine, he stood up and shot Cheng Huan a nasty glare. That single look was terrifying enough. The still-young main gong was nowhere near Qi Du’s presence. He staggered back several steps in fear and hid behind his mother.
The Cheng family was a little displeased as well. Cheng’s father shielded the child behind him. “Kids are just fooling around. Why be so harsh with a child?”
Qi Du did not even wait for him to finish. He reached out and shoved hard, sending Cheng Huan’s father straight to the floor as well.
Looking down at the Cheng father who had just been so eager to protect his own, Qi Du said in a harsh tone, “He shoved my son, so I hit his old man.”
“You got a problem?”
“We’re all fathers here. You protect your kid, I protect mine. You should be able to understand that, right?”
His tone was full of confidence, and there was even a faint threat in his eyes. He was practically like a bandit storming into a village. The Cheng family’s faces turned red with embarrassment, and for a long while, none of them could say a word.
0617 was shocked too. 『You do not even say anything before taking action. There are so many people here. What if you get the short end of the stick?』
Qi Du rolled his eyes inwardly. “0617, do I look fragile to you?”
『That is not it, but Little Treasure is here. We cannot teach the child bad habits~』
“Relax, he won’t be taught badly. With someone like you around later, nagging and worrying all the time, he definitely won’t turn out bad.”
Qi Du’s arrival caught everyone completely off guard. His status was right there for all to see; the head of the Qi family was far above the Xu family. The Xu family simply did not have the nerve to fight him.
They were just unwilling to give up the Xu family’s fortune. Xu Yangxia was still so young, so why should they keep it for him?
His parents had siblings of their own, and there were elders above them too. Shouldn’t he be showing filial piety?
Qi Du naturally knew exactly what they were plotting. He sprawled grandly onto the sofa and casually scooped up the tiny male lead, setting him down in his lap.
He let the Xu family finish stating all their demands, listening with one ear and letting it go out the other.
“Mr. Qi, we are all Xiaxia’s relatives. How could we possibly treat the child badly?”
One woman wore a sorrowful expression and even wiped at the corner of her eye, where no tear existed. “We watched that child grow up. Now that he has no parents, how could we not care about him?”
Qi Du laughed. “Care about him? Other than coveting his money, you do not give a damn about the child. His parents’ bodies are not even cold yet, and you moved into his home in the middle of the night.”
“As the aunt, you took quite a lot of his mother’s valuable jewelry, didn’t you?”
The woman’s expression froze. She probably did not understand how Qi Du knew about it, and her guilty conscience instantly got the better of her. Her face slowly turned red.
“What nonsense are you talking about! Mr. Qi, you need evidence when you speak!”
Qi Du sneered and called out to 0617 in his mind.
『The surveillance footage is already on your phone.』
Qi Du praised him, “Reliable!”
He directly connected the living room TV in front of everyone and looped the footage of them going in and out of Xu Yangxia’s parents’ bedroom over the past few days.
The Xu family relatives had never expected there to be surveillance cameras. Their faces burned hotter and hotter, turning purple and red like a spilled paint tray.
Xu Yangxia was stunned too. In fact, he had already understood some of what was happening these past few days, but he was too young to handle it on his own. He could only watch helplessly as his mother’s favorite dresses were taken away by his aunts.
The beautiful jewelry, the very next day, was already on his cousins.
Even his own room had been taken over by his cousin, who cried and threw a tantrum, insisting on staying there. At first, his aunt-in-law coaxed him a few times, saying, “Your brother has never lived in such a nice room. Try to understand~”
After that, she simply pretended not to see anything, letting her son seize Xu Yangxia’s toys and books.
Many of those had been bought for him by his parents together. His father would tell him two stories at night to help him fall asleep, and his mother would stay with him to build models.
This house was full of memories of him and his parents. In just half a month, he had already lost too much.
Now that the ugly faces of the Xu family were magnified beyond measure, the grievance in his heart could no longer be held back.
0617 and Qi Du had not expected that these two families of bizarre relatives had so many more scenes of secretly bullying the little male lead. Both of them were furious.
『Unbelievable! These bloodsucking leeches! The male lead is still so young, and he just lost both parents. They still want him to yield to his brother?』
『No one has taken proper care of him these past few days. Little Treasure has not even had a proper meal. I used your phone to order takeout for him. Remember to coax him into eating something first.』
Qi Du: ???
“Wait, when are you going to have a physical body? I am not good at coaxing kids!”
0617 comforted him a couple of times. 『I have already submitted a request to the main god. Hopefully your method really works. Otherwise, if I cannot earn back the points I have saved up, I am going to take them back from you!』
Qi Du chuckled softly. “Fine. Take as many as you want from me.”
He communicated with 0617 in his mind, but on the surface he still kept a cold expression, with a low-pressure aura around him that looked downright intimidating.
The Xu family relatives were thoroughly humiliated by those videos. They stammered and could not get a word out. A few thick-skinned ones forced themselves to try speaking, only to be pinned in place by a sharp glare from Qi Du.
“If you want to burn the bridge, that makes things even simpler. After all, I am not the shameless one here. I will not just send these surveillance recordings to the court; I will also make them public online. However big B City is, I will project them over that whole area.”
“People still have to live for decades, don’t they? Can you really stand being pointed at and gossiped about for the rest of your lives?”