Xie Yan Si’s heart was breaking as he watched his little Yue Yue cry so pitifully.
So this was how much it hurt when a little fairy was pushed!
Unacceptable—Xie Yan Si simply couldn’t stand it!
But…
He wanted to step in, yet he didn’t know where to start.
The girl’s mother was hitting her so fiercely, like adults playing table tennis—swish, swish, slap, slap.
When Xu Qiao’s foster mother heard the crying and shouting, she was outraged and hit Xu Qiao even harder.
“Look at the mess you’ve made! If anything really happens to them later, I’ll chop off your hand to make up for it!”
Xu Qiao paused in her dodging. Hearing these words from her foster mother’s mouth, she knew it was more than likely she’d actually do it.
She glared resentfully at Lin Yue, stubbornly insisting, “I… I only pushed her once. How could it break? She’s not made of paper!”
Lin Yue wiped her tear-reddened eyes, sobbing, “Yes, I know you didn’t mean it. It’s all because I’m too weak. It’s my fault, all my fault…”
The classmates who had gathered to watch the commotion had originally come for the spectacle, but when they saw that the one being bullied was Lin Yue—
the little princess with excellent grades, beauty, and a kind heart—they immediately began pointing fingers at Xu Qiao.
“How uncivilized, hitting someone and still refusing to admit it.”
“Exactly, being poor is one thing, but being this wicked is another.”
“Lin Yue’s hands are meant for the Wing Chun competition—they’re nothing like those hands used for mopping floors and washing dishes.”
“Right, right! She must apologize and kowtow to Lin Yue!”
Xu Qiao hated being talked about the most and cared deeply about her pride. Now, she was experiencing both—being gossiped about and losing face.
It infuriated Xu Qiao!
She glared viciously at Lin Yue. It was all her, all her fault—everything was her fault!
Screaming hoarsely, she charged forward, trying to grab Lin Yue.
But her foster mother yanked her by the collar, flung her aside, and slapped her twice across the face.
“You wretched thing! Hurry up and kowtow to apologize to this young lady. What are you yammering about here?”
The woman tried to force Xu Qiao to the ground, but Xu Qiao struggled desperately, refusing to yield.
“In your dreams!”
“I’ll never apologize to her! She’s the one who owes me!”
Xu Qiao, like someone with rabies, disheveled and rolling on the ground, clawing and kicking wildly.
By accident, she knocked over the slop bucket the kitchen staff had prepared to take out and dump. Yesterday’s spoiled leftovers spilled all over her.
“……”
She was going insane, going insane!
Xu Qiao was losing her mind: “Ahhhhhhhhh!!”
Both Lin Yue and Xie Yan Si were young ladies and young masters the school couldn’t afford to offend. The incident had escalated so much that it alarmed the principal, who summoned the parents of all parties involved.
Xie He and Wen Wan were both doting parents who couldn’t bear to see their children suffer even the slightest grievance.
Wen Wan gently stroked Lin Yue’s tear-reddened eyes, her heart aching with pity. Completely disregarding her dignified demeanor, she slammed the table.
“Today, the school must give me an explanation. My Yue Yue has never been bullied like this before!”
“Otherwise, this school might as well shut down!”
The principal was so frightened he nearly knelt on the spot. “Yes… yes, we will definitely give Madam Lin an explanation.”
The principal pushed Xu Qiao, who was standing beside him, urging her, “Hurry, go apologize to Madam Lin and Miss Lin Yue.”
Xu Qiao was covered in the stench of spoiled food, her face marked with red welts from her foster mother’s slaps, her hair disheveled—utterly wretched.
Seeing Wen Wan’s beautiful face reminded her of how she had been doted on while growing up. Thinking of everything she had recently experienced, her nose tingled with emotion.
But then she remembered that ten years later, the Lin family would go bankrupt, fall into poverty, and lose everything, eventually marrying her off to Xie Yan Si for an alliance.
And her current adoptive father would become the richest man in China in the future. Xu Qiao suppressed that surge of emotion.
“I… I won’t apologize! She’s faking it! She just doesn’t like me, she’s jealous of me! I won’t apologize to her!”
Wen Wan took a closer look at Xu Qiao’s little face and remembered that this child was from the same orphanage as Yueyue.
Seeing her arrogant, unreasonable, and domineering behavior, Wen Wan felt immensely grateful that she had brought Yueyue home instead of this wild child.
Lin Yue saw that Xu Qiao was still jumping around, completely unaware of the situation she was in.
Feeling helpless inside, she shrank into Wen Wan’s arms, putting on a frightened little act.
With a tearful voice, she sobbed, “Mommy, she’s so mean. My arm hurts so much, wuwuwuwu… It hurts so bad, I can’t lift it anymore…”
“She even said she’d make me pay and teach me a lesson. It’s so scary, wuwuwuwu…”
Xie Yan Si, being held by Xie He, saw Lin Yue crying so sadly and couldn’t help but feel upset himself. He had clearly seen how hysterical that little shrew had been just moments ago.
No, he absolutely couldn’t let her bully little Yueyue again.
Xie Yan Si glanced at his mother’s profile. He had seen her scolding people before—she had quite the presence and could intimidate anyone.
Without drawing attention, Xie Yan Si scratched his own arm a couple of times and started crying along with Lin Yue, nearly startling her out of her own tears.
Then, Lin Yue heard Xie Yan Si say to his mother, “She… she hit Yueyue and me too. Look, my arm is covered in scratches from her.”
Xie He glanced down and saw several red marks on her son’s fair, tender skin. Her anger instantly shot to the top of her head.
She wasn’t as easygoing as Wen Wan, nor was her temper as mild.
She grabbed the woman standing next to Xu Qiao. “Your daughter bullied my son, so it’s only fair that I bully you.”
Slap! Xie He slapped Xu Qiao’s adoptive mother across the face, causing the woman to stagger backward two steps.
Xie Yan Si even ran over in advance and covered Lin Yue’s eyes with his hands.
“Don’t look. We kids shouldn’t watch this kind of thing.”
But hearing that crisp sound, Lin Yue felt satisfied.
Back then, her adoptive mother had never held back when hitting her.
Xu Qiao was stunned on the spot, her gaze fixed on Xie He’s face as memories from her past life resurfaced.
Wasn’t this Xie Yan Si’s… mother?
Then…
Xu Qiao shifted her gaze to the little boy beside Lin Yue. Wasn’t that a younger version of Xie Yan Si?!
Seeing how protective he was of Lin Yue was completely different from the Xie Yan Si she had known in her past life.
Could it be that this reincarnation would be different from her previous life?
No, impossible!
Her adoptive father would definitely become the richest man in China, and everyone would look up to her!
Xu Qiao clung to her adoptive father’s leg as if it were her last lifeline.
Little did she know, the lifeline she clung to was staring at her with intense hatred.
He, a dignified man, had to watch his woman get slapped, and it was all because of this little brat!
Seeing the man gritting his teeth in apparent dissatisfaction, Xie He delivered the next slap directly to him.
The man’s dignity instinctively made him raise his hand.
Xie He raised her head and arched an eyebrow.
“What, you still want to hit me?”
The man met Xie He’s sharp gaze and instantly cowered, yet he couldn’t swallow his anger. He turned and tried to slap his wife across the face.
“It’s all you and your daughter’s fault, making me lose so much face! I’ll beat you to death!”
Before his hand could land, Xie He reached out and slapped him back.
Smack—
The force of the slap left her palm tingling.
Peeking through Xie Yansi’s fingers, Lin Yue caught sight of the scene, her eyelids twitching. Wow!
Auntie, what a powerful hand!
Xie He looked at the man with disdain. “Only useless men take their anger out on their wives when things go wrong.”
She sneered, her contempt for the man unmistakable.
“Your own incompetence and failure to raise your daughter properly—these are the parents’ faults, you know? You have to take responsibility.”
As she spoke, she slapped the man across the face again, striking without hesitation, especially when dealing with scum like him.
“This is the responsibility you deserve to bear!”
The man gritted his teeth, his heart burning with rage, but in the face of Xie He, he didn’t dare utter a sound. He could only endure the humiliation in silence.
They knew these were people they couldn’t afford to offend, so they had to swallow their bitterness.
Only after Xie He had avenged the bullying the two children suffered did she let the family leave.
The principal quickly took action, immediately dismissing the woman from her position at the school and banning them from ever setting foot in the academy again.
But just as the family stepped out of the principal’s office, Xu Qiao’s wailing, desperate cries and the sharp sound of slaps echoed throughout the campus.
A perfect display of a man and woman beating each other up.
Smack, smack, smack, smack, smack, smack, smack, smack—