Xie Li was startled by the scream from behind!
She saw Xie Silin running barefoot out of the house, her face pale as paper, stepping down the stairs slowly.
Her eyes locked on Pei Shuchen, full of hatred:
“It’s all your fault! All your fault! Waaaah! You ruined me!”
As she spoke, she slammed into Pei Shuchen’s chest.
Pei Shuchen lowered his gaze. Ripples had already formed in his brown eyes. He reached out and held Xie Silin’s hand:
“I’m sorry! It’s my fault! Silin! Hit me! It’s my fault!”
They cried and clung to each other, clearly about to reconcile.
No! That can’t happen!!
If they reconcile now, the whole plan would be ruined!
Xie Li hurried downstairs and helped her father, Xie Qingsong, who had had his wig ripped off, been stomped on, and gagged by the fumes:
“Dad! Are you okay? I’ll call the police!”
The words “call the police” instantly made Pei Jianmin explode!
Call the police again!
Call the police, call the police!
If it weren’t for the Xie family calling last time, none of this would have happened! And now they had the nerve to stick to it?!
“Xie Qingsong! This is all your daughter’s fault!”
He no longer bothered to shield the Xie family and laid everything out in front of Xie Li:
“Although this was my son’s idea he just hated Xie Li and wanted to ruin her purity! But the medicine was administered by Silin herself. She’s the one who messed it up like an idiot, and now she’s blaming my son?!”
At these words, everyone turned to look at Xie Li!!
Xie Li thought for a moment maybe she should just “lose it.”
She rolled her eyes and pounced on Pei Shuchen, taking him down and stomping wildly on his lower body:
“Ouch! My foot!!”
Pei Shuchen was enraged and frothing at the mouth.
Qi Yuehua, seeing her son being beaten, could not hold back and swung her hand but Xie Li dodged, and Qi Yuehua hit Xie Silin instead.
Finally, Xie Silin snapped!
“How dare you hit me? Pei Shuchen!! And you just let your mom hit me?!”
After all, she had slept with this man for three years, and this was what she got in return his mother beating her?!
Pei Shuchen was furious too. Just moments ago, Wu Fengrao had beaten his own mother, and he didn’t dare intervene, and he had even been slapped by his father!
Where had Xie Silin been just now?!
She didn’t care when his mother got hit, but even a little suffering on her part was unacceptable?
Xie Li held back her hands.
Perfect! The fight resumed!
She rolled her eyes and sat back on the sofa to watch.
“Your mom just smashed my mom with a lamp, and you didn’t do anything? My mom just slapped you once, and it wasn’t even intentional. Why are you yelling?!”
Pei Shuchen stood, pointing at Xie Silin and unleashing a barrage of scolding.
Xie Silin felt a sharp pain in her chest. She was at her most fragile moment, and Pei Shuchen, instead of comforting her, was lecturing her on who was right or wrong?
Didn’t he know?!
When a girlfriend is angry, no matter what, it’s the man’s fault!
“Pei Shuchen, your cousin did that to me, and you didn’t even comfort me. Instead, you brought your family to my house to cause trouble, just because my family called the police? Because we had your cousin arrested?!”
Xie Silin trembled with fury.
Pei Shuchen, hearing “call the police,” flew into even more rage:
“How shameless is your family?! It happened together, and now you call the police to arrest my cousin? Are you even human?!”
“Ahhh!! Who’s not human?! You tell me who’s not human?!! Say it again!!”
Xie Silin went crazy and slapped Pei Shuchen three times, escalating the conflict completely!
“Hehe!”
Xie Li laughed and stepped back, watching the chaos from a safe distance.
Fight! Fight!
Pei Shuchen and Xie Silin went from blaming each other to arguing over each other’s parents, and finally the parents themselves joined the battle again!
Xie Qingsong got hit by Pei Jianmin a few more times, and Xie Silin jumped and shouted:
“Pei Shuchen! You’re worse than a eunuch! You should never marry! Anyone with you would be better off a widow!”
So harsh!
Xie Li gritted her teeth and clapped:
“Xie Silin! You rotten thing! I’m too lazy to scold you, but every time you scream like a duck, it really messes with my mood, do you know that?!”
Pei Shuchen was not going to be outdone:
“I scream like a duck because you hurt too much! You cried when getting acupuncture, didn’t you?!”
Xie Silin went all out!!
Bang! Crash! Clang!
The fight was cataclysmic!!
Finally, Xie Li called the police to stop the chaos.
The Pei and Xie families were now completely at odds!
The Wang Da and Wang Er incident was also delayed, as everyone had ended up in the hospital with injuries.
Those two were left waiting, but Qi Yuehua didn’t come to rescue them. Combined with daily interrogations and intimidation, they finally confessed everything!
When the police came to the Xie household, only Xie Li was home; the others were in the hospital.
“Comrade Xie Li, this is what happened. You were lucky to avoid it,” the young officer said as he took notes.
Seeing Xie Li so flustered and tearful, he sighed inwardly.
Such a delicate girl, encountering this, was truly pitiful.
She had been schemed against by her parents, ex-husband, and the fake sister. If fate hadn’t intervened, she would have been the one who suffered the most.
She looked so fragile.
Alas… pitiful indeed!
Xie Qingsong and his wife, as well as Pei Jianmin and his wife, were all taken to give statements. Pei Shuchen and Xie Silin were detained at the police station.
Both sides were frantic.
Qi Yuehua feared Wang Da and Wang Er might say something else; Xie Qingsong feared Xie Silin might disrupt feeding the jade bracelets.
Once again, all eyes turned to Xie Li.
This matter was both serious and minor.
Xie Li had perfectly avoided trouble. If Xie Silin claimed she had willingly engaged with Wang Da and Wang Er, and Xie Li didn’t pursue it, both sides could be released.
Xie Qingsong had already dealt with Xie Silin’s side, leaving only Xie Li’s side.
“Child, your parents really didn’t know about this. Don’t worry—if you don’t pursue it, we will make it up to you!”
Xie Qingsong spoke earnestly to Xie Li:
“This is all Pei Shuchen’s fault. If he hadn’t tricked Silin, she wouldn’t have done this to you! Good girl, let go, and consider it for your parents’ sake.”
Xie Li said nothing.
Wu Fengrao grew anxious, moved Xie Qingsong onto the sofa:
“Xie Li, Silin has always been a kind girl. She’s not bad at heart; this time she was definitely influenced by Pei Shuchen. You’ve lived at the Pei household for years how could you not know how unscrupulous Qi Yuehua is? Try to understand your sister!”
Xie Li smiled:
“You all knew Qi Yuehua was difficult, knew she was unscrupulous. During the three years I married into the Pei family, you ignored me, didn’t even let me return home. Your hearts were only with Xie Silin, not me, your daughter, right?”
Her words were blunt and piercing.
Wu Fengrao’s face turned red not with guilt, but with anger.
She took the posture every parent takes when the child is ignored, pointed at Xie Li, and scolded:
“You brat! You’re fine, aren’t you? The unlucky one is your sister! Why are you so selfish, so thoughtless?”
When words fail, they curse. When cursing fails, they hit. When hitting fails, they slap labels.
They understood perfectly, they weren’t ignorant they just didn’t care or love her.
“Fine! I agree!”
Xie Li released her grip cheerfully.
Of course they had to be let out; keeping them locked up would have been too good for them!
Xie Qingsong and Wu Fengrao: “???”
“Ahem…”
Xie Qingsong awkwardly cleared his throat:
“Little Li, you’re the most sensible! Come, let’s go to the police station.”
After leaving the station, Xie Li went to find Wang Da and Wang Er’s wives.
They lived in the rural outskirts of Beijing, unaware of what their husbands were up to.
They only knew that Qi Yuehua, a distant cousin, always found opportunities to get the brothers involved, often bringing back lots of money.
They were grateful to Qi Yuehua.
In those years, every household struggled with money and food, and Qi Yuehua had helped them plenty.
So, in the midst of this “struggle movement,” when no one wanted to get involved with capitalists, they could still send their husbands to help Qi Yuehua.
When Xie Li arrived, the sisters-in-law were cooking.
The two brothers were close, married to two sisters, and the four of them lived together, working and eating together.
“Sister, who are you looking for?”
Wang Er’s wife wiped her hands and eyed Xie Li.
Xie Li pulled out several photos from her pocket and handed them over:
“I came to see you.”