Abusing the Family of Three
Jiang Shan felt that his authority as the head of the household had been severely challenged.
Jiang Shan abruptly stood up, his eyes bloodshot, raising his thick arm with a tightly clenched fist.
“You worthless girl, I’m going to teach you a lesson today!”
The stepmother quickly pulled her daughter to a corner, her lips curling into a smug smile, her face filled with satisfaction.
“Dear, don’t hit her face, lest the neighbors gossip.”
Behind the scenes, the stepmother abused Jiang Taohua, but in front of the neighbors, she always pretended to be kind.
Jiang Shan grunted in agreement and swung his fist, aiming to strike Jiang Taohua.
Without a word, Jiang Taohua reached out, grabbed Jiang Shan’s hair, and yanked hard, making tears well up in his eyes from the pain.
Then, with her other hand raised high, she struck him hard on the eye socket, leaving him seeing stars and briefly thinking he might go blind.
Jiang Taohua lifted her foot and kicked Jiang Shan hard in the stomach.
With a loud thud, Jiang Shan fell and hit the nearby cabinet, causing an egg-sized bump to swell on his forehead. The pain in his stomach turned his face pale.
Jiang Taohua grabbed the broom beside her and began striking Jiang Shan relentlessly.
“Stop, you wicked girl!”
At first, Jiang Shan’s voice was full of vigor, but it gradually grew weaker. He felt excruciating pain in every part of his body.
How could this wretched girl be so strong? Even he was no match for her.
“Jiang Taohua, stop! You unfilial daughter, that’s your own father! How could you lay hands on him?”
The stepmother suddenly stretched out her arms, shielding Jiang Shan as if protecting a chick.
Jiang Shan was deeply moved, thinking that true feelings are revealed in times of adversity.
Jiang Taohua flashed a bright smile, sending shivers down the stepmother’s spine.
“Don’t worry, it’ll be your turn soon.”
Every member of this family had bullied the original owner. No one would escape, including their precious daughter, Jiang Nuan.
Seeing Jiang Taohua’s sinister gaze, the stepmother finally realized something was wrong.
She forced herself to stay calm and said, “You little wretch, what do you think you’re doing? I warn you, if you dare lay a finger on me, you won’t eat for three days.”
Jiang Taohua soon showed her with actions exactly what she intended to do.
She struck the stepmother’s face with the broom, leaving bloody scratches.
Moments later, the broom fell apart completely, rendered useless.
Jiang Taohua said unhappily, “Stepmother, your skin is too thick. Look, the broom is broken. But don’t worry, I have something else prepared for you.”
As she spoke, a devilish smile spread across her face, terrifying the stepmother.
In an instant, a needle as thick as a straw appeared in Jiang Taohua’s hand. She sneered and walked step by step toward the stepmother.
The stepmother shook her head in fear. “No, you wretch! I’m your stepmother! How dare you!”
Jiang Taohua didn’t want to waste words on her.
“Come here.”
She grabbed the stepmother’s foot, dragged her over, and jabbed the needle into her stomach.
“Ah!!” The stepmother screamed sharply, like a pig in a slaughterhouse.
“Too noisy.”
Jiang Taohua picked up a tattered rag from the table and deftly stuffed it into the stepmother’s mouth. Like Rong Mama possessed, she jabbed the stepmother with the needle again and again.
After a while, Jiang Taohua straightened up, as if she had finally understood Rong Mama’s joy.
Seeing Jiang Taohua’s gaze sweep over him, Jiang Shan trembled in fear and simply closed his eyes, pretending to be dead.
Seeing the miserable state of the two, Jiang Nuan looked terrified, trying to shrink herself into the corner of the wall to reduce her presence.
She couldn’t understand why Jiang Taohua, who used to endure her beatings and scoldings, had changed into a different person today, as if possessed by a devil.
Jiang Taohua suddenly grabbed her ear and then slapped her more than ten times without mercy, filling the air with crisp slapping sounds.
Jiang Nuan was slapped until her head spun, her ears buzzed, and her cheeks swelled painfully.
Looking at the three injured family members lying on the ground in agony, Jiang Taohua finally stopped with satisfaction.
She went to the couple’s bedroom, threw their bedding onto the living room floor, and took out a new set of bedding from the wardrobe.
“From now on, you two old things will sleep in the living room. The bedroom belongs to me.”
The scumbag father and stepmother were filled with resentment but dared not speak out.
And so, the couple endured their body aches and hunger, tossing and turning on the living room floor until they finally fell asleep at four in the morning.
Little did they know they had only slept for an hour when, at five o’clock, Jiang Shan suddenly woke up from his sleep. He sat up abruptly, his eyes bloodshot, and roared, “Who? Who dares to hit me!”
Jiang Taohua stood over him with a stick in her hand and said, “It was me, your ancestor.”
The veins on Jiang Shan’s hands bulged as he suppressed his anger.
Jiang Taohua pressed on relentlessly, “Get up, you lazy bunch! Go make breakfast. What time is it, and you’re still in bed!”
For the past eighteen years, the original host had lived this kind of life, woken up by the scumbag father and stepmother at five every morning to cook. Today, she would let them taste that bitterness.
“Lazy woman, hurry up!”
Jiang Taohua struck the stepmother with the stick.
The stepmother cried out in pain and immediately scrambled up from the floor.
The two of them, faces dark with anger, went into the kitchen to start making breakfast.
“Husband, sob sob, your daughter is too much. I’m still in pain all over.”
The scumbag father quickly comforted her, “Wife, just bear with it a little longer. In just over ten days, she’ll be sent to the countryside. When that happens, we won’t send her a single cent, and she’ll starve to death out there.”
Having drunk well water, Jiang Taohua’s hearing was exceptionally sharp, and she heard every word of their conversation clearly.
Hah, this pair of scumbags, not giving her money, huh? Once they leave for work, she would search the house and take every last penny.
Jiang Nuan was dreaming of gnawing on a chicken leg when she was startled awake by the pain in her cheek.
Her face twisted into a bitter expression, and when she opened her eyes, she found Jiang Taohua slapping her face repeatedly.
“Awake? Get to work.”
She threw two foul-smelling shoes at Jiang Nuan’s face—ones she had specially found to disgust her.
“Ugh!”
Jiang Nuan nearly vomited from the stench.
Jiang Taohua continued, “If you don’t clean these shoes properly, don’t even think about going to school today!”
Jiang Nuan pretended to agree, then walked outside and immediately ran off. She was going to her grandmother’s house to seek help. Her two uncles were tall and strong—surely they could deal with this bitch.
“Breakfast is ready!”
The scumbag father and stepmother brought the food to the table, looking at Jiang Taohua with ill intentions.
They had just added quite a few “special ingredients” to the food, such as saliva and rat droppings.
“Host, they spat and added rat droppings to the food. You can’t eat it.”
Listening to System 001’s prompt, Jiang Taohua calmly looked at the couple, then without warning, swung a stick and struck her scumbag father on the back.
“Suddenly, I don’t feel hungry anymore. You two eat the meal instead. Make sure you finish it all, or else…”
Jiang Taohua threateningly shook the stick in her hand.
The couple exchanged a glance, their hearts more bitter than coptis root.
The meal had been spiked with something, and they frowned, their faces full of resistance.
“No, I won’t eat it!”