Reborn in the 80s and Remarrying an Officer, Let the Ungrateful Cry!

Chapter 13: Chapter 13: What’s the Difference Between This and a Public Execution?

"So what’s it going to be? If you don’t agree, we’re leaving." Mrs. Fu’s face was a mask of impatience.

"Honey, let’s go. We don’t care about this money anyway. If you ask me, it would be far more satisfying to see them go to jail."

Bai Siqi and her mother glared at Mrs. Fu, their eyes filled with venom.

’This old hag is shameless. The Fu family is dirt poor, yet she has the gall to say she doesn’t care about eight hundred yuan.’

’Heh, she probably couldn’t even scrounge up a hundred.’

Song Yan’s expression darkened.

"Mom, just go apologize with Siqi! Then we can all go home."

Mrs. Bai truly didn’t want to agree. She could hardly stand forking over that much money.

However, she really didn’t want to be locked up.

Left with no other choice, she could only grit her teeth and agree. "Fine, I’ll apo—"

Bai Siqi’s face went pale, but with the situation forcing their hand, she had no way out either.

She hated Fu Mingxue to the core. ’Why couldn’t that bitch have just drowned in the river?’

Seeing the two of them finally relent, Song Yan breathed a sigh of relief.

"We’ll do as you ask. Now sign the settlement agreement."

Fu Mingxue’s face was full of scorn. "The money isn’t here and you haven’t apologized, yet you want me to sign? In your dreams! Don’t get ahead of yourselves. I’m telling you now, if you miss even one of these two things, the deal’s off."

Song Yan hadn’t expected her to push her luck like this.

He suppressed his anger. "The money’s at the credit union. I have to go withdraw it."

"Then go get it. I’ll wait right here," Fu Mingxue said, her expression flat. "And don’t give me any crap about wasting time. I can afford to waste it."

Seeing that he was getting nowhere with her, Song Yan couldn’t help but look toward Mrs. Fu.

Mrs. Fu’s impression of him was now at rock bottom, and she wasn’t about to give him a pleasant look.

She rolled her eyes. "Don’t look at me. My daughter is right. If you want to settle this, then get to it. We didn’t ask for this; you’re the ones who insisted this was the way to earn our forgiveness. What happens if you don’t pay up now, we sign, and then you refuse to pay later? Stop wasting time. Either get it done, or we’re going home."

Her words made the Bai mother and daughter practically keel over with rage.

Song Yan’s expression soured even more.

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Mrs. Fu added, "You have half an hour. If you’re not back by then, we’re leaving."

’Some people have no respect for others’ time! I’m a busy woman.’

Song Yan: ...?

And with that, he was gone.

The Bai and Fu mother-daughter duos faced off like two armies on opposite sides of a river, glaring at each other with mutual dislike.

Thankfully, Song Yan rushed back before the half-hour mark.

He thrust the money in front of Fu Mingxue. "Count it. It’s exactly eight hundred."

Fu Mingxue began counting it right then and there... then nodded, her expression blank. "Yes, exactly eight hundred."

Then she stuffed it into her pocket.

Seeing her actually pocket the money, Bai Siqi and her mother’s eyes turned red with fury.

"Can you sign now?" Song Yan asked.

"Not yet. They still need to come to my doorstep and apologize. Didn’t I just say this? Both parts are required, not one or the other."

Bai Siqi was genuinely furious. "Fu Mingxue, that’s enough—you’ve already taken the money. We’ll give you the apology."

Mrs. Fu instantly stepped in front of Fu Mingxue, protective as a mother hen.

She glared at the Bai mother and daughter. "Why are you yelling at my daughter? We already said an apology is required. What’s this? We haven’t even left the police station and you’re already trying to back out of it? If you’re like this now, you’ll just go back on your word the second we leave, won’t you?"

"Officer," she said, "how about this? Could we trouble you to bring the case file and come with us to my home? You can witness their apology, and then I’ll sign the settlement papers on the spot. What do you think?"

The faces of Bai Siqi and her mother went deathly pale, their eyes wide with disbelief.

’If the police officer came with them—what was the difference between that and a public execution?’