Free Web NovelChapter 25: Chapter 25: Strike First to Gain the Upper Hand
"Oh, my son!" Mrs. Bai burst into tears. "No, you have to figure out a way to get my son out of there—" freewebnøvel.com
"If that doesn’t work, we’ll go to the Fu family. We’ll find Fu Mingxue and make her let my son go. She already took so much of our money, what right does she have to get my son arrested?"
Mrs. Bai’s eyes were bloodshot, filled with hatred.
If Fu Mingxue had been standing in front of her right then, Mrs. Bai probably would have torn her to shreds with her bare hands.
Bai Siqi gritted her teeth. "Right, let’s go find her. Their family went back on their word—"
"Calm down, both of you. If you go to them now, they’ll never sign a letter of forgiveness. They already said yesterday that the two were separate matters, and the case itself proved that point."
Song Yan’s words made Mrs. Bai furious.
She glared at him, her eyes red. "This is all your fault! Why didn’t you get things straight back then? If you had, how could my son have been arrested?"
Her son was far more important than some good son-in-law.
"Mom, you’re right, it was my mistake. But going to them now is a really terrible idea. Do you want this whole affair to become a public spectacle?"
At these words, the faces of both mother and daughter turned deathly pale.
’If we go and make a scene, how could we possibly keep Chunsheng’s arrest a secret?’
Just then, Father Bai came out, his face dark as a thundercloud. "Song Yan, what’s this about my son being arrested?"
Song Yan looked at his bleary-eyed father-in-law and nodded. "...Yes."
"Was it that mother and daughter from the Fu family who reported him?" Father Bai’s face was now filled with murderous intent.
"Yes, it was them! They scammed us out of eight hundred yuan yesterday, and the next thing you know, they had our Chunsheng arrested! He’s our only son! You have to find a way to get him out."
"Son of a bitch, I’m going to go settle the score with them—"
Just as Father Bai was about to storm out, someone beat him to it, pounding heavily on their front gate.
"Bais! Get your asses out here!"
The Bai family stood stunned for a moment before they recognized the voice outside.
They couldn’t believe it.
"Fuck, I haven’t even gone to find her, and she has the nerve to show up at our door—I’m gonna go kill her—"
Fuming, Father Bai stormed over to open the door.
The others hurried to follow.
The moment Father Bai swung the gate open, a carrying pole came swinging down toward his head.
Caught completely off guard, Father Bai didn’t even have time to dodge before it struck him squarely.
"You pack of monsters! So my daughter really was pushed into the river by your Bai Chunsheng! You heartless bastards—"
Mrs. Fu was surprisingly strong, and she struck him several times in a row.
Every blow landed true on Father Bai’s body.
It left him no chance to dodge.
Father Bai howled in pain. "Damn you, stop it—OW! You’re killing me—"
"I’m beating you because you’re a terrible father! Look at the fine daughter and son you raised! To steal my daughter’s university acceptance letter, you all conspired to harm her! On such a cold day, that animal Bai Chunsheng just pushed my daughter into the river! He even hired a thug to push her!"
"Everyone, come out and see! This whole family is heartless! Their souls are so rotten they’re oozing pus!"
Mrs. Fu had a booming voice. She kept shouting at the top of her lungs while chasing and beating Father Bai with the carrying pole.
None of the neighbors had left for work yet, so her shouting brought them all out.
After getting an earful, they were utterly shocked.
’Heavens, could this be real?’
The Bai mother and daughter looked at Mrs. Fu’s furious expression, then at the crowd of neighbors gathered at the gate—and didn’t dare step forward to stop her.
