Chapter 32

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Translator: Cheese

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Everyone’s impression of He Qingwan was that she was always warm and gentle. Ever since she moved here, they had never seen her blow up1 at another person.

But now, she suddenly went up and slapped someone.

This slap stunned not only Lin Xiuping, but He Qingwan herself as well.

She didn’t realize what she had done until she felt the burning pain in her palm.

She had never quarrelled with anyone in her life, let alone fight. She was extremely flustered.

But Tiantian was still caught in the grips of this crazy woman; there was no time to be flustered. She took advantage of the time that Lin Xiuping didn’t react to shove her away. She pulled Su Tian out of the woman’s grasp and protectively moved her behind her.

Su Tian hugged He Qingwan’s trembling waist and said softly, “Mom, I’m fine.”

He Qingwan held her down, her heart pounding wildly. Not letting Su Tian come out, she stared at Lin Xiuping and said angrily, “What are you doing? Who told you to touch my daughter?”

Lin Xiuping finally reacted. She clutched her face and screamed, “Are you the mother of this bitch? Your daughter seduced my son. Where did you hide my son? Give me back my son!”

Liu Kaiyan rushed over. He opened his mouth to speak when Su Tian shook her head at him.

Liu Kaiyan’s intervention would only escalate the conflict.

At some point You Pinyan had also rushed over, a huge, U-shaped lock in one hand and Liu Kaiyan in the other.

Although the eldest young miss very much wanted to smash the U-shaped lock over the crazy woman’s head, Su Tian wouldn’t let them through…

The eldest young miss weighed her options and chose to obey.

The blood rushed to He Qingwan’s head at Lin Xiuping’s words. In her heart, Su Tian was naturally very, very good. She was normally unhappy hearing others say Su Tian wasn’t good; how could she put up with Lin Xiuping insulting her daughter like this?

“What is wrong with you?” He Qingwan’s face was flushed with anger. “You think too positively. Even if it were Ren Jinmin’s2 son, our Tiantian wouldn’t look at him. No matter how good your son is, can he compare to the son of the Minister of Finance?

“Let me tell you, our Tiantian can pick from any of the world’s most excellent young men. There are only those who are not worthy of our Tiantian; it’s not our Tiantian climbing the social ladder3.”

The surrounding people felt this sentence was a bit conceited. The son of the Minister of Finance–such an identity was, to the people of a small town, equivalent to that of a person above the clouds, someone they would never meet in their lifetime.

But thinking about the words of this mother who loved her daughter, everyone understood. At the very least, in this small town, there was no boy who Su Tian was not worthy of.

As Qingwan said, Su Tian could pick any boy in the entire town.

Only You Pinyan was nodding furiously on the side.

That’s right, that’s right, none of the boys in the world were worthy of Tiantian! Naturally, that also included this kid surnamed Ren.

Liu Kaiyan also understood these words. He slightly clenched his fingers. That was right. He was not worthy of Su Tian, far from it.

He Qingwan was saying this euphemistically. Although Lin Xiuping was psychotic, He Qingwan had a good impression of Liu Kaiyan and couldn’t bear to utter bad words and slander the taciturn teen.

If it were changed to anyone else, she would say “Look at your son’s moral conduct, and you still dare to come and implicate our Tiantian?”

But it was enough to make Lin Xiuping go crazy.

She screamed, “You dare to say that my son isn’t worthy of this bitch? Do you know how many love letters my son has received since he was young? If it weren’t for this bitch seducing my son, my son would still be obedient…”

He Qingwan sneered. She thought of Su Tian and Liu Kaiyan, glued to comics until midnight, and she burst into anger.

There were some things Su Tian couldn’t say as someone younger4, but He Qingwan had no qualms.

“The most unlucky thing in Liu Kaiyan’s life was to have you as his mother and father.”

These words were powerful and resonating.

Lin Xiuping’s entire body trembled with anger. She cursed. “Nonsense! You’re speaking nonsense! I’ll rip your mouth off…”

As she said that, she rushed up again.

Before Su Tian could step in front of He Qingwan, Liu Kaiyan could no longer stand it. He shook off You Pinyan’s hand and ran forward to push away Lin Xiuping.

When Lin Xiuping saw Liu Kiyan, her face showed either surprise or anger. Her expression was completely twisted and it wasn’t certain which emotion she held.

“Son…”

She had only said this word when Liu Kaiyan interrupted her with a cold voice.

“I said, we will cut off our relationship, that in the future, even if I died, I wouldn’t go back.”

Lin Xiuping found it incomprehensible. “Liu Kaiyan, are you insane? Your father and I worked so hard to raise you? And you, for a bitch…”

“Enough!”

He shouted, his face flushed in agitation. “‘Bitch,’ ‘bitch,’ all you can say is ‘bitch.’ Let me tell you, it’s not because of anyone else that I cut off relations with you. I’ve wanted to do this for a long time.

“It started when you broke my toys, when you made me kneel in punishment when I didn’t get a full score on my test, when you didn’t allow me to make friends, when you looked in my diary every day, when you didn’t even let me touch my basketball….

“Lin Xiuping, I used to wish… to disappear from your sight forever.”

“We did it all for your own good!” Lin Xiuping shrieked.

“For my own good? Ha ha ha, for my own good?”

The emotions Liu Kaiyan had suppressed for more than ten years completely flooded in at this moment. The veins on the teen’s forehead throbbed, and his cheeks were a strange red.

“Thinking of me as a puppet–no dignity, no hope, no will to live. That was for my own good?”

“Starting today–no, starting from when I left the house, you will never control me again!”

Lin Xiuping listened dazedly. She looked at Liu Kaiyan’s collapsed appearance. Had she done something wrong? But it was all for his own good ah. It was only like this could he study hard, only like this could he show promise in the future, only like this would he be able to leave this humble little town, only like this could…

No no no, Kaiyan wasn’t like this before. He started to disobey when Su Tian showed up. It was all Su Tian’s fault!

Lin Xiuping pointed at Su Tian. “This is all stuff this bitch taught you, isn’t it? Kaiyan, you used to be very obedient, and you were never stubborn about anything Mom said. Now, you’ve become like this. It’s her who led you into becoming bad, right?”

Liu Kaiyan suddenly felt a strong sense of powerlessness.

He closed his eyes, laughing self-mockingly.

He had actually still hoped that Lin Xiuping could understand him. It really was… ridiculous.

He should have known. It was not that Lin Xiuping didn’t understand these truths. It was that she deliberately didn’t think about them.

She was already crazy.

Like Liu Chaoyang. Since the moment the two of them had been exiled from Didu5 to this small town, they had already gone crazy.

But Lin Xiuping saw his silence as tacit agreement. She fiercely pounced towards Su Tian, shouting, “I’ll kill you, you little bitch!”

Su Tian didn’t want to get involved with the lunatic. She wouldn’t be happy after winning the fight, and injuring her only made her lose her head. She promptly pulled He Qingwan back.

Who knew where Wang Haoxue popped out from. She rushed over like a little cannonball and pushed Lin Xiuping away. She glared with wide eyes as she angrily said, “What the hell6, you old witch, trying to find trouble with Tiantian again!”

Yesterday, she had elatedly returned home with Su Tian’s gift. Her father had seen it, asked about the several-hundred-yuan bracelet, and insisted that she return it.

He Qingwan was unwilling. It wasn’t an issue of money; it was a gift Tiantian had brought back from Didu for her ah. How could she be willing to return it?

Her father had no choice but to say that she should find the time to ask Su Tian over for dinner.

It just so happened that on the father’s way back from outside, he had spotted the sea of people in the dessert shop. Surmising that the mother and daughter had yet to eat lunch, he had made a large pot of fish soup, ladled out half of it, and asked her to deliver it to the mother and daughter.

Wang Haoxue wore the precious bracelet as she carried the food box downstairs. That was when she came across the lunatic rushing towards Su Tian.

Wang Haoxue instantly felt fury boil over into courage6. A buzz rang in her head.

Lin Xiuping saw that the one who had splashed soup on her face was the fat girl. New and old hatred came together, and she grabbed Wang Haoxue and began to fight.

Wang Haoxue remembered her precious bracelet and didn’t want to fight with her. Unfortunately, the lunatic was simply crazy and grabbed her without letting go.

In the midst of the struggle, the bracelet on her wrist was caught by the crazy woman, and it fell to the ground.

Wang Haoxue shouted, “Ah, my bracelet!”

Lin Xiuping, seeing how much she cared about this bracelet, walked over and stomped on it.

Thinking it wasn’t enough, she ignored Wang Haoxue’s obstruction, lined up the bracelet, and stepped on it.

Wang Haoxue: “…!”

…

Oh my god ah, this was the gift Tiantian had given her. She hadn’t even worn it a full day!

Wang Haoxue was stunned.

Her bracelet…

Liu Kaiyan was also stunned. He knew that this bracelet Su Tian gave to Wang Haoxue was the one she had bought from You Pinyan for 18,000 yuan.

Platinum grade, inlaid with white and blue diamonds, a K-brand limited edition.

He had come across it in Didu. The price on the counter was really more than 180,0007.

Su Tian silently turned around and pulled out her phone.

“Hello, Officer Liu? It’s me, Su Tian. I want to report that a woman maliciously damaged my friend’s bracelet worth 180,000. Please come and deal with it as soon as possible.”

[1] 红过脸: technically it means blushing or going red in the face (from anger)

[2] 任近民: as far as I can tell, this is a name

[3] 高攀: social climbing; to claim connections with people in a higher social class

[4] 晚辈: younger generation

[5] 帝都: not sure if this is supposed to be the name of the city itself or a term for the imperial capital or both. But previous translator(s) had a bit of both, so let’s go with that.

[6] 怒从胆边生: The original phrase is “anger starts from the heart, evil grows from the gall.” The raws takes the last part of the original phrase and replaces “evil” with “anger.” The gallbladder is often associated with courage (or lack of). Hence, “to have the gall/guts” to do something means to have the courage to do something.

[7] 1 yuan is $0.15 (as of Dec. 2020). So 18,000 yuan is about $2800, while 180,000 is ten times that (I wish I had that kind of money…)

Cheese: i’d light a candle for this woman and her soon-to-be-annihilated wallet if she weren’t such a terrible human being. just take your lunch box and go, pls

posting this early as a new years to you all! wishing and hoping that 2021 will treat everyone better than its ugly sibling 2020 did…

(also can anyone tell me why my color settings arent carrying over……..? i changed the color bg on my admin settings but the website doesnt show the changes…….)

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