Chapter 11: Liu Xinhua Gets a Beating

On the way, Wenya told Liu Yue how excited Qin Hao had been when he heard she was coming yesterday.

He couldn't sleep and kept worrying that Liu Yue would be wronged.

He even cursed out Shen Mo, whom he had never met.

He said that from the fact Shen Mo had let Liu Yue take a hard-seat train, one could tell he wasn't a good man.

When saying this, Wenya glanced at Shen Mo with a smile.

Shen Mo felt deeply wronged.

Liu Yue, meanwhile, smiled so much her eyes narrowed into slits, and said sweetly, "Auntie, Shen Mo treats me very well. The only reason I woke up is because of Shen Mo."

Shen Mo guiltily turned his head away, thinking of the inner thoughts he had had before Liu Yue woke up.

【From now on I'll have to be careful when I sleep. I absolutely must not let slip that I once thought about using Liu Yue's card to go for a big health spa session.】

【Wuwuwu, so miserable.】

Wenya smiled and said nothing more.

Qin Hao and Wenya's home was in the suburbs of Erbin, a proper rural courtyard house.

The car had just stopped when Liu Yue's grandmother, a fiery Northeastern old lady, came rushing out.

The old lady looked Liu Yue over from left to right, then blurted out, "This one's way too thin."

"That bastard of a father of yours, is this how he took care of you?"

Then she turned an unfriendly gaze toward Shen Mo beside her.

"You're Yueyue's husband?"

"How did you let my Yueyue get this thin?"

"Did you bully my Yueyue?"

"Believe it or not, I'll have Yueyue's grandpa whip you with a leather belt."

Shen Mo was embarrassed. What was he supposed to say?

After finishing her scolding, the grandmother took Liu Yue by the hand and went inside.

She pressed Liu Yue down onto the heated kang, then peeled an apple for her and poured her brown sugar water, treating Liu Yue as if she were a fragile porcelain doll.

Shen Mo was envious.

【I want a wife even more now. If I really became part of this family, would I get to enjoy this kind of love too?】

While the grandmother was looking after Liu Yue, Auntie Wenya brought out the meal she had prepared long ago.

Proper sauerkraut stewed with big bones, fluffy white steamed buns, homemade blood sausage, a big mixed salad, and fruit salad.

Sitting on the kang, looking at the grandmother's fiery gaze, Liu Yue was so happy.

At the dinner table, Shen Mo tried his best to make himself invisible.

Auntie Wenya gently and softly told the grandmother about Liu Yue being a Vegetative.

The grandmother was so angry she slammed the table, fuming, "Call her grandpa. We have to whip that beast Liu Xinhua good."

One could tell that, were it not for modern law, Liu Xinhua would be done for.

After the meal, Auntie Wenya took Liu Yue to wash up, then arranged rooms for the two of them and told them to rest well.

While Liu Yue was washing up, the grandmother pulled Shen Mo aside, scrutinized him, and asked about their marriage.

Shen Mo thought for a moment, then honestly told the whole story of his relationship with Liu Yue—including that this was only the third day they had known each other, and including the financial arrangement involved in this marriage.

Finally Shen Mo said softly, "Grandma, I want to marry Yueyue."

"Why?" The grandmother narrowed her eyes and studied Shen Mo carefully.

Shen Mo said earnestly and plainly, "At first it was because Yueyue-jie was pretty and rich. After spending a day together, I grew to like her gentleness. Today it's because I feel your family is too warm, too loving."

"Silly boy." The grandmother snorted a laugh.

She thought Shen Mo was plenty bold.

Shen Mo just smiled.

In the bathroom, Wenya looked after Liu Yue like a child, and asked softly, "What's really going on between you and that Shen Mo?"

Clever Wenya saw at a glance that the two of them didn't seem to be in a man-woman relationship.

Liu Yue told Wenya their story, omitting the inner-thoughts part.

"Auntie Wen, I like Shen Mo." "I really want to marry him. He's clumsily pursuing me too."

Wenya smiled and said softly, "That's good then."

As a gentle woman, she respected every one of her child's choices.

Shortly after, Wenya saw each of them into a separate kang room.

That was the good thing about a three-courtyard compound—plenty of rooms.

While Liu Yue and Shen Mo lay on the kang sleeping blissfully, Jinghai City was in an uproar.

First, Shen Jiayun posted a photo on Weibo of herself holding flowers at LS Train Station, with the caption, "A sincere man, bravely pursuing love."

Right after, Zhao Yanyan shared a photo of Liu Yue's train ticket to Erbin, captioned, "The scumbag is still over there indulging in his self-righteous touching moment."

Then a little editor at Jinghai Entertainment ran a gossip piece titled "Rich second-generation boldly pursues hotpot restaurant auntie."

In just two short hours, Shen Jiayun became an instant sensation.

Especially Shen Jiayun's sworn enemy Wang Fugui, who loved watching drama and never thought things were messy enough, strung together the story of Shen Jiayun and Liu Yue and posted it.

In the end it boiled down to one sentence: the scumbag first looked down on her for being a Vegetative, then the moment she woke up and inherited a huge fortune, he went chasing after her.

In a word: the scum of the earth.

The Shen Family villa.

At the dinner table, Shen Jiajia quietly told everything that had happened yesterday, including Wang Fugui's attacks on Shen Jiayun.

Zhu Kailan and Shen Yilong listened while furiously scrolling through the news.

*Slap*—Zhu Kailan slammed her phone face-down on the table and said through gritted teeth: "That idiot."

Shen Yilong sighed, made a call to the security company under his name, and told them to rush to LS and bring Shen Jiayun back.

At the old Liu Family residence, Liu Xinhua and Liu Bai were eating breakfast.

Liu Bai laid out his strategic plans for the future of Liu Group to Liu Xinhua.

Liu Xinhua chimed in with advice every now and then. The harmonious scene made Liu Xinhua sigh that life was truly wonderful—back when Liu Yue was the president, she had treated him like nothing more than a stamp machine, never discussing anything, only issuing notifications.

After finishing business, Liu Xinhua and Liu Bai got to talking about Shen Jiayun again.

"Wanting everything at once—that Shen Family kid is a lost cause. Xiao Bai, don't you ever learn from him."

"Mm." Liu Bai was a little distracted. After a long while, he asked in a low voice: "Dad, do we really not need to do anything about little sister?"

Liu Family's illegitimate children all knew each other to some degree, and Liu Bai happened to know the one who had gotten together with Shen Jiayun. They were on quite good terms.

Shaking his head, Liu Xinhua sighed: "What can we do? That silly girl is dead-set on being obsessed with Shen Jiayun."

"All I can do is find her a decent job and give her a decent future. The rest is up to her."

Liu Xinhua felt he was truly a good father—none of his illegitimate children had ever gone without food or clothing, he had earnestly guided every one of them, and when it came to marriage, he had always given betrothal gifts, dowries, and gift money.

And when it came to finding jobs, Liu Xinhua hadn't slackened in the slightest.

Those who wanted to start a business were also introduced to useful connections.

So Liu Xinhua considered himself a good dad.

After eating and drinking their fill, Liu Xinhua and Liu Bai got into the same car and headed for Liu Group headquarters.

At the company's main entrance, Liu Xinhua had just stepped out of the car, full of pride and satisfaction…

*Crack. *

A sudden whip lashed Liu Xinhua and sent him sprawling head over heels.

Grandpa, clad in a leather coat, charged in and lashed out relentlessly.

Liu Xinhua howled on the ground.

Liu Bai was about to step in when a cold voice rang out: "Kid, care to guess why none of the security guards stopped her?"

Liu Bai turned his head, face pale as paper, and saw Qin Hao walking out of the company, escorted by the security manager.

"M-Mrs. Qin… it's… it's been a long time."

Fear visibly spread across Liu Bai's eyes, and his body began to tremble.

He couldn't understand why this terror of the world had come back again.

(End of chapter)