Chapter 103: 103

103 "You guys want to make my third brother a sucker?"

Hearing the commotion, Fang Qingyi thought it was the debt collectors again.

She frowned, her body twitched involuntarily as a conditioned reflex, but she quickly regained her composure.

Fang Qingyi turned her head and pressed Tushan Jiu's hand, trying to keep her voice calm, "Miss Tushan, sorry, I have something to take care of; stay in my bedroom and don't come out, no matter what you hear, okay?"

Having said that, she turned and walked toward the bedroom door.

At the doorway she glanced at the bedroom door lock, thought of something, then turned back and instructed, "Miss Tushan, after I leave, lock this bedroom door from the inside; a few people might break in later, I don't want to scare you, I'll make sure you're safe."

Her mind raced, thinking how to deal with those people; she opened the bedroom door, then closed it again.

Worried Tushan Jiu might not heed her words, she went to the living-room drawer, fetched the bedroom key, and locked the door from the outside.

Her grandmother's room was the same.

Fang Yonghua, standing in the living room, seeing Fang Qingyi so calm and practiced in doing these things, felt his guilt and remorse surge to a peak again.

The urgent knocking continued.

The last thing Fang Qingyi did was go to the kitchen and take a fruit knife, slipping it into her pocket.

Taking a deep breath, she then went to open the apartment's security door.

But at the moment she opened the door, her brows furrowed even deeper.

The expected debt collectors were not outside.

She looked disgusted, having no intention of letting them in, and said, "What do you want?"

Standing outside were her paternal uncle and her second paternal uncle.

At that moment, inside the house, Fang Yonghua's yin energy rose a little upon seeing the two, and he fixed his eyes tightly on their faces.

Meanwhile, Chai Bo at the doorway didn't mind her attitude, chuckling, "Miss Niece, I and your second uncle came all this way, and you won't even let us in for a drink of water—this is hardly reasonable, is it?"

"If you want water, I'll get you bottled water; my place is small, there's nowhere to sit, and besides my grandmother is unwell and asleep—if you come in you'll disturb her, so I won't entertain you."

Her father was at fault initially, but these two uncles of hers aren't any better; their family has ended up like this, and they too are 'indispensable' to it.

Chai Bo's face darkened; Chai Tao beside him couldn't stay as calm, he grabbed her hand that was holding the door and shoved it aside, striding boldly into the house.

"I heard you'll be able to pay off your father's gambling debts after Mid-Autumn?" Chai Tao eyed the house with contempt, pulled out a chair on the dining side, sat down, and poured himself a cup from the table's glassware and kettle.

Fang Qingyi clenched her fists, her right eyelid twitching, feeling that today they came with ill intent.

Sure enough, the next second her eldest uncle Chai Bo followed her in, sat on the sofa, looked her up and down, still smiling, and said, "Qingyi, you've grown up; got a boyfriend? I hear he's pretty rich, even drives a sports car."

What she feared most still happened.

They actually turned their sights onto Xie Jingting again.

She said she'd recently felt like someone was following her, thinking it was the debt collectors sending people because they feared she'd run off without paying.

She never expected it to be these two uncles of hers.

Fang Qingyi never swears at people; otherwise she'd really want to curse this bunch of scumbags to death!

No one lives opposite her door, but she still closed the door before entering and said:

"He's not my boyfriend; go ask around, everyone I know knows he's just a rich second-gen who was briefly interested in me; you've been tailing these days, you should know he hasn't come looking for me in several days, right?"

These days Xie Jingting really hasn't come to see her—it's because she hasn't let him.

She said that as long as he doesn't come looking for her, she'll keep replying to his messages on WeChat.

Chai Tao in the dining room clicked his tongue, "You say you, you've grown a pretty face for nothing, just because you're with that rich second-gen—what's it to you, lose a bit of meat or what? Anyway you'll have to marry someday; even if he's just playing around, you could still gain something—maybe your father's debts are already paid off."

Fang Qingyi frowned, annoyed, too lazy to listen to their disgusting talk, she turned to Chai Tao and asked, "What exactly are you here for today?"

Chai Tao muttered, "You don't know how to use resources, you don't appreciate kindness—no wonder even your mother doesn't want you."

Fang Yonghua, who had already drifted up to them, froze upon hearing that, disbelief rising in his eyes.

What does that mean—his wife Chai Meng doesn't want Qingyi anymore?

Then all those gambling debts are his daughter's......

Fang Qingyi pretended not to hear, looked at him and repeated, "What exactly are you here for?"

Chai Tao jerked his chin at Chai Bo, "Ask your eldest uncle—the IOU is with him."

"An IOU? What IOU?" Fang Qingyi snapped her gaze toward Chai Bo on the sofa.

Chai Bo still wore a smile, a typical smiler-with-a-hidden-knife.

"Miss Niece, your father borrowed 500,000 from me while he was alive; I saw how hard you were working and didn't think to ask for it back, but now I'm short on funds too, and you're so capable—you can pay off your father's debts, so you might as well repay this 500,000 as well."

Chai Bo placed the IOU from his pocket onto the coffee table.

Fang Qingyi was struck as if by lightning, staring fixedly at Chai Bo.

Chai Bo laughed, "Miss Niece, look at what I'm doing—you should check your father's signed name with his handprint."

Even the strongest person would break down at this moment.

She was clearly about to climb out of the mire and shake off this mud.

As long as she paid off those debts in a few days, she could step forward toward him without any burden.

But why, at this very moment, did they crush all her hopes?

When her father died, she didn't cry.

When her mother left her, she didn't cry.

When her grandmother was diagnosed with stomach cancer, she also didn't cry.

Even when working three jobs a day left her exhausted and sick, she didn't cry.

But this time Fang Qingyi couldn't hold back her tears, which streamed down her cheeks.

They hit the floor, making a pat-pat sound.

"No, I clearly borrowed only 100,000, for the shop renovation."

"Damn, you two black-hearted ones, you've deceived my daughter!"

「Fang Qingyi, the amount of money is wrong, don't get scammed! 」

It's a pity, no one in the house can hear his roars.

Chai Bo and Chai Tao exchanged a glance.

Chai Tao stood up, walked over, and said, 「Hey, don't cry, Fang Qingyi, why don't you just drop the act and go find that rich second‑generation? This money would then be yours. 」

Fang Qingyi lifted her head, gave him an icy stare, her gaze seeming to want to kill him.

Chai Bo felt a chill run down his back.

Chai Tao, meanwhile, felt as if someone were gripping his throat.

But the two of them didn't take it to heart.

Actually, they came today not just for this matter; more than that, they wanted to persuade her to get together with that rich second‑generation, so they could reap even greater benefits later.

They had inquired and found that the rich second‑generation seemed to have an unusual background, his surname being Xie.

Suddenly, a voice broke the deadlock.

「Do you want to treat my younger brother as a sucker? 」