Chapter 563: Parents' Long-Distance Confrontation

Lin Dongfan took people and left the Liu household, but that heavy, almost suffocating family atmosphere did not dissipate with him.

In the living room.

Father Liu's sullen smoking expression, and Mother Liu's repressed, intermittent sobbing, vividly portrayed the tragedy of an ordinary family.

"Cry! All you know how to do is cry!"

Father Liu paced irritably back and forth in the living room, the old floorboards creaking under his feet as if they too could not bear the family's weight.

He sat down on the sofa and flicked ash into the ashtray.

He looked up and saw Mother Liu still sobbing and wiping her tears.

Father Liu couldn't help retorting again: "Can crying bring her back? Can crying make her behave? It's because you've always indulged her that she has no sense of decency! You've stirred up such a huge mess."

"!!!"

Mother Liu slumped onto the sofa, continuously wiping tears with her sleeve, her voice choked: "Well... what now? Wenwen is alone abroad, with no money... how can she survive? What if... I've heard overseas is chaotic, especially at night, what if she has nowhere to stay and gets accosted by thugs..."

Having said that, Mother Liu dared not continue, her worry having reached an extreme intensity.

A young woman in her twenties of Eastern appearance.

She is also fairly pretty.

Late at night, homeless on a foreign street, when several dark-skinned thugs surround her, just imagining the scene is heart-wrenching.

Mother Liu dare not think further.

Father Liu also wore a worried frown, yet had no idea what to do, so he could only smoke sullenly. Having lived fifty years, he had never gone abroad. If he ever left the country, he wouldn't even know which direction was which. If conditions allowed, he truly wanted to go overseas himself, even if he had to drag his daughter back by force.

He pondered in silence for a while.

Father Liu set aside his despondent mood and gently comforted his wife: "If she still has a conscience, she should think about how worried the family is. But don't panic needlessly. Although her conscience has been eaten by dogs, she isn't so foolish as to not want to live. When she reaches the end of her rope, she will surely go to the embassy for help."

Hearing Father Liu say that, Mother Liu's emotions stabilized a little.

Late that night, past two o'clock.

On the far side of the Atlantic, this time should be daytime, while in the East the bright moon hung high; the sudden ring of a phone beside the pillow startled the sleepless Mother Liu.

It was a call from her daughter Liu Wen.

Mother Liu picked up the phone, about to quietly get out of bed to answer, when Old Liu lying beside her suddenly issued a stern warning: "Don't answer!"

She turned her head and saw, Mother Liu's heart shattered into pieces.

Who would have thought that Old Liu, who usually falls asleep as soon as his head hits the pillow, was also awake today, his eyes wide open, staring like a death god, frightening indeed.

Old Liu sat up and snatched the phone away.

He directly hung up the call from his daughter.

Without the slightest hesitation.

Mother Liu's eyes filled with tears as she felt heartbroken: "Old Liu, do you really want to just watch Wenwen starve to death on the street? We don't need to transfer much, just some living expenses for her; even going to the embassy to turn herself in would require travel money."

"She has money to make international long-distance calls, but no money to contact the embassy? Worrying over trivialities, go to sleep!"

Old Liu pressed the phone under his own pillow to prevent his wife from softening again. This time, he was determined to cooperate with the anti-corruption bureau and force that unfilial daughter to return home.

Old Liu had just closed his eyes when the phone under the pillow rang again, annoying.

Old Liu pretended not to hear, not even lifting his eyelids.

Mother Liu lying beside him had at this moment become a tearful wreck, tears streaming down her cheeks onto the pillow, soaking a large area.

The incessant ringing of the phone was like a death knell, making her anxious and fearful, to the point she dared not imagine what predicament her daughter abroad now faced.

She really wanted to answer the phone, but couldn't overcome Old Liu.

After ringing for a while, the phone finally stopped, but not long after it started ringing again—first call, third call...

It kept ringing nonstop!

This time, the motionless Old Liu with eyes closed could no longer bear it; he opened his eyes angrily, fished out the phone, hesitated half a second between powering off and answering, and ultimately chose to answer.

As soon as the phone was connected,

Old Liu opened his mouth and snapped: "You don't want to sleep, neither do I and your mother, right? Never-ending! You either die out there or come back home! Want me to send you money? Not a chance!"

Whether that shout hurt his heart or not, only Old Liu himself knew.

The voice coming from the phone was even more furious than Old Liu's: "You're just not going to care about me anymore, huh?! If you don't want to care for me, why did you give birth to me in the first place?! Are there parents like you in the world?! The anti-corruption bureau people came to your door, and you actually helped them pressure me!"

"You said it right—I now pretend I never gave birth to you! I raised you to your twenties and you're still a giant baby! What's the point of raising such trash? If time could turn back, I'd definitely shoot you against the wall!" Old Liu, true to his steel‑straight‑man nature, uttered these explosive angry words.

The wife lying beside him was already grief‑stricken to the point of heart‑dead, eyes closed, tears soundless.

Then Liu Wen's furious voice came through the phone: "Fine! Let me die out there then! If you're capable, have another kid to support you in your old age, don't count on me to support you!"

"Well, that really scared me." Old Liu even laughed angrily: "Don't worry telling you, my body's still fine, your mom is a few years younger than me and hasn't hit menopause. If the big one's ruined, practicing a small one is really no difficulty. Who are you trying to scare? Listen, when I was young I also went wild."

"You really are determined to let her die without saving her, aren't you? You'll regret it!"

"What do I have to regret? My biggest regret is that I used to always indulge your mother, spoiling you rotten. With your selfish, self‑serving nature, I really don't expect you to support me in my old age."

"Who's being selfish? It's you who doesn't care about my life or death, not me not caring about yours! What father acts like you? I, born as your daughter, have also suffered eight lifetimes of bloody misfortune!"

"Then hurry up and die, be reborn, I won't stand in your way of being a rich young lady."

"You must have taken gunpowder today, I have no interest in arguing with you! This is my mother's phone, give it back to her so I can talk to her."

"I've been harmed by you to the point of sleepless all night, and you still want to harm your mother? It seems your conscience really has been eaten by dogs. We have no daughter like you, goodbye!"

Old Liu said that and then hung up, directly powering off.

Turning back, he saw his wife beside him weeping uncontrollably, and Old Liu let out another weary sigh: "I told you not to cry, aren't you annoying? With a heartless, stubborn wretch like her, you have to drive her to a dead end! If you don't come down hard on her, she'll never know where she went wrong, get it?!"

"!!!"

Mother Liu closed her eyes and remained still, letting tears stream down her cheeks.

If God heard Lao Liu's roar, God would probably sigh: "What the hell do you understand? You, this smoking-addicted toxic masculinity, have hurt someone's heart to this extent—why not just take off your pants and put practicing the trumpet on the agenda right here? The best cure for pain is nothing but joy!"