Chapter 714: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 714: The Less You Want to Give, the More I Want

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Wang Erhai, under the police's arrangement, came before Zhang Yueran to negotiate a settlement.

"Miss Zhang, I'm truly sorry. My wife has a mental illness, so please don't take it to heart with her. Name your price for compensation, and let's make a big thing small and a small thing nothing."

Wang Erhai's attitude was very sincere.

He had no choice.

After all, Liu Mei Qi was still his nominal wife.

As her husband, he had an obligation to clean up Liu Mei Qi's mess.

"If she has a mental illness, she should be sent to a mental hospital. Why let her out? Besides, just because you say she has a mental illness doesn't mean she does. Show me her diagnosis!"

Zhang Yueran was huffing and puffing with anger.

Wang Erhai gave a wry, awkward laugh:

"This is hereditary from her mother. She hasn't even been diagnosed yet; her emotions are just sometimes unstable. Actually, I'm also a victim. Tonight she tortured me terribly, and you saw it with your own eyes in the underground garage. Let's understand each other, okay? I'm begging you."

Wang Erhai's attitude was very sincere. He put his palms together and bowed to Zhang Yueran.

Zhang Yueran recalled what happened in the underground garage, knowing Wang Erhai was telling the truth. She couldn't help but feel some sympathy for him. This man had married such a crazy woman—how much suffering he must endure.

"I usually have a lot of work pressure, and my hair loss is already quite severe. Tonight your wife directly yanked out a big patch. How am I supposed to face people in the future?"

Zhang Yueran pointed to the scalp where her hair had been yanked out and said this to Wang Erhai.

"I'm truly sorry. Tell me how much money you want, and I'll pay you."

Wang Erhai apologized again.

Zhang Yueran said:

"I want you to pay me ten thousand, and I want your wife to personally apologize and admit her mistake to me!"

Wang Erhai gave a wry laugh:

"Paying ten thousand is no problem, but asking her to apologize to you—to be honest, I might not be able to persuade her. You know, she simply doesn't listen to reason."

Zhang Yueran had originally thought Wang Erhai would haggle over the money, which was why she had opened her mouth to ask for ten thousand yuan all at once.

Actually, asking for three or five thousand in compensation would have already satisfied her.

Unexpectedly, Wang Erhai didn't haggle at all, but instead said:

"How about I pay you twenty thousand instead? Then you don't need my wife to apologize and admit her mistake to you. I'll apologize and admit my mistake on her behalf. We each take a step back, everyone is happy. How about it?"

Wang Erhai knew Liu Mei Qi too well.

This woman was not only unreasonable but also very strong-willed.

Asking her to apologize to Zhang Yueran was absolutely impossible no matter what.

So rather than wasting time persuading her to apologize, it was better to settle it in one step by simply spending money to make it go away, avoiding wasted effort, time, and energy.

"I think your wife has become like this because you spoiled her. It's just a matter of her apologizing. She's not being asked for a piece of flesh. Why can't it be done?"

Zhang Yueran truly couldn't understand Wang Erhai's behavior. Twenty thousand yuan was not a small amount.

She also said:

"I don't want twenty thousand. Twenty thousand is too much. Even if I took it, I wouldn't feel at ease. I want your old wife to apologize to me. We live in the same residential complex—we see each other when we lower our heads and raise them. If she doesn't apologize to me, others will think she's in the right. In the future, when they see me, they'll probably bully me!"

Wang Erhai gave a wry laugh:

"Miss Zhang, aren't you making things difficult for me?"

Zhang Yueran, however, said:

"I don't care. You go discuss it with your wife yourself. Anyway, she must apologize to me!"

Faced with Zhang Yueran's stubborn attitude, Wang Erhai had no choice but to turn to persuading Liu Mei Qi.

Everything turned out just as Wang Erhai had thought. Liu Mei Qi didn't realize her mistake at all, let alone apologize to Zhang Yueran.

"She was the one who cursed me first. Why should I apologize? Besides, if it weren't for her meddling like a dog catching a mouse and reporting us to the police without our consent, we wouldn't have ended up like this!"

In Liu Mei Qi's view, everything was someone else's fault. She could blame heaven and earth, but she could never blame herself.

Seeing her reaction, Wang Erhai's head swelled with frustration.

For a moment, he really wanted to just give up.

Let Liu Mei Qi be detained!

Punish her a bit. Maybe then she'd settle down a little in the future.

But then he thought: if Liu Mei Qi was detained, her parents would definitely find out about this. Then how would he explain things to Liu Mei Qi's parents?

"If you're willing to go apologize and admit your mistake, we'll reconcile, as if nothing ever happened. If you're not willing to go apologize and admit your mistake, then we'll divorce. Even if you're unwilling to divorce, I won't live with you anymore in the future!"

Wang Erhai could only use marriage as a chip to negotiate with Liu Mei Qi.

It seemed like he was forcing Liu Mei Qi to toe the line, but actually he himself was making a big concession.

Because he had originally already made up his mind to divorce Liu Mei Qi.

But to deal with this current mess, he could only postpone the divorce.

"Really? This is what you said. You can't go back on your word!"

A hint of joy appeared on Liu Mei Qi's face.

The reason she acted this way was actually to make Wang Erhai return to her side.

Now her goal had been achieved.

Liu Mei Qi's kind of tactic was very common among certain women.

Some women, in order to force their partners to buy them expensive gifts, can even commit the absurd act of stripping naked in public.

They think they are punishing the groom's home, but they are only degrading themselves.

Only those who still care about them can be manipulated by them.

Once the groom's home is truly made cold-hearted by their behavior, these actions will no longer have any deterrent power.

"If you don't believe me, you can have the police witness it for me."

Wang Erhai's face was heavy, and he couldn't help but sigh.

He felt he had sunk another step into the abyss, making it even harder to climb out.

His heart had actually already cooled by more than half.

A sense of powerlessness spread throughout his whole body.

Finally, under the witness of the police, Liu Mei Qi went to apologize and admit her mistake to Zhang Yueran.

Although her apology was not from the heart, under Wang Erhai's mediation and the effect of ten thousand yuan in compensation, Zhang Yueran finally reached a private settlement agreement with Liu Mei Qi.

And in front of the police, Wang Erhai wrote a guarantee letter for Liu Mei Qi, promising that the two would reconcile and no longer hold onto their previous conflicts.

This ending, in the eyes of the police, counted as satisfactory, counted as everyone being happy.

After all, it not only resolved the conflict between Liu Mei Qi and Zhang Yueran, but also salvaged the marriage between Liu Mei Qi and Wang Erhai.

For Liu Mei Qi and Zhang Yueran, it also counted as a relatively satisfactory result.

Liu Mei Qi, through her behavior, won back Wang Erhai.

Zhang Yueran lost a clump of hair, got ten thousand yuan, and made a big profit.

The only one who suffered a loss was Wang Erhai.

He not only lost ten thousand yuan for nothing, but also had to continue to barely survive in a deformed marriage.

Moreover, he had a premonition that after this matter, Liu Mei Qi would not only fail to reflect on herself and change herself, but might even go overboard and do even more excessive things.

Because this matter, for Liu Mei Qi, was in itself a disguised victory in the struggle between husband and wife.

Sure enough, shortly after the two returned from the Public Security Bureau to their residential complex house, Liu Mei Qi made a request of Wang Erhai, demanding that Wang Erhai satisfy her fiercely.

"Granny, it's already past two in the morning, let me rest for a while, I still have to go to work tomorrow."

Wang Erhai was exhausted, not only physically tired, but his heart was even more tired.

He really couldn't muster any desire for that kind of thing now.

Liu Mei Qi, however, said:

"No, you can't rest, the less you want to give, the more I want. Besides, we are preparing for pregnancy, isn't it normal for me to want a bit more?"

Liu Mei Qi squeezing Wang Erhai like this was actually not only because she was preparing for pregnancy, but also because she wanted to firmly control Wang Erhai.

She was afraid Wang Erhai would keep his stock and go fool around with other women outside.

She lacked a sense of security too much, so she had to control Wang Erhai.

Additionally, she also knew that as long as she and Wang Erhai still had normal marital life, no matter how they fought, there would still be room for reconciliation.

If even normal marital life was gone, then the feelings between her and Wang Erhai would truly be over.