[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-delicate-darling-with-her-rough-man":3,"chapter-the-delicate-darling-with-her-rough-man-the-delicate-darling-with-her-rough-man-chapter-247":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Delicate Darling with Her Rough Man",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1303269,1729,"Chapter 247 - 246: Truly Ugly","the-delicate-darling-with-her-rough-man-chapter-247",247,"\u003Cp>The crowd was speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Say what you will, but the Lin couple were true cowards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they deserved it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one spoke up to stop it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sweet Girl and Xiao Yang pinned down Lin Daya and Lin Tie Dan and gave them a good thrashing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sweet Girl successfully stripped the clothes off both of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing their clothes gone, Lin Daya and Lin Tie Dan wailed even more miserably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mom, save me! Save us!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Shulan looked at her two children, her heart aching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her daughter’s face was a mess from the beating. Her son was a little better off; his injuries weren’t visible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Shulan hadn’t expected that wretched girl, Sweet Girl, to be so vicious. Seeing Sweet Girl approach, she was about to charge forward and hit her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Jiaojiao didn’t draw her knife. She just kicked Chen Shulan in the knee. Chen Shulan’s body buckled, and she fell to the ground, scraping the skin right off her palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was furious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she couldn’t fight back and could only let herself be bullied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A wave of sorrow washed over her, and she collapsed on the ground, wailing, \"WAAAH...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’We’re just a family of honest people being bullied by these villains! There’s no justice in this world! No justice at all!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The people around them were collectively dumbfounded!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that Sweet Girl’s matter was more or less settled, Li Aihong, who had been standing to the side, couldn’t hold back any longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brigade Leader, I still haven’t gotten my money back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Beiguo felt a headache coming on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Lin Jiandong really knew how to stir up trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he couldn’t just ignore it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned to Lin Jiandong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Give her the money back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Lin Jiandong was about to speak, Chen Beiguo added another sentence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You don’t have to, but then you can explain yourself at the police station!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His heart aching at the loss, Lin Jiandong lowered his simple, honest-looking head and took the one hundred yuan from an inner pocket of his cotton-padded jacket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His hands were trembling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t want to hand it over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Li Aihong saw her money, she immediately reached for it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jiandong wouldn’t let go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Aihong was speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her husband couldn’t hold back any longer. He pried Lin Jiandong’s hand open and took the money back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Aihong wanted to cry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I can’t have children, so I just wanted to buy one. How did I end up in this mess?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I’m never buying a child again.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After getting their money, Li Aihong and her husband didn’t linger for a second longer. They left immediately, heading out into the heavy snow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jiandong felt wronged and also wanted to cry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’If I’d known I wouldn’t get anything out of it, I never would have adopted Sweet Girl and Xiao Yang.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Now the money’s gone, and the house is gone too.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I even got a beating, and on top of that, I still have to compensate Sweet Girl.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more he thought about it, the more wronged he felt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Why do these people always bully an honest man like me?!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Beiguo grew irritated watching this grown man with his sullen face and hunched shoulders. He wanted to give him a kick, but seeing the state he was in, there really wasn’t a clean spot to land a foot, so he held back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stop playing dead. We’re going to your house right now to return the things that belong to Sweet Girl’s family.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Beiguo called two men over, and they dragged Lin Jiandong out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The villagers had been watching the spectacle for a long time and were now covered in snow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn’t care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was anything more important than gossip?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even better gossip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The affair with Lin Jiandong was so outrageous it completely redefined their understanding of shamelessness. How could they miss it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So even in the heavy snow, no one went home. They all followed Lin Jiandong back to the Lin residence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jiandong was at a loss for words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He really didn’t want these people to watch him become a laughingstock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he couldn’t stop them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Jiaojiao and the others followed at the back of the procession.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How should one put it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Being followed by a crowd wherever they went made for quite a spectacular scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「The Lin Residence.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Meifeng kept peering outside, her heart pounding in her chest with anxiety.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I wonder how things turned out!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as she was pondering this, she saw a few people walking in from outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Meifeng pressed her face against the glass window and was finally able to see clearly that it was the brigade leader and his group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The unsuspecting villagers were startled when an old face suddenly appeared on the glass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old woman was truly ugly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Beiguo gave Lin Jiandong a shove. Lin Jiandong opened the wicker gate to the yard and walked in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along the way, he had deliberately slowed his pace, but every time he did, he’d get a kick. Lin Jiandong knew he had no choice but to move the items, so he didn’t dare dawdle any longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked to the front door, pushed it, but it didn’t open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mom, open the door.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The house was silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jiandong knocked again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was still no sound from inside the room, as if no one was there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crowd was speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>",903,"2026-06-05T18:11:09.759Z",1,"novelbin.me","66b406e6de8513f065c87fe9bb43c91d84b679b40b81048bfc23f890b0779624","the-delicate-darling-with-her-rough-man-chapter-248","the-delicate-darling-with-her-rough-man-chapter-246",407,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-delicate-darling-with-her-rough-man-cover.jpg"]