To make up for the debt owed to Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Tears welled up in Wu Axiu's eyes. "My son! Where do we get the money to eat meat now? I had to beg for these few steamed buns, and I had to say a lot of nice things to them!"

"You eat if you want, I'm not eating!" Lin Jiagui lay back down on the tattered bed.

Wu Axiu looked at the few steamed buns, then at the dilapidated house, the broken bed, and her precious son's messy hair and dry skin. She thought of the good life Lin Qingping and her second sister lived, eating meat as much as they wanted and living in a fragrant house. But she and Jia Gui were hiding in such a place, without even money to buy steamed buns!

Why!

Resentment rose in Wu Axiu's eyes: Why do those two girls live such a comfortable life! Why do she and her son have to suffer like this? They are just girls! If her son can't even live well, why should the girls be able to?

No way! Her two older sisters have to do what's right for their son! She's going to find Lin Qingping and Lin Zhaodi right now! She'll make them pay back the money! Whether they already have it or not!

She thought again, if there was no other way, the two sisters should make a scene with their husbands and make them think of a solution!

As for whether the man could come up with a solution, Wu Axiu didn't consider it; that wasn't her concern. Anyway, her daughters were meant to take care of their younger brothers. Otherwise, what was the point of raising these two daughters? Were they just eating all that food for nothing?

She had even planned to start with her second sister, because her second sister was gentler than Lin Qingping, and most importantly, the man her second sister had found was the son of a high-ranking official in the capital! He was rich! And he had a good temper, unlike that ruthless Gu Juncheng…

Thinking of Gu Juncheng still made Wu Axiu's heart tremble a little, but when she thought of Yun Qi, her heart burned with excitement: If her second sister's man could come up with five thousand, he could come up with fifty thousand! He's a cadre in the capital!

"You wait! I'm going to find your sister!" Wu Axiu refused to believe she couldn't handle those two brats!

Lin Jiagui lay on the tattered bed and snorted, "You'll never get any money out of my sister!"

One sentence ignited Wu Axiu's fighting spirit: "What? I'm their mother! Those things that crawled out of my intestines, do they still want to turn the world upside down?"

Wu Axiu, recalling the humiliation she suffered at Lin Qingping's hands, gritted her teeth in anger, "I'll go and teach them a lesson right now!"

Wu Axiu rushed to the door, pulled hard on the wooden door of the dilapidated house, and was about to unleash her fury on her daughters, determined to crush them under her feet!

However, this momentum dissipated the moment the door was opened...

It was pitch black outside. She stared wide-eyed at the door, her face contorted with disbelief, and backed away, stammering, "You...you...you..."

After babbling on and on, you still couldn't come up with a coherent answer.

Lin Jiagui, lying on the bed, was extremely impatient. "Weren't you going to find my sister? What? You're scared now?"

Lin Jiagui turned his head to look at the door, and for a moment, he froze, his mouth wide open.

Outside the door, the night was as black as ink. Gu Juncheng stood there in the doorway, tall and imposing, his face as cold as iron. The oppressive aura between his brows and eyes was like that of a vengeful Yama, and his dark eyes shone brightly in the darkness, his gaze as sharp as a cold blade.

Gu Juncheng took a step forward, entered the dilapidated house, and closed the door.

There wasn't even a light on inside, so it was pitch black.

As Wu Axiu retreated, her legs went weak. With Gu Juncheng closing in step by step, she retreated step by step until she reached the edge of the broken bed. With nowhere left to go, her legs gave way and she slid to the ground.

"You...you dare to hit someone?" Wu Axiu asked in a trembling voice, her body shaking. "How...how did you find this place? Don't be lawless!"

Upon hearing the words "lawless," Gu Juncheng sneered.

Who exactly is acting with impunity?!

Gu Juncheng took a step forward, and Wu Aixiu thought he was going to hit her, so she lay down on the ground and screamed. The sound was so loud it hurt people's eardrums.

However, another scream followed immediately.

Just as Wu Axiu was wondering why no fists were hitting her, a dark shadow flew over her head, and that's when the scream started.

"You surnamed Gu! Let go of my son!" Wu Axiu screamed.

With a loud crash, Gu Juncheng slammed Lin Jiagui against the wall of the dilapidated house, smashing the rickety window frame. Lin Jiagui then landed heavily on the ground, screaming and writhing like a maggot, unable to get up.

“You surnamed Gu, you hit my son, I… I’ll bite you to death!” Wu Axiu rushed forward.

Gu Juncheng easily dodged and picked up Lin Jiagui from the ground again. Inside the dilapidated house, only the sounds of punches and kicks and screams of agony remained. The screams came from Lin Jiagui, and the cries of Wu Axiu came from Wu Axiu.

Lin Jiagui was beaten so badly that he was completely powerless to fight back. At first, he could still scream, but later he couldn't even scream anymore.

Wu Axiu was terrified and kept screaming, "You killed him! You killed him! You will pay for my son's life!" Gu Juncheng looked at her and said, "He won't die."

Wu Axiu's face was covered in tears and snot. She just held Lin Jiagui, who was beaten so badly he couldn't speak, and cried. She couldn't bear to lay a finger on her precious son. She would fight to the death if her old man cursed her. But now he was beaten like this.

However, Gu Juncheng's next words abruptly stopped her crying.

Gu Juncheng said in a cold voice, "If I really wanted to kill someone, I wouldn't leave any visible wounds on their body."

Wu Axiu felt a chill run through her body, and her crying instantly froze.

After a long pause, he finally warned Gu Juncheng, trembling, "You dare! Killing someone is against the law!"

"So, I won't kill him." Gu Juncheng sneered, then suddenly roared, "But gambling? Debt? In this state, if you don't beat him and I don't beat him, he'll be beaten to death outside sooner or later!"

Having just witnessed Gu Juncheng's fists and feet, Wu Axiu was now trembling from his roar. She could only hug Lin Jiagui and cry, "Gu, you're my Lin family's son-in-law, how can you treat your brother-in-law like this? I'll tell everyone in the village when I get back, and you'll be the one being talked about behind your back!"

"I don't care." Gu Juncheng sneered. "I only care whether Lin Qingping has been bullied by you, whether Lin Qingping is unhappy because of you. This beating today is to tell you that if you behave yourself and don't cause trouble, we can live in peace. Otherwise, don't blame me for turning my back on you!"

After Gu Juncheng finished speaking, he opened the door and was about to leave when he turned back at the door and added, "From now on, you are not allowed to appear in front of Lin Qingping. If you need anything, come to me!"

Before Wu Axiu could say anything more, Gu Juncheng interrupted her, "Of course, if it's something like today, coming to me is just asking for a beating! So, you'd better behave yourselves! And remember, if I'm looking for someone, I'll find them!"

Wu Aixiu was already trembling at Gu Juncheng's warning, and when Gu Juncheng opened the door, Wu Aixiu screamed again.

Four burly men stood facing Gu Juncheng outside the door.

"So you were hiding here after all!" said the burly man at the head of the group, stepping inside. "Give me my money back!"

He noticed there was another unfamiliar man there, and gestured for the three men outside to block him off. His gaze swept across the dark room. "Who's there?"