Originally, Wu Xia was planning to take advantage of her rage to get rid of the bastard child in her sister-in-law's belly. First, to get into Bai Jing's good graces and gain more benefits. Second, she thought that without this little bastard, her sister-in-law might find a better husband or at least get some dowry, saving her family the waste of food.
But as luck would have it, her own man came home. Today, she could only let this wretched girl off the hook.
Wu Xia thought with great resentment and regret. Little did she know, Liu Shuzhen had orchestrated this grand drama precisely to conclude things with the 'rebellious kid' and the unfortunate Saozi. Now the stage was set, and the main audience had arrived. The villain facing retribution wanted to quit? Haha, but that depends on whether the director and leading lady, her, would agree or not!
With a chilling smile filled with mockery as she looked at Wu Xia, she said, "Why so enraged when exposed, planning to kill to keep your mouth shut? You won't even spare a pregnant woman, yet you claim you're not guilty? You keep saying it's for my good, but in truth, you've got your eye on the benefits I can bring you! Pretending to care like a mother as the elder sister, but in fact, you're a wolf in sheep's clothing, helping Bai Jing and Dai Weiguo scheme against me, their sister-in-law.
Just a mere two hundred yuan, and you've sold your conscience!
Our Liu family must have bad luck for centuries to have married such a venomous woman with a heart of a snake and scorpion!"
In the blink of an eye, Liu Shuzhen spewed out a torrent of words like firecrackers. Seeing her own man's face dark as a pot bottom, Wu Xia was both flustered and enraged, kicking towards Liu Shuzhen: "Shut up, shut your mouth, and stop messing with the feelings between my husband and me!"
Ah, very good, Wu Xia is still that ruthless, foolish one who can't take the trigger.
See? Just a few words, and she drops her sheep's skin to reveal the wolf within?
Haha, being witnessed by the elder brother bullying his sister, finding the money Wu Xia carefully stashed away, plus this lump of flesh and blood in her belly...
Let's see if Wu Xia can still wield power in the Liu family when it's time to write a report letter!
Liu Shuzhen's eyes flashed, pretending to be panicked, but actually sending her belly towards Wu Xia's foot.
Only waiting for the rebellious child, who had exhausted half her life's energies to escape, to be lost, she would testify against the vicious woman Wu Xia. Seeing the good wife turned into a scorpion, the eldest brother would surely be greatly shocked, but better a short pain than a long one. For the safety of the future and the entire Liu family, Liu Shuzhen felt this price was completely worth it.
In the instant she was weighing the pros and cons, suddenly Lianshan leapt over like a bullet. Not only did he kick the crazed Wu Xia aside, but he also narrowly caught her, who was about to intimately contact the ground, into his arms.
In just one day, having been rescued twice by this guy, Liu Shouren and Liu Shouyi were so grateful they almost wanted to bow and kneel to Lianshan for his two life-saving deeds bestowed upon their sister. If it hadn't been for him, the deep river and Wu Xia's powerful kick would have been too much for their sister, already not too robust and now pregnant...
The consequences were so serious, the two brothers dared not think about it.
Though this sister was weak, easily bullied, and sometimes couldn't tell friend from foe, she was still their full-blooded sister. On their deathbed, their parents had clasped their hands, urging them to take good care of their darling little sister. If anything were to happen, the two brothers wouldn't know how to meet their parents after their own passing. Luckily, there's Lianshan's intervention!
Compared to their brothers' hearts full of gratitude, Liu Shuzhen was not feeling as delighted. It had taken painstaking effort and brain cells to come up with this four-birds-with-one-stone plan. And now, with the simple-minded fellow's rescue, her plan to take down two and a half sculptures was completely ruined!!!
She had had a flash of inspiration, planning to take the chance to get rid of the baby, letting the eldest brother feel heartbroken and guilty enough to drive Wu Xia, that wretched woman, back to her maternal home. Heartlessly using even her own sister-in-law's marriage as a bargaining chip for money, harming her at every turn, and getting furious when exposed, wanting to kill to silence her. With a choice between jail and going back home, it's not hard to imagine Wu Xia would continue clinging at home.
And as this spread, she didn't believe Dai Weiguo and Bai Jing would maintain their good reputation.
Waiting for the future when Dai Weiguo finds out he would never be a dad, that the only bloodline was killed by his true love with a hired murderer or something, Liu Shuzhen didn't believe they could go on being all love and affection!
Now thanks to her foolish man's heartfelt hold, this good idea can only stay an idea.
With a silent sigh, Liu Shuzhen hurried to cry aloud, afraid of being a split second too late and letting Wu Xia, the dastard, get away. After all the effort, if she couldn't force the wretch away, she had to teach her a lifelong unforgettable lesson.
"Dai..., oh no, Shuzhen sister, don't cry. You've had a dangerous day, almost drowning and being kicked. No more crying, or you'll harm the child in your belly; that would be a big mess. Stop your tears, everything is in the hands of Brother Shouren and Brother Shouyi, they won't let you suffer anymore!" Having pulled her from the river, yet seeing her treated like this, Lianshan was beside himself with anger.
Though he, as an outsider, couldn't directly intervene in the Liu family matters, he could roundabout his way! Telling how he saved Shuzhen sister, and the elder sister-in-law of the Liu family reacted, he didn't believe that the self-proclaimed good brothers, Liu Shouren and Liu Shouyi, could sit still. After adding to the drama just now, this childless, heartless eldest sister-in-law wasn't going to get off easily!
Sure enough, as Lianshan finished speaking, the faces of the Liu brothers turned green, failing to take good care of their sister was their incompetence as brothers!
If they hadn't been careless, busy with their affairs, and attending banquets when they should have been, how could they let the sister take a chance to jump in the river?
Thanks to Brother Lianshan's rescue!
Unmoved by their thanks, Lianshan began to tell flat out like pouring beans from a bamboo tube how he had saved Liu Shuzhen from seeking death by jumping into the river, while he was fishing there, fearing any troubles of rumors due to their solitude, he had quickly placed her in his newly built pergola and hurried over to deliver the message. Result being, the eldest brother of the Liu family was absent, the second brother with family out at a banquet, leaving only the eldest sister-in-law at home speaking some indecent things, he recounted fully.
Liu family eldest Liu Shouren's face immediately blackened, the look he shot at Wu Xia was full of malevolence. Seeing her man looking ready to strangle her to defend his sister's honor, Wu Xia shivered, quickly defending herself: "No, it's not true! I'm, I'm the kind of person, Shouren, don't you know? Yes, Lianshan misunderstood, mistook my good intention, I truly was considering our sister..."