Chapter 543 - 183: The ’80s Drama Queen is Forced to Become a Top Student (18)
Chapter 543: Chapter 183: The ’80s Drama Queen is Forced to Become a Top Student (18)
"You must have some kind of misunderstanding about our laws, don’t you?" Sheng Leyun said, crossing her arms and looking Ren Xingchen up and down with a tut.
"So, the money the organization gave my dad is, of course, mine."
"However, I’d rather not cause trouble for the organization. I’m guessing that to get this money, you’re planning to make a scene and let the entire community know about it."
"That way, you can force me to hand over the money, get some petty revenge, and pocket the cash to escape your current predicament, right?"
Thinking she had the upper hand, Ren Xingchen nodded and scoffed, "Smart girl. Since you understand the stakes, then hurry up and give me the money."
"I’m a grown woman. I can just pick up and leave. I can go anywhere, and rumors won’t affect me. But you’re different."
"You’re just a kid. You have to go to school. What if your teachers and the other students found out how shameless you are? That you ruined yourself with a man you weren’t even married to."
"You’d be bullied at every turn, and other parents would protest you even being at the school."
"Oh, and it’s not just you anymore. There’s that old woman, too. I wonder if she’ll be able to handle everyone gossiping and cursing her name behind her back!"
"But, if you just hand over the thirteen hundred yuan, we can let this whole thing go."
Ren Xingchen finished her tirade with satisfaction, but Sheng Leyun didn’t show the slightest hint of fear. Instead, she just turned away impatiently and started walking again.
’I must have too much time on my hands, standing here arguing with a lunatic.’
"Sheng Leyun, what was that? Who are you calling a lunatic?!" Believing she had the moral high ground and had found Sheng Leyun’s weakness, Ren Xingchen started shouting with renewed confidence.
"Let me tell you, not only are you going to give back that thirteen hundred, but you’re also going to return the money you stole from the family before!"
Ren Xingchen leaned down toward Sheng Leyun, a smug look on her face. She enunciated each word, "I’ll accuse you of stealing money from the family. That’s why you cut off all contact with us so early—to avoid suspicion."
Sheng Leyun pressed her lips together, finding this amusing. "Go right ahead. I already mentioned this to the officers at the station back then. It’s all on the record. Xiao Xuezhen admitted to it himself!"
"In fact, why don’t I give you something more to be jealous about? Besides the twenty-seven hundred yuan Xiao Xuezhen gave me in one lump sum, there was also the compensation he paid me later."
"A small courtyard house in his name. You know, the area behind the university? Great location, and the layout is very well-designed..."
"If my grandmother didn’t feel like she was taking advantage of me, we would’ve moved in already!"
Ren Xingchen’s eyes flew open. She stared in disbelief.
"What courtyard house? That pathetic loser Xiao Xuezhen owns a courtyard house? Why didn’t he tell me?"
"Besides, he has two kids at home! There’s no way he’d give the house to you over them!"
Sheng Leyun idly toyed with the pom-pom on her hat and chuckled.
"Because he was supposed to face a firing squad. But he pulled some strings and had several groups of people come and hound me every day, begging me to back down."
"As they kept sweetening the deal, I realized that letting him die would have been a relief for him. A scoundrel like Xiao Xuezhen deserves to slowly savor the long, long days of being trapped."
"Don’t you agree?"
Ren Xingchen was seething. After all her scheming, not only had she gotten nothing, but she’d also been saddled with two burdensome children.
"Fine! If you don’t give me the money, I’ll have no choice! I’ll take a rope and hang myself right in..."
Seeing Ren Xingchen resort to threatening suicide, Sheng Leyun lost all patience. "Then you’d better do it soon. It’ll give us a perfect excuse to move."
"It would save me the trouble of finding another reason to convince my grandmother to move."
It was just an empty threat. Anyone else might be driven to suicide by despair, but not Ren Xingchen. Never her.
The woman was a parasite, a dodder vine. Her own well-being depended entirely on how powerful the man she latched onto was.
Her current act of being a long-suffering victim, of not being close to any man as people might think, was all just part of some new scheme.
In this day and age, a woman’s reputation was everything. Her marriage to Xiao Xuezhen, aside from giving her a place to stay and local residency, had severely damaged her reputation.
How many men would give a woman with such a bad name a second glance?
So, she was planning to use time to wash away her tainted past while she slowly scouted for her next target.
The original owner of this body could never have seen through this woman. But Sheng Leyun was worldly and experienced. While her grasp of human nature might not have been perfect, she could read a person’s hidden intentions with a single glance.