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The following day.
According to the old customs, the bride returns to her parental home on the third day after the wedding.
The second lady, Du Juan, personally selected valuable liquor, tea leaves, and candies. Thinking that the Su Family had done a good deed, she also took a piece of perfectly preserved Hundred-Year-Old Ginseng.
"Qiao Xi, I've wronged you. Xingzhou's health can't endure, so I can only let you return alone," she said guiltily, taking Qiao Xi's hand.
Qiao Xi, dressed in a light green gown, nodded slightly.
Her gaze drifted toward the second floor of the small villa; they had parted on bad terms the day before. Naturally, she hadn't obtained Huo Xingzhou's Project Transfer Document. It seemed she would have to find a way to take her grandmother back herself.
"Then I'll be going."
"Take care on the road." Du Juan stepped back and watched her get into the car and leave.
Sitting in the car, Qiao Xi's hands hung by her side, her sleeves pinned into pleats by silver needles, looking very unassuming. This return trip would surely be a battle of wits and bravery.
At worst, she would just completely break off relations!
When the car arrived at the Su Family, not even a welcoming servant was in sight.
As Qiao Xi stepped into the living room, the laughter and chattering inside ceased.
"Xixi," Zhao Yuzhen hurried to her side and greeted her warmly, "you're finally back. Didn't the second young master come with you?"
Su Weiwei sat on the sofa, chin lifted, staring at her with scorn. "Who would care for a country bumpkin? Huo Xingzhou is afraid of losing face; he wouldn't come home with her."
"Weiwei,"
Seated on the other side, Su Heng put down his newspaper and said with an authoritative tone, "Don't talk to your sister like that."
Su Weiwei shrugged indifferently.
"Qiao Xi, sit down and have some tea," Su Heng instructed, "Sisters should help and support each other, united as one. You are soon to be sisters-in-law; you must be as close as ever. Weiwei has been spoiled by me; be more patient with her."
"Yes, you're practically like real sisters." Zhao Yuzhen, trying to smooth things over, probed, "Xixi, have you heard any news from Mr. Cheng Han of the Huo Family's second branch? If you find him, don't forget to tell me."
She had been childless for many years, unable to bear a son for Su Heng. After seeing countless doctors who said there was no cure, she heard that Mr. Cheng had a Health Preserving Prescription with extraordinary effects.
Qiao Xi, looking at their disgusting performance, said sarcastically, "What, are you ill too?"
"You're too rude!" Zhao Yuzhen's face fell, and she swung her hand in a slap.
A red palm print blossomed on Qiao Xi's fair cheek. She stared intently at Zhao Yuzhen, feeling a surge of injustice and deep resentment.
This was her birth mother.
"Stepmother, I've said before that this wretched creature doesn't respond to soft approaches, only hard. Yet, you and my father suggested to try kindness before force," Su Weiwei scoffed, "Qiao Xi, hand over the Project Transfer Document first."
"Where's my grandmother!" Qiao Xi demanded loudly. "I will give it to you once I see her."
"You didn't get it, did you?" Su Weiwei sneered, "Well, you're in for a hard time today. What are you hesitating for, stepmother? Restrain her and search her!"
"Back off!"
Qiao Xi's fingers deftly extracted a needle and pierced the acupoints on Su Weiwei's arm.
"Aaah!" Su Weiwei cried out in agony, controlled by Qiao Xi and unable to move.
"Qiao Xi, let go of your sister!" Zhao Yuzhen called out in panic, "Don't hurt Weiwei!"
Her heart only had room for Su Weiwei.
Qiao Xi's pretty face turned frosty as she said, "I want to see my grandmother!"
"Nannan!" Footsteps tumbled from the stairway.
"How did the old hag get out!"
A frail, silver-haired old woman ran down the stairs, panting, as Zhao Yuzhen grabbed her arm, "Old thing, where do you think you're going!"
"Grandmother!"
Qiao Xi, seeing the ashen color of her face and the tears in her eyes, felt an immense sadness. She must have been ill at ease in the Su Family, growing more haggard by the day.
"There, there, Grandma is alright, no need to cry." Old Lady Qiao's tearful and choked voice said, "Yuzhen, she's your biological daughter."
She pleaded, "Yuzhen, don't force her. This child has had a hard life from the start."
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How had her daughter-in-law come to be in such a state.
"If she hands over the item, I'll let go. Otherwise..." Zhao Yuzhen used a lot of force, tightly pinching the old lady's arm.
Seeing this, Qiao Xi inserted another needle into Su Weiwei's Shoulder Well acupoint, and Su Weiwei felt like half of her body had gone numb.
"Mom, Mom, save me!" Su Weiwei was extremely scared.
Qiao Xi said word by word, "Let us go."
The scene was at a stalemate.
The taut thread of tension was about to snap, and the atmosphere had stagnated.
It was then that Su Heng finally stood up, his face full of disdain, "Young man, you're still too green to compete in ruthlessness." Whoever loses their cool first loses.
He grabbed the old lady's head and smashed it against the wall.
There was a thud.
The old lady's forehead turned blue and purple, and she could hardly make a sound.
Qiao Xi's eyes were about to split with rage, her heart felt like it was being torn apart, "Don't!"
"Hand over the item, and we'll release the people. Don't try to be clever, I, Su Heng, have been dominating the business field for many years, I'm not a vegetarian." His intention was clear; Weiwei had to marry Huo Beiting.
At this moment.
Noises came from the courtyard, and the security guards rushed in anxiously.
"Mr. Su, the second son of the Huo Family has arrived!"
Huo Xingzhou had arrived?
Su Heng let go, arranged his clothes, and said arrogantly, "Even if he's here, nothing will change." Just a disabled man about to be discarded by his family, he couldn't make a difference.
"He brought over a hundred men!" The security guard was panic-stricken, "Each one fierce and formidable."
As soon as these words fell.
Burly men in suits and dark glasses flooded in, filling the entire living room with an intimidating presence.
The man in the middle was sitting in a wheelchair, his pale, cold face was too sharp, carrying an air of natural arrogance and wantonness.
Some people, even with disabled legs, are like the moon in the sky or flowers upon the high cliffs, unattainable and inviolable.
Su Weiwei was dazzled, this man was supposed to belong to her.
"Second son, what is this! Bringing people to break into a private home, I can call the police." Su Heng panicked when he saw so many people.
Huo Xingzhou's indifferent eyes swept over everyone, landing on the pitiful Qiao Xi.
Where was the ferocity when he was being stripped of his pants?
"I came to take my wife home, any problem?" He said, his thin lips barely moving.
The formidable bodyguards pushed aside Su Weiwei and Zhao Yuzhen, and brought Qiao Xi and the old lady over. Seeing him, Qiao Xi couldn't help but let the tears fall.
"Grandma was hit by them, we need to go to the hospital." She had checked the pulse; the old lady's injury was not serious. Just an aggravation of chronic conditions, difficult to reverse.
"Let's go,"
he said calmly.
Qiao Xi helped the old lady into the car, the driver followed with Huo Xingzhou's wheelchair, and he glanced back at the Su Family with a warning, "I haven't been disowned by the Huo Family yet, it's not your place to run wild."
Su Heng was shaking with rage; he would see how the second branch of the Huo Family would flex its muscles in the future!
Everyone left the Su Family.
The bodyguards lined up to board the shuttle bus parked at the entrance of the compound.
Qiao Xi looked at him curiously, full of questions. The second branch of the Huo Family actually had the means to maintain so many well-disciplined bodyguards and to provide a shuttle bus for them.
Was this Huo Xingzhou's brazen trump card?
"Those people..." she started hesitantly.
The man bathed in moonlight and refreshing breeze turned his head and said with indifference, "Actors hired from a film studio."