Chapter 1138: Chapter 1138: Showdown
The two fetched ingredients from the kitchen and sat under the shade of a tree in the courtyard to prepare them.
Lu Yichen asked, “What about that Qiao family kid?”
Luo Qiao was stunned for a mont before she realized who he was talking about, “I haven’t seen him. I don’t know if he has given up.”
Lu Yichen frowned slightly, “I guess sothing must have happened at ho; otherwise, his grandmother would never miss any chance to cure her grandson’s legs.”
Lu Yichen had guessed correctly.
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In Capital City, the atmosphere at the Qiao family ho wasn’t great. Old Lady Qiao glanced at the roomful of so-called filial sons and grandchildren, “Let’s divide the family property while I’m still alive. Since you all look down on Qiao Hua, I’ll just live with him.”
Qiao Hua’s father, Qiao Zhongli, looked upset, “Mom, I’m your only son…”
Old Lady Qiao didn’t let him finish, interrupting, “No need to say it; everyone here knows that if our second branch didn’t only have you for a son, I would have kicked you out on your backside the mont you did that dishonorable deed.
I’ve notified the elder and younger branches to co here today. This household must be divided, and I will ensure that Hua gets what he’s entitled to. I, the old lady, see it now; you’re a fool, indulging that poisonous woman not once, but twice in harming my Hua.
The children she bore are no better – incompetent and idle, dreaming of grandeur without rit, deceitful to the core, just like their treacherous mother – it’s a disgusting sight to behold.”
These words left no face for her son, daughter-in-law, and their offspring; Old Lady Qiao was cutting off all retreats for the sake of her eldest grandson.
As it turned out, Qiao Hua’s plans to go abroad for treatnt had beco known to his half-siblings. Despite the slim chances of recovery, they feared that if Qiao Hua’s legs were healed, as the eldest grandson of the Qiao’s second branch, the already limited family wealth would have nothing to do with them.
So, the two siblings tampered with the small sloped path that Qiao Hua used every day. It just so happened that Old Lady Qiao was passing by at the ti, and seeing Qiao Hua’s wheelchair tip over, she rushed forward without a thought. Qiao Hua scraped his face in the incident, while Old Lady Qiao ended up with broken bones in her arms and legs.
Old Lady Qiao imdiately had the scene investigated and discovered the sabotage on the slope, which fuelled her anger. She had endured the sha of that woman years ago for the sake of reputation, and now it turned out that the woman’s children were no good either.
Old Lady Qiao ordered all the evidence to be preserved, saying she needed to think about what to do. This wait lasted over four months, during which she and Qiao Hua decided to go abroad together.
She had co to terms with the fact that death is the sa everywhere, and decided as if she had never had that son.
mbers of the elder and younger branches arrived swiftly, as did others from the Qiao clan. Old Lady Qiao was a woman who valued her reputation, but now she resolutely ripped off this veil of sha herself.
She laid bare how Qiao Hua’s leg was hard and revealed both the recent incident and the suffering he had endured over the years, leaving Qiao Zhongli and Jin Mingjiao wishing they could die on the spot.
The disdainful glances from the Qiao family mbers made the family of five wish they could vanish into a crack in the ground.
Qiao Hua looked at his father, stepmother, and the three children they had, filled with disdain.
He suddenly exclaid, “Even if I die, don’t you dream of getting your hands on what’s mine. I will never allow the assets from an external family to support the people who hard my mother and the beasts she bore.”
Every person present was astute, and they all knew Qiao Hua’s character. Now, everyone viewed Qiao Zhongli and his family as they would sothing filthy, with nothing but contempt in their eyes.
At this point, Jin Mingjiao, who was standing behind Qiao Zhongli, could no longer bear it, “Mother, I’ve married into the Qiao family for so many years. Even if you don’t acknowledge , aren’t Qiao Nan, Qiao Duo, and Qiao Zheng your granddaughter and grandsons?
Why can’t you show them so kindness? Just because Qiao Hua exists, does that an they are not descendants of the second branch? I know you despise for what happened years ago with Zhongli, but have you ever asked yourself if that was what Zhongli wanted?
For your own preferences, you’ve forced everything onto Zhongli’s shoulders. Now that the three children are grown, do you really need to pin that ugly reputation on ?
Don’t you think about how they’re going to live in the future, how you will face my father-in-law when you’re buried in the ground?”
Old Lady Qiao listened and turned to stare at her son Qiao Zhongli, almost boring holes in him, “Is that what you told her, forgetting how you begged to propose marriage to the Mu family? Qiao Zhongli, I raged for a lifeti, never to think I’d be ruined by my own son.”
Sweat covered Qiao Zhongli’s forehead, as many people knew about the ti when he begged his mother to seek a marriage proposal with the Mu family. Now, with Jin Mingjiao speaking this way, it was as if she were slapping his face audibly.
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