CHAPTER 533: 512: FALLING OUT (THIRD UPDATE)

Shen Chun remained silent.

"Now, even if Chun’er goes and apologizes, it’s too late," Mrs. Shen spoke in a grave tone. "Now the Li Family is determined to force us back to our hometown. I heard Shen Bin has been suspended from work. We made a mistake this time."

"So what do we do? Just leave it at that? Go back to the countryside? I’m not going back." Shen’s father exploded, pointing at the daughter on the bed and started cursing, "You bring bad luck, I always knew you were trouble. Look, now everyone has to suffer because of you, are you happy now? So many good, stable jobs you didn’t want, insisted on finding a company job, I knew you were trouble."

He turned to curse at his own wife, "And you, if you hadn’t been helping her, things wouldn’t have gotten this bad. I don’t care what you two do, but Shen Bin better find a job for Shen Chun, or if we really go back to the hometown, watch how I’ll deal with both of you."

Mrs. Shen’s body trembled, "Don’t get upset, there will be a way, we’ve raised Shen Bin for so many years, he wouldn’t be so heartless."

In the past, Shen’s father used to resort to violence, Mrs. Shen was also scared from being beaten, except Shen Bin, who wasn’t beaten after he grew up, even now, when Shen’s father is upset, he often uses his hands, and even Shen Chun has been kicked a few times.

"If you don’t want to get hit, then find a good solution for me," Shen’s father threatened.

Over there, Gao Xique had already burst in with a bruised face, pointing at Shen Chun and cursed, "Shen Chun, you shameless woman, I knew sooner or later you’d ruin us all, I’m telling you, if I get divorced, I won’t let you go, I’ll fight you to the death. Bah, shameless, always thinking about your brother, what more do you want? Pretending to be some chaste woman all day, acting like you’re so noble, look at yourself, you’re just a whore trying to act pure, why don’t you just drop dead? Drop dead?"

"Xique, what are you saying?" Mrs. Shen, just threatened by her own husband, didn’t like what her niece was saying, but didn’t dare to scold back as harshly as before, "You don’t have a job, don’t blame our family, you had a job before because you were my niece, relying on our family, why aren’t you content? Now you don’t have a job, it’s only natural, if you don’t want to acknowledge me as your aunt, just keep your mouth shut."

"Aunt, you only know I’m wrong for cursing, that I don’t appreciate kindness, but look at the mess Shen Chun has caused! My job was because of you, but you and uncle also think about this, now that I’m married, I still have to secretly give uncle money every month, why’s that? Because I know you are my family, you treat me well, I’m grateful." Gao Xique pointed at her own face, "Look, the Lin Family despises me now that I don’t have a job, this was Lin Tao who beat me, he told me to go find a job and not laze around, it hasn’t been a few days, and he dares to hit me now, isn’t this all Shen Chun’s fault?"

"My fault? Don’t you know your own conduct? Don’t blame me for speaking harshly, if you were really decent, you’d have no trouble finding someone good? Now you’re stuck with this loser, and you treat him like a treasure, isn’t it because of your own bad behavior that the Lin Family has something on you? Do you really think it’s because you’re unemployed?" Shen Chun, who had been silent all this while, spoke up, her words light but extraordinarily cutting.

But what she said was true.

Gao Xique sneered back but wasn’t as furious as when she arrived, "So what if he’s a loser? A loser is still a man, Shen Chun, if you have the ability, go find yourself a man, even this loser beside me wouldn’t want to touch you."

"Gao Xique, you’ll regret the words you said today," Shen Chun spat through gritted teeth.

Gao Xique laughed loudly, "What ability do you have now to threaten me, Shen Chun? I’m waiting to see how you make me regret it."

Ignoring Shen Chun, Gao Xique continued, "Aunt, I don’t have a job or money now, I can’t support you anymore, if you want money, ask Shen Chun for it."

With that, Gao Xique stormed off in anger.

Mrs. Shen silently wiped her tears, "What kind of misfortune have we brought upon ourselves."

Naturally, another wave of sobbing from Shen’s father followed, but Shen Chun’s eyes were full of hatred. Not long after Gao Xique left, she too stepped out of the house without a word of explanation, but she returned in the evening with vegetables and rice. Mrs. Shen heaved a sigh of relief and quietly comforted her daughter while preparing dinner.

But no matter how she said it, the meaning was the same as Shen’s father’s, wanting Shen Chun to beg Shen Bin. Shen Chun remained silent, quietly tending the fire, and remained mute even through dinner.

Early the next morning, Shen Chun went out again, and Mrs. Shen didn’t know where her daughter was going, but every evening when she returned, she always brought some vegetables and rice, ensuring the family never ran out. A few days passed quietly like this until suddenly one day, Gao Xique barged in while the Shen Family was having dinner.

Once inside, Gao Xique didn’t say a word, just slapped Shen Chun’s face hard. She came in so suddenly, but Shen Chun seemed to have anticipated her move, for when Gao Xique swung at her, Shen Chun was ready and dodged. Yet, Gao Xique, like a madwoman, lunged at her again.

"What’s going on? Stop it, stop it now," Mrs. Shen shouted from the side.

Occupied with drinking, Shen’s father acted as if he hadn’t seen a thing, leaving Mrs. Shen to try and pull them apart, but she couldn’t even budge the berserk Gao Xique. Shen Chun, usually quiet and calm, fought back tearlessly, and the struggle ensued there on the bed.

"What’s going on? Xique, she’s your sister, talk it out, why are you acting like this?" Mrs. Shen stood crying desperately.

Amidst hitting and crying, Gao Xique screamed, "Aunt, she’s not my sister, how could my sister seduce my man? You don’t know, do you? For days now, Lin Tao hasn’t come home during the day, not even for lunch, and when he does come home, it’s late at night. I thought he was busy with work, but one day when I went to his office, I heard people say Lin Tao had been taking days off. Today I followed Lin Tao around and found out that that scumbag was fooling around with shameless Shen Chun. They came out of a hotel together, and Lin Tao even went with Shen Chun to buy vegetables and rice. I might as well die today, along with Shen Chun."

Gao Xique’s words left even the drinking Shen’s father frozen in shock and slowly turning his head, while Mrs. Shen was stunned, mouth agape, realizing her daughter’s early departures and returns with rice and vegetables, and remembering the earlier quarrel with Gao Xique, she didn’t listen further and collapsed to the ground, crying out loud.