CHAPTER 397: CHAPTER 406: HACKING AT SOMEONE

"Mom," Qin Xiangmei saw Hu Li, and suddenly her tears and snot flowed down from feelings of grievance. It was hard to imagine that this repulsive appearance belonged to the woman who, in her forties, was still in her prime, like a young girl.

"Mom, she’s gone crazy, she’s gone mad," Qin Xiangmei threw herself into Hu Li’s arms, crying and wailing. She was truly frightened.

"Qin Xiangnuan, I’ll kill you," Hu Li stood up, ready to fight Qin Xiangnuan to the death. Qin Xiangnuan raised a kitchen knife, and a cold, resentful color deepened in her eyes. A devil appeared in her heart, whispering to her.

Chop it off, chop it off.

Yes, chop it off. If worse comes to worst, chop it off and pay to have it reattached. When it comes to disputes, the worst she could be accused of is unintentional injury. She uses the reputation of her lifetime to avenge grievances of two lifetimes; it’s not a loss to her.

Hu Li was too late to scream. The kitchen knife was already swinging towards her wrist, and she was about to be splattered with blood and become one-armed. Her children were clearly terrified too; they stood there stiffly, having never seen a person vicious enough to chop without hesitation. No one doubted that this woman, with her stern, cold face, was a devil from hell. She truly could chop it down, truly could make the cut.

"Ahh! Ah..."

Hu Li kept screaming, her eyes tightly shut. At that moment, suddenly, from nowhere, a hand reached out and grabbed the kitchen knife in Qin Xiangnuan’s hand.

"It’s alright now, calm down, young lady."

Warm and soothing, cool and comforting, there was only one person in this world who called Qin Xiangnuan ’young lady’ since she was little, and still does so now.

Good, just like that, follow my words, close your eyes, take a deep breath. That’s the devil in your heart; don’t let it succeed. It’s bad, but you are good.

Jian Zhiqing gently stroked Qin Xiangnuan’s hair, his eyes smiling but now also held a frosty coldness. His gaze shifted to the Qin family—a threesome, including Qin Xiangmei with her revealing clothing, Qin Pengfei wearing his clothes, and Hu Li, whose legs were wobbly with fear and face pale.

He took the kitchen knife from Qin Xiangnuan’s hand and placed it on a table nearby.

Ah, Hu Li screamed violently, spitting flying, "Pengfei, call the police, call the police, call the police for me. This damn girl dared to chop me, she actually dared to chop me."

Call the police, Qin Pengfei also came back to his senses, noticing there was a phone around, he started to run to find the phone.

"No need," but then that chilling voice came from behind him.

"You want to call the police? I’ll call for you."

Jian Zhiqing took out his mobile phone and dialed a number with one hand. Qin Pengfei, seeing that phone, was struck by intense envy. Mobile phones were a rarity, and it had a color screen too—a single unit cost more than ten thousand yuan. His heart was consumed with jealousy.

Why should others have mobile phones while he didn’t?

Those buddies of his all had mobile phones. Whenever they went out, they’d slam their phones down on the table, and in that moment, they looked as if they were gilded in gold. Even the son of Aunt Hua from the village had one, and he wanted one too, but it was impossible for his family to buy him one. They still had to support Qin Xiangmei.

Qin Xiangnuan said that Qin Pengfei was a freeloader, living off others, which was absolutely true. Here he was, twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, without a job, and if he wanted a phone, why wouldn’t he buy it himself? He just had to have his parents buy it for him. How long had he been leeching off his parents? Was he planning on doing it for a lifetime?

Moreover, Hu Li and Qin Guohua couldn’t possibly provide much for him to mooch off of. Even if he wanted to mooch, there had to be something to mooch from. The Qin Family was just ordinary farmers; where could they just pull out extra money from? They hadn’t even built their house, and Xiang Mei was attending a good school—the tuition alone was enough to worry them to death.

But this lifetime wasn’t the same as the last one. Because Qin Xiangmei had the system, in the blink of an eye, when it was time to go to school, she managed to snatch the Song Family’s young master Song Wang. Song Wang paid for her meals, drank for her, and was absolutely devoted to her—he even built a house for the Qin Family and found a job for Qin Pengfei. Everything was done by Song Wang.

After graduating, Qin Xiangmei married Song Wang and even had a pair of dragon and phoenix twins. Her status in the Song Family was unshakable. Yet, in this lifetime, Qin Xiangmei hadn’t reached that bewitchingly beautiful stage yet. It remained to be seen whether Song Wang would be as blindly devoted to her as in the last life. All the glory of the Qin Family came from Qin Xiangmei, but her growth had been a gift from the system. The system took away others’ luck and fate. In the end, without the system, today’s Qin Xiangmei was just ordinary.

Soon, they were all taken to the police station.

These people were quite familiar with Jian Zhiqing. They offered him tea and smiles as if they were welcoming a guest rather than dealing with offenders.

Hu Li glowered at Qin Xiangnuan, then burst into wails and cried, saying Xiang Nuan wielded a kitchen knife to hack at people, trying to hack her own mother. It was simply an abomination and a betrayal of natural affection. Qin Pengfei and Qin Xiangmei were always on the side, chiming in to add fuel to the fire.

However, both their eyes were glued to Jian Zhiqing. In Qin Xiangmei’s heart, a rabbit seemed to be constantly crashing around, while Qin Pengfei’s eyes gleamed with increasing greed—phone, phone, phone.

Qin Xiangnuan lowered her eyelashes slightly, finally calmed down at this moment.

She thought if it weren’t for Jian Zhiqing, that knife of hers could have really struck Hu Li’s hand. If that were to happen, with Hu Li’s clingy nature, wouldn’t she stick to her for a lifetime? How could she possibly let Hu Li off so easily, let alone let the Qin Family have their way?

On the side, the policeman was making records, as the Qin Family trio ranted and raved as if they were suffering unbelievable injustice. A daughter trying to kill her own mother—such things were intolerable. If Jian Zhiqing wasn’t there, one could only imagine the relentless scrutiny Qin Xiangnuan would have faced.

"Secretary Jian, what do you think?"

The police, on the other hand, felt somewhat awkward. The report was already written, and they more or less understood the situation. They wondered if Jian Zhiqing would offer them any explanation. After all, this was just a domestic dispute, although it seemed quite severe and grievous. And with the obstinate attitude displayed by the three family members, it seemed unlikely that the matter would resolve easily.

And that title of "Secretary" made Hu Li’s heart skip a beat, but it made Qin Xiangmei’s eyes shine even brighter. She didn’t know how Qin Xiangnuan managed to charm such an outstanding man. With Qin Xiangnuan’s unattractive appearance, how could she be worthy of such a man? Such a person should only be matched with her, Qin Xiangmei, of course.