CHAPTER 696: CHAPTER 691: IF I DON’T LIVE, NEITHER WILL YOU

Fang Xiu looked at Zhou Yunmei with a cold smile creeping on her face, but she responded to Zhou Yunmei and even pointed upstairs, saying, "Alright, you just wait, I’ll bring Haohao down to you right now."

Zhou Yunmei was overjoyed upon hearing this and immediately urged Fang Xiu upstairs, saying impatiently, "Good, good, go quickly."

Fang Xiu nodded at her and then turned to walk upstairs, but as soon as she turned her back, the smile on Fang Xiu’s face completely vanished, replaced by a hint of helplessness mixed with some ferocity, and even an expression of total resignation.

Fang Xiu walked back upstairs and went straight into the kitchen. She glanced around the kitchen and her gaze finally rested on the cleaver on the cutting board.

She squinted at it and took the cleaver in her hand, but remembering that Fang Pingying and Li Yuchun, who had just returned, were in the bedroom changing Haohao’s clothes, and fearing they might come out suddenly and interrupt her plan, she tore her clothing a bit and used the clothing at her side to cover the cleaver and turned to leave.

However, as soon as Fang Xiu walked into the living room, Li Yuchun emerged from the bedroom. Seeing that Fang Xiu had returned and had suddenly come out of the kitchen, Li Yuchun was somewhat puzzled but didn’t ask too much, only saying, "Have you gotten rid of Zhou Yunmei so quickly?"

Fang Xiu looked at Li Yuchun with a vaguely distracted expression and unfocused eyes, which unnerved Li Yuchun.

Just as Li Yuchun was about to ask Fang Xiu, Fang Xiu suddenly seemed to snap back to reality and said softly to Li Yuchun, "Mom, please remember to help elder sister take good care of Haohao."

After saying that, Fang Xiu was about to leave.

Li Yuchun felt that something was off with Fang Xiu and quickly grabbed her, asking, "Where are you going?"

Fang Xiu smiled at Li Yuchun, "I’m stepping out for a bit to buy some stuff for Haohao; I’ll be right back."

"Okay," Li Yuchun, finding her words fairly normal, immediately agreed and let her go.

Li Yuchun turned around, planning to prepare dinner in the kitchen.

But after looking around the kitchen for a while, she felt something was amiss. Only after searching did she realize that a cleaver was missing. At first, she didn’t suspect Fang Xiu and just shouted out, "Pingying, where did you put the cleaver?"

"It’s in the kitchen," Fang Pingying responded while coming out of the bedroom, having just changed Haohao’s clothes, and the little guy had fallen asleep.

Li Yuchun searched all over but couldn’t find the cleaver. Suddenly, a thought flashed through her mind about Fang Xiu’s earlier unease, and her face turned pale as she yelled at Fang Pingying, "This is bad, Xiu’er took it."

Then, as she ran outside, she said to Fang Pingying, "Quick, hurry, Xiu’er must have gone to do something foolish. She took the cleaver and went downstairs, probably to attack Zhou Yunmei."

"Ah?" Fang Pingying was completely unprepared and didn’t react for a moment.

Seeing that Fang Pingying wasn’t following, Li Yuchun turned back, pulled her, and ran outside while briefly explaining, "Hurry, hurry, Fang Xiu must be fed up with Zhou Yunmei constantly coming to claim Haohao and is preparing to take Zhou Yunmei with her to the grave. We need to hurry downstairs and stop her. No wonder she suddenly told me to take care of Haohao with you just now; I didn’t think much of it."

Upon hearing this from Li Yuchun, Fang Pingying’s heart trembled, and she hurried downstairs with Li Yuchun, hoping to stop Fang Xiu from doing something foolish.

She knew Fang Xiu’s temperament; actually, she wasn’t an extremely violent person, but if her bottom line was crossed, she could indeed do something desperate without a care for her own life.

And for the current Fang Xiu, the thing she valued most was Haohao.

However, they seemed to be a step too late; by the time they got downstairs, Fang Xiu had already made her move.

At this moment, the scene downstairs was chaotic, with both Zhou Yunmei and Fang Xiu covered in quite a lot of blood, as Zhou Yunmei kept one hand pressed against the other, seeming like one hand was injured.

Nevertheless, Fang Xiu showed no mercy, holding a kitchen knife and relentlessly pursuing Zhou Yunmei.

Although there were people surrounding the scene to watch, most of them stood far back, not daring to intervene in a knife fight.

Fang Pingying and Li Yuchun were shocked when they arrived and saw this scene; Li Yuchun’s legs gave out from fear, and she collapsed on the staircase, unable to speak for a long time.

Even though Fang Pingying was also frightened, she remained somewhat calmer; she hurried towards Fang Xiu, shouting, "Xiu’er, stop this, we can talk it out."

Upon seeing Fang Pingying approach, Fang Xiu showed no reaction, still holding the kitchen knife with no intention of sparing Zhou Yunmei.

But Zhou Yunmei saw Fang Pingying as a savior, immediately yelling to her, "Perfect, you’ve arrived just in time, this Fang Xiu suddenly went mad for no reason, threatening to kill me with a knife, please hurry and hold her back."

Fang Pingying gave Zhou Yunmei a cold look; she didn’t care whether Zhou Yunmei lived or died—if murder weren’t illegal, perhaps she would have long since taken care of Zhou Yunmei herself.

Her worry was for Fang Xiu; being seen with a knife and with so many witnesses, she would certainly have to face legal consequences.

Fang Pingying tried to pull Fang Xiu away, but Fang Xiu turned around, gave Fang Pingying a gentle smile, and said, "Big sister, you have done so much for me, let me do something for you too. Just take good care of Haohao for me if I die or go to prison."

Having said that, Fang Xiu turned back around, the smile vanishing from her face, and with cold eyes looked at Zhou Yunmei and said lightly, "Zhou Yunmei, I don’t want to live anymore anyway, so before I die, I need to do something good for my family. If I can’t live, I won’t let you live either."

Hearing this, Zhou Yunmei trembled in terror, screaming loudly, "Oh my God, don’t they say the Police Station’s people are everywhere in the city? Where are the Police Station’s people? Why isn’t anyone stopping this madwoman?"

Fang Xiu seemed to have calmed down, but upon hearing Zhou Yunmei’s yell, her eyes turned blood red, and as she reached out to grab Zhou Yunmei, she roared, "Calling me a madwoman? I’ll show you mad today, I must kill you!"

Zhou Yunmei, pursued by Fang Xiu, fled frantically, her movements agile for her age.

But no matter how nimble she was, Fang Xiu was younger, and her agility was no match for Fang Xiu’s; ultimately, she was caught by Fang Xiu.

Fang Xiu clutched her, eyes bloodshot, lifting the kitchen knife high as if about to bring it down.

Just as Fang Pingying and Li Yuchun panicked to stop Fang Xiu, Zhou Yunmei, terrified, collapsed onto the ground, and then proceeded to kneel in front of Fang Xiu, begging her,

"Xiu’er, for the sake of our once mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship, don’t chop me. If worse comes to worst, I won’t fight with you over Haohao anymore, he can be yours, and we from the Fang Family will stay out of it, I won’t ever compete with you for Haohao again, just don’t kill me."