CHAPTER 76: CHAPTER 77: WHO GAVE YOU THE NERVE

Su Xingyu stared blankly at his back. Could he really have a way to expose Su Xingqi?

But she didn’t hold out too much hope. Forget about a small street photography contest; even internationally renowned photography competitions occasionally reveal fake photos, discovered years later. Catching counterfeiters isn’t that easy.

She temporarily put the matter aside and dealt with another issue—

The lawyer Lu Shifeng found for her had arrived to draft the documents severing her parental relationship with the Su Family.

The lawyer accompanied her to meet with the Su Family.

In the Su Family’s living room, full of various crafts but in bad taste, Mr. Su was furious: "Ungrateful daughter! It’s bad enough you didn’t listen to me and marry into the Chen Family, and now you want to sever ties with me? I raised you for nothing!"

"Exactly! Even a jackal is more grateful than you!" Liu Meizhi pointed at Su Xingyu’s nose, scolding.

Su Xingyu looked at them with a cold smile: "Dad, this is the last time I’ll call you that. You not only ruined my mom’s life but now you wish to ruin mine too? You’d better sign this parental severance agreement. If you don’t, I can’t guarantee what might happen."

"What could possibly happen?" Su Xingqi’s sharp voice sneered, "Ha, Su Xingyu, you’re really putting on a show, hiring a lawyer? You’re probably drowning in debt just from the lawyer fees alone! What could you possibly do to threaten us? Ridiculous!"

Su Xingyu looked at her: "You don’t really think the Chen Family treated me like that last time without any punishment, do you?"

"What?" Su Xingqi was stunned.

This time, Liu Meizhi laughed coldly: "Punished? As far as I can see, the Chen Family is still doing well! The spectacle when Mr. Chen came to rescue you that day was terrifying! It scared me to death! And the result? Hahaha, it was just thunder with little rain, absolutely nothing happened! Su Xingyu, you might have fooled us once with such bluffing, but don’t think you can keep fooling us! No way!"

Sure enough, they won’t air the family’s dirty laundry?

Su Xingyu’s lips curled slightly. Nothing happened to the Chen Family, of course, but it was in exchange for Chen Er’s lifelong prowess.

Lu Shifeng once asked her if she wanted to see Chen Er being castrated with her own eyes. Su Xingyu found it too disgusting, so she didn’t go, but the steward Mr. Zhong supervised—Chen Er was personally tied by the Chen Family to a wooden frame and had his genitals bitten off by a fierce dog! The dog chewed them up and swallowed them on the spot, never to be found again. It’s said that the scene was horrifying, with blood everywhere, and Chen Er’s screams echoed several blocks, sending shivers down people’s spines!

Such humiliating things naturally wouldn’t be told by the Chen Family to the Su Family!

"I think you might be misunderstanding something," said Su Xingyu’s lawyer, "No trouble for the Chen Family? If there was truly no trouble, would they resent you with gritted teeth? Su Zhongxiao, you can ask if the Chen Family is still willing to have dealings with your family. If he dares to have any dealings worth even a dime, then Miss Su is really incapable."

"!!" Mr. Su was shocked.

Suddenly, he remembered something—going to see Mr. Chen recently, and Mr. Chen avoided him like the plague, abandoning the originally agreed cooperation, all implying he shouldn’t provoke Su Xingyu!

"Xingyu, what is going on? Is Ouyang Yi backing you now?"

This was the biggest possibility he could think of. That playboy from the Feiying Group might have taken a fancy to Su Xingyu, offering all sorts of support. But how long could such support last without any status? It’s just temporary glory.

Su Xingyu didn’t want to tell him about Lu Shifeng, especially during a street photography contest. If the Su Family disrupted things and exposed her relationship with Lu Shifeng, it would definitely cause an uproar. She said coldly to Mr. Su: "Who I’m with is none of your concern. I ask you to sign this document, otherwise..."

She glanced at the lawyer.

The lawyer understood and continued: "For a small enterprise like the Su Family, issues of shoddy goods, illegal labor, and even bribing government officials exist. If even a few of those are exposed, it might lead to collapse." He took out another stack of documents from his briefcase, placing them before Mr. Su.

Mr. Su received them with uncertainty, initially trying to remain calm, but gradually his hands began shaking.

"Dad, what’s going on?" Su Xingqi asked anxiously.

Mr. Su seemed not to hear her, too busy to respond. He was stunned—the thick file detailed major violations by Su’s Enterprise, each with solid evidence. If exposed, it wouldn’t just lead to business closure; he might end up in jail! He was scared, looking at Su Xingyu with bravado but weak inside: "How dare you do this to me! I’m your father!"

"You soon won’t be," Su Xingyu pointed to the agreement in her hand.

Mr. Su’s face turned pale and his shoulders slumped in defeat.

Su Xingqi patted his back: "Dad, what’s wrong, don’t be mad, please don’t be mad!" Then, she turned her head to curse Su Xingyu: "Look what you’ve done to Dad! Apologize to him now! What’s so great about Ouyang Yi? Once he tires of you, he’ll toss you aside like trash! What are you so proud of, you shameless whore!"

"Looks like we don’t have anything more to talk about." Su Xingyu ignored Su Xingqi’s curses, reached out her fair and slender hand to retrieve the blank agreement, elegantly stood up, "Mr. Wang, let’s go."

"Wait!" Mr. Su hastily called out, "Don’t go!"

Su Xingyu smiled: "Staying? To listen to a mad dog bark?"

Mr. Su backhanded Su Xingqi with a slap: "Shut up! Isn’t it chaotic enough?"

"Dad!" Su Xingqi didn’t expect her usually doting father to hit her, tears welling up in her eyes, stunned.

Mr. Su didn’t care about this daughter at all, hurriedly saying to Su Xingyu: "I’ll sign, I’ll sign!" He didn’t dare not sign. If he allowed Su Xingyu to leave here, it wouldn’t be as simple as severing ties! With so much dirt on the family business in Su Xingyu’s hands, the consequences were unimaginable! "But you also have to promise not to sue me!"

Su Xingyu nodded: "I’m not that boring."

Mr. Su picked up the pen on the table, ready to sign.

"Wait!" This time, it was Liu Meizhi’s voice, furious, "Su Xingyu, you say cut ties, just like that, and we raised you for nothing? Is there anything so easy in this world? You should return the upbringing expenses for all these years!"

Su Xingyu laughed in anger: "Liu Meizhi, how much of my mom’s dowry jewelry did you loot when you first came over? You sold the negatives of my mom’s award-winning works, didn’t you? And where did the gold ingots my grandfather left me go? I haven’t asked you to return any of that, yet you have the nerve to ask me for upbringing expenses?"