Bai Yao: I Don't Have a Saintly Heart
He had thought he could bring that man along and catch the cheaters in the act, but who would have guessed that, despite being a burly fellow, the man would ask question after question and drag his feet, leaving them a step too late in the end.
Even so, he had still seen his wife's lips, so red they looked ready to drip blood. That had successfully aroused the naturally suspicious man's doubts, so Bai Yao's plan couldn't quite be called a failure.
Of course, Bai Yao hadn't shown himself, to avoid confronting Li Qiang face-to-face just yet.
It wasn't that he was afraid of Li Qiang. It was simply easier to strike hard from the shadows; facing him head-on would make it hard to fight to his heart's content.
By the time Bai Yao returned, Li Meimei's affair had been settled privately.
The Li family had given up two jobs as compensation to secure the private settlement.
One was Li Meimei's own job. Li Dongxu hadn't said whose the other was, but Bai Yao could guess: it was the job Li Dongxu had originally used to pressure him into revealing the whereabouts of the dowry.
Only then did Bai Yao learn that the job was looking after toilets.
To others, the job was precious even if it was dirty, but to Bai Yao, it was downright insulting.
After all, Li Qiang worked at a textile factory, while Li Meimei, who had only just started working, was a sales clerk at the supply and marketing cooperative. That showed what Li Dongxu had been thinking.
So now, the anger Bai Yao felt toward the Li family burned even hotter.
Becoming a live-in son-in-law had been Li Dongxu's own choice, yet he acted as though he had been humiliated and even regarded his own biological son, the original host, as a stain on his life.
What a disgusting person.
With that thought, Bai Yao began to understand how to fill Li Dongxu's life with darkness.
Without betraying a thing, he glanced at Li Qiang, then looked at Li Dabao.
After a pause of just one second, Bai Yao crushed the inexplicable reluctance that had risen in his heart.
Reluctance?
He didn't have a saintly heart.
So what if Li Dabao was an eight-year-old child? He, Bai Yao, was only a child of eight years and 120 months himself.
Besides, Li Dabao had done no less evil than his older brother and sister. When it came to bullying the original host in particular, the blue had come from the indigo plant, yet surpassed it.
Bai Yao remembered one thing clearly: that little creature had urged Li Dongxu and his wife more than once to sell the original host to human traffickers, and had even taken it upon himself to ask someone to find traffickers.
So, bad people weren't exempt because they were young, and all he needed to do was treat bad people equally.
After leaving the police station, everyone went about their business.
Li Dabao went back to school, while Li Qiang and his father, Li Dongxu, returned to work. Li Bailian and Li Meimei went to handle the paperwork for transferring the jobs to the victims' families.
As for Bai Yao, he went home to sleep.
He had made up his mind: he wouldn't carve meat with a dull knife anymore. Starting tonight, he would make the five members of the Li family fall apart.
That evening, Bai Yao once again prepared dinner with a double helping of pig feed. Watching the five members of the Li family eat happily, his eyes were full of joy too—the joy of slaughtering pigs.
"Bai Yao's cooking has gotten a lot better. I'm almost reluctant to see him sent down to the countryside. Without him, who's going to put so much effort into serving us every day?"
Li Meimei spoke naturally after eating and drinking her fill, with no thought at all that she was being disrespectful.
Li Dongxu and Li Bailian said nothing. After all, whether Bai Yao was there or not, someone would serve them.
Li Dabao and Li Qiang felt the same way. Now that Li Meimei's reputation was ruined and she had lost her job and was unemployed at home, they already regarded her as the next Bai Yao.
Li Meimei was still unaware of this, her thoughts occupied with how to win back the fish she had hooked before.
Bai Yao saw it clearly, and the corners of his mouth curled up. He was full of anticipation for Li Meimei's future.
Anticipation for the spectacle!
After dinner, Bai Yao simply waited for night to fall.
There wasn't much entertainment in this era, so once it got dark, it was time for bed.
Time passed, minute by minute and second by second. At midnight, Bai Yao opened his eyes, revealing an extremely happy smile.
Revenge shouldn't wait overnight, so it was Li Qiang's turn.
"System, customize a batch of powerful sleep-inducing incense, then use it on Li Qiang."
Five minutes later, Bai Yao opened the door and went in with his mouth and nose covered. Then he slapped Li Qiang and took him into the system space.
This was a new function he had discovered through testing that afternoon. He could collect inanimate objects by enveloping them with his spiritual power. Living beings, on the other hand, began consuming money once taken inside, and only stopped when released. Collecting them also required physical contact.
Once inside, living beings would enter a state of stasis.
Of course, Bai Yao himself was exempt from those two conditions.
Besides that, after entering, he could also teleport within a ten-meter radius, again without spending any money. That made him marvel at the system's power: the system space even had the abilities of a portable space.
Back to the matter at hand, after putting Li Qiang away, Bai Yao tried teleporting away.
Only after he had gotten some distance from the corridor-style apartment building did Bai Yao toss the dealt—with Li Qiang out of the system space.
Yes, to prevent any accidents, he had done it in the system space while the other man was in stasis.
Now that he had been released, the pain of the comminuted fractures in both arms and his smashed "balls" down below immediately made Li Qiang scream in agony, only for him to pass out from the pain the next second.
As for Bai Yao, he dropped Li Qiang off and quickly teleported back.
Just as he got back into bed, he heard the commotion of the other Li family members being woken up.
He got up and went out, then exchanged looks with the others. Without saying much, they all went back to their rooms.
Showing his face was enough; there was no need to do anything extra.
After returning to his room, he had thought someone would soon discover what had happened to Li Qiang. Instead, Bai Yao slept until daybreak before he heard urgent knocking outside.
He didn't rush to get up. After a little while, he heard the other members of the Li family finally getting out of bed in irritation. Only then did he hurry up and go out to answer the door.
The moment he opened it, an anxious voice rang out.
"Dongxu, your Li Qiang's barely hanging on! Hurry to the hospital and see him!"
Hearing Li Dongxu and Li Bailian approaching, Bai Yao forced down the corners of his mouth and said with an angry face, "Stop cursing him! Li Qiang's asleep in his room."
Li Dongxu and Li Bailian were also very unhappy. After all, they had been woken up early in the morning only to hear someone curse their son. The fact that they hadn't lost their tempers on the spot was already giving the person plenty of face.
"It's true! Who has nothing better to do than say something so offensive first thing in the morning? If you don't believe me, ask the others. Everyone saw him, and they even helped take him to the hospital."
Seeing that the person was sticking to the story and giving reasons to back it up, Li Dongxu really did get a bad feeling. He was just about to check Li Qiang's room when Li Bailian went ahead of him.
She opened the door, but there was no one in the bed.
At once, Li Bailian felt the world go dark before her eyes, but remembering that Li Qiang was still in the hospital, she forced herself to hold on.
"The hospital! Old Li, let's hurry to the hospital!"
As she spoke, Li Bailian ran outside in tears. Seeing this, Li Dongxu also forced down his panic and chased after her.
"I'll go too, and see if there's anything I can do to help."
Bai Yao spoke up then, and ran off as he said it.
But as soon as he ran downstairs and saw that everyone around had gone to watch the commotion at his home, he hurried to the floor below his apartment and used the system space to teleport back to his bedroom.
Immediately afterward, he heard Li Meimei take Li Dabao out to the hospital as well.
"Hehe, time to ransack the house!"