You Chose the Adopted Son, I Chose Madness
Chapter 43

Su Zhenxing and Liu Yanran Slap Themselves

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The Su Family watched Su Chen nervously, terrified that he would point at them.

After all, if they did not want to summon Su Grandmother again, they had to appease Su Chen.

If Su Chen said someone else looked down on him, that person would probably get beaten again.

Su Zhenxing said to Su Chen with a fawning smile.

"It's fine, Su Chen. If you think anyone else looks down on you, just say so, and I'll beat them up for you."

"As long as you get up after I'm done beating them, don't lie there talking about dying together anymore."

"How terrifying!"

"Fine. Since you're so eager to stand up for me, I can't exactly refuse your kindness. I'll point out everyone who's ever looked down on me!"

As he spoke, Su Chen raised his arm and pointed at Su Mu again.

Seeing Su Chen point at him, Su Mu's eyes widened as he tried to explain.

"Brother, how could I possibly look down on you?! I didn't!"

"Brother, I've always respected you!"

"How didn't you?! Didn't you just say you wanted to teach me?!

"What right does a younger brother have to teach his older brother?!

"If that isn't looking down on me, what is?!"

Hearing Su Chen's furious roar, Su Zhenxing, who had originally wanted to see whether Su Mu could bluff his way through it, immediately walked up to him, raised his hand, and began slapping Su Mu across the face.

"Enough, stop talking. Su Chen is right. Su Mu, stop making excuses. Just change in the future."

Slap! Slap! Slap!

After several slaps, Su Mu's face became even more swollen and shiny, as though it would burst with a poke.

Su Mu covered his face and lowered his head without saying a word, but he vowed inwardly that he would make Su Chen repay today's humiliation someday.

Su Chen, just you wait!

Su Zhenxing turned and returned to Su Chen's side, asking with a gentle smile.

"Su Chen, look. Your two sisters and younger brother have all been beaten into submission."

"No one in the Su Family will dare look down on you again."

"Su Chen, can you get up now?!"

"Who says so? There's still her!"

As he spoke, Su Chen refuted Su Zhenxing expressionlessly, raising his arm again to point at Liu Yanran, who was half-squatting beside him.

Liu Yanran's expression froze.

She had not expected Su Chen to make Su Zhenxing hit her?!

She was Su Chen's Mom!

But when Liu Yanran saw the look Su Zhenxing gave her, she understood.

For the sake of keeping Su Chen from going mad again and summoning his dead mother back, Su Zhenxing did not care which member of the Su Family got beaten.

As long as Su Chen could be appeased.

Liu Yanran gritted her teeth resentfully and hardened her heart.

Liu Yanran raised her own hand and slapped herself several times, apologizing gently to Su Chen as she did.

"Su Chen, Mom was wrong before."

"Mom will change. Mom will treat you well from now on, and I definitely won't look down on you anymore."

"Just get up. Stop lying there, talking about dying and living."

"Look, you've scared Mom."

Su Zhenxing also spoke gently to Su Chen.

"That's right, Su Chen. Look, everyone in the Su Family has learned their lesson."

"Shouldn't you be satisfied now? Get up already!"

Su Chen said nothing and did not get up. He remained stiffly sprawled on the floor, only staring fixedly at Su Zhenxing.

Although Su Chen said nothing, Su Zhenxing quickly understood what he meant.

Su Zhenxing flew into a rage.

He really was afraid that Su Chen would summon his dead mother back, and he was also afraid that Su Chen would truly drag the members of the Su Family down to the underworld to serve her.

That was why he had beaten his eldest daughter, whom he had always valued, his beloved second daughter, and his youngest son, whom he thought highly of. He had even forced his wife, Su Chen's Mom, to slap herself.

But Su Chen had gone too far now.

Could it be that Su Chen actually wanted him to slap himself too?

No more pretending! No more!

That little bastard Su Chen needed a beating!

Su Zhenxing opened his mouth, ready to curse Su Chen out, and raised his hand to hit him.

But Liu Yanran stopped him.

Liu Yanran grabbed Su Zhenxing's raised arm and gently persuaded him.

"Zhenxing, just give yourself a few light slaps."

"Believe me, Su Chen will see your sincerity in admitting your mistake."

"Why get angry?!"

Su Zhenxing had forced her to slap herself. Did he think he could get away with it?

No chance!

Even the windows had to be welded shut!

Watching Liu Yanran stop him from hitting Su Chen and softly persuade him, Su Zhenxing knew this was definitely revenge. Liu Yanran was getting back at him for making her slap herself earlier.

Fine!

Su Zhenxing hardened his heart.

As long as it kept him from summoning his mother back, a few slaps were nothing. It was better than being beaten by the mother who had been dead for thirteen years.

It would not just hurt his face. His heart would ache with terror too!

Su Zhenxing shot Su Chen a furious glare and gritted his teeth.

Slap! Slap! Slap!

Su Zhenxing slapped himself several times in rapid succession, fast as lightning.

He hit himself quite hard.

The corner of Su Zhenxing's mouth immediately started bleeding again.

Su Zhenxing glared viciously at Su Chen.

"Su Chen, is that enough?!"

"You've forced everyone in the Su Family to get beaten."

"Su Chen, are you satisfied now?!"

"Su Chen, can you get up now?!"

Su Chen knew that this was as far as he could go today.

He was still a long way from completely taking revenge on those who had caused him to die in depression in his previous life.

But Su Chen had still achieved a small goal today.

If he pushed any further, not only would he fail to achieve his ultimate goal, he might even lose the upper hand.

So Su Chen moved his arms, then his legs. He had been lying stiffly without moving for quite some time, and his limbs had grown rigid.

After stretching his arms and legs, Su Chen slowly got to his feet.

"Since you all hate the idea of dying with me so much that you were even willing to get beaten for it."

"Although I, Su Chen, am not afraid of death."

"For your sake, I won't drag you along to die with me!"

The Su Family looked at Su Chen's smiling face and listened to his punchable words, fury instantly rising in their hearts.

Why, thank you so much, Su Chen!

But no one in the Su Family actually said it aloud. They merely thought it to themselves.

After all, they had finally managed to appease Su Chen. They did not want to provoke him into talking about dying again.

Watching Su Chen's retreating back as he walked out of the dining room alone, the Su Family finally let out the breath they had been holding.

Looking at the slap marks on one another's faces, no one laughed at anyone else. After all, they were all equally pathetic, every one of them sporting a swollen, shiny pig face.

No one in the Su Family was in the mood to speak. Each returned to their bedroom with a pig face.

After Su Zhenxing and Liu Yanran returned to their bedroom.

Liu Yanran could no longer hold it in.

"Su Zhenxing, Su Chen was pretending just now, wasn't he?!"

"Your Mom has been dead for thirteen years. How could she possibly..."

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