This time, Gu Yanqing held out a bank card to her.
Xu Han's eye twitched. This heavy-handed domineering
CEO
style really did suit Gu Yanqing's character setting in the book.
However, Xu Han pushed the card back and said, "I don't need this either."
"Hm?" Gu Yanqing looked confused.
"I've given it some thought these past few days. I'm capable of raising Koukou, so sorry for the trouble, but you don't need to worry about it. Besides, if you want children, plenty of women would be willing to have them for you. Just pretend Koukou doesn't exist. I don't want to have much to do with you either."
Xu Han had thought it through. She would rather struggle a little herself and take nothing from him than let Koukou know he had such an incredible father.
Otherwise, even if Gu Yanqing did not mistreat him, he probably would not escape competing with the male lead—like both of them falling for the female lead or something. The male lead had plot armor, while a villain like Koukou existed only to make the male lead look better and give him experience.
Just thinking about her own son giving someone else experience made Xu Han, his bargain-bin mother, heartsick.
So, it was better to have nothing to do with him for the rest of their lives. She did not know whether she could fight fate, but she had to try. It was better than sitting around and waiting to die.
She only hoped Koukou could live a peaceful, stable life.
Hearing this, Gu Yanqing said with some displeasure, "What do you mean?"
Xu Han spread her hands. "Exactly what it says."
Gu Yanqing frowned. "Miss Qiao, please cooperate and resolve this properly. Put away those little schemes of yours and stop wasting both our time. It wasn't easy for me to make time to come here, so don't test my patience again and again."
Pfft. Why was this conversation getting more and more like a domineering CEO drama?
Xu Han simply said, "I can't help it. To get your attention, I can only do this on purpose. Don't men want what they can't have even more? Later, you'll think, 'Woman, very good. You've successfully caught my attention.'"
Gu Yanqing: "..."
In the end, Gu Yanqing's patience failed the test. He left with a dark expression—driven away by Xu Han's angering him.
Watching his retreating back, Xu Han sighed regretfully. That had been at least a million. She did love money, actually.
Still, after things had turned out like this, Gu Yanqing probably would not come again. He was proud and arrogant. After failing to reach an agreement twice, he would see it as Xu Han not knowing what was good for her. According to his character setting, he definitely would not come and hit a wall a third time.
Two days later, Qiao Wanqing's paternal uncle, Qiao Xinde, and his wife, Luo Yangxiu, indeed came over from Town looking aggressive.
First, they stood at the entrance to Xu Han's courtyard and cursed for a while, saying that they were like thieves trying to seize everyone's land. Did they have no shame? Were they about to die and claiming it as a burial plot? In any case, their words were especially nasty.
Xu Han did not know how to curse people, nor did she intend to reason with them, so she stayed silent and let them shout all they wanted.
After cursing, they went to the field and started destroying the vegetables she had planted. Not only did they wreck them, they also threw the uprooted vegetables, weeds, and other things into her courtyard, acting outrageously arrogant.
Xu Han moved a stool beneath the eaves and sat down, looking at the mess in the courtyard. She wished they would throw in more. The fiercer they acted, the more justified she would be.
Yet she also pitied Grandma Qiao for the life she had lived these past few years. An old rural woman with no one to rely on, guarding her little patch of land only to be bullied by awful relatives—it was clear how miserable her life had been.
Xu Han sat there until they had destroyed every last vegetable in her field. Only then did she slowly rise, walk outside the courtyard, and watch them emerge from her vegetable plot with arrogant expressions.
When Luo Yangxiu saw her, she gave her a once-over and said disdainfully, "I was wondering where that old woman got the nerve. So you're back. I thought you'd run off with some man outside long ago."
Xu Han had returned quietly and rarely went out, so many people in the village did not know she was back. Her uncle and aunt lived in Town, so it was normal for them not to know.
"I'm not as capable as Auntie thinks," she said flatly, glancing at her before giving a cold laugh. "Did Auntie enjoy all that cursing?"
"Hmph," Luo Yangxiu said. "Don't think this is over. If you dare set your sights on that piece of land again, I'll scatter glass shards all over it. Then none of us will have it easy."
"Of course it isn't over. After all, you still need to compensate me for a whole garden of vegetables."
Luo Yangxiu laughed. "Dream on."
"Whether it's a dream or not, let the police decide."
Luo Yangxiu's expression changed. She turned toward the road and indeed saw a police car pull up in front of their house. Two Police Officers got out.
Xu Han had called the police as soon as they arrived. She had not expected the local police station to respond so quickly.
Since reason would not work, she might as well hand the matter directly to the police station for mediation.
This was the countryside, and figures like Police Officers carried a certain authority. Ordinary people generally did not dare throw tantrums or act shamelessly in front of them. Xu Han had counted on that when she chose this method of resolving the issue.
Sure enough, although Luo Yangxiu and Qiao Xinde were extremely overbearing, they were still ordinary citizens. They only dared bully a timid old woman like Grandma Qiao. Before the Police Officers, they immediately cowered.
At first, they tried to argue that the land belonged to their family, but Xu Han had the land ownership certificate.
In the end, the mediation result was that the land belonged to Xu Han's side. Luo Yangxiu and the others were not to come over and destroy anything her family planted again, or Xu Han would have the right to demand compensation for their losses.
But this time, it would be let go. They only needed to clean up everything they had thrown into Xu Han's courtyard.
"But what if they scatter glass shards in our field and stop us from planting anything?" Xu Han asked innocently. "They just said that themselves."
"So that happened too?" The Police Officer glanced at Luo Yangxiu and said, "That counts as intentional injury. It's against the law, and you could go to prison."
The Police Officer deliberately emphasized the words "go to prison," and Luo Yangxiu shuddered.
Qiao Wanqing's uncle, Qiao Xinde, hurriedly stepped forward. "It was a joke, just a joke. My wife was speaking in anger. Officer, don't listen to her. She was just talking. She wouldn't really dare do something like that."