As Long as You're the One Who Bears Them, I'll Love Them All
Lu Yuan looked at Ma He coldly. "Did you get that? You're the only one here who's completely unwanted!"
Ma He was seething. He grabbed the Western health supplements off the table and stuffed them into his pocket. "Heh. Since things aren't going to work out between us, your dad doesn't get to have this box of imported Western health supplements either."
Lu Yuan scoffed. "Heh, that piece of junk only cost a few hundred thousand. It's cheaper than a bottle of wine I opened last time. It's not like I can't afford to buy my father-in-law some."
Ma He's face darkened. He looked at a sixteen-year-old girl in the room and snapped, "Since I'm not going to be your brother-in-law, transfer back every last cent of the fifty thousand I just gave you as a first-meeting gift."
"If you dare refuse, I'll whip you to death today!" Ma He had already taken off his belt and was ready to strike at any moment.
His sixteen-year-old sister-in-law, Wang Shiyu, looked at Ma He in fear, tears threatening to spill at any moment. She was clearly frightened.
Wang Meiqi's father was also deeply displeased. He hadn't expected Ma He, who had made a good first impression on him, to show his true colors and turn out to be such a person.
Lu Yuan was furious. He warned Ma He, "If you dare touch a single hair on her head today, I'll make sure you come in standing and leave lying down."
The trials Lu Yuan had been through lately had left him with a fierce aura. A single look from him made Ma He tremble with fear, and he dropped the belt without thinking.
Wang Meiqi looked at her younger sister Wang Shiyu reproachfully. "Haven't Mom and Dad taught you since you were little not to accept things from other people carelessly? Why did you take money from this scumbag?"
Wang Shiyu said in a tiny voice, "I didn't want it either. He snatched my phone from me and made the transfer himself..."
Hearing that, Lu Yuan told her, "Transfer the money back to him. We don't need his fifty thousand. In a little while, your brother-in-law will send you a bigger sum."
For some reason, Wang Shiyu found Lu Yuan inexplicably warm and easier to get along with. Most importantly, he gave her a sense of security. She obediently transferred the fifty thousand back to Ma He.
Ma He was getting ready to change his shoes and leave when Lu Yuan sent his sister-in-law Wang Shiyu a transfer.
"Alipay payment received: one hundred million yuan exactly!"
Lu Yuan ruffled Wang Shiyu's hair and said with a smile, "One hundred million. That's your allowance from your brother-in-law for one month. There's more when you've spent it."
Ma He's expression instantly turned as ugly as could be. He felt too ashamed to stay another moment. Giving a child a fucking hundred million as pocket money? Were you serious?
Wang Shiyu stared at her phone screen, her cheeks burning. The glaring hundred-million-yuan transfer left her utterly shocked and bewildered. What did her brother-in-law do? How was he so rich?
His father-in-law also looked at Lu Yuan in surprise, seemingly not expecting him to be so wealthy.
Wang Meiqi shot Lu Yuan a reproachful look. "She's still in school. Why did you transfer her so much money?"
"Raise sons frugally and daughters generously, right? Since you're mine and chose me without wavering, I want your whole family to enjoy the good life together," Lu Yuan said sincerely.
Wang Meiqi seemed to remember something and pressed him. "Lu Yuan, do you favor girls over boys? Are you the type to dote on a daughter?"
A smile appeared on Lu Yuan's face, and he pinched Wang Meiqi's cheek. "What kind of question is that? Of course not. As long as you're the one who bears them, I'll love them all."
"Oh, stop it. Who said I was going to have your children...?" Wang Meiqi instantly turned red.
Ma He: ...
His father-in-law: ...
Could they even stay in this room anymore? Both men had the same thought, though what Ma He felt more than anything was jealousy.
Lu Yuan turned his gaze to Ma He and mocked him. "What are you looking at? Never seen a young couple being affectionate before? You're a poor loser who brought a bottle of supplements worth a few hundred thousand and transferred fifty thousand, yet you think you can go on a blind date? You're a disgrace, a damn single dog."
Wang Meiqi gave Lu Yuan's chest a little thump. "Honey, things are already going badly enough for him. Go easy on him!"
Lu Yuan's words were undoubtedly salt in Ma He's wounds. Ma He clenched his fists, his face dark. "You fucking..."
"Adulterous dogs, the pair of you! You'd better not go to a hospital, see a Western doctor, or come begging to me and my dad." After that threat, Ma He left in a fury.
Lu Yuan dismissed it with contempt. What the hell was one more Western doctor worth? He owned one hundred percent of the entire Chinese and Western Medicine Association. If any Western doctor displeased him, all it would take was a word, a movement of his lips, to have them kicked out of Hua Country.
With his current wealth, power, and status, if some minor Western doctor could make life unpleasant for him, he might as well give up making his way in Magic City.
His sister-in-law Wang Shiyu piled on. "Brother-in-law, the way he fled with his tail between his legs was so funny. He looked just like a drowned rat."
With Lu Yuan there to back her up, Wang Shiyu no longer held back. After all, Ma He had frightened her just now. Judging from his reaction, he was somewhat afraid of Lu Yuan, and if anything really happened to her, her brother-in-law Lu Yuan would be there to back her up.
Not long after Ma He fled in disgrace, a sudden, urgent knocking sounded outside.
When Wang Meiqi opened the door, a middle-aged woman carrying a large bag of vegetables stood on the doorstep. Wang Meiqi asked, "What's wrong, Auntie Liu?"
"Meiqi, your mom's in room 103, unit two, building three. Someone's beating her to death! Hurry over and check on her. I just passed by there on my way back. I came straight to find you before I even got home!" Auntie Liu wiped the sweat from her forehead as she spoke, a little breathless.
Wang Meiqi panicked. "What? My mom—she's been beaten?"
Wang Meiqi's father hurriedly got dressed and called to his daughter, "Quick, hurry over to your mom! We mustn't be too late..."
His father-in-law looked frantic and was the first to rush out.
Lu Yuan, Wang Meiqi, and his sister-in-law Wang Shiyu followed close behind.
Lu Yuan clenched his fists and said to Wang Meiqi, "Whoever did this, I'll make them pay in blood. I'll make them regret ever coming into this world."
Wang Meiqi was startled. "Don't do anything reckless!"
"Okay," Lu Yuan said flatly.
The group soon arrived at the scene. A pungent smell of blood nearly made them gag. They looked into the apartment building and saw a middle-aged woman in a cleaner's uniform lying in a pool of blood.
A white-haired old woman was striking the middle-aged woman again and again with an iron cane. "Let's see if you dare leave your cleaning tools lying around in the hallway again!"
Frantic with worry, Wang Meiqi rushed to the middle-aged woman's side. "Mom!!! How are you, Mom?"
The middle-aged woman's face twitched. "I feel a little unwell..."
Wang Meiqi glared at the old woman who had beaten her. "At your age, what gives you the right to hit someone?"
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