Chapter 125 The Abused Woman (ETL) Part 1
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Chapter 125 Disobedience Means Death
Gu Ye checked the time and saw that it was already 9.00 pm. If he drove back, he wouldn’t get to school until late at night, meaning he’d only get about 2 hours of sleep before having to get up and go for his exams. Besides, things weren’t finished here, and Xie Cheng and the others couldn’t leave.
Gu Ye thought for a moment, but having no other choice, he whimpered and called Yu Ze for help, “Honey, I need to be at school tomorrow morning, but I haven’t finished my work here.”
Yu Ze heard the grievance in Gu Ye’s voice and coaxed, “Then I’ll help you to ask for leave tomorrow?”
“I can’t ask for leave. I have an exam tomorrow. If I don’t take this mock exam, the teacher will definitely want to have a talk and deduct my credits. How can I graduate if I lose credits?” Gu Ye wailed, “I don’t want to stay in school forever. I’m not a baby anymore.” At this point, Gu Ye was on the verge of tears, “I’ve only been able to stay in school this long because I don’t want to upset my dad.”
Hearing Gu Ye’s aggrieved tone, Yu Ze comforted him, “Don’t worry, I’ll have a helicopter pick you up tomorrow morning. You can go to sleep now, get up early tomorrow, and you’ll make it. That way you won’t fail any courses, and you’ll graduate early.”
The suggestion made Gu Ye immediately feel relieved, and he praised Yu Ze admiringly, “With you here, I’m not afraid of anything. My family’s Yu Ze is the most reliable man in the world.”
Yu Ze’s breath caught in his throat; he knew he’d eventually succumb to Gu Ye’s sweet words.
Gu Ye happily said, “Alright then, I’m going to sleep so I won’t be cold (doomed1) tomorrow.”
Yu Ze chuckled, “With me here, you won’t be cold (doomed).”
“Love you, giving you a heart-shaped gesture as big as an airplane.”
“Received. Love you too, goodnight.”
After hanging up, Gu Ye’s pitiful expression vanished. He knocked on Xie Cheng’s door and told him, “I’m leaving early tomorrow, but I’ll be back after the exam. Keep an eye on things here.”
Xie Cheng asked with a mischievous grin, “Will you make it?”
Gu Ye proudly replied, “Of course! My family’s President Yu is sending a helicopter to pick me up tomorrow morning.”
Xie Cheng was incredibly impressed. “Wow, acting cute (sajiao) is so effective! Does Brother Yu have absolutely no bottom line?”
“Pei!” Gu Ye spat and said disdainfully, “When someone loves you, your coquettishness works; when they don’t, you don’t even have the right to be coquettish. To put it bluntly, it’s because we have a good relationship and you, a single dog, simply won’t understand.”
Xie Cheng’s lips twitched. “I feel like hitting you.”
“You still have the nerve to hit me? I haven’t even beaten you up for the last time you set me up.” Gu Ye waved his hand dismissively. “But I’ve written it down in my little notebook, so for the trip this time, you won’t get paid.”
Gu Ye went back to bed early with his mind filled with thoughts of tomorrow’s exam. And at the moment, Wu Guilan had already arrived at her house.
Wu Guilan’s family was discussing Fang Mei’s situation. The old lady furiously said, “Licheng was arrested, and we don’t even know how he is now. We don’t have any relatives here, so we can’t find out. It’s all Fang Mei’s fault! That good-for-nothing, a jinx to her husband and children. She lost her child and sent her husband to jail, and now she dares to ask for a divorce! I’m so angry!”
The old man kept smoking, one cigarette after another, filling the room with a thick, pungent smoke.
The old woman, unable to bear the smoke, asked irritably, “Can’t you say something too?”
The old man replied helplessly, “What can I do?”
Finding an outlet for her anger, the old woman’s fury exploded. “It’s all your fault for being so incompetent! Your son has been arrested, your daughter is gone, and when you die, there won’t even be anyone left to smash your old pot.”
“Sigh!” The old man sighed helplessly. His wife was always so sharp-tongued; whatever he said would only result in her scolding, so he might as well remain silent.
Just then, a gust of cold wind blew in, opening the tightly closed door. The old man didn’t think anything of it, but the old woman, remembering what Gu Ye had said at the hospital that day, felt a sudden chill and quickly got up to close the door. She had just reached the doorway when a bright yellow shadow flashed before her eyes in the blink of an eye. The old woman looked up in horror and saw—it was a funeral shroud!
Upon recognizing the ‘person’ in the shroud, the old woman was so frightened she fell heavily to the ground. “Guilan?!”
The old man, hearing the commotion, stood up. “What nonsense are you spouting? Our daughter has already passed her 5-7 mourning period/35th day… Guilan?!”
Seeing Wu Guilan’s grotesque appearance, the elderly couple froze, too terrified to move. Wu Guilan looked at her parents with a complex expression and coldly asked, “What are you afraid of? I’m your own daughter.”
The old woman snapped out of her daze and burst into tears, “Daughter! You died with your eyes open2! Mom knows!”
Wu Guilan asked sarcastically, “You even know how I died?”
The old woman cried, “Yes, we know! It was that little bastard Fang Ping who murdered you! The entire Fang family deserves a terrible death!”
Wu Guilan scoffed and pointed to her head, “See this bloody hole in my head?”
The two elderly people looked up and nearly fainted from fright. “Daughter, I saw it. What exactly do you want? Tell your mother.”
Wu Guilan said coldly, “I want revenge.”
Mother Wu said fearfully, “If you want revenge, why did you come home? Go find Fang Ping!”
Wu Guilan said grimly, “If you hadn’t forced me, would I have married Fang Ping? I’m dead now, haven’t you realized your mistakes? You forced me to my death!”
“No! How could we bear to force you to your death? You died in the Fang family.”
Wu Guilan could only sneer, her heart filled with coldness as she said, “You married me off to their family just to find a wife for my brother. Don’t you know what kind of life I’ve lived all these years? I’ve run back several times, and you’ve sent me back every time, completely disregarding my life. If you had treated me even a little better, he wouldn’t have beaten me to death.”
The two elderly people trembled with fear. The old lady, no longer daring to throw a tantrum, cried with snot and tears streaming down her face, “Mom doesn’t want to see you like this, but there’s nothing I can do. Your brother has had disability since he was little. What will we do if we don’t find him a wife? Our family line will end! If I had known you would end up like this, I wouldn’t have done it.”
Wu Guilan sneered, “Forget it. You didn’t say that when you sent me back.”
“Guilan, my daughter, I beg you, what do you want? Dad will grant you anything. Just tell us, and we’ll fulfill your wish. You can rest in peace now!”
The old lady also tried to coax Guilan, “What do you want? Tell your parents, and we’ll try our best to make it up to you.”
Wu Guilan’s face darkened. “I want a divorce.”
The two elderly people were stunned. “How can you get a divorce when you’re dead?”
“I don’t want to be buried in their ancestral grave!”
“How do we do that?” the old man said with difficulty. “Should we move your grave back? But they won’t agree to that; there’s no such thing as moving graves after death.”
“I want a divorce even though I’m dead! Move my grave back and bury me in a separate place, or I’ll take you all with me!”
At this point, Wu Guilan went berserk, violently overturning the table. The leftover food and unwashed plates were smashed all over the floor, along with shards of glass. The old couple was too frightened to look.
Seeing their reaction, Wu Guilan picked up the television and threw it to the ground. She then picked up other items from the table and smashed them on the floor. These things were all bought with money, and the old couple felt a pang of heartache. “Girl, stop it! Please don’t smash things! We’ll agree, okay?”
“I’ll go talk to them tomorrow and have your ashes moved back! Stop it!”
Wu Guilan said coldly, “Make my brother divorce too.”
The two elderly people anxiously wiped away tears. “Why do you want your brother to get a divorce?”
Wu Guilan said fiercely, “Send her back to her family!”
The old lady refused with difficulty, “No, what kind of wife can he still find after this divorce?”
Wu Guilan asked sarcastically, “Fang Mei can’t have children anymore. What’s the point of keeping her? Our family line will end!”
“But she can work!” the old woman blurted out, making Wu Guilan feel utterly disgusted. Her eyes were red. “The life she lived is the same life I lived. Giving birth, working, supporting the family! This is our fate!”
After saying that, Wu Guilan lunged forward like a madwoman, grabbing her father with one hand and her mother with the other, her ghostly face contorted in horror. The bloody hole in her head was clearly visible, with brain matter still hanging at the edges. Her blood-red eyes were chillingly cold. “Look at me! I’m your own flesh and blood too! Your own flesh and blood!”
The old couple was so frightened they almost fainted. The old woman couldn’t even muster the energy to cry anymore and said in terror, “Divorce! I’ll let them get a divorce tomorrow. We’ll agree to whatever you say, we’ll agree to everything! Stop making a scene, let your parents go.”
“You’ve reminded me, there’s still my brother. If you dare to back out, I’ll take my brother with me, hahahahaha…” Wu Guilan laughed maniacally, glaring hatefully at the elderly couple. “I truly hate you, I’ll hate you until I die!” As she laughed, a few lines of bloody tears streamed down her face. “I’m your own child too, your own child!”
The old couple trembled with fear, repeatedly apologizing, “I’m sorry, daughter, I’m sorry!”
“What I want is never apologies.” Wu Guilan didn’t want to hear anymore. After walking out the door, bloody tears streamed down her face. She murmured softly, “Just a few bits of fair love.”
Not long after, Wu Guilan returned to her former home. The family was still awake; they had seen Wu Guilan’s ghost in the evening, so the whole family was terrified and hadn’t recovered yet. Only Fang Yuzhou, the only child at home, noticed the family’s pale faces and hid in her room. She said she was going to sleep, but actually, she was afraid of saying something wrong and becoming the family’s punching bag.
The Fang family, which consists of the elderly couple and Fang Ping, sat together, all pale-faced and still shaken. The old woman said, “Was that young Master deliberately scaring us earlier? Is there really a ghost?”
The old man said with a grim face, “Nonsense, if it’s just one person who saw it, we can still say that person might have imagined it. But we all saw it; how could it be an imagination?”
“What are we going to do?”
The whole family was pale and full of worry. They were also worried about Fang Mei. The old woman asked anxiously, “I wonder if Licheng has returned to their home yet?”
The old man said coldly, “If he doesn’t come back, we can at least have a couple more days of peace and quiet.”
Everyone knew Fang Mei was having a hard time, but there was nothing they could do. Having Wu Guilan dying in their home was like handing the Wu family a sword of Damocles; no matter how much trouble Fang Mei’s mother-in-law caused, the Fang family dared not say a word.
“What if Fang Mei insists on a divorce?”
Fang Ping quickly replied, “We can’t let her get a divorce. Won’t the Wu family come after me after the divorce? If she comes back, I’ll have to pay for Wu Guilan’s life.”
The old lady was exhausted. “We have to find a way to satisfy everyone.”
The Fang old man, smoking a cigarette, frowned and said, “There’s no way to have it both ways. Things have come to this point; all we can do is advise her to try to make the best of a life for herself. She can’t have children anymore, so what good will a divorce do? Who would want her? As the saying goes, a good woman doesn’t marry twice. If she gets divorced, it won’t sound good.”
The old lady nodded. “That’s true.”
The Fang family of three was discussing something when there was a loud BANG outside the door. The duck in the yard suddenly started quacking loudly in pain. The old man was leaning on his cane, so he was unsteady on his feet. Since the old woman was closer to the door, she went to open it instead. As soon as she opened the door, a stench of blood hit her in the face. Being splattered with blood, the old woman screamed in fright. Then she accidentally slammed her head against the door with a THUD, almost knocking herself unconscious.
The two men quickly stood up, and then Wu Guilan smashed the dead duck against Fang Ping’s face, covering him in blood.
“Guilan?!” Upon recognizing Wu Guilan, the whole family retreated in terror.
Raw word count: 7649 (whole chapter)
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