Chapter 5: Time to Settle the Accounts

The next moment, she leaped up, almost pouncing on him, and slammed down on Lu Weidong, throwing him heavily to the ground.

Shen Cuifen raised one hand, spat into her palm, and then smeared it evenly on her cheek.

Then came a flurry of slaps.

She slapped him while angrily berating him.

"You bastard! So you were the one who wanted to sell my daughter! You even knocked me unconscious and slapped me when I wasn't looking, right? Very well! Today, we're going to fight to the death. Either you're finished, or I'll fight you to the bitter end!"

Since marrying into the Lu family, Shen Cuifen has worked tirelessly from dawn till dusk every day.

Everything, inside and out, fell on her shoulders alone.

Everyone in the neighborhood knows that she is a hardworking and virtuous wife.

And what about Lu Weidong?

He spends all his time drinking and gambling.

They are unwilling to shoulder even the most basic family responsibilities.

Don't let his burly, big and strong appearance fool you.

That strong appearance was just for show; in reality, he had no strength to resist Shen Cuifen at all.

After only a few blows, Lu Weidong's face began to swell up, looking quite frightening.

Blood was gushing from his nose, but he still dared not beg for mercy.

She berated him while continuing to slap him, her nose bleeding.

"It's all your fault! It's all because of you! If it weren't for you being such a father, how could our children have met with such a tragedy?! Tell me!"

Shen Cuifen's eyes were bloodshot.

At this moment, Old Mrs. Zhao finally came to her senses and anxiously called out to Lu Xiuwei, who was standing there dumbfounded, "Xiuwei, why are you still standing there like an idiot? Your mother has gone mad! If you don't go up, your father will really be beaten badly!"

Lu Xiuwei rushed over and hugged her mother tightly.

"Mom, please stop! Stop hitting him! If you keep going, I'm afraid Dad won't be able to take it..."

The atmosphere inside the room was terribly oppressive.

Lu Weidong's face was covered in blood, and his expression was full of pain, making him look quite terrifying.

Fearing that her daughter might be implicated if she got too close, Shen Cuifen let go of Lu Weidong's hand and stood up to calm herself down.

Seeing this, Lu Weidong knew he had a chance to escape. He immediately rolled to his feet and ran out the door in a disheveled state, not even bothering to pick up his shoes that had fallen off.

"Shen Cuifen, you just wait! I'm going to divorce you this time! How dare you treat me like this, you shrew?"

After finally running out of the yard, Lu Weidong turned around, pointed at the house, and cursed loudly.

"Divorce? Hmph, whoever doesn't want a divorce is a bastard! If you want a divorce, I'll get it done right now! Immediately!"

Shen Cuifen responded without backing down, and even stepped outside.

These words terrified Lu Weidong once again, making him think that she was going to pounce on him and chase after him again. He had no choice but to bite the bullet and run away as fast as he could.

Seeing his cowardly behavior, she cursed him as a spineless coward, then bent down and threw a shoe at him hard.

That shoe almost knocked Lu Weidong to the ground.

When he looked down and realized that it was actually his own shoe, he quickly grabbed one and hurriedly put it on, then turned around and ran away as if his life depended on it.

"Shen Cuifen, you just wait!"

"Shen Cuifen, do you have a death wish? You dare to be so cruel to your own husband. Do you believe I'll have Jianguo kick you all out of here!"

Grandma Zhao stood at the door, hands on her hips, shouting angrily.

"Look, do you think they'll still take you in?"

Shen Cuifen, whose anger had begun to subside, was reignited by these sarcastic remarks.

She picked up the half of the broken bottle, stained with blood, again, gripped the edge tightly, and rushed straight towards Old Mrs. Zhao.

"You old hag, haven't you hit me enough?"

An angry shout accompanied his rapid approach.

She rushed forward, shouting furiously.

Grandma Zhao was startled and stuttered a few times before backing away.

Unfortunately, those tiny feet couldn't move at all.

Seeing that she couldn't avoid it, in desperation, she could only force herself to remain calm and said, "What, you really want to kill me? If you dare touch me, I'll put you in jail and have you prosecuted!"

Shen Cuifen stopped a foot away, staring intently at that mean-spirited face.

Recalling the grievances and oppression she had suffered over the years, she was involuntarily stunned, her movements stopped, and her gaze became unfocused.

"Hmph, now you're scared, aren't you?"

Grandma Zhao noticed her emotional fluctuations and continued to suppress her verbally.

"Back then, if you hadn't deliberately extorted my son, do you really think someone like you would have been allowed into the Lu family?"

She recalled her relationship with Lu Weidong's younger sister, Lu Shuixian, when she was eighteen.

A wave of bitterness welled up in Shen Cuifen's heart.

At that time, Shui Xian called Shen Cui Fen to go to the river to bathe, saying that the weather was hot and humid and playing in the water would be refreshing. So they went to the riverbank laughing and joking.

But no one expected that when they came out of the water after washing, their clothes on the shore had vanished.

When Narcissus went to ask for help, she made an excuse to go to the toilet.

However, not long after she left, before Shen Cuifen could even emerge from the water, Lu Weidong quietly appeared, approached her unsuspectingly, and ultimately forcibly tackled her to the ground...

Lu Weidong insisted that Shen Cuifen had seduced him, saying that she was the one who took his hand under the old locust tree at the village entrance that day.

When Shen Cuifen's parents learned of this, they were so angry that they almost fainted. They were also worried that if the matter escalated, their daughter's reputation would be ruined.

In the future, let alone getting married, he wouldn't even dare to leave his house.

After weighing the options, they ultimately had no choice but to have nothing.

Without uttering a single word of defense, she tearfully married her daughter to Lu Weidong.

Decades later, Lu Shuixian inadvertently revealed a sentence.

Shen Cuifen suddenly realized that this was a conspiracy.

The seemingly kind but actually ruthless old woman was the mastermind.

Her only goal was to save on the bride price.

All in order to avoid spending a single extra penny, they managed to find a wife for their son.

A pure and innocent girl was thus labeled a "slut" in the eyes of others.

He entered the Lu family carrying shame for the rest of his life.

That's why, from the very first day Shen Cuifen stepped into the Lu family's doorstep, she was destined to have no good days ahead of her.

In this family, she was always treated as inferior.

She lived year-round under the cold words of her mother-in-law and the indifferent gaze of her husband.

He endured most of his life in repression and humiliation.

"The debts that must be repaid, and the grudges that must be settled!"

Shen Cuifen's eyes were cold and sharp.

"Not one can be missing!"

She sneered, a sarcastic smile playing on her lips, and slowly approached Old Lady Zhao, who was sitting in a rattan chair, cursing and swearing.

This frightened Old Lady Zhao so much that her face turned pale.

With a thud, he collapsed to the ground.

"What do you want to do? Are you going to attack me?"

Grandma Zhao shrank back in fear.