It was evening when Xia Enruo and Gu Shaoxuan returned to the medical university's shop.

As soon as I entered the door, Tian Xiuli hurriedly came out to greet me.

"Xia, you're finally back! If you hadn't come back, your uncle and aunt would have made things so difficult for me!"

Tian Xiuli had a mournful face, and her tone suggested that she had suffered a great injustice.

After Zhang Baozhu and Wang Yue'e finished their meal, they ordered her to pour tea and wipe her face with a towel, exploiting her like a servant and keeping her busy for a moment.

According to Wang Yue'e and Zhang Baozhu, "Since we're paying her a salary, this money isn't easy to earn. We have to make good use of her and squeeze her dry by making her work hard."

Xia Enru frowned slightly after hearing this.

"Sister-in-law, are you talking about my uncle and aunt?"

Seeing that Xia Enruo didn't believe her, Tian Xiuli quickly added:

"Yes, an elderly couple came this afternoon, saying they were your uncle and aunt, and they came to see you. I arranged for them to sit down in the lobby and wait for you. You see, they're right there?"

Tian Xiuli pointed to the spot with Xia Enruo.

Zhang Baozhu was sitting there, his face flushed, picking his teeth.

Wang Yue'e sat cross-legged, drinking her soda.

Why are they here? They're like persistent ghosts.

Xia Enruo walked over, and the two of them immediately perked up when they saw her, standing up from their chairs.

"What brings you here? What do you want with me?"

Xia Enru spoke first.

“Xia Enruo, we asked you to come here today because your grandfather is sick and hospitalized, and he needs to pay a lot of medical expenses every day. You are his granddaughter, so you should share some of the burden.”

Wang Yue'e took out the medical bill from the county hospital and prepared to hand it to her.

"That's right, you own such a big restaurant, you must have plenty of money. We also had to let you know that your grandfather was hospitalized. Here are the medical expenses for the past few days of hospitalization, you can reimburse them as well!"

Xia Enruo glanced at the two of them and, as expected, they still had that same mean expression.

Suddenly, she recalled the scene of the original owner being kicked out of the house. Wang Yue'e was holding a broom used for sweeping the yard and whipping the original owner again and again, gritting her teeth and cursing vicious curses.

Zhang Baozhu threw a stick, which hit the original owner on the head. The original owner grimaced in pain and lost his shoes while running on the road.

“I don’t want to see these notes, and there’s no need to. Besides, what does his hospitalization have to do with me? Why should I share the medical expenses?”

Upon hearing this, Zhang Baozhu, emboldened by alcohol, looked embarrassed.

“He is your maternal grandfather and your mother’s father, so you should share the burden. Xia Enruo, don’t forget that if it weren’t for my Zhang family taking you from the orphanage and raising you, you would have starved to death long ago.”

Xia Enruo immediately thought it was utter nonsense.

She recalled that when the original owner was a child, she went back to her adoptive mother's home, and she was simply unloved by her uncle and grandmother.

All the delicious food and fun toys she brought back were hidden away by Zhang Guohong, and she wasn't allowed to eat anything.

They chased the mother and daughter back home that very day, not even offering them a place to stay overnight.

"Old Zhang's family raised me? Are you kidding me? Have I ever eaten a single grain of rice or drunk a single bowl of water from your family?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Baozhu raised his voice even higher.

“My sister is from the Zhang family. She raised you, so you owe her a debt of gratitude for the rest of your life. It’s only right that you pay her money. You can never repay her kindness in this lifetime.”

“Without my sister supporting you, you wouldn’t be able to run such a big restaurant now. This restaurant is half owned by my Zhang family, so hurry up and give me the money.”

What kind of bullshit is this? The original owner and her adoptive mother were almost killed by the Zhang family, and now they're being treated with kindness? This is a complete distortion of the truth.

“Zhang Baozhu, my mother raised me with the Xia family’s money. She even owes her survival to the Xia family’s care. You’ve sucked her blood for half her life, you’re just short of killing her and selling her as meat. How dare you talk about gratitude or affection in front of me? There is absolutely no gratitude or affection between me and your Zhang family.”

"Your father's illness and hospitalization is your family's retribution and divine punishment. What do you call that? You call it 'serves you right'!"

Xia Enruo showed no fear whatsoever. Thinking of all the memories she had, she wished she could shoot the two of them to avenge the original owner of this body.

"You...you little beast, you're so heartless. Not only did you not visit your grandfather in the hospital, but you even said he deserved it. You're such an ungrateful wretch."

Wang Yue'e also got anxious when she saw this, and suddenly started to lash out.

"Xia Enruo, you ungrateful wretch. We raised you and now you turn your back on us. Fine! Now that you've made money, you're starting to look down on your poor relatives."

"Customers in the store, you be the judge. Xia Enruo opened the store and made money, but now her beloved grandfather is in the hospital, and she actually says 'serves him right,' what a heartless wretch. And you still come to the store to give her money?"

"You probably don't know about her man. Xia Enruo is an abandoned bastard, left at the gate of an orphanage and no one wanted her. If my sister-in-law hadn't taken her home, she probably would have starved to death long ago."

"Now that she's successful, her family is in trouble, and not only does she not help, she even says it's retribution. How could you marry such a heartless woman?"

Wang Yue'e saw Gu Shaoxuan complaining to him about Xia Enruo's background.

Seeing that things were not going well, Gu Shaoxuan immediately stood in front of his wife.

“I know my wife better than any of you. It's you who, without even knowing the facts, keep causing trouble. Get out of the shop right now, or I won't be polite!”

Gu Shaoxuan frowned, his tone cold and serious, which startled Wang Yue'e, causing her to take two steps back.

“You little brat, you and she are practically inseparable. Why should we leave? This shop belongs to the Zhang family. Give us half the money and we’ll leave.”

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