Chapter 686

Liu Xu's face was paler than her silk nightgown, and her pearl necklace dangled from her violently heaving chest.

"Da Hammer, this...isn't this too hasty? She just came out..."

Wang Dachui glanced at his wife and said, "Urgent? When you first married me, you rushed to bring your niece to the city. Why didn't you tell me you were in a hurry then?

I said I will no longer support your family. Either you completely break off relations with them and become a member of my family, or I will ask you to leave now."

Liu Zhaodi kowtowed violently, and her forehead hit the tiles with a "dong" sound.

The bruises left in the juvenile detention center had not yet completely disappeared, and the new pain spreading along her spine made her more awake - this was her only chance.

"I do! Aunt, just take me back to sign the agreement. My mother doesn't want to support me at all, she will definitely agree."

Wang Dachui hummed with satisfaction, tapping the table with his short, fat fingers. "That's more like it. Tomorrow morning, go back to Ning County with your aunt and sign all the agreements that need to be signed."

Remember - once you enter my Wang family, you must understand the rules. If you cause trouble again like before, I have plenty of ways to make you come back in again."

These words pierced the back of Liu Zhaodi's neck like an icicle. She thought of the rust on the iron door of the juvenile detention center, and her nails dug deep into her palms.

But when she raised her head, she forced a flattering smile on her face: "Don't worry, uncle, I will be obedient."

Liu Zhaodi was arranged to stay in the second bedroom. Although this room was not very big, it was also finely decorated.

There were a few old clothes that Liu Xu no longer wore hanging in the closet, and a half-empty bottle of perfume on the dressing table.

She sprayed a little on her wrist and inhaled the luxurious aroma intoxicatingly.

Late at night, Liu Zhaodi lay on the soft bed in the second bedroom. The long-lost feeling of relaxation made her toss and turn.

I fell asleep after a long time, with the electric fan on and a thin quilt emitting a faint fragrance in my arms.

Wang Dachui's words kept echoing in his dream: "To be my daughter, just bowing to me is not enough."

The strange light in his eyes became clearer in the darkness, like the green light in the eyes of a wolf staring at its prey.

She was awakened by a nightmare in the second half of the night. She dreamed that she was back behind the iron bars of the juvenile detention center. The older sister in the same cell was approaching with a toothbrush handle, and Wang Dachui was standing outside the iron gate, sneering.

She sat up suddenly, her forehead covered in cold sweat.

Outside the window, a cold moon hangs high in the sky, and the hustle and bustle of the city has subsided, like a trap, or like a ladder leading to a new life.

Liu Zhaodi closed her eyes. This time, she dreamed that she was wearing an exquisite dress and a pearl necklace, sitting in a luxury car, while Su Miao could only stand by the road, looking up at her...

The next morning, Liu Zhaodi had no change of clothes and was still wearing the dress she had worn yesterday.

While washing up, she saw herself in the bathroom mirror. Her hair was messy because of the nightmare, and there was a faint blue-black mark under her eyes.

She turned on the faucet, the cold water splashed on her face, and she tried hard to act better.

Liu Zhaodi clenched her fists, her knuckles pressing against the cold tiles.

If Wang Dachui wanted to be "decent", then she would pretend to be decent; if he wanted to be "obedient", then she would bite her teeth and swallow it.

At breakfast, Wang Dachui sat in the main seat reading the newspaper, Liu Xu said nothing, Liu Zhaodi lowered her head and ate breakfast in small bites, trying to make herself look gentle and well-behaved, and then she and her aunt sent her uncle out.

Before leaving, Wang Dachui said to Liu Xu, "I won't be using the car at the company today. I'll have the driver take you back to Ning County later.

Before we go back and sign the agreement, take her to the department store to buy some things. Buy her some clothes and shoes, don't make her look so shabby."

Liu Xu responded softly.

On the way to Ning County, Liu Xu kept looking out the window until the car drove out of the city, then she suddenly spoke:

"Zhao Di, have you really thought it through? Once you sign the agreement, there's no turning back. After all, your parents are still alive. Are you sure you want to disown them?"

Liu Zhaodi looked at the farmland rapidly receding outside the car window, and thought of her father who was stupid enough to put her in jail, the slaps her mother gave her every time she was drunk, and the younger brother who was waiting to suck her blood.

Turning back? She never turned back.

She wants to live the good life her aunt has now, but she definitely doesn't want to raise a younger brother like her aunt!

She turned her head, with just the right amount of earnestness on her face:

"Aunt, I just want to live a good life with you. You don't have to worry about the Liu family being extinct. My brother is still here."

Liu Xu's lips moved, but she didn't say anything in the end. She took out a powder compact from her bag to touch up her makeup. The mirror reflected the deep wrinkles between her eyebrows.

The old house in Ning County was more dilapidated than she remembered. Liu Zhaodi's mother was feeding chickens when she saw the car parked at the door, and the feed bowl in her hand fell to the ground with a clang.

"Big sister, you came to see us? You haven't been here for a long time! I'll go call Xiaobao out!"

Wu Hua excitedly stepped forward and wanted to hold Liu Xu's hand, but she didn't show any expression towards her daughter whom she hadn't seen for a long time.

Liu Xu raised her hand to stroke her hair, avoiding her movements without leaving a trace, pointed at Liu Zhaodi and said:

"Sister-in-law, Zhaodi has been released. Don't you want to go see her?"

Wu Hua only then noticed that the girl following Liu Xu was actually her own daughter. She frowned and said,

"You're released? When did you get out? Then go get a job. Your family can't afford to support you."

"Sister-in-law... let's go inside and talk."

Although Liu Zhaodi's parents are still alive, her father is in prison, her mother has no formal job, and has to support her younger brother, which meets the conditions of being a child who is unable to support his or her children due to special difficulties.

Liu Xu and Wang Dachui do not have their own children, and have sufficient ability to raise, educate and protect the adopted person, and also meet the conditions for adoption.

With the consent of both parties, the signed agreement is legally binding. Wang Dachui asked Liu Xu to sign the agreement first. As for when the formal adoption procedures will be completed, it depends on Liu Zhaodi's subsequent performance.

The signing of the agreement went extremely smoothly. The mother counted the thousand-yuan bill that Liu Xu handed over and muttered, "Finally, I got rid of this jinx."

Liu Xiaobao was held back a grade because of his poor grades. Even at such a grown-up he still had to tap his fingers to do math problems. Even so, Liu Xu still put a 50-yuan bill into his pocket.

When she was leaving, her mother chased her out and stuffed a cloth bag into Liu Zhaodi's hand: "Inside are your childhood clothes, take them..."

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Liu Xu: "She has nothing to do with you anymore, so don't keep her things."

As the car drove away from the village, Liu Zhaodi saw her mother standing on the side of the road in the rearview mirror, her figure getting smaller and smaller.

She suddenly remembered that when she was a child, her mother had carried her on her back along this road. At that time, there was no cement road here and the place was dusty every day. She also believed that the name "Zhao Di" could really bring her a younger brother and happiness.