Ni Sitian felt increasingly cold inside. He wanted to get Xu Tingchuan's money from her, yet he slandered Xu Tingchuan's character, making it sound like he was doing it for her own good, as if she would be ungrateful if she didn't.

With her family so eager to squeeze money out of her, how could she possibly hold her head high in her husband's family? Xu Haicheng and Jin Rulan are indeed treating her well now, but what would they think of her if they knew what she was doing?

Her father didn't consider any of these issues; he only cared about making money for himself.

“Of course, this money isn’t free. Consider it a loan from Tingchuan. Once the project starts and we make a profit, we’ll pay you back immediately,” Ni Qianshan added, seeing that Ni Sitian hadn’t spoken.

“I don’t have two million,” Ni Sitian said bluntly.

"Nonsense! Xu Tingchuan's company is worth over 10 billion! And you're telling us he can't even come up with two million?" Ni Ziqi had thoroughly investigated Xu Tingchuan before. Let alone two million, he should be able to come up with twenty million or even two hundred million.

“His money is none of my business. I don’t have two million,” Ni Sitian said coldly.

"How can that be! A man's pampering of you now is only temporary; money is what matters. He wouldn't normally withhold household expenses, would he? You were still in school when you married him, right? You must have had living expenses and tuition fees." Ni Qianshan's expression became somewhat anxious and ferocious. "You've been married for almost a year now, haven't you? He must have managed to scrape some money out of you!"

"Dad, she just doesn't want to lend us the money. Look at her bag, it's worth tens of thousands of yuan. Xu Tingchuan is so good to her, how could he not give her money!" Ni Ziqi added fuel to the fire. "And her earrings, they might be worth hundreds of thousands of yuan!"

"Sitian, do you not want to lend me money?!" Ni Qianshan's face darkened, and he looked at her angrily.

“I said no, and that means no.” Ni Sitian stood up, took out the 20,000 yuan she had just put in her bag, and returned it to Ni Qianshan: “Since you’re in such a hurry for money, I’m not accepting this dowry.”

As she finished speaking, she turned to leave, but Ni Qianshan shouted, "Stop right there!"

Ni Sitian turned around and said coldly, "Dad, don't come to me with this kind of thing again. I won't take money from him to support my family!"

"Fine, you're married now, so you think you're all grown up!" Ni Qianshan rushed up to Ni Sitian, pointed at her nose and cursed, "I only asked you to get two million, which is just a drop in the ocean for you, but you kept making excuses. You're just like your heartless mother, wishing the whole family were dead!"

His reprimand attracted onlookers. Ni Sitian felt embarrassed and didn't want to listen anymore, so she walked away quickly without saying a word.

"Dad, she's gone too far! I'm going to chase after her!" Ni Ziqi rushed out of the coffee shop and headed towards Ni Sitian.

Caught off guard, Ni Sitian's ear was suddenly yanked hard. She screamed and her other ear was also pulled. She covered her ear in pain.

She turned around and saw Ni Ziqi standing in front of her, holding her earring in her hand.

Ni Ziqi looked down at her and waved the pair of blood-stained earrings in front of her. "I'll accept these as a two million advance payment."

Ni Sitian opened her hand, revealing blood on her palm. She looked at Ni Ziqi with a cold and stern gaze.

"What do you want to do?" Ni Ziqi suddenly felt a little afraid of her for some reason.