Chapter 104 Joy Turns to Sorrow

Cheng Jiajia and Yu Junsheng had just come out of the Bai family's house, and the two were whispering about what had happened that day.

To be honest, Qin Ziwen's underlings have tricked three people at once. They've not only dashed Bai Xiaohui and Bai Zhenzhu's hopes of finding a rich husband, but also sowed discord between Qin Weimin and Bai Zhenzhu. With this rift now in place, it seems unlikely that Qin Weimin will ever be able to be affectionate with Bai Zhenzhu again.

This man is ruthless and won't even spare his own father. He's not afraid at all that the Bai family mother and daughter might retaliate against Qin Weimin if they get angry.

He's a ruthless person.

Cheng Jiajia asked curiously, "Do you think this marriage is still valid?"

Yu Junsheng whispered, "They're married now that they've registered their marriage, they don't care about your family situation."

Actually, this isn't exactly a new thing.

In the past, some people have exaggerated their actual situation during blind dates to deceive women into marriage. For example, they might borrow money to buy expensive items like sewing machines, bicycles, or watches to save face. Only after the woman marries them does she realize that this is not the case. But there's nothing she can do; what's done is done, and she can only accept it and work hard together to pay off the debt.

Yu Junsheng had heard the older women in the courtyard say a few times that Bai Xiaohui's situation was similar, except that Qi Baifan was exceptionally bold and actually fabricated a completely false cadre family background.

This isn't just about putting on a brave face; in later times, this would be considered a promising con artist.

That being said, Bai Xiaohui and Qi Baifan are legally husband and wife after registering their marriage. If Bai Xiaohui wants to separate, the only option is divorce.

However, Cheng Jiajia didn't think Qi Baifan would leave.

And that is indeed the case.

After the crowd of onlookers dispersed from the Bai family compound, the burly man surnamed Wang also left with two middle-aged swindlers.

While Bai Zhenzhu was making a scene with Qin Weimin, Qi Baifan's mind was racing to find a solution. Now that everyone had left, he looked at Bai Xiaohui with deep affection and said, "Xiaohui, let me explain..."

Unexpectedly, upon hearing his voice, Bai Xiaohui seemed to have flipped a switch, crying and screaming, giving him no chance to speak.

"Mom, I want a divorce! I want a divorce!"

"If other people knew I married the son of a sanitation worker, they would laugh at me to death, boohoo!"

Qi Baifan's face stiffened. Although he knew that his parents' jobs were not respectable, he still felt very uncomfortable hearing Bai Xiaohui's disdain.

Damn it, you bitch! Your mother's just a cleaner in a factory, what's she so smug about!

He suppressed his anger and said sincerely, "Xiaohui, let me explain. I had no choice but to say that."

"I won't listen, I won't listen, I won't listen! Get out, get out of my house!" Bai Xiaohui covered her ears and shook her head frantically, refusing to communicate with him.

Qi Baifan: "..."

Qi Baifan seemed hurt by her, and looked at Bai Zhenzhu with a wronged expression, "Mom, Xiaohui and I have already registered our marriage, we are family, this is my home, where can I go?"

As a result, upon hearing the words "getting the marriage certificate," Bai Xiaohui cried even more bitterly.

"Waaaaah... I don't want to marry you, no! Waaaaah..."

Qi Baifan said helplessly, "Xiaohui, we are already married, we are husband and wife."

Bai Zhenzhu's forehead throbbed with pain.

Bai Zhenzhu had experienced too much stress today and was no longer in the mood to comfort her brainless, foolish daughter.

She looked at Qi Baifan again with a gloomy face, as if she had never known him before.

After a long pause, he finally spoke in a cold voice:

“Xiao Qi, we know about your family situation. You didn’t tell me and Xiao Hui this before. We need to start over with this marriage.”

Qi Baifan panicked, then looked pained. "Mom, now you know about my family situation. Tell me, given our family's circumstances, if I pursue Xiaohui, will you agree? Will Xiaohui agree?"

White Pearl remained silent.

Qi Baifan said with a bitter smile, "See? This is the result of what I said. Xiaohui and I will never have a future."

His eyes reddened slightly. "I just... I just love Xiaohui too much. I was afraid she wouldn't agree to be my girlfriend, so I resorted to this tactic."

Bai Zhenzhu frowned. "You...you and Xiaohui knew each other before?"

Qi Baifan lowered his head, covered his face with his hands, and said in a low voice, "I've liked Xiaohui for a long time, but Xiaohui doesn't know me, and I know she wouldn't accept someone as insecure as me, so I never dared to bother her. A while ago, I happened to hear that Uncle Qin was looking for a partner for Xiaohui. I couldn't bear to think about her marrying someone else, so I went to Qin Ziwen and mentioned it to him a few times. I didn't expect it to actually work out."

Bai Zhenzhu frowned even more deeply, her doubts growing. Was what this boy was saying true?

Bai Xiaohui, however, had stopped crying at some point. Her face was flushed as she looked at Qi Baifan, her eyes sparkling.

Qi Baifan noticed this and was secretly delighted. He immediately looked into Bai Xiaohui's eyes with the same affection he showed even to a dog, and whispered, "Xiaohui, can you forgive me? I really only did something wrong because I love you too much. I don't want to see you marry someone else; I can't live without you."

Bai Xiaohui blushed and turned her face away, saying, "What are you saying!"

But the opposition wasn't as vehement as it had been earlier.

Qi Baifan felt confident and pressed on sincerely.

"Although I'm just a temporary worker at the Housing Management Bureau now, my superiors appreciate and value me. I believe I'll be promoted to a permanent position soon, and I can give Xiaohui a better life. Mom, Xiaohui, can you give me another chance? I promise I'll never lie to you again."

Bai Zhenzhu had already seen her daughter's pathetic state and felt extremely helpless.

Actually, she was skeptical of what Qi Baifan said, but what he said was true; he had already registered his marriage with his daughter.

We're already married, how can we get a divorce?

It's not a big problem that the Qi family isn't well-off. Anyway, Xiao Qi is marrying into the family, so he won't have much to do with them anymore. As long as he can get a permanent position at the housing management bureau, he'll have a secure job, and he'll be a very good match.

If Xiaohui really gets divorced, it's hard to say whether she'll be able to find someone with such good qualities in the future.

If he really likes his daughter, then with some training, he could become a good son-in-law.

After a moment's thought, Bai Zhenzhu made her decision.

The person can stay, but the matter cannot be simply left unresolved.

Otherwise, this person would think that the mother and daughter were easy to fool.

So Bai Zhenzhu took the opportunity to work with Qi Baifan to enact three laws.

1. Cut off all contact with the Qi family. They are not allowed to visit except during holidays, and they are not allowed to give them any money.

2. All future wages will be handed over to Bai Xiaohui.

3. In all matters, big and small, Bai Xiaohui and her daughter Bai Zhenzhu should be the priority.

Qi Baifan was furious, but thinking of the Bai family's house and Bai Xiaohui's soon-to-be-secured job, he reluctantly agreed.

He comforted himself, thinking that as long as he got the house and the job, all the humiliation he endured today would be worth it.

They had just finished discussing things when they heard the Qin family next door making a fuss.

It seems like it was some kind of miscarriage or something.

Qi Baifan was startled. Seeing that the Bai mother and daughter were only slightly surprised for a moment and didn't even move, he asked, "Mom, should we go and help?"

Bai Zhenzhu rolled her eyes and snorted, "We're not going!"

Although she didn't know if Qi Baifan's feelings for Xiaohui were genuine, she was certain that Qin Ziwen, that bastard, had no good intentions in introducing her to Xiaohui.

It serves him right that his wife miscarried; it's karma!

"You're not allowed to go either!" Bai Xiaohui glared at him and said.

Qi Baifan seemed reluctant, but after hesitating for a moment, he still sat down.

"Then I won't go. I'll listen to Xiaohui."

...

Cheng Jiajia and the others also heard the commotion behind them.

The two exchanged a glance.

Goodness, their compound is really lively today, with one strange thing after another, keeping the onlookers very busy.

This melon is too much to eat, really too much to eat...

When they arrived at the Third Hospital, they heard the reason for Wu Meifang's miscarriage.

The two: "..."

Cheng Jiajia's lips twitched. She was truly astonished; how could this possibly work?!

Yu Junsheng was speechless for a long time.

The others also said: "..."

Who are these people?

This morning a woman came to scam a marriage, and now another one has come who she laughed at and miscarried.

Damn it, this is really strange. Strange things happen everywhere, but there are especially many in their yard.

Many people couldn't help but suspect that the feng shui of their courtyard was bad, which was causing trouble for the people living there, hence the many strange occurrences.

No matter how shocked or speechless outsiders were, the Qin family was truly terrified by this sudden turn of events, and they hurriedly took Wu Meifang to the hospital.

Even Qin Jianguo and his wife, who had separated from their family, helped out.

Although the two families have a conflict, they are still blood relatives. If they don't step in on this kind of thing, they'll be drowned in the gossip of everyone in the neighborhood.

As the person in charge of the department, Zou Qianjin couldn't be absent at this time, so he went along. However, his mood was like that of someone going to a funeral.

What we're saying is, isn't Wu Meifang, this pregnant woman, a bit too much of a troublemaker?

What kind of well-behaved pregnant woman is like her, constantly ending up in the hospital every few days? Huh?

He gloated over others' misfortunes, but ended up laughing so hard he miscarried.

He was too embarrassed to tell anyone; it was shameful!

Wu Meifang has really miscarried this time.

The expressions on everyone's faces varied.

Qin Ziwen had a dark face and exuded a gloomy aura.

Aunt Yan looked as if the sky had fallen, utterly devastated, showing none of the joy she had felt just moments before at the Bai family's humiliation.

It's all her fault. If only she hadn't told Meifang about the Bai family.

Qin Jianguo and Sun Hongmei's expressions were rather complicated. They had both heard Wu Meifang's gloating laughter earlier, mocking someone for making them miscarry. This... this was truly something to be said.

Seeing the family's low spirits, the doctor hesitated for a moment before saying, "The pregnant woman's long-term use of cold-natured medications has significantly impacted the health of both mother and fetus. It's likely she'll have a very difficult time conceiving again after this miscarriage." If it weren't for the medication, the fetus wouldn't have been so weak, and wouldn't have... well, let's just say it ended a couple of times. Frankly, the doctor was speechless; in her decades of practice, she had never encountered such a situation.

What?! She can't have children anymore!

Everyone was stunned by the devastating news that Wu Meifang was infertile, and no one paid attention to what the doctor had said.

Only Aunt Yan's face was even paler, and she clutched her collar tightly, as if she couldn't breathe.

It was her; she was the one who harmed her own grandson.

Good heavens, what are we going to do?!

Everyone else was immersed in grief, and no one noticed her unusual behavior.

Only Sun Hongmei's eyes flickered.

She had seen her mother-in-law add something to Wu Meifang's medicine before, and she thought her mother-in-law was adding some kind of tonic to Wu Meifang. Moreover, the two families had already separated at that time, so she didn't say anything. Now that she thinks about it, that's not what happened.

But wasn't the mother-in-law hoping Wu Meifang would give birth to a son? Why would she tamper with her medicine?

Before Sun Hongmei could figure it out, the Wu family, who had somehow heard the news, rushed over.

When they heard that Wu Meifang had miscarried and might not be able to have children in the future, they were devastated.

Brother Wu lunged forward to beat Qin Ziwen, yelling, "You bastard, is this how you promised to take good care of Meifang, causing her to miscarry and become unable to have children? I'll beat you to death, you bastard!"

Qin Ziwen was grabbed by the collar, his eyes rolling back in his head. "Cough cough cough... Big brother, it's my fault..."

Aunt Yan was startled and rushed over to pull him away, saying, "Brother-in-law, let go of the third brother! What does this have to do with him? It wasn't him who caused Meifang's miscarriage!"

Wu's eldest brother, his face contorted with rage, clenched his fist as if to strike her. "If it's not him, then who is it?! It's this bastard! And you all failed to take good care of Meifang! You old hag, if you keep arguing, I'll beat you up!"

Aunt Yan was so frightened that she trembled.

When Aunt Yan inadvertently saw Sun Hongmei standing nearby, a sudden inspiration flashed in her mind.

She pointed at Sun Hongmei and said to the Wu family, "It's her! It's all her fault! If you want to hit someone, hit her, don't hit my son!"

Sun Hongmei looked up in disbelief, "Mom, what did you say? When did I ever harm Wu Meifang? I haven't even spoken to her since we separated the family!"

Aunt Yan glared at Sun Hongmei resentfully, "If Meifang hadn't been pushed down by Junzi and her health hadn't weakened, how could she have miscarried after just a few laughs? It's all your fault!"

Sun Hongmei spat viciously, "Pah! What's it to me! You old man, you should know best how Wu Meifang miscarried! Everyone knows what you've been putting in her medicine all this time!"

These words shocked everyone around.

Qin Ziwen looked at Aunt Yan in shock.

"Mom, why...why did you do this?"

"Ugh! It's all your fault, you old hag! You're the one who caused my daughter's miscarriage, and now she can never have children again!"

Wu's mother lunged fiercely at Aunt Yan.

Aunt Yan retreated in alarm, "Third brother, third brother, stop them! Mom didn't mean it."

Qin Ziwen's face was gloomy, as if he hadn't heard.

Aunt Yan was quickly grabbed by the hair and slapped in the face by Wu's mother.

Qin Jianguo and Qin Ziwen couldn't stand by and watch their mother be bullied, so they went to help and ended up fighting with the Wu family as well.

The neighbors in the compound had no idea what kind of chaotic fight the Qin family had gone through that night.

Soon, news of Wu Meifang's miscarriage reached the compound.

Although it was expected, everyone was still speechless.

Seriously, in all my years, this is the first time I've ever seen such a bizarre reason for miscarriage.

Cheng Jiajia felt that after these incidents, their compound's "reputation" would probably be even greater.

...

Sure enough, the next day when Cheng Jiajia went to work, she was greeted 'kindly' by Old Man Wang.

Old Wang's eyes lit up.

"Xiao Cheng, I heard there was a young woman in your neighborhood who was dating two men at the same time. But things went wrong on her wedding day. The two men got into a fight, and one of them ended up with a head injury and was hospitalized?"

"There was also a man who impersonated a government official and married a girl. He even hired two swindlers to impersonate his parents, but the creditors came knocking on his door, and he was exposed."

Old Wang slammed his hand on the table, his face flushed with excitement, spitting as he spoke:

"And another thing, that very boisterous pregnant woman, she laughed herself into a miscarriage?"

Cheng Jiajia: "..."