"You should know my temper! I can't tolerate any nonsense! If it weren't for my friendship with your father, I would have kicked you out of the North long ago."

"Do you even know you're my ex-wife? Don't try to act like your legal wife!"

"Ah Sheng, what are you talking about? What did I do?"

"Wasn't Yao Qian's affair something you and Xue Yu arranged together?"

"I don't understand! Ah Sheng, I didn't do it! Do you have any proof?"

"Don't try to argue with me here. If anything really happens to Yao Qian, I'll make your entire Hu family pay with their lives! You'll see if I, Qin Shisheng, am a man of my word!"

His eyes were bloodshot with rage, his face contorted, and the veins in his neck bulged.

These words frightened Hu Xuelian so much that she immediately knelt down.

He was trembling all over.

"Ah Sheng! I didn't! I wouldn't dare! I didn't lay a hand on her!" she continued to argue.

"Xue Yu has already admitted it, so why aren't you admitting it?"

"I don't believe it, you have no evidence! Xue Yu could also be framing her! It's normal for her to hate the mistress to the core when her own husband cheated on her!" Hu Xuelian argued.

Qin Shisheng smashed all the cups on the table onto the ground.

"Shut the hell up! Say one more word and I'll send you to hell right now! You believe me?"

Hu Xuelian stared wide-eyed at the man before her, incredulous. She had never seen him so angry; his burning rage seemed capable of consuming everything.

The thought that he was so angry because of that woman ignited a fire of jealousy in Hu Xuelian's heart. She frowned deeply, her brows almost forming a single line.

His hands clenched unconsciously, his nails digging deep into his palms, causing a sharp pain, but the pain was nothing compared to the resentment in his heart.

"Yao Qian is not a mistress! If I have the chance, I will definitely marry her!" the man roared furiously, his voice deafening.

Hu Xuelian trembled with rage and retorted in a shrill voice, "Marry her? Are you crazy? Who doesn't know she was married to Jin Buwei? She..." However, before she could finish speaking, she felt a large hand suddenly grab her throat.

Qin Shisheng's eyes were filled with murderous intent. He gripped Hu Xuelian's neck tightly, so tightly that she could hardly breathe.

"Anyone who marries into the Qin family is doing above their station! Why is it impossible for me to marry her?"

Hu Xuelian's face quickly turned purplish-red, and she kicked her legs frantically, trying to break free from this deadly restraint.

"I'll kill you now! Will that stop anyone from bothering Yao Qian? If I don't teach you a lesson, you'll never learn!"

Qin Shisheng increased the pressure on his hand.

Qin Shisheng roared.

"It doesn't matter what kind of person she is! What matters is that I love her! No matter what her past was like, I love her!"

Hu Xuelian was being choked until she was almost suffocating, and tears streamed down her face uncontrollably. She managed to squeeze out a few words through clenched teeth: "Please... let... let me go..."

Qin Shisheng showed no sign of letting go.

"You better know your place! Don't think I don't know how much your Hu family has benefited from my name over the years! I, Qin Shisheng, have been in this business for so many years, what storms haven't I weathered? What are you, the Hu family, to meddle in my affairs!"

With Qin Shisheng's roar, the force in his hand increased, as if he were about to snap Hu Xuelian's neck in the next second.

At this moment, Hu Xuelian's father rushed in.

"Shi Sheng! Spare Xue Lian!" The father, with his full head of white hair, pleaded in a low voice.

"For the sake of me treating you like my own son!"

Hu Xuelian's father knelt down before Qin Shisheng.

"I apologize on her behalf."

Qin Shisheng released her grip and kicked her.

Kick her into a corner.

She curled up into a ball and begged for mercy.

"Tell her to get out of the country! I don't want to see her again."

"Furthermore, if Yao Qian is harmed again, regardless of whether it was you who did it, I will kill you!" Qin Shisheng warned in a chilling tone.

Then she turned to look at her father.

"Uncle Hu! You know my personality! You're coming here begging for mercy! You'll lose your official position... and the Hu family's good days are over! Is it worth it for a girl like this?"

His tone was icy. "I'll spare her life! You'll spend a few years in jail! Let her learn her lesson!"

Uncle Hu knelt on the ground and scolded Hu Xuelian.

"You, you..."

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Northern News! Hot Topics!

"On the morning of June 10th, Mayor Hu, a member of the Standing Committee, was placed under disciplinary review by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission for serious violations of laws and regulations."

He will be sentenced to life imprisonment...

Qin Shisheng walked towards me and gently fed me the medicine.

"Little fairy, take your medicine first..."

I shook my head.

"I don't want to eat! Let me go see my brother and Xiaohua."

"I'll take you there after you finish taking this medicine!"

He carefully fed the medicine to my mouth.

I obediently opened my mouth to eat, while he gently picked up a tissue and tenderly wiped the corners of my mouth.

"I'd like to go by myself, is that okay?"

Qin Shisheng looked at me, her eyes filled with sorrow and heartache, hesitant to speak.

Go ahead! Come back soon!

Holding a bouquet of flowers, I followed my brother to pay respects to the little flower.

The older brother stretched out his trembling hand.

Gently stroking the photo of the small flowers in front of the tombstone,

His eyes were filled with sadness...

Tears of sadness welled up in her eyes.

She was crying in utter grief...

Yao Nan's voice choked with sobs, and tears continued to fall.

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