"Big brother, you've gone too far. Even if Third Sister is wrong, you don't need to treat her like this."
"Your parents are still alive, and they would never allow you to bully your third sister."
“You are pushing us away, completely away from you.”
Zhou Na suddenly intervened, using her parents as a pretext to seize the moral high ground and suppress Zhou Chen.
Controlling public opinion has always been one of Zhou Na's strengths.
This time, it was the same as before: they used their deceased parents to pressure Zhou Chen, leaving him speechless.
Zhou Chen withdrew his gaze from Zhou Ling and looked at his second sister, Zhou Na, and suddenly smiled. "How do you know that our parents won't agree to me scolding Zhou Ling? It's the father's fault if the child is not taught properly. Don't you consider me the eldest brother? An elder brother is like a father. Even if I have to use my hands to teach her how to be a person, it's only right and proper. I can not only teach her a lesson, but I can also teach you a lesson."
"You still want to hit me?" Upon hearing this, Zhou Ling immediately bristled, her eyebrows furrowing.
Zhou Na pulled Zhou Ling behind her, turned around, and frowned, saying, "Violence is not the way to solve problems. Okay, let's put this matter aside for now, but since you've contracted the cafeteria business, you should give us an explanation."
"Why should I give you an explanation when I'm contracting the construction site canteen?" Zhou Chen raised an eyebrow, finding it amusing.
"You took my and my second sister's dowry money to start a business and make more money. How dare you do this without our permission?" Zhou Ling stood up again, speaking with righteous indignation.
"Zhou Na, do you think so too?" Zhou Chen ignored his third sister Zhou Ling's love-struck mind and looked at Zhou Na instead.
Feeling Zhou Chen's sharp gaze, Zhou Na initially flinched, but realizing that this was the truth, she wasn't afraid. She met Zhou Chen's gaze again and said expressionlessly, "At least, you need to tell us."
Zhou Chen suddenly chuckled in front of the two sisters.
But in just a second, he instantly suppressed all his emotions and said coldly, "Who told you that your parents prepared dowry money for you two? You don't want to say that I misappropriated the money your parents were supposed to give Zhou Chuan to get married, the money for you to have children, the money for your retirement, and the money for your children to get married, do you?"
Zhou Na remained silent, sensing the sarcasm in Zhou Chen's words.
Zhou Ling, however, failed to grasp the hidden meaning in his words and said naively, "Second sister, did you hear that? He admitted it himself. He used the money that Mom and Dad left for the three of us siblings."
A glint flashed in Zhou Na's eyes, and she frowned slightly, feeling that Zhou Ling was a bit stupid and couldn't tell the difference between good and bad words.
Zhou Chen was once again amused by Zhou Ling's success. It seemed that in Zhou Ling's heart, their parents had left each of them a sum of money, but he, their biological son, hadn't received a single penny.
“Zhou Ling, I think you should go and find your biological parents. Maybe they are rich and they will definitely give you a dowry.”
Zhou Chen was too lazy to explain. There was nothing to explain to someone like Zhou Ling, and it was pointless anyway.
Because even if he told the truth, Zhou Ling wouldn't believe it; in her world, everyone owed her something.
"Do you think I don't want my parents to be rich, Zhou Chen? Stop changing the subject. Give me my dowry, or I'll pester you every day."
Zhou Ling was furious and started to act unreasonably, completely unlike a young girl. She was baring her teeth and brandishing her claws, just like a shrew.
Looking at his once adorable little sister, now transformed into this...
Zhou Chen found it utterly ridiculous.
In the past, when he looked at Zhou Ling as her older brother, he always had the aura of an older brother. No matter what Zhou Ling said or did, he never thought it was excessive, and he would even find various reasons to explain himself.
Little did he know, it was all in his mind; in reality, Zhou Ling was a spoiled, willful, and unreasonable person.
This is Zhou Ling's true self.
Feeling a sense of emptiness, Zhou Chen didn't want to waste a single word on either Zhou Na or Zhou Ling.
“My contract to run the cafeteria has nothing to do with you.”
"We have no obligation to report to you."
"I'll say it one last time: after my parents passed away, they only left behind a little over ten thousand yuan. The money I spent was earned by myself through part-time work. You all took all the money, so you have no right to question me."
After uttering these three sentences, Zhou Chen left without lingering, got on his bicycle, and rode away.
“You came back… You said you only had a little over ten thousand, but where did the money for contracting the construction site canteen come from? Why don’t you tell me…”
Zhou Ling tried to chase after her, but Zhou Na stopped her.
"Second sister, what are you doing? This can't be left like this. Don't believe his nonsense." Zhou Ling looked at Zhou Na in confusion.
Zhou Na, however, did not think so. She felt that what Zhou Chen said might be true. In fact, when her parents were alive, they were just ordinary workers who did not earn much money and could not save much. Moreover, her family was large and had many expenses. Those ten thousand yuan were saved by being frugal for a long time.
"Third sister, you should give up the dowry money."
"Second sister, what are you saying? That was left to us by Mom and Dad. How can we just give it up like that? Wouldn't that be letting him off easy?"
Zhou Na looked at the selfish Zhou Ling and let out a slight sigh, but then her gaze suddenly fell on the gold ring on Zhou Ling's hand. This was... her mother's ring.
She recognized him at a glance, and her expression flashed. She said, "You've already taken the gold ring that Mom left behind, so stop making trouble."
"Second sister, this... ring, it... it was originally promised to me by Mother, please don't misunderstand..." Zhou Ling's heart skipped a beat. She regretted that she had forgotten to take off the gold ring before coming here, and now that Zhou Na knew about it, what if Zhou Na tried to take the gold ring from her?
This is gold, it's very valuable!
"Third sister, I won't fight you for the gold ring. Consider it your dowry. Let's leave it at that." Seeing several familiar classmates coming out of the campus, Zhou Na didn't want to stay at the school gate any longer.
Upon hearing this, Zhou Ling was both happy and unhappy. She was happy that Zhou Na wouldn't compete with her, but unhappy that Zhou Na actually asked her to give up demanding her dowry.
"I'm going back to my dorm, you should go back soon too."
Before Zhou Ling could say anything, Zhou Na threw out a sentence and walked straight toward the school dormitory.
"Second sister..."
Zhou Ling opened her mouth, but finally withdrew her outstretched hand in a huff.
"Second sister, you are generous and magnanimous. You don't care about the dowry."
“But I’m different from you. I have a son who will be born in a few months. I have to think about my family.”
"If you don't want it, then I'll find a way to get it myself."
Zhou Ling touched the gold ring on her hand, her gaze resolute, and muttered to herself.
She smiled quickly.
She suddenly thought of a brilliant way to manipulate Zhou Chen and make him obediently hand over his dowry money.
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