Even the air seemed to freeze for a moment.
"Meng Yingxin, you hit me?" Wu Xiulan asked incredulously, covering her face with one hand and staring at her in shock, as if she had never met this person before.
Not only Wu Xiulan was stunned, but everyone present was stunned, including Su Yueya.
Is this still the Meng Yingxin they know?
Meng Yingxin, can hit people?
"Meng Yingxin, how dare you hit me?!" Wu Xiulan reacted and prepared to fight back. "I'll beat you to death, you bitch! Who do you think you are to dare lay a hand on me?!"
The hand that Wu Xiulan was covering her face had a bracelet on its wrist that was quite noticeable.
Although the bracelet wasn't a priceless treasure, nor was it expensive, it represented a sentiment from Meng Yingxin.
Seeing it again now, Meng Yingxin only felt irony and disgust.
Is this her true heart?
She gave someone a bracelet, but what they really wanted was to give her to an old man in exchange for a dowry!
How ironic.
"I'll hit you if I want to, what, do you need to pick a day?" Meng Yingxin retorted, looking at Wu Xiulan with disdain, and ignoring how Wu Xiulan's other hand was hitting, slapping and grabbing her body, she held tightly to the hand with the bracelet on her wrist.
With great effort, Meng Yingxin managed to pry the bracelet off Wu Xiulan's wrist and take it back into her own hand.
"Meng Yingxin, how dare you steal my things in broad daylight?" Wu Xiulan didn't expect this. When she saw that her wrist was bare, she realized that the bracelet was gone. Of course, she wouldn't stand for it.
Meng Yingxin was acting so strangely at this moment, completely different from her usual self, that many people couldn't react and stared blankly at the situation on the field.
"I stole your things? How dare you say that, Wu Xiulan?"
Meng Yingxin usually has a cowardly demeanor. When someone insults her, she will only bury her head even lower and pretend that nothing has happened before quickly finding a corner to hide in.
It's difficult to even talk to people, let alone express yourself as you do now, where you can ask questions, curse, or be sarcastic and direct.
Everyone was dumbfounded.
"Back then, I was blind to your true nature, treating you like a good friend and sister. When you married my brother and became my sister-in-law, I even tried to scrape together money to buy you this bracelet as a wedding gift. And what did you do to me, Wu Xiulan?"
"You turn around and gossip in front of those two old hags, giving them bad advice, telling them to sell me to an old man for a bride price. What's your purpose? Don't think I don't know. You just want to use the money from selling me to help you and the boss. You really are my good sister!"
"You still want to wear this bracelet? You don't deserve it! Who do you think you are?! You dog!" Meng Yingxin cursed.
"Old man?" Pan Wenfang was indignant.
How could they possibly save face after being insulted like that by Meng Yingxin?
"Meng Yingxin, who are you calling an old man? I'm your mother, he's your father, who are you calling an old man?!" Pan Wenfang roared, adopting the demeanor of an elder.
He thought this would scare Meng Yingxin, but it just happened to be the target of her gunfire.
"What, you two aren't ready to be dealt with first? Fine, don't think you're out of the picture. I'm talking about you, you old fogies, so what?!"
Reborn, Meng Yingxin is still Meng Yingxin, but she is no longer Meng Yingxin.
At least, she won't be foolishly held hostage by family members who don't care about her at all.
"Am I your biological child? You helped Meng Yaxin steal my university spot, and you helped Meng Chengfu sell me for dowry money. What kind of parents are you?"
"You want me to respect you? Do you even have the behavior expected of parents? Have you fulfilled your responsibilities as parents? If you haven't done anything, what gives you the right to yell at me?"
"I'm telling you, I, Meng Yingxin, am severing all ties with the Meng family!" Meng Yingxin declared resolutely.
She doesn't shout when she speaks, yet every word she utters is powerful and resonant.
“From now on, I am me, and you are you. We have no relation whatsoever. Can you understand human language? If you can, then get out of here!” Meng Yingxin said.
It has to be said that Meng Yingxin's current demeanor is making everyone else a little apprehensive.
Those who had bullied her in the past found it utterly unbelievable.
After Su Yueya figured out the key point, she felt it made sense; this was how she should behave after being reborn.
Isn't this the most classic plot in rebirth novels?
The female protagonist is reborn and immediately starts to lash out. Otherwise, if she's bullied like she was in her previous life, what's the point of being reborn? It's meaningless!
"Sever ties?" Upon hearing this, Meng Chengfu immediately objected.
If Wu Xiulan could come up with this idea, how could he not know?
He had been eyeing that bride price for a long time, so how could he let the duck that was almost in his mouth fly away?
"Dad, Mom, we can't let her do that!" Meng Chengfu hurriedly said.
“Meng Yingxin, this is extremely unfilial of you. What right do you have to sever ties with us?” Meng Demao said, vehemently disagreeing.
"That's right, we raised you all these years, we've done our part, so what's wrong with letting you get married? It's all for your own good—"
Pan Wenfang tried to argue and cause trouble, but all of this was still within Meng Yingxin's range.
She picked at her ears, as if she couldn't hear what the dogs were barking at.
But barking dogs don't really matter anyway.
"Fine, you won't sever ties, huh? Fine, then I'll sue you for human trafficking! This is the entrance to the military region, and everyone standing here is a witness. They all heard you trying to marry me off to an old man for a dowry."
"If I sue you, your whole family will be ruined!"
At the edge of the crowd was a little boy, Meng Chengfu's son, Meng Hongji. From the beginning of the disturbance, they had put the little guy aside to prevent him from getting hurt in the chaos. After all, this was the entrance to the military region, so it was quite safe.
“Tsk tsk…” Meng Yingxin shook her head, looking at the little boy, “You guys don’t care, you’re all going in anyway, but this little thing Meng Hongji… sigh, poor thing, I wonder if he’ll be looked down upon in the future? You’re overthinking it, once you’re all in, maybe he won’t have a future either, right? After all, he’s just a kid and he can’t support himself, he’ll definitely starve to death.”
The whole family panicked immediately.
They were all ignorant of the law and didn't think that forcing Meng Yingxin to marry an old man in exchange for a bride price was illegal, since many families did it that way.
When a daughter gets married, isn't it perfectly normal for the groom's family to use the dowry money to support her parents' family?
Why should Meng Yingxin be given special treatment?
But now that Meng Hongji is involved, the youngest male in the Meng family and the hope of the entire family, we dare not act recklessly.
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