Chapter 13 Can I sue him?
Zhang Wenfang recovered very quickly after the surgery, which surprised even the doctors. Her recovery speed was much faster than that of people of the same age.
Xiang Bei remained calm. No wonder the female lead could run away even with a limp and a kidney removed; it turned out to be hereditary.
The female lead's mother has a very strong ability to recover.
The female lead in a novel isn't someone just anyone can be. Anyway, Xiang Bei felt that if the system really turned her into Lin Beibei, her first reaction would probably be to die together with the male lead.
Anyway, she couldn't possibly love the male lead after being tortured like that.
What's the point of punishing the second female lead? If the male lead is resolute enough, the second female lead's vicious tricks won't even come out of their way.
Lin Beibei completed the discharge procedures and took her mother home.
The house was empty; it looked like no one had lived there for a while.
Lin Beibei told her mother to rest, then tidied herself up a bit before sitting down next to her mother.
After thinking for a moment, Lin Beibei finally spoke, "Mom, there's something I'd like to discuss with you."
"What's wrong?"
“Why don’t you divorce your father? He can’t change his gambling ways. We can’t keep paying off his debts like this forever. He’s a bottomless pit.”
Zhang Wenfang stared at her daughter in shock, then fell silent.
Lin Beibei thought her mother still had feelings for her stepfather and tried to persuade her for a long time, but her mother still had no expression.
"Mom, you still like him, right?"
Before her stepfather became addicted to gambling, he was a good man. Perhaps it was because the memories of that time were so beautiful that her mother couldn't bear to part with him.
Unexpectedly, her mother looked up at her and said, "Beibei, actually, Mom didn't get a marriage certificate with him."
Not to mention Lin Beibei, even Xiang Bei was shocked.
"Mom, what do you mean by that?"
“Your father passed away early, and it was really not easy for me to raise you alone. Lin Tiande appeared around that time. He would help me with my stall and pick you up from kindergarten when I was busy.”
Zhang Wenfang looked up at her daughter and said, "You like him very much and even call him Dad. You have no memory of your biological father passing away, but I see that you have always treated him as your father. So when he expressed his feelings to me, I agreed to give it a try."
When Lin Tiande first moved here, he did a great job, being considerate in everything and handing over all his earnings to her for safekeeping. Later, they naturally became a couple.
Neither of them mentioned getting a marriage certificate; they all tacitly seemed to have forgotten about it.
Lin Beibei was still young then and always treated him as her biological father. But when Lin Tiande became addicted to gambling and Lin Beibei stopped him from taking the family's money, he seemed like a completely different person.
It was around that time that Beibei learned he was not her biological father.
Without a marriage certificate, there's no need for divorce.
Even this house was left by Lin Beibei's biological father.
Lin Tiande had considered selling the house, but the property certificate was in Lin Beibei's name, and Lin Beibei disagreed, so he couldn't sell the house.
"Mom, let's sell the house and leave here immediately, to a place where nobody knows us."
If he's not his biological father, then the problem is even easier to solve.
Lin Tiande is a gambling addict, and they can't possibly stick to him and fight to the end. After all, no one knows what a gambling addict might do.
Zhang Wenfang held her daughter's hand and nodded vigorously, "Okay, let's go, leave the people and things here, and start anew."
She hadn't said anything before, thinking that Beibei really needed this father, but after the surgery, it seemed like she suddenly had a change of heart.
They didn't need to be bound by Lin Tiande, that gambling addict. They had no connection to each other, so why should they pay off his gambling debts?
His presence only makes the mother and daughter sad.
Zhang Wenfang plans to sell the house and then, as her daughter suggested, start over somewhere else.
As for her younger brother, Lin Beibei's uncle, Zhang Wenfang didn't intend to say much. She just made a phone call and gave him a few instructions, but they thought she was going to borrow money, and her sister-in-law scolded her severely.
Zhang Wenfang had no desire to say anything more.
Never mind, let's leave it at that.
Lin Beibei also inquired about the house. She had a lot of money now and was willing to sell the house at a low price, as she needed to leave this place as soon as possible.
She contacted a real estate agent, her only request being to sell the house as soon as possible.
When she got home, she found her mother sitting on the ground, and the house ransacked.
"Mom!" Lin Beibei quickly went over to help her mother up.
When Lin Tiande saw her return, he walked out of the room.
His eyes were bloodshot, and he exuded a murderous aura. He dragged his limping body over, grabbed Lin Beibei's hair, and pulled her aside. "You brat, you won the lottery, didn't you? Where's the money? Hand it over now."
Lin Beibei looked at Lin Tiande with some surprise. She had clearly put on an act, so how did he know?
"You're talking nonsense, I didn't win any big prize." Lin Beibei naturally refused to admit it.
Her mother always taught her not to lie, so she never lied.
But now she knows that not everything needs to be explained, especially when dealing with a gambler like Lin Tiande.
If the money falls into his hands, she and her mother will go back to their old ways.
"You brat, you dare to lie to me? What money did you withdraw from the bank?"
"Let go of my daughter!" Zhang Wenfang lunged forward, but was kicked away by Lin Tiande.
"mom."
【Beibei, don't be afraid!】
Seeing that Lin Tiande was about to make a move, Xiang Bei immediately conjured a stick and swung it through the air.
With just one blow, he was knocked unconscious.
Lin Beibei quickly went to see her mother. There were marks on her face from being hit, and blood was at the corner of her mouth.
【Call the police! 】
Lin Beibei quickly took out her phone and called the police.
When the police arrived, Lin Tiande was still unconscious.
The police officer who responded to the call was also an acquaintance; it was the female officer who had comforted Lin Beibei last time.
They were taken to the hospital together, and Zhang Wenfang's injuries were also examined.
"Are you a married couple?"
Zhang Wenfang shook her head and gritted her teeth, saying, "No, we just know each other. He gambled away money and came to my house to rob me. Officer, he's already taken a lot of money from me, I'm going to report him!"
Police investigation confirmed that the two were not a couple.
Although they lived together as husband and wife for a period of time, they are both currently single.
Lin Tiande's actions constituted burglary, not to mention that he also assaulted Zhang Wenfang.
Of course, a gambler wouldn't have any money, but Zhang Wenfang didn't want money; she wanted to get Lin Tiande imprisoned.
She resolutely refused to accept mediation.
She could endure Lin Tiande hitting her.
But she couldn't accept that Lin Tiande had laid a hand on her daughter.
Even though there was evidence of a past relationship, she insisted that they were just boyfriend and girlfriend, and that Lin Tiande had always lived in her house, only moving out after gambling, and that the mess in her house was evidence of that.
Lin Tiande woke up and, upon hearing that Zhang Wenfang was going to sue him, he also shouted that he would sue Zhang Wenfang, "They beat me, and now my head hurts. Pay me back, five million, not a penny less."
The police officer taking his statement looked at him with a complicated expression. "You broke into a house to rob someone and assaulted them. The other party only hit you with a stick. It was self-defense."
A normal girl wouldn't be able to sustain such a serious injury from a single blow, but Lin Beibei is no ordinary girl.
The same goes for the person who was beaten so badly he ended up in the hospital last time.
This girl is quite strong.
Moreover, he was very measured; after knocking the person unconscious, he didn't make any further moves, and it didn't even count as excessive self-defense.
Lin Beibei shook her head, "It's just that the explosive power is high when in a hurry."
It wasn't her who hit it; it was Sister Bei who helped her.
But Lin Beibei still felt that this wouldn't work. If Xiang Bei really left one day and never came back, wouldn't she be at the mercy of others?
She plans to enroll in a class to practice on her own, because she can't always rely on Sister Xiangbei for help in dangerous situations.
If a settlement can be reached through mediation, Lin Tiande won't need to go to jail.
But he had no money to pay compensation, and Zhang Wenfang did not agree to mediation.
They insisted that Lin Tiande committed burglary, assault, and attempted to pawn Lin Beibei to the casino, and that he was also involved in human trafficking. He deserved to be imprisoned for a while.
Seeing that this didn't work, Lin Tiande said again, "Then I'm going to sue Lin Beibei for ordering someone to break my leg."
Lin Beibei certainly didn't instruct anyone; it was Gu Tingyun who broke Lin Tiande's leg. If Lin Tiande hadn't caused a scene at the coffee shop later, she wouldn't have known about it.
No matter how much they investigate, it won't have anything to do with her, unless Gu Tingyun slanders her.
Gu Tingyun was also summoned to the police station and directly admitted to having his bodyguard break Lin Tiande's leg.
The police were also somewhat angry when they saw his unawareness of his wrongdoing.
However, Gu Tingyun's lawyer had contacted Lin Tiande, and upon hearing that there was money to be made, Lin Tiande chose not to pursue the matter.
As Gu Tingyun was leaving the police station, he saw Lin Beibei. He had a smirk on his face and looked extremely arrogant. "You really won the lottery?"
"It's fake." Lin Beibei denied it without even thinking.
Gu Tingyun looked at her and said, "Even if you turned to ashes, I would still recognize you. You are the one receiving the award."
Lin Beibei didn't even lift her eyelids. "Oh, really? Then it seems you're blind. You might need to go to the hospital to get your eyes checked."
Then he looked up at the policewoman beside him and said, "Officer, this man has a fiancée and keeps harassing me, asking me to be his mistress. Can I sue him?"
The policewoman looked at Gu Tingyun and frowned.
Gu Tingyun's lawyer quickly stepped forward to explain on his behalf. The lawyer was really good with words, and resolved the matter in just a few sentences.
Lin Beibei hadn't intended to just send Gu Tingyun in, but he always looked down on her and acted like he was in a superior position, which made her feel very disgusted.
She felt like she was Gu Tingyun's prey, playing a cat-and-mouse game with him. He treated her like the cat and her like the mouse, and once he got tired of her, he would eat her up.
She didn't want to live her whole life under someone else's control.
It took some time to deal with these things.
Fortunately, the house was sold.
Lin Beibei and her mother checked into a hotel, deliberately avoiding hotels under the Gu family's name. Sister Bei was right; staying in a Gu family hotel meant that one day she and her mother might wake up to find themselves imprisoned.
If that pervert Gu Tingyun were to erase all traces, she and her mother would disappear from this world.
She plans to handle the aftermath and then leave the city with her mother to live in a new place.
"Beibei, did you really win the lottery?" Zhang Wenfang was a little uneasy as it was her first time staying in a luxury room at a hotel.
"Mom, don't worry, we have enough money."
Although her daughter didn't say it explicitly, Zhang Wenfang already understood.
She doesn't flaunt her wealth, and she won't ask any more questions.
"Beibei, some of the things Mommy said before were wrong. We need to change some of our habits in the future."
"Don't worry, Mom, I'll change."
The mother and daughter had relieved themselves of most of their worries and were just waiting to finish their work so they could leave.
They were filled with longing for their new life.
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