Qingyao looked at Wang Dong with icy eyes and said coldly, "Oh? Tell me, what are you sorry for?" Wang Dong obviously didn't expect Qingyao to pursue the matter so relentlessly, and his face turned pale in an instant. Wang Dong first looked at Wang Chunyi, who was terrified beside him, then looked up at Qingyao, whose face was frosted. Finally, he gritted his teeth and said in a trembling voice, "Grandfather, I'm sorry, I betrayed you. You can beat me or scold me as you please. But please, can you let Chunyi go? She is innocent in this matter."
Upon hearing this, Qingyao couldn't help but laugh back angrily, her laughter filled with sarcasm. She said, "She's innocent? How can she be innocent? How about I show you a video?" Without hesitation, Qingyao took out her phone and played the intimate video she had asked Xiaoyi to film of the two of them dating in the woods that day. Everyone's attention was drawn to the video, and they were shocked to realize that the two had already had such an ambiguous relationship.
Village Chief Wang's face instantly turned ashen, feeling humiliated. He glared at Wang Chunyi, angrily and bitterly, then took a deep breath, forced himself to stand up and say, "Qingyao, Uncle Wang has wronged you in this matter. Look, things have come to this point. Can you please, for the sake of our past friendship, help them get together?" Qingyao tilted her head slightly, squinting at Village Chief Wang coldly. A sneer curled her lips as she said, "Village Chief, this isn't something you can just handle with a simple "I'm sorry." You want me to help them get together? Fine. Give me 30,000 yuan, and I'll divorce Wang Dong immediately and let him marry Wang Chunyi openly. How's that? If you don't, don't blame me for reporting everything to the police. Being a mistress is illegal these days, right? And I have even more shameful and ambiguous videos of Wang Chunyi and Wang Dong having sex. You should think carefully about how to resolve this."
Everyone gasped when they heard the 30,000 yuan figure. After all, workers these days only make a little over 1,000 yuan a month. 30,000 yuan is almost two or three years' salary. Everyone stared at Qingyao in astonishment, their eyes filled with disbelief.
Qingyao, however, looked at them calmly, her expression as serene as water, her eyes devoid of any ripples. She wasn't worried at all. Wang Dong and Village Chief Wang's family could definitely come up with the 30,000 yuan. Wang Dong's father had secretly saved over 20,000 yuan from his black market business before the reform and opening up policy. Village Chief Wang had secretly collected a sum of money from each of the outsiders who came to live in the village. The 30,000 yuan that Village Chief Wang had embezzled was far more than 30,000 yuan. Therefore, the 30,000 yuan that Qingyao proposed was something that both families could come up with. This 30,000 yuan was just the beginning.
Wang Dong was consumed by anxiety, completely unaware of his father's hidden stash of money. Wang Chunyi was equally distraught, unaware that her father, Village Chief Wang, had secretly embezzled funds. Like ants on a hot pan, Wang Chunyi and Wang Dong frantically turned around and pleaded with Qingyao.
Qingyao, however, remained impassive, unmoved by their pleas. Instead, she stared at Village Chief Wang and Wang's father with a deep, meaningful gaze, and slowly said to them, "I believe Village Chief Wang and Master Wang can afford this, right?" When Wang's father and Village Chief Wang met Qingyao's piercing gaze, their hearts skipped a beat, a chill running from their feet to their foreheads. Could it be that Qingyao already knew all their secret affairs?
Qingyao didn't say anything more, leaving only a cold message to the Wang family and the others: "Three days. I'll give you three days. If you can't come up with 30,000 yuan, I'll make the entire Wangjia Village famous. Trust me." As she spoke, she casually shook her phone. That casual gesture struck Village Chief Wang and his father like a hammer. Looking at Qingyao's confident demeanor, they felt cold sweat drenching their backs, as if they had fallen into an icy cellar.
Looking at Qingyao's departing back, Wang's father's face turned red with anger. He glared at Wang Dong with disappointment and said to Wang Dong with gritted teeth: "You, my son, are here to collect debts. If I had known that you would bring such a disaster to this family, I should have drowned you when you were born." After that, Wang's father angrily flicked his sleeves, stomped his feet, and left without looking back.
Wang Dong looked at his father's departing back, and he felt like he was struck by lightning. He suddenly fell to the ground with powerlessness in his eyes, his eyes filled with despair and helplessness. Wang's mother was also angry and anxious when she saw his father leave so heartlessly. However, Wang Dong was the child she had carried for ten months with great difficulty. So she suppressed the grievance in her heart, walked to Wang Dong's side, and whispered to him, "Son, don't blame your father. Believe that your father loves you, and your father will definitely help you." Wang Dong seemed to have grasped a ray of hope in the darkness. He slowly raised his head to look at his mother, his eyes revealing a hint of expectation, and then turned his gaze to Wang Chunyi and Village Chief Wang.
Wang Chunyi immediately looked at the village chief Wang nervously. The village chief Wang looked at Wang Chunyi's pitiful and dependent look and angrily scolded: "I don't care about this matter, do whatever you want." Wang Chunyi was frightened when she heard this and fell into Wang Dong's arms. Wang Chunyi's mother looked at the indifferent look of the village chief Wang, and her heart was suddenly torn. She was afraid that the village chief Wang really didn't care about Wang Chunyi, so she quickly put on a smile and said to the village chief Wang with kind words: "Master, husband, our daughter is our only treasure. Think about how much suffering and pain I went through in order to give birth to Chunyi. You said that you would protect us mother and daughter. Now that Chunyi has this problem, you can't just ignore it!"
When Village Chief Wang heard what his wife said, he recalled the difficult time when his wife was pregnant. He also recalled that when she was pregnant with Chunyi, his wife had a difficult delivery and almost lost both mother and daughter. Village Chief Wang began to waver in his heart, not knowing whether to take out the money. He looked at his eldest son again, but his son looked at them with cold eyes, full of resentment, which made Village Chief Wang very disappointed. There was no way, they usually doted on Wang Chunyi too much, so they neglected their son a lot. Now his son already hated him. If he took out the 30,000 yuan, his son would definitely hate them even more, so he couldn't take out this money.
But Village Chief Wang’s wife didn’t know that Village Chief Wang had already planned to give up Wang Chunyi, and she was still begging him desperately. When she saw Village Chief Wang’s expression become more determined, Wang Chunyi’s mother felt like a bomb exploded in her heart, and her emotions were completely out of control. She slammed Village Chief Wang’s hands madly, and kept beating Village Chief Wang’s body, crying to him while hitting him: "It was you who worked so hard to pursue me. It was you who said that you would love me, spoil me, and treat me well for the rest of my life. When I was pregnant with Chunyi, you said that you would treat Chunyi well and treat me well. Now that Chunyi is like this, why don’t you help our daughter? If anything happens to our daughter, I won’t live either." When Village Chief Wang heard his wife’s crying, his heart began to waver again.
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