Chapter 80. I was in my bathtub, watching...
"You've taken all the benefits? You're saying I've taken all the benefits?!"
Huo Ke never imagined that her fiancé, whom she had been dating for so long, could say such shameless things.
Supported by her bridesmaids, she struggled to grab the scumbag's face.
"Damn it, you bitch! What did I get out of this?!"
"You spend my money to raise your children and then want my inheritance? What have I gotten out of you?!"
The groom slapped away her outstretched hand and tightly shielded the pregnant Ms. Hu behind him.
He glared at Miss Huo with disdain, "Can't you understand human language?"
"What did you get out of it? Didn't I just tell you?!"
Huo Ke: "..."
She watched as her husband, after scolding her, turned to comfort Ms. Hu with gentleness.
His fists clenched at his sides, and he was so angry that he couldn't speak.
Staring at the two glaring figures, his mind went blank for a moment, and he almost fainted from anger.
Before she could even catch her breath, her bridesmaids released her and rushed toward the groom with their sleeves rolled up.
"You shameless bastard, you dare to spout nonsense the moment you stick your ass out!"
"You've invited all your wives and kids from your previous marriage to the wedding, including a pregnant woman. Do you think we're easy to bully?"
"I hate sluts like you who work as male prostitutes the most! How dare you provoke my sisters like that! I'll beat you to death!"
The groom looked down on the women's fighting skills from the bottom of his heart, but he still had to explain himself since he was wrongly accused.
"I don't know why those women brought their children; I only invited her..."
The "she" he referred to was Miss Hu, whom he had always protected.
Hearing him say that made the bridesmaids even angrier.
"You invited your mistress to your wedding with Xiao Ke?"
The bridesmaid who had previously approached Chu Ci was so angry she laughed on the spot.
"Damn it, I've never seen such a shameless slut like you!"
She grabbed a plate of sunflower seeds from the table next to her and hurled the seeds and the plate at the groom's head.
The groom was caught off guard, not expecting her to actually attack him.
With a "bang," sunflower seeds flowed down his head along with fresh blood.
The groom was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously touched the spot where he had been hit, and immediately gasped.
When I looked at his hands, they were covered in blood.
"..."
His self-righteousness finally vanished, and he glared angrily at the bridesmaid who had struck him.
"You hit me? Believe me or not, I'll call the police!"
The bridesmaid who took action said, "Fine, go ahead and call the police!"
"Since I'm going to end up in jail anyway, I might as well beat you up to my heart's content today!"
As they were talking, the other bridesmaids also grabbed things and surrounded the groom, ready to make a move.
At the critical moment, Ms. Hu, who was heavily pregnant, stepped forward.
She bravely stood in front of the groom: "Stop! I'm pregnant, who dares to touch me!"
However, before she could finish speaking, the bridesmaid who had just hit her slapped her across the face.
The slap was so forceful that it turned Ms. Hu's face to the side.
A handprint immediately appeared on her fair face, and her small face puffed up.
"you……"
Miss Hu stared in disbelief at the bridesmaid who had struck her, her voice trembling with anger.
"I'm pregnant, how dare you hit me?"
As soon as she said that, she was slapped on the other side of her face.
The bridesmaid who made the move sneered, "Not only do I dare to hit you, I dare to hit you twice!"
She stared at Miss Hu's round belly and sneered:
"You idiot whose brain was caught in an iron gate, do you think you have a get-out-of-jail-free card just because you're carrying a baby?"
"Even if I beat it to a pulp today, so what!"
Miss Hu's face turned deathly pale instantly.
Her lips trembled: "You...then you're the murderer!"
"Kill you my foot! Your little brat hasn't even been born yet, what kind of person are you!"
Miss Hu: "..."
She quickly hid behind the groom, choking back tears:
"Honey, these crazy women are terrifying..."
The groom, his head covered in blood, shielded her, saying, "Don't be afraid, I..."
However, before he could finish his protective words, the bridesmaids pulled him over and beat him up.
Miss Hu wanted to go up, but was stopped by her two bridesmaids.
"What are you doing up there! Trying to get my sister thrown in jail with the bastard in your belly?!"
"Everyone's watching now, we haven't touched you! Whether you have the child or not is your own problem!"
He was held down by the shoulder and had to watch helplessly as the person he loved was beaten.
The once arrogant Miss Hu suddenly turned into a sobbing monster, crying pitifully.
The groom was beaten so badly by several bridesmaids that he couldn't stand up. Seeing the groomsmen standing nearby, he cursed:
"Are you all dead?! They're going to beat me to death, why aren't you coming to help?!"
"Help you my ass!"
One of the best men immediately took off his clothes, looking utterly displeased.
"Being your brother was the worst decision I ever made. How could you bring your pregnant mistress to your wedding? How could you be so disgusting to your wife?"
After the first one, the other groomsmen all took off their groomsmen uniforms.
"What you just said was disgusting! You're clearly after your wife's assets, but you act like she's the one who got the better deal!"
"You always act so extravagant, but you still have to scheme over your wife's assets. Who would dare to be your brother?"
"You scoundrel, you even scheme against your own wife, what kind of man are you!"
But thinking about how this person tricked so many people into becoming his wives, I shook my head in disgust.
"You're not a man! You jerk!"
The groomsmen left one by one, and the mothers who had brought their children seemed to wake up from a dream.
They exchanged a glance, and then remembered why they had come today.
They rushed over and started grabbing and hitting the groom.
Someone else, from who-knows-where, brought a stick and hit the groom squarely in the groin.
"You scumbag! When you were with me, you said I was your first love, but you only told me I was your mistress after I had your child!"
"I'll smash your manhood today so you'll never be able to mess around again!"
The screams were deafening.
This drew cheers from the nuns around them.
"Well done!"
"That pervert should be cut off!"
"If that mistress hadn't been pregnant, we should have dragged her along and beaten her too!"
Another relative from the bride's side, named Huo Ke, said, "Bride, aren't you going to go and hit her a couple of times to vent your anger?"
Huo Ke watched as the groom lay on the ground, rolling around in pain from being beaten, and her shoulders trembled as she cried.
She had been looking forward to her wedding for so long, why did it turn out like this!
Seeing her crying so hard, her relatives from her maternal side came over to comfort her:
"Well, it's actually a lucky thing to find out so early that he's not a good man."
"If this had happened after you and him went abroad, you would have been in a real bind!"
Seeing that she was still crying so sadly, her relatives couldn't help but remind her:
"Xiao Ke, your parents passed away early, but they left you a lot of money. You're the kind of girl that bad men like the most."
"Listen to your aunt, you must keep your eyes open when looking for a man in the future. Don't open your heart to someone just because they are nice to you."
"Those men who are nice to you might just be looking to take advantage of you, waiting for you to take the bait!"
Huo Ke nestled in her aunt's arms, nodding with teary eyes.
She instinctively searched for Chu Ci's voice in the crowd, wanting to see what expression he had.
When the other party reminded her, she confidently insisted that her husband was fine.
He even personally delivered the invitation to her, wanting her to witness his happiness...
What kind of witness is this? It's utterly shameful!
Not seeing Chu Ci in the crowd, she cried even louder.
That master might be laughing at her behind her back...
But the truth is, Chu Ci didn't have time to laugh at her at all.
She was busy calling the police and asking the police station to send more officers to control the chaos at the wedding.
I'm really afraid the groom will be beaten to death by the enraged bridesmaids and all his exes.
Soon, the police arrived at the wedding and took all the people who had assaulted the couple back to the station to give statements.
Reporters who rushed to the scene heard that the groom's dozen or so ex-girlfriends, along with their dozen or so children, had caused a disturbance at the wedding.
They hurriedly stopped the nuns who were leaving the venue for an interview, wanting to report this explosive news.
The nuns had just watched a grand opera and were describing it vividly to the camera.
They even went after the hospital that helped the scumbag forge his medical report.
While the police and reporters were busy running around, the ambulance finally arrived.
The groom, whose manhood had been destroyed and who had been brutally beaten, lay on a stretcher, clutching his blood-stained belt, crying as doctors carried him into an ambulance.
Following closely behind was Ms. Hu, who suffered a miscarriage due to excessive emotional fluctuations.
As the two poisonous lovers were being loaded into an ambulance together, a nun giving an interview pointed at them:
"See that? That's the groom, and the one behind him is his true love."
"However, the groom is now infertile, and he and his true love can never have children again!"
Speaking of children, the nun especially recalled the groom's words, "He has gotten all the advantages."
She continued speaking into the camera, passionately recounting the groom's shameless and outrageous remarks.
That evening, without any major celebrity scandals to overshadow the entertainment news, all the major radio stations were reporting on this wedding farce.
Because the groom's behavior was too outrageous and he was not a public figure, it was impossible to address him by his name.
Sharp-eyed media reporters realized this was a massive surge in online traffic and immediately began digging into the background of "Brother Benefits".
The fastest publishing house made "Brother Goodies" the headline of the entertainment newspaper the very next day.
The investigation delves into "Brother Goodies'" family background, past romantic experiences, and the identity of his "true love," Ms. Hu.
As a result, "Brother Goodies" and Ms. Hu's future careers were completely ruined due to their personal conduct issues.
On the contrary, his exes with children were sought after by major media outlets and earned a lot of money.
Just when things were getting really heated, the biggest victim, the bride Huo Ke, appeared at Chu Ci's shop.
Huo Ke didn't bring Linda or her "plastic sister" reporter Rong Qin with her when she came this time.
Instead, she brought along the bridesmaids who had stood up for her at the wedding.
Several bridesmaids, still bearing the bruises from the wedding fight, looked around curiously as they entered the store.
Upon seeing these familiar faces, Chu Ci was stunned:
"Weren't you arrested by the police?"
One of the bridesmaids explained with a smile, "He was arrested, but he was released after paying bail."
She looked at Chu Ci with curiosity, crawling over with small, bright steps.
"Master, I heard that you foresaw that something bad would happen at Xiao Ke's wedding. Could you take a look at it for me as well?"
She took out five hundred yuan from her bag and handed it to Chu Ci with both hands.
"I want to check my financial luck! I'm opening a garment factory next month, and I'd like to know if the business will be good!"
Chu Ci took one bill from the five hundred yuan she had given him and returned the rest to her.
He laughed and said, "Fortune telling, a hundred yuan is enough."
The bridesmaid's eyes widened in confusion: "Wasn't it five hundred?"
"Her personality is terrible, the extra 400 is compensation for my emotional distress."
Chu Ci pointed to Huo Ke, who was at the back with his head down, and said, "For normal people like you, a hundred yuan is enough."
Already heartbroken, Huo Ke pouted and almost ran back in tears.
The bridesmaids quickly stopped her and dragged her back into the store.
When Huo Ke returned, the bridesmaid who had calculated his fortune had already finished her calculations.
The other bridesmaids also wanted their fortunes told; some asked about their studies, some about their wealth, and some about their careers, but no one asked about their marriage prospects.
One of the bridesmaids sighed, "After this experience, I've learned my lesson. Good men are hard to find, so I'd better just focus on working and making money."
After all, work is tiring, but if you encounter a "good-for-nothing" guy in a relationship, you're really in big trouble.
Huo Ke was almost brought to tears by her sisters' words and tried to run away, but was pulled back again.
Several of her sisters forcefully pressed her into a chair and asked Chu Ci:
"Master, we'd like to help her with her marriage prospects."
Huo Ke instantly bristled: "I don't care about marriage!"
Her face was contorted with pain, and tears welled up in her eyes but wouldn't fall.
"I...I also want to consider my career!"
But Chu Ci only glanced at her and then shook his head.
"You have no luck in your career, you have a bad temper, and you are easily trusting. You will only lose money in business."
"Your parents must have left you a lot of money. Just live your life well with that money and don't make any investments."
Huo Ke: "..."
Does that mean she's just destined to live a life of idleness and waiting to die?
She felt even more like crying.
The bridesmaid who warned Chu Ci before the wedding was probably Huo Ke's best friend.
She asked proactively, "Master, does this mean that Huo Ke will never be able to date or get married in the future?"
No, that's not it.
Chu Ci carefully examined Huo Ke's face, and Huo Ke also quietly pricked up his ears.
Chu Ci: "She's still young, she believes whatever men say, and she likes to spend money on men."
"It's fine to date, but you have to learn not to be too extravagant with men."
"When you get older and become wiser, you can still get married."
"But if you're not smart enough, I wouldn't recommend getting married."
Having received a satisfactory answer, the sisters thanked Chu Ci profusely, paid the money, and prepared to leave.
But before he could even leave the store, Huo suddenly turned back.
She stared at Chu Ci with her swollen, red eyes, looking pitiful.
"Master, I want to ask, is it really true that I can't have children?"
Seeing her crying so pitifully, Chu Ci sighed.
"From my perspective, it's not possible. But this is ultimately a medical issue, and I still recommend that you go to the hospital."
Huo Ke looked disappointed and sniffed.
"But I really like children."
Undeterred, she asked again, "Can I adopt a child?"
"no."
Chu Ci's answer was firm.
Although Huo Ke's material conditions are not a problem, and she can provide her child with a very comfortable material life.
But her temper is too strange, and it's not something that can be changed overnight.
If a child lives with her, there's a very high chance they'll grow up to be a bad person.
Huo Ke looked disappointed and left dejectedly after being comforted by her sisters.
After they left, Chu Ci waited for a while, but no one was in the shop.
She simply strolled out to buy some sweet soup.
After setting up his stall for a while, Wei Yong's sweet soup has become well-known.
Even though it's not peak mealtime, his stall is still packed with people.
Wei Yong was as busy as ever, and Xu Juan was also extremely busy, helping out.
To Chu Ci's surprise, Xu Juan's mother also came.
She thought that being kicked out by her family meant that Xu Juan's relationship with her parents was completely broken.
But to her surprise, the mother and daughter were only a little awkward, not as cold as she had imagined.
When Xu Juan saw Chu Ci come to buy something, she was stunned for a moment, then quickly wiped her hands and went out.
"master!"
She walked up to Chu Ci, her face showing nervousness.
"Master, my master contacted me some time ago."
Chu Ci's expression turned serious. "Is he asking you out?"
Xu Juan nodded quickly, her two hands clasped together nervously.
"Master, I've refused him. Is that alright?"
No, don't worry.
Chu Ci comforted her.
"Your master injured a policeman before and has been wanted by the police ever since. He doesn't dare to show his face easily."
Xu Juan's tense expression relaxed slightly, but the worry between her brows did not lessen much.
"Master, thank you for reminding me, otherwise I definitely would have gone."
She pursed her lips and apologized sheepishly, "About what happened before..."
Let bygones be bygones.
Chu Ci interrupted her, pointing to Wei Yong, who was secretly watching them.
He smiled and said, "I'd like a bowl of your signature sweet soup."
Xu Juan looked in the direction she was pointing and met Wei Yong's concerned gaze.
Her face flushed, and she quickly went back: "Okay, Master, please wait a moment, I'll be done right away."
Wei Yong's signature dessert soup is the best-selling item at his stall. It is made with the freshest fruits and coconut milk and always sells out.
Chu Ci returned with a paper bowl and saw a person standing in front of the door from afar.
Although the person was wearing a women's suit, it was unclear how many days it had been since they had washed themselves.
Wrinkled and lumpy, wrapped around her body, her hair was greasy and shiny, as if it hadn't been washed for days.
He had an indescribable sense of destitution about him.
Chu Ci walked over, and the man, hearing the footsteps, slowly raised his face.
His face was completely bloodless, terrifyingly white.
Unfortunately, his dark circles were excessively heavy, and his eyes were bloodshot.
She looks just like a female ghost from a movie.
Chu Ci, who was eating as she walked, froze for a moment and opened her mouth slightly.
"Tianhe Law Firm, Bai Shengtian..."
"You're Yuan Yuling's lawyer, right?"
Bai Shengtian, a name with lofty ambitions, is rarely seen in girls, so Chu Ci had a very deep impression of her.
She remembered that when this person came last time, he was full of vigor and had a decisive and efficient demeanor.
It hadn't been long, but she looked as if a ghost had drained all her life force.
Seeing that Chu Ci recognized him, Bai Shengtian weakly forced a smile.
"Miss Chu, it's so good that you still remember me."
She had barely uttered a single sentence when she seemed to have used up all her strength, and her whole body began to sway uncontrollably.
Chu Ci quickly helped her up and saw that her brow was turning blue, so she knew that she hadn't listened to what he had said back then.
"Let's go, let's go inside and sit down first."
She helped Bai Shengtian inside.
Bai Shengtian, supported by her, walked unsteadily into the store.
As soon as she stepped in, she felt the chill on her back disappear.
The icy body warmed up instantly, and I felt much warmer.
Feeling the warmth she hadn't experienced in a long time, her legs went weak and she almost cried.
Chu Ci helped her up: "You can't sit here, come to the table."
Bai Shengtian sat on the spirit chair, feeling a bit cold when he first sat down.
But once you get used to that bit of chill, a warm feeling begins to rise.
While Chu Ci was pouring her water, she felt that most of the yin energy in her body had been absorbed by the chair.
She touched the chair longingly and couldn't help but ask:
"Master, do you sell this chair?"
"It's an heirloom, not for sale."
Chu Ci pushed a cup of hot water towards her, and seeing that her complexion seemed to have improved somewhat, asked:
"I told you not to walk at night so often, didn't you listen? Have you been running into something evil lately?"
Bai Shengtian's hand holding the cup trembled, and hot water spilled out of the cup.
The drops formed small, light red circles on her hands, but she seemed oblivious to them, not feeling the heat at all.
Her hands were trembling, and she could only feel better after bringing her head close to her hands and drinking some hot water.
Chu Ci frowned as she looked at the marks on her hands.
The water she poured wasn't boiling hot; it couldn't possibly scald someone's skin like that.
"You didn't just encounter a ghost recently, it's been at least a week?"
Bai Shengtian finished drinking the water in his cup and nodded shakily.
"Master, you are right, today is the tenth day."
She placed the warm cup in her palm, unconsciously gripping it tightly, her drooping eyelashes trembling incessantly.
"Ten days ago, I went on a business trip abroad. After finishing organizing the materials needed for the court hearing at the company, it was already past 1 a.m.
"It's hard to get a taxi at this time, so I had to drive back myself despite being sleepy."
But perhaps it was July, or perhaps she was just tired after a long day and was in a very low mood.
Anyway, something strange happened to her that day.
She covered her greasy hair with her hands, and the thought of that night sent chills down her spine.
"That night I was driving home by myself when I met a mother holding a child on the way."
"She was holding a child in her arms, wearing a nightgown dress, and had bruises on her arms and legs from being beaten."
"At this time of day, a mother carrying her child onto a deserted street must have encountered trouble."
"I knew immediately that she and her child were experiencing domestic violence when I saw her, so I stopped my car next to them and wanted to take them to the police station to report the case."
"But she told me that she had just called the police and was going home now."
Bai Shengtian clutched his hair, his lips trembling.
“I found it a bit strange at the time, because it was so late and it was a domestic violence incident, the police couldn’t possibly let the person who reported the case walk back with the child by themselves.”
"So I asked her why, and she said the police didn't offer to take her."
"I thought she had encountered an irresponsible police officer, so I offered to take her home..."
Thinking about what would happen next, she huddled up, a layer of cold sweat forming on her forehead.
Following the address the woman gave her, she dropped her off in an old town area.
Just as she was about to give the woman her business card and offer to help her for free, the woman suddenly got out of the car with her child in her arms.
"I was very confused at the time because my car doors were locked, and there was no way she could have gotten out of the car."
"I was so confused and wanted to figure it out, so I got off the bus with her. But..."
Bai Shengtian swallowed hard, his eyes filled with fear.
"But she actually walked to a pond with the child in her arms and jumped in!"
Although she was frightened at the time, she still chose to jump into the water to save people immediately.
However, it was very strange that there was nothing in the water.
She swam across most of the pond, but she didn't see the child's body, or even the adult's body.
"But I saw her jump down with her child in her arms."
"At that moment, I wondered if she had changed her mind and climbed ashore with the child?"
But this was just her guess.
Worried that she might be mistaken and delay the rescue of the mother and child, she still called the police.
It was almost dawn when the police were called.
The police followed her in the lake all night, searching for anything, but found nothing.
There happened to be a new store nearby with surveillance cameras, so the police went to check the footage.
Surveillance footage showed that she was alone by the lake at the time, and there was no mother or child present.
Only Bai Shengtian inexplicably stopped the car, got out, and jumped into the water, swimming around in the lake until he was exhausted before finally getting ashore.
"Because of this surveillance footage, the police suspect that I made a false report and wasted police resources."
"So they took me back for questioning, but I insisted that I saw it, and they thought I was mentally unstable."
The police followed her around for most of the night, but since they thought she was mentally ill, they didn't want to pursue the matter further and simply released her.
"After leaving the police station, I couldn't figure it out no matter how hard I tried. Could it be that I really saw it wrong?"
"But I even spoke to that mother and child, and gave the child a few pieces of candy. How could I have been wrong!"
Bai Shengtian couldn't understand it more and more, and because of her profession, she even started to have some conspiracy theories.
"But this was just a minor incident. I still had a court hearing, so I planned to take a bath and hurry to the court."
"But it was during this bath that I saw that mother and child again..."
As she said this, she shuddered as if struck by lightning, and gripped her shoulders tightly with both hands.
"I saw the faces of that mother and child in my bathtub..."
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