novelraw Chapter 68: Lying Flat as a Sucker to Be Trampled On
Chapter 68: Lying Flat as a Sucker to Be Trampled On
"I’m not the kind of guy who meddles in everything, but since you’ve already gone to Zheng Xu for this, I have to step in."
Being good to your girl and letting her bully you is indulgent, but letting a rival steal the spotlight is incompetence, absolutely not allowed.
"I won’t let Zheng Xu do it, I’ll handle it myself, and you stay out of it!"
"Girl, I know how capable you are, but don’t you want to test me a bit? Leave this to me, treat it as a test, and once it’s done, let me protect you in the future."
Qian cast him a sideways glance. Was this guy cunning or just foolish, willingly lying down for her to step on?
"If you don’t pass, you’ll be fired and step down for someone better?"
"For whom? I’m the most virtuous one." Yu Minglang was so captivated by her glance that his heart itched.
"Speak, you fiddler with unnecessary worries, what’s your plan?"
"Check your dad’s call records, find the landlord of their rented place to collect testimony to prove cohabitation, and whether to use this to accuse him of bigamy is up to your mother’s discretion."
"What a hassle," Qian muttered to herself; this guy wasn’t on the same wavelength.
No wonder the Yu Family’s foundation is so solid, airtight, and with a completely legal family style, you can’t find a fault.
"Wait a moment, I need to make a call." Yu Minglang took out his phone, and Qian sat up straight. "Who are you calling?!"
Not agreeing with a word just to report a marriage, she had to guard against him, to prevent him from losing his mind.
"My elder brother, don’t worry."
He showed Qian a reassuring smile and dialed his brother’s number.
"Brother, I’ve got something to ask you. Was it you who developed the White Tower Ridge area? No? Who was the developer? Do you know them? You’ve got 5 minutes to find out, the exact time of demolition, and the demolition plan."
Yu Mingli, who had already laid down with his wife, received the call from the brat and couldn’t help laughing or crying.
"Hey, what’s gotten into you at this time of night? That place’s not mine, and you want me to ask the competition about demolition compensation?"
A few months before demolition, every developer kept news tightly sealed. For instance, the area around Qian’s home had often been clamored to be moving, but externally, they kept sending smoke signals, giving the illusion of no movement.
"Don’t pretend, just check. If you can’t find out, I’ll tell my sister-in-law, Have you been secretly eating meat? High blood pressure, if my sister-in-law knows..."
"Okay, okay, ancestor, you win, I’ll check! Is 5 minutes too short?"
"10 minutes, not a second more, be thorough."
Yu Minglang hung up the phone, smiling at Qian.
"My family is very easy to get along with, you don’t have to worry about being bullied."
Qian felt a bit sorry for the Yu Family; actually, they were the ones being bullied by Yu Minglang, weren’t they?
For now, she seemed to be the only one who could handle this guy. In past lives, he listened to her well; perhaps she should just take him in to keep him from harming society...
After a while, Yu Minglang received a call from his elder brother.
"Alright, I got it."
Yu Minglang hung up the phone and asked Qian.
"How much is your house now?"
"Around 100,000." The village in the city had been clamoring for relocation for two years, with no news, so houses were being sold, basically at this price, upstairs and downstairs, plus a small yard and an outbuilding.
"If your father and mother divorce, the property would be split in half, 50,000 each. With evidence of your father’s bigamy, your mother could seek 15,000-20,000 in emotional compensation."
Qian understood Yu Minglang’s train of thought immediately.
"My father also took 20,000 in joint property when he left and squandered it all. With a gambling history, my mother would get custody of my brother and me and could secure more property."
Yu Minglang looked at her approvingly, "Very good, righteous values."
"According to the law, debts from a divorce should be shared, but debts from gambling, drugs, or prostitution are excluded, so whatever debts he incurred outside have nothing to do with my mom! I can give him cash to pay off debts in exchange for him relinquishing the property!" Qian continued along Yu Minglang’s line of thinking.
"Completely leaving with nothing, in theory, isn’t impossible, but we should be fair and offer your dad some support, a bit of financial compensation is okay. This must be swift, no delays," Yu Minglang said hypocritically.
Qian rolled her eyes; he clearly didn’t mean it.
If it weren’t for coming back from rebirth, she would have been completely fooled by this guy.
Yu Minglang said he would give her dad money instead of property, which was definitely a decision he made after asking about the demolition compensation. To trade some money for a house worth hundreds of thousands and emphasize swiftness was clearly to prevent her dad from realizing it by the time the move happened. This guy was really cunning.
Qian gave him an amused glance, and Yu Minglang felt a shiver down his spine under her gaze.
"What are you looking at?"
"I’m looking at how unstoppable someone skilled in martial arts can be; when a scoundrel knows the law, it’s even scarier."
The reason he chose law as his second master’s field was probably to navigate within legal bounds, right?
Yu Minglang cleared his throat, "I’m a person with principles."
"What are your principles? Complicating matters?" Actually, Qian preferred her own plan, straightforward and satisfying.
This guy insisted on following the legal bottom line, taking a roundabout way; though there was little difference in the final result of their plans, his way clearly wasn’t hers.
"My principle is to never touch the bottom line."
He added, "The bottom line is my family and the law."
"Who is your family?"
It was something to self-appoint himself as a boyfriend; now he even upgraded it!
Yu Minglang looked at Qian without speaking, but the look in his eyes seemed to say, it’s you; you can’t escape!
"Yu Minglang, you give me your bottom line, and I’ll give you mine. I especially dislike being controlled, particularly by threats." If it were anyone else using marriage reports as leverage, Qian would’ve been furious.
"Mm, in the future, whatever you say goes. If you threaten me, I’ll listen." As long as she didn’t go to Zheng Xu or do anything dangerous, she could do whatever as she pleased since he liked her this way.
"..." His face? His integrity? What happened to the promised bickering?
Qian initially wanted to tear into him to showcase some power, but after dealing with Zheng Xu, any bit of backbone retreated. This shameless behavior was slippery, and there was no point to grab to start a fight.
"I’ll handle gathering the evidence; you make sure your mother stays calm. We’ll divide the work clearly, reach a friendly consensus, align in views, unify the direction, and in the future, we must follow this pattern for mutual progress, together—"
"Together to deceive people?" Qian couldn’t listen any longer.
The two exchanged glances, truly understanding each other. Smart people need not spell it out; just knowing suffices. Let’s eat, eat!
Before finishing their meal, the two reached a consensus and had an opportunity to work together to deceive someone when someone kicked the door...