Chapter 558: +539: Bloodthirsty Feng Ling
Chapter 558: Chapter 538+539: Bloodthirsty Feng Ling
Chang Jinlan knew her daughter was clueless. She had tried to advise and persuade her countless times, but to no avail. When things were good, Li Ting wanted to give her husband the world. When things were bad, she’d act up and throw tantrums. By now, her son-in-law, Fang Zhengcai, not only showed not an ounce of gratitude for her family’s help, but had even hinted a couple of times that they were the ones who had raised their daughter to be this way. She would openly defy her mother-in-law in front of the neighbors and wouldn’t give her husband any face in front of outsiders. He said she had no class whatsoever. This made Chang Jinlan’s heart ache with anger. And yet, her foolish daughter would make up with her husband, and a few days later, she’d be back at her parents’ house asking for money, saying she wanted to buy a big house. Chang Jinlan felt like cracking open her daughter’s head to see what on earth was inside.
So when Li Ting came back this time after a fight with her husband, Chang Jinlan felt uneasy. Why? Because every time her daughter fought with her husband, it was over some trivial issue with his family. And every time her son-in-law came to pick her up and smooth things over, she would inevitably run back home a few days later, demanding one thing or another. There was always a demand.
From the very beginning, she had never approved of the Fang family. Although Fang Zhengcai’s father and Li Quan had a connection and could be considered old acquaintances, the Fang family simply didn’t meet her standards. After Fang Zhengcai’s father passed away, the two families grew even more distant. Her daughter could have found someone much better. But no matter how much she tried to talk sense into Li Ting, she had her heart set on Fang Zhengcai. She’d say that even though the Fang family wasn’t well-off, he was handsome. Besides, her own family had money, so she didn’t care if his family had any—a handsome face was enough.
She was against it, but her daughter was tricked into sleeping with Fang Zhengcai before they were even married. ‘What could I do?’ She could only let her daughter marry him, thinking that if she helped them out a bit in the future, her daughter’s life would be fine. But what she never expected was for her daughter to be such an incredible handful. They hadn’t had a single day of peace.
This fight between her son-in-law and daughter was probably about money again. After her daughter got married, their family had already poured nearly 100,000 into her marriage. That wasn’t 10,000—that was an amount an ordinary family could never afford. ‘This son-in-law is simply insatiable.’
Chang Jinlan was already upset, and then she saw her daughter come home only to pick a fight with her daughter-in-law. Her daughter-in-law was magnanimous and didn’t stoop to her level, but Li Ting just wouldn’t let it go. Finally, Chang Jinlan couldn’t hold back her anger anymore and scolded her daughter.
“Mom, what are you trying to say? Are you saying this house belongs to that Guan Fengling now? That there’s no place for me here anymore? Am I not your real daughter? No wonder Zhengcai told me a married daughter is like spilled water. He said everything in this family belongs to my brother and sister-in-law, and that you’d never give it to me, so I shouldn’t get my hopes up. I even argued with him over it! Turns out he was right all along. You give everything to my brother, and now you’re giving it to Guan Fengling. Are you trying to tell me I can’t come back home anymore?”
Li Ting snapped. She had just fought with her husband at her in-laws’ place, and when she came home, her own mother didn’t comfort her but scolded her instead. ‘If I don’t fight back now,’ she thought, ‘will I ever have a place in this family again?’
Chang Jinlan trembled with anger. ‘This daughter of mine is completely brainless. Did she come back home specifically to infuriate me?’
“This house belongs to your father! Everything your brother has, he earned with his own two hands! Did you earn a single cent of it? The fine food you eat, the nice things you drink—did you earn any of it yourself? You got married, and this family still has to support your in-laws! We give them money, we give them things, we even got your husband a new job! And that wasn’t enough! You came asking for your father and brother to find jobs for your brother-in-law, and even other relatives of your husband! Do you have any idea how much face your father has to lose to do all that? Have you ever once thought about him?! You take the money your brother earns and funnel it to your in-laws, and you still have the nerve to complain! Tell me yourself, how much has this family given you since you got married? And you’re still not satisfied? Are the things Zhengcai says even words a decent person would utter? Do you even have a brain?”
Chang Jinlan was utterly speechless at her daughter’s behavior. ‘How did I ever give birth to someone like this? Did I spoil her too much growing up?’
Instead of calming Li Ting down, Chang Jinlan’s words only made her angrier. She screamed, “What’s wrong with my dad getting Zhengcai a new job? What’s wrong with him getting jobs for Zhengcai’s family? We ask you to help with one little thing, and you complain endlessly! I’m your only daughter! Isn’t helping me what you’re supposed to do? What is there to feel so wronged about? And what’s wrong with me taking a few things or a little money? If you just gave me a few hundred thousand all at once, I’d have money and I wouldn’t have to keep asking, would I? Other mothers are terrified their daughters won’t have a good life, but look at you! When I got married, how much of a dowry did you even give me? If you don’t give it to me, it’s just going to go to an outsider later anyway! You say I have no brain? I think your brains have been completely bewitched by that Guan Fengling!”