Chapter 458 - 467: Fighting for the Inheritance
Everyone was waiting for Chu Xiaoyao to express her stance when there was a knock at the door. Someone immediately went to open it, and Lin Qiong walked in.
"Xiaoyao, this is what your parents left for you." Lin Qiong approached Chu Xiaoyao, handed her a document folder.
Chu Xiaoyao didn’t move an inch, so Li Yifei took the folder from Lin Qiong’s hands and said to Chu Xiaoyao, "Xiaoyao, take a look at these, they are what your parents left for you."
Chu Xiaoyao’s body trembled, and she quickly snatched the folder, tremblingly opened it, and began to examine each item inside.
Chu Wenqiang and Wang Junyou also leaned in to look, but the expressions on their faces quickly turned uglier and uglier, as it turned out to be a will, along with some property deeds.
To their shock, Chu Xiaoyao’s parents had already transferred all their property into Chu Xiaoyao’s name, extinguishing any hope they had of dividing up the inheritance.
Li Yifei, looking at these documents dated within the last few months, roughly understood that Chu Xiaoyao’s mother had long planned to seek death along with her husband. To protect her daughter from being bullied after her death, she had arranged over those months for her husband to transfer the property into Chu Xiaoyao’s name.
As for Chu Xiaoyao’s father, he naturally had no objections to transferring the property to his daughter. He probably agreed because his wife feared he would squander the property on other women if she died, and because she treated him quite well at that time.
After delivering the items to Chu Xiaoyao and knowing that Li Yifei was there to prevent any trouble, Lin Qiong excused herself and left. As soon as Lin Qiong was gone, Chu Xiaoyao’s relatives exploded in anger. Although the Chu family was not extremely wealthy, the combined properties were worth three to four million. If this sum was divided into three parts, they would each receive about one million—a sum nominally for the elders, but ultimately going to them.
While they had all made plans for this, they now found their efforts had come to naught, as there was nothing left for them. Neither side of relatives could accept this reality, and they became noisy, one side criticizing Chu Xiaoyao’s father and the other blaming her mother. Eventually, Chu Xiaoyao’s paternal relatives condemned her mother’s actions and even talked of suing her, while her maternal relatives vigorously listed the wrongs her father had done.