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Chapter 55: The fiancée’s parents took their stand… even as a dog she had to let Ning Bei hold the leash.

“Ah… stop hitting me!”

Very soon, Qin Yu screamed in pain.

He had planned to keep his composure, yet the couple had a bellyful of anger, and while their blows were not fatal they could easily cripple someone.

In the end, Qin Yu could not endure it and had to beg the girl for help. “Yueyao, Yueyao, save me… don’t let them hit me anymore…”

“Father, Mother, please stop!”

Lin Yueyao rushed forward to intervene.

She knew Qin Yu bore undeniable responsibility for her falling out with Ning Bei, but she still could not watch her parents beat him to a pulp.

If that happened, she would feel even more humiliated.

“Get out of the way!”

Unexpectedly, as soon as Lin Yueyao ran up, her mother flung her aside.

“You still have the nerve to shield him? If not for him, would you have broken off the engagement with Ning Bei? If not for him, would we need to grovel before the Ning family?”

Bai Yuqin scolded, hating iron for not becoming steel.

“I…”

Lin Yueyao had no comeback.

She knew her mother was right; without Qin Yu, she would not have canceled the engagement, and without that cancellation her parents would not have suffered the Ning family’s disdain…

They had even been thrown out of the inn in disgrace.

Every time she tried to step in, her mother shoved her back and lectured her, so she could only stand there in anxious frustration.

“Stop it… I beg you, please stop…”

Lin Donglai ignored his daughter’s plea and kept beating while cursing, “You little bastard, you ruined my daughter’s life… I’ll beat you to death today.”

Even so, Lin Donglai still felt no release.

In his eyes, Qin Yu had destroyed his daughter’s happiness, and the more worthless Qin Yu appeared, the more unwilling he felt.

Because of Qin Yu, the whole family had suffered this calamity.

Bang!

At that moment Qin Yu, unable to endure the beating any longer, lost his head, grabbed a brick from the ground, and hurled it backward.

“Ouch!”

Caught off guard, Lin Donglai took the brick square on his forehead and cried out in pain.

He staggered back, clutching his brow, and instantly felt a hot stream run down, blurring his vision.

“Oh no, you’re bleeding!” Bai Yuqin’s face turned pale; she rushed over and shouted, “You little bastard, how could you strike so viciously?”

“Father?”

Lin Yueyao froze as well.

When she saw the blood on her father’s head, her mind buzzed, and she yelled at Qin Yu in fury, “What are you doing? How could you hit my father?”

“I…”

Qin Yu was at a complete loss.

The pain had been unbearable, so he had picked up the brick in a moment of desperation; he never expected to split Lin Yueyao’s father’s scalp.

This was bad.

“Father, are you all right?”

Lin Yueyao hurried forward, worried sick.

Just then Wang Teng and the others watched the drama with glee.

“Haha, the Crap King is awesome!”

“Lin Yueyao dumped Senior Brother Ning for him, and he actually cracked her dad’s head open.”

“There’s no helping it, this is the man the girl chose!”

“…”

Hearing the surrounding laughter, Lin Yueyao’s eyes reddened and she glared at Qin Yu. “I’m already in this mess because of you… why did you still hurt my family?”

“Why? Tell me why!”

“It wasn’t on purpose, Yueyao… I–I was in too much pain.”

Qin Yu had no way to defend himself and could only offer a feeble explanation.

At that moment his heart felt like ash; he never imagined things would escalate this far.

If he could choose again, he would rather keep taking the beating and never pick up that brick.

Boom!

Just then a powerful aura erupted from Lin Donglai, and his eyes went cold. “You beast, I had planned to spare you, but clearly you don’t deserve to live.”

“Uncle Lin… Uncle Lin, please listen to me!”

Qin Yu panicked.

“Stop!”

Luckily, at the critical moment a voice rang out. “I’d like to see who dares harm my son.”

“Mother?”

Seeing the familiar figure, Qin Yu nearly burst into tears.

Great, Mother hadn’t been killed by that wild father.

The newcomer was not only Yuan Yuan but also a burly man who accompanied her. The man was tall and imposing, and strange runes covered his thick arms.

Although no cultivation aura could be sensed, the sharp light in his eyes carried an overwhelming pressure.

“Yu’er, it’s all right now.” Yuan Yuan walked to Qin Yu’s side, glared at Lin Yueyao’s family, and rebuked, “Outrageous, daring to try and kill my son. Benefactor, help me kill them.”

“Very well.”

The burly man nodded.

Realizing the man’s strength far exceeded her father’s, Lin Yueyao quickly looked to Qin Yu. “Qin Yu, say something!”

“…”

Qin Yu understood her meaning at once.

To be honest, he was still furious and wanted to kill Lin Donglai in revenge.

Yet he also knew that if Lin Donglai and his wife really died, he and Lin Yueyao would be finished for good.

In terms of looks, Lin Yueyao was delicious eye-candy, and saying he disliked her would be a lie.

Back then he had almost won the girl; that faint sense of achievement lay before him, and giving it up now felt unrealistic.

So, in the end, Qin Yu softened. “Mother, Uncle Lin and I had a misunderstanding. It isn’t as serious as you think, so please don’t let this senior be offended.”

“…”

The burly man turned to Yuan Yuan for guidance.

Yuan Yuan was unwilling when she saw the bruises on her son, yet she could not resist Qin Yu’s plea.

Thus, the three finally chose to leave first.

They also had important business elsewhere.

Whoosh…

After the man withdrew his hostility and left, the family of three finally exhaled in relief.

“Who was that guy? What terrifying pressure.”

Lin Donglai still felt lingering fear.

Bai Yuqin frowned as well. “That damned good-for-nothing, how does his mother know such a powerful figure?”

“Father, Mother.”

At this point Lin Yueyao spoke up. “Don’t treat Qin Yu like that anymore. You beat him so badly, yet he still had his mother spare us. That shows he isn’t as awful as you say.”

Just then she felt a new surge of gratitude toward Qin Yu.

“Are you lecturing us now?” Bai Yuqin snapped. “Isn’t all this because of him? Merely beating him was already letting him off lightly.”

“Exactly.”

Lin Donglai echoed, “Without that little bastard, would things with Ning Bei have gone this way? Now, just for a bit of kindness, you’re defending him again?”

“I’m not defending him…”

Lin Yueyao sighed helplessly. “I just think beating him won’t help. Even if you kill him, the real problem remains… Ning Bei likes another woman now; he doesn’t like me anymore.”

“When you truly love someone, how could that change so easily?”

Bai Yuqin disagreed.

She was confident in her daughter’s looks and knew how much Ning Bei had liked her before, so in her view Ning Bei was simply angry.

Any outstanding man would be furious if his fiancée got entangled with another guy.

“Yueyao, do you know why we hit that loser?”

“Because you were angry.”

“Silly girl.”

Bai Yuqin tapped Lin Yueyao’s forehead and lowered her voice. “Anger is secondary; we did it for you!”

“For me?”

Lin Yueyao fluttered her long lashes.

Seeing her daughter’s puzzled look, Bai Yuqin explained, “Of course. We did it on purpose for Ning Bei to see, so he would know we can never accept Qin Yu and that we are on his side. Only then will he forgive your mistake.”

“And just now, you shouldn’t have stopped us; you should have helped us hit him.”

“What?”

Lin Yueyao looked as though her world had collapsed.

She never imagined her parents would say that, and even say she ought to beat Qin Yu as well.

“What does that expression mean?” Bai Yuqin grew annoyed. “We’re your parents and we want you to reconcile with Ning Bei… don’t you want that?”

“Mother, it’s not that I don’t want it.”

“Then you just couldn’t bear to strike him?”

“I did not…”

Before Lin Yueyao could deny it, Lin Donglai cut in. “Can’t bear it? Look at that so-called friend of yours… he cracked your father’s head.”

“Father…”

Lin Yueyao fell silent.

Thinking about what had happened, she felt angry too; Qin Yu showed no regard for her identity and actually hit her father.

Ning Bei would never do such a thing.

“In any case, let me make this clear.”

Seeing his daughter still confused, Bai Yuqin spoke with finality. “From now on, even if you become a dog, only Ning Bei can hold your leash. No one else should even dream about it.”

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