Li Shuping sneered, “I really do look down on your family — two old folks, one with bad character, one greedy and snobbish.”

“You raised a daughter who’s sharp-tongued, lazy, gluttonous, and disrespectful to elders. Your son steals chickens and dogs, does bad deeds. What’s there in your family for people to respect?”

“You—!” Yang Meifeng clutched her chest in anger, not expecting Li Shuping to say such things about their whole family right to their faces.

Did this woman not want to be in-laws anymore?

Liu Qin’s face twisted in fury, and she pointed right at Li Shuping’s nose, shouting, “Old hag, I’ve been giving you face, huh? How dare you insult my whole family like this?”

Lin Jianshe, seeing his beloved parents-in-law insulted like that by his own mother, was also enraged.
“Mom, you’ve gone too far! How can you talk about my in-laws and my wife like that? You call them greedy and sharp-tongued — I think you’re the real sharp-tongued, snobbish one!”

Lin Xiaoyu pointed at Liu Qin, “Your mom’s the real old hag!”

“Lin Xiaoyu, you little bitch—”

SMACK!

Before Liu Qin could finish, Li Shuping stood up and slapped her hard across the face.

Seeing their daughter get hit, Liu Jianping and Yang Meifeng’s eyes turned red with rage.

“Qin Qin!” Yang Meifeng called out.

Liu Qin was stunned, covering her numb face with her hand.

Only when she heard her mother’s shout did she snap back.

“You old hag, how dare you hit me!” Liu Qin screamed, reaching to grab Li Shuping’s hair.

But Li Shuping was faster — she grabbed Liu Qin by the back of the head and yanked hard, forcing Liu Qin’s back to arch painfully.

With her other hand, SMACK SMACK SMACK, she kept slapping Liu Qin’s face. “Who are you calling an old hag, huh? Who are you calling an old hag, huh?”

“I’ll teach you! I’ll teach you!” Li Shuping said with each slap. “You said you were giving me face? It’s me who’s been giving you face! Since your parents couldn’t teach you to respect elders, I’ll teach you myself today!”

In her past life, she’d heard Liu Qin scream “old hag” at her countless times.

If it weren’t for Liu Qin, that wicked woman, who caused her to break her leg and stopped Lin Jianshe, that ungrateful son, from taking her to the hospital, she wouldn’t have been half-paralyzed and thrown into a nursing home to be beaten by caregivers, living worse than a dog.

In her past life, she had long wanted to beat this wicked woman.

“Ahhhh!”

Liu Qin screamed as she was beaten.

Zhang Jiao stood frozen with her mouth wide open.

“In-law, stop! Please stop! Let go of Qin Qin’s hair!”

Yang Meifeng, terrified that if they provoked Li Shuping, she wouldn’t drop the police case — and then her precious son would go to jail.

Even though her eyes were red with rage seeing her daughter get hit, she didn’t dare fight back.

She could only try to pry Li Shuping’s hand off her daughter’s hair.

Lin Yongnian shouted, “Li Shuping, are you crazy?!”

“Mom, what’s wrong with you! Why are you hitting Qin Qin?!” Lin Jianshe grabbed his mom’s hand to stop her from hitting his wife.

Li Shuping glanced at her right hand, which was being held, let go of Liu Qin’s hair, and WHAP slapped Lin Jianshe across the face with a palm that carried the force of a dragon.

“I’m crazy? I’ve lost it? Are you blind, deaf? You didn’t hear how Liu Qin, this wicked woman, insulted me and Xiaoyu, huh?”

“When I criticize the Liu family, you, ungrateful brat, can hear every word, every punctuation mark — but when Liu Qin insults me, you hear nothing, absolutely nothing…”

SLAP SLAP SLAP! Li Shuping unleashed a flurry of slaps, her hand moving so fast it left afterimages, leaving Lin Jianshe dazed and dizzy.

Lin Guodong swallowed hard and instinctively touched his own face.

Thank goodness it wasn’t him getting slapped!

Their mother was really losing it — she had always doted on the second son, but now she was slapping him like crazy.

“You old hag!” Liu Qin tried to grab Li Shuping’s hair, but Yang Meifeng quickly hugged her to stop her.

“We can’t fight back — your brother’s still at the police station,” Yang Meifeng whispered anxiously.

Liu Qin could only glare at Li Shuping, gritting her teeth.

“You crazy old woman!” Lin Yongnian grabbed Li Shuping’s left hand that was slapping Lin Jianshe, raising his own hand high.

But before he could strike, a slender hand grabbed his wrist. He turned his head — it was his daughter, Lin Xiaoyu, staring at him with angry eyes.

“Dad, you want to hit Mom again?!”

Seeing his angry daughter, Li Shuping’s heart warmed. “Xiaoyu, let this old bastard go. Let him hit me! If he dares, I’ll call the police and have him thrown in jail!”

“You…” Lin Yongnian was furious. This crazy old woman — she was actually threatening to report him to the police!

Hearing this, Liu Qin immediately shouted, “I’m calling the police! I’m going to report you, Li Shuping, for hitting me and my husband, and have you thrown in jail!”

Yang Meifeng and Liu Jianping’s eyes lit up.

Right! Li Shuping hit their daughter — they could threaten her to drop the case by reporting her!

Li Shuping shook off Lin Yongnian and Lin Jianshe’s hands and casually rotated her wrists.

“Go ahead, report me! Lin Jianshe is my son; you’re my daughter-in-law. A mother disciplining her son and daughter-in-law is perfectly justified. Even if you call the police, it’s just a family matter — the police won’t bother, at most they’ll tell us to resolve it ourselves.”

“But Lin Yongnian, this old bastard hitting me? That’s different.”

“We’re divorced. If he hits me, that’s intentional assault. If I call the police, he’ll definitely go to jail.”

This divorce was the best decision she’d ever made.

Liu Qin was fuming. Why was it that the old hag hitting her and Jianshe was “perfectly justified” and the police wouldn’t interfere?!

“Angry?” Li Shuping looked at Liu Qin, who was so mad she looked like a puffed-up toad. “Get angry all you want — the law’s the law.”

Liu Qin glared at her furiously, almost grinding her teeth to pieces.

“Lin Yongnian, our relationship has changed. You’re not allowed to hit me whenever you like anymore, like before when no one could stop you. If you lay one finger on me, I’ll make sure you rot in jail!” Li Shuping snarled, jabbing a finger at Lin Yongnian’s nose.

Lin Yongnian angrily shook off Lin Xiaoyu’s hand and crossed his arms behind his back.

“Li Shuping, you’ll get old one day too. Treating your own son like this — aren’t you afraid Jianshe won’t treat you well when you’re old?”

“Look at what you’ve done to Jianshe…” Lin Yongnian felt a pang of sympathy.

Lin Jianshe’s right cheek was swollen, his nose bleeding.

He was crying, wiping his nose with his sleeve.

Yes, he was crying.

He’d never been beaten like this in his life — and by his own mother, no less! And he couldn’t even fight back!

He was crying both from the pain and from sheer frustration.

His mom was just too cruel! How could he have such a mother?!

Li Shuping looked coldly at Lin Jianshe. “He already treats me badly now. You think I’m counting on him to be good to me when I’m old?”

“When I’m too old to move, he’ll just kick me into a nursing home to die — like he’d care whether I live or die.”

“Mom, that’s too harsh. Jianshe isn’t as bad as you make him out to be,” Lin Guodong couldn’t help but speak up.

Honestly, he wasn’t really defending his brother.

He just felt that he and Jianshe treated their mom about the same, so hearing her blame only Jianshe made him uncomfortable.

Li Shuping glanced at him, “Oh, right — I forgot you. You’re just as bad as him.”

Lin Guodong: “…”