The moment the door was kicked open, Li Junsheng saw the scene inside.
His youngest daughter was on the ground, her clothes disheveled, with a clear handprint on her face!
Ma Yulian was sitting on Li Xiaoyu, her hand still in the position of trying to grab the money.
Seeing this scene, Li Junsheng's anger flared up instantly.
"Ma Yulian! What are you doing? Get up right now!"
Li Junsheng stopped Ma Yulian's money-grabbing behavior and pushed her off Li Xiaoyu.
He helped his youngest daughter up from the ground and immediately showed concern for her.
"Xiaoyu, are you okay? Did you hurt anywhere?"
Li Xiaoyu's eyes were red, but she stubbornly refused to cry.
Touching the clear handprint on Li Xiaoyu's face, Li Junsheng turned around and angrily questioned Ma Yulian:
"Who gave you permission to hit her?"
Among all his children, Li Xiaoyu was the youngest, and in his previous life, she was the first to pass away!
Li Junsheng felt guilty about her, and now he couldn't bear to see her being hit.
Ma Yulian tried to maintain her composure, pointing at Li Xiaoyu and saying with righteous indignation:
"I'm her mother, why can't I discipline her? This ungrateful wolf, I've wasted my time raising her. I found her a good family to marry into, and she still refuses!"
"You're just pretending to be nice here. If you knew she was having inappropriate relationships outside, you might be even angrier than me."
"Shut up! Do you speak about your own daughter like that?"
Li Junsheng glared at Ma Yulian, then turned back to try to ask Li Xiaoyu about her boyfriend in a gentle voice!
But Li Xiaoyu thought Li Junsheng was just playing along with Ma Yulian, mistakenly believing he was really drunk and not serious about dividing the family.
So she pulled out the money from her pocket with red eyes and pushed it all into Li Junsheng's arms.
Then she ran out crying!
"Xiaoyu, where are you going?"
Li Xiaoyu didn't give Li Junsheng a chance to speak. When he tried to chase after her, she ran too fast and was out of sight in a moment.
Li Junsheng turned back, looking at Ma Yulian with a dark expression.
He didn't know what terrible things she had said to make his youngest daughter run away in such despair!
He had only talked to his second son for a moment, telling him to take the money and stay at the hospital with Xiao Wei for a few more days, but in that time, Ma Yulian had already called Li Xiaoyu into the room and forced her to marry.
Strangely, the timing of Ma Yulian's forced marriage was different from his previous life!
Maybe because he had taken all the money from Ma Yulian's hands, she was really broke, which made her think about her youngest daughter and force her into marriage earlier.
The man Ma Yulian wanted Li Xiaoyu to marry wasn't a good person, a former prisoner, nine years older than Li Xiaoyu.
No one was willing to marry him, which was why he was willing to pay six hundred dowry. Even so, no one was willing to push their daughter into that fire.
Only Ma Yulian, that inhumane woman, would harm her own daughter like this!
Facing Li Junsheng's dark gaze, Ma Yulian felt guilty but still pretended to be strong:
"What are you looking at? I promised our fourth daughter to marry and got dowry. Are you going to take it? You lost your job, you'll have to rely on your children from now on."
Li Junsheng's chest heaved with anger. He pointed at Ma Yulian's nose and shouted at her:
"I, Li Junsheng, would never sell my daughter for money. Do you deserve to be a mother? Even tigers don't eat their own cubs. Is there anyone who harms their daughter like you?"
"Can you act like a human being? Even a stepmother isn't as cruel as you, who twists and beats her children. This family is in turmoil because of you!"
"Ha! You're lecturing me now? That dead brat is disobedient because she takes after you. If she listened, would I hit her?"
"Do you know what she did just now? She threatened to die to get her way, thinking I couldn't do anything about it. Who cares if she dies!"
"Better if she dies, then I won't have to worry about her anymore. You call me cruel, blaming me for hitting her, but which daughter is as disobedient as her?"
Ma Yulian spat viciously on the ground, saying the most malicious things possible.
Her words always conveyed one meaning:
Anyone who doesn't listen to her deserves to die!
Li Junsheng wanted to reason with her, but their values were on completely different levels.
Ma Yulian also saw the money scattered on the ground in Li Junsheng's arms. She didn't want to argue with him, she just wanted to get that money in her hands!
Thinking of this, she bent down to grab it.
Li Junsheng's eyes flashed dangerously, grabbing Ma Yulian's outstretched hand and slapping her across the face!
Slap!
Ma Yulian's scream accompanied the crisp sound of the slap. Li Junsheng didn't hold back, slapping her to the ground.
"You dare hit me! Li Junsheng, I'll fight you to the death!"
Ma Yulian covered her face, her eyes full of disbelief.
Coming to her senses, she lunged at Li Junsheng with bared fangs and claws, only to be pushed away again by Li Junsheng.
Ma Yulian's screams attracted their second son Li Guohua and Li Chunya.
Seeing Ma Yulian's disheveled appearance, the two of them didn't know what had happened.
"Father, Mother, what's going on? Let's talk this out calmly!"
Li Chunya cautiously tried to mediate between her parents. Li Junsheng suppressed his anger and tried to speak calmly to his children:
"You two stay out of it. I must teach her a lesson today, or she'll push your little sister into hell for six hundred dollars!"
Ma Yulian was crying and complaining on the side!
"Li Junsheng, you're being heartless! Wasn't I thinking about that dead brat? She won't have to worry about money after marrying there. They can afford six hundred dowry, showing they're not short of money."
"She says she has a boyfriend, what kind of good person would she find? I'm doing this for her, yet you hit me. I want a divorce!"
Li Junsheng stared at Ma Yulian coldly and said:
"Fine, if you want a divorce, then let's divorce. If you want to cry, go cry somewhere else. Don't argue here."
With that, Li Junsheng turned and pulled his two children away, leaving Ma Yulian alone.
This person had a histrionic personality. She couldn't have anyone in front of her, or she wouldn't cry or complain!
Li Junsheng picked up all the money on the ground, not leaving a cent for Ma Yulian.
Back in the living room, Li Junsheng felt a headache. It was getting late, so he said to Li Chunya:
"Chunya, it's late. Dad will take you home first."
Li Chunya was worried about her sister, her voice full of concern:
"Father, will Xiaoyu be okay running out like that? Should we find her first?"
She wasn't in a hurry to go home anyway. Sun Gui was getting impatient waiting on the side, but Li Chunya ignored him completely.
He definitely wasn't as important as her sister!
She also didn't agree with her mother Ma Yulian forcing her sister to marry for six hundred dollars.
One unhappy marriage in the family was enough...
Li Chunya just wanted her sister to be happy!
Li Junsheng looked at the open door, feeling worried. He was also afraid his youngest daughter would do something drastic, happening earlier than in his previous life.
After all, Ma Yulian had forced her youngest daughter to marry earlier, so her suicide for love might also happen earlier!