Chapter 126: Chapter 124: Old Zhang Family and Bai family

"You hit my Little Ying?" She glared at Bai Cuicui’s mother, her eyes blazing with anger.

Bai Cuicui’s mother flinched. "Since when is she *your* Little Ying? You from the Zhang family, you’re sticking your nose where it doesn’t belong!"

"Grandma Wen entrusted her to me! What about it? Do I need your permission? Why don’t you go down below and ask Grandma Wen yourself?" Aunt Zhang stared brazenly at Bai Cuicui’s mother.

Bai Cuicui’s mother’s bluster immediately deflated.

"Aunt Zhang, your family is going too far! Do you have any idea what lies this bitch... Wen Ying has been spreading about my daughter?"

"Oh? What lies? Why don’t you tell me so I can hear for myself." Aunt Zhang planted her hands on her hips, her eyes locked on Bai Cuicui’s mother. Meanwhile, the Bai family relatives who had been ready to step up all fell silent.

"Aunt Zhang! She said I’m doing... *that*... for a living!" Bai Cuicui stomped her foot, her voice a mix of indignation and self-pity.

"Doing *that*? What is *that*? How am I supposed to know if you don’t say it? For all I know, you’re just ganging up on my Little Ying again, thinking the Old Zhang Family is an easy target, is that it?"

"Aunt Zhang! You...! How can you expect me to say it out loud? A girl’s reputation is the most important thing she has!" Bai Cuicui shouted, exasperated.

Zhang Wenliang watched the scene unfold. ’Aunt Zhang’s fighting prowess is really something else,’ he thought.

Uncle Zhang stood behind her without saying a word, but his imposing presence spoke for itself.

More people started to arrive, one after another. They were all from the Zhang family.

They took their places by Uncle Zhang’s side.

"Aunt Zhang, let me handle this," Wen Ying said with a smile. Seeing Aunt Zhang go to bat for her like this, a warmth had already filled her chest.

The empty space in her heart seemed to be filling up, little by little.

"Today, Bai Cuicui confessed her feelings to Wen Liang and said she wanted to marry him."

"The nerve! Wen Liang is the most promising student the Old Zhang Family has ever had, and you have the audacity to say you want to marry him? Have you taken a good look in the mirror?" Aunt Zhang spat.

"I... Is it wrong for me to like Brother Wen Liang?"

"That’s right, you’re not wrong. Your ’love’ is just a ploy to trick Wen Liang and then frame him. Making money as a procuress is your business. But are you trying to ruin Wen Liang’s future? To drag him down to your level, making him someone who sleeps around for money? Do you really think anyone here would let you get away with that?"

"What!" All the members of the Old Zhang Family who had been silent until now erupted in anger.

"Wen Liang is the kind of genius that our family is blessed with only once in a blue moon! Have your Bai family lost every shred of decency to do something so wicked? If our Zhang ancestors hadn’t taken in your Bai ancestors, you all would have starved to death! You pack of ungrateful dogs!"

Seeing this, Bai Cuicui’s mother grew frantic. "You can’t listen to this little liar’s nonsense! How could we possibly harm Wen Liang? He’s the most promising person in our entire community! Cui Cui just likes him, how could she dare do something like this?"

"That’s right! We’ve been neighbors for so many years. You can’t just believe every rumor you hear!"

"It’s not right to damage the good relations between our two families over the words of a little girl! It’s just not worth it!" 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Aunt Zhang turned to Wen Ying. "Little Ying, tell me, is everything you said true?"

Wen Ying nodded. "There’s proof on Bai Cuicui’s phone. She got in touch with a rich, fifty-year-old woman through one of her clients, a forty-year-old man who’s a boss. This rich woman has a thing for young men and throws money around. As soon as Wen Liang came back, Bai Cuicui took ten thousand yuan from her and promised to deliver him. If she succeeded, she would get the remaining forty thousand.

When the client saw Wen Liang’s photo and found out he was a genius student from Qingbei University, she was even more Satisfied. She immediately added another twenty thousand to the offer and gave Bai Cuicui three days to deliver him."

"You’re lying! Would Cui Cui tell you something like that? If she didn’t, then how could you possibly know! You’re clearly making it all up! Can’t you all see that?" Cui Cui’s mother shouted, agitated.

Wen Ying gave her a cold smile. "We’ll see if I’m lying or not once we look at your daughter’s phone, won’t we?"

"A phone is a private possession! What gives you the right to look at it? Why don’t you let everyone look at *your* phone?!"

"Fine by me. I’ll take out my phone, and your daughter can take out hers." Wen Ying smiled, immediately unlocking her phone and holding it out.

Bai Cuicui was speechless.

’I absolutely can’t show it to them!’

’If I take it out, I’m really done for!’

"Why isn’t she taking it out? Ma’am, are you afraid everyone will find out you took half the money?"

"What! We thought it was just Cui Cui being young and foolish, but you knew about it too? Were you planning on keeping all of us in the dark?!" The Bai family relatives were no longer on their side when they heard this.

They had shown up because they thought there might be something in it for them.

But when they saw how determined the Old Zhang Family was to protect Wen Ying, they’d already been thinking of backing out.

And now, it turned out they were being played for fools. ’This mother-daughter duo definitely didn’t tell us the whole story!’

’They were going to make all that money and split it between themselves without even giving us a scrap? And they still expect us to back them up?’

Everyone knew that Zhang Wenliang was the person the Old Zhang Family valued most.

’Are they out of their minds, trying to make money this way?’

"I didn’t! You don’t even believe me anymore?" Bai Cuicui’s mother was about to lose her mind.

"It’s fine if you deny it, ma’am. You and your daughter are cut from the same cloth, after all—no one’s going to believe a word either of you says, are they? I’m sure your husband doesn’t know about you meeting other men at hotels behind his back, does he?"

BOOM!

At these words, everyone’s gaze snapped back to Bai Cuicui’s mother, now filled with contempt.

At that moment, Bai Cuicui’s father was also stunned.

’She was cheating on me?’

’I knew our daughter was doing this kind of thing. After all, the money was good!’

’And she had to hand over everything she earned to the family anyway.’

’But my wife?’

’Damn it!’

Bai Cuicui’s father spun around and slapped his wife across the face. "You shameless whore!"

Bai Cuicui was close to her mother. Seeing her get hit, she scrambled to stop her father, and in the confusion, her phone slipped from her grasp and fell to the ground.

Zhang Wenliang bent down and scooped it up.

It wasn’t even locked.

"Sister Wen Ying, uncles, aunts, this is Bai Cuicui’s phone! I see the messages! She really was trying to sell me!" For the first time, Zhang Wenliang’s expression was utterly glacial.

’This was the first time he had ever felt such malice, and it came from people he knew.’

’They weren’t close, but he knew them. He had even played with some of them as a kid.’

’And they wanted to ruin him?’

’All for just a few tens of thousands of yuan?’

’Did they have any idea how much his dreams were worth?’

’They were priceless!’

Bai Cuicui and her mother lunged for the phone, but people held them back.

Everyone from the Old Zhang Family glared at them furiously. As for the relatives who had shown up to support Bai Cuicui’s mother for a small promised reward, now, one by one...

"I just remembered, my sow is about to farrow! I’ve got to get back!"