Chapter 75: Chapter 73: Doctor Wen, Retire

Time passed quickly. Staring at his phone, Zhang Jiasu sneered. "Nine minutes and fifty seconds! The ten minutes are up! Doctor Wen, get off the livestreaming platform!"

BANG BANG BANG!

As is always the case in novels, the moment of comeuppance arrived at the very last second, a scene mass-produced for the audience’s viewing pleasure.

The pounding on the door was deafening. Clearly, the person knocking was in a huge hurry. ’Or maybe they just have no manners?’

Zhang Jiasu shot his mother a dark look. She immediately turned to open the door, grumbling, "What’s the rush? In a hurry to get to your own funeral?"

The moment she finished speaking, the person at the door looked anxiously at Zhang Jiasu’s mother. "Lili! Some people are here looking for your boy, Jiasu! They’re saying he isn’t even your child! They’re already at the village entrance, asking for your address!"

Hearing this, Zhang Jiasu’s mother didn’t even stop to think before she started cursing. "That’s a load of fucking bullshit! I’ll rip their goddamn mouths off!"

"Lili! It’s a whole group of them! You and Old Zhang think you can take them on?"

The older woman froze. All the fight visibly drained out of her.

"Are there really that many of them?"

"Yeah! At this rate, they’ll be here any minute! You’d better go hide!"

Hearing this, Zhang Jiasu’s mother immediately turned, grabbed her son, and made to run. "Jiasu! Come on! We need to go hide!"

[Tsk, tsk. Looks like even the heavens can’t stand to watch this anymore.]

[And this piece of trash wanted Doctor Wen to quit?]

[I thought she said she gave birth to him, so why is she so scared now? What a disgusting person. She must have hundreds of different faces!]

[Don’t run! We want to see what happens next! If you leave, where are we supposed to get our entertainment?]

[Doctor Wen, do something! Quick!]

"Don’t be hasty."

As if on cue to echo Wen Ying’s words, a voice said, "Where are you all off to? Need a lift?"

The speaker was a stout woman, her face fixed in a smile, but it was the kind of smile that made one’s skin crawl.

A good number of people stood behind her—seven in total, if one were to count.

"Brother, this must be Jiasu, right? He’s certainly as good-looking as Sister-in-law was when she was young."

Zhang Jiasu eyed the strangers who had suddenly appeared in his home, wary. "Who are you people? What business do you have in my house? I don’t know you, so don’t try to act like we’re family!"

SLAP! A man stepped past the stout woman and struck Zhang Jiasu square across the face, leaving a red handprint.

"How dare you speak like that! Is this how these people raised you? I’m your biological father! And that’s your aunt!"

Seeing her son get slapped, Zhang Jiasu’s adoptive mother flew into a rage.

And so, the two of them started to brawl. Of course, it was a completely one-sided beatdown, with the adoptive family taking all the hits.

[I know I shouldn’t approve of violence, but for some reason, this is so satisfying to watch! Do I have a little Demon living inside me?]

[That guy just walking up and slapping him left me stunned! I thought they were here to win the son over with an emotional appeal, not this kind of crude violence! Hit him again!]

[I have no idea what’s going on with these two families, but that’s not going to stop me from enjoying the drama! Popcorn, soda, anyone want some?]

[A real piece of work is in our midst. Everyone, be careful if you ever have to deal with someone like him! Taking unapproved leave wasn’t a huge deal on its own, but I heard his boss is already planning to fire him over this!]

This sort of affair was a major event in a small village, so a number of villagers had tagged along to watch the commotion.

They hadn’t expected to find one of their own villagers getting beaten up by outsiders!

This was unacceptable!

And so, with a shout from someone in the crowd, a mob of people surged forward.

A massive brawl erupted!

The fight raged for a good twenty minutes before the belatedly-arriving village cadres finally put a stop to it.

They also called the police.

Everyone in the livestream chat had feasted on this huge drama. While it was satisfying, they hadn’t seen the conclusion yet, and Zhang Jiasu’s feed had already disconnected.

[Doctor Wen, we want to know what happens next! Which family does Zhang Jiasu end up with?]

[This seems to be happening in some remote area, so it’s not likely to start trending, is it? We want to know the rest of the story!]

"In cases like this, the seller is as guilty as the buyer. Both families broke the law, so neither of them is a winner. As for which family gets the son... well, that will likely depend on who offers him more money, won’t it? After all, we’ve all seen just how low his moral standards are."

[Doctor Wen is right! Whichever family he goes to, he’s just going to be a burden! As long as he doesn’t go on to ruin some other innocent family, I’m fine with it! I’m very Satisfied with this outcome! And while we’re at it, let’s help him start trending!]

[Making this scumbag famous? Count me in!]

[+1]

More and more netizens joined the effort to make him trend.

"Don’t worry," Wen Ying said. "His dream of becoming an internet celebrity will certainly come true. We can consider it our gift to him—to his families, and to the choices he makes from here on out."

[I feel like there’s a hidden meaning in what Doctor Wen just said. I want to know what juicy things happened next. Give us the details!]

Everyone who wanted to know the rest of the story spammed the chat, and seeing the flood of comments, Wen Ying didn’t mind elaborating.

"In a place like this, an incident like that just resulted in fines for both families. The real issue was that the biological family wanted to take Zhang Jiasu away. In their large clan, whether due to bad feng shui or something else, many of the children in the younger generation had met with accidents, and any new babies they had were all girls. It was then that they naturally remembered the son they had sold off so many years ago."

"So the whole group of them put their heads together, which led to the scene today. After all, they share a bloodline with him. They refuse to admit they sold the child, claiming instead that he was abducted by his current family. Since there was no evidence of the original transaction, their chances of getting their son back were much higher."

"As for our friend Jiasu’s choice, his biological father’s family offered to buy him a house in the city—money pooled together by the entire clan. His adoptive parents, on the other hand, had no money for a house and would need him to support them in the future. Faced with that comparison, he naturally chose his biological parents. The abandoned adoptive parents couldn’t accept it. The son they had painstakingly raised had just cast them aside. Their hearts filled with resentment, and they repeatedly sought him out, hoping he would come back to them, only to be met with his disdain and disgust. This went on for a few years, until finally, the two of them snapped."

"A dangerous idea took root. They figured that if their son’s biological father died, their son would have no choice but to return to them. So, they started down a path of no return. Through a bizarre twist of fate, or perhaps a blunder by the Yin Cha, all four of them ended up... Ah, what a tragedy!"

[Dead? They all died?]

[Isn’t that a little too absurd? I guess this is a warning that we should all have a conscience, right? I’m definitely going to treat my parents well from now on!]

[My parents always told me they found me in a trash can. Should I start thinking about what I’d do if my biological parents showed up?]

[To the person above, are you serious? My mom always said I was traded for a bowl of rice! But when someone else repeated that joke once, my mom ripped them a new one. Get it?]