Fang Zhiyi didn't show any impatience from beginning to end. He just kept bragging as usual. Li Jianjun also drank very happily, and it wasn't until the evening that Fang Wenxia's family finally left.
As soon as the door closed, Fang Zhiyi heard a sharp slap from behind.
Immediately after came Liu Mei's voice scolding the child: "You worthless money-loser, who told you to grab food with your hands?"
"Mom, I saw brother take a bite and throw it away, I was afraid of wasting it..."
"Who are you putting on that act for? Have we starved you or something? Picking up other people's leftovers! Aren't you ashamed! No wonder you're a money-loser!"
Fang Zhiyi's face instantly turned cold, and he quickly walked back to the table.
"I wanted to taste the chicken wings..."
Liu Mei just glanced at Fang Zhiyi and continued to scold: "Chicken wings are delicious, right? Then remember this, study hard in the future and find a good job. Otherwise, when others eat chicken wings, you can only watch. If you don't study hard, you'll end up like me and your dad, earning a dead wage and working like a slave for the rest of your life!"
Fang Ting shrank back like a quail, bean-sized tears rolling down from her eyes.
"No, are you crazy? How old is Tingting?" Fang Zhiyi couldn't hold it back anymore.
Liu Mei looked at him in surprise. In the past, he never said a word when she disciplined the children.
"You with the surname Fang, do you know how much this meal cost today? With our meager wages, how many times can we afford to treat them? And buying a good bottle of liquor, do you know that liquor cost half my monthly salary?"
Fang Zhiyi nodded: "I know, that liquor is enough to buy your life."
"What did you say!" Liu Mei's voice instantly became shrill. "It's all your teaching! Look, the older one doesn't learn well, his grades are getting worse every time, and you don't care. The younger one acts like a beggar. And you, you're still dissatisfied with me, right? Fine, if you're dissatisfied, let's get a divorce!"
Fang Zhiyi gently covered his daughter's ears.
"Okay."
Suddenly the house became quiet. Fang Ning looked at his father in astonishment. Fang Ting didn't hear it; she just looked at her father in panic, and then at her shocked mother.
"Say that again?"
"I said okay."
"Fang, what do you mean? I was really blind to marry you back then!" Liu Mei suddenly flew into a rage. "Fine, you want a divorce, right? I'll divorce you! Let's see how you live your life without me!"
But no one stopped her. Liu Mei glared at everyone. Fang Ning opened his mouth but didn't say anything.
"Great, so this is how your Fang family bullies people, huh?" Liu Mei's chest heaved up and down.
"One word, are we divorcing or not? I'll give you a chance. If we're not divorcing, keep your mouth shut in the future. Don't just spew out ugly words."
Liu Mei was still defiant: "What ugly words did I say? Ah?"
Fang Zhiyi glanced at Fang Ning: "Don't you know in your own heart? All day long you're either comparing this person to your son or that person to your daughter. I realize you really have no shame. Why don't you compare yourself to others?"
Liu Mei's face twisted: "Compare what? What did I compare? Fang Zhiyi, are you seeing someone on the outside?"
"Cut it out. If we're talking about an issue, stick to the issue. Don't make wild accusations."
Fang Ning finally spoke up: "Mom, Dad, stop arguing..." He was a bit puzzled, why did his parents suddenly start fighting?
Unexpectedly, Liu Mei turned her head and yelled at him: "Stay out of this! If it weren't for you and this little money-loser, I would have left your dad long ago!"
Fang Zhiyi had a bit of a headache. To be honest, he wasn't very good at handling this kind of thing.
So amidst Liu Mei's yelling, Fang Zhiyi picked up his daughter, called out to Fang Ning, and walked straight out of the house.
"Dad, did you have a fight with Mom?" Fang Ting hesitated for a long time before asking cautiously.
Fang Zhiyi didn't tell her to shut up like he usually did. Instead, he smiled at her: "Ah, arguing is normal. You also argue with your classmates at school, right?"
Fang Ting thought about it and nodded gently.
Fang Zhiyi noticed the rag doll she was clutching in her hand: "Let's go, Dad will take you to buy a new doll."
Fang Ting looked at Fang Zhiyi, then looked down at the broken doll, a little hesitant: "Mom said we have no money at home and won't let us buy things recklessly."
Fang Zhiyi cursed the original owner of the body a couple of times in his heart. Little Hei immediately understood, raised its tentacles, and fiercely slapped the pitch-black original owner's face twice.
"Then, how about we buy two?" Fang Zhiyi said with a smile.
Fang Ting nodded somewhat uncertainly, and Fang Zhiyi patted her head.
Fang Ning watched Fang Zhiyi talking to his sister, feeling that his dad was somehow different. But he knew clearly in his heart that his parents couldn't change. Maybe it was just a whim today.
When he was capable, he must leave this home! When he grew up, he definitely wouldn't become an adult like Fang Zhiyi!
"Hey, how do I get to the nearest hardware store?" a passerby suddenly asked.
Fang Zhiyi, holding his daughter with his reluctant son following behind, looked at the person in front of him and smiled: "Do you see that intersection ahead?"
"I see it, and then?" the man looked around.
"There are a lot of people there, go ask them!"
Fang Ning almost tripped. That's not right, Dad was always the most warm-hearted, especially in front of outsiders.
"Dad, why didn't you tell him?" Fang Ting still didn't quite understand.
"This kind of person doesn't even know how to say 'please', yet he's asking for directions." Fang Zhiyi smiled. "It's fine to be a good person, but respect is mutual, understand?"
Fang Ting nodded.
Fang Ning inexplicably felt a bit of satisfaction.
However, he still didn't trust his dad. He knew exactly what kind of person Fang Zhiyi was. He wasn't as easy to fool as his sister.
Fang Zhiyi bought things for his daughter and asked if he wanted anything. Fang Ning looked at the dazzling array of goods, but ultimately shook his head. Thinking of him now? It's too late.
Fang Zhiyi didn't continue to ask him. Just as he watched his daughter holding her new doll and talking to herself, he suddenly asked: "Do you think I treat that Li Xiaojun better than I treat you and your sister?" Fang Zhiyi directly brought up the topic.
Fang Ning looked at Fang Zhiyi in surprise, but Fang Zhiyi kept staring at his daughter's back.
"So what should I do, beat him up? I'm an adult hitting a child, I can't justify that."
Fang Ning gathered his courage: "I'm a child too, I can beat him up!"
"You beating him won't work either. In this matter, it's Li Xiaojun's fault, but it's too trivial. If you hit him over something like this, I'll be the one who has to apologize and pay compensation, right?"
"But you..."
Fang Zhiyi interrupted him: "You're still too young, there are some things you don't understand."
Fang Ning's eyes dimmed again. Yeah, it was always 'you don't understand'. On one hand, he spent extravagantly on outsiders, while on the other hand, he demanded that his own children be sensible early on and know how to be frugal.
"To ruin a person, using violence alone isn't enough. If you hit him and it hurts, it only hurts this one time. But if he makes a mistake and I still give him money and encourage him, that's completely different."
Fang Ning: "???"
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
ose... to cooperate with the protagonist! Shen Yuan: I have a system! Protagonist: What? System: Holy crap, you're just spilling it out like that? Shen Yuan: Let's team up, we'll split the system rewards! Protagonist: Fifty-fifty split? Shen Yuan: No way! Protagonist: What!? I'm the one getting beaten up, and I don't get half? Shen Yuan: Forty-sixty split, I get forty, you get sixty! Protagonist: Deal! Big brother, come on, hit me! As long as it doesn't kill me, beat me like you mean it! Shen Yuan: Don't worry... I will definitely protect all of you! No one but me can lay a finger on you! Guard our Heaven's Chosen Ones! I'm the only one allowed to bully them!
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
