Chapter 2 The Poor Sister-in-law

Qin Tianyi was dumbfounded, and Chang Hong next to him was even more so. He made a decent income of a hundred thousand a month, but to come up with so much money all at once was not something he could easily do.

It looked like more than a million, that bag wasn't small; it must contain at least one million five hundred thousand or so. Where did he get all this money from?

Could it be that prisons now allow inmates to make money while being incarcerated?

Chang Hong's confusion was nothing compared to Qin Tianyi's.

"I don't know how much money is here either," Ling Tianyu threw the cigarette butt on the ground, approached Chang Hong, and said, "I'll give you two options. One, I can teach you a lesson myself, and this money is for the medical expenses. Two, I can use this money to hire someone to teach you a lesson. The choice is yours."

"What?" Chang Hong, hearing this, laughed instead of getting angry, looking at Ling Tianyu as if he were an idiot. Could he really say something like this? I am someone with connections, and no one has ever dared to speak to me like this.

"Ling Tianyu, are you an idiot? It was your woman that I slept with, and she was willing."

"Besides, I enjoyed sleeping with your woman. Such a beautiful woman with such long legs, of course it was enjoyable. I forgot to tell you, I even tried some difficult positions."

"You've been with her for half a year now, haven't you? How come you haven't slept with her? Looks like you're a loser, huh? That thing down there doesn't work, does it?" Chang Hong scorned Ling Tianyu, not believing that Ling Tianyu would dare to touch him.

Even think to get someone to touch me, are you out of your mind?

"Ling Tianyu, don't be foolish," Qin Tianyi couldn't stand watching any longer. No matter where the money came from, bragging would bring bad luck. Her husband holds status and position in Northern Sea City; how could he, an unknown nobody, touch him?

However, Ling Tianyu looked up at Chang Hong with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

"Bang!"

"Crack!"

Ling Tianyu moved, sending a fierce punch smashing into Chang Hong's face. The crisp sound of breaking bones rang out as Chang Hong, not expecting him to strike, was knocked to the ground, whimpering in pain.

"I don't care who you are, even if you're the Heavenly King Laozi, you'll have to pay the price," Ling Tianyu didn't care about how influential Chang Hong was, only that he had been annoyed.

When annoyed, there must be a price to pay.

"Crack!"

"Ah!"

...

Chang Hong's screams of agony echoed throughout the room, heart-wrenching to hear. Truly agonizing – since fingers are connected to the heart – each finger forcefully broken by Ling Tianyu could only be imagined for the pain it caused.

Qin Tianyi, witnessing the scene, trembled with fright. How terrifying; was this still the Ling Tianyu from eight years ago?

The Ling Tianyu of eight years ago was just a naive young man, not as terrifying as he was now.

After doing all this, Ling Tianyu dusted off his hands and straightened his clothes, looking disdainfully at the petrified Qin Tianyi.

"Don't think that I have nothing. To me, money is just a number. This money is for your man's medical compensation," Ling Tianyu felt no grief now as he had seen the true face of a woman and found it to be worth it.

After all, they were no longer people from the same world. Why should he be troubled?

His stage was not here. What awaited him was the legendary, almost mythical Cultivation World; the Secular World was no longer his stage.

In fact, he had to thank Qin Tianyi. If it weren't for her, Ling Tianyu wouldn't have entered prison and, without prison, he would have never received the Old Man's legacy.

The only pity was that the Old Man had left too hastily. Ling Tianyu hadn't had the chance to repay him before he departed.

He still felt guilty thinking about it but remembered the mission the Old Man had entrusted him with, to cure his descendants' illness.

...

Leaving the rented room, Ling Tianyu walked on the crowded sidewalk, pulling out his phone to check the time.

"I wonder how Sister-in-law is doing now?" Ling Tianyu couldn't help but think back to eight years ago when his parents were still alive.

The family of four lived in a rented house; his brother Ling Tianfei, through matchmaking, had taken a fancy to a girl just a year older than him.

The down payment for their house was almost sorted out, but unexpectedly, because of the trouble he had caused, the entire one hundred and fifty thousand yuan down payment was compensated to the victim he had stabbed.

After learning of the sentencing, his parents couldn't hold on and fainted, never to wake up again. Ling Tianyu found out a year later in prison that his parents had passed away and his brother had been in a car accident on the third day after their parents' death, his head crushed. A family of four, suddenly missing three.

This blow nearly tormented Ling Tianyu to death. Several times in prison he thought of killing himself, but an old man saved him, even beating him harshly.

Over time, he grew familiar with the old man, and in the fifth year, the old man told him he had to leave for something. He hastily passed on his entire legacy to him and then disappeared in a beam of white light.

The prison guards investigated many times but found nothing, so the matter was dropped.

Armed with an address he got early from prison, Ling Tianyu took a bus to Liuhai Bar, to see how his sister-in-law, Su Ruoxi, was doing after eight years.

The death of his brother must have been a heavy blow to her.

Before long, Ling Tianyu stopped at Liuhai Bar. Watching the handsome men and beautiful women going in and out, he could not help but sigh at how quickly the world changes.

"Excuse me, where can I find Su Ruoxi?" Ling Tianyu approached the bar and ordered their best red wine.

"What do you want with her?" asked the bartender, surprised. Su Ruoxi was one of the bar's two blooms, coveted by many.

Unimaginable, someone still dares to fancy her. Don't they know she's Brother Lang's woman?

"I am her brother-in-law. Just got back from outside, now came looking for her," Ling Tianyu replied with a smile after sipping his red wine.

"Her brother-in-law?" The bartender was very curious, having never heard that the renowned beauty Su had a brother-in-law.

Hmph! Looks like another one looking for an excuse to get close to the beautiful Su. Some people never learn.

"You better leave quickly. It's okay for me to hear this, but if Brother Lang's people hear it, you won't even know how you die," the bartender kindly warned him.

"Brother Lang?" Ling Tianyu's expression turned sour upon hearing this. Could it be that his sister-in-law had found a new love?

Eight years, and she was only a year older than him. She was just nineteen eight years ago, now twenty-seven, certainly the best age to have a boyfriend, even to get married.

But Su Ruoxi had visited him every month in prison, and he didn't recall her mentioning getting married or having a boyfriend, did he?

Confused, Ling Tianyu simply took his glass of wine and found a place to sit down.

"Damn! A bitch pretending to be pure. I've been after you for three months and you dare to reject me?" The bar, not yet chaotic before midnight, was disrupted by a commotion coming from a corner, drawing the attention of everyone inside.

"Fuck, get down on the ground and serve me well, or I'll strip you naked and have you right here," a bald middle-aged man, smoking a cigar, stamped furiously on a woman dressed as a serving maid.

"You're really ungrateful. So many are begging to be taken by Brother Lang, and you dare to refuse? Working in this place and still pretending to be pure; who knows how many have had you. Just stop pretending," the bald man's flirty companions mocked Su Ruoxi.

Here as a waitress, don't play innocent; it's your honor that Brother Lang fancies you.

"What are you dazed for? Go and serve Brother Lang," Yang Feng, the bar manager who hurried over, fiercely slapped Su Ruoxi. What a lack of discernment.

To be favored by Brother Lang is giving you face. Even if he strips you now and wants you, that is your fortune. The women who have been with Brother Lang here, who wouldn't beg for another turn?

With Brother Lang, you'll never worry about living the good life, owning a house, driving a car, walking tall wherever you go.

Still pretending. If it wasn't for your virgin appearance, would Brother Lang even look your way? You're just a public bus after all.

Yang Feng thought scornfully in his heart.

"I'm just here to serve drinks, not to do that kind of thing." Su Ruoxi wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, standing her ground firmly.

If not for the monthly salary of two thousand five hundred, she wouldn't be here. But to her shock, after just six months, Brother Lang started harassing her. If not for her friends helping her to avoid him every time, she would have been humiliated long ago.

Today, he had specifically asked for her to serve the drinks and even wrapped his arm around her earlier. The thought alone disgusted her. To be his woman, impossible.

If it were up to her, she would rather die than let that happen.

"Stop with the innocent act, go and serve Brother Lang. Otherwise, I'll have someone meet with your father," Yang Feng grabbed Su Ruoxi's hair and pushed her in front of the pot-bellied Brother Lang, determined to make her satisfy him today or she wouldn't be let off.

Every time Brother Lang visited, he spent at least a hundred thousand, which was no small sum for the bar, so he was naturally treated as a VIP.

"Come on, let me have my fun with you now," Brother Lang reached out for Su Ruoxi with his plump hands.