Did Too Much

"Silly little brother, why are you apologizing?" Su Ruoxi quickly wiped her tears away and thought to herself, 'At least you're out now. You're still young, so you have plenty of time to strive for a better future.'

"Tianyu, you must remember that you're a real man. When your brother was still here, he said that you did what a man should do. If a man does nothing when his girlfriend is in trouble, is he really a man?" She never blamed him but was proud of him instead.

The fact that Ling Tianyu had the courage to do what he did back then proved that he really loved his girlfriend.

"Oh right, does Tianyi know that you're back? She has been staying at your old place waiting for you to return, so you must treat her well." Su Ruoxi was very satisfied with Qin Tianyi.

'Since Tianyu lost all his family members, being his sister-in-law, I'm his only close relative left.' 

'When a man is grown he takes a wife, and when a lady is old enough she gets married. I'll have to manage his marriage.'

"Mm." Ling Tianyu did not think that Qin Tianyi hid everything so well that she managed to lie to his sister-in-law, and he wondered why he was blind to the scheming side of her.

Nevertheless, he was not going to tell his sister-in-law that Qin Tianyi lied to her as he did not want to hurt her anymore.

"Alright, let's go home. It's great to have you back, so let's buy some meat later, and I'll make you red braised pork belly." Su Ruoxi helped Ling Tianyu up, then wiped the tears on his cheeks for him.

Ling Tianyu said to himself as he looked at her, 'From now on, I'll take care of our family. I'll take care of you to fulfill Brother's wish.'

"Father, Mother, Brother, don't worry. I'll live well, I'll live well because of you." He looked at his family's gravestones for some time again before he left the cemetery with his sister-in-law.

"We're here, let's get down." Su Ruoxi asked the driver to stop at one end of an alley, which was extremely dark because there was only one streetlamp.

"Sister-in-law, you… You live here?!" Ling Tianyu was in disbelief. He recalled that she lived in a house with three bedrooms and a living room, which was quite decent in Haibei City.

"It wasn't a comfortable place, so I sold it," Su Ruoxi quickly gave an excuse, then led him toward the house.

He was going to ask more questions but decided to just follow her.

"Ping, ping, pang, pang!"

"You old thing, I'll tear your filthy place down if you don't pay me the remaining hundred thousand dollars!" A fierce shouting was heard as soon as they arrived at the entrance of a two-story building.

"Father!" Su Ruoxi who realized what was happening dropped her bag, as well as bags of vegetables and meat. She ran into her house.

Ling Tianyu furrowed her brows, then followed her after picking up the dropped bags.

"F*ck!" The moment he entered, he saw that his sister-in-law wrapped herself around a white-haired old man in a small room, and was being kicked by four young men.

"Motherf*cker! Su Ruoxi, your man should've just died. Why did he scratch our boss' car with his broken bike? F*ck, do you know where the car's red paint is from?

"Our boss has to get it from overseas, and all the red paint has to be f*cking removed to respray the whole car. If you can't f*cking pay up the remaining hundred thousand dollars today, I'll drag you to our place to be a prostitute."

A yellow-haired man kicked Su Ruoxi hard while thinking to himself. 'If it isn't because of your illness, our boss would've slept you long ago, f*ck!'

"Bam!"

All of a sudden, a bench was smashed hard onto his head.

"Ah!"

The yellow-haired man shrieked in pain. Before the other three men reacted to the situation, Ling Tianyu punched all of them.

"Get lost!" He glared at the men with strong killing intent. The men were so frightened that they forgot about the pain, and quickly escaped.

"Father, are you alright?" Su Ruoxi who was in tears immediately helped her father up to his bed and placed a blanket so that he could rest on it.

"I'm fine." Her father coughed weakly, but gestured to her that he was alright.

"Mm!" When he finally looked up to see Ling Tianyu who was in the room, his eyes sparkled.

"Tianyu, you're out?"

"Uncle Su!" Ling Tianyu quickly walked over to him.

"You're taller and burlier. It's great that you're finally out." Su Jinhua smiled brightly. He did not treat Ling Tianyu as an outsider because he had always been very fond of him, and he remembered him as a well-spoken boy when his brother used to bring him over all the time.

Su Jinhua felt that God was blind to have allowed the tragedy to happen.

"Quick, Ruoxi. Don't just stand there, go prepare dinner." Seeing as Su Ruoxi was still standing there, he quickly instructed her to make dinner to celebrate Tianyu's return.

Upon hearing him, Su Ruoxi took the bags from Ling Tianyu, then went to a small kitchen outside.

Ling Tianyu looked around and realized that there were only a bunk bed and a couch in the house. There was no space to fit a table.

Thus, he could not understand why his sister-in-law sold her previous place.

"Uncle Su, why was the previous house sold?" He asked as he was puzzled.

"Uh." Who knew, Su Jinhua shook his head and sighed. Ling Tianyu had a bad feeling about this, and he felt sorry for Uncle Su who was only slightly older than fifty years old.

When he was imprisoned, Uncle Su and his dad were of the same age, so Uncle Su was only a little over fifty years old after eight years, but he looked older than that.

"Back then at a traffic light, your brother was about to go when the light turned green, but a Ferrari suddenly came out of nowhere. He had nowhere to escape and was hit by the car, but instead of stopping, it ran through his body. Then… Then…

"The police found out that the driver was drunk-driving, but he somehow managed to get away.

"We were doomed because he insisted we pay for the damage because the Ferrari was very valuable, and the red paint on it was scratched. He demanded five hundred thousand dollars.

"In the end… We had no choice but to sell our house, but since it was a second-hand place in the suburb, we could only sell it for three hundred thousand dollars. We were able to borrow fifty thousand dollars, so we gave him three hundred and fifty dollars, and we still owe him a hundred and fifty dollars.

"There was nothing we could do, so your sister-in-law looked for other jobs while doing her original job. In addition, my body has been in bad condition for a few years, and my monthly medication fee is five to six thousand dollars. Since she's the only one supporting our family, she was able to return another fifty thousand dollars." The more Su Jinhua explained, the more he felt like a worthless person. It would be great if he was not ill, so he could help share the burden.

"Pu da! Pu da!"

Ling Tianyu trembled after hearing his explanation, then began tearing. He was unaware of the sacrifices made by his sister-in-law for his family. She could have just stayed away.

'Even though they were engaged, the engagement was naturally canceled since Brother died, she could've…'

"Why are you crying?" Su Jinhua shook his head and chuckled. He reached his hand out to knock on Ling Tianyu's head, then said, "There's going to be a way. We only owe a hundred thousand dollars now, we can endure this. Since you're out now, you should focus on finding a job, and getting married."