Chapter 232 - 4.58

"You're too anxious. Calm your nerves down a little bit, it will do you a lot better than how you're currently acting."

"I can't do that, baby. You know it better than I do. There is no way I can stop." Tang Yizhou cheekily responded before hugging Xu Jiaqi tightly, sighing.

"Let's discuss a happier matter, then. How about we plan Yixiu's return right now? Let's have a video call with him. The jail visit.. We will talk about that later. I don't think your current mood is suitable for that sort of discussion right now." Xu Jiaqi spoke.

Tang Yizhou did not stop Xu Jiaqi as she grabbed the device randomly lying about on their bed, scrolling to the messenger app's contacts to locate Tang Yixiu and begin a call.

The call was quickly picked up. They talked, and continued to talk until hours had passed without realizing it because of how much they mixed well.

The set mood was uplifted, and turned into a lighter scene. Towards the end of the call, the matter about Tang Yixiu's visit to his hometown was settled. It would be the second day after Tang Yixiu's holiday begun.

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Time passed fast, and without knowing it, Tang Yixiu's holiday arrived without warning. This particular day was the day of Tang Yixiu's return to his home country. He

Both Tang Yizhou and Xu Jiaqi sped up to the airport to fetch Tang Yixiu home. Upon his figure entering the pair's eyes, they were quick to spot someone beside Tang Yixiu. The man was scolding Tang Yixiu, albeit in a rather joking manner.

It was a familiar face for Xu Jiaqi, not so much for Tang Yizhou.

It was Yu Xuan, the one who supplied the resources for Zhao Xinran's crime.

"..Hmm." Xu Jiaqi approached the man who was with Tang Yixiu.

Without much thinking, she let her body act as it should. Her hand was lifted to the air. As Tang Yixiu's eyes gleamed at Xu Jiaqi's appearance greeting him firsthand, a slap sound was created out of nowhere.

Pa!

With all her might, Xu Jiaqi landed a blow on him.

Yu Xuan didn't know who Xu Jiaqi was right at the very beginning, so he turned around and got mad at Xu Jiaqi.

"Ouch! Why the hell did you slap me? I- I will definitely report you to the-" Yu Xuan was outraged, as he swung his hand towards Xu Jiaqi to land one of his own blows for revenge.

However, the casually thrown hand was quickly caught by Xu Jiaqi's fast reflexes, to which she tilted her head condescendingly and grinned widely.

"I wonder why. Slapping someone is free, and it makes me happy when I slap bastards like you. Is that a good enough reason?" Xu Jiaqi chuckled.

"You.. who told you that you can act so willfully?! Was there nobody to teach you how to act?! You are turning a blind eye to law! This is considered assault, I will definitely place charges against you!" Yu Xuan was still under the impression that he was untouchable as long as he utilized his family's powers well.

Little did he know, the woman before her wasn't just strong on her own, but also had a demon lord backing her up under the name of Tang Yizhou.

"Law? Now, you know how to uphold law? Assault? You tried to kidnap me, and endanger my life. Acting willfully? Ha! If anything, you are the shittiest person in this whole scheme. You are the cause of someone falling into a coma for years. You, Yu Xuan. Do you know whose fault it is that Zhao Xinran plunged into that rotting jail? It was also you."

Cold sweat formed on Yu Xuan's skin, shivers running down his spine as he shook his head, still refusing to believe what Xu Jiaqi was whispering against his ears.

"If it wasn't for you helping her without considering the consequences.. Would she be there right now? You are simply too blind for your own good. Luckily, you are a bit more clever, and your family still cherishes their reputation a lot. If you didn't have the Yu family backing you, do you think that this news wouldn't have gotten out?"

"I seem to have forgotten my manners, young one from the Yu family. My name is Xu Jiaqi.. the person that your 'beloved' wanted to harm."

At that time, there were several mistakes that occurred.

First, Tang Yizhou's mental state was nowhere near pristine, and this made his judgement a little bit clouded. After the investigations ran through, and the culprits were identified as Zhao Xinran and a group of goons, he didn't immediately link the case up to Yu Xuan since the boy had never been mentioned before.

Indeed, if it wasn't for her making those calls to Yu Xuan and the System snooping around, perhaps Yu Xuan's existence wouldn't have been discovered by them as well, let alone the police and investigators.

Secondly, the Yu family, although they didn't regard Yu Xuan as anything good, they still wanted to preserve their dignity and of course did not want such a case to be linked up to their name. They were aware of all the mischief that Yu Xuan had caused, and typically everything would be easily solved with the help of money.

However, for this one, the business giant named Tang Yizhou was actively involved, and it made it especially complicated when Xu Jiaqi fell unconscious and didn't seem to show signs of waking up no matter how much the doctors tended to her.

This made the situation tricky to them. On one side, they couldn't care less about Yu Xuan and would just throw them under the bus if that was a good method of solving the problem. However, they had seen what the man continued to do to the Song family.

Song Ziyi, who was the perpetrator's boyfriend, wasn't charged, but his family was under a lot of pressure from Tang Yizhou himself right after the huge incident occurred. The entire Zhao family was thrown into jail, and the only one left was, so to say, Yu Xuan.

Yu Xuan didn't know the details about the event since he blindly helped Zhao Xinran, but he didn't believe that his Goddess would even be capable of committing the crimes that Tang Yizhou's case brought up. He was still blind, thinking of the woman as a virtuous and kind woman with no faults at all.

Of course, the reality was the complete opposite of that. It could be said that most of Xu Jiaqi's hardships resulted from the various schemes Zhao Xinran would use to deliberately demean the other party for no reason at all except for casual spite.

Zhao Xinran was a person with a lot of hatred. She had always gotten away with her moves in the past, using skillful acting to get by and escape unscathed. However, this time, the party she enraged was Tang Yizhou.

As a result, everyone who had the slightest bit of ties to the events leading up to Xu Jiaqi's tragic state was cleaned up by Tang Yizhou.

The Yu family knew this, and recognized how frightening Tang Yizhou's anger was. If that sort of anger was directed to them, when they were a family of a smaller scale than the Song family, they would not be able to survive by any means.

Thus, before the investigations could run even further, they made sure that their connection to the woman was completely severed. They sent Yu Xuan abroad under the premise of studying in an overseas university.

And there, he met Tang Yixiu. Tang Yixiu was a boy with many talents. He was younger than him by a year, but his mindset was completely mature, unlike him.

At first, he didn't like Tang Yixiu very much. Due to the complications he had with his education, and the fact that he barged in to the prestigious institution that Tang Yixiu studied in, Yu Xuan was placed in a grade one stage lower than his peers, leading to him sharing the same class with Tang Yixiu.

Seeing the boy's bright eyes and seemingly perfect life, he felt envious. After a casual information spread around that Tang Yixiu and him were from the same city, Yu Xuan would be frequently compared to the other, which made him even more embarrassed because he was inferior in every single way than Tang Yixiu.

And thus, enmity was formed. Yu Xuan didn't hold Tang Yixiu in a favorable light, but the other party was completely nonchalant about everything.

He didn't know that this man could be considered one of the main culprits of his soon to be sister in law's near death experience. If he knew so from the beginning, he would definitely act in a different way. But since he didn't, he acted normally and didn't think anything was weird.

The worst thing was, he actually approached the other. Upon getting to know each other better, Yu Xuan, who was an overly simple person, started to open up to Tang Yixiu.

This was the beginning of everything, leading up to the moment where Tang Yixiu arrived back to their city bringing Yu Xuan in tow, and the crisp slap that Xu Jiaqi delivered onto Yu Xuan's face.