Mind reading saves the whole family; I'm firmly in the role of a charlatan.

Chapter 26 What a blatant distortion of the truth!

Lying in bed, listening to the old couple's nonsensical arguments, Yang Jiantao's already pale face became even more ashen.

Yang Jiantao's daughter, Yang Xiaoxiao, stood by the hospital bed, her face cold as she tightly gripped her father's uninjured hand, without uttering a sound.

Yang Jiantao took a deep breath and barely managed to calm down: "I won't drop the case, I won't drop the case. If you two have the guts, then go ahead and die here. This is a hospital, so we can save you if we can, and if we can't, we'll take you to the crematorium. When your son and daughter get out, we can go together to offer incense to you."

When Huang's parents heard him say this, their eyes widened in surprise. They never expected that their usually gentle and timid son-in-law, who could be easily manipulated, would suddenly become so assertive.

Seeing that the threats were ineffective, the two elderly people exchanged a glance, and Huang's mother immediately sat down on the ground and began to wail.

“Oh my, this is outrageous! Everyone, please tell me, who calls the police and gets their own wife and brother-in-law arrested? I only have one son and one daughter, and what you're doing is practically trying to kill us old folks! What sins have I committed to deserve such a heartless son-in-law?”

Mr. Huang sighed repeatedly, looking like a heartbroken old green tea: "Are you seeing someone else? Even if you are, we can part amicably and won't bother you. Why be so heartless?"

As he spoke, Mr. Huang sighed deeply and continued to appeal to people's emotions: "Zhao Di has been your husband for over ten years, raised your daughter, and can no longer have children. Now you want to kill her and her younger brother. Your mother and I are old and don't have many years left to live. Do you really want to take the lives of all four of us?"

With this kind of explanation, someone who didn't know better might think Yang Jiantao was a scumbag who seduced and then abandoned his wife, murdering her.

There were other patients and their families in the ward, and upon hearing this, many of them began to whisper among themselves.

Yang Jiantao's face turned ashen, and he trembled with rage.

On the contrary, Yang Xiaoxiao, who had been watching this farce with a cold eye, suddenly spoke up: "They all want to kill me and my dad, why can't my dad call the police to arrest them?"

"Shut up! What right do children have to interrupt adults?" Huang's mother, who had been sitting on the ground throwing a tantrum, suddenly glared at Yang Xiaoxiao and shouted angrily.

Mr. Huang gave her a disapproving look, as if he were looking at a very ignorant child: "Xiaoxiao, those are your own mother and uncle."

"So my dad and I deserved to be held at knifepoint by them, to be threatened and extorted by them, and to work hard to pay off my uncle's gambling debts."

The murmurs in the ward paused for a moment, then grew louder.

Mr. and Mrs. Huang's expressions changed slightly, and they were about to say something more when Yang Xiaoxiao interrupted them first.

“You don’t need to morally blackmail me. I’m not a child anymore, and I know right from wrong. What you just said makes it sound like she’s sacrificed a lot during her more than ten years of marriage with my dad, but is that really the case?”

“Over the years, apart from giving birth to me, has she ever cared for me or raised me for even a single day? My father has paid for all the household expenses. From childhood to adulthood, my father and the family nanny have taken care of me. My father bought everything I ate, wore, used, and played with. Even my bath was given to me by a nanny hired by my father. And her money is either given to her brother or to you.”

“She has never spent a penny on me or my dad. On the contrary, she has always asked my dad for money and made him take care of you. Sometimes I even suspect that it’s only because her brother doesn’t have children that she treats her brother’s children better than she treats me.”

Yang Jiantao felt sorry for his daughter and wanted to stop her from continuing: "Xiaoxiao..." Yang Xiaoxiao smiled and squeezed his hand, whispering: "Dad, I've been holding these words in for a long time. If I don't say them today, I probably won't have the chance to say them again."

From today onwards, she and her father will completely sever ties with this family.

Yang Jiantao understood her unspoken meaning. Thinking of how the Huang family had treated their daughter over the years, he gritted his teeth and ultimately decided not to stop her.

“Although I am not old, I know some principles. I know that if you dare to give birth, you must dare to raise your children. But your good son asks my father for money when he goes to school, asks my father for money when he is short of living expenses, asks my father for money when he goes on a trip, asks my father for money when he wants to get married, and now he is gambled and has a huge debt, and he still asks my father for money. He even wants my father to help him borrow money from loan sharks and act as a guarantor to pay off his debts. Is he my father’s son or your son?”

"You little bitch, talking nonsense! I'll tear your mouth apart!" Huang's mother scrambled to her feet and immediately rushed over to pull Yang Xiaoxiao away.

Yang Jiantao's expression changed slightly, and he subconsciously thought of getting up to stand in front of his daughter to protect her.

Director Gao and the others had been watching the play for a long time, and seeing that a fight was about to break out, they hurriedly stepped forward to stop the people.

Huang's mother was startled when she was suddenly blocked by several strange men: "Who are you? Why are you stopping me? This is indecent assault!"

Director Gao and others, who were inexplicably framed, were speechless.

Yang Xiaoxiao and her father were startled when so many people suddenly rushed in, but she quickly calmed down and continued, "It's true that they threatened me and my dad with knives when they couldn't get money, and it's also true that they stabbed us in a fit of rage after being refused. Being arrested by the police is their own fault for breaking the law, and it has nothing to do with my dad."

"If you're so aggrieved, why don't you go and make a scene in front of the police station? You come here to make a scene with my dad, the victim, just because you think he's easy to bully and bully the weak? Let me tell you, from today onwards, we have nothing to do with your family, and they all have to go to jail."

Yang Jiantao hugged his daughter, whose face was flushed and trembling slightly from excitement. His expression was colder than ever before: "Xiaoxiao's meaning is my meaning. They broke the law, so they should be sentenced accordingly. I will divorce Huang Zhaodi afterward, and Xiaoxiao and I will have absolutely no connection with your family anymore. If you dare to bother us again, I will call the police. I want to see if your whole family of four wants to be reunited inside."

When Mr. and Mrs. Huang heard this, they were about to make a scene when a voice suddenly came from outside the door: "The police are here."

The two men's expressions changed drastically, thinking that Yang Jiantao had really called the police, and they turned and ran.

As they ran to the door, they didn't forget to throw out a boastful but ultimately cowardly remark: "You wait, we'll be back!"

After Huang's parents left, the people in the ward waited for a while but the so-called police did not appear. Instead, the Du family of four, who were secretly eating melon seeds, arrived.

It turns out that Du Anrao's quick thinking in saying "The police are here" was actually a result of his quick thinking. Because the scene was too chaotic, it really scared the two people away.

Yang Jiantao breathed a sigh of relief and patted his daughter's hand reassuringly: "Don't be afraid, these are all my colleagues from the film crew. Thank you so much for what you did just now, please forgive me for making a scene."

(End of this chapter)