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Chapter 459 That's shameless!

Even so, they still believed that Chen Yefang should settle for being with him, and even said hurtful things like, "You're an older woman with a child, you should be grateful that someone wants you, but you're so picky. You deserve to never get married." They verbally humiliated her and forced her to accept the relationship.

As a result, Chen Yefang had a big argument with the two of them that night, and hasn't answered their constant phone calls for the past two days.

But Chen Yefang also knew her own nature. As long as her parents persisted in contacting her and used arguments about blood ties and kinship to morally blackmail her, she would inevitably soften her heart, back down, and forgive them over time. At that point...

Chen Yefang began to tremble slightly at the thought of what might happen to her when she returned to her parents' home.

Looking at her like this, Du Anrao couldn't help but sigh. The truth might be cruel, but that was the reality: her parents didn't love her at all.

Ultimately, it's simply because she's a woman, and she has a favored younger brother.

Chen Yefang's family structure is the same as that of Yang Jiantao's wife, whom Du Anrao first met on the set of the fantasy drama where Du Hexuan had a cameo role: parents who favored sons over daughters, a domineering and bloodsucking younger brother, and her, who willingly or unwillingly became a "brother-supporting demon."

The only difference is that Yang's wife is not very capable, but she found a capable husband and took her younger brother to leech off him. Chen Yefang herself is good at making money, but she has not met a good man. Although she is unwilling to support her younger brother, she cannot resist the moral coercion of her parents and has no choice but to let her younger brother leech off her.

In this world, children from biased families generally fall into two categories: one is those who awaken and completely break away from their original family, never to see them again, but most of them never escape the prison of their original family in their entire lives.

The least loved children are often the most filial. To put it bluntly, it's because people who lack love can't let go of love and are most easily manipulated. Chen Yefang's situation is roughly like this. She longs for her parents' love and their approval. Even just a little bit is enough to make her crave it.

Little did she know that this insignificant, even feigned, love was enough to drag her into a quagmire from which she could never climb out again.

Du Anrao knew her family could hear her thoughts, so she stopped hiding them and started complaining in her mind.

This family is truly a mess. No matter how wonderful the daughter is, she can't compare to that good-for-nothing son who's a bit too fat. He's clearly the most promising and money-making one in the family, yet he's become the most pathetic one.

From the time Chen Yefang could remember, she was the family's public ATM. Her father would ask her for money when he didn't have enough to buy cigarettes, her mother would ask her for money when she didn't have enough to buy groceries, and her younger brother would ask her for money when he didn't have enough for tuition.

If she hadn't met her first benefactor in junior high school, the talent scout who recognized her vocal talent and mentored her—who later became her manager, Brother Ding—she probably wouldn't have even finished compulsory education.

Even with the help of a benefactor, Chen Yefang entered the entertainment industry and earned money she thought she could never earn in her lifetime, but she still couldn't escape being exploited by her family.

[To put it bluntly, the world these days is a place where poverty is mocked but prostitution is not. Everyone looks down on gigolos who marry rich women, yet everyone wants to be one. Sister Chen's younger brother, Yaozu, is one such gigolo, clinging to Sister Chen, a wealthy woman. The difference is that while other gigolos have to sell their bodies and be subservient to rich women, he doesn't. Their blood relation, coupled with his parents' unrestrained and bottomless favoritism and indulgence, has made him take his sister's sacrifices for granted. Not only is he unaware of his own abilities, but he also has a huge ego, constantly bossing his sugar daddy around, acting all high and mighty. He probably thinks he's the one who supports the family.]

Du family members: Hiss~~~ This is too shameless!

Thanks to Chen Yefang's exploitation, the Chen family moved into a big house and drove luxury cars that everyone envied. The younger brother married the wife he loved and then continued to exploit his sister with his wife and children, leaving Chen Yefang to be responsible for more than 90% of the family's expenses.

Even so, they were still not satisfied.

Chen Yefang's income plummeted after she became pregnant and gave birth. This was partly due to the time she missed work during her pregnancy, and partly due to the increased impact of various online digital channels on vinyl records. However, Chen's family didn't care about these factors. All they knew was that since Chen Yefang had another child, she had been giving them less money.

This child not only prevented Chen Yefang from earning money for them, but also used Chen Yefang's daughter status to spend money that should have belonged to them. Most importantly, she was a daughter born to a daughter. How could she be as precious as their own son or grandson? It's one thing to not let this child be a backup blood bank for their son and grandson, but she's just a little girl. They shouldn't have spent so much money on her!
Du family members: Damn, they've got guts now!
Having been family for decades, even if I was blinded by that fragile pretense, I still knew their character and personality better than outsiders.

Just as Chen Yefang had expected, her parents knew perfectly well what kind of person the blind date her relatives had introduced her to was in private.

The other party was even divorced. She hadn't registered her marriage in her first marriage and didn't have any children. She ran away because she couldn't stand being abused by him a few times.

This man learned his lesson and became pretentious. He was misled by the Chen family and learned that Chen Yefang was a singer who earned dozens of times more money than ordinary people. He thought he could marry a golden goose and promised to pay hundreds of thousands of yuan in dowry to marry Chen Yefang, fantasizing that she would bring back even more money.

Little did he know that over the years, eight or nine out of ten of Chen Jie's money had been siphoned off by that family of bloodsuckers. The remaining amount was barely enough to support Chen Jie and her daughter. How could she possibly have any savings to repay his dowry or fund his future extravagance? If Chen Jie truly agreed to this marriage, once they were married and he learned the truth, given his violent tendencies, the consequences of his anger were unimaginable.

Upon hearing this, Du's mother and Du Yuxi subconsciously turned to look at the lonely and frail mother and daughter not far away, their eyes filled with sympathy.

As a woman myself, I can empathize with their situation even more, and I am even more indignant at the ugliness and shamelessness of some people.

But the Chen family is not about to give up the easy money they've got. As you can see from Chen Jie's previous experiences, this family has been psychologically pressuring her to accept this blind date, using manipulation to get her to agree to the marriage. Chen Jie's wishes are irrelevant; what matters is the hundreds of thousands of yuan they're about to get.

If Sister Chen were to rashly go home and tell her parents that she didn't want to continue the relationship with her blind date and that marriage was impossible, she would most likely be humiliated and verbally abused, then beaten unconscious, locked up, and forced into marriage.

The Du family members: "!!!" How could someone be so beastly as to be a living, breathing human being?!