Super Rich: Enjoying the Happiness of the Wealthy After Divorce

"three!"

As soon as Li Hu finished counting down, the door creaked open from the inside.

Li Xiumei stood in the doorway with a stern face, staring at them.

"What exactly do you want? If you keep making a scene, I'm calling the police!"

"Call the police?" Li Hu scoffed, shoving her aside and barging into the house. "Go ahead and call the police! I want to see if they'll help you, you vixen who seduced someone else's husband, or us victims!"

Mr. Wang, his wife, and another henchman behind him also squeezed in.

The small living room was suddenly crammed full.

"You...you're trespassing!" Li Xiumei was trembling with anger.

"Sister-in-law! It's her!" Mr. Wang pointed at Li Xiumei and cried to his wife, "It's that daughter of theirs who ruined me like this!"

Mr. Wang's wife, a woman in her forties with curly hair and a bloated figure, immediately pointed at Li Xiumei's nose and started cursing.

"You shameless old hag! Even your daughter is a slut! She seduced my husband and swindled all our money! You owe us an explanation today! Or I'll never forgive you!"

Her voice was shrill and loud, and some neighbors in the stairwell had already poked their heads out to see what was going on.

"What nonsense are you spouting!" Li Xiumei's face flushed red. "It's clearly your men who harassed my daughter, and now you dare to play the victim and accuse me first!"

"Harassment? A billionaire tycoon like him, why would he need to harass your daughter who sells smiles at a TV station?" Mrs. Wang stood with her hands on her hips, spitting as she spoke. "She clearly only came after us because we're rich! Now that she's bankrupted my husband, she thinks she can just kick him to the curb? Not so easy! Let me tell you, this isn't over until you come up with five million today!"

Five million!

The neighbors who were watching the commotion all gasped in surprise.

They all knew Tang Xinyi was capable, working as a TV host, but they never expected her to get into such big trouble.

"Pah! Five million? Why don't you just rob us!" Li Xiumei laughed in anger. "My daughter's current boss is a hundred times wealthier than you! Would he even look at your paltry sum?"

"Boss?" Li Hu seized on the key phrase and said with a sneer, "You mean that pretty boy who drives the Ferrari? Let me tell you, don't think you can do whatever you want just because you found someone rich! You owe us this! Even the King of Heaven himself would have to reason with us!"

"Why waste your breath on her!" Mrs. Wang was already impatient. Her eyes darted around the room, looking for something valuable. "If you can't come up with cash, then offer something as collateral! I think this house is quite nice..."

Her gaze suddenly fell on the rosewood shelf in the corner of the living room.

On the shelf, there was a Go board made of Phoebe zhennan wood.

Under the lamplight, the chessboard gleamed with a warm luster, clearly not an ordinary piece. Beside it, two ceramic jars contained black and white chess pieces, crystal clear and of excellent quality.

"This... looks quite valuable." Mr. Wang's wife's eyes lit up, and she walked over to reach for it.

"What are you doing! Don't touch her!" Li Xiumei panicked and rushed over to stop her.

That's something worth 880,000!

"I touched it! So what?" Mr. Wang's wife shoved Li Xiumei aside, grabbing the heavy golden nanmu chessboard with both hands. "If we don't get our money back today, this is ours!"

"Put it down! This is our property! This is robbery!" Li Xiumei grabbed the corner of the chessboard tightly, preventing her from taking it.

"Let go! You old geezer!"

With a forceful tug from Mr. Wang's wife, Li Xiumei lost her balance and staggered backward a few steps.

In the chaos, the ceramic jar containing the white chess pieces slipped off the shelf.

"Snapped!"

A crisp sound.

The ceramic jar shattered on the ground. Hundreds of white chess pieces, polished from old pit clam shells, rolled all over the ground, some even cracking from the impact.

The entire living room fell silent instantly.

Everyone stared at the mess of broken pieces and chess pieces on the ground.

Mr. Wang's wife was also stunned; she hadn't expected things to escalate like this.

"You...look at what you've done!" Li Xiumei looked at the shattered chess pieces, her heart aching so much that tears streamed down her face.

"Who...who told you to take it from me!" Mrs. Wang, regaining her composure, immediately turned the tables. "You weren't holding it properly! It's not my fault if it breaks! Besides, it's just a jar of broken chess pieces! How much could it be worth!"

"How much?" Li Xiumei trembled with anger at her shameless attitude. "I'm telling you! This chess set is worth 880,000! 880,000 including the jar and the chessboard! None of you are leaving here today!"

"What? Eighty-eight hundred thousand?"

Mr. Wang's wife and Li Hu were both stunned, then burst into laughter.

"Hahahaha! You old hag, are you crazy for money? A broken chess set, 880,000? Why don't you say 8.8 million?" Li Hu laughed until tears streamed down his face.

The neighbors who were watching the commotion also thought that Li Xiumei was talking nonsense.

"That's right! I think you deliberately broke things to try and extort money from us, didn't you?" Mr. Wang's wife pointed at Li Xiumei, her voice even louder. "Everyone, come and see! This family not only cheats us out of money, but now they're trying to extort us!"

Just when the scene was in complete chaos.

The sound of unhurried footsteps could be heard in the hallway.

Several figures appeared at the doorway.

The one leading them was Zhou Cheng.

Behind him was a middle-aged man in a suit and gold-rimmed glasses, and two tall bodyguards in black.

"Mr. Zhou... Mr. Zhou!" When Li Xiumei saw Zhou Cheng, it was as if she had seen a savior, and tears welled up in her eyes.

Zhou Cheng didn't look at her. His gaze swept across the messy living room and finally landed on the arrogant faces of Li Hu and President Wang.

"It's you?" Li Hu also recognized Zhou Cheng, the pretty boy driving the Ferrari in the photo.

"What? You want to stand up for this family?" Li Hu didn't take him seriously at all. Pointing to the broken pieces on the ground, he said viciously, "Perfect! They broke our things and now they want to extort money from us! You've come at the right time. You can settle this score for them!"

Zhou Cheng didn't say anything, but just smiled at him.

The bespectacled man behind him took a step forward and took a document out of his briefcase.

"Hello everyone, I am the chief lawyer of Jintian Law Firm, my surname is Li." Lawyer Li's voice was not loud, but his pronunciation was clear and professional.

He pushed up his glasses and looked at Li Hu.

"At the request of my client, I am now formally informing you all that your actions just now constitute trespassing, disorderly conduct, and intentional damage to other people's property."

He paused, picked up his phone, opened a photo, and handed it to Li Hu.

"The Go set you destroyed was officially named 'National Master's Custom-Made Golden Phoebe Wood and Clam Shell Go Set.' It was purchased last month at Christie's Spring Auction by my client, Mr. Zhou Cheng, for 880,000 RMB. Here are the auction house's transaction record and certificate."

Li Hu and the Wang family stared at the auction certificate written entirely in English, and the clearly marked "¥880,000" below it. Their minds went blank.

According to Article 275 of the Criminal Law, anyone who intentionally damages public or private property, where the amount involved is substantial or there are other serious circumstances, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than three years but not more than seven years.

Attorney Li's voice sent a jolt through them.

"Furthermore," he put away his phone and took out another document, "we have audio and video recordings of your disruptive behavior at my client's home, demanding five million yuan in compensation. This is sufficient evidence to constitute the crime of extortion. The amount is exceptionally large, so the minimum sentence is ten years."

ten years!

Mr. Wang's wife's legs went weak, and she collapsed to the ground.

Li Hu's fleshy face suddenly lost all color, his lips trembled, and he couldn't utter a single word.

The neighbors who were watching the commotion were so frightened that they didn't dare to breathe.

They finally realized that Li Xiumei was not lying.

This is no longer a neighborhood dispute; it's about risking the rest of their lives to challenge a world they can't even imagine.

Zhou Cheng remained silent throughout.

He simply walked up to Li Xiumei, handed her a tissue, and whispered something.

"Auntie, don't be afraid, I'm here."