Deep Fog Kiss

The phone rang urgently just after she hung up, and Jiang Li quickly picked it up.

When he saw the caller ID, the smile on his lips vanished, and his eyes turned cold.

I turned off the screen, and a few dozen seconds later, the phone rang again.

She hung up, and then the phone rang again.

It seems to go on and on without end.

She chuckled lightly and answered the phone.

As soon as I pressed answer, the other party's voice exploded like a bomb.

"Hey, you surnamed Jiang! What does this lawyer's letter mean? What does 'extortion' even mean?"

Wang Xiuchun yelled at the top of her lungs, "This money was given willingly by both of us. What do you mean by hiring a lawyer now? How can you be so heartless!"

"You hit my man first, and you promised to give him three million. What you're doing now is shameless! Utterly heartless! You're trying to drive us to our deaths!"

On the phone, Wang Xiuchun wailed, "How can you be so vicious at such a young age! You're not even human!"

Jiang Li got up, walked to the window, and sneered, "Auntie, I need to correct you. This three million wasn't something you agreed to. You threatened me, and I had no choice but to lend you the money."

"Three million." She tapped her phone with her fingertip and chuckled softly. "How many years would that be?"

"You're going to send me to jail?" Wang Xiuchun screamed at the top of her lungs on the other end of the phone. "You bastard, Jiang, you're a real scoundrel! You hit my man first, and now you're trying to frame me and send me to jail!"

"I've covered all the medical expenses and compensation for Wu Jianhui's accident. Besides, his leg wasn't broken. You're just trying to extort money from me by twisting the truth." Jiang Li said with a smile. Initially, the compensation was only 300,000 yuan, but Wang Xiuchun made a scene at the hospital, which led to the compensation amount being raised to 500,000 yuan.

"You weren't satisfied with just 500,000, and you actually dared to ask me for 3 million. I've handed over every threatening word you uttered to me on the phone to my lawyer."

"You want this money back? Don't even think about it!" Wang Xiuchun said viciously. "I won't give you a single penny back! You hit my man, so you should pay for this three million!"

She scoffed dismissively, "Hiring a lawyer, huh? We'll hire one too. I'd like to see if there's any law left in this world!"

"Okay." Jiang Li smiled, her voice light and cheerful. "Then I'll have to ask the police for help."

"You're going to report this to the police?" Wang Xiuchun shouted, "You surnamed Jiang, you'll get your comeuppance for being so vicious!"

"If you report me to the police and have me arrested, I curse you to a terrible death! I curse your entire family to a terrible death!"

Wang Xiuchun cursed and cried at the top of her lungs, "What sins has our Wu family committed to deserve such a jinx like you, who has brought such misery upon our family!"

"Tragic?" Jiang Li looked at the bright sunlight streaming through the window and asked with a smile, "Is it really that tragic? The person didn't die, and you even got 500,000 yuan in compensation for nothing. Is that tragic?"

"It's just because you're too greedy," she laughed, her voice soft. "You all brought this on yourselves!"

Tragic? Compared to those days she went through back then, this is nothing!

A perfectly good family was destroyed and its members were killed!

My peaceful life has been shattered!

All her joy and hope were buried on the day her father was disfigured and his body was unrecognizable!

miserable?

That's far from enough.

She hung up the phone and stood by the window. The golden sunlight outside shone on her fair face, reflecting a bright light in her reddened and glistening eyes.

She could never forget the hardships she endured after becoming an orphan at the age of eight.

......

Fourteen years ago, in the southern part of the city.

In a brightly lit two-bedroom apartment in the city, the air was filled with the scent of Jiang Li's eight-year-old home.

The room was ransacked inside and out. On the fabric sofa, eight-year-old Jiang Li sat blankly, her hair disheveled, her eyes red and swollen, clutching a black and white portrait of a man tightly in her arms.

The sound of Uncle Xiang Yaojie and Grandma He Biyu talking quietly on the balcony could be heard as they argued about her foster care issue.

Grandma wanted to take her to live with her uncle, but Xiang Yaojie refused.

"Can't we just send her to an orphanage? Why do we have to take her with us?"

"The children in the orphanage are so pitiful. Although Ali doesn't have parents, I'm still here. How can I bear to send her to an orphanage?"

"Our family is already under enough financial pressure. If we raise another child, how will we survive?"

"Ah Li is obedient and sensible. She doesn't waste money. She just needs an extra pair of chopsticks and an extra bowl. If that doesn't work... save half of my portion for her... Yao Jie, when you were little, your sister doted on you and gave you all the good things. Ah Li is her only daughter. As her maternal grandmother and uncle, we can't just stand by and watch Ah Li have nowhere to go."

"If my sister hadn't married Jiang Jing, she wouldn't have died so young, and she wouldn't have left behind such a burden," Xiang Yaojie said coldly. "Now look what's happened, this burden has been dragged into our family, and I have to support her too!"

He Biyu wiped away her tears, "Your sister has a hard life, and Ali has a hard life too. Seeing Ali reminds me of your sister. If I don't take care of Ali, I won't be able to die in peace."

Jiang Li sat on the sofa in a daze. She didn't cry, didn't make a fuss, and didn't say anything.

It seemed like the topic of their discussion had nothing to do with her, and she didn't care whether she was going to an orphanage or her uncle's house.

She just held her father's portrait tightly.

She misses her father.

She already misses her father terribly, even though he's only been gone for three days.

If her father were alive, no one would call her a burden, nor would they send her to an orphanage.

"Ginger and Pear".

Su Ruolan came out of the room, stood in front of her, looking down at her, "Your father died, and didn't leave you a single penny?"

She searched the house thoroughly, turning over every possible place, but found nothing of value.

I don't know how Jiang Jing, who has been a policeman his whole life, could be so poor.

He still dared to die, leaving behind such a huge burden.

Jiang Li kept her head down and didn't speak. Her grandmother came in, hugged her, and stroked her hair tenderly. "Li, go pack your things. Grandma will go stay at your uncle's house."

No sooner had He Biyu finished speaking than Su Ruolan immediately raised her voice and asked, "What?"

She seemed to have heard a joke, looked at He Biyu and then glared at Xiang Yaojie, "Who agreed to this? Who wants to support this burden!"

She crossed her arms and sarcastically remarked, "Isn't it enough that there's an old person in this family who just freeloads? Now we have a young person who's also doing nothing. What, is our house a nursing home or a welfare institution?"

He Biyu knew Su Ruolan's domineering nature. She hugged Jiang Li, not daring to look at her, and only looked at the ground, saying, "Ali's father just passed away, and she only has her grandmother, uncle, and aunt left. If you don't take care of her now, the neighbors will gossip about you!"

"Besides, Yaojie's business is just starting out. If those businessmen find out, how will he establish himself in the business world?"

My grandmother's hands were trembling as she said these words.

Jiang Li felt that her grandmother's arms were holding her with unusually tightness.

Su Ruolan laughed sarcastically, "Mom, do you think raising a child is so easy? How can we raise them without money! Her father died without leaving a single penny! The family that hit and killed her father didn't pay a single penny in compensation; they'd rather go to jail than pay anything! The person is dead, and there's no money left. How are we supposed to raise them in this situation?"

She scoffed, "If she has no money, even if she starves to death on the street, it's none of our business!"