Li Xue's deceit towards Zhang Meiyu was clearly an attempt to drive her to her death.
Bang!
Tang Zhongcheng closed the door, his face contorted with ferocity.
Li Xue's heart sank.
"Sir, what are you doing?"
Tang Zhongcheng, his hand behind his back, held a leather belt. Without a word, he lashed it fiercely at Li Xue.
Li Xue took a heavy blow, her exposed arm burning with pain.
Soon, a red mark appeared.
"Ah..."
Aunt Xue cried out in pain.
Clutching herself, she looked at Tang Zhongcheng in terror.
"Why are you hitting me! Are you crazy!"
Hearing this,
Tang Zhongcheng gritted his teeth and said fiercely,
"I must be crazy to have brought a wicked woman like you into the Tang family!"
"Li Xue, you slandered me in front of Meiyu, saying I designed to abandon Xiao Min. You clearly wanted to anger her to death, didn't you!"
"It was also you who plotted against us, misleading us into abandoning Xiao Min!"
Li Xue hastily denied it.
"I didn't! I never did such a thing. Why are you slandering me!"
Even now, Li Xue had the audacity to argue without batting an eye.
How truly wicked her heart must be.
"Meiyu has woken up. She said it herself. How can it be false!"
Tang Zhongcheng roared.
He then swung the belt in his hand furiously, repeatedly lashing it at Li Xue.
"I didn't! It must be Zhang Meiyu deliberately slandering me!"
"She hates me so much, she's deliberately slandering me!"
Li Xue continued to make excuses even as she was being beaten.
From Tang Zhongcheng's understanding of Zhang Meiyu, she would never stoop to slandering Li Xue.
She would only retaliate in plain sight.
Li Xue was full of lies, and Tang Zhongcheng would never believe her again.
After taking more than ten blows, Li Xue realized that Tang Zhongcheng wasn't listening to her.
She tried to escape.
But Tang Zhongcheng was prepared and had no intention of letting Li Xue get away easily.
Tang Zhongcheng was a man, and Li Xue was no match for him.
Soon, Tang Zhongcheng bound Li Xue's hands and feet and beat her relentlessly.
"Stop hitting..."
"I beg you, stop hitting..."
"No... please, for Yiyi's sake..."
...
No matter how Li Xue pleaded, Tang Zhongcheng seemed deaf to her cries.
He only continued to swing the leather belt, desperately whipping Li Xue.
Soon, Li Xue was bleeding profusely.
She let out soft groans of pain.
"Tang Zhongcheng... you just wait, I will never... let you go... Yiyi, she..."
Before Li Xue could finish speaking,
At this moment, Tang Yiyi returned.
She and Li Xue were the only ones living in the house.
She came back and, not seeing anyone, came to see what was happening.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she opened the door, she witnessed this horrifying and bloody scene.
Now, Li Xue was Tang Yiyi's only support.
"Dad! What are you doing!"
Tang Yiyi, disregarding everything, rushed forward and shielded Aunt Xue.
Tang Zhongcheng, unable to stop himself, struck Tang Yiyi with the belt.
Tang Yiyi immediately cried out in pain.
"Dad... stop hitting me, Dad. It's Yiyi, sob..."
Tang Zhongcheng was panting at this moment.
The ferocity in his eyes did not diminish.
"Get out of the way! Today, I will beat this bitch to death and avenge Meiyu!"
Hearing this, Tang Yiyi knew that Aunt Xue's actions against Zhang Meiyu had been exposed.
She only had Aunt Xue as her mother. No matter what, she had to save her.
The usually timid Tang Yiyi now found courage.
"Fine, then beat me too. You don't like us anyway, just beat us both to death."
"Come on!"
Tang Zhongcheng's anger flared at Tang Yiyi's words.
"It's because you have a mother like Li Xue that you've learned her wicked ways."
"Get out of my way!"
Li Xue said weakly.
"Yiyi, go... quickly go..."
Tang Yiyi didn't move, still standing in place.
The next second, Tang Zhongcheng roughly grabbed Tang Yiyi and threw her out of the room.
He then locked the door.
Tang Zhongcheng glared fiercely at Li Xue.
"You dare to harm Meiyu to death, and today I will take your life!"
With that, he continued to beat her madly.
He would not stop until she was dead.
Li Xue, being brutally beaten, curled her lips into a sinister cold smile.
...
Bang, bang, bang!!!
Tang Yiyi frantically banged on the door.
"Dad!"
"Stop it, Dad!"
"If you keep hitting her, you'll beat her to death, and I'll really be motherless."
"Dad, I beg you, please stop!"
Tang Yiyi knelt down with a plop, crying and begging.
But from inside the room, only the muffled sounds of whipping could be heard.
Tang Yiyi realized something was terribly wrong and, in desperation, chose to call the police.
Qingshuiwan was a high-end villa area, close to the prosecutor's office.
Soon, people from the prosecutor's office rushed over and forced their way into the room.
The scene inside could only be described as bloody.
Li Xue's clothes were soaked in blood, a deep crimson.
She lay motionless in a pool of blood, her life or death unknown.
The prosecutor's office handcuffed Tang Zhongcheng and took him away.
Afterward, they called an ambulance to take Li Xue to the hospital.
...
In the hospital, Tang Yiyi tearfully called Tang Yu.
"Big Brother, Dad, he, he beat Aunt Xue into the hospital, sob..."
Tang Yu listened to Tang Yiyi's crying and felt helpless.
Li Xue deserved to die for deliberately provoking his mother.
Tang Yiyi was Li Xue's daughter, and it was understandable that she was worried about her.
However, from his perspective, he wished Li Xue dead, for the sake of his mother.
Everyone had their own position.
Tang Yu said nothing and silently hung up the phone.
Then, Tang Yiyi called Tang Ye, but he didn't answer.
She then called Tang Xu, but he also didn't say much.
Afterward, she called Tang Yan.
Tang Yan cursed, "Li Xue is dead, and she deserves it!"
...
Not a single one of them worried about Li Xue's life or death.
This time, no one stood by Tang Yiyi's side.
They all chose to ignore it.
...
Tang Xiaomin, upon hearing that Zhang Meiyu had woken up, also came to the hospital.
The moment Zhang Meiyu saw Tang Xiaomin, she burst into tears.
Zhang Meiyu tried to take Tang Xiaomin's hand.
Just as she was about to do so, she suddenly withdrew her hand, hesitant.
"Xiao Min... I'm sorry."
"It's all my fault, Mom was deceived by Tang Zhongcheng, that's why I abandoned you."
"Mom apologizes to you, Mom is sorry for you... sob..."
Zhang Meiyu cried inconsolably, continuously apologizing to Tang Xiaomin.
Tang Xiaomin listened, completely bewildered.
"Who deceived you, and how did they deceive you?"
Zhang Meiyu's tears flowed, and she choked out,
"It was Tang Zhongcheng. He told me to go to Xiangshan for blessings, and he also arranged for that charlatan to trick me. I was so bitterly deceived by him, Xiao Min."
At this moment, Tang Yu suddenly said,
"Mom, Dad said he didn't arrange it. Li Xue deliberately provoked you and was talking nonsense."
"Dad knew that Li Xue deliberately lied to provoke you, so he beat Li Xue half to death."
"Dad has been criminally detained now. You should believe my Dad."