Chapter 7 The Divorce Extortion
Sun Xiaoqian jumped back a step like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. She clutched her bag tightly.
"That's my money! My dowry! Don't even think about it! Whoever dares to touch my property, I'll fight them to the death!"
At this time, Jiang Chen suddenly turned his head.
"You married into my family, so you are part of my Jiang family! Your money is the Jiang family's money! Now the family is in trouble, if you don't contribute, who will? Hand over that twenty thousand!"
"Jiang Chen, are you even human!"
Sun Xiaoqian was shocked and angry.
"That is the security my parents gave me! Why should I fill your hole! I'm not giving it!"
"Not giving it?"
Jiang Chen stepped closer to her step by step. His face had a fierce look I'd never seen before.
"Do you think you are some kind of thing? Really think you are a rich young lady? If you can't share the hardships with me, then don't think about enjoying the blessings! Spit out the dowry, the gold, and all the money I spent, then get divorced immediately!"
"Divorce then!"
Sun Xiaoqian was also forced to the edge.
"Following a loser like you, all you do is leech off your sister and scheme against my family. What prospects do you have!"
"Say that again, you bitch!"
Jiang Chen was completely enraged and raised his hand to slap her.
"Enough!"
Mom screamed and rushed forward to hold her son tightly.
"Oh, Sun Xiaoqian, things have come to this point. Don't lose big over small. This twenty thousand, just consider it your investment in this family. Once we get the house, you can have the master bedroom. Mom will treat you like her own daughter from now on."
Sun Xiaoqian looked at the family closing in on her step by step. The color drained from her face.
It seemed she had finally realized that what she had stepped into was not a marriage but a greedy bottomless pit.
At this time she stood there isolated and helpless, tears welling in her eyes.
I stood there watching this family fight.
The Ten Gold for ten thousand, the dowry for twenty thousand, the old house for twenty thousand.
The three of the Jiang family no longer had time to care about me.
Sun Xiaoqian was soon picked up by her parents and taken home to discuss the divorce.
Divorce?
Having provoked a family of scoundrels like us, how could it be that you say divorce and it's done?
My cunning and calculating good mother took out the video she had secretly recorded in the hospital that day.
She precisely edited it, leaving only the segment where Sun Xiaoqian admitted she was not pregnant, paired with sensational music and tearful subtitles, and posted it under the title "Exposing the True Face of a Scheming Gold Digger."
"Everyone, take a look! This is the woman my son blindly married back then! Faking pregnancy, extorting money from her sister-in-law, and now wanting to run when she can't get the house! What sin did our Jiang family commit!"
This blow knocked the stunned Sun Xiaoqian, who was crying online about her broken relationship and being framed, completely senseless.
She had no way to argue. The lie about the fake pregnancy became a sword stabbing herself.
Gold digger! Serves you right! Cheating marriage deserves a bad end!
The storm of public opinion instantly turned, even more violent than what she had endured before.
Her family's doors and windows were soon splashed with bright red paint. The words 'Bitch' were shocking, and the glass was smashed to pieces, just like when she had coldly watched my family suffer.
Under the huge pressure and fear, Sun Xiaoqian's parents compromised. They persuaded their daughter to agree to the divorce and return the twenty thousand dowry and the gold worth ten thousand.
But what kind of people were the Jiang family?
Bullying the weak and fearing the strong was engraved in their bones.
Seeing the Sun family so easy to deal with, Jiang Chen's greed swelled to the extreme.
He took out a notebook, which actually listed in detail all the expenses during the three years of dating—meals, movies, even the cost of a cup of milk tea!
"Want a divorce? Sure! Besides the thirty thousand, the youth loss fee and dating expenses I spent on you in these three years total twenty thousand. Not a penny less! Fifty thousand in total, hand it over!"
As soon as this statement came out, the whole internet was in an uproar. Even some initial supporters could not stand it anymore.
But the Jiang family was completely unaware and instead immersed in the pleasure of having the other side in their grasp.
It looked like Sun Xiaoqian had finally realized to the bone that she had married not a person, but a blood-sucking vampire in human skin.
But she was from an ordinary family. Facing completely shameless scum, all reason and legal procedures seemed pale and powerless.
If she ignored it, she could only be forced to endure endless harassment and a ruined reputation.
In the end, Sun Xiaoqian's parents, with tears streaming down their faces, emptied their savings and knelt to borrow money from relatives, finally scraping together fifty thousand.
On the day she got the divorce certificate, Sun Xiaoqian looked at Jiang Chen. Her eyes held only icy hatred.
"Jiang Chen, you will get your retribution."
"Retribution?"
Jiang Chen snatched the bag of money and spat a thick glob of phlegm.
"I am your retribution! Get lost!"