The Sweetness of the Seventies
Chapter 425 - 396 Greed, an Ugly State_1

Chapter 425: Chapter 396 Greed, an Ugly State_1

Meanwhile, Ye Weiwen and Xin Anan didn’t go home but went straight to Xin Wei’s company.

Having just escorted a client out, Xin Wei felt a headache coming on when he saw his mother and sister arrive again, this time his company’s accounts truly had no money left.

"Why have you come back?" Xin Wei asked coldly, especially upon seeing the luxury items his mother and sister were carrying in both large and small packages.

"Brother, I just saw a little girl following our stepmother, and the stepmother admitted it," Xin Anan said, "she’s her own granddaughter. Now that the stepmother has her own granddaughter, her belongings have nothing to do with us anymore."

Xin Anan had long been looking forward to that inheritance, enough to never worry about food and drink for a lifetime!

The greater the expectations were before, the greater the disappointment was now.

Xin Wei was startled but then nodded, "Hmm, that is the stepmother’s granddaughter."

"Brother, you knew?" Xin Anan asked back, "How did you know?"

"I had investigated before, just haven’t had the chance to tell you yet," Xin Wei said with a wry smile. There was no point hiding it any longer.

"Brother, what do we do?" Xin Anan was anxious, "I don’t want to lose so much property!"

Xin Wei said with a bitter smile, "It’s all the stepmother’s, she has the absolute right to dispose of it. It’s not much to say if she doesn’t give it to us!"

"No way!" Ye Weiwen said, "Your father still has a large part of the assets in Bai Qiongyu’s hands. We can’t let outsiders get away with it."

"Alas, the Bai Family’s assets are even more!" Xin Anan lamented, losing such a large amount of wealth made her life suddenly unhappy.

"Mom, Anan, don’t do anything rash," Xin Wei said, "We already have enough assets to spend, don’t think about what doesn’t belong to us. You may not know, but the Bai Family is more formidable than we imagined."

"Hmph!" Ye Weiwen said, "Useless thing, no ambition. If you don’t go to get it, I will. I will visit the Bai Family’s company every day, and I won’t stop until I get the Xin Family’s assets back!"

The share of Xin Family’s assets in the stepmother’s hands was also considerable; if she could reclaim it, she would get several million for herself.

Xin Anan started scheming, guessing that the Bai Family’s assets probably had nothing to do with her and her siblings, but maybe she could get back some of the Xin Family’s.

After all, the stepmother was someone who cared about face, and couldn’t keep a stand-off forever.

"Mom, you can’t do this. Although the Xin Family isn’t as prominent as it once was, you can’t disgrace the Xin Family’s name like that," Xin Wei said. The family’s affairs were known to all their acquaintances.

By acting this way, his birth mother was only making them a laughingstock.

"Face? Can that be eaten as food, or can it be spent as money?" Ye Weiwen said, "You’re opposing me now, are you? Well, when I get the Xin Family’s assets back, don’t come asking for a share."

Xin Anan’s eyes swiveled. If things really went as her mother said, and she did not give a share to her brother, wouldn’t she be able to get more for herself?

"Mom, now brother and sister-in-law are united against us," Xin Anan said, "Since brother doesn’t appreciate your hardships, let’s go back. We wouldn’t want him to think we came to trouble him."

"That’s right!" Ye Weiwen glared at her son and then left with her daughter.

Xin Wei sat dejectedly in his chair, exhausted and profoundly disappointed.

Oh, if only he had known it would come to this!

The issues with his mother and sister had already infuriated Xin Wei enough, but upon returning home, he found the house empty, save for one divorce agreement.

A divorce agreement?

Xin Wei couldn’t believe the document in front of him. His wife wanted a divorce?

In a panic, Xin Wei quickly called his wife, Li Yushan. He got through to his father-in-law’s house, where Mother Li handed the phone to his wife.

"Yushan, we’ve had such a good relationship as husband and wife, why do you want to divorce me?" Xin Wei asked urgently, unable to understand. When she had seen him off in the morning, his wife had still been all smiles, full of affection.

Li Yushan sighed on the other end of the line, "It’s too exhausting to be with you. Whenever your mother and sister make a fuss, you give them money. Over the years, you’ve given them thirty million. I’ve spoken to you about this before, and you agreed that it wouldn’t be like before, but you’ve broken your promise again today."

So it was about this issue. Xin Wei calmed down slightly and said, "Yushan, as you know, they caused a scene at the company, and the clients were about to arrive. If I hadn’t paid them to leave, today’s business would have fallen through."

"It’s the same excuse every time. I guess you haven’t seen the property division yet," said Li Yushan. "The money you transferred out is included in your share of the assets. If you don’t agree, I’ll have to sue you for the transfer of our legitimate marital assets."

"Transfer of our legitimate marital assets?" Xin Wei became agitated again, "Yushan, do you really want to divorce me? What about our children?"

Li Yushan might not have been angry if he hadn’t mentioned the children, but hearing this, she became even angrier and snapped, "Do you even have our two children in your heart? Our son and daughter get what, and your sister’s and her family’s children get what? That money was originally from my family, meant for my son and daughter to enjoy what their father earned. But you, you gave all the earnings to Xin Anan’s family. Since it’s like this, why do you still need a wife, a son, a daughter? Just live with your mom and sister."

After finishing, she hung up the phone with a "snap."

Seeing this, Mother Li asked tentatively, "Yushan, are you really going to divorce Ah Wei? Actually, if you put aside Ah Wei’s weakness for flattery, he’s quite alright. He hasn’t messed around, and he’s been good to you all these years."

Li Yushan forced a smile and said, "Mom, if I don’t do this, we really can’t go on."

"Why?" Mother Li asked, puzzled. Her daughter had always been strong-willed and rarely discussed her marital issues, so she didn’t know the details.

Li Yushan explained the situation, and Mother Li became furious, "This time you’re doing the right thing. If you don’t get Xin Wei’s weakness for flattery sorted out now, it’s better to get a divorce. You’ve been busy for others all these years. If you divorce now, you can get more of the assets, but if you wait too long, they’ll end up belonging to someone else."

"Yes, that’s why I won’t put up with it anymore," Li Yushan said. "Xin Anan is incredibly selfish. She can’t manage the company properly, and when we want to buy it and give her dividends each year, she’s not happy about it. She even says we’re trying to take advantage of her and hog her assets."

"She wants to eat from the bowl while eyeing the pot, she’s not afraid of choking to death on it," said Mother Li.

"I have another important reason for doing this, to save Ah Wei," Li Yushan said with a bitter smile. She couldn’t just watch her husband become a sacrificial lamb.

"How so?" asked Mother Li, confused. "If Ah Wei doesn’t give Xin Anan money to spend, can she still kill him?"

Li Yushan shook her head, "It’s not like that. The stepmother has found her own biological son and granddaughter. Xin Anan has always seen her stepmother’s assets as her own; now that they have found their biological relatives, why give it to an unfilial stepdaughter and stepson?"

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