RMM -Chapter 316 You Reap What You Sow

“Get your ass up here!” Zhang Minqiang roared, glaring furiously.

Lian Yunfen jumped in fright. Seeing the murderous look on Zhang Minqiang’s face, her heart pounded with anxiety. She hesitated, stammering, too scared to go upstairs.

“Minqiang… I didn’t do anything. Su Ruo must have misunderstood…”

Faced with Lian Yunfen’s utterly shameless, dead-pig-not-afraid-of-boiling-water attitude, Su Ruo genuinely felt a wave of helplessness.

“Lian Yunfen, at a time like this, what’s the point of pretending anymore? You had the nerve to do something so disgraceful—are you really afraid it’ll come to light? Have a bit of shame, will you?”

Su Ruo felt that if looks could shoot arrows, Lian Yunfen would already be riddled with holes, pierced through the heart by ten thousand arrows.

Embarrassed by Su Ruo’s words, Lian Yunfen’s face alternated between red and pale, like a palette of colors. “Heh… if my younger sister did something wrong, I’ll definitely talk to her properly and make her correct it. Why are you talking like this…”

Before Su Ruo could say anything more, Zhang Minqiang and Lian Yunduo both exploded.

“Shut up!”

Zhang Minqiang was on the verge of blowing up. Even with disaster looming, she still refused to repent. How had he ended up marrying such a woman?

“Lian Yunfen, have you no shame?! You were the one who lied to me and made me seduce him! You even said his wife couldn’t hold his heart! You tricked me into leaving home and coming here, and today it was you who deliberately led her away so I could come look for Regiment Commander Xi! We’re sisters—how could you harm me like this?!”

Lian Yunduo could no longer hold it in. Crying, she shouted her accusation, her voice shrill with misery. Her eyes were filled with resentment as she stared at Lian Yunfen. At this moment, she hated her elder sister to the core. This entire mess had been created by her—she had deliberately set her up!

Lian Yunfen was so shocked by her sister’s outburst that her eyes widened. “No—Yunduo, listen to me—”

Before she could finish, Zhang Minqiang charged down and slapped her hard across the face, sending her crashing into the wall.

“Ah—!”

Caught completely off guard, Lian Yunfen took the full force of the blow. The pain was excruciating, and when her shoulder smashed into the wall, a sharp agony followed. Her face swelled instantly as tears streamed down.

“At a time like this, you still dare to argue?! Get back home!”

Zhang Minqiang grabbed Lian Yunfen by the hair and dragged her upstairs.

Su Ruo watched the farce coldly, a mocking chill flickering in her eyes. There wasn’t a shred of sympathy. She didn’t bother thinking about what kind of treatment Lian Yunfen would face after being taken home—this was entirely self-inflicted. If she’d behaved herself, how could today’s events have happened? Since she’d had the nerve to do something so shameless, she should also be able to bear the consequences. She deserved it.

“Battalion Commander Zhang, if you’re going to discipline your wife, do it at home with the door closed,” Su Ruo said coolly. “Making such a scene for everyone to hear—aren’t you afraid of becoming a joke? Our family doesn’t want to be the subject of gossip.”

Su Ruo could look on coldly at Lian Yunfen’s misery, but she couldn’t remain completely indifferent. If they were going to fight, they should do it at home. If others heard, she couldn’t afford that kind of embarrassment.

Only then did Zhang Minqiang realize his surroundings. Furious to the point of losing awareness, he’d forgotten this was the stairwell, with Xi Yuechen and Su Ruo standing above him. His face instantly burned with shame.

“We won’t interfere in your family affairs,” Su Ruo continued. “But I do hope you’ll teach your family how to behave. If this happens again, don’t blame me for showing no mercy.”

She’d seen enough of the show. What came next was up to Zhang Minqiang. Judging by his state, the Lian sisters wouldn’t be getting off lightly today—self-inflicted calamity.

“Yes, yes. I’ll discipline her properly. I guarantee it won’t happen again. Sister-in-law, please don’t be angry,” Zhang Minqiang said hurriedly.

Cold sweat drenched his body, his muscles taut. Regiment Commander Xi and his wife were truly furious—what was he going to do if Xi deliberately made things difficult for him later? All these years of struggle—what would they amount to?

Su Ruo couldn’t be bothered with Zhang Minqiang’s fear. She cast a cold glance at Lian Yunfen, who was covering her mouth and sobbing, and at Lian Yunduo, disheveled and sitting on the floor. Disgusted, she turned away. But as she turned, she saw the true culprit behind all this chaos, and her mood worsened further. She shot him a glare, shoved past him, and went inside.

Xi Yuechen’s brows had been knitted the entire time. Seeing that Su Ruo didn’t give him the slightest good look, his mood darkened. Holding Xi Zi in his arms, he narrowed his eyes at Zhang Minqiang.

“Battalion Commander Zhang, I don’t want to see your family’s filth ever again. Behave yourself.”

With that, Xi Yuechen ignored the three of them, turned around, and went inside, slamming the door shut with a loud bang.

Zhang Minqiang nearly went weak at the knees. Once the tension drained from his body, a wave of exhaustion hit him.

Still, his heart finally dropped back into place. The relief of surviving a disaster washed over him.

Luckily, although Regiment Commander Xi had taken out his anger on him, he hadn’t intended to actually deal with him. Otherwise… he might as well have packed up and left.

Zhang Minqiang understood clearly: he needed to handle these two jinxes properly. If they ever appeared in front of Xi Yuechen’s family again, the consequences would be his to bear.

Luckily… luckily…

Relaxing only made his anger burn hotter. If not for these two stupid women stirring up such chaos, would he have suffered this kind of terror?

With that thought, strength surged back into Zhang Minqiang’s body. He tightened his grip on Lian Yunfen’s hair and dragged her up the stairs with full force.

Lian Yunfen couldn’t keep up. Her face and shoulder burned with pain, and her scalp felt like it was about to be ripped off. Her steps faltered, and several times she nearly fell on the stairs. Seeing the murderous look on Zhang Minqiang’s face, her heart nearly leapt out of her throat—she didn’t dare utter a single sound.

At the door, Zhang Minqiang saw that Lian Yunduo was still sitting on the floor like a crazed, filthy wreck. His temper flared again, and he kicked her hard.

“Get the hell inside, damn it!”

Lian Yunduo, who’d been sitting there in a daze, was jolted back to her senses by the sharp pain. Hearing his sudden roar above her head, she screamed in terror.

Seeing that she didn’t move but screamed even louder, Zhang Minqiang’s fury twisted his features into something ferocious, his eyes savage as if he might devour someone.

“Shut up! Get inside!”

This time he didn’t shout—he was afraid the noise would alert people downstairs. His voice dropped low, his anger nearly exploding.

After another hard kick, Lian Yunduo burst into tears. Her already tear- and snot-covered face looked even worse. Afraid of being kicked again, she scrambled up and half-rolled, half-ran into the apartment.

Zhang Minqiang shoved Lian Yunfen inside as well, then strode in and slammed the door shut with a thunderous crash.

“Now tell me—both of you—what the hell kind of stupid thing did you do?!”

Standing by the door, he pointed at the two sobbing women, roaring in fury, his finger trembling.

Lian Yunfen’s heart skipped violently. Today’s events absolutely could not be let Minqiang know—otherwise, he would beat her to death!

But before she could come up with an excuse, Lian Yunduo cried out:

“It was her! It was Lian Yunfen who tricked me into coming here from our hometown! She lied to me and made me seduce Regiment Commander Xi! And today, she deliberately led his wife away so I could go find him! She’s the one who harmed me!”

“Yunduo!”

Her sister’s tearful, resentful voice was like a sharp axe splitting Lian Yunfen’s heart in two. She couldn’t stop her in time. A deep despair clamped around her throat, stealing her breath. Terror made her body shake like a sieve.

Hearing this, Zhang Minqiang felt as if he’d been struck by lightning. His mind went blank for a moment.

“What… what did you say?” His voice sounded dry and grating, as if sawing wood.

“It was all Lian Yunfen’s fault! Everything turned out like this because of her! She’s the one who lied and told me to go find Regiment Commander Xi!”

Lian Yunduo had thrown caution to the wind. Crying, she spilled everything, not caring what kind of disaster it would bring her sister. Perhaps, deep down, she wanted exactly that—if she’d been ruined like this, how could her sister not suffer with her?

All the strength drained from Lian Yunfen’s body in an instant. She staggered, barely able to stand, nearly collapsing to the floor.

“Minqiang, listen to me… it’s not like that…” she babbled incoherently in panic.

“Shut up!” Zhang Minqiang bellowed.

He never imagined things would turn out this way. After the shock came endless fear.

This woman actually dared… she actually dared…

He didn’t dare think further. His heart felt weightless, leaving him disoriented.

No wonder Regiment Commander Xi was so furious. No wonder Sister-in-law was so enraged. Zhang Minqiang finally understood everything—but it felt like he’d fallen into an ice cellar, shivering uncontrollably.

This woman had actually instigated her own sister to do something so shameless. Cold fear crept over him. Given what she’d done, even if Regiment Commander Xi immediately stripped him of his post, it would be entirely justified. And Sister-in-law—her father was a general!

His vision darkened again and again, his head pounding as if hammered repeatedly. This woman… what sin had he committed in his past life to marry someone like her?

Seeing the shock and rage on her husband’s face, Lian Yunfen trembled. She’d never seen him like this before, and her mind filled with regret.

“Minqiang, I was wrong. I really was wrong. I’ll go beg Su Ruo for forgiveness right now… Minqiang…”

She cried uncontrollably, dropping to her knees before him. She truly knew she’d been wrong—she’d been possessed by madness!

“Shut up!”

Zhang Minqiang no longer wanted to hear a single word. He roared, eyes red, and finally couldn’t hold back—he lifted his foot and kicked the woman kneeling before him.

And then… the room filled with the sounds of blows, sobbing, furious shouts, and desperate pleas—lively beyond measure.