VHBF -Chapter 168 The School Tyrant Daddy (Part 30)

Liu Dong went back home with a heavy heart. The way he looked at Mrs. Liu was clearly off, making the already guilty Mrs. Liu panic. She asked softly what was wrong—had the Shen family made things difficult for him?

Liu Dong shook his head and sighed, saying nothing as he walked straight toward the room where the safe was kept.

After his first wife passed away, all of her inheritance had been locked in the safe, to be given to their daughter as dowry once she grew up.

Watching her husband open the safe, Mrs. Liu’s heart jolted violently. Her face went pale; no amount of exquisite makeup could conceal her inner turmoil.

Liu Dong took the items out and checked them one by one. The young man’s sarcastic words still rang in his ears: “She’s probably after the Liu family’s assets. Getting rid of the first wife’s child means she can swallow both the Liu family fortune and the inheritance the first wife left behind.”

Several sets of property deeds were still there—all prime-location villas and apartments. There were also a few mall storefronts already rented out, bringing in a large sum of rent every month.

Although Liu Dong’s first wife hadn’t come from an ultra-wealthy family, hers was still a cultured, scholarly household with deep roots. She was an only child and had left behind several heirloom antiques and pieces of jewelry, each worth a fortune. In addition, when they married, Old Master Liu had given his daughter-in-law 10% of the group’s shares. With years of dividends and steadily increasing real-estate income, the inheritance was valued at no less than two to three billion. Even Liu Dong himself couldn’t help feeling tempted.

Out of guilt and pity for his daughter losing her mother at such a young age, Liu Dong had never touched any of it. Everything was locked in the safe. Even when Mrs. Liu had eagerly volunteered to help manage the assets after marrying into the family, Liu Dong had refused.

The number of properties and the little booklets matched. The equity transfer agreements were also there. Liu Dong counted through them one by one and finally let out a breath of relief. His wife, after all, had some bottom line—she hadn’t touched these things…

However, when he opened several small wooden boxes one by one, his gaze froze.

A pair of Yuan-dynasty blue-and-white porcelain imperial bowls had been smashed, the shards lying lonely in the small wooden box. A set of imperial-green jade jewelry had been swapped for glass fakes. The situation was even worse with several other boxes—they were completely empty.

Liu Dong’s mind went blank for a moment. Just these antiques and jewels alone were worth several hundred million. Without thinking, he turned sharply and stared at his wife. “You did this?”

That “you did this” could have referred to the stolen antiques and jewelry, or to their daughter’s disappearance and abduction—or perhaps both.

Ever since her husband opened the safe, Mrs. Liu had wished time could reverse and stop altogether. Now, hearing his accusation, she burst into tears, her face deathly pale as she denied it. “I don’t even know the password! How could I do something like this? Old Liu, you don’t trust me either? Back when I married you, you guarded the safe’s password like your life because you didn’t trust me. Now that something’s stolen, I’m the first person you suspect!”

The theft of items worth several hundred million from the Liu family safe was no small matter. Those antiques would only continue to appreciate over time; their value could only be underestimated, never inflated. Back then, a legendary collector had visited multiple times to try to buy those Yuan blue-and-white imperial bowls, but they had never been sold. Now, their value would only be higher.

Liu Dong called the police and invited experts to authenticate the items. The results nearly made him collapse to the ground: the shattered Yuan blue-and-white bowls were fake; the imperial-green jade jewelry was fake—everything had been swapped. That included the other missing antiques as well.

News of such a huge incident spread quickly through the circle. Others were delighted to watch the spectacle. In their view, the Liu family had gone off the rails starting with Liu Dong’s generation—no family integrity at all. The first wife died young, and less than a month later Liu Dong openly married his mistress, without even bothering to keep up appearances. The mistress’s child was already several years old—three or four years older than the first wife’s child. Utterly shameless!

Even more outrageous, rumors said that the first wife’s child had been missing for months, yet the Liu family never reported it to the police.

Now that the antiques and jewelry left by the first wife were stolen, they finally knew to call the police. Could those things even be recovered? More likely it was an inside job!

Everyone shook their heads, eagerly awaiting the show.

When Shen Lian heard about it, he deliberately called Liu Dong to mock him. “They say it’s hard to guard against thieves within your own family. President Liu, is your home security system top-tier or what? Locked in a safe, and it still gets stolen so easily? Everything of Yinyin’s that she swallowed—she’d better spit it all back out. Otherwise, don’t blame me for not showing mercy!”

It wasn’t until Liu Dong reported the case and the police made a big move due to the massive amount involved that Mrs. Liu truly panicked.

She racked her brain, trying to remember whether she had left any clues behind. The more she thought, the more confused she became. After successfully getting rid of that little bitch, she had assumed these things would eventually fall into her hands anyway, so she hadn’t been particularly careful. For a moment, she couldn’t even recall whether she had cleaned up all the loose ends.

Misfortune never comes alone. The Shen family’s power and connections were no joke. Just two days later, not long after the antiques were reported stolen, the nanny was found. Shen Huainan directly reported her to the police and sent her in for interrogation.

When the police arrived at the Liu residence with handcuffs, Mrs. Liu was still thinking about the antiques. The two children were playing at home, begging their mother to buy them LEGO—saying their classmates had it and they wanted it too.

In front of everyone, under her two children’s terrified gazes and the servants’ bewildered looks, Mrs. Liu was forcibly taken away by the police.

When Liu Dong received the call, he was overwhelmed at the company. The Shen family had actually withdrawn their cooperation project with him. For the Shen family, it was insignificant—a trivial project under a subsidiary. For the Liu family, however, it was the biggest project of the year. He had invested most of his assets into it. Now the Shen family pulled their funding just like that—what about his project? His money? Between the antique theft and the project cancellation, several new wrinkles appeared on Liu Dong’s face.

And at this critical moment, the butler called to say his wife had been arrested?!

One month later, Mrs. Liu—once hailed as a model example of a mistress successfully marrying into a wealthy family—was prosecuted on multiple charges and faced life imprisonment.

As the principal offender for instigating human trafficking, as a parent guilty of abandonment, for theft involving hundreds of millions, and even for murder.

Once the case was fully investigated, the public was in an uproar. Not only was the inner circle shocked—the sheer horror of it made the case famous online as well.

Someone compiled a post and uploaded it to the internet:

“Recently revealed: the most vicious stepmother of the century!!!”

“OP is an ‘insider’ who witnessed this firsthand. I followed the entire drama. Now that the melon is ripe, I’m organizing it for everyone.

This vicious stepmother was originally a schoolmate of the beautiful and kind first wife. After falling on hard times, she was helped by the first wife—pulled strings to get her into her husband’s company as a little secretary.

Who would’ve thought they’d be inviting a wolf into the house? In just three months, the vicious stepmother successfully seduced the male head of the household and was kept as a hidden mistress. A year later, she got pregnant and gave birth.

The man’s actions were equally disgusting. Because his wife had been infertile for years, he actually agreed to let the mistress give birth and then hand the child over to be raised by the first wife. Little did he know this was the mistress’s delaying tactic. She used this excuse to persuade the scumbag to let her give birth, but once the child was born, she refused to give it away. She then exposed the first wife’s illness, making the man afraid to send the child over and刺激 the first wife.

Which brings us to how the vicious stepmother knew about the first wife’s heart disease and depression. It turns out they’d been classmates since childhood. The first wife thought they met in college, but actually, the vicious stepmother had lived near the first wife’s home back in elementary school, later moving away without the first wife knowing. She’d been jealous of the first wife since childhood—and even twenty years later, that hatred never changed…

With the first child came a second. Just two months after the first wife gave birth to a daughter, the vicious stepmother followed with another daughter of her own. The scumbag couldn’t cut ties with his lover. Their hidden relationship continued until the first wife was angered to death.

How did the first wife die? The woman being prosecuted today—the vicious stepmother—used drugs to trigger the first wife’s heart condition, verbally provoked her, and even took away her life-saving medication, causing her to die from anger and distress. There are caregiver testimonies and surveillance footage from back then. The police—possessed by the spirit of detectives—dug everything out.

And that’s not all. After entering the household, she not only failed to treat her benefactor’s daughter kindly, but isolated her at every turn, allowing her two children to bully her. Half a year after the first wife’s death, she finally extended her claws—bribing a nanny to take the child out of the province. According to the nanny’s testimony, the stepmother originally intended for the child to be sold to traffickers. To save trouble, the nanny directly dumped the child in a trash bin, then took the money and went abroad with her son to study.

A child that young—if sold to traffickers, the outcome is obvious. Either mutilated for begging, or raised like livestock and sold off to some remote mountain village. That poor legitimate little princess suffered so much at such a young age, while her biological father was blind and scummy—utterly unworthy of being called a father!

There’s also the theft charge—this one is serious. The amount involved reached several hundred million. The vicious stepmother secretly learned the safe’s password, swapped out and stole many antiques and pieces of jewelry, selling them and laundering the money through her relatives.

I heard that when she was arrested, there were still two antiques she hadn’t managed to sell yet. Damn—every single one was museum-grade. All ruined by that idiot.

What’s even more outrageous is that all of these items belonged to the first wife. What did the vicious stepmother say? Something like: the child was already lost, so sooner or later these would belong to her and her son anyway. What’s wrong with using her own things early? How is that illegal?

A bunch of us went to watch. Afterward, our entire worldview was nearly shattered. This isn’t just evil—it’s evil taken to an extreme. What’s terrifying isn’t just her cruelty, but that she doesn’t think she did anything wrong. She genuinely believes her actions were correct and not illegal??? That’s the scariest part!

Thankfully, the police were sharp-eyed—and those two unspeakably powerful big shots really came through. Otherwise, letting such a freak roam free… just thinking about it makes your skin crawl. One day she might stab you and tell you, ‘This was my road to begin with. You blocked me. Stabbing you is perfectly reasonable!’

Post ends. Finally, wishing the vicious stepmother swift retribution—and… blessings to the little princess.”

Inside a luxury mansion by the Lin River, a young man clicked “send” on the last word, patted his chest, and muttered to himself. And those two big shots… please, please don’t come after him. He hadn’t dared reveal the little princess’s identity—he’d only criticized that morally warped vicious woman. Please don’t get his account banned, damn it!