Lin Wanyi gripped the knife tightly:
"Brother-in-law, step aside. I don't want to hurt you; we don't have any issues with each other."
Li Jun wanted to step aside, but Wang Meijuan held onto him tightly. In the end, he just kept backing up.
Finally, they got on the motorcycle.
He scooped up Li Borui and yelled at Wang Meijuan:
"Are you coming or not? It's the second day of the Lunar New Year, do you want to die here?"
Wang Meijuan's body was shaking like a leaf, and she tremblingly got on the motorcycle.
Finally, the eyesore was gone. Lin Wanyi turned her head and looked back at the Wang family members inside the door:
"Still want to tie me up? Let's see who dares to tie me up now!"
Wang Jianguo hid back in his room. Liu Chunlan's teeth chattered:
"You're crazy, Lin Wanyi. You're completely insane.
"Do you really want to stab us to death?"
Actually, she didn't.
Lin Wanyi was just scaring them.
She still had Keke, and she had a great rest of her life ahead of her. She wasn't going to send herself to prison.
She did it on purpose. She just wanted to act crazy and make the whole Wang family miserable.
After all, she used to be the only one suffering grievances; now it was time for a change.
Acting a little crazy appropriately really made one feel good.
The girls watching the drama unfold all gave her a thumbs-up.
Even Wang Xiu'e gave her a thumbs-up:
"If you had acted like this earlier, would you have been bullied for so many years?"
Yes.
Lin Wanyi herself felt that her past self was useless.
Just letting people walk all over her.
If she hadn't been so cowardly, how could she have missed seeing her father for the last time?
How could she have not let Keke visit her maternal grandmother's house even once in seven years?
Now, she folded the pocketknife and put it back in her pocket.
She told Wang Hao, "Whoever comes near me, I'll kill them!"
Wang Hao was breaking out in a cold sweat.
While girls from every other household were laughing and chatting happily with their own mothers, the Wang family was sighing in gloom and misery.
Especially Wang Meijuan.
When Li Jun sped all the way back to the Li family home, her parents-in-law and sisters-in-law all gathered around and asked:
"What happened? Weren't you going back to your maiden home? How did you get kicked out?"
Li Jun irritably went back to his room to grab a bottle of beer.
Wang Meijuan hadn't even steadied her nerves yet, but Li Borui loudly declared:
"Auntie wouldn't let us in. She said we're never allowed to go back.
"She even took out a knife and wanted to kill Mom."
No one in the Li family sympathized with Wang Meijuan; instead, they all gloated.
The old lady, in particular, immediately tied an apron around Wang Meijuan:
"See clearly now. From now on, stop obsessing over your maiden family all day long. They don't welcome you at all.
"Hurry up and cook. From now on, you stay obediently in the Li family."
Wang Meijuan felt terrible.
Having been married for over a decade, this was the first year she couldn't go back to her maiden home.
Although she realized now that her mother was just so-so, having one was better than not having one.
The more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt. She specifically posted a WeChat Moment:
[It's the second day of the New Year, and every daughter is going back to her maiden home. Why can't I?]
She thought everyone would support her, but to her surprise, Lin Wanyi was the first to comment:
[Because I can't go back, so as a daughter too, you can't go back either. That's fair.]
She held her phone and waited and waited, but no one else liked or commented on it.
Instead, she received a call from Liu Chunlan:
"Why did you post that Moment? Are you trying to make us a laughingstock for everyone?
"Delete it immediately!"
Wang Meijuan was full of anger. After hanging up, she still didn't delete the post.
Why should she give in to Lin Wanyi?
It made no sense.
In her mind, Lin Wanyi didn't even have a maiden family anymore, so who would be afraid of her?
Liu Dabing also saw Wang Meijuan's post, and he immediately called Liu Chunlan:
"What does Juan's post mean? Who isn't letting her go back to her maiden home?"
Liu Chunlan's bellyful of grievances finally poured out in tears:
"Big brother, you have no idea how I've spent this New Year.
"Neither of my two sons listens to me, and both of my daughters-in-law give me nothing but grief.
"I've really had enough of living. What is the point of me living like this?"
She cried her heart out over the phone.
Liu Dabing shouted, "You wait for me to come and stand up for you! What the hell, an outsider dares to give her mother-in-law grief?"
Liu Dabing hung up the phone and headed out the door. His wife, Zhao Pei, hurriedly pulled him back:
"Where are you going? It's the New Year, why are you interfering in someone else's family affairs?
"Don't go."
Liu Dabing shook off her hand:
"Mind your own business. Just obediently prepare the dishes. Can't I go pick them up for dinner?"
Zhao Pei watched his retreating back and cursed in a low voice, "Go to hell, why don't you just die!"
Lin Wanyi was in a great mood after her outburst.
As she ate the delicious dishes Liu Chunlan had prepared for Wang Meijuan, she told Keke:
"Keke, you must remember, when you grow up, no matter what happens, never wrong yourself.
"Vent when you need to vent, act crazy when you need to act crazy. Rather than making yourself miserable, it's better to ruin it for everyone else."
Keke seemed to half-understand. Wang Hao stayed far away from her:
"Why are you telling the child these things? Is this how you teach a child?
"Lin Wanyi, where has your kindness and virtue gone?"
"Dead!"
Lin Wanyi answered very quickly:
"It died with my dad. It was buried in the dirt a long time ago. The current me is the dirty thing your mother talks about.
"Wang Hao, I am now a completely dirty thing!"
Wang Hao didn't know what to say.
He was genuinely a little afraid of Lin Wanyi now.
He looked at her stomach again.
He thought to himself, they had been trying for about ten days; she should be pregnant by now. As long as she got pregnant, Lin Wanyi definitely wouldn't cause any more trouble.
Endure it, just endure her for a few more days.
Lin Wanyi called her mother; she wanted to ask where they went traveling.
Who knew the phone couldn't connect at all.
She also called Lin Jiajun, but it still wouldn't connect.
She felt a little uneasy. Where did they go? Both of their phones were unreachable?
Just as she was thinking this, the sound of a motorcycle came from the door again. She thought Wang Meijuan had come back, but instead saw Liu Dabing walk in with a cigarette dangling from his mouth.
Liu Dabing glared at her fiercely, then said nonchalantly:
"Niece-in-law, I've come personally to invite you to my house for dinner. Pack up and let's go."
Lin Wanyi hated him. She still remembered clearly how he had locked her in the room last time.
She couldn't possibly go.
So she didn't even respond to Liu Dabing.
Liu Dabing's eyes grew fiercer. "What do you mean by this? It's the New Year, and it's bad enough you don't greet me when you see me.
"I came personally to invite you to dinner, and you ignore me? Is this the attitude you should have toward your uncle?"
Lin Wanyi still didn't speak. Wang Hao hurriedly offered Liu Dabing a cigarette:
"Happy New Year, Uncle, Happy New Year!"
Liu Dabing snorted. "Every year on the afternoon of the second day, your whole family comes to pay me New Year greetings. What's the meaning of this year?
"Now I come to invite you, and you won't budge? Putting on airs, are we, Wang Hao?"
Wang Hao quickly said, "Nothing of the sort, nothing of the sort.
"Aren't we still eating lunch? We were planning to pack up and head over after lunch.
"Uncle, we will definitely go!"
