Quick Transmigration: Drama Queen's Daily Life

Chapter 1245 - 1034: Never Live Subjugated

Ye Yide watched helplessly as his adopted daughter swaggered off in front of him, and there was nothing he could do. Listening to her threats, how could he not be furious inside?

But for the moment he had no way out. He knew the adopted daughter had already lost control, and years of scheming had gone up in smoke. The pain in his heart was beyond words, but he had no intention of letting her off just like that.

Given Ye Qiu’s intelligence, how could she not know what was going on in Ye Yide’s mind? She was just waiting—waiting for the moment he actually made a move.

Night is when every city is at its most excited and most desolate. Countless men and women are drunk on wine and vanity, while others, with nowhere to go, wander in the dark, lonely corners.

"Here’s five hundred. Once it’s done I’ll give you another thousand." Ye Yide said in a low voice to the person hidden in the darkness.

The man had a nearly burnt-out cigarette dangling from his mouth. He only spat it out when it was about to burn his lips, and with it he spat on the ground. "Bro, this is breaking the law. You wanna fob me off with just fifteen hundred?"

"At most I’ll add another five hundred. If you don’t want to do it, plenty of people do." Ye Yide said impatiently.

"Fine, but let me make this clear first. You only want the keys and IDs. Anything else valuable in there belongs to me."

"You can take it all." Ye Yide had never thought Ye Qiu could have anything worth much anyway, so he didn’t care in the slightest.

"Buddy, is she really your daughter?" The man asked in disbelief, thinking, what kind of normal person would treat his own daughter like this?

"I showed you our family portrait. You think that’s fake? I told you, the kid’s grown up and won’t listen. Insisted on shacking up with some male classmate. I just want to force her to come back." Ye Yide said, putting on a hypocritical act.

"Since you put it that way, bro, then I’ve got nothing to worry about. Just wait for my good news." The man patted Ye Yide on the shoulder, clearly pleased to have taken this job.

Ye Yide felt awful. In fact, at the start he only wanted to teach Ye Qiu a lesson. But people these days are shrewd; anything that’s a serious crime, they won’t touch. Of course some would, but he couldn’t afford that kind of money.

After thinking it over again and again, he came up with this plan: find someone to steal Ye Qiu’s things. Without her ID card, she’d have to go get a new one, right? To get a new one she’d need the household registration book, right? And that book was with him. She’d have to come beg him, wouldn’t she? And then there were her keys. Once he had her keys, wouldn’t he be able to get into her complex and her room?

There were also her bank cards. He wanted to see for himself whether Ye Qiu had secretly saved up money behind their backs. That little girl really thought a bit of ability made her something special.

What Ye Yide didn’t know was that the Ye Qiu of today was no longer the Ye Qiu of the past. She was waiting for him to make a move. If she didn’t get more leverage on them now, how would she deal with them in the future?

"What did you say? My husband’s been arrested?" Lu Mei Juan, who had just rushed to her daughter’s school, exploded when she heard the news. Her husband had been arrested? Why? Could it be some scammer?

"Ms. Lu, please come to our station as soon as possible to give a statement. You can also handle the bail procedures for your husband." The police officer said politely.

"No, why? Why would my husband be arrested?" she asked anxiously.

"Your husband is suspected of hiring someone to rob Ms. Ye Qiu."

"Rob Ye Qiu? Officer, you must be mistaken. Ye Qiu is our adopted daughter. How could my husband go and rob her? And how does that count as robbery? A father disciplining a disobedient daughter counts as robbery now?" Lu Mei Juan immediately realized her husband must have done something to Ye Qiu, so she deliberately put it that way. "This is our family matter, it’s none of the police’s business!"

The officer’s tone turned serious on the other end. "Ms. Lu, this isn’t up to you anymore. Even if Ms. Ye Qiu doesn’t pursue the matter, the man who carried out the attack has already identified your husband. We must follow legal procedure now."

"Nonsense, Ye Qiu is our adopted daughter, how could my husband lay hands on her?" Lu Mei Juan said emotionally.

"Ms. Lu, I have to tell you this is not just about robbery. Ms. Ye Qiu is part of Professor An’s research group. Professor An’s work is a nationally funded and prioritized project. During the robbery, Ye Qiu fell and injured her arm, which may delay the progress of the experiment. Professor An plans to file a lawsuit against your husband on behalf of the research group. Please be prepared and come to the station as soon as possible."

"How could this be?" Lu Mei Juan was stunned. She’d only been away for one day, how could so much have happened? And she didn’t even fully understand what they were saying.

"Mom, what’s wrong? You took a call and now you look like you’ve lost your soul." Ye Meng asked while playing a game.

"Your dad’s in trouble!"

"My dad? What trouble could my dad possibly get into?" she said carelessly.

"Your dad’s been arrested by the police. They said they’re going to pursue criminal charges. I have to rush back and see what’s going on. It’s all that little bitch Ye Qiu’s fault." Lu Mei Juan said through gritted teeth.

"What’s it got to do with Ye Qiu?"

"Isn’t it because she’s grown up now and refuses to acknowledge the debt of being raised by our family? Your dad must’ve wanted to teach her a lesson, and somehow it blew up like this."

"Her again." Ye Meng said irritably, tossing her phone onto the bed. "Why do I keep feeling that something’s off lately? Mom, it was one thing for Ye Qiu to snap back at me and refuse to give me money, but how did all those things end up online? And how come it was so ’coincidental’ that someone knew I was her sister? Do you think all of this might be on purpose? That the poster I can’t track down is actually her?"

"You mean...?" A chill ran through Lu Mei Juan’s heart. If that was true, this adopted daughter of hers sure knew how to bide her time. "She wouldn’t dare! Isn’t she afraid I’ll keep making trouble for her?"

"What would she not dare? Mom, I’ll go with you to bail Dad out and hear what he has to say. Anyway, everyone at school is cursing me now. I don’t want to go to class anymore."

"What about that boyfriend of yours? Why hasn’t he helped you?"

Ye Meng grew even more annoyed. "Mom, don’t start. That Li Mingzheng doesn’t believe me at all. He said he wants to break up and even blocked me."

"He’s that heartless? Didn’t you say he loved you so much?" Hearing this, Lu Mei Juan felt distressed. Her daughter had said the boy’s family background was good, and now he broke up just like that?

"Love, my ass. If he wants to break up, then break up. I don’t care." Ye Meng said sulkily.

Lu Mei Juan hurried to comfort her: "Exactly. If he dares bring up breaking up, we don’t want him. There are plenty of men in this world. Our Meng’er is so outstanding and so pretty, you’ll definitely find someone better in the future."

That might be what she said, but it didn’t make Ye Meng feel any better. She felt that all of this was Ye Qiu’s doing. And those people too—what do you even know, to come and condemn me?

Wasn’t Ye Qiu taken in by their family? Shouldn’t she repay the kindness of being raised? What was so wrong with asking her for some money? Wasn’t that only natural?

That was how Ye Meng thought in her heart, but she didn’t dare argue with her classmates that way. Maybe she knew that if she said it like that, they’d only curse her even more fiercely.