"I’m nothing to you?" Bai Jiu scoffed. Pulling a thick wooden club from behind her back, she swung it directly at Old Man Gao without another word.
She held back intentionally; as long as the old man dodged quickly, the blow wouldn’t hit him. Sure enough, the moment she swung the club, Old Man Gao scrambled out of the way. This exposed Gao Erzhu, who was cowering behind him, right in Bai Jiu’s line of sight. WHACK! The club struck Gao Erzhu squarely, making him howl in pain.
"You bitch! How dare you hit my son? I’ll kill you!" Seeing her child get beaten, Lin Guihua immediately lunged forward.
Bai Jiu rewarded her with a swift backhand swing of the club. "Like mother, like son." She struck her several more times in rapid succession, beating Lin Guihua until she couldn’t even stand up.
The club was as thick as a baby’s arm. With such a heavy weapon, an ordinary woman’s strike would be unbearable for most, let alone a man’s. And Bai Jiu was someone who regularly did heavy farm work. As a result, Lin Guihua was incapacitated in just a few blows. Of course, Bai Jiu deliberately avoided her vital spots. She wasn’t going to kill Lin Guihua outright—it wasn’t worth forfeiting her own life for this woman.
Soon, wails and shrieks echoed throughout the courtyard. The onlookers outside didn’t dare approach. Seeing Bai Jiu in this state made everyone’s hair stand on end. She was simply terrifying.
"Learning to be a thug at such a young age, snatching whatever you please! Let’s see you try and snatch something now!" Having dealt with Lin Guihua, Bai Jiu turned her fierce gaze back to Gao Erzhu. She had no pity for the young. When people were stepping all over her, she didn’t care if they were children or not.
"That’s enough, Bai Jiu! If you keep hitting him, you’ll beat Erzhu to death!" Old Man Gao was horrified and terrified, not daring to step forward. However, he was still worried about his eldest grandson.
Old Mrs. Song was genuinely frightened this time. She clutched her daughter and hid to the side, not daring to let out a single squeak.
"Enough? Hah." Bai Jiu looked at Erzhu rolling on the ground, paused her strikes, and turned to Old Man Gao. "Why didn’t you say ’enough’ when he hurt my Xiuxiu and Zhengyang? Why didn’t you say ’enough’ when he bullied them on a daily basis? What? Does your heart ache for him now?"
THWACK! She swung the club at Gao Erzhu again, landing a heavy blow directly on his arm. "I didn’t see your heart aching when my children were being bullied! Is Gao Laosan not your son? Are Xiuxiu and Zhengyang not your grandchildren?
"It’s easy for you to just flap your lips and say ’enough.’ Talk is cheap! If I beat your son and daughter half to death right now, would you still be able to say such things?"
Bai Jiu had long despised the Gao Family. Now that she had the chance, there was no way she would let them off the hook. Her primary target was Gao Yulan, the one who bullied her and her two children the most on a daily basis.
"Today, I’ll let you taste true agony!" With that, Bai Jiu aimed her club at Gao Yulan. She felt that there wasn’t a single good person in this family; they all deserved to die.
When the club swung her way, Gao Yulan was so terrified she used her mother as a human shield. "Don’t hit me! It has nothing to do with me!" Tossing her mother aside, she turned and bolted.
But the Gao family courtyard was only so big. Where could she possibly run?
Bai Jiu wasn’t about to let her go. Her previous swing had struck Old Mrs. Song, leaving the old woman shrieking in pain. Bai Jiu quickly caught up to Gao Yulan. Grabbing her by the hair, she dragged her back to the center of the courtyard.
"You’re all a bunch of snakes and rats! Not a single decent person among you, and you all need to be taught a lesson!" Bai Jiu had swallowed this resentment for a very, very long time. Before long, Gao Yulan was beaten to the ground, lying flat right next to Lin Guihua.
"Zhishan, what are you just standing there for?! Hurry up and grab her!" Old Man Gao was truly panicked now.
Gao Zhishan wanted to, but he was scared, too. Bai Jiu was swinging that club with deadly force—how could he dare approach her? Seeing his son act like such a coward, Old Man Gao’s heart turned cold.
"Bai Jiu, calm down! Calm down! If you beat them to death, you won’t be able to escape the law!" Old Man Gao was terrified she would come for him next.
"I never planned on running! I came here today to drag your entire family to hell with me!" Bai Jiu grew utterly ruthless. Aside from Gao Zhishan, she attacked absolutely everyone.
Outside, the onlookers fell dead silent as they watched the commotion in the courtyard. They were terrified of getting caught in the crossfire. Bai Jiu was far too frightening.
"You cheap slut, you’ll die a horrible death! You’re even beating your mother-in-law! You’ll be struck by lightning!" Old Mrs. Song had been hit several times and was in agonizing pain. Unable to hold back any longer, she started cursing.
"If I die a horrible death, then your whole family deserves to rot in hell." Exhausted from the beating, Bai Jiu finally stopped. Looking at the Gao Family lying on the ground, she felt that the pent-up frustration in her heart had finally been released. This was especially true regarding Gao Erzhu. Even though he was a child, Bai Jiu had rained the most blows on him, and he had already passed out.
"Waah, my son, my son! Don’t scare your mother!" Discovering her son lying motionless on the ground, Lin Guihua screamed. Hearing her shrieks, anyone who didn’t know better would think her son was dead.
Old Mrs. Song also stopped cursing. She looked at Erzhu and saw his chest was still rising and falling. He wasn’t dead. She breathed a sigh of relief. No one had expected Bai Jiu to go this crazy.
"Are you satisfied now?! You’ve beaten him to death, you jinx! If anything happens to Erzhu, don’t even think about living a good life!" In the end, Old Mrs. Song still doted on her eldest grandson.
Bai Jiu wasn’t afraid of her in the slightest. "Fine! Bring it on! I’d love to see how you’re going to make my life miserable!" Raising the club again, she smashed it heavily against Old Mrs. Song. WHACK! WHACK! The blows landed squarely on her backside.
"If it’s my life you want, I’ll pay with it! But just one isn’t enough—your whole family is coming with me!" Just as Bai Jiu started swinging the club again, the production team captain walked in with a group of people.
"Enough!" the captain yelled. He never imagined Bai Jiu would be this bold, actually trying to take the lives of everyone in the Old Gao Family. He had just been at home, secretly glad he didn’t have to deal with this mess. He hadn’t expected this young woman to be so ruthless.
Mrs. Li had also hurried over. Together with a few of her good friends, she held Bai Jiu back. "Bai Jiu, don’t do anything stupid! Think about Xiuxiu and Zhengyang! If you’re gone, how are they supposed to survive?"
Seeing the miserable state of the Gao Family, Mrs. Li was in a sheer panic. She didn’t dare let go of Bai Jiu for a second, astounded by how mercilessly she had struck. However, when she thought about the suffering Xiuxiu and Zhengyang had endured, Mrs. Li didn’t think it was that big of a deal anymore. Children were pieces of a mother’s own flesh. One only knew true pain when they were hurt themselves, so she completely understood Bai Jiu’s feelings. If someone had hurt her children, she might have gone even crazier. Weimin had told her that if Bai Jiu hadn’t had fever medicine on hand, all three children would have been in mortal danger at that moment.
"We need to calm down, calm down," Mrs. Li said, prying the club from Bai Jiu’s hands. She was genuinely afraid that Bai Jiu would act on impulse and actually beat someone to death.
"I can’t live like this! I don’t want to live! She wants my whole family’s lives! Oh, Heavens, how can you be so blind?! Why don’t you strike down this vicious wolf?!" Seeing Bai Jiu restrained by the others, Old Mrs. Song immediately started rolling on the ground in a tantrum. "Waah, why is my life so bitter?! What sin did I commit in my past life to marry such a jinx into our family?!"
Listening to her wailing, the captain felt a massive headache coming on.