CW: Attempted rape
After washing her face, Qu Xianfen subconsciously went to the vegetable basket, and only after she walked to the entrance to change her shoes did she remember that she was now Pan Dawei, not the free nanny Qu Xianfen, so she didn’t have to go shopping. With a smile on her face, she put the shoes she just took out back into the shoe cabinet, walked to the living room, and sat down slowly on the sofa.
She patted the sofa cushions and sighed sincerely. “They’re so soft.” She rarely got the opportunity to enjoy such a soft and high-end sofa, because it was her mother-in-law’s throne. As long as she didn’t go out, she would lie on the sofa all day watching TV, spitting out melon seed shells everywhere.
Qu Xianfen tried to lie down like her mother-in-law. Her body, which was always tired, felt so soft that even her bones were gone. Of course, it was impossible to achieve such a miraculous effect just from a sofa. The main reason was that for the first time in this home, she had a true sense of relaxation, because she was now wearing Pan Dawei’s skin. She could now rightfully enjoy all of the comforts in the house.
She closed her eyes and fell asleep unknowingly, only to be woken up by a loud noise at 7:30, and her mother-in-law’s loud voice coming from the guest room. “Qu Xianfen, Qu Xianfen, wake up, don’t pretend to be dead! You drove my son to sleep on the sofa, but you’re sound asleep in the guest room! It’s almost time for Kai Kai to go to school and you haven’t even made breakfast, get up!
“Wait, I’ll go get the broom! This bitch is itching for a lesson! How dare she skip making breakfast!” Her father-in-law came out of the toilet with his robe on.
Pan Kai ran out of the bedroom with messy hair and shouted, “Grandma, I’m hungry. Look at what time it is, do you want me to go to school hungry? If breakfast isn’t ready, then I won’t go to class today!” His expression brightened as he spoke, hoping the scene would become even noisier. He knew that doing so would expose his mother to even more severe scoldings and beatings, but he didn’t care. He could do anything so long as he could find a plausible reason to avoid school.
Qu Xianfen’s mind was in a daze. She could hear their words, but she couldn’t process the corresponding information until her father-in-law ran past the sofa with a broom. She suddenly snapped awake and whispered, “Don’t hit!”
Hearing her husband Pan Dawei’s voice, she immediately changed from whispering to shouting, running into the guest room and yelling, “Stop, don’t hit her!”
Her mother-in-law, who was holding the broom, froze, and her father-in-law, who was trying to lift his daughter-in-law’s quilt, also froze in place. Her son, Pan Kai, flinched and ran back into his bedroom with his head in his hands.
Qu Xianfen saw that she could frighten everyone after opening her mouth, and the feeling of guilt and shortness of breath disappeared immediately. She repeatedly told herself, “You are Pan Dawei, you are Pan Dawei,” causing her to become more confident. “Why are you beating her? Can’t you just let her have a good sleep? She and I have divorced and she is no longer your daughter-in-law. Why should she cook breakfast for you? Go cook your own noodles if you’re hungry.”
“Son, what’s wrong with you? Are you sick?” Her mother-in-law was the first to realize that something was wrong.
Qu Xianfen avoided her gaze and deliberately made something up, “I tried in the morning, but she won’t wake up no matter how I tried. She must be sick. Let her lie down, and if she doesn’t wake up by the time that I come back at night, I’ll send her to the hospital.”
“You really can’t wake her up?” her mother-in-law asked while pinching Qu Xianfen’s body fiercely, causing Qu Xianfen to grit her teeth. This old woman had always been vicious.
“Hey, I really can’t wake her up from pinching! Looks like she’s really sick.” Her mother-in-law knew she was heavy-handed, so she quickly believed it. Her father-in-law stared at Qu Xianfen’s body for a while, and then went out while muttering.
After sending the two away, Qu Xianfen secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then dug out Pan Dawei’s briefcase, car keys, wallet, cell phone, and so on, preparing to go to work. Of course, going to work was just for show, and her main purpose was to find the lawyer to modify the divorce agreement.
Before leaving, she pushed open the door to her son’s room and said seriously, “Kai Kai, you can buy breakfast on the way to school, but make sure to attend. You can’t skip class, okay?”
Pan Kai nodded obediently and said, “Yes, Dad, you go to work. Remember to buy some breakfast on the way so you aren’t hungry.”
Seeing her son being exceptionally sensible and obedient, Qu Xianfen felt an unprecedented amount of satisfaction in her heart. She left home with a smile on her face, and when she arrived at the office, she was still reminiscing over her son’s words of concern, a warmth she had never received before.
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Qu Xianfen was confused by the huge amount of information, but she didn’t dare to ask more questions, and could only let the lawyer leave.
Transfer the property? Ruoyu? Getting the property back? So she and her husband still had joint property, but it was all transferred away by her husband in advance, so she ended up penniless. But who was Ruoyu? Why did her husband transfer the property to the other party?
Qu Xianfen’s mind was a bit confused, and she couldn’t figure it out after a while. She could only use her husband’s body, but had no way to access his memory, so she knew nothing about the people and events around him. What should she do now? How could she find this Ruoyu, and get the property back?
Qu Xianfen took out her husband’s cell phone and carefully rummaged around, but she didn’t notice that Li Lan had quietly walked up to her desk.
“I heard from Lawyer Du that you want to re-divide the property?” She stared at the desk.
Qu Xianfen was so flustered that she almost threw away her cell phone, and fumbled to cover the divorce papers. Apart from Pan Dawei, the person who was most reluctant for her to share property was probably Li Lan. If the other found out her intentions, she would definitely make a fuss, but she didn’t have time to deal with the other party now. She had to find Ruo Yu first.
However, to Qu Xianfen’s surprise, instead of causing trouble, Li Lan smiled disdainfully and said, “Don’t hide them, I saw them a long time ago. Have you finally found your conscience? She has worked as hard as cattle for you for more than ten years, it’s really not right for you to not give her a penny. But let me tell you, I don’t care how much money you give her, but you can’t divide the shares that belong to me.”
“What shares?” Qu Xianfen asked instinctively.
Li Lan’s eyes shone with a fierce light, but it disappeared after a moment. She pulled her hair to the side and unzipped her dress, revealing a back covered in colorful tattoos, and said in a deep voice, “You haven’t forgotten who I got these injuries on my back for, have you? If I hadn’t accompanied that perverted old man and slept with him, getting that big order, you, Pan Dawei, would have gone bankrupt. You said that you would give me 10% of the shares as compensation. I have been with you for so many years without complaint, and where is my compensation? Have you ever given it to me? Now that you’ve expressed your conscience towards Qu Xianfen, what about your conscience towards me? I almost died at that time!”
Qu Xianfen stared straight at Li Lan’s back, unable to tear her gaze away from the thorns and roses. Under the cover of the bright colors, raised scars crisscrossed and intertwined, like poisonous snakes hidden among flowers and spitting venom. They represented an extremely tragic and ugly past, a shadow that Li Lan would never be able to erase. No wonder every time she met Li Lan on the road, her eyes would always show a crazy look. No wonder she would always send her fierce texts in the dead of night, telling her to get lost and scolding her for being so stupid.
At this moment, Qu Xianfen suddenly understood everything. Li Lan really pitied her. She wasn’t pretending, because she also had an unbearable past. In order to save Pan Dawei’s company, she made such a sacrifice, and she was almost abused to death? How did she survive in the end?
Qu Xianfen had always thought that her life was miserable, but now, facing Li Lan’s seemingly beautiful, but actually long-rotten □□, she finally understood that what she thought was suffering, in the eyes of others, was actually painless.
If suffering could be graded, then Qu Xianfen might not have even graduated from primary school! Doing housework was exhausting, being scolded was uncomfortable, and being beaten was painful, but what about being abused? What about being betrayed? What about being raped?
Qu Xianfen’s lips began to tremble violently, because she had no way to imagine what Li Lan had encountered. It was like another world to her, an extremely cruel world of adults! It was no wonder why when everyone else took her suffering for granted, Li Lan was able to tell how difficult it was for her. It was because she had felt the same thing, right?
Qu Xianfen hurriedly pushed away Li Lan and said in a trembling voice, “I haven’t forgotten. I will definitely make it up to you. I have something to do now, so you can go first.”
Li Lan silently zipped up her dress, stared at her, and then left with a sneer. Naturally, the discussion this time was fruitless, but Li Lan seemed to have gotten used to the feeling of being hung out to dry by Pan Dawei.
Qu Xianfen’s entire body didn’t feel well. She sat in the chair silently for a long time with a pale face, before picking up the phone in a daze and continuing to look for Ruoyu. After more than an hour, she put down the phone and sighed wearily. She thought that she might be a little too anxious and should relax and adjust her mindset, so she stood up and paced around the office. She realized that she was now Pan Dawei, and any decision Pan Dawei made was like a holy scripture to her in-laws!
“My piano! I have to get my piano back!” She slapped herself hard on the forehead, and then called her mother-in-law to ask where she had sold the piano.
Her mother-in-law stammered at first, but after being yelled at by Qu Xianfen, she said helplessly, “I don’t know, the piano was actually dragged away by Kai Kai.”
“What did you say?” Qu Xianfen almost couldn’t believe her ears.
“The piano was sold by Kai Kai. He crashed into someone else’s car, and didn’t have the money to pay for it.”
“Why didn’t you give him money if he didn’t have any to pay? Why did you sell my…sell Qu Xianfen’s piano?”
“Why should I give him money? I think Kai Kai did the right thing. He’s business-minded, and knows how to make use of garbage at such a young age, exactly like you! He truly got your genes!” Her mother-in-law’s praise left Qu Xianfen speechless for a moment. She was so angry that she didn’t know what to do, because the person who sold her most beloved piano turned out to be the son she cared about most. Was her grandma’s relic just a piece of garbage to him? What about his mother?
At this moment, Qu Xianfen suddenly felt very exhausted, so tired that she could barely stand up. She struggled for a long time before dialing her son’s phone number. A cheerful voice came from the other end, “Dad, do you need me for something?”
“Where did you sell your mother’s piano to?” Qu Xianfen asked hoarsely.
“Dad, you know?” Pan Kai didn’t feel nervous, because he knew that his father wouldn’t bother him over such a trivial matter. “I sold it to Bordeli Piano.”
“How much did you sell it for?” Qu Xianfen gritted her teeth.
“That piano was too broken, and wasn’t a famous brand, so it only sold for a little more than 20,000 yuan. Let me tell you now, I lost all that money to my classmates, and there isn’t a penny left!”
Qu Xianfen didn’t bother to listen to her son anymore. She couldn’t wait to pick up the car keys and rushed out. After spending more than an hour driving around the city, she finally found the piano store and purchased the piano for twice the original price. It had been wiped down inside and out, and after a simple maintenance and repair, it looked brand new.
Qu Xianfen stared blankly, her eyes moistening as she remembered her fond memories of the piano. When the staff asked her where to send the piano, she couldn’t think of anywhere else but the Pan family house. She knew it wasn’t safe there, but she didn’t have a separate place for herself. Why had she never considered this? Only now did she realize that she actually had many wonderful things that needed to be kept secret.
“Send it to Moon Bay Community first.” With no other choice, Qu Xianfen could only send the piano back.
The staff gently put down the piano and left. Qu Xianfen didn’t see her parents-in-law in the living room, so she wanted to go back to the guest room to check on her body first. She pushed the door open, only to see her father-in-law getting up from the bed while pulling up his pants. Although her own body was still lying down properly, her clothes had been unbuttoned.
“What are you doing?” Qu Xianfen forcefully resisted the dizziness and walked to the bedside, her hands shaking as she checked her body. Luckily, only her top was unbuttoned, and her underwear was still on, so her father-in-law hadn’t succeeded. However, this was only because she had suddenly come back on a whim. What if she hadn’t come back?
Qu Xianfen couldn’t help but think of the strange way her father-in-law gazed at her when no one was around, and finally understood something! She had walked into the grave of marriage just after stepping out of her ivory tower, so she didn’t have a comprehensive understanding of the cruelty of society and the ugliness of human nature. The hellish life she thought she was living was nothing compared to those who were struggling to make ends meet outside.
In fact, she hadn’t actually grown up yet, and from a psychological perspective, she was still essentially a child who was completely unable to be independent, and could only live by drawing on the happy memories of her childhood. But now, this child’s world was rapidly collapsing and being reconstructed by the ugly reality.
Without even thinking about it, she threw a punch at him and roared hoarsely, “What were you doing just now? Did you try to rape her? You wanted to rape your daughter-in-law?”
“What happened?” Her mother-in-law rushed in when she heard the noise, only to find the old man knocked down by her son and her daughter-in-law lying on the bed with disheveled clothes. She let out a shocked cry.
“You vixen! Get up, I’ll tear you apart!” Her mother-in-law rushed towards the woman on the bed like a fierce tiger.
Qu Xianfen kicked her, grabbing her by the hair and hissing, “Why do you want to hit her? She’s still unconscious, who can she seduce? Look at your husband and his poorly fastened belt. He undid it himself, no one forced him! He even wanted to screw his daughter-in-law, he’s simply a beast!”
Qu Xianfen was overwhelmed by anger and punched and kicked her parents-in-law. This was thanks to Pan Dawei’s strong body, and also thanks to the bizarre things that had happened to her today. The cruel lessons from adults taught Qu Xianfen what it meant to have no taboos, and the desire to fight back burned her reason like a blazing fire!
“You Pan family are a bunch of beasts! Beasts, beasts, beasts!” She kicked her in-laws so fiercely that she couldn’t hear their cries and pleas for mercy. She was crazy, driven crazy by more than ten years of hot and cold violence, driven crazy by her son’s betrayal and contempt, and also driven crazy by the cruel reality.
She was so crazy that after beating her own parents-in-law, she sat on the sofa and laughed. She remembered Mr. Fan’s words—Break away from your current perspective. If you look at your life from someone else’s perspective, you may find a completely different answer.
This was the answer she had found. Her life was a mess, as worthless as a chicken feather, but in fact, her life was not as painful as she had originally thought, nor was she desperate enough where she had to die.
“Dawei, Dawei, are you irritated by something?” Her mother-in-law couldn’t stand the beating, so she hid behind the door and asked in a trembling voice, while her father-in-law didn’t even dare to show his face.
Qu Xianfen ignored them both, and once again called her son. “Kai Kai, if I transferred all the property to your mother, would you go with her?” The final answer she was seeking might lie with her son.
“Are you crazy Dad? If she remarries with your money in the future, then won’t all of our old Pan family’s property be gone? She doesn’t understand shit, so why would you transfer it to her? Why wouldn’t you transfer it to me!” Pan Kai immediately became furious and tried hard to persuade him, “You only have one son, so you might as well transfer all the family property to me now. It’s the safest way. In the future, you can live with whoever you like, I don’t care.”
Qu Xianfen laughed softly, but her expression was very sad. “Kai Kai, why don’t you like her mother?”
“She’s ugly, she doesn’t know how to dress up, and she won’t let me play games. She usually refuses to give me pocket money, and she’s constantly nagging me, which is really annoying. Dad, you’re the best to me. You’ll always buy me whatever I want.” Pan Kai habitually turned on his flattering mode, stepping on his mother while praising his father, because once he did this, his father would be very happy.
Qu Xianfen struggled to say, “But it’s for your own good that she told you not to play games. You’ll be going to university in the future.”
“Dad, what happened to you today? You sound like that yellow-faced woman! Didn’t you say a long time ago that you would send me to study abroad? Have you changed your mind? Dad, you can’t do this…”
Qu Xianfen didn’t want to listen to the rest of his words anymore, so she hung up the buzzing cellphone and walked out the door. Her parents-in-law chased after her and shouted, “Dawei, you just said that you want to transfer the property to Qu Xianfen, are you joking? I’m telling you, if you really dare to do that, I’ll hang myself in front of the house!”
The only thing they got in response was the gust of wind in the hallway, as well as Qu Xianfen’s back that never looked back.
Mr. Fan said she only had one day. It was already past noon, but she had made zero progress on changing the divorce agreement. Changing her body didn’t mean changing her brain. She was still herself, the useless, stupid, and clumsy housewife Qu Xianfen, who couldn’t do anything right and didn’t know anything about laws. She couldn’t even find Ruoyu.
“Li Lan, I’m actually Qu Xianfen. Is there any way to take all of Pan Dawei’s money? I’m going to get a divorce and I need the money.” In the end, the only person she could turn to for help was the person she had always regarded as her enemy.
Li Lan looked at her in astonishment, and her eyes darted around several times before she asked, “How can you prove yourself?”
“She believed it, she actually believed it! Qu Xianfen suddenly fell to her knees, tears streaming down her face.
t/n: hey all, I mentioned before that I will be moving to 2 updates per week starting this month, and here we are! My schedule will tentatively be Monday and Friday, but the Friday update will definitely depend on my work schedule. I’ll try to keep you all updated in the server if I’m going to miss an update 🙂 Thank you all for joining me on Fan Jialuo’s journey!
Horrible…I hope she breaks away from this family of beasts
I’m so happy for the double update!! Also, I look forward to the freedom of these two women, I can see them becoming friends and helping each other 💪🏻💪🏻
Thanks for the chapter!!!
Thank you!!!
Yes! I hope the two of them take this guy to the cleaners and that family gets a ride on the karma bus!