Chapter 43: Hit Me? Counterattack!

Chapter 43: Hit Me? Counterattack!

As Su An entered the residential compound of the steel factory, those who noticed her in the distance began to point and whisper.

"Look, it's her. She's the newly married wife of Zhao Daxing."

"Oh, it's her. She looks quite sweet. Too bad she's unfortunate enough to marry into such a family. You know, marriage is a second chance at life for a woman. Isn't this ruining her whole life?"

"The Zhao family, tsk tsk, I really can't bear to say it..."

"Look at what you're saying. We don't really know what's going on. Haven't you heard what Aunt Xiao said? She claims this vicious and ruthless crazy daughter-in-law framed them."

"Whether she framed them or not, we don't know. But when a woman agrees to marry into your family, she's definitely hoping to live a good life with you, right?"

"How many girls would marry into a family just to cause trouble? I won't mention the previous one, and now here's another one... really a troublemaker."

"Don’t feel sorry for her. Trust me, she’s no pushover. The Zhao family is seriously messed up. We should stay far away from them."

Su An ignored the whispers and walked towards the Zhao family house with her head down and her backpack slung over her shoulder.

At this moment, the Zhao family's house was quiet. The sky had already darkened, and no lights were on inside the house.

Xiao Jiliang sat in the living room, her face deathly pale, while Zhao Daxing sat on the balcony smoking, a floor full of cigarette butts beneath him.

The children were nowhere to be seen, probably having hidden away.

As soon as Su An entered, she thought she saw a ghost when she saw Xiao Jiliang with her disheveled hair sitting on the couch.

"Oh wow, ahhhh!"

"Damn it, no lights on, not a sound, I thought I saw a ghost. Scary! Creepy!"

Su An clutched her chest and scolded Xiao Jiliang.

Xiao Jiliang seemed not to hear and sat still without moving.

After a long while, she slowly raised her head and glared at Su An with a vicious look, "You still dared to come back..."

"Are you sick? Playing ghosts and scaring people, I'm already married into the Zhao family. If I'm alive, I'm a Zhao family member; if I'm dead, I'm a Zhao family corpse. If I don't come back, where else can I go?"

Su An muttered as she turned to head towards her room, but as she turned her head, her pupils suddenly widened.

A heavy wooden bench came flying at her head from mid-air.

Feeling a chill down her spine, Su An instinctively tilted her head to the side. Bang! The bench smashed heavily onto the floor next to her, making a loud thud.

Before Su An could recover, Zhao Daxing, eyes blazing with fury, swung the bench once more.

Seeing this, Xiao Jiliang shot up from the couch and grabbed Su An, pinning her arms tightly against her chest.

"Daxing, hit her on the head, kill her, worthless tramp!"

A cruel look appeared in Zhao Daxing's eyes, and he swung the bench towards Su An's head.

Su An bucked her hips back and bent forward, shoving Xiao Jiliang into the path of the flying bench.

Bang!

Xiao Jiliang didn’t even have time to scream before her grip slackened, and she crumpled to the floor.

Although the room was dark, Zhao Daxing realized he had hit the wrong person. The stool in his hand fell to the ground, and he dropped to his knees in front of Xiao Jiliang.

"Mom, mom, are you okay?"

"Mom, don't scare me. Why didn't you dodge?"

Su An gasped for breath, her eyes frantically scanning the room. Soon, she thought of something and ran toward the kitchen. She grabbed a hammer from the corner and rushed back out.

Damn it, how dare he keep trying to hurt me like this.

Does he think I'm still that weak Su An from before, the one he could slap around at will, chop off her pinky finger, break her ribs, crack her orbital bone, and stitch up her back, arms, and thighs?

Su An, unable to control her thoughts and losing her rationality, swung the hammer toward Zhao Daxing's chin without hesitation.

Thud~

The hammer struck flesh with a dull thud, and Zhao Daxing's screams filled the room.

Su An swung the hammer again and again, hitting him on the back, waist, face, shoulders, and calves...

"You bastard, how dare you hit me, your wife? Just look at those bones of yours. Let's see how many hammer blows they can take."

"A petty boss who climbed the ranks by sucking up, and yet you dare lecture me about right and wrong every day. This is right, that is right. Should I ask your mother if it's right? Do you even deserve it?"

Su An's eyes were filled with hate and rage. She wanted to kill this beast.

Zhao Daxing, dodging the incoming hammer with great difficulty, screamed more and more horribly. Eventually, his screams startled Xiao Jiliang, who was half-unconscious on the ground, causing her to get up.

"Ahhhhh, Su An, you're crazy! Murder! Murder! Ahhh, let go, let go."

"Waaa, someone help! Quick, someone help! Save me~"

Seeing Xiao Jiliang grab a stool to stop her, Su An swung the hammer toward her fingers.

"Save yourself! Do you see anyone coming to save your life? Do you really think you're the Empress Dowager? Should we kneel down and wash your feet, maybe bow three times and kowtow nine times? Acting like you're Empress Dowager Cixi in front of me, like you're some kind of royalty."

She let out a blood-curdling scream.

The hammer hit Xiao Jiliang's fingers holding the stool, causing her intense pain. She screamed and dropped the stool with a loud bang.

Seeing Su An charging toward her with the hammer and a murderous look in her eyes, Xiao Jiliang, in a panic, turned and fled for her life, not even caring about her beloved son.

"Ahhhhh, help, help me~"

As soon as she ran out, she bumped into the neighbors who had come running after hearing the commotion.

"Su An's lost it! Su An's lost it! Murder! Murder!"

The chaos ended with Su An and Xiao Jiliang taken to the police station, and Zhao Daxing rushed to the hospital.

In the police mediation room.

Before the police officer could say anything, Su An admitted her mistake first.

"Officer, I'm really sorry for causing all this trouble. It's just my mother-in-law overreacting. This is just a husband and wife quarrel. Every family has them. Why do we always have to involve you?"

The police officer, recalling Zhao Daxing being carried out, sternly condemned Su An.

"Comrade Su, you were too harsh. This kind of harm to another person is illegal. Can't you communicate properly as a couple? Why did it have to come to this violence? Do you understand that this is a violent assault?"

Su An shook her head quickly. "No, no, Officer. This was a family dispute, a mutual fight between husband and wife. You only see me hitting him, but you didn't see him hitting me."

Saying this, Su An placed one hand on her chest and the other on her stomach. Of course, there was no way for the other party to check if those areas were really injured.

"I'm also seriously injured. You wouldn't understand. This is what they call 'love and hate go hand in hand.'"