Chapter 1675 - 1670: An Eye for an Eye

The gangsters, wanting to save their own skins, threw Mrs. Jin aside and bolted.

Mrs. Jin also wanted to run, but right now, it was just her and Mu Shuangshuang.

Mu Shuangshuang still had a weapon in her hand. She sneered and stepped toward Mrs. Jin, closing in on her bit by bit.

Mrs. Jin was so scared her face went pale. She pointed at Mu Shuangshuang and said, "You... don’t do anything stupid, I... I’m warning you, you kill someone, you pay with your life. If you kill me, you won’t end up any better!"

When Mrs. Jin said this, it was obvious she was guilty and shaken.

She was afraid of Mu Shuangshuang.

"Heh, you think I’m scared of ’kill and pay with your life’? My dear aunt?"

Mu Shuangshuang spoke as she pressed in closer toward Mrs. Jin.

Mrs. Jin kept retreating. Out of the corner of her eye, she caught sight of the entrance of the alley behind her.

She’d been thinking that if she just pushed herself a bit more, she’d be able to escape.

Just then, Mu Shuangshuang made her move.

The long strip of cloth in her hand lashed out, as if it were alive, winding around Mrs. Jin’s neck.

Mu Shuangshuang gave a hard yank, and Mrs. Jin was dragged straight back into the alley, then slammed down onto the ground.

The way she looked at Mu Shuangshuang was now filled with even more terror.

"You... you..." Mrs. Jin panted heavily, unable to get a complete sentence out of her mouth.

"Aunt, you know how to be scared too? When you were just trying to take my life, how come you weren’t scared then?" Mu Shuangshuang squatted down. Her slender hand clamped around Mrs. Jin’s throat.

Even without tightening her grip, having her neck seized was enough to terrify Mrs. Jin.

"Shuangshuang, don’t do this, let’s... let’s talk it out! You still call me Aunt, that means you admit we’re still relatives. If we’re relatives, then you can’t... you can’t kill me! Is it money you want? I’ll give you money, I’ll give you..."

As she spoke, Mrs. Jin started fumbling over herself to find money.

But Mu Shuangshuang caught her wrist in a firm grip.

"Aunt, tell me, how much is your life worth? If you had to pay for it in cash!"

"I..."

Right now, Mrs. Jin regretted things to death.

Why had she come looking to trouble this damn girl?

Or why hadn’t she found a few reliable people?

Now the girl hadn’t been killed; instead, she herself had been caught!

"Smack—" Mu Shuangshuang suddenly stretched out her hand and slapped Mrs. Jin hard across the face.

That single slap left Mrs. Jin dazed.

The look she gave Mu Shuangshuang was now even more filled with fear.

"Shuangshuang, I was wrong, I know I was wrong!" Mrs. Jin’s voice trembled as she spoke.

"Aunt, I still remember how arrogant you were in front of me just now! The vicious look on your face when you had those thugs going for my life, and that venomous expression that couldn’t wait for me to die. After you’ve treated me like that, why should I leave you a life?"

I’ve decided. I’m going to chop you into pieces and feed you to the dogs, so even in death you won’t rest in peace!" Mu Shuangshuang said.

"No, you can’t, you can’t do that, kill... killing must be paid with a life!"

"Aunt, you’ve already forgotten? When you were just now screaming for my death, you sure weren’t thinking about ’kill and pay with your life’!" Mu Shuangshuang said.

"I..." Mrs. Jin was speechless.

"So where should I start chopping?" Mu Shuangshuang asked.

"How about the hand? Second Aunt’s hands are pretty, the dogs would definitely like them!"

"No..."

"Not the hands? Then the feet’ll do. Aunt’s feet aren’t bad either!" As Mu Shuangshuang spoke, her hand lightly slid along Mrs. Jin’s leg, measuring the length.

Mrs. Jin’s face grew even more ghastly.

"No..."

"Feet won’t do either? Then let’s go with the head! Aunt may be old, but that skin is well maintained. I’m sure the wild dogs will like it. They might even crack open your skull and eat your..."

Before Mu Shuangshuang finished, Mrs. Jin went crazy, clutching her ears and screaming.

"No, don’t kill me, don’t..."

Mu Shuangshuang shoved her against the alley wall. Mrs. Jin’s back slammed into the bricks, the pain bringing tears to her eyes.

"If you’re scared, then stop harming me! Jinyin’er, you can’t afford to mess with our third branch, and you shouldn’t! You can’t keep an eye on your own man, so you mope around like a bitter wife, scheming against others everywhere!

I’m telling you, even if I don’t kill you, I can sell you off to a brothel anytime. However you treated Xiaxia, I’ll treat you the same!

Make you hang a sign and receive clients. I’ll go inform all Mu Dade’s colleagues so they know Mu Dade has a wife who hangs a sign in a brothel!

I’ll let Mu Dandan and Mu Yingying’s maiden families know exactly what kind of thing their mother is!"

Mu Shuangshuang lifted an eyebrow; her whole person looked vicious to the extreme!

She’d put up with this woman long enough.

Coming over time and again to provoke them, time and again blocking every path for the third branch, even setting her sights on Xiao Han and Little Zhi.

If she didn’t thoroughly fix this woman, she wouldn’t be able to live with all the scorn and humiliation she’d swallowed in the Old Mu Family!

Mrs. Jin was so terrified by Mu Shuangshuang that she broke down bawling.

Every single point Mu Shuangshuang mentioned was one of her deepest fears.

She was afraid Mu Dade’s colleagues would find out that she’d already been cast off by Mu Dade.

She was afraid of ending up in a brothel.

She was afraid Mu Shuangshuang would ruin the marriage prospects of her two daughters.

This woman was ruthless; this woman was capable of anything.

She didn’t dare anymore; she really didn’t dare!

Woo woo woo—

Mrs. Jin cried her heart out, but Mu Shuangshuang felt no sympathy at all.

Mrs. Jin’s retribution hadn’t even arrived yet!

Right now her crying was nothing more than a little dessert before the main course!

"Jinyin’er, you know what kind of temper I, Mu Shuangshuang, have! If people don’t offend me, I don’t offend them; if people offend me, I’ll pay them back tenfold!

If I ever find out again that you harbor even the slightest crooked thought toward anyone in our third branch, if I can’t get at you, then I’ll kill Mu Dade, and kill Mu Dandan and Mu Yingying!

I’ll make you spend the rest of your life alone and widowed, living worse than a dog!"

When she finished, she gave Mrs. Jin a heavy kick.

After kicking Mrs. Jin to the ground, she picked up the new clothes she’d set down earlier and left.

Leaving Mrs. Jin alone, screaming in terror where she lay.

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Mu Shuangshuang didn’t go back to her own house, but went straight to Mu Dade’s place.

When she arrived, Mu Dade wasn’t there; instead, Mr. Mu came out enthusiastically to greet her.

He told Mrs. Lin to prepare tea, and had snacks brought out for her to eat.

Mu Shuangshuang didn’t touch any of it. She only said to Mr. Mu, "My eldest uncle is still in contact with Mrs. Jin!"

"What? Wasn’t Mrs. Jin divorced?" Mr. Mu was stunned.

Mrs. Lin, off to the side, heard this and hurried over.

"Shuangshuang, what did you say? That shrew Mrs. Jin is still in contact with my big brother? Did they find a house outside somewhere? A golden... something?"

Mrs. Lin had been in the county for a while and would sometimes go to nearby teahouses to listen to storytellers.

She’d learned a few things.

"Keeping a beauty hidden in a golden house" was the story she’d heard the most.

So the moment Mu Shuangshuang mentioned Mrs. Jin, Mrs. Lin thought of that phrase.

It’s just that her memory wasn’t great, so what came out of her mouth sounded all wrong.

"A golden house to hide a beauty?" Mu Shuangshuang asked.

"Yes, that one!"