Chapter 445: Shall We Tidy Up Together?

Before the aunt-in-law could even process what was happening, the beautiful woman rushed forward and grabbed her by the hair.

"You slut! How dare you show your face and try to seduce my husband? You’re absolutely disgusting! Don’t you know who I am? You dare cheat with my husband? Everyone, get her! Beat her to death!"

As she spoke, the room door was thrown open, and the group shoved the aunt-in-law and her husband into the room.

The pair were thrown to the floor. The husband stared at them in disbelief.

"How could you... again... What in the world is going on?"

"What’s going on? You have the nerve to ask me that?"

The man in sunglasses kicked the husband in the shoulder.

"First, you hit on my wife. Now, your wife is seducing my brother-in-law. You two are really something, aren’t you? Are you that desperate? Can’t you satisfy each other at home? You have to come out and ruin other people’s lives? You’re courting death!"

’What? That’s his brother-in-law?’

The husband thought it couldn’t be such a coincidence. He and his wife must have been framed at the same time.

But what could be done? As the saying goes, flies are only drawn to cracked eggs.

He could only grit his teeth and slap his wife across the face.

"You bitch! Look what you’ve done!"

The aunt-in-law took the slap without daring to retaliate. She looked pitifully at her husband, then turned to the other man.

"There’s nothing going on between us! Say something! I... I..."

The man, of course, wasn’t going to speak up for her. He walked over and took the beautiful woman’s hand.

"Honey, since you’ve seen everything, there’s nothing for me to explain. It was all her! She seduced me! This fat hag... I bumped into her with my car yesterday, and I was nice enough to take her to the hospital. But she must have put something in my drink, and the next thing I knew, I was here in a daze. With a wife as gorgeous as you, how could I ever be interested in *her*? I was framed! Honey, she’s a wicked woman. Teach her a lesson! Go on, teach her a lesson!"

In the ensuing chaos, the aunt-in-law’s clothes were ripped to shreds while the woman filmed her with a phone.

"Your daughter is married, and your son is in his twenties, yet you’re still out here doing such disgraceful things. Tell me, what do you think they would say if I sent them a video of you right now?"

"Don’t!"

The aunt-in-law was, after all, an older woman from a rural area, and her mindset was quite traditional.

She couldn’t bear the thought of her daughter, son-in-law, and son seeing her in this state.

"Please, don’t tell them! I was wrong, okay? I admit I was wrong! I shouldn’t have tried to seduce your husband. I truly know I was wrong. Please, spare me. I’ll never do it again!"

"Spare you just because you say so? If I hadn’t shown up today, who would have faced the consequences? You’ve caused me such a huge humiliation, and you think a simple ’I was wrong’ is enough to settle things? What do you take me for?"

Hearing the beautiful woman’s words, the husband’s heart sank. ’It’s over,’ he thought. ’This is exactly what the guy in the sunglasses said. We’re going to be blackmailed again.’

Sure enough, after she finished speaking, the beautiful woman offered a solution.

"It’s not impossible for me to forgive you. I’ll give you two options. You choose. One, compensate me for my emotional distress. Transfer one million into this account, then get out of Veridia and never set foot in this city again. Two, you admit to putting illegal substances in my husband’s drink. I found the evidence right here in your bag. Go turn yourself in, and maybe you’ll get a lenient sentence."

The aunt-in-law didn’t even know the names of those drugs. It was clear she was being framed, but there was nothing she could do.

"Ma’am..."

"Who are you calling ’ma’am’?"

The aunt-in-law quickly corrected herself. "Miss. Miss! I can’t confess. I don’t even know what those drugs are! I... Please, have a heart. I really know I was wrong. Can I kowtow to you? I don’t have that much money. Both of your options are a death sentence..."

"No money? And you don’t want to confess? You expect me to just let you go? In your dreams."

The beautiful woman laughed in exasperation.

"Fine. If you don’t want to choose either of those, I’ll give you a third option. Call your son, your daughter, and your son-in-law over here. You can kowtow to me ten times, right in front of them..."

This was just as unacceptable to the aunt-in-law. She opened her mouth to plead again, but the woman cut her off viciously.

"Say one more useless word and the price goes up to two million! Your husband just got a taste of how hard my brother’s fists are. You want a taste, too?"

The aunt-in-law had no choice but to transfer all of her savings to the woman.

She and her husband held on to the fantasy of calling the police the moment they got out of that room.

But the woman was clever. As soon as the money was transferred, she ordered the couple to take the group back to their home to pack their things, buy tickets for that night, and get out of Veridia.

"I’ll be watching you go. Don’t even think about pulling any funny business..."

Surrounded by more than a dozen menacing people, the aunt-in-law and her husband didn’t dare to resist. They could only accompany the group back to their home.

The group confiscated their phones and stood guard at the door. The couple made a show of packing some clothes before being escorted to the train station.

The man in the sunglasses and the beautiful woman gave them one last warning.

"This is as far as we go. We mean what we say. Don’t ever come back here again, or we’ll break your goddamn legs! Now, get lost!"

With that, they and their entourage left.

The couple exchanged a look. There was no time for blaming each other. They immediately pulled out their phones to call the police.

There was no way they were leaving Veridia. Not only were they staying, but they were also getting their money back.

But to their surprise, the moment they took out their phones, several police officers headed straight for them.

"We’ve received a public tip that you’re carrying illegal substances in your bags. Please submit to a routine inspection."

After a search, the amount of contraband in their bags was found to be over the legal limit. The two were hauled away, shouting that they had been framed.

Amina and Faye Fisher watched from a distance as the couple was loaded into a police car. Amina looked a little worried.

"Will this cause problems? The hotel has security cameras, and the transfer leaves a record. Won’t it be easy for them to trace it back to you? What happens if you get caught?"

Faye Fisher replied calmly, "Do you know who owns that hotel? Do you think I would have picked it if I didn’t have connections? Don’t worry, there won’t be any trouble. As for the transfer record, the card is linked to an offshore account. It can’t be traced here. And now, that money is yours."

Amina was so shocked her jaw nearly hit the floor.

"No, no, I can’t take this! I can’t accept it!"

Faye Fisher said, "I’m not telling you to go on a shopping spree. Use it to pay for your grandmother’s medical bills. Get her a full checkup, from head to toe, and treat any problems they find. Just consider it a gift from them to your grandmother out of filial piety. There’s nothing to feel bad about. They certainly didn’t feel bad when they were harming you. If you go soft on them now, I’ll look down on you for the rest of my life!"

After saying her piece, Faye Fisher drove Amina to the hospital.

Amina was completely in awe of her.

"Miss Fisher, you’re incredible. You’re the most amazing woman I’ve ever met in my entire life."

Hearing her praise, Faye Fisher didn’t know whether to feel happy or sad.

’I’m good at coming up with plans for other people, but when it comes to my own life, aren’t I just as much of a mess?’

Faye Fisher didn’t answer, asking Amina instead.

"Yesterday, when your uncle-in-law was harassing you at the gate of your residential complex, he said ’that guy’ doesn’t want you anymore. Who was he talking about? Your ex-boyfriend? Why doesn’t he want you? Did he cheat on you? That scumbag. How dare he do you wrong when you’re such a wonderful person? Want me to take care of him for you, too?"