Chapter 1569: Courtyard Life (21)

Chapter 1569: Chapter 1569: Courtyard Life (21)

The sudden sound of the door slamming scared Sister-in-law Tang, who was already afraid, half to death. She shrank back behind the door, not daring to take another step forward.

But Tang Jun didn’t care in the slightest when he saw her. He grabbed her hard and yanked her over, then threw her onto the sofa. He stared at her with icy eyes and said, "Didn’t expect it—you’ve actually got some schemes. Cry, go on crying, cry louder. Maybe someone will come save you from your miserable life."

Hearing this, Sister-in-law Tang knew her little plan had fallen through. She had thought those neighbors would at least try to talk some sense into Tang Jun, maybe even take her back to their place, but she hadn’t expected that with just a few words Tang Jun would send them all away.

This realization made her both uneasy and furious inside. She felt those neighbors were cold and heartless—she’d been beaten like this, and not one person spoke up for her.

At this moment, Sister-in-law Tang didn’t think at all that she’d brought it all on herself. In the beginning, when she first moved in, the neighbors next door were quite friendly, often chatting with her. Later, because she was domineering and unreasonable, and liked to take other people’s things, everyone gradually distanced themselves from her.

So when they saw her getting beaten today, quite a few people felt secretly pleased. How could they really help her?

Sister-in-law Tang couldn’t figure it out, but Tang Jun could. So he wasn’t worried at all that the neighbors would meddle in their business. As long as they weren’t disturbed, no one would say an extra word.

"You... what are you going to do?" Sister-in-law Tang looked at Tang Jun’s icy gaze fixed on her and felt terrified inside. The reason she was able to throw her weight around here was all because she was leaning on Tang Jun’s power.

Once Tang Jun stopped backing her, her days would be hard from then on. So all along, toward Tang Jun she had been gentle and meek. No matter how overbearing and aggressive she was outside, once she came home she turned into a gentle, harmless little lamb.

It was precisely because of this that Tang Jun had always turned a blind eye to what she did, pretending not to know. But today she never should have, of all people, gone and provoked Jiang Xue. Even more, she shouldn’t have gone to the political commissar to lodge a complaint.

By complaining like that, she not only failed to cause Jiang Xue any loss, she made things hard for him in the unit from now on—especially with the leaders, he was now on their radar, and it would affect his future promotions and everything else.

"What am I going to do?" Tang Jun let out a cold laugh, then swung his fist and slammed it into Sister-in-law Tang, saying cruelly and mercilessly, "Obviously, I’m going to beat you up!"

"Ah!" Sister-in-law Tang screamed. But Tang Jun looked at her and said, "Try shouting one more time, and see if I don’t beat you to death."

At those words, Sister-in-law Tang was terrified. She clamped her lips shut, not daring to let another sound escape. She knew how much Tang Jun cared about saving face.

She knew even better how ruthless his heart was. She could swear that if she really cried out, he really would beat her to death.

To save her own life, Sister-in-law Tang could only grit her teeth and endure, biting her lips while letting Tang Jun hit her. The naughty child at the side watched his father beat his mother and not only didn’t step in to stop him, but even said, "Good, she deserves a beating!"

Hearing his son cheering on the side, Tang Jun hit with even more enthusiasm. And Sister-in-law Tang kept enduring, biting her own lips until they were torn and bleeding, yet seeming not to feel a thing.

Tang Jun didn’t know how long he kept beating her. Only when he was tired did he finally stop, then, without sparing Sister-in-law Tang a single glance, he went into the kitchen to cook himself a meal.