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Rebirth of the Evil Mother-In-Law

This is my personal edit of the original Novel! Made of several translations, grammatical edits and dialogue change. I live in the USA so my understanding/sharing of pop culture terms come directly from translators After dying alone in a mental institution, Fang JunRong discovered that she was the evil mother-in-law in a prominent family-doting novel. Her daughter-in-law was the female lead who was loved by all. In the novel, the female lead was kind and nice, and the male lead loved her so much that he’d die for her in a heartbeat. Her future father-in-law doted on her and treated her better than his own daughter. Fang JunRong, the evil mother-in-law, was the only one who didn’t care for her. She had gotten the evil character’s script and wanted to set the female lead up every chance that she got and finally landed herself in the mental institution. After she was rebirthed and facing her son who wanted her blessings, Fang JunRong tore up the script. Whoever wanted the role of the evil mother-in-law could have it! She was going to get a divorce and take half of the money, then she’d figure out where she wanted to go from there!

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18 Chs

Broken Glass

Li WangJin came to Fang RunRong soon after she returned to her room; when she opened the door, Li WangJin casually walked in. She could smell the subtle hint of perfume and figured he must have already met up with Jiang YaGe's aunt, Wang SiXian. After all, she was the one who had planned it.

The truth was she didn't even need to do much. All she needed to do was to have someone mention two things in front of Wang SiXian -- "Li WangJin's white moonlight was Wang SiEr'' and "Li WangJin's relationship with his wife had gotten worse."

Had she not asked for it, He Ming wouldn't have brought up Wang SiXian randomly.

As for Wang SiXian herself, she was going through a rough patch overseas. Once she heard of this life-saving straw, there was no way she'd let it slip by. After all, didn't she use her looks and pretend to be infatuated with Li WangJin in her previous life?

Fang JunRong suppressed her feeling of disgust and asked in a calm tone, "What is it?"

Li WangJin quickly put on a gentle smile. "How much money do we have on the books that we can spend right now?"

"Oh, probably ¥7B ~ ¥8B," said Fang JunRong. There would have been more, but she had been purchasing gold and jewelry lately.

Li WangJin frowned; that was less than he had expected. He thought there would be at least ¥10B.

"You wanted to buy more antiques and paintings? Haven't you bought a lot this year already? They must add up to tens of billions by now," said Fang JunRong.

Li WangJin's heart dropped a little. He didn't think Fang JunRong would pay attention to that. But he recovered quickly and said, "Most of my collection were those by Xu FangWeng. His artwork's value has only been going up internationally as of late. It's really a kind of investment. When we sell them later, we'll make more than we'd otherwise on the stock market.

He said it so righteously, as though he was making money for their family.

"You have heard of 'Snow by the River" by Xu FangWeng, right? I have already gotten hold of the original buyer. He needs cash for his family business and intends to sell it. He has a few other paintings that he was interested in parting with, they add up to about ¥1.5B. It's no small amount, so I wanted to talk to you first."

If it was millions of yuan he wouldn't bother talking to her about it, but this was a hefty sum. He'd need her approval first.

Fang JunRong wanted to laugh out loud. She looked down and said, "You know, we can't just spend all our cash. We should save some for future investments, like if we want to bid for land."

"I know." Li WangJin had it all thought out before he approached Fang JunRong. "I figured that our company has its investments in the stock market. We can sell some of the stocks owned by the company for cash. Then we only need to pad it with cash from the company."

Of course, Fang JunRong thought that was a great idea. If they don't sell those stocks they'd have to split them 50/50 during their divorce. If they sell them now, the money would end up hers. It's a win-win for her. As much as she loved the idea, she put on a frown and a concerned look.

"That's a lot of risk. I don't think we should do that." She shook her head and looked very determined.

Li WangJin continued to try and convince her and brought up every point that he could think of. Finally, he promised he'd take out an additional ¥500 million to buy some properties before Fang JunRong "reluctantly" agreed.

When Fang JunRong finally nodded, Li WangJin was exhausted. He would only comfort himself by thinking that even though his wife got ¥500 million, he'd have made ¥1.5B. Any way one looked at it; he was the one who came out ahead.

He didn't want to drag it out in case Fang JunRong changed her mind and went to arrange for a transaction as soon as he had obtained approval.

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The transferring of the stocks involves a few steps and takes time. Plus, since the Li's wanted to sell quite a few, most in the circle had caught wind of it. In addition, Fang JunRong had no intention of keeping this a secret for Li WangJin. It didn't take long for many to find out that Li WangJin had gone insane over Xu FangWeng's work and was selling quite a few of their money-making stocks.

In front of him, they praised that he had good taste and money wasn't an object to him. But inevitably, they would mock him behind his back. Every plutocrat has a few hobbies, and naturally, some of them cost more money than others. But none of them would spend the kind of money like Li WangJin did.

Of course, many also felt that Fang JunRong had been way too nice to Li WangJin for putting up with that type of spending habits. If it were them, they'd at least try to stop him. As such, Fang JunRong had also become the image of an amazing Chinese wife in many people's eyes.

A few of Fang JunRong's close friends even called her up and reminded her that she must keep some control of the money at home and not let just her man spend it however he wanted.

To which Fang JunRong would always reply with a tolerating "oh, whatever makes him happy" to further make herself stand out. Of course, she did all of these things on purpose. Once they get a divorce, Li WangJin would not be able to even dream about having the public opinion on his side like before.

Li WangJin had no idea that Fang JunRong was setting him up subtly. He sold a portion of their stocks and was quite happy after he had the money in hand. He transferred ¥1.5B to He Ming. Now, all he needed to do was to wait for He Ming to transfer it back to him.

Even though he had already worked with He Ming for many years, he still didn't trust him 100%. He had a few of his men watching over He Ming. He hadn't expected that all of the hired men would return with bruises on their faces and looking anxious.

Li WangJin had a bad feeling. "What's happened?"

"He Ming is gone!"

Li WangJin's blood roiled and his knees went weak. He took a deep breath, his veins were visible on his forehead. "What good are you all? There are so many of you. How did he run away by himself?"

The hired men felt very unjust. "He Ming got himself a bunch of accomplices. They beat us up, and he was already gone by the time we regained consciousness."

Li WangJin was about to have a heart attack when he thought about his ¥1.5B. His finger pointing at the hired men shook violently, and he finally made out some words after a long while. "Go look for him! Keep looking! Even if you have to dig 3 feet down, you will find him!"

If he didn't still need them to do his dirty work for him, Li WangJin would have beat up all these useless losers himself.

He was so angry that his eyes were about to turn red thinking about He Ming who had gotten away with such a large amount of money. As rich as the Li's were, with a net worth of tens of billions, most of their assets were in real estate. Losing that much cash at once made his heart arched indescribably.

He tried hard to calm himself down. Right now, the top priority is to find He Ming and get the money back. He was a little baffled. Did He Ming decide to give up on his son? He knew that He Ming had some health issues when he was young. The son that he has in custody was no doubt He Ming's only child. Li WangJin had hid him well and He Ming hadn't seen him in person. At most, he could see his son on video chat.

He felt unsettled the entire time before another possibility occurred to him. He fished out his cell phone nervously and made a call.

Five minutes later, after he had hung up, he was so angry that he smashed his phone.

Sure enough. He Ming's son was gone too: someone had taken him.

Someone was helping out He Ming!

He was angry but also anxious at the same time. Who did this? They not only knew about He Ming; they also knew where He Ming's son was. Li WangJin had always been careful. Only three of his most trusted men knew about this.

Could one of the three men have betrayed him? Once that idea had formed, he couldn't shake it off. He tried hard to recall the behaviors of all three of them recently to see if he could think of anything. The more he thought about it, the more he felt it could be any of the three. One or more of them might be in cahoots with He Ming. He could be surrounded by danger. Frigid sweat began to drip down his back.

Li WangJin, in a foul mood, wanted to go somewhere to relax. But he had just smashed his cell phone, the screen was in pieces and inoperable. He couldn't even call in advance to visit one of his usual clubs nor was he in the habit of having multiple cell phones.

Li WangJin, who was running into issues in every direction, finally retrieved the SIM card from the now-destroyed cell phone and had his chauffeur take him to Wang SiXian's place.

He borrowed his chauffeur's phone on his way and inserted his SIM card inside. He called Wang SiXian on that phone and asked her out to dinner. Hearing Wang SiXian's gentle voice from the other end made him feel better.

After years of a very peaceful life, the sudden appearance of Wang SiXian made him feel like he had rediscovered some of his youthful passion.

After he had chatted with her for a little bit and hung up the phone, Li WangJin saw a text. The name of the sender made his face drop.

The text came from He Ming.

How did he have the balls to send him a message?!

Li WangJin was so angry that his chest was heaving up and down. He quickly clicked open the text message, and his blood boiled anew.

He Ming was blackmailing him for another ¥2B. Otherwise, he'd exposed everything that they had done together in the past. He had been keeping all the emails between them over the years and had recordings of some of their conversations.

Li WangJin was so angry that he smashed the cell phone again.

Editing is hard, cheer me up!

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