Chapter 68: Get Out of My House-Depois de renascer, recusei-me a assumir o fardo, e a família da minha esposa enlouqueceu.(Estufar-se em uma panela de ferro.)

Liu Hongliang stiffened his neck and unreasonably retorted, "Hmph, since you're married to Ruyan, this is joint marital property, and this house belongs to the Liu family! Don't even think about taking it away so easily!"

Zhao Qiang sneered, "You people are simply being utterly unreasonable! Liu Ruyan did something so shameless and morally corrupt, yet not only are you unrepentant, but you also have the nerve to brazenly occupy my house? This divorce is happening today, and you can forget about holding onto even half an inch of this property!"

Hearing this, Li Fengying sprang forward like a lunatic, akimbo, and shrieked, "Divorce? Fine! But you'll have to pay the Liu family a hefty compensation, otherwise don't even dream about getting a divorce! Liu Ruyan gave birth to two children for you; even if she has no remarkable achievements, she has certainly put in hard labor!"

Zhao Qiang laughed out of sheer anger, his voice dripping with mockery: "Compensation? In your dreams! The one who did wrong is Liu Ruyan, so you are the ones who should pay compensation! The Liu family can just wait to be sued!"

"I've already filed for the divorce papers. I'm not the one who cheated, so what do I have to be afraid of?"

Truly shameless, and they still have the gall to bring up the children. None of them were even his, yet they expect him to raise children that aren't his own.

Liu Hongliang stomped his feet in fury and threatened loudly, "Zhao Qiang, don't toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit! If you dare to push things to the absolute limit, watch out, because your life won't be easy either!"

Zhao Qiang smiled faintly, took a step forward, stared straight into Liu Hongliang's eyes, and barked, "Have any decency left? After pulling such a disgraceful stunt, you still have the face to talk?"

"Let me make it clear to you right here, Zhao Qiang: I am taking this house, and this divorce is happening. None of you can stop it!"

He hadn't come here today to negotiate with Liu Ruyan; he was here to inform her. Negotiate what? Things had already blown up, so they might as well have a clean and total fallout.

"Liu Ruyan, I knew you were thick-skinned, but I never imagined you were this thick-skinned!" Zhao Qiang glared with wide eyes, pointing directly at Liu Ruyan as he roared.

"Why don't you take a look at what the campus chat groups are saying?" Zhao Qiang's voice grew even louder. "They're calling you a vixen, a flirtatious seductress. So-called campus belle? You should be called a campus joke!"

"Zhao Qiang, shut your mouth!" Liu Ruyan's chest heaved violently with agonizing pain. "You are utterly despicable!"

Never before had she realized that Zhao Qiang possessed such a sharp tongue, leaving her completely speechless for the moment. How despicable! She was his wife, after all—how could he possibly talk to her like this?

In truth, Liu Ruyan had already seen what Zhao Qiang was talking about. She didn't even dare to open her phone anymore, because it was completely filled with curses and accusations directed at her. If she were just an ordinary person, it might have been fine, but unfortunately, she was the campus belle of Capital University. Having such a scandal exposed meant she was now utterly notorious.

"Zhao Qiang, do you really have to drive me to this extent?"

Liu Ruyan bit her lower lip, her eye rims turning red as she put on an expression of supreme grievance. She had never expected things to develop into this state; the situation was now completely beyond her control. Zhao Qiang's move was simply too ruthless; the entirety of Capital University now knew about her scandalous deed. Friends, classmates, and even her former teachers all looked at her with strange, judgmental gazes, filling her with unbearable humiliation and torment.

"Be generous? What on earth are you talking about?" Zhao Qiang let out a cold laugh. "When you tricked me into being your child's foster father, why weren't you generous enough to tell me that the kids weren't mine?"

Liu Ruyan remained as shameless as ever, not offering a single word of apology. Yet here she was, brazenly demanding respect. Zhao Qiang shook with rage, itching to rush forward and slap her twice just to knock some sense into her.

"And you two old hags, knowing full well that Liu Ruyan was pregnant with another man's child, you still forced me to take the blame. Li Fengying, your belly is truly full of venom!" Zhao Qiang turned to glare at Liu Ruyan's parents, his eyes burning with anger and disgust.

"Forcing me to take the blame was one thing, but you still looked down on me. Put your hands on your consciences and ask yourselves: haven't I treated the two of you well enough?" Zhao Qiang grew more and more agitated. "Are your hearts made of stone?"

Consumed by fury, Zhao Qiang kicked over the table in front of him, sending everything on it scattering across the floor.

"As for wanting to keep living here, in your dreams!" Zhao Qiang bellowed, channeling all the rage he had bottled up for so long. "I've endured and endured, and you really thought I was some kind of pushover!"

"Zhao Qiang, don't go too far!" Liu Ruyan forced a look of composure. "Things have already reached this point, what more do you want?"

"What do I want? I want you all to pay the price!" Zhao Qiang said through gritted teeth. "I was deceived and humiliated by you, and I am not going to let this score be settled so easily!"

"You... don't you dare act recklessly!" Liu Ruyan's voice trembled because she was genuinely terrified.

"Recklessly? You forced me into this!" Zhao Qiang clenched his fists. "I used to hold out illusions about you, thinking that as long as I gave you my genuine devotion, I could win your genuine affection in return. But what was the result? You played me for a fool!"

At this point, Liu Hongliang couldn't help chiming in, "Zhao Qiang, we were in the wrong on this, but you shouldn't push things to such a desperate extreme either!"

"Extreme? When you pulled those stunts back then, did you ever consider the consequences?" Zhao Qiang glared at him fiercely. "Now you know what fear feels like? Too late!"

With that, he kicked over a chair, and a loud clattering echoed through the room.

"Zhao Qiang, you bastard, you've completely lost your mind!" Li Fengying's eyes bulged as if they were about to pop out of her sockets. Her face contorted with rage as she shrieked that Zhao Qiang had gone mad. She bounced up and down like a lit firecracker, flailing her hands wildly in the air with zero coordination.

Zhao Qiang's face darkened like the sky before a tempest, his eyes burning with the fires of wrath, and he roared, "You're the one who's lost your mind!"

No sooner had the words left his mouth than a crisp, vicious slap landed squarely across her face, accompanied by a ferocious bark: "Get the hell out of my house! Don't stay here making a spectacle of yourselves!"

Seeing his wife struck, Liu Hongliang's protective instincts flared up instantly. Veins bulging on his forehead, he lunged forward, throwing punches while screaming at the top of his lungs, "Zhao Qiang, how dare you hit my wife! I'll fight you to the death!"

Zhao Qiang didn't hold back in the slightest. He grabbed his aggressive father-in-law by the collar and immediately returned the favor with a barrage of punches, shouting, "Hmph, you think you're qualified to lecture me?"

Seeing how things had progressed, Liu Ruyan gave up on any further pretense of argument. She simply accepted the reality, knowing deep down that further denial was completely useless. Frowning in deep resentment, she asked, "Zhao Qiang, just when did you find out?"

Zhao Qiang sneered, his laughter filled with mockery and sorrow. "You probably won't believe it even if I tell you, Liu Ruyan. It was you who blurted it out in your sleep during a dream. Otherwise, I would have been kept completely in the dark by you people for the rest of my life, played for an utter fool while acting like an idiot to provide for you!"

All of this was because he had been reborn. Blaming it on sleep-talking made perfect sense, leaving Liu Ruyan utterly without a leg to stand on or any excuse to offer.

"It doesn't matter anymore. Since the children aren't mine, let's stick to the previous agreement and get a divorce." Zhao Qiang's tone brooked no argument, sounding like an unalterable imperial decree.

"Liu Ruyan, I'm trying to spare your dignity, depending on whether you want it or not!" Zhao Qiang stared intently at Liu Ruyan, his eyes full of warning, as if telling her not to test his bottom line.

"If you refuse to divorce, I have plenty of ways to deal with you. At worst, I'll just expose the fact that you're hiding here, and I'm sure the enraged netizens won't let you off easily."

Zhao Qiang's words were icy and resolute, every single syllable acting like a sharp blade piercing straight into Liu Ruyan.

Trembling all over with rage after hearing this, her lips quivering, Liu Ruyan cursed Zhao Qiang for being vicious: "Zhao Qiang, how can you be so heartless! You have utterly no humanity left!"

Zhao Qiang let out a scoff of pure disdain and said, "What is this compared to you lot? You're still far behind the Liu family! You people are the ones who are truly devoid of all feeling and loyalty!"

"Why don't you call Zhang Zihao and tell him to come pick you and your child up and take you to the Zhang family estate?"

"You refuse to live in a villa and insist on squatting here in my slum—what on earth is your game?"

A mocking grin plastered across his face, Zhao Qiang thought Liu Ruyan was still living in a fantasy world.

Liu Ruyan snorted, refusing to admit defeat as she stubbornly muttered, "Who says he isn't going to take care of us? He's just caught up with some things right now."

"Once he finishes what he's busy with, he certainly won't abandon me." Liu Ruyan bit her lower lip, a stubborn glint in her eyes as if clinging to her very last shred of delusion.