The Delicate Darling with Her Rough Man-Chapter 243 - 242: Willing to Compensate

The team leader saw the wound was rather serious, so he couldn’t just ignore it.

He slowly rose to his feet, glared at the villagers outside, and demanded angrily,

"Who threw that?"

No one outside made a sound.

"Whoever threw it, step forward."

It was still dead silent outside.

Seeing that he couldn’t get an answer, the team leader had no choice but to drop it.

"No more throwing things."

With that, he sat back down.

Lin Jiandong: ...

He wanted to erupt in anger.

’These people are going too far, picking on an honest man like me.’

’But everyone in the Qingshan Team hates me now, and I still have to live here in the future... Forget it!’

’I won’t stoop to their level.’

Lin Jiandong touched his head again, his eyes welling up.

’If I weren’t so strong, I would’ve burst into tears.’

’But I can’t. A man sheds blood, not tears.’

The crowd: ...

They hadn’t expected to actually make the man cry.

You know, he actually looked quite pitiful.

He had an honest-looking face to begin with. Now, with blood streaming from his head and tears from his eyes, he looked both wretched and pitiable.

The villagers looked up at the sky.

Suddenly, they felt a little embarrassed.

Lin Jiandong knew he had provoked the crowd’s anger. Wiping away his tears, he spoke up first.

"Sweet Girl, I really know I was wrong. I’m willing to compensate you."

"I’ll compensate you until you’re satisfied, alright? Can we just terminate the adoption and you’ll let me off the hook?"

This was because Lin Jiandong truly didn’t understand the law and thought he was actually going to be executed.

In reality, even if she had reported him to the police, he would have been detained for a few days at most.

It was just as Lin Jiandong himself had said.

His children were only living in the house that belonged to Sweet Girl. All they had to do was move out.

As for the beatings, he’d get a lecture at most.

At the time, there were no explicit laws against disciplining one’s children.

As for the clothes, that was a matter of morals, not a crime.

Finally, there was the matter of trafficking a child.

If she were to actually report it, Li Aihong would likely recant her story. Without concrete evidence, it would be difficult to get a conviction.

’Getting him locked up for a month or two is less beneficial than getting some real compensation.’

’Still, I need to scare him. He’ll only cooperate if he’s afraid.’

Gu Jiaojiao always intended for Sweet Girl to terminate the adoption with the Lin Family. However, if they had been the ones to suggest it, Lin Jiandong would have felt he had the upper hand. Getting him to propose it himself made the situation much easier to resolve.

The adoption was a hot potato for Lin Jiandong.

He believed that once the adoption was terminated, Sweet Girl wouldn’t be able to press charges against him. As long as the relationship existed, she held all the cards.

This is what Lin Jiandong believed.

And Gu Jiaojiao had deliberately led him to believe this.

When Sweet Girl heard Lin Jiandong’s offer of compensation, she secretly glanced at Gu Jiaojiao.

Everything she had just said had been taught to her by Jiaojiao.

Now that Lin Jiandong was offering to pay, she instinctively looked to Gu Jiaojiao for guidance.

Gu Jiaojiao gave a slight nod.

Only then did Sweet Girl speak up.

"But you have to return everything that belongs to my family."

Lin Jiandong agreed.

At this point, he didn’t dare refuse.

’I don’t want to be executed.’

Sweet Girl smiled.

’Finally, I can be free of them.’

’And I can get back the things Mom and Dad left for me. I’m so happy.’

Chen Shulan hadn’t expected things to turn out this way.

After all this trouble, not only had they gained nothing, but they were about to lose a great deal. Staring at Sweet Girl’s smile, she spoke viciously.

"What are you so smug about? Once this is over, you’ll be nothing but a dirty little orphan again. No one to dote on you, no one to love you. What’s there to be proud of?"

The previously easing atmosphere instantly plunged to a freezing point because of Chen Shulan’s words.

Chen Beiguo slammed his hand on the table and shot to his feet.

"Chen Shulan, shut your mouth! Are you even listening to yourself? Is that something a human being would say?"

Chen Shulan’s face was injured, so she didn’t dare to speak loudly, but every word was as sharp as a knife.

"I’m not wrong. They’re just unwanted little beggars. And they want to go to school? That’s hilarious. I’ll bet you two beggars won’t see the inside of a school for the rest of your lives!"

’School costs money. Those two little beggars can barely feed themselves. Where would they get the money for school?’

Since she was about to suffer a major loss, Chen Shulan didn’t want Sweet Girl to have an easy time either.