Still Have This Side – Chapter 52

Performance.

Qiu Zimin is sleeping with her two aunties tonight.

On a wide, soft double bed, she lies in the middle, holding her little cat doll in her arms, feeling very secure.

She said she wants to sleep with the aunties today.

Given the unexpected situation today, Qiu Baiyu and Yi Wanyue did not refuse.

The three of them lie together, very much like a family of three.

Because they cared about the remaining 0.5%, Qiu Baiyu and Yi Wanyue showed a bit more concern with her.

Yi Wanyue: “Is there anything you’re still afraid of or don’t like in your heart?”

Qiu Baiyu: “Are you afraid that grandpa and grandma will also come to find you?”

Maternal grandparents are resolved, but paternal grandparents are still not resolved.

Qiu Baiyu thinks that Qiu Zimin may be afraid of the other two elders.

Qiu Zimin shook her head and very firmly said, “Grandpa and grandma will not come to find me; they are not the same as my maternal grandparents.”

Grandpa and grandma don’t need her to ask others for money.

They don’t need her to do anything because no matter what she does, they don’t like her.

They also very rarely visit the home where she lives.

Not liking, not interacting, no communication; this is how it was between her and them before.

Now that she’s gone with her aunties, she no longer belongs to that home, and grandpa and grandma should be very happy, so they will not come to find her.

Just like if Liu Jianhui left, she wouldn’t go to find him either.

To grandpa and grandma, she is like Liu Jianhui.

Although she is only in first grade, she can still understand this reasoning.

After hearing her words, the two adults didn’t know whether they should feel relieved or sigh.

At such a young age, she should have grown up in the care and love of family, but instead, she was tossed around, used, and disliked.

If not for Qiu Baiyu, it wouldn’t be without reason if she turned dark later on.

It’s just that the attack target was wrong.

After turning dark, she shouldn’t have attacked the innocent Yi Wanyue; she should have attacked those adults who should have given her love but did not.

“It’s best if they don’t come.”

As Qiu Baiyu spoke, she held the child in her arms, gently touching her little head.

“Our Xiaomin already has her own home, and this home does not welcome them.”

“Mm!”

Qiu Zimin tightly hugged her waist and suddenly asked, “Auntie, you will always stay with me, right?”

Qiu Baiyu said, of course.

“We are family, and auntie will always stay with you as you grow up.”

“What about Auntie Wanyue?”

Qiu Zimin turned her head and directed the question to Yi Wanyue.

She cares about Qiu Baiyu and also cares about Yi Wanyue.

She wants the company of both aunties; missing either one would make her very sad.

Yi Wanyue unconsciously looked at Qiu Baiyu, then reached out her hand to touch the little one’s head: “Auntie Wanyue will also always stay with you as you grow up.”

“Then you two must be good and not quarrel!”

She suddenly said this.

“Mm?”

The two of them looked at her, puzzled.

Qiu Zimin worriedly said, “In our class, when people quarrel, they don’t remain friends. If you two quarrel and aren’t friends anymore, what would I do…”

The two of them looked at each other and laughed knowingly.

“We won’t,” Yi Wanyue promised, “Auntie Wanyue will never leave you and Auntie Baiyu.”

“Auntie Baiyu will always be good with Auntie Wanyue,” Qiu Baiyu promised.

Yi Wanyue is her best friend here.

Their views align, and their goals are the same. Yi Wanyue has such a good heart; how could she not like her?

“Good, I’ll remembered!”

Only then did Qiu Zimin feel relieved.

Yi Wanyue said, “I’ll remember too.”

Qiu Baiyu glanced at her.

Yi Wanyue curved her eyes, returning a beautiful smile.

A smile beautiful enough to disturb people’s heartstrings.

Qiu Baiyu lowered her eyes, unexpectedly not daring to look again at the person in front of her.

She shifted her attention, lowered her head, and patted Qiu Zimin’s back: “Alright, go to sleep. Starting tomorrow, happily enjoy your summer vacation. With the aunties here, everything else isn’t a matter.”

Qiu Zimin happily responded again.

She is now not a child that nobody cares about; she also has adults to protect her!

She happily hugged Qiu Baiyu, her head rubbing and rubbing in her neck’s nook, making Qiu Baiyu feel ticklish.

Yi Wanyue looked at them sideways, seeing the smile on Qiu Baiyu’s face, her lips unknowingly curved into a gentle arc.

Our Baiyu must also be this happy every day for it to be good.

“Wanyue.”

Qiu Baiyu suddenly called her.

“Mm?”

“Can you help me with something tomorrow? I still have to pretend to be sick, so it’s not convenient for me to appear.”

“Pretend to be sick? Is it about the Wang Jianjun couple’s matter?”

“Smart.”

Yi Wanyue lightly raised her eyebrows.

“What do you want to do?”

“I want to send them a warning,” Qiu Baiyu said, “to remind them not to bother Xiaomin again, or else I’ll be impolite to them.”

After today’s incident, the Wang Jianjun couple might not honestly stop.

Rather than waiting for them to cause trouble, it’s better for them to take action and warn them first.

The child is already part of her family, with no more relation to the couple, wanting to take money from her, they can keep dreaming!

Qiu Zimin quietly raised her head in Qiu Baiyu’s embrace.

Although she doesn’t know what auntie wants to do, she feels that at this moment, auntie is super cool!

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On the second day, a little past ten in the morning.

The Wang Jianjun couple was sitting at home, angry.

Thanks to Qiu Baiyu’s actions, they have been angry from yesterday to today, and no matter how hard they try, they can’t understand how the world could have someone like her.

She actually dares to extort money from elders!

She also stops them from finding that child!

This is really outrageous!!

At that moment, suddenly someone knocked on their door.

“Hello, may I ask if anyone is at home?”

A steady female voice came from outside the door.

The Wang Jianjun couple looked at each other.

Li Ting gave her husband a push: “You go and see who it is.”

Wang Jianjun unwillingly stood up and walked to the door, leaned on the peephole, and looked outside.

Outside the door stood a short-haired woman in a suit and leather shoes, with a clear and cold appearance.

He didn’t recognize her; he hadn’t seen her before.

Most importantly, behind the woman were several burly big men.

Each of the big men was wearing a tailored suit, with sunglasses on their faces, looking very imposing and scary.

But they were carrying boxes in their hands.

Many fruit gift boxes.

They didn’t seem like troublemakers; instead, they seemed like visitors.

Besides, who would cause trouble in broad daylight, really thinking the police don’t exist?

So driven by curiosity, Wang Jianjun bravely asked outside the door: “Who, who is it?”

The woman replied: “Hello, we are assistants sent by Miss Qiu, my surname is Li, and the several behind are bodyguards.”

Li Sui, an assistant of the Yi family, works under Yi Aiyun, and occasionally also helps Yi Wanyue with tasks.

For example, now she is carrying out the task Yi Wanyue assigned to her.

Wang Jianjun caught the key words.

Qiu?

That woman from yesterday!

Wang Jianjun immediately was in a bad mood: “What does she want to do again!”

Li Sui, calm and composed: “She wants the few behind me to perform a show for you two.”

“Perform a show?”

Wang Jianjun was immediately confused.

“Perform what kind of show?”

“You’ll know if you open the door and let us in, please rest assured, no one will be hurt,” Li Sui said.

Li Ting also came over and quietly asked who it was.

Wang Jianjun disdainfully said: “The people called by Xiaomin’s stepmother.”

Li Ting leaned on the peephole, turned her head, and said in surprise: “Oh, they also brought so many things? Could they be here to apologize to us?”

Wang Jianjun thought it made sense: “Then… open the door?”

With so many gifts, maybe that woman really knew she went too far and sent them.

With gifts delivered to their door, they had no reason to refuse.

The couple then opened the door.

Once the door opened, Li Sui slightly nodded at them in greeting: “Sorry for the disturbance.”

Still quite polite.

The two thought.

Li Sui first walked into the room, with the bodyguards following behind her, one after another walking in.

The bodyguards were tall and sturdy, stern-faced, and imposing. As they walked past the couple, the pressure felt like a mountain pressing down on them, making the two unconsciously shrink to the side, not daring to move rashly.

Li Sui lightly tapped her fingertips on the dining table: “Put the things here first.”

The bodyguards orderly placed the gift boxes one by one on the dining table, leaving only one black bag.

Seeing this, the Wang Jianjun couple curiously walked to the side of the dining table, just about to reach out to see what was inside when they suddenly heard Assistant Li say: “Please come sit over here.”

They turned their heads to look and saw Li Sui’s hand pointing at the living room sofa.

They did not move.

“Please sit,” Li Sui spoke again.

The bodyguards’ gaze all turned towards the couple, silent and frightening.

The couple hurriedly went to sit down.

Then Li Sui took out a video camera from the bag and stood aside to record.

The couple suddenly felt puzzled.

“Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing?” Li Ting asked.

“Recording the show,” Assistant Li said expressionlessly, “If you two need it, we can copy one for you later, for you to watch anytime.”

After speaking, she nodded towards the bodyguards to indicate: “Time is valuable, let’s start.”

With her command issued, the Wang Jianjun couple then saw the bodyguard holding the black bag suddenly pull out a brick, a stick, and even a stack of wooden boards, quite skillfully.

“What do you all want to do?”

“Hitting people is illegal, we can report, call the police!”

The couple was so scared they spoke incoherently.

In the video camera, the whole living room’s appearance was fully visible, including the serious bodyguards and the panic-stricken couple.

Li Sui, expressionless, held the video camera: “No need to worry, these are all performance props; you two can check the props’ authenticity.”

After she finished speaking, the bodyguards placed these three things in front of the couple.

Wang Jianjun and Li Ting, half-believing and half-doubting, carefully stretched out their hands to touch the props and weighed them.

Genuine, they were all real things.

Li Ting carefully put the wooden board back in its original place: “What exactly do you want to perform…”

“Please watch.”

As Assistant Li finished speaking, Wang Jianjun and Li Ting saw the bodyguard pick up the brick, then raise his hand and bring it down — the brick was directly split into two pieces.

The bodyguard’s eyebrows didn’t even wrinkle once.

The couple gasped in shock.

“Continue.”

The hard wooden stick “cracked” once in the bodyguard’s hand, snapping into two halves.

Two bodyguards grabbed a stack of wooden boards again, and another bodyguard fiercely swung out a punch!

Finally, the shattered wooden boards, sticks, and bricks were all neatly placed in front of the couple, as fragile as their fate.

The couple’s faces were deathly pale, not daring to take a big breath.

“This is the martial arts performance Miss Qiu wanted to invite you to watch. Are you satisfied?”

Assistant Li lowered her head to check the recorded content, as she still needed to take it back to report.

“By the way, I’ll also tell you that these are the bodyguards Miss Qiu hired for Miss Zimin.”

“Ah?!” Wang Jianjun was greatly shocked.

With the content confirmed correct, Assistant Li closed the video camera: “So I think you should understand her meaning.”

“From now on, bridges return to bridges, roads return to roads, each going their own way, not interfering with each other.

“But if you insist on disturbing their lives, harming Miss Zimin again, making her sad…”

Assistant Li pointed to the video camera in her hand.

“The next time the lucky prop, ah no, I mean lucky audience for this show — is you.”

She deliberately paused at the words “lucky prop,” her self-correcting tone full of perfunctory, making Wang Jianjun and his wife even more alarmed.

This is a threat.

This is a blatant threat!!!

But this threat is very powerful; every shattered prop and the bodyguards’ effortless demeanor have already been deeply imprinted in their minds, making them finally realize: their granddaughter is no longer the granddaughter of the past.

Qiu Zimin has already found people who can protect her.

Whoever dares to touch her, Qiu Baiyu, this woman, will definitely not let them go.

This woman can do anything!

“Sorry for disturbing you, we should go.”

Li Sui put away the video camera, lifted her foot, and walked in front.

“Remember to take things away.”

The bodyguards swiftly put the shattered props into a black bag and carried them away.

At the same time, they also carried away the gift boxes placed on the dining table.

Seeing the gifts being taken away, the couple immediately stood up to stop them.

Wang Jianjun quickly shouted to stop Assistant Li: “Hey, what are you doing, how can they still take our things away?!”

Li Sui turned back, glanced at the things in the bodyguard’s hand, then asked, “Which of these is yours?”

Li Ting pointed at the gift boxes: “These! Weren’t they for us?”

Li Sui countered, “Who said they’re for you?”

The couple: “?”

Li Sui: “These are what Miss Qiu thought the bodyguards worked too hard performing the show, so she bought them as gifts for them, just borrowing your table to place them for a moment.”

“You wouldn’t want to steal others’ things, right?”

As soon as she said this, the bodyguards’ gazes swiftly swept towards the couple.

Frightened, the couple retreated two steps, repeatedly waving their hands: “No, no, no, it’s a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding, how could we dare to randomly steal others’ things…”

Li Sui turned back to look at them, nodded, and said: “You can’t randomly steal others’ things… it’s good that you know.”

She left.

With a group of bodyguards, they walked away imposingly.

The couple stood in place, eyes wide open, watching those exquisite fruit gift boxes sway past them, unable to help but recall Qiu Baiyu holding the test results yesterday, standing in front of them with a seemingly smiling expression.

The couple: “…”

Deliberate… this person surnamed Qiu is deliberate, right!!!

The couple looked at each other, for a moment both angry and regretful.

They can be considered to have hit a brick wall this time.

Had they known today, they shouldn’t have given that child to the Jiang family; keeping her by their side might have still allowed them to get money!

“All your fault!” Wang Jianjun said in a bad mood, “If it weren’t for you saying to give Xiaomin to the Jiang family, we could at least still get some money now!

“Now look, we can’t get the money, and the person is gone too!”

Li Ting, upon hearing these words, was not convinced: “I said that? Didn’t you agree at the time too? And now you’re blaming it all on me!

“If you ask me, it’s all your fault. If you’d been a bit nicer to her, she wouldn’t be so afraid of us!”

“All your fault, it’s your fault!”

“Nonsense, it’s your fault!”

And they quarreled like this.

Their unfulfilled greed and unwillingness led them to start blaming each other, and the entire room was filled with endless arguing sounds.

With Qiu Baiyu’s protection, they no longer have a way to disturb this granddaughter!

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