Chapter 42: Ruthlessly Beating the Scumbag

An Nan kicked him. “Quit pretending to be some loving brother. Weren’t you the one who just left her behind?”

She paused, then added, “Don’t act like you don’t know what’s wrong with her. Stop trying to play the victim with me.”

Bai Wenbin supported his sister’s head, only to feel his hand come away sticky with blood.

Yinger’s head was injured?

Suddenly, he remembered—when he’d pulled his cousin off the electric switch with his jacket, her head had hit the ground!

He’d been in such a rush back then, he hadn’t even checked her head.

And now she’d been knocked into a fool?

Of course, maybe it was also because he hadn’t rescued her in time, or his CPR was sloppy, causing her brain to be deprived of oxygen for too long...

But he’d never admit any of that.

He looked at An Nan, heartbroken and indignant. “Nannan, how could you be like this now! You actually electrocuted Yinger into an idiot!”

An Nan was speechless. She kicked him, sending him flying.

“You’re really trying to mess with me?”

“Cut the moral blackmail crap!”

An Nan had come here today to deal with him, so she wasn’t going to be polite.

She strode over, grabbed him by the collar, and slapped him hard across the face, left and right, over and over.

Bai Wenbin wanted to fight back, but it felt like an iron grip had him pinned in place—he couldn’t move at all, forced to endure the humiliation.

The slaps didn’t do much physical harm, but the humiliation was unbearable.

After all, An Nan was a woman he’d once liked, and now he was being manhandled like a helpless chick.

Bai Wenbin’s face burned with shame.

He could barely feel it anymore.

An Nan slapped him more than thirty times. Only when his face was swollen like a pig’s head did she finally stop, satisfied.

The siblings, side by side, looked like a pair of red-faced pigs—no telling them apart.

An Nan looked at their miserable state and felt great.

Even though Bai Wenbin was dizzy from the beating, he was still tense inside, terrified that An Nan might kill him.

He sat on the ground and tried to explain, “Nannan, you really misunderstood me! That day, I had no choice but to go with the neighbors to borrow food...”

“Save it!” An Nan kicked him again.

Their grudges went far beyond this one incident.

The betrayal in her past life, the schemes in this one, and the fact that the siblings had literally eaten her alive... One thing after another—An Nan couldn’t be bothered to argue or settle accounts one by one.

She simply treated him like a punching bag and let loose.

Only when he passed out did she finally stop.

Qian Yinger, seeing her beloved brother being beaten so badly by An Nan, didn’t rush to stop it. Instead, she clapped along to the rhythm.

“Pretty boy’s getting beaten by a bitch! Pretty boy’s getting beaten by a bitch!”

Hearing herself insulted again, An Nan turned around and gave her a thorough beating too.

A moment later, the world finally fell silent.

After the fight, An Nan felt completely refreshed.

She tossed the two of them carelessly on the floor, then ransacked their house.

She found three bottles of mineral water, two packs of compressed biscuits, a bundle of sausages, five packs of instant noodles, and a huge pile of expired bread.

Wow, they’d hoarded quite a bit.

She took it all, not leaving a single crumb for the lying siblings.

Then she threw anything else useful in the house out the window into the floodwaters.

Now the place was stripped bare.

Afterward, she sat on the sofa with her dog to rest.

Before long, Bai Wenbin slowly came to.

He opened his eyes, dazed, and saw a slender figure sitting on his sofa, one leg crossed over the other, holding a fluffy white bundle.

His brain froze for a moment.

What was I doing before? Why am I lying on the floor?

The next second, his memory returned. He stared at An Nan in terror.

“What do you want?”

As soon as he spoke, he realized what she was holding.

That little white dog!

Bai Wenbin stared at it.

It had gotten so fat?!

The last time he’d seen it was the day before the disaster. An Nan had brought it home, tiny and scrawny.

Now it was chubby, with a round face and floppy ears!

How much good food had An Nan been feeding it? In times like these, when people were starving, she still had extra food to feed a dog!

Not just feed it—she’d pampered it, practically raising it into a pig!

People really were worse off than dogs!

Bai Wenbin felt a surge of resentment.

This An Nan would rather feed her food to a dog than share a bite with an old friend like him!

Fugui the dog had been eyeing the two people on the floor out of the corner of its eye.

When the man got up and started staring at it, it immediately stood up and barked fiercely.

“Woof! Woof woof woof woof!”

Stupid man! What are you looking at?!

Bai Wenbin, seeing that the dog was small but still dared to bare its teeth at him, was furious. He wanted to teach it a lesson, maybe even stew it for dog meat.

But then he saw An Nan behind it and instantly calmed down.

He couldn’t move.

So what if the dog cursed at him? Let it! It’s not like he’d lose a piece of flesh.

Bai Wenbin felt stifled.

What did it mean for a dog to rely on its master’s power?

This was it!

Fugui didn’t care what he was thinking. It kept barking at him.

Sensing that its owner wasn’t stopping it, the clever dog got even bolder.

The angrier it got, the more it barked. It even jumped off the sofa, pounced on Bai Wenbin, and bit him hard.

Anyone who got beaten by its owner deserved to be bitten!

Bai Wenbin howled in pain and tried to fling the dog off.

An Nan saw this and immediately stabbed his arm with her triangular bayonet.

“Ah!” Bai Wenbin screamed, not daring to move again.

So Fugui had free rein, biting him all over, while Bai Wenbin didn’t dare fight back. Every time he so much as lifted a hand, An Nan would stab him again.

By the time Fugui had vented its anger and strutted away, there wasn’t a single uninjured spot left on Bai Wenbin.

An Nan stood up, looked at Bai Wenbin—his face swollen, shoulders and arms full of stab wounds, his whole body battered—and left, satisfied, with her dog.

Before leaving, she stepped on his face.

“I’ll spare your lives today. But if you dare show up in front of me again, I’ll send you straight to hell. Got it?”

Bai Wenbin nodded with difficulty, watching her swagger off with the dog.

He clenched his fists and pounded the floor.

Humiliated!

Absolutely humiliated!

But then he thought: He’d thought their plan had failed today, and he and his cousin were doomed.

But An Nan hadn’t killed them?

Why? That didn’t fit her recent ruthless style...

Though he felt a little relieved for now, Bai Wenbin couldn’t shake a sense of foreboding.

No time to dwell on it, he forced himself up despite the pain to check on Qian Yinger.

How had his cousin ended up like this... Was she just pretending, trying to fool An Nan to save her own life?

He shook her. “Yinger, An Nan’s gone. Wake up!”

After a while, Qian Yinger slowly opened her eyes."