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Jiang Chen was still excited about picking up his car when he drove his brand-new Audi A6L through the bustling streets of Shanghai.

With over a million yuan in cash in his bank account and a luxury car worth hundreds of thousands in his hands, he felt that he had reached the pinnacle of his life.

Just then, a sudden cell phone ring broke the melodious music playing in the car.

The caller ID showed it was my mom.

Jiang Chen answered the phone with a smile, ready to hear his mother's praise again.

"Hey Mom, is Dad getting so excited he's having a high blood pressure attack?"

However, what came from the other end of the phone was not the joy he had expected, but a suppressed, tearful sob.

"Chen...chenchen..."

The mother, Wang Xiuying, sounded hesitant and full of grievance and distress.

What made Jiang Chen frown even more was that he could clearly hear a woman's sharp and sarcastic voice mixed in with the background noise of the phone call!

"Sister-in-law, stop crying. What's the use of crying? Paying back debts is a matter of course!"

"If it weren't for the fact that we're relatives, I wouldn't have lent them the money!"

"It's been almost half a year now, and my family is counting on this money for the Chinese New Year!"

Jiang Chen slowly parked the car on the side of the road, turned off the engine, and the car instantly became quiet, making the voice on the other end of the phone incredibly clear.

"Mom, what's going on? Who's in our house?" Jiang Chen's voice turned cold.

"It's...it's your aunt..."

Wang Xiuying sighed, lowered her voice, and explained quickly in an almost desperate tone.

"Your aunt, Liu Cuifen."

"Isn't it almost Chinese New Year? She...she came to urge our family to pay back the money."

"It's the 50,000 yuan we borrowed from her family to treat your grandfather's illness..."

Jiang Chen's brows furrowed instantly into a deep frown!

Of course he remembered the money.

Last winter, my grandfather suffered a sudden cerebral hemorrhage and was hospitalized. The family emptied all their savings, but it still wasn't enough. My father, Jiang Jianjun, had no choice but to bite the bullet and borrow money from several relatives.

Without saying a word, Uncle Jiang Jianguo took out the only 20,000 yuan in the family.

The wealthiest family, the second uncle's family, didn't lend a single penny and even made sarcastic remarks.

Finally, it took the father a lot of pleading, almost kneeling on the ground, to borrow 50,000 yuan from his aunt Liu Cuifen as "lifesaving money".

Jiang Chen understood the principle of paying back debts.

But he knew even better how sharp-tongued, mean-spirited, and malicious his aunt Liu Cuifen was!

When they borrowed money, they made things difficult for my father in every way, forcing him to write an IOU with compound interest, and humiliating him in front of all the relatives, making him unable to lift his head.

Now, she's actually come to our door and slap us in the face!

On the other end of the phone, Liu Cuifen's shrill voice continued, filled with disdain and contempt.

"Hey Jiang Lao Er, you're a grown man, stop pleading like a woman!"

"Isn't your Jiang Chen doing incredibly well in Shanghai? Buying gold and Audis, the whole village is talking about it!"

"What? You can't even come up with a mere fifty thousand dollars? I bet all that gold and that car were rented! Just to make a show of things when you come back!"

Liu Cuifen's words were like poisonous needles, piercing deeply into the hearts of Jiang Chen's parents.

Wang Xiuying's cries grew louder, while her father, Jiang Jianjun, pleaded for her in an almost begging, humble tone.

"Sister-in-law...please don't say that. Ah Chen...he's had a tough time..."

"Please give us a few more days, just a few more days! When Ah Chen comes back for the New Year, we'll definitely pay you back with interest!"

"Grace period? Waiting?"

Liu Cuifen sneered, her voice suddenly rising in pitch and filled with a threatening tone.

"Jiang Jianjun, I'm going to lay my cards on the table with you today!"

"Today, either pay me back, or..."

She deliberately dragged out her words, then said, word by word:

"Don't you still have those two mu of paddy fields? The best two mu at the village entrance!"

"If you really don't have the money, just give those two acres of land to my family as collateral!"

"As if it's gotten to the point of threatening to seize my land?"

"My family isn't that poor."

Liu Cuifen, who had been sitting with her legs crossed and looking smug, was clearly startled when she heard the voice.

Immediately, an even stronger sneer and disdain appeared on her face.

"Hey, isn't this our family's most capable person, Jiang Chen?"

"What? You think you're so superior just because you've been washing dishes in Shanghai? Such a big mouth!"

"Easy for you to say! If you're so capable, turn it around right now!"

"If you can come up with 50,000 yuan, I, Liu Cuifen, will lick your doorstep clean before I leave!"