The courtyard house, without the script of Sha Zhu.

For Qin Huairu, Cao Wei's deliberate call that night was clearly an attempt to sever ties with her, but how could she tolerate it?

You should know that although many people thought they had gotten her first soup.

But the real person was Cao Wei. Five hundred thousand might have been an astronomical sum for Qin Huairu when she first arrived in the city. But after learning about Cao Wei's current net worth, and even the money he swindled from the Jia family...

Her greed meant that she was constantly thinking about how to get the money into her own pocket.

She finally got pregnant, and before she could even threaten anyone, she saw Cao Wei's attitude.

This also means that it is almost impossible for her to marry Cao Wei again.

After all, she was pregnant in the Jia family. Unless she revealed everything, and the price of revealing it would be that she would also have to go through with the ordeal.

In this day and age, there is practically no other way to engage in such promiscuous relationships.

So, naturally, she thought of using her unborn child to try and get Cao Wei to compromise. However, he didn't compromise at all, and since she couldn't marry him now, it meant she might not get the money.

Just realizing this made Qin Huairu extremely uncomfortable.

Naturally, now that she had been forced to compromise herself and give herself to Yi Zhonghai, she brought up the topic again in front of him.

However, although Yi Zhonghai was initially extremely angry, after all, he knew...

Right now, what she hates most is Cao Wei. After all, if it weren't for Cao Wei, then her retirement plan would have been thwarted by the foolish Zhu.

With Sha Zhu keeping him in check, his future retirement life is secured.

He even had a dream in which, although he didn't get to drink Qin Huairu's first soup, he still had an affair with her.

Although her good-for-nothing disciple Jia Dongxu died, under her almost complete guidance, Sha Zhu still obediently ended up with Qin Huairu.

Although Qin Huairu had played some tricks before, she ultimately followed her own plan.

His later years were wonderful.

But all of this vanished because of Cao Wei's arrival.

How could he not hate Cao Wei?

However, Yi Zhonghai was soon forced to calm down, and he has finally managed to save up some money again.

The reason he didn't think about messing with Cao Wei again was because, in his eyes now, the child in Qin Huairu's belly was his own.

In addition, I had tried it before, but failed.

So after taking a deep breath, Yi Zhonghai looked at Qin Huairu and couldn't help but comfort her.

"Huai Ru, there isn't a good opportunity right now. Also—would you rather my money cause trouble for Cao Wei, or spend it on you and the child?"

Hearing this, Qin Huairu also came to her senses.

She would naturally be even less willing to use that money to cause trouble for Cao Wei.

After all, Yi Zhonghai's assets were now hers in her eyes, so she temporarily gave up the idea of ​​taking action against Cao Wei.

Thus, because of their own ulterior motives, the two of them gave up the idea of ​​targeting Cao Wei.

Cao Wei, who had originally been looking forward to watching a good show, found that his beastly neighbors had actually become well-behaved, especially the beastly gang.

This made him raise an eyebrow, but he didn't choose to cause trouble.

At least until that era, or until he had a few powerful connections, he really didn't want to go looking for trouble, since that would mean he had to be absolutely certain of success.

He himself did not want to become a cold-blooded killer.

However, Cao Wei soon realized that something was wrong.

That is, it seems that I have actually been the target of rumors.

While he was drinking, he could see several people giving him strange looks. And sometimes when he was walking down the street, he could see young women, married women, or older women gossiping.

However, as soon as she saw him, she immediately stopped talking.

But how could Cao Wei not see the strangeness and disdain in those eyes?

So, after returning home, Cao Wei quickly reminisced about it.

The answer came to him almost instantly.

Those who have the leisure to spread rumors about themselves must be members of the "Beastly Gang".

After finding an older woman and casually handing her several thousand yuan, he finally learned about his current identity outside.

Disrespecting the elderly and beating others at will—they're practically bandits of the new era after liberation.

This made Cao Wei laugh in anger; good heavens, these beasts were indeed impossible to appease.

Cao Wei then looked at the woman and couldn't help but continue to ask.

"Who started these rumors first?"

The woman, however, shook her head quite calmly.

"I've only heard about it."

Despite this, it didn't stump Cao Wei. He quickly returned to the courtyard house, activated his spiritual eyes, and began searching for these beastly neighbors.

To determine who did it, it's simple: just see who is the happiest after being slandered.

The Yan and Liu families seemed to react in similar ways; they were both quite happy.

For a moment, Cao Wei was unable to distinguish them, until he turned his gaze to the Yi family.

Meanwhile, inside the Yi family compound, Yi Zhonghai was in an exceptionally good mood over the past month.

After resorting to spreading rumors, although Cao Wei seemed to be largely unaffected, the other party's reputation was ruined.

Furthermore, this time the opponent had no means of countermeasures, which in his mind was the first time he had finally won in his confrontation with Cao Wei.

So he made an exception and drank a pot of wine, and looking at Li Mei next to him, he couldn't help but praise her.

"Mei, you did a really good job."

As Li Mei poured wine for Yi Zhonghai, she seemed to realize something and couldn't help but slowly say, "Zhonghai, we've almost finished making up what we can now. What's next..."

Upon hearing this, Yi Zhonghai frowned, slammed his hand on the table, and gritted his teeth, saying, "What do you mean you've made up everything you can? Keep making things up! I'm going to make this kid's reputation so bad that no girl from the surrounding rural areas will want to marry him."

Seeing this, Li Mei felt helpless, but in the end she could only nod in agreement.

On the other side, Cao Wei couldn't help but sneer when he saw this scene.

Good heavens, it really is Yi Zhonghai.

Right now, they're actually spreading rumors about themselves.

In other times, perhaps he wouldn't have cared. But he knew very well how important reputation was in this era.

Although he has money and can find a wife, his reputation is ruined, making it difficult to find a wife who meets his expectations.

"You old beast, you're really living too comfortably..."

While muttering to himself, Cao Wei went directly to Xu Damao the next day.

Xu Damao also looked somewhat hesitant after seeing Cao Wei.

Finally, after seemingly gritting his teeth, he finished recounting what he knew, only to find Cao Wei completely calm.

This left him somewhat bewildered.

Little did they know that Cao Wei had already identified his target. Xu Damao couldn't help but scratch his head and tentatively asked.

"Brother Wei, so what are you planning to do next? Go and clarify things? Or what?"

Cao Wei chuckled and shook his head, clarifying that only a fool would use that method, as it was the stupidest and most inefficient.

Of course, the most effective way is to use magic to counter magic.