There’re Always Paranoid Thoughts to Monopolize Me - Chapter 55.1

The voice that suddenly interjected between the three people was very cold, causing Yin Chuanfang’s hand, which had already been raised halfway, to involuntarily pause there.

She instinctively raised her head, averting her gaze to look in the direction behind Qin Ke—

The one who spoke was a youth who appeared to be eighteen or nineteen years old, wearing ordinary white shirt and trousers, with a cold, pale, and handsome face now stretched in a fierce arc. His hand hanging at his side had clenched into a fist at some point, with pale blue veins faintly bulging on the back of his fair and slender fingers.

Those jet-black eyes were even more filled with a gloomy and fierce intent, as if a storm was approaching.

“You are…”

Before Yin Chuanfang could ask about the other’s identity, the youth had already walked to the table.

He suddenly reached out and grabbed Yin Chuanfang’s wrist that was holding Qin Ke’s collar. The veins on the back of his hand bulged as his five fingers tightened forcefully.

Almost simultaneously, Yin Chuanfang was heard crying out “Ah!” in a startled voice.

—

The force on her wrist made her feel as if the other person wanted to crush her hand directly!

This sudden sense of oppression and fear that came with the youth, coupled with the excruciating pain in her wrist, made Yin Chuanfang scream hysterically without even thinking.

“Let go of me… What are you doing! I’m, I’m going to call the police—!”

Yin Chuanfang was clearly frightened by this youth whose eyes and expression were somewhat terrifying, to the extent that she started screaming neurotically in such a setting.

This attracted the attention of people at other tables who had already noticed the commotion here, and not a few looked at this middle-aged woman, who had been shouting like a shrew since she first appeared, with very disgusted gazes.

“Huo…”

Qin Ke lowered her voice, about to call out the other’s name, but considering they were in the capital city, who knew if they might happen to encounter people who knew about the Huo family’s situation?

So Qin Ke ultimately didn’t fully pronounce Huo Jun’s name. But her intention to advise him to restrain himself was clear enough.

Huo Jun gave a cold snort.

In the end, he still flung his hand, directly throwing Yin Chuanfang’s wrist to the side.

Yin Chuanfang clutched her wrist and stumbled back to her seat, angry, resentful, and scared, but she no longer dared to make eye contact with the youth standing by the table. She turned her head to look at the person beside her. “You just watched him bully me like this!”

Qin Hanyi, who was being accused, only just came to his senses at this moment.

Everything that had just happened was too fast. While he was still wondering about the relationship between this youth who suddenly intervened and Qin Ke, the other had already given Yin Chuanfang a ruthless warning.

Qin Hanyi reacted, his face darkening.

He stood up—

“Who are you? This is our family’s private matter, we don’t need outsiders to interfere.”

“Your family? Who are you family with?”

Upon hearing these words, the temperature in Huo Jun’s eyes instantly dropped to freezing point.

He raised his eyes, sweeping his gaze diagonally across, as sharp as a newly-sharpened knife edge, making Qin Hanyi’s face sting.

— He had never been treated like this by a junior before.

What made Qin Hanyi even more embarrassed was that even after standing up, he was still half a head shorter than the youth in front of him, and the thin muscle lines tensed on the youth’s clenched arm made Qin Hanyi have no confidence in his own threat in terms of physical prowess.

After a quick shift in his eyes, Qin Hanyi, bullying the weak and fearing the strong, turned his gaze towards Qin Ke across the table.

“Qin Ke, is this your friend? You’re just watching your friend speak and act like this towards your pare…” Qin Hanyi still wasn’t completely shameless enough to say the word ‘parents’ at such a time, he paused before changing his words, “You’re just watching him speak and act like this towards your elders??”

Qin Ke laughed coldly in her heart.

At this point, did this couple still think she was the weak Qin Ke who could be manipulated by their words?

Qin Ke didn’t rush to speak.

She got up from her seat, walked around the table and Huo Jun standing beside it, and stopped only when she reached Qin Hanyi.

Watching this girl, who had grown up bit by bit in his memory and whom he thought he should be more familiar with than anyone else, walk up to him with such cold eyes, Qin Hanyi found that gaze unfamiliar and guilt-inducing.

Before Qin Ke stopped in front of him, he unconsciously took a step back.

The girl standing in front of him had already started speaking.

“He is my friend, but you are not my elders — you’re not worthy of being so.”

“You—!”

“Moreover, who was it that first wanted to get physical just now…” Qin Ke’s gaze swept over and landed on Yin Chuanfang’s face. She gave a cold laugh, “Wasn’t it you? How is it that you can act recklessly, but when it’s the other way around, we’re bullying you? — Uncle, Auntie, this shameless face of yours is exactly the same as it has been for the past dozen years, hasn’t changed at all.”

Hearing this, Qin Hanyi became furious, his face alternating between red and white.

“Qin Ke! Watch your words!”

Qin Ke countered without hesitation.

“You don’t care about what you’ve done over these years, why should I care about this? It’s just a few words. Given how you’ve been embezzling the inheritance left by my parents all these years, do these few words really make you feel embarrassed or lose face? I think you’re underestimating the thickness of your own skin, Uncle!”

“…!”

Apart from the argument a year ago when the conflict between the two sides completely broke out before Qin Ke left home, when had Qin Hanyi and Yin Chuanfang ever seen Qin Ke speak so sharply?

Both were stunned in place by Qin Ke’s scolding, only coming back to their senses in exasperation after several seconds.

Yin Chuanfang, clutching her wrist, jumped up wanting to retort, but was pulled back by Qin Hanyi. He reminded Yin Chuanfang with a gloomy look — more and more people in the coffee shop were starting to pay attention to them.

Even if this was the capital city and not where they lived, if things really got out of hand, they knew very well who would be the one who couldn’t stand scrutiny and was in the wrong.

“With this person here, it’s impossible for us to forcibly take Qin Ke back…” Qin Hanyi lowered his voice to a minimum, reminding Yin Chuanfang, “Let’s go back first… we’ll make long-term plans when we get back.”

Yin Chuanfang was furious, squeezing out words through her teeth: “We’re just letting her off like this?”

“What else can we do?” Being put down by two juniors in front of so many people, Qin Hanyi was naturally very angry. Seeing his wife still unwilling to listen to him, he became even more irritated and glared at her fiercely.

“…”

No matter how unwilling Yin Chuanfang was, she could only give up at this point.

Just as the two were about to leave their seats, they heard Qin Ke suddenly speak.

“You remember what I said, right?”

“…”

Yin Chuanfang and Qin Hanyi paused. Qin Hanyi narrowed his eyes with an unfriendly expression and turned to look at her. “What did you say?”

Qin Ke’s gaze was indifferent.

“I said it before, and I’ll say it one last time now — from today on, never, ever appear in front of me again. And don’t even think about coveting the part of the inheritance my parents left for me when I come of age. Otherwise…”

Qin Ke suddenly gave a light laugh, but her eyes remained cold.

“Over these years, you Qin Hanyi, you Yin Chuanfang, and your daughter Qin Yan, your food, clothing, shelter, transportation… how much of it came from my parents’ inheritance, do you still remember?”

Yin Chuanfang: “You— stop talking nonsense! You’re slandering us!”

“Whether I’m slandering you or not, the inheritance notary lawyer will know clearly.”

Qin Ke remained unmoved, laughing coldly.

“Remember what I said. If you appear in front of me one more time—no matter how much your Qin family has taken in the past, I’ll make you return it all. Don’t believe me? Just try it.”

Yin Chuanfang was almost driven mad with anger, even forgetting about the youth standing behind Qin Ke. She was about to rush forward, gesticulating wildly, when she was suddenly pulled back by Qin Hanyi.

“Stop embarrassing me!”

Qin Hanyi shouted in a low voice, then turned to look at Qin Ke. He smiled viciously and contemptuously.

“You? You’re not even of legal age yet—we still have custody over you, have you forgotten that? My wife and I aren’t bothering to argue with a little brat like you, but are you really taking yourself seriously? Do you believe I can immediately use my custody rights—”

“What can you do?”

A voice coldly interrupted Qin Hanyi’s words.

“…” Qin Hanyi raised his head cautiously, looking behind Qin Ke—the reason he had been restraining himself to the limit was because he had concerns.