1422 Still a Long Way to Go in Life

"I've already made up my mind on this matter. There's nothing else to say. The family will split up and live separately!" Xia Jun said firmly.

Qiao Mei thought for a while, then looked at Shao Yin and asked, "It has already come to this. Do you still want to marry Xia Xing?"

Everyone looked at Qiao Mei in confusion, not knowing what she meant by that.

"Yes! Of course I want to marry him!" Shao Yin said firmly.

As the saying went, a starving camel was still bigger than a horse. Even if Xia Xing separated from the Xia family, he would always be related to the Xia family by blood. If he was in danger, the Xia family would not sit back and do nothing!

"Since you want to marry him, then I have to make things clear. If you return to your hometown obediently and pretend that this marriage never existed, then our Xia family will let you off. If you insist on getting married, then I'll go to the police station and let the police deal with this matter!" Qiao Mei said.

"You! What right do you have to threaten us! If you want Xia Xing to stay alive! It's best not to act rashly!" Shao Zhuang said with a mocking laugh.

"Shao Yin and Xia Xing were already engaged. At the engagement banquet, she tried to sleep with my eldest brother but did not manage to succeed. After that, she even did something so despicable with her cousin. We still don't know who the real criminal is here!" Qiao Mei said seriously.

Everyone in the Xia family was stunned on the spot. Why had they not thought of this? Xia Jun had almost agreed to the Shao family's conditions and was on the verge of splitting up the family because of Xia Guang.

"You're talking nonsense! Xia Xing was the one who took liberties with my daughter first!" Shao Zhuang said in a panic.

"We never said that we won't take responsibility for it. We will. We're upright people. If we've done something wrong, we'll admit to it. However, everyone saw with their own eyes that your family members drugged my eldest brother and that she was found in bed with another man at the engagement banquet. We also have conclusive evidence that you did these things on purpose! In ancient times, Shao Yin would have been locked up in a pig cage and drowned!" Qiao Mei smacked the table and berated them.

Shao Yin was so frightened that she fell to the ground and did not dare to raise her head. The other Shao family members trembled and hugged one another, not daring to make a sound, worried that they would be implicated if they said even one word.

"It's true that Xia Xing is in the wrong, but you have to weigh carefully about what's more important. Xia Xing will at most be locked up for a few years. If he reforms well, he'll be able to come out even earlier. He's a man and will definitely be able to get a job after that. It's not impossible for him to get married eventually, perhaps to an orphaned girl. Think about it, how many people in your family can walk out of the police station alive? I will say none! Do you think you still have a future to plan for?" Qiao Mei said with a smile.

Xia He stood behind Qiao Mei and kept staring at her back. For the first time, she felt that Qiao Mei was super amazing. Qiao Mei was even able to take control of the entire Shao family! Qiao Mei could actually solve a problem that even Xia Jun could not!

Qiao Mei was just lucky. In her other life, she had handled a complicated case similar to this situation. The woman in that case was even more wild. She had slept with more than 10 men within one week. At that time, the case had made her rethink her worldview, so she still remembered it vividly till this day.

She was also taking a gamble. She knew that the Shao family was as timid as mice and would not risk their lives for only a small benefit. The Shao family would definitely retreat in the face of such difficulties.

"What do you want us to do before you let us go!" Shao Zhuang said helplessly.

"It's simple. Write down your confessions and sign the documents. We won't send you to the police station, but the documents will always be in our hands. As long as you don't cause trouble for the Xia family and never mention anything about the Xia family or this engagement, then this matter will end here. Otherwise… you know very well…" Qiao Mei held up a stack of paper with everyone's crimes written out clearly.

As soon as they signed their names, this matter would be considered settled.

There was no other way out in this matter. Qiao Mei had removed all their options and they could only give up on the marriage with the Xia family. The Shao family members went forward one after another to sign the documents. Some of them did not even know how to write their names and just stamped their fingerprints. Everyone had to sign off before Qiao Mei was willing to let them go.

Before Shao Yin left, she glared fiercely at Qiao Mei. She would hold on to this grudge from today. If not for Qiao Mei, she would probably be Xia Wen's wife by now! If she had the chance in the future, she definitely would not let Qiao Mei off!

There was still a long way to go in life…