Chapter 1278: Chapter 1278: Irreparable Rupture (6)

“Are you still looking at this woman? Do you think she hasn’t ruined you enough?” The elder Ye, upon noticing this detail, picked up the inkstone on the table and, furious, hurled it at Qiao Qiao.

Ye Shiqing instinctively shielded Qiao Qiao, taking the inkstone’s hit. He looked coldly at the elder Ye and said, “How could you be so harsh with her? It was I who wronged her, she has been the victim from start to finish. If you must blame someone, blame me!”

“If it weren’t for her seducing you, would you have fallen? It’s her fault you’ve turned out like this…”

“Xiaoqiao, let’s go!” Ye Shiqing couldn’t be bothered to argue with elder Ye any longer. Elder Ye’s stubbornly old-fashioned, believing whatever he’s decided to be right and everyone else wrong; there’s no point in communicating with such an old fossil.

Qiao Qiao followed passively behind Ye Shiqing. Elder Ye, seeing this, bellowed in anger, “Ye Shiqing, if you dare to be with Qiao Qiao, then you are no longer a descendant of the Ye Family!”

Ye Shiqing halted in his tracks upon hearing these words.

He suppressed the tumult of emotions in his heart, slowly turned around, and looked at elder Ye, each word falling heavily, “That’s just perfect, I’ve long since had no wish to be a descendant of the Ye Family. From now on, I have nothing to do with the Ye Family. The Ye Family’s honor or disgrace, rise or fall has nothing to do with me, Ye Shiqing, anymore!”

Elder Ye watched Ye Shiqing’s decisive figure, his body swayed.

But Ye Shiqing pulled Qiao Qiao away, never looking back again.

When the servants heard the roar coming from the study, they knew something was wrong.

Xia Yu and Ye Ling hurried over, only to see Ye Shiqing leading Qiao Qiao out.

Xia Yu, seeing this, stepped forward to block Ye Shiqing, “Shiqing, regardless of anything, Xiaoqiao and Xiandong are legally married. Holding her hand in front of others, what does this look like to outsiders?”

“Exactly, if people don’t know better, they’d think my sister-in-law is Big Brother’s girlfriend.” Ye Ling added from the side, her eyes sweeping disdainfully back and forth between Ye Shiqing and Qiao Qiao.

“Ye Ling is right. After Xiaoqiao gets a divorce, she will be my girlfriend. Also, I am no longer a Ye Family member. Don’t associate me with the Ye Family any longer!” After saying this, Ye Shiqing pulled Qiao Qiao away.

Just then, a servant’s cry of alarm came from the study, “Not good, the old chief has fainted…”

In an instant, the Ye Family was thrown into chaos, with everyone hurriedly rushing elder Ye to the hospital.

Just as elder Ye was taken to the hospital, bad news came for the Ye Family–a claimant came seeking Xia Yu, intending to take over the villa.

Xia Yu’s heart skipped a beat, sensing that something was very wrong.

She rushed back to the Ye Family, only to find a group of thugs sitting on the couch. Recognizing the leader, she quickly plastered on a smile, “Brother Bao, why trouble yourself to personally come?”

“I’ve already given you enough time. Since you are not paying back the money, we will have to take this villa in compensation,” Brother Bao said with a smirk, pulling out the IOU signed by Xia Yu: “I have solid evidence here, and witnesses too. Xia Yu, you can’t deny this debt.”

Xia Yu has always had a gambling problem, something the Ye Family were aware of, but they never imagined that one day there would be such a massive gambling debt–it was twenty million.

If Ye Qilan were still alive, even two hundred million wouldn’t be a problem, let alone twenty million. But now, Ye Qilan was gone, the Ye Family was in decline, and Ye Shiqing had left too. What could they use to pay off the debt?

“Mom, I’ve told you before not to gamble anymore. Why didn’t you listen?” The moment Ye Ling saw the IOU, she felt like she wanted to die.

But what can be done, and where on earth to find twenty million in such a short space of time?