"You rude brat! How dare you disrespect your elders? How dare you say I'm not fit to order you around? You are nothing but a live-in husband! What's wrong with telling you to bring a chair over? Will it kill you? You're useless, but you put on all these airs. You keep behaving proudly as though you are a government official. You're just a useless live-in husband! How dare you put on airs in front of me?" said Ye Xi-Lan furiously at Ye Fan.
In her fury, Ye Xi-Lan didn't care about familial ties and just went ahead to reprimand Ye Fan without leaving him any room to defend himself.
"That's right. You're just a live-in husband. How can you take it out on us after your inlaws piss you off? All she did was ask for a chair. Did you have to blow up? That's some pride you have! But if you were truly proud, then why did you marry into the Qiu family? Although you were happy to live off a woman, you disgraced your uncles! How can you have the cheek to come home after you married into the Qiu family? You shameless piece of shit! I used to pity you for getting discarded by the Chu family. From the looks of it now, it's little wonder your father didn't want a useless piece of shit like you!"
Ye Ya's wife was still holding a grudge about Chen Nan's episode.
Since Ye Fan was rude towards his youngest aunt, Ye Ya's wife pounced on the chance to vent all the frustration she had suppressed on him.
Her words were terribly harsh!
PAK!
But the moment Ye Ya's wife finished her sentence, Ye Xi-Mei, who had been sitting in silence, suddenly got up.
She raised her hand and slapped Ye Ya's wife to everyone's surprise.
Ye Xi-Mei slapped her pretty viciously too.
The crisp sound of her blow left everyone trembling in shock.
Even Ye Ya's wife was left dumbstruck
from the slap.
She covered her face with a hand in disbelief.
In an instant, a piercing scream rang through the air as Ye Ya's wife shrieked, "You...you hit me?!"
"Yes, I slapped you!" said Ye Xi-Mei angrily with an icy look on her face. "I'm right here. How can you insult my son?"
"Do you really think no one cares about him?" said Ye Xi-Mei furiously as fury emanated from her face.
"I tolerated it time and time again on account of Dad when you humiliated us because I'm the firstborn child of the Ye family. But all of you just keep getting worse. You're absolutely unrepentant and keep pushing it! Yes, we were exiled from the Chu family, but that's no reason for you to insult us! How can an elder speak like that? Those are such wicked words! Even if Ye Tian or Ye Ya uttered those words today, I would have slapped them just the same. I'm their oldest sister, so I have the right to discipline them!" said Ye Xi-Mei as her stern words rang nonstop like an unexpected roll of thunder.
She was the imposing firstborn child of the Ye family!
In the past, Ye Xi-Mei was always domineering.
Before her siblings got married, Ye Xi-Mei was the main decision-maker in the household.
No one would dare utter a word and disobey their oldest sister!
But ever since Ye Xi-Mei got divorced, her personality changed vastly.
After she returned home, she was no longer the same domineering person. She had learned to suffer in silence and meekly submit in times of conflict.
But now, Ye Xi-Mei couldn't bear seeing her son get insulted.
Her resounding words came piercing towards them like swords and left everyone dumbfounded.
Ye Ya wanted to defend his wife, but obediently shrank back when he saw Ye Xi-Mei explode in anger. He didn't dare to piss Ye Xi-Mei off now.
Ye Ya was always afraid of Ye Xi-Mei to begin with. Hence, by the time they were driven from the Chu family, they had grown distant.
After all these years, his oldest sister finally lost it.
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