vstars Chapter 439 It's Not Absolutely Necessary
Chapter 439 It's Not Absolutely Necessary
"Oh!"
The house was already a complete mess, and Wen Shiming smashed the last cup on the coffee table onto the ground!
"Where's the money?! Look at the state of this place!"
Wen Shiming was furious: "Those people said that if I don't pay back the money, they'll go to my workplace and cause trouble. Do you want me to never be able to hold my head up again for the rest of my life?!"
"Dad! What can we do if Wen Yang won't give us money! Blame your good daughter, she's a traitor and has no conscience!"
"Blame me? I'm the one who told you to go out and mess around!"
Wen Tao paused, muttered something, and then fell silent.
Wang Mingxia kept wiping away tears as soon as she entered the door, wondering how her once happy home had become like this!
Yu Tian stood downstairs in the old apartment building of the Wen family and looked up at the window on the fourth floor where the light was on.
He could faintly hear arguing and things being smashed in the stairwell. He gave his comrade behind him a look, and the two of them strode up the stairs one after the other.
The knocking sounded like a gunshot, instantly silencing the noise inside.
The door opened a crack, and Wen Tao's wary eyes darted through the gap. When he saw Yu Tian's handsome and aloof face, he visibly flinched.
"Yu, Yu Tian, what brings you here?!" Wen Tao's voice suddenly rose.
Yu Tian braced himself against the door with one hand, taking a step forward that brooked no refusal: "Let's talk."
He glanced around the room. Wen's mother sat on the messy sofa, wiping away tears. The coffee table was piled high with debt collection letters and court summons. "It's about Wen Yang."
Wen Tao instinctively tried to close the door, but Yu Tian's shoe tip was already stuck in the door frame.
After a few seconds of stalemate, Wen Tao finally let go of her hand in frustration.
After entering the house, Yu Tian did not sit down, but stood in the center of the living room like an unshakeable mountain.
He took a bank card out of his inner pocket and gently placed it on the coffee table.
"Five hundred thousand."
He cut to the chase, "I'll buy you so you won't harass Wen Yang anymore."
Wen's mother's sobs stopped abruptly.
Wen Tao's eyes were fixed on the card, his Adam's apple bobbing: "What...do you mean?"
"The literal meaning."
Yu Tian's voice was as calm as if he were giving a casual greeting, "Here's 500,000, exactly the amount you wanted. After you take the money, you're not allowed to go looking for Wen Yang again."
"you sure?"
Wen Tao grabbed the bank card and examined it thoroughly: "What's the PIN? How am I supposed to know there's really 500,000 in there?"
"The password is Yangyang's birthday."
Yu Tian took out his phone, pulled up a text message, a bank transfer confirmation notification, the amount of which was exactly 500,000 yuan.
Wen Tao's eyes immediately lit up like a hungry wolf eyeing fresh meat.
Clutching the card, his eyes gleaming with a mixture of delight and greed, he said, "It's a deal, so I won't hold back!"
However, just as the Wen family members were all relaxed, Yu Tian suddenly changed the subject and said, "You can take the money, but there's one more condition."
His gaze turned cold and sharp as he looked at Wen Shiming and Wang Mingxia: "Give me Wen Yang's household registration booklet."
"What did you say? Household registration booklet?"
Wen Shiming: "What do you mean by that! Wen Yang is still our Wen family's daughter, why should we give her the household registration book!"
"Yangyang is my daughter. No matter what happens, we are still family. You have no right to take away her household registration book!"
Hearing Wang Mingxia say the same thing, Yu Tian's expression remained unchanged.
But the man behind him suddenly stepped forward, and before Wen Tao could even react, the bank card in his hand was in the other man's hand.
"If you don't give it to me, don't take the money either."
"you!"
Unlike his parents, Wen Tao was driven nearly mad by the debt collectors. He shoved Wang Mingxia and urged, "Mom, just give him the household registration book! Wen Yang doesn't acknowledge us as family anymore anyway, what's the point of keeping the book? Give it to him now!"
He pulled Wang Mingxia along and told her to go get it.
But Wen Shiming spoke up: "Wait!"
Wen Tao paused, his face growing anxious: "Dad! That's 500,000 yuan! With this money, our family's immediate crisis will be resolved. You can't make a mistake at a time like this!"
Wen Shiming's face darkened. He glared at Wen Tao before turning to Yu Tian: "I can have the household registration book, but 500,000 isn't enough. 800,000 will do."
Wen Tao's eyes widened in surprise; he hadn't expected his father to have such a plan.
Even Wang Mingxia was stunned.
Eight hundred thousand is no small sum. Yu Tian is an orphan who was so poor back then that he couldn't even afford to eat. Even if he has saved up some money over the years, it's still eight hundred thousand!
Does he... does he have one?
They all looked at Yu Tian with expectant expressions.
Li Li was Yu Tian's comrade-in-arms. The two had served in the same unit. After serving in the army for a long time, they naturally had less contact with society. In all these years, he had never seen such a shameless person.
"Brother Tian..."
Yu Tian's brows furrowed coldly as he spoke, "Eight hundred thousand, still want to change it?"
Wen Shiming remained silent, but Wen Tao's eyes darted around. Could this kid have money?!
He was just about to speak up and raise the price to one million when Yu Tian suddenly spoke up.
"Everything has its limits, and I don't necessarily have to have things that are more than worth the price."
Wen Tao's heart skipped a beat, worried that he really wouldn't give it to him, so he made a quick decision: "Eight hundred thousand, it's a deal! As long as you give it to me, we'll give you Wen Yang's household registration book right now!"
Yu Tian directly took the card with 500,000 yuan and threw it to Wen Tao. Wen Tao happily pulled Wang Mingxia to get the household registration book.
Yu Tian then coldly surveyed the simple three-bedroom apartment.
Several photos were displayed on the TV cabinet, one of which showed a young Wen Yang standing on the podium with a bright smile.
It's hard to imagine that the same family could raise two children who are so different.
Not long after, Wang Mingxia shakily brought out a red plastic booklet, the gold lettering on the cover of which had faded somewhat.
Yu Tian took it, opened it to check, and found that Wen Yang's page was still there, but the "moved out" column was blank.
“And her birth certificate,” Yu Tian added.
Wen Tao frowned: "Why do you need so many?"
Yu Tian didn't answer, he just stared at him coldly.
Wen Tao finally muttered and told his mother to rummage through the drawers and cabinets again.
While waiting, Yu Tian's gaze fell on the family photo hanging on the wall. Wen Yang stood at the very edge, maintaining a subtle distance from the others, her smile forced.
"Give."
Wang Mingxia handed over a yellowed file folder. "It's all here... How is Yangyang...?"
After checking the documents, Yu Tian carefully tucked them into the inner pocket, close to his chest: "It's better than here."
He looked at Wen Tao, "Take out your phone, I'll transfer the remaining 300,000 to you now."
Wen Tao eagerly pulled out his phone and received a text message confirming the transfer. When he saw the amount, his expression was like that of someone who had won the lottery.
He hung up his phone, rubbing his hands together: "Brother-in-law, you're so generous! If I'd known you were this rich, I would have persuaded my parents not to object to you and Yangyang..."