Chapter 44: It is Time to Deal with Wu Jinrong!

"No, don't, bro, let's talk this out calmly!"

Hearing those words, Jiang Jianmin finally sobered up a little. He quickly lowered his posture, pleading in a humble tone, "Brother, I know I was wrong. I apologize to you. Please show mercy, spare me this once, and let the Jiang family go, will you?"

The man on the other end of the line shook his head and said, "I gave you a chance, but you still have such a huge temper when death is at your doorstep?"

"I dare not imagine what kind of consequence would await me if I really let you go."

"So don't struggle anymore. You might as well just sit back and wait for your end!"

"You bastard... you really have to push us to total destruction?"

"If you dare, I'll fight you to the bitter end and never let you off!"

Jiang Jianmin was so furious that his eyes nearly split open. Yet, after hurling the curse, he realized the other party had already hung up the call—and from start to finish, had never revealed his true identity.

"Damn it!"

Furious, he slammed his phone hard onto the floor, then proceeded to smash everything in the room that could possibly be broken into pieces.

"You forced me into this!"

"You want to drive the Jiang family to a dead end?"

"Since that's the case, then go to hell with me right now!!!"

At the Xu family villa.

After listening to Tiger's report, Xu Ye curved the corner of his lips into a cold sneer.

At death's door, and he still dared to be this arrogant, huh?

Then let's see just how long he could remain wild!

"Bang—"

Just as Xu Ye was pondering, the bedroom door was shoved open violently, and a figure barged in aggressively.

It was Wu Jinrong, who had only asked for a four-hour leave the day before yesterday, yet had failed to show up for the entire day yesterday.

"Xu Ye! What was the meaning of your actions yesterday?"

"Why did you bully my son and even get my sister fired?!"

Xu Ye laughed out of pure anger: "Your family really are all cut from the same cloth."

"No matter how many lessons you're taught, you never quite figure out what kind of pathetic beings you really are."

"Bang—"

He slammed his hand fiercely onto the desk and sprang straight to his feet: "Who gave you permission to barge into my room uninvited?"

"And whose dog gave you the audacity to question your master in that tone?"

"You..."

Wu Jinrong was intimidated by Xu Ye's imposing aura, but she was plagued even more by panic and unease.

Could this little bastard Xu Ye actually be playing for real?

But how could he possibly dare?

Could it be that his heart had really changed, that he truly didn't love Ruowei anymore?

"W... Well, Xiao Ye..."

"Shut your mouth!"

Xu Ye interrupted her with an icy gaze: "Given your attitude just now, your salary for this month is gone. If there is a next time, I will throw you out of the Xu family directly!"

"Now, get out immediately and clean the swimming pool!"

"Remember, this is your sole responsibility, and you only have three hours."

"If it's not cleaned within three hours, you can kiss next month's salary goodbye as well!"

"This... But Young Master, that pool is a full 1,050 square meters! Just by myself..."

Wu Jinrong's face turned pale with anger. The hygiene standards of the Xu family were notoriously difficult to meet, and she hadn't done a single chore in over four years—she hadn't even been required to pour tea or fetch water.

Suddenly forcing her to clean a standard swimming pool fifty meters long and twenty-one meters wide all by herself?

And the crucial point was that she had to do it completely alone. Wasn't this deliberately setting her up to be tortured?

"This is an order, not a negotiation. Can you do it or not?"

"If you can, get to work; if you can't, get lost. The Xu family doesn't keep idle trash, and nobody is stopping you from leaving!"

Xu Ye said impatiently, a subtle, imperceptible smirk playing at the corners of his mouth.

He knew very well that Wu Jinrong would never leave. Otherwise, how else could she help her son steal commercial secrets from the Xu Group?

Therefore, he was deliberately making things difficult for her!

You love sucking the blood of my Xu family?

You swallowed my family's fortune in my past life and drove my family to ruin and death?

In this lifetime, naturally, he was going to exact his revenge bit by bit, slowly!

Sure enough, the next moment, Wu Jinrong clenched her teeth and said in a resentful, unwilling whisper, "Fine, Young Master, I'll go right now."

Just as Xu Ye had anticipated, now that her daughter and sister had been driven away, and her son had been demoted and reassigned to toilet-cleaning duty, if she walked out too, how could her family continue plotting against the Xu family?

That was a fortune worth over three hundred billion.

Not to suck it?

That was simply out of the question.

Yet damn it, what on earth was wrong with this little bastard Xu Ye?

In the past, he used to worship her as if she were an ancestral deity.

As for her daughter, he treated her like a sovereign, kneeling rather than standing, crouching rather than kneeling at her whim.

Yet now...

Just two days, what on earth happened? Why did things turn out this way?!

Xu Ye couldn't care less about what was running through her mind. While messaging Su Zijin on his phone, he stood on the balcony and watched with a cold, mocking smile.

Following his warning just moments ago, Wu Jinrong had grown considerably more well-behaved. Even though the scorching sun beat down directly overhead, threatening to bake a layer of skin off her within an hour, she didn't dare slack off for even a second.

"Is this going too far?"

"No, this is what your family owes me."

"I still remember the sight of my parents crushed inside that car!"

"And me? I had my limbs severed by your daughter and was buried alive!"

"Compared to that, what I'm handing back to you now is a mere drop in the bucket."

Casting a chilling glance at the figure below, he took out his phone, found Aunt Liu's number, and dialed directly.

With twenty-nine seconds remaining out of the three-hour limit, Wu Jinrong finally finished cleaning the entire pool.

She was exhausted, overheated, and her neck burned with a sharp pain from severe sunburn. She cursed the entire Xu family in her mind, hating them to her core.

Before she even had a moment to rest, Liu Guifen walked over, looking down at her from above, and said, "The Young Master has ordered you to go and clean every single toilet in the entire estate."

"Remember, the inspection standard is that the water in the toilets must be clean enough to drink, and you must drink a full cup of water from every single toilet."

"The cup is right here. It must be a full cup, not a single drop missing!"

With that, she handed over a cup capable of holding five hundred milliliters of water.

Targeted humiliation!

This was a thorough, unmasked attempt to break her down.

Everyone around could see it clearly, yet not a single person spoke up. Instead, their faces bore mocking grins and the dark thrill of post-revenge gratification.

There was no helping it; Wu Jinrong had been far too arrogant in the past.

Banking on the eldest young master's affection for Xu Ruowei, she had treated virtually every servant as beneath her notice.

Bullying them casually was one thing, but treating them like subhumans was no exaggeration. Ending up in her current plight was entirely self-inflicted—it was her karmic retribution!

Wu Jinrong, however, completely erupted, her eyes nearly shooting out flames of fury.

"Making me clean toilets was bad enough, and now you want me to drink toilet water?"

"Liu Guifen, you..."

"If you aren't willing to do it, then get lost. Like I said, nobody is stopping you!"

Xu Ye walked over at some point, cutting her off roughly: "Aunt Liu, if she wants to leave, make sure you have her pay the fines from the day before yesterday, and watch her pack her things. Not a single item belonging to the Xu family—not even a piece of dental floss—is to be taken away by her."

Finally, his gaze landed back on Wu Jinrong.

"Do it, or get lost?"