Money Over Love
Copyright© 2026 by RomanticDoaist
Chapter 12: Su Mengqing gives in!
The sudden turn of events plunged the mourning hall into a deathly silence.
Su Mengqing was stupefied, her eyes wide with shock and disbelief. Zhang Meili and her two companions stared at each other, completely dumbfounded.
“No, impossible ... absolutely impossible...” Liu Fang stood frozen, the color draining from her face. She slowly turned her head, her eyes filled with incredulity, and looked at Yuan Youwei, who was smiling without saying a word.
“That’s right, I did it,” Yuan Youwei said, her smile blooming like a flower as she nodded calmly. “My uncle is a senior executive at Yuandao Properties. I can have him fire anyone I want.”
“You! You!” Liu Fang clenched her fists, her entire body trembling with rage.
Yuan Youwei had mimicked her tone, throwing her own words right back at her. Liu Fang felt as if she had been slapped hard across the face, her cheeks burning with humiliation.
“Liu Fang, don’t believe her! She’s just trying to provoke you!” Yang Tingting urged hastily, seeing how badly the situation had turned.
“Right, it’s only been a few minutes. How could she possibly do that? It must be a coincidence!” Su Mengqing said with firm conviction.
Beside her, Zhang Meili and Su Gang nodded repeatedly in agreement. The whole affair was too outlandish for anyone to believe so easily.
“You wait! Just you wait! I’ll go to the hospital to figure out what’s going on, and then I’m coming back to settle the score with you!” Liu Fang snarled. She could no longer be bothered with the Su family’s drama. Clutching her phone, she scrambled toward the door in a panic. Although she suspected the woman was just provoking her, the scathing call from her second aunt’s husband had thrown her into a state of terror.
SCREECH! SCREECH!
Just as Liu Fang jogged to the mouth of the alley and reached for her car door, a convoy of luxury cars came roaring up the road. They screeched to a halt one after another, forming a long queue.
The most eye-catching of them all was a dark green armored cash transport vehicle.
The car doors flew open, and well-dressed men and women jumped out. With anxious expressions, they began unloading large briefcases from the armored vehicle and rushing with them toward the Suxin Clinic down the alley.
Liu Fang gasped, dumbstruck. “What in the world is going on?”
She suddenly noticed a young man among them with dark circles under his eyes.
“Young ... Young Master Yuan?”
BOOM!
Liu Fang’s mind went blank. That was Yuan Tao, the eldest son of the second branch of the Yuan family—the number one clan in Haicheng! She had never met him personally, but she had once seen him from a distance outside the general manager’s office at her company.
So the woman wasn’t threatening me after all? Could she ... actually be part of the Yuan family? It’s likely she really got my second aunt’s entire department—and me—fired!
“Yang Tingting! The Su family! You’ve doomed me! This isn’t over!”
THUD!
The world spun before her eyes as her legs gave way. Overwhelmed with regret, Liu Fang collapsed to the ground, sobbing her heart out.
「Inside the mourning hall.」
With Liu Fang’s departure, a flicker of unease crossed Su Mengqing’s mind. She turned on Lin Fan and demanded angrily, “Give me the formula now! Otherwise, in three days when the clinic’s rent is due, you’ll be thrown out on the street!”
“That’s right! You loser, if it weren’t for our family, could you possibly come up with the tens of thousands needed for the monthly rent in just three days?” Zhang Meili shouted, her plump face dark and her patience completely exhausted.
“You don’t need to worry about the rent,” Lin Fan said, releasing Yuan Youwei and Mrs. Xue. He gave a cold smile and held up his phone. “You want the formula? I’ve already posted it on the National Medicine Forum. Go copy it yourselves.”
At his words, the four members of the Su family were stunned for a moment, then felt a surge of joy. But in the next instant, their expressions changed dramatically, as if they’d been struck by lightning.
What National Medicine Forum ... Damn it! Doesn’t that mean it’s been published online? Lin Fan, how dare you? How could you DARE?!
They had thought the pressure of the rent had finally broken him. Who would have thought he’d go for the kill, stabbing the Su family right in the heart?
“Lin Fan! You ... May you die a horrible death!” Su Mengqing shrieked, staggering as she pointed a trembling finger at him, her lips quivering uncontrollably.