Feng Wanxuan, standing at the corner of the staircase, watched Xiao Tianlong’s pathetic demeanor with utter disdain.
She had long since concluded that this man had no backbone.
Her disappointment in him was truly absolute.
Feng Wanxuan was extremely averse to the marriage certificate with Xiao Tianlong, but hindered by her grandfather’s last words, she ultimately held her tongue.
And it wasn’t as if she hadn’t given Xiao Tianlong chances.
She arranged a job for him in the family’s group company, but he thought it was humiliating, living under someone else’s roof.
Instead, he was willing to wash clothes, cook, and mop floors at home, enduring insults.
Women are more or less drawn to strength. Feng Wanxuan’s thinking was simple: a man should be indomitable, a pillar of strength.
Even if poor, even if unremarkable, he should be bold and responsible, flexible and resilient, possessing manly spirit.
To face a collapsing mountain without flinching — that is a man’s responsibility!
But Xiao Tianlong seemed like a born coward, a masochist, a worthless failure.
For five years, he was called a freeloader, a wimp, useless, a maggot.
On average, eight people insulted him every day, each averaging six insults, and they were all household servants.
Even a clay man has some temper, yet he remained silent, letting others bully him.
Though it’s said that those who achieve great things must bend and stretch, and must know forbearance—
But masochism and forbearance are hardly synonyms.
Even when he wasn’t wrong, when he was framed, he didn’t dare make a sound.
When bullied by family relatives, he just snorted coldly and twisted his mouth.
Feng Wanxuan had clearly told him before: if someone humiliates you, wrongs you, or insults you, you can hit them.
Even if you lose, even if you can’t win, it’s no big deal. At least you pick up your dignity and fight for yourself.
But Xiao Tianlong? He twisted his mouth and said, “I disdain to quibble with petty scoundrels.”
If that isn’t a worthless wimp, what is?
From that moment on, Xiao Tianlong was beneath her notice. He wasn’t worthy!
At this moment, Xiao Tianlong had a rag draped over his shoulder, a mop in his hand, still mopping the floor.
It had to be said, if he worked in the housekeeping industry, the annual Best Employee award would definitely be his.
The floor was squeaky clean, even cleaner than a Mediterranean bald head.
A short while later, three luxury cars arrived outside the door.
Two men got out of the first car first.
One was in a suit and leather shoes, clearly a rich young master.
The other was dressed in hemp clothing, but not coarse fabric, over fifty, twirling a string of beads between his fingers.
“Elder Wu, please!” Zhang Li respectfully gestured.
The one addressed as Elder Wu nodded with an air of superiority and walked in first.
The Feng family members also rushed out to greet him.
Seeing Xiao Tianlong still mopping the floor, they raged, “You worthless wimp, get out of here, don’t be an eyesore!”
Xiao Tianlong sneered disdainfully, picked up his bucket, and moved aside.
The Feng family’s attitude towards Xiao Tianlong was one thing; their attitude towards the outsider Zhang Li was another.
“Young Master Zhang, this is the heir to the Ghost Gate Thirteen Needles you mentioned, Elder Wu, right?”
Zhang Li smiled proudly, “That’s right, it’s him. I specifically invited him to treat the Grand Matriarch.”
“Great, great. Young Master Zhang, Elder Wu, thank you for your trouble. Please, come in quickly!”
After the two entered, they headed directly upstairs.
Zhang Li, seeing Xiao Tianlong mopping and wiping tables over there, deliberately shouted without restraint, “Wanxuan, I’m here!”
After shouting, he spat on the floor and said, “Hey, you waste, mop this spot!”
“Hahahaha!” Zhang Li laughed and went straight upstairs.
Xiao Tianlong looked at Zhang Li’s back and sneered coldly.
“A thing unworthy of the stage. Later, I’ll let you know there’s no such thing as regret medicine in this world!”
Though he muttered this, that spit still needed to be mopped clean, otherwise he’d be criticized and scolded.
About five or six minutes later, the Mopping King Xiao Tianlong had worked his way from the first floor to the second.
Dragging his mop, he accidentally nudged open the door to the room where the Grand Matriarch was being treated.
The room had seven or eight people inside. Feng Wanxuan was there too, her face tense.
The others were mostly from the Feng family.
That Zhang Li was also there, sitting and leering at Feng Wanxuan with perverted eyes.
On the bed, the Grand Matriarch had six silver needles stuck in her head. The elderly man in hemp clothing was treating her earnestly.
Suddenly interrupted, everyone turned to look at the doorway.
It was that waste, Xiao Tianlong.
“You bastard, how dare you interrupt my needle technique!” Elder Wu burst out cursing.
“You waste, who let you in here? Get out!”
“Have you no sense of rules?”
Xiao Tianlong’s gaze focused on the Grand Matriarch’s head, and he couldn’t help but exclaim, “If you continue needling like that, the Grand Matriarch won’t last another half-hour!”
Everyone looked at him like he was an idiot.
Zhang Li couldn’t help but burst into laughter: “The Feng family’s live-in son-in-law, a spineless wimp, also thinks he’s qualified to talk about acupuncture?”
“I spent five million to invite Elder Wu to treat the Grand Matriarch, and now he’s being questioned by a good-for-nothing?”
Elder Wu also looked disdainfully at the Feng family crowd: “Who exactly calls the shots in your Feng family?”
The Grand Matriarch was also furious. If not for the silver needles in her head preventing her from moving wildly,
she would have flipped over right then and let Xiao Tianlong taste her Five Consecutive Lightning Whips!
“Old man… this is the son-in-law you chose for our Xuan’er, this waste of a son-in-law!”
The Grand Matriarch was terribly sad. She doted on Feng Wanxuan immensely. Seeing her marry a loser because of the old man’s dying wish caused her heartache.
The other Feng family members weren’t so polite. Someone went up and delivered a huge slap.
“Slap!”
Xiao Tianlong took a slap, his head whipped to the side, then he raised his hand to cover his face, grimacing with a face full of resentment.
“You still think you haven’t embarrassed us enough? Get out!”
So humiliated, Xiao Tianlong wanted to explode, but still gritted his teeth: “You’ll regret this!”
With that, he walked out the door.
He believed the Feng family would come begging him soon.
The maggot was gone, and the room returned to a solemn atmosphere.
Elder Wu continued inserting needles.
Everyone watched nervously.
But before long, the Grand Matriarch suddenly convulsed, then abruptly raised her head and spat out a mouthful of blood.
“What’s happening?”
“What’s going on?”
“Grandmother!”
The room instantly erupted in chaos.
And Elder Wu was in a complete panic, at a loss.
“This… this must be… it must be that live-in son-in-law’s doing!”
“Find him, find him!”
The Feng family rushed out.
Xiao Tianlong hadn’t gone far and was promptly dragged back.
The moment they saw Xiao Tianlong, Elder Wu directly pounced on him: “I-it must be your doing!”
“Xiao Tianlong, you must give an explanation today, or you’ll be expelled from the Feng family!”
Xiao Tianlong frowned. He really wanted to roar that phrase, “This Feng family isn’t worth staying in!”
But he couldn’t! His Profound Sky Art was about to reach Major Achievement. If he left now, wouldn’t that be a huge loss? How could he ever hold his head high?
Besides, he hadn’t tasted Feng Wanxuan’s meat bun yet.
Five years, he endured for five years. Did anyone know how he spent these five years?
After thinking it over, Xiao Tianlong twisted his mouth into a smile: “I told you, with the method you were using just now, the Grand Matriarch wouldn’t live past half an hour.”
“You didn’t believe me?”
Everyone was very angry, but with the facts right before their eyes, they had no choice but to believe.
Xiao Tianlong was also a good guy, a righteous light. Repaying malice with kindness was a daily routine for him.
He directly stepped forward, snatched Elder Wu’s silver needles, and began performing acupuncture on the Grand Matriarch.
