RETURNING FROM THE IMMORTAL WORLD

Chapter 1 - I'll Keep Playing with You!

"Tang Xiu, where did you hide the money? Take it out right now!"

"Tang Xiu, even if you need money you can't just steal it! As they say, 'Stealing needles when young, stealing gold when old'. You cannot make a habit out of stealing, or else your life will be finished."

"Tang Xiu, I believe you owe the school three thousand dollars of tuition fee. Are you planning to take that money to pay for it?"

[TN: Using dollars in place of yuan for better flow.]

Roughly a dozen or so people surrounded Tang Xiu and spoke endlessly. Doubt and disgust filled their eyes, and their tones were full of impatience.

Tang Xiu's face swelled with red, and signs of blood could be seen as he bit on his lips. His eyes became misty, but he firmly said with his neck raised, "I didn't steal any money!"

"Shangwen, Meiyun, you've seen Xiu'er grow up! He's always been honest from a young age, his studies and personality has always been excellent, and he never lies! Since he said he didn't steal any money, then the three thousand dollars lost definitely isn't related to him," Su Lingyun said. She was begging a middle-aged man and woman in a house as she tightly hugged her son in her embrace.

"Lingyun, we never said Xiu'er stole any money. We just think he hid the three thousand dollars possibly because he wanted you to be less worry." The middle-aged man turned his head to the side. He didn't even dare to look straight at Su Lingyun.

"His studies and personality has always been excellent? Hoho. Indeed, before your son entered Starcity Secondary School, his studies and personality had been excellent, but after impressively staying there for only a single year, his marks fell dramatically. He's placed first in the entire grade if you count backwards, and if it weren't for your pleading, your son would have probably been kicked out, right?" said the middle-aged woman coldly. She completely ignored Su Lingyun's eyes of near absolute despair.

After hearing her younger brother, Su Shangwen, and her sister-in-law, Zhang Meiyun, Su Lingyun's complexion turned pale. Her eyes also became dim and lifeless, but after seeing her son in her embrace, she had no choice but to force up courage and once again attempt to defend her son's innocence.

However, this time, before Su Lingyun even had a chance to speak, she was interrupted by two sharp voices.

"Aunt, don't protect Tang Xiu anymore. You can defend him for a moment, but you cannot defend him for his entire life. There are only so many people in the family. You say he didn't steal the three thousand dollars, so that means the money just flew away on its own?"

"Aunt, the reason why we suspect Tang Xiu is because he's the most likely who will steal in this house. In your eyes, naturally Tang Xiu's the most excellent. But you also know the horrible things he's done in school this year. Copying homework, cheating on tests, starting fights . . . As his cousin, I can't even raise my head proudly at school."

The ones who interrupted Su Lingyun were the son and daughter of Su Shangwen and Zhang Meiyun. If one were to say Su Shangwen's and Zhang Meiyun's words were spoken rather empathetically and that they knew to soften their tone, then son and daughter clearly didn't.

"Su Yaning, Su Xiangfei, you are both speaking nonsense and spitting false accusations!" Tang Xiu nearly shouted his throat out.

"Shangwen, Meiyun, please, don't make things difficult for him! If the money can't be found, then just act as I'm borrowing it! You also know ever since the car accident a year ago, he became a bit disoriented and can't take any agitation. If something truly happens to him, I won't be able to continue living on my own!" she powerlessly begged. When oppressed by her little brother's family, the tears falling from Su Lingyun's eyes were akin to connect pearls.