Be Careful, Scum Dad! Mommy Is Back!
Chapter 253 - Chapter 253 Chapter 253 There Are No Second Chances

Chapter 253: Chapter 253 There Are No Second Chances Chapter 253: Chapter 253 There Are No Second Chances Haozi brought a person who was an expert in electronic blasting.

He worked with Rees to speed up the deciphering of the second layer of the password lock.

Feng Suli saw Zhou Ni Juan fall to the ground and then glanced at her disheveled sister-in-law. Under Zhou Zhenqing’s gaze, she hurried over to help her mother-in-law up.

“Mom, are you okay? Did you hurt yourself anywhere?”

“Honey, mom’s wrist bone…”

No matter what, she was his biological mother. Zhou Zhenqing quickly instructed someone to call for a doctor.

Lu Xining asked Haozi, “Can you unlock it?”

Haozi, deeply understanding the urgency in her heart, nodded, “It will take some time.”

Just a few steps away, Zhou Ni Juan and Feng Suli also heard the conversation and turned their heads to look.

Until now, Zhou Zhenqing had only known that Ji Muye and Lu Xining had brought people to start trouble at his door. It was only from his son that he now found out that the cause was his own mother kidnapping their daughter.

His face changed slightly and he quickly stepped forward to disapprove, “Mom, why did you kidnap their daughter?”

Being questioned by her son with a tone of blame in front of everyone made Zhou Ni Juan feel unable to save face.

She pursed her lips in displeasure, “I didn’t do this!”

“How would I know who put their daughter in my safe? Maybe it’s a case of a thief shouting ‘Stop thief.’ I even need to find someone to check for missing valuables to see if something has been stolen.”

Hearing her insinuating words, Ji Muye threw his phone at her.

The dim light in the basement cast shadows on his sharply defined profile, the anger flaring in his dark eyes as he spoke with a chilling tone laced with a stern warning,

“I don’t hit women, especially not elderly ones.”

“But if you continue to be disrespectful, I wouldn’t mind making you the first!”

Zhou Zhenqing’s brows knitted together, and it was clear that Ji Muye was straining to control his impulses and anger. Although he had other women and children outside, his morals were still intact on certain issues.

“Mom, what’s with the sarcasm? If you’re suspicious, then find the person responsible, but what does a two-year-old child have to do with this? Hurry up and open the door, don’t let things get out of hand.”

Seeing her son not taking her side, Zhou Ni Juan grew even more upset. She brought up the matter of Lu Xining having Zhou Ziyue’s legs broken and inquired what her son was going to do about it.

“One thing at a time, open the door first! If the child is really inside, she might already be in danger after so much time!”

“I’ll seek justice for Ziyue, but that’s no reason for you to target a two-year-old child.”

Zhou Jiawang also tried to help, but Zhou Ni Juan was unwilling to budge. She felt as if she were being forced onto a roasting fire, her authority challenged and undermined.

“It’s not that I don’t want to, but look at my wrist bone–it’s dislocated, and I can’t even lift it because of the pain. How do you expect me to unlock it?”

“Besides, this lock requires thermal sensing. I can tell my wrist is heating up from the injury. If the temperature isn’t right, the lock will immediately initiate a destruction program, and it will never be unlocked.”

Her gaze swept over Lu Xining’s face, the corners of her mouth slowly curling up in a faint smile.

But the words that came out were clearly intended to destroy her sanity.

In the gloom, countless trivial matters instantly intruded into Lu Xining’s mind, her dark apricot eyes staring intently into Zhou Ni Juan’s as she keenly perceived her intentions.

Haozi was right.

Perhaps Zhou Ni Juan’s goal was to make her watch her daughter die with her own eyes.

To see her suffer after losing her daughter.

But why? Did she hate her that much?

Or was it her… grandmother that she hated?

Could a person’s jealousy really be so intense that it could span decades, still seething with anger to this day?

Or perhaps, Zhou Ni Juan wanted to force her to hand over that pendant.

But she had never seen that pendant before.

“The thing you want, I can give it to you, but you must open the safe door first.”

A softly uttered sentence made Zhou Ni Juan’s heart constrict abruptly.

She locked her gaze on Zhou Ni Juan’s eyes, missing none of the emotions on her face as she stepped forward and stared at her face-to-face.

Lu Xining, “Open, the, door.”

The slender yet tall figure blocked some of the light. Underneath her calm exterior flowed a power so intense it choked Zhou Ni Juan’s words in her throat.

Feng Suli, who was helping her, was also frightened by Lu Xining’s demeanor at the moment, swallowing back her words as she clearly saw the chill on the stunning face that was but a short distance away.

Emotions of shock and anger surfaced in Zhou Ni Juan’s eyes as she spoke exacerbatedly, “Is this how you speak to your elders? When you ask for help, you should act like it!”

Lu Xining, clenching her back teeth to restrain her impulse to lash out, was willing to bow down for her daughter.

“Please open the door.”

After she lowered her voice in a plea, Zhou Ni Juan kept pushing the boundaries.

“Your voice is too soft…”

Right as she finished speaking, Ji Muye had already walked over to pull Lu Xining behind him.

Zhou Jiawang followed with an urgent tone, “Grandma!”

He closed his eyes tightly, feeling bitterness spreading across his chest, not understanding why his grandma harbored such intense hostility towards Lu Xining.

“Grandma, please open the door.”

“Nuonuo is only two years old, she’s still a child, please open the door quickly.”

Ji Muye’s black eyes were cold as he looked at Zhou Ni Juan with a sharp gaze, raising his hand with an oppressive force that scared Feng Suli, who was assisting her, into stepping back.

The man sneered coldly, lowering his hand, and gave Zhou Jiawang a glance filled with sarcasm.

Zhou Ni Juan, who had almost had a heart-stopping moment just now, still felt her heart palpitate.

Lu Xining pushed aside Ji Muye’s hand that was pulling her towards the door and faced Zhou Ni Juan’s gaze, slightly leaning forward, “There won’t be a second chance.”

“What?” The voice was full of confusion.

Lu Xining hurried back to the door, picking up the item Rees had given her, continuing to listen for sounds from within.

“Nuonuo, can you hear mommy’s voice, Nuonuo…”

Her instinct told her that her daughter was inside the Zhou Family house.

And she had clearly heard her daughter’s crying just a moment ago, now she could hear nothing at all, and the panic and worry inside her grew every second.

She turned to look at Haozi, “How much longer?”

Rees and others were working together, continously demonstrating hacking solutions on the computer.

“Just a moment!” Haozi’s fingertips flew across the keyboard.

As fireworks exploded on the screen, he exclaimed with joy, “Unlocked!”

“Five minutes.”

Haozi had gotten the exact temperature for the thermal sensing lock; the people prepared on the side quickly placed the special gloves into a black container.

The machine started the five-minute countdown.

Once the glove temperature was adjusted, the person wearing the gloves could enter the code and directly unlock the second layer of the door lock–the remaining part was the iris bio-recognition system.

To Lu Xining, this seemed the easiest part, considering all the important people of the Zhou family were present.

She looked back at Ji Muye, who instantly understood her intent.

“Catch them all!”

Suddenly, members of the Ji and Lu families moved forward in silent agreement, full of aggression.

The Zhou family bodyguards wanted to step forward, but were stopped by a word from Zhou Jiawang.

“Nobody move!”

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