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The day before the hearing, the community director called me to the police station.

The mediation room was crowded with people.

My in-laws sat at one end of the long table, aggrieved, with seven or eight relatives standing behind them.

I sat alone at the other end, like a criminal guilty of a heinous crime.

The director, seated at the head, cleared his throat and accused me, "Miss Xu, the Zhao Family hasn't treated you badly! On what grounds are you monopolizing the Zhao Family's assets all by yourself?"

I burst into laughter.

Monopolizing? What I'm doing is called legal inheritance, how can it be called monopolizing?

The director suddenly couldn't utter a word.

"Xu Jing, Mingyuan has just passed, and you drove the old couple out of their home, has your conscience been eaten by dogs?"

"How could there be such a vicious and heartless woman like you in the world!"

The eldest sister-in-law was the first to fire shots; she had deliberately worn a striped qipao today, with a white flower pinned to her chest.

I stared at her empty wrist, recalling how in my past life, when I was dying in the late stages of stomach cancer, she snatched away the wedding gold bracelet that my mother gave me.

And shamelessly said, "You're going to die soon anyway, don't waste good stuff."

"If the eldest sister-in-law has such a conscience, why not talk about last year's incident when you embezzled mom and dad's pension funds to speculate in stocks? Lost two hundred thousand and deceived the old couple, claiming you were defrauded by telecom scammers, huh?"

The eldest sister-in-law's face instantly turned the color of pig liver, and my mother-in-law quickly turned her head, glaring at her harshly.

The next moment, she put on a pitiful posture, wiping tears dramatically and burst into loud sobs.

"Oh my poor son! So young and gone, leaving us two old people behind, how are we supposed to survive?"

"Jingjing, I've always treated you like my own daughter all these years, why are you being so heartless to us?"

"Where did we go wrong?"

My mother-in-law's sorrowful cries echoed in the police station hall.

Even the officers handling the case were somewhat moved, their eyes filled with blame as they looked at me.

But I remained completely indifferent, as cold as ice.

Can't handle this?

The worst is yet to come!

I smiled slightly, and right in front of them, handed over Zhao Mingyuan's household registration book and ID card to the police, to cancel his personal information.

Upon seeing this scene, my in-laws' faces instantly turned ashen!

My mother-in-law lunged forward like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, but I dodged in preparation.

"No! You can't cancel my son's ID!"

Her voice was piercingly sharp, even frightening the police.

I sneered, what's the use of a household registration for a dead person?

"Once these procedures are completed, Mingyuan will…"

Never come back.

But she dared not utter those last four words.

Seeing I was still determined to cancel it.

The eldest sister-in-law screamed and lunged to grab the computer, while the third uncle-in-law swung his cane directly at my head.

"Everyone, stop!"

The police couldn't take it any longer.

"Miss Xu is Zhao Mingyuan's legal wife, she has the right to process her spouse's death certificate! If you make trouble again, I'll arrest you!"

Under the police warning, no one dared to make more trouble, all they could do was watch as Zhao Mingyuan's identity was canceled to deceased status.

Looking at their deathly grim expressions, a burst of vengeful pleasure surged within my heart!

Zhao Mingyuan, didn't you want to be dead?

I'll fulfill your wish, make you truly dead!