"Sorry, I'm going to take the college entrance exam this year. How about this? I don't believe you when you say there's no money. Let's get a piece of paper and pen, and write down all the expenses. I want to see how much we can spend in one month. From now on, I won't even need my 200 yuan living allowance every month. As long as I can go to school, I'm willing to compromise."

  "Slap" Li Zhenhua finally couldn't bear it anymore and slapped Li Xiang.

  "Reversal girl, when we earn money, it's your turn to point fingers and draw feet?"

  "How much I spend each month, you have no idea, and yet you come to teach me how to do it? Even if there's leftover money, what's the big deal? Am I supposed to be penniless? Can't your brother even have some pocket money? Ah, must one not have a single cent left to be truly penniless? I let you work, so you should work for me, stop nagging here. Such a good job, others would kill to get it, but you threw it away like trash. Who do you think you are?"

  Li Xiang covered his face and looked at Li Zhenhua in disbelief, "You, hit me?"

  "You're my daughter, why can't I hit you?"

  Li Xiang suddenly turned around and saw her stepmother, who was smiling smugly to herself. She pointed at her with a trembling hand, her whole body shaking with anger.

  "I'm your daughter, isn't Yang Xue also your daughter? Every month, my stepmother gives Yang Xue 400-500 yuan, which is twice my living expenses. Why don't you say anything about this? You have money to raise someone else's daughter, but no money to raise me? And isn't it true that you're short of money? Then why can she take out 5,000 yuan to bribe my classmate, and get them to ruin my reputation at school, forcing me to drop out? What about the coal mine bureau? That's just a front for her shady dealings. She plans to sell me off to the coal boss so she can use the money to send her own daughter to college. Yang Xue is her illegitimate child, born before they were even married!"

  After saying that, Li Xiang wiped away the tears on his face in a mess, not looking at his stumbling stepmother and stunned father, walked into his room with despairing steps, packed up a few clothes and books, grabbed a bundle and left the house without looking back.

  Li Zhenhua was stunned by Li Xiang's sudden words and didn't even notice when she left. As for what would happen between the couple after she left, it had nothing to do with her anymore.

  It's already past 10 o'clock at night, and it's impossible to find a house now. She can only temporarily rent a room in a small hotel near the school and move out after finding a house.

  None of this was what she wanted, she knew that from now on she couldn't go back to that home again, fortunately, she didn't want to go back either.

  The host resented her own father, she didn't understand at first, that one slap just broke the last bit of their relationship.

  For seventeen years, Li Xiang had only happy times when his mother was alive. Since the stepmother entered the house, his treatment has been reduced to the lowest point.

  Apart from school hours, I'm always busy at home, either doing laundry and cooking or taking care of my brother, without any free time.

  It has come to this today, also the outcome of stepmother's insatiable greed. If she had restrained herself a bit, she wouldn't have done it so absolutely, not even leaving herself a way out. Why should she still leave one for her?

  Fortunately, when she came out, she also took out the household registration book from home. With the household registration book, in the future, even if she handles the transfer of household registration, she will not have to look at that family's face again, let alone be threatened by them.

  From today on, she is truly free.