Signing-In: The Lazy Moon Goddess

Little Taiyang approached her with the two things she had requested: a black briefcase with the Autumn Field Bank logo and a large jewelry box from a reputable retailer. The black briefcase is obviously filled with cash. Yue Xuexia took the jewelry box first, placing it carefully on her grandmother's lap. The package weighed a moderate amount, so Grandma could easily carry it with her current strength.

Grandma Hialun asked, "What is this, Xue'er?"

"Try touching it, granny," said Yue Xuexia.

The old woman did as she was told and placed her palm on the jewelry box. All of a sudden, Yue Xuexia's voice could be heard speaking from the box.

[Fingerprint recognition successful! Ownership transfer approved. Congratulations, Granny! Everything inside the box is yours~ Jewelry box is now opening~]

The jewelry box on Grandma Hialun's lap opened to reveal a few sets worth of jewels, ranging in color from white to gold, with diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, rubies, amethysts, and other valuable and colorful gemstones used to create a variety of accessories. Everything is arranged inside in sections. Each gem was different in form and had a very high degree of purity, which amazed Su Surui in particular.

Rather, Mama Yue started helping her mother put on a few matching accessories. She knows that only the owner can open this jewelry box because she has several of them at home, and each piece of jewelry is unique and has a tracker attached so that whoever dares to take it would be apprehended.

"Mom, wear this diamond set for today as it fits your attire the most," Yue Suli said.

Grandma Hialun urged her eldest daughter to accompany her back to her room and she answered, "No. I want to wear red ones. I want to change clothing so I can wear this ruby set." The men had, after all, placed the remainder of her gifts inside.

"Ma, I also got some clothes. Why don't you assist Aunt Surui in finding the ideal attire for Granny's birthday?" Yue Xuexia said.

Yue Suli glanced at the Qu Family and at her husband, who should have shook his head and waved her away, but instead, Grandma Hialun opted to turn a blind eye to their plight and gave Yue Xuexia command of the issue.

Mama Yue followed her mother and sister back into the house and said, "Okay."

After receiving the suitcase, Papa Yue cautioned his daughter, "Do not overdo it. She is still your mother's sister." Yue Xuexia offered the briefcase to her father and asked him to accompany her mother and give it to her grandma as well.

Yue Xuexia answered, "As long as she had enough brains, the ending wouldn't get worse." As though the person they are referring to wasn't there at the event.

"Why did you bring cash like this?" Yue Yuya questioned, patting the suitcase with the Autumn Field Bank logo.

Yue Xuexia replied, "Don't worry. It's just one hundred million RMB. I intended to bring a billion, but the bank doesn't have that much paper money. That's their maximum limit. Please give it to Granny, Pa. She doesn't know how to use the card, and she enjoys actual money better."

"Sigh~ fine. Let Little Yang have his fill after finishing everything here. You also have lunch with your siblings," said Papa Yue before following his wife, who had gone inside the house.

When Papa Yue left the crowd, Yue Xuexia's smile also faded quickly. Instead, she gave off an air of contempt and authority that was only known to those who had risen above the others in the room. It was the attitude of someone who did better at work than most people did, and it had an air of luxury and administrative quality, giving the impression of a president of a large company or a heiress in charge of multiple businesses.

That is how Yue Xuexia appears right now.

The Qu Family, the object of those icy gazes, had all of a sudden become silent, even Qu Susu, the sibling with the most poisonous tongue at birth.

Yue Xuexia said, "What did you call my mother? A leech? What did you call my sisters? A Shit? Poor thing?"

Every word Yue Xuexia said made Qu Susu and her family feel as though they were being stabbed in the heart. She is not unintelligent enough to not recognize where her young niece stands in relation to her at this point, though, because even as an illiterate person, she was able to recognize the brands that were engraved on the gift bags, the models of the phones and tablets the Yue Sisters were carrying, and the names of that sports car, all of which cost several thousand dollars, if not millions of dollars. These things made her realize how drastically different the Yue Family is now than they were before.

The Qu Family had once lived in a slum; she often borrowed money from her siblings, most notably the youngest, Yue Suli. The Yue Family had been middle class before they fell into poverty. Mr. Yue was still working abroad at the time, but his family had stayed in their country. His family received enough financial support from him that his wife's relatives used to feel jealous of them.

However, she never returned the borrowed funds, and Yue Suli never asked her to do so. At that time, she completely exploited the Yue Family for her own family's benefit; Yue Suli did not object because she believed she was supporting her older sister, but her eldest daughter disagreed. Yue Xuexia was left in the country by herself during her college years, with the two people who looked after her the most being Grandma Hialun and Aunt Xing Suya. Her parents and siblings had also moved abroad at the time, and she had lived there prior to attending college.

When Yue Xuexia was in high school, her family lived abroad and she studied there. However, after graduating, Yue Xuexia returned to her home country to pursue her college education. Since Grandma Hialun used to live there, Qu Susu visited her home frequently during this time. This was done for her benefit, Yue Xuexia's well-being as a lone citizen of the nation. The money for the home's expenses was transferred to Yue Xuexia's account, from which she would withdraw cash and deliver it to her grandmother. As a result, Yue Xuexia knew how much money she had given her grandmother for household bills and her own needs, even though her aunt Qu had borrowed most of it.

Yue Xuexia is aware of her Aunt Qu's avarice. When she tried to speak with her grandmother and mother, they told her to stop asking. So Yue Xuexia ignores it in spite of her objections. However, as a result, she and her aunt Qu have never gotten along. She visited Grandma Hialun once a month to beg for money. Once and twice every three months was OK, but twice a month is excessive.

The Yue Family collapsed, making matters worse. The pandemic at the time spent most of their savings. Her father lost his job as a result of the recession, and they are now jobless. Yue Xuexia can only work from home because she was sick and weak at birth, and her pay is barely enough to pay for all of the household expenses, her two sisters' tuition, and her daily medication. Once her paycheck arrived, it was completely gone.

Papa Yue and Mama Yue thought about taking out a loan in an attempt to get things back under control at home. While some people helped their Yue Family in their hour of need, the Qu Family saw them as paupers. Mama Yue was so humiliated the one time she went to Aunt Qu to borrow money that she never asked Qu Susu for help again.

Qu Susu and her husband were despised by Yue Xuexia, although she did not really hate her cousins; she did not seek retribution when the Yue Family became prosperous once again, even wealthier than any Xia Clan household. Her parents always told them sisters to ignore the Qu Family. They would change because they would become rich. However, she could not resist thinking back on how much her family had done to assist the Qu Family back when they were still struggling. She was surprised by how shameless the family was to treat her Yue Family in that way given that their family had always provided for their needs.

However, Yue Xuexia's tolerance for the Qu Family has a limit. She knew that every time the Xia Clan held an event like this, Qu Susu would try to make her family look bad. Her family would usually avoid an event like this within the clan, but on Grandma Hialun's birthday, you have to show your respect for the elders by being present.

Though Yue Xuexia was not surprised by Qu Susu's outburst, she was not prepared for her to treat her mother and siblings like that. She is very conceited and smug, and she does not seem to care about anything. Yue Xuexia took immediate offense because she could not take it any longer.

"Aunt Qu. What makes you so proud? The little mansion where your family lives. The 2 cars your family owns. Or the 3 million annual salary of your eldest daughter?" Yue Xuexia questioned.

"Maybe you had forgotten the poor Qu Family version of yourself. At that time, Uncle Su only had a minimum salary of a monthly wage. You live in a slum in your small house that only has a living room, two small rooms, and a bathroom. You even have to cook in the living room as the house had no kitchen at all."

"You don't have enough money for food and the tuition fee of your three children. Would monthly come over to my Yue Family family to borrow money from my mother and granny. At that time, did I say anything? Did I stop them from giving you money? Have you ever repaid those debts of yours? Or maybe you even have forgotten that the one who helped your husband find work abroad was also my father?"

"So let me formally ask you, Aunt Qu. Are you a leech that sucked the wealth of my Yue Family shamelessly but still had the face to look down on the Yue family?!"

"Let me tell you something. The only reason why your Qu Family still exists is that I don't hate your children. Because half of your blood is the same as my mother and granny. Because you used to be surnamed Xia! That is all."

Yue Xuexia glared at her Aunt Qu as if she wanted her to end horribly then and there. "But tell me, what did you just do to my mother? Why did you yell at my sisters? How did you embarrass my grandmother? Why do you look down on my Yue family? I want to ask you something. Qu Susu, do you want to return to the slums?"

Yue Xuexia's rage overcame Qu Susu, leaving her speechless and unable to stay upright as she sank to the ground and trembled.

"N-No... No... no, I don't... I don't want... Don't want to be poor... Please... I beg you..." said Qu Susu while trying to beg Yue Xuexia.