Chapter 1 The family’s test

"Daisy, why is Carl here? Why?" Victor Chu's voice was shaking with anger. His face looked livid. He pointed to a man next to Daisy and asked.

He really didn't want to believe what he saw. He took his fiancée's take-out order and prepared a surprise for her, but when he opened her door, there was another man in the room. And Victor even knew this man. He was Carl Guo, a jerk in Victor’s neighbor class when he was in his fourth year of college.

At this moment, Carl was looking at Victor with an extremely sarcastic look, as if he was looking at a clown.

Not only did Daisy not feel ashamed, but she looked at Victor with disgust, and then she scolded him.

"You wimp, what right do you have to question me? I haven't picked on you, but you get angry?"

"Who asks you to make deliveries? I‘ve already warned you not to do this job. Why are you still doing it?" Daisy shouted, "You know how embarrassing that is? Aren't you ashamed of making deliveries?"

“I've done nothing to be ashamed of. Why would I be ashamed of my job?" Victor retorted.

Victor clenched his fists and gritted his teeth. He didn't understand why Daisy despised the job of making deliveries so much. He was earning a legal wage. He wasn’t going to steal or rob someone.

Then she just smacked Victor right across the face.

Victor felt his face hurt.

"You piece of crap. You dare to talk back to me?” Daisy said loudly, her face red and angry.

"You're both men. Carl can make fifty thousand dollars a month, while you get up early every day and your salary is less than five thousand. "

"You're not ashamed to making deliveries, are you? Then I'll show you what embarrassment is now." Daisy yelled at the top of her lungs. She then snatched the takeaway box from Victor's hand and threw the box's contents directly onto Victor's body.

The scalding soup mixed with vegetable drenched Victor all over.

"Do you know what embarrassment is now?" Daisy growled.

Victor stood in the doorway, barely smiling.

Instead of wiping the leaves and soup from his face, he let the scalding soup run from his head all the way to his feet.

He didn't think he'd end up with this kind of ending after three years of being in the Chen family.

As Daisy's fiancé, he had never done anything wrong to Daisy. He worked hard to earn money and never took a penny from the family.

However, he was being summoned like a dog, and he was lower than a serving wench in the Chen family.

Now Daisy was trampling on his last dignity as a man.

Victor had been so disappointed in Daisy that even the last expectation he had for her was now extinct within him forever.

Victor clenched his fist and was about to turn around and leave.

At that moment, a middle-aged woman in a yellow nightgown with red curls walked out of the room. She bears some resemblance to Daisy in appearance, but she has a mature demeanor. She is Daisy's mother.

She darted a sideways glance at Victor, and then she turned her gaze to Daisy and said.

"Daisy, don't be angry with him. You don't have to argue with a loser."

"Mom, it's not that I want to argue with him. He just always embarrasses me." Daisy couldn't help but give Victor a hateful glance.

"Since he's been in my family, not once in the last three years have I held my head high in front of people." Daisy said, "Every day, my classmates mock me in front of my face, saying that I find a wimp to be my fiancé."

"Do you think I'd want you to marry him?" Her mother sighed

"The marriage contract was made three years ago by your grandmother, and I have to take orders from your grandmother." She continued.

"Bullshit." Daisy couldn't help but curse.

"The old man who came to the Chen family three years ago is a liar. He even called himself a divine doctor, it's ridiculous."

Her mother nodded, "It's true that your grandmother made a wrong decision about this, but she had to do this at the time. After all, that doctor saved your grandmother’s life. He asked you to marry Victor, and your grandmother had to agree with his requests."

"But why am I the one who have to marry him? It is unfair to me." Daisy was outraged.

"Because you are the only one in the Chen family that is the same age as him." The woman explained with a sigh.

When the doctor brought Victor to the Chen family three years ago, Daisy was the only one of marriageable age in the Chen family. So Daisy’s grandmother agreed to her engagement to Victor. However, she set a deadline of three years before they could marry.

"Don't be angry." The woman patted Daisy's shoulder and said

"Tomorrow your grandmother is celebrating her 70th birthday. You'd better think of what to give her as a gift." said the woman.

"If you can please your grandmother, when the three years are up, your grandmother will kick him out of the Chen family and won't let you marry him.” she continued, "By then, you'll be with Carl."

After saying that, she also looked at Carl, who was on the side, her eyes full of appreciation for him. In her opinion, only someone like Carl was worthy of being her son-in-law.

"Mom, I don't want to wait for the three years to expire before letting him leave the Chen family. I want him to get the hell out of my family tomorrow." Daisy pouted. She really didn't want to spend one more second with Victor. She wanted to be with Carl right now.

“There’s only a month left before the three-year period, can't you wait for a month?" said the woman. She didn't know how to help her daughter get out of the engagement.

"No, I can’t. I can't wait for one day." Daisy clenched her teeth.

"Since you can't wait, then tomorrow at your grandma's birthday banquet, I'll ask her to kick the loser out of the Chen family early." Carl said. Then he lovingly pinched Daisy's pretty face. He was the heir to the Guo family, if he mentioned this to Daisy's grandmother, she might agree to his request.

"Thank you, my dear. I know you will help me." said Daisy happily.

Then she smiled sweetly and hugged Carl affectionately.

The scene was heart-wrenching for Victor. No one in the Chen family respected him or cared for him.

"What are you looking at? Get out of here and quit your job. Look at you, you always make Daisy very angry." Seeing Victor still staring at Daisy, the woman said angrily.

Victor bit his teeth and turned away from Daisy's fine house without saying a word.

"He was a waste of space; he'll only disgrace my family." the woman said disdainfully.

Even as he walked downstairs, he could still hear the woman's reviling voice.

Victor chuckled to himself. He had no idea why it ended up being his fault.

With a sigh, he went back to the small room that belonged to him. He took a shower and changed clothes, then planned to quit his job. Victor knew that as long as he kept doing this work, he would not have a good time at the Chen family.

But when Victor just pushed out the door and walked out, he bumped into someone.

"Dinah?"

The innocent girl in front of her was Dinah Chen, Daisy's sister.

In the entire Chen family, only Dinah was kind to Victor.

"Victor, you just come out in time. I have something." After Dinah cautiously looked around, then she took out some money and placed it on Victor's hand.

"Tomorrow is grandmother's 70th birthday; our family is very serious about this. If you can pick out a gift for grandmother to please her, maybe it is a big status boost for you and my elder sister will be impressed with you too. Maybe you can get goodwill in Chen family." The girl said mischievously.

"I... "Victor pursed his lips. He was a little touched. Only Dinah was the best to him in the entire Chen family. She was two years younger than Victor and was a sophomore in college. Victor knew she had very little pocket money. She must save all her pocket money.

"You'd better put the money away or my sister will know I give you money." Dinah said nervously.

“I've already known it.” At that moment, an icy voice came out.

Dinah's look stiffened for a moment, then immediately smiled, "Victor lent this money to me. I just….. give the money back to….Victor.

"He lent you the money? This loser can't even support himself, and he can lend you money? You think I'm going to believe what you said?" Daisy snickered.

"I'm not lying." Dinah was anxious and tried to explain, but Daisy wouldn't even listen to her explanation. She took a few steps to Victor, snatched the money from Victor's hand, pointed at Victor and yelled at him.

"You're such a loser. You want my sister's money? If I were you, I'd kill myself. Don't you feel humiliated to be alive?"

"Sister, you..."

"Shut up. Go back to your room." Daisy said angrily.

Dinah took one look at Victor and left reluctantly.

Victor was grateful to Dinah for her kindness. She had helped him a lot over the past three years. The Chen family really didn't like him, and Dinah didn't have to be nice to him. Victor knew what she had been through because of him, yet she had never complained. Sometimes Victor thought that his fiancée should be Dinah. How kind this woman was!

"Daisy, it's time for us to go to the antique market to pick out a gift for your grandmother." Carl looked at the Longines watch on his wrist and pressed the BMW key on his hand.

"Ok, let's go." Daisy was happy and turned around to follow Carl into the car.

"I'll take your fiancée out. You just go to deliver food to make money, or you won't have money for dinner." Carl's gaze fell upon Victor with a contemptuous smile. Then they left.

This humiliation made Victor clench his fist tightly. His nails pierced right into the flesh of his palm.

All of this was about money. He was now a poor man, so the Chen family looked down on him. Why should the poor be despised?

He was angry. He hated not only himself, but his family as well. He'd been living in such contempt for three years. Victor didn't understand why his family had to have this test for him.

Was the family's purpose just to make him see the worst of humanity? If that's the case, Victor admitted the family had served its purpose. He had seen the ugly side of the humanity. He was disappointed that some people despised people because of money.

As he thought about it, his old cell phone rang in his pocket. Victor took it out. Then his pupils narrowed as he read the number.

He answered the phone and then an old voice came over the line.

"Congratulations, Young Master. The family's test of you is over."