Wen Shu deliberately spoke sarcastically, "What kind of talk is that? Such a serious crime, don't try to pin it on me. How can you blame others for your own life-or-death struggle?"

"Besides, they weren't talking nonsense. Which of their statements was false? That's their job. I don't think there's anything wrong with them."

A classmate walked by and gave Wen Shu and Su Ying a suspicious look. Su Ying guiltily pushed her sunglasses up, "You..."

"The other party may not even know you, may have never met you, so how can you say that they are trying to force you to your death? It's no use coming to me about this, go to him. Don't blame everything on others, take some time to reflect on yourself."

After saying that, Wen Shu turned and went into the classroom, with no intention of saying anything more to her. Su Ying.

Su Ying was left standing there, and fearing being recognized, she quickly left the school.

She didn't go anywhere else, but went straight to her grandmother.

Grandma looked at her coldly, "What are you doing here again? What do you want now? Do you think that by getting the old and the young all killed, no one will know about your dirty secrets?"

Su Ying looked at her grandmother anxiously, "Mom, you absolutely have to help me! If you don't, I'm doomed!"

She told her grandmother about what happened online.

Grandma sat on a small stool, picking chives in her hand. She told Rou Rou and Wen Shu that they would make chive dumplings for dinner.

"I don't know anything about what you're talking about, and Wen Shu hasn't told me either. As for why others are doing it, you'll have to ask yourself that."

"Is what they're saying true? If it's false, issue a statement; if it's true, then admit it..."

Before her grandmother could finish speaking, Su Ying anxiously said, "If I admit it, I'm finished!"

"When Tingsong finds out I've had a child, he might even divorce me! Mom, you can't let Wenshu ruin me like this!"

"Why would Wen Shu ruin you? You treated her like dirt, hurting her like that, and she didn't do anything wrong. Why are you blaming Wen Shu for everything?"

"Who wrote the article? Who did you contact? What good will it do you to contact me?"

Grandma retorted bluntly, "Besides, those things are true. Even if they are suppressed today, they will be brought up again in the future."

"You should leave. I warned you before not to come here."

Su Ying panicked, "Mom..."

Grandma interrupted, "Don't call me Mom. From now on, I'll pretend I never raised you, and I don't have a daughter like you. Go live your good life and don't bother us anymore."

“If you bother us again, it won’t be someone else’s article that gets written; I’ll personally go to the media and tell you about all the despicable things you’ve done over the years.”

Su Ying opened her mouth, "Mom, all these years, have I deliberately ignored you? I haven't even secured my own position in the Zhong family, how could I possibly care about you?"

Su Ying began to explain her difficult situation.

“That Zhong Wanwan is always picking fights. If I don’t appease her, how can I stand in the Zhong family? If she just says a few words to her father, Tingsong will think I’m abusing her.”

“In the past few years, before my mother-in-law died, I had to endure her disdain. My life only got a little better after she passed away…”

Grandma coldly replied, "You don't need to tell me these things. This is the path you chose yourself. No one can stop you or persuade you otherwise. Why are you complaining to me?"

"Mom, I really had no choice!"

Grandma stood up and went to the sink to wash the chives. "Whether you had no choice or not is none of my business, and I have no interest in knowing."

“If you don’t want to cause trouble for yourself, just live your own life and don’t meddle in Wen Shu’s affairs. You just don’t learn from your mistakes and often end up like this.”

Su Ying retorted, "What do you mean by interfering in Wen Shu's affairs? Wasn't I doing everything for her own good?"

Grandma reached out and turned off the tap, then turned to look at Su Ying and asked, "For her own good? Including introducing her to a fifty-year-old man as a blind date?"

Grandma shook the water off her hands, turned to look at Su Ying, and said, "In all these years, Wen Shu has never said a bad word about you to my face, but I'm not stupid!"

"Wen Shu didn't say anything, but I could tell from her attitude towards you that every time you appeared, her mood worsened, she became more irritable, and more resentful. All the emotions you brought to her were negative!"

"You say you're doing this for her own good, but I don't believe you," Grandma said. "You've never done it for her own good; you're only doing it for yourself!"

Su Ying opened her mouth, but was unwilling to linger on the topic any longer.

She said impatiently, "Alright, Mom, that happened so many years ago. Don't bring it up."

"I did introduce her to someone a bit older back then, but she didn't like him, did she? I didn't force her!"

Grandma looked calmly at Su Ying, at the child she had raised with her own hands. How could she have raised such a heartless wretch?

Are genes really that important?

No matter how hard she tries to raise him, she can't change the evil that's ingrained in his bones.

"Su Ying, there's something I've never told you."

Su Ying asked absentmindedly, "What is it?"

Grandma suddenly said seriously, "I didn't say this before because I hoped that you would have a way out if you encountered difficulties in the Zhong family."

"But now, so many years have passed, and your Zhong family has gained a firm foothold. It seems that you no longer need any way out."

Su Ying looked at her grandmother with suspicion, "What kind of escape route do I need? Just tell me what's on your mind!"

Grandma said, "I know you look down on me as your mother. Today I'll grant your wish and tell you the truth: I'm not your mother."

Su Ying was stunned. "Mom, what are you talking about?"

Grandma said directly, "You are not my biological daughter; you were adopted."

Su Ying froze instantly. "You're talking nonsense! That's impossible!"

Grandma said, "I never told you this, but I truly treated you like my own daughter."

Su Ying couldn't believe her ears. She had never doubted that she wasn't their biological child, and neither had any of her neighbors.

Su Ying refused to believe it, "Impossible!"

Grandma said, "Nothing is impossible. I'm telling you the absolute truth. You may not believe it, but that's the fact."

Su Ying's chest heaved. "Then who are my biological parents? Why am I with you instead of my biological parents?"

Grandma glanced at her, her tone still calm, "Your father was an educated youth sent to the countryside, and your mother was a performer who sang operas at weddings and funerals in the village."

"Not long after your mother gave birth to you, your father's family used their connections to abandon you and your mother. Your mother couldn't support the child on her own, so she ran off with a traveling opera troupe."

“I had just gotten divorced and went to the village to collect folk songs. That’s when I met you, who had been abandoned. There were no adoption procedures at the time, but the village secretary got a certificate in the village and I just took you away.”