After receiving the call from his elderly father, Zhou Xiangqun felt a tightness in his chest.

Lian Gui cut off Jiang Jiuhe's escape route that very day.

He threw a huge tantrum.

Even Comrade Lao Zhou, who acted as the middleman, was severely scolded by Lian Gui.

In addition, Zhou Yun also arrived in Beijing.

He never mentioned his second brother's marriage, which made his mother suspicious of his future daughter-in-law. She would always try to find out more about her son from the sidelines. All she knew was that his second brother's wife was a beauty and that his second brother was infatuated with her.

For a moment, the Zhou family wanted to back out.

Comrade Lao Zhou called and repeatedly emphasized that if Zhou Xiangqun continued to be stubborn and insisted on marrying the Jiang family's daughter, he should simply not return to Beijing.

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Xiangqun felt terrible.

Wang Laili was imprisoned for hooliganism.

He's an idiot; he can't get anything out of me.

After much deliberation, Zhou Xiangqun still couldn't figure out where the problem lay in the whole plan. So, at eight o'clock the next night, he asked someone to invite Jiang Pengyue out.

Jiang Pengyue was wearing a beautiful light blue dress.

If you look closely, you'll notice that she deliberately braided her hair into small braids. After unbraiding them, her hair became slightly curly. She also imitated Xu Manzhi by tying up her black hair and letting it fall loosely behind her head.

Unfortunately, she has a small forehead and a large face.

This exposed her weaknesses in an instant.

The eyes appeared smaller and lifeless.

When Zhou Xiangqun saw this, she suddenly remembered that she looked exactly like this when the two of them were fighting in her dream, and she was so frightened that her heart skipped a beat.

"Xiang Qun..."

Jiang Pengyue struck a pose, coaxing herself softly.

She remembered that when Xu Manzhi acted coquettishly, Zhou Xiangqun would feel completely swayed and listen to her every word. She vaguely guessed that men were all superficial and liked flirtatious and shameless women.

But this scene struck Zhou Xiangqun like a thunderbolt, hitting his heart.

He gripped the park railing tightly to calm himself down.

"Why did you harm Uncle Gui? Do you know that this will cause my family to disapprove of my marriage and also put my third brother in jail..."

A total of 300,000 yuan, all gone.

Jiang Pengyue turned pale with fright.

She shook her head and said, "I didn't, it's not my fault. I saw her drink the tea with my own eyes. The medicine powder was put in the tea, along with the jujube paste cake. I don't know what happened."

When she returned to the room, she discovered that the medicine powder was gone.

Then a series of other incidents occurred.

She is still completely lost, only vaguely guessing that it might be Xu Manzhi's doing.

"Xiaoyu, I really want to marry Pengyue. I truly love her. If you have any objections, I... I can give you all my savings. And my older brother, he's not married either. If you're willing, I'll arrange for you to marry him—"

Better to die for your fellow Daoist than for me.

Zhou Xiangqun just wanted to get married smoothly.

He would not hesitate to betray his own elder brother.

But when Jiang Pengyue heard these words, they were like daggers to her heart!

She never imagined that Xu Manzhi, with her pretty face, could bewitch Zhou Xiangqun so much that he would even disregard his own brother's life or death for her sake.

My heart is aching terribly.

She clutched her chest, crying out in anguish, "I didn't... it wasn't me, it really wasn't me... Xiang Qun, what do you want from me to believe me?"

A deep-seated hatred rose from the bottom of his heart.

Previously, her anger towards Xu Manzhi stemmed from the realization that she was not a blood relative of the Jiang family, but it was always mixed with a deep-seated contempt. Until this moment, she realized that Xu Manzhi was a stumbling block to her happy life.

I'll never have peace in this life if I don't get rid of her!

She returned home in tears.

Upon seeing Xu Manzhi stewing rabbit meat in the backyard, Jiang Pengyue was overcome with malice. She grabbed the kettle at her feet, opened the lid, and intended to splash it directly on Xu Manzhi's body.

Swoosh.

Two beams of light suddenly struck.

Under the moonlight, Xu Manzhi held a pair of long chopsticks, picked up a piece of meat and put it in her mouth, her eyes filled with a meaningful smile, which fell on her.

With a loud clang.

The kettle fell to the ground.

Boiling water was poured all over Jiang Pengyue's feet.

"ah--"

Jiang Pengyue screamed.

Hearing the commotion, Jiang Hejun and Jiang She rushed out of the house. When they saw this scene, they thought it was Xu Manzhi's doing. One of them went to scold her, while the other picked up Jiang Pengyue and took her to the kitchen to rinse her with cold water.

Jiang She put her hands on her hips, rushed to the backyard, and angrily shouted, "Xu Manzhi, you are utterly wicked, be careful you don't suffer retribution!"

Smack, smack.

Xu Manzhi chewed on the sweet rabbit meat, picked at her ear with one hand, and asked with a puzzled look, "When will the Jiang family's retribution come? I should be able to witness it with my own eyes, right?"

"you--"

Jiang She didn't expect her to be so quick-witted, and was so angered by her retort.

He rushed forward, looking fierce, and said, "I know you are jealous of Yueyue. You feel that you are a member of the Jiang family but have not received any benefits from the Jiang family, so you are dissatisfied and target Yueyue at every turn. But she is innocent. She is pure, innocent and kind, and she is not comparable to a speck of sand like you."

He was met with a glare from Xu Manzhi.

She felt it was silly to talk to an idiot.

What's the point of just talking?

If you're so capable, then use a knife.

She picked up another piece of rabbit meat, took a bite, then looked back at Jiang She and said, "Are you done talking? If you're in a bad mood, go absorb some of the essence of the sun and moon, die sooner and be free, don't embarrass yourself here."

Ever since they produced the household registration booklet, Jiang Mingda and Gu Meiyun have been using the silent treatment.

The two treated her like a stranger.

Ordinary people cannot withstand the destructive power of this silent warfare.

They might have moved out of the Jiang family's house long ago.

She refused.

The silent treatment is nothing.

Living in the wasteland, she was trapped in a garbage dump for three years without speaking, with nothing around her and constantly facing the brink of life and death.

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