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Shen Weiwan had just swallowed a mouthful of tea when she heard suppressed laughter coming from outside the window. She looked up and saw Chuntao squatting under the window, her shoulders shaking like sieve chaff.

"What are you laughing at?" Shen Weiwan put down the teacup and asked with raised eyebrows.

Chun Tao quickly stood up, a smile still on her face. "Miss, I just passed by the Second Madam's yard and saw her having her maid apply ice to her hands! Her hands were as red as boiled shrimp, and she was calling you 'little bitch' while applying the ice. I'm afraid she was cursing you."

Shen Weiwan curled the corners of her mouth and revealed a sneer: "Scold her, it's better to scold her until her voice is hoarse, so that she won't have to pretend to be kind every day."

Thinking of Liu's face yesterday, where she was grimacing at the sight of the grains, she couldn't help but want to laugh. But the smile was quickly replaced by a cold glint in her eyes.

Laugh? She now wanted to make those people cry.

“Chun Tao,” Shen Weiwan suddenly spoke, her voice a little deeper, “Do you still remember the year my mother died?”

The smile on Chuntao's face disappeared instantly, and she said cautiously, "Remember... when Madam left, you were only ten years old, and the Second Madam took over the household chores, saying that she would take care of you for the General..."

"Take care?" Shen Weiwan slammed the table as if she had heard something funny. "Is that taking care of me? She's treating me like a fool and the General's Mansion like the treasury of her Liu family!"

Chuntao was startled by her sudden action and lowered her head, not daring to speak.

Shen Weiwan took a deep breath and tried to suppress the anger in her heart. She had to settle some accounts one by one.

"Do you remember how she tricked me into handing over the warehouse key when I was fifteen?" She stared into Chuntao's eyes and asked word by word.

Chun Tao thought for a moment and said hesitantly, "It seems so... She said the warehouse has been in disrepair for a long time and needs to be cleared and repaired. She asked you to give her the key for a few days?"

"Temporary management?" Shen Weiwan sneered, "Once the key was in her hands, it was never returned! From then on, the farms and shops in the general's mansion flowed into her pocket like water! The gold, silver, jewelry, calligraphy and antiques left by my father were all secretly sold by her!"

She stood up and walked to the window, looking towards the distant Liu family compound with a cold look in her eyes. "I still remember how she always coaxed me by saying, 'Wanwan, Auntie is doing this for your own good,' and 'You'll understand when you grow up.' I was so stupid! I was completely fooled by her PUA and trusted her like she was my own mother!"

"PUA?" Chun Tao tilted her head, looking confused. "Miss, what is that?"

Shen Weiwan only then realized that she had said a word from her previous life, and waved her hand: “It means…it means to deceive fools with sweet words.”

She paused and continued, "And that white lotus, Shen Ruorou! On the surface, she was caring for me, but behind my back, she instigated her mother to plot against me! She secretly replaced my brocade wedding dress with a coarse linen one! And the pair of jade bracelets my mother left me, she said she would keep them for me, but in the blink of an eye, she put them on her own hands!"

Chun Tao was stunned. She had heard some of these things before, but she had never heard them spoken by Shen Weiwan herself, and in such detail, as today.

"Miss, you...why are you suddenly saying this?" Chuntao asked cautiously.

Shen Weiwan turned around and looked at Chuntao, her eyes full of determination: "Because I remember, Chuntao. I remember everything."

She walked to her dressing table, opened a secret compartment, and took out a simple wooden hairpin. This was the only relic she had secretly hidden in her hair before her death in her previous life.

"Look at this," Shen Weiwan handed the wooden hairpin to Chuntao, "This is my mother's legacy. Liu didn't take it away because she thought it was insignificant. But I know that this was made by my father for my mother when she married him."

Chuntao took the wooden hairpin and felt it was warm to the touch. It was indeed not a valuable thing, but the word "Wan" engraved on it revealed a sense of warmth.

"It's because I protected such a broken hairpin that Liu and Shen Ruoruo thought I was stupid and easy to control." Shen Weiwan's voice was a little choked, "They lied to me that Li Xiu was a young and promising talent, but he just broke his leg accidentally. They lied to me that they married Shen Ruoruo for the sake of the general's mansion's reputation. They lied to me that as long as I was obedient, the general's mansion would still be mine in the future..."

At this point, Shen Weiwan's voice suddenly rose, filled with endless hatred: "What's the result? Li Xiu is not a talented man at all, he's just a scoundrel who is addicted to gambling! He married me just for the general's family property! Three days after the wedding, he locked me in the woodshed, forcing me to write a divorce letter every day and hand over all the land deeds and shops in the general's mansion to him!"

Chun Tao was so frightened that her face turned pale and the hairpin in her hand almost fell to the ground: "Miss, you...why have you never told me this?"

"I told you, do you believe me?" Shen Weiwan laughed bitterly. "At that time, I was brainwashed by them and thought that I hadn't done well enough to make my husband angry. Until one day, I heard Liu and Shen Ruorou talking outside, and then I realized that they had colluded with Li Xiu long ago and used me as a tool to exchange money!"

She closed her eyes, the biting cold of her past life seeming to return to her. "They falsely accused me of having an affair with the groom, so Li Xiu and his men dragged me out into the snow and beat me with clubs... I remember it was snowing heavily that day, but it didn't feel cold at all when it fell on me, because I had already bled dry..."

"Miss!" Chun Tao couldn't bear it anymore, rushed over and hugged Shen Weiwan, crying, "Please stop talking! It's too scary!"

Shen Weiwan patted Chuntao's back, but her eyes were extremely firm: "I want to say it, Chuntao. Not only do I want to say it, I want them all to remember it! Liu, Shen Ruorou, Li Xiu...all those who have hurt me, I will not let any of them go!"

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