"I'm not unhappy."

With Shen Heng's words, Bai Jiaojiao felt a little relieved.

Now she has everything Ding Shifang has, and she also knows Ding Shifang's methods. With these precautions, what is there to be afraid of Ding Shifang for?

If Ding Shifang ever dares to do anything wrong again in his life, she will make him know what it means to pay for his crimes with blood.

Bai Jiaojiao didn't want to pay any attention to Ding Shifang, but who knew that he couldn't sit still and came over by himself.

"I'm not seeing things, am I? You really haven't given up, you've actually come to Yancheng again? Who is this? Shen Heng? How did you two end up together?"

Back when Ding Shifang was in Shili Village, she would have avoided Shen Heng like the plague, but now he held his head high and looked contemptuous. Ding Shifang couldn't help but find the current relationship between the two of them ridiculous.

Shen Heng glanced at her sideways and said, "Anyone dares to come and claim kinship with me. I can't figure out what kind of person you are, no matter how I look at you."

Shen Heng knew a little about it. Bai Jiaojiao was sent back to Shili Village by her former adoptive parents. Otherwise, given their family's circumstances at the time, raising two daughters would have been a piece of cake.

Knowing that they must have had a bad argument, Shen Heng didn't speak to Ding Shifang in a friendly tone.

"you......"

Ding Shifang seemed to hear someone snickering behind her. She glanced down at her friends who had come with her and knew they were laughing at her again.

These city people still looked down on her. Her experience of coming from the countryside seemed to have become gossip among them. She couldn't get angry, otherwise they wouldn't invite her to hang out with them anymore.

She had been in the city for quite some time, and Ding Shifang always sought the best in terms of food, clothing, and daily necessities. However, she couldn't change her dialect, which she had spoken all her life. She hadn't received much formal education, and her Mandarin was poor. Even though she tried to change her language habits by diligently reading aloud from her textbooks, she still spoke with a rustic accent that made people laugh.

Shen Heng even spoke to her in dialect, and when compared to her neither-here-nor-there accent, the group of friends who came with her today found another reason to mock her.

Seeing that Shen Heng had silenced Ding Shifang with just one sentence, Bai Jiaojiao suddenly realized that the things she had been holding onto didn't seem so terrible after all.

Ding Shifang's face twitched a few times, then she shifted her criticism to Bai Jiaojiao: "You're really persistent. Your parents don't want you anymore, so chasing you all the way to Yancheng won't do you any good!"

Bai Jiaojiao said, "You might have misunderstood. I haven't wanted to go back to that house for a long time. But you, you came looking for me as soon as you saw me. Who's the one who's still not giving up?"

She looked in the direction Ding Shifang had come from, and saw that they were all old acquaintances. These were the people who had fawned over her before, but she had never even glanced at them. Ding Shifang really didn't discriminate when making friends.

However, considering what she did to me in my past life, these ignorant and incompetent people probably participated in it as well.

Ding Shifang's lip muscles twitched uncontrollably, revealing a fierce expression: "I'm warning you, Bai Jiaojiao, if you dare to get close to my parents again, you'll be sorry! I was able to make you pack your bags and get out back then, and I can still kick you out now. Don't blame me if things get ugly!"

Bai Jiaojiao was used to Ding Shifang's true colors. Back when she was still in the Ding family, she was driven crazy by Ding Shifang's two-faced behavior. In front of Ding's parents, Ding Shifang would act pitiful and submissive, but in front of her, she would arrogantly declare that she was the real daughter of the Ding family.

Bai Jiaojiao was young then and didn't have much cunning. She suffered a lot at the hands of Ding's parents. They only saw her aggressive behavior towards Ding Shifang, but they didn't see the provocation Ding Shifang was giving her behind her back. If it were the current Bai Jiaojiao, she would never have gone so far as to be kicked out of the house.

However, she didn't care anymore.

"Then you'd better tell your parents to stay away from our Jiaojiao. He's just a small factory manager, what's the big deal?"

Shen Heng stood up. Ding Shifang was only about 1.5 meters tall, and he couldn't even see Shen Heng's face when he looked up.

"I'll pass on what you just said exactly to you. You, including your parents, if you dare to get close to her again, just try it. You know who I am! If you can't handle the consequences, don't say I didn't warn you."

Shen Heng showed absolutely no respect for women, nearly poking his finger into Ding Shifang's eye, which frightened her so much that she had to back away.

Ding Shifang said sternly, "Bai Jiaojiao, you'd better remember what I said today!"

Then he quickly turned around and ran back to his seat, so flustered that he stumbled.

"Pfft..." Ding Shifang's friends couldn't help but laugh when they saw her disheveled appearance, showing her no respect at all.

One person said, "I didn't expect Ding Jiaojiao to be so pretty."

"What's the use? I'm just a poor wretch now." She's not even as good as Ding Shifang. Although she's covered in mud from head to toe, at least her family is rich now.

Otherwise, who would want to hang out with someone like that?

"So what if she's poor? Give her a couple of coins and you might be able to swindle her and have some fun. Look at her, she's even chasing after guys like that."

Everyone looked in Bai Jiaojiao's direction again. Bai Jiaojiao and Shen Heng together could indeed be described as beauty and the beast.

They chuckled to themselves, saying, "Back then, she wouldn't even acknowledge me when I talked to her. If she had known she'd be where she is today, she would have been fawning over us to death."

One girl said dismissively, "That's right, that arrogant guy back then turned out to be a bastard."

Ding Shifang's expression softened considerably, and she quickly chimed in, "That's right, that's right! How dare a bastard try to steal my parents from me!"

Those people showed Ding Shifang no respect whatsoever: "You're not much better off, hurry up and settle your bill, what are you dawdling for?"

Ding Shifang dared not speak out against her anger. She always paid for meals when she went out with these people. Only in this way could she barely squeeze into their circle and feel that she had truly become a city dweller.

What was said in jest was taken seriously by the listener. Tan Zidong licked his back teeth and gave Bai Jiaojiao a lewd look. He took out a pen and notebook from his pocket and wrote a string of numbers on them.

Before leaving, he passed by Bai Jiaojiao's table and placed a note on it: "Ding Jiaojiao, this is my home phone number. Call me if you need anything."

As he spoke, he gave a meaningful smile.

Shen Heng's hand, which was holding chopsticks, was visibly bulging with veins. He was about to get up when Bai Jiaojiao pressed him down.

Tan Zidong was quick to escape, otherwise things might not have turned out well today.

"Why are you stopping me?" Shen Heng felt he should have punched Tan Zidong in the eye earlier. Still angry, he saw Bai Jiaojiao put away Tan Zidong's little note. "Aren't you disgusted? Are you trying to piss me off?"