Yu Wan was scolded by Su Ruo and left in embarrassment.

She had never been so embarrassed in her life.

She came from a good family and had a boyfriend with a better family background and good looks since she was a child. Then she got married smoothly. After the marriage, her mother-in-law became her stepmother. Not only did she have to act like a mother-in-law, she also had to be careful to please them and read their faces.

She has a younger brother and sister on her mother's side.

She is seven years older than her sister Yu Ling, and nine years older than her brother.

She was the only one in the family before her younger siblings were born, so she was naturally especially doted on. She was also obedient and well-behaved, and later she married well.

On the contrary, her younger sister Yu Ling has had a hot temper and a cunning personality since childhood. She speaks rudely and competes with her younger brother for favor, so she is not favored at home.

For half of her life, she has been regarded as a typical winner in the eyes of others.

Her mother said that this was because she had a good temperament, was kind and generous, and that was why she was so blessed.

She had never been treated so harshly or scolded so badly in her life... She felt so ashamed and angry that she felt dazed, as if the person Su Ruo was talking about was not her.

How could she be that kind of person?

But her face was burning and she was shaking with anger, but she couldn't utter a word in rebuttal.

The most I could say was "No, I didn't think that way, I didn't mean to hurt you", but compared to Su Ruo's sharp words, it seemed so powerless.

Although it is really true.

She really didn't think that much when she was helping Zhou Nianxue.

Zhou Nianxue was her best friend who grew up with her since she was in her early teens. They were like a sister. Her experience was so miserable that it was impossible for her not to sympathize with her and feel sorry for her.

So when Zhou Nianxue begged her and said that he just wanted to meet Su Ruo at her house and say a few words to her, although she also felt that it was a bit inappropriate, she really didn't curse as badly as Su Ruo said.

Yu Wan left the Han family with a burning face.

After she returned, the more she thought about it, the worse she felt.

And she was afraid.

In fact, she saw how much Han Zecheng cared about Su Ruo...and because she saw it, she felt a little subtle.

Because she was very clear about how cold Han Zecheng was in the past, but Su Ruo... She only realized now that she didn't really like Su Ruo in her heart. It would be fine if Han Zecheng treated her like an ordinary wife, but he was too good to her, which was too abnormal with his own personality. He married Su Ruo more than a month after Nianxue got married... She probably thought in her heart that Su Ruo seduced Han Zecheng.

She didn't know that a man like Han Zecheng could be seduced by a woman like Su Ruo and be so fascinated by her.

Yu Wan hadn't realized this before.

It was only when she got home that she suddenly realized it.

She didn't like Su Ruo from the beginning.

After discovering this, she was even more frightened at the thought of what she had done.

Someone like Su Ruo.

She had never known before that a little girl's eyes and mouth could be so poisonous, as if they could dig out the deepest hidden things in people's hearts and make people feel uneasy.

Why would she mess with someone like that?

Han Zecheng still cares about her so much.

She knew very well how much her father-in-law and husband valued Han Zecheng.

If Su Ruo said those words in front of Han Zecheng...Yu Wan would break out in a cold sweat.

Now it is no longer a matter of being embarrassed and ashamed by being scolded.

She was worried about what Su Ruo would say to Han Zecheng or outside. Then she...

Only now did she truly regret having stirred up Su Ruo's hornet's nest.

She was worried, but she didn't dare tell her husband about it.

There's no point in saying it.

Finally, she thought of her younger sister Yu Ling.

Yu Ling and Su Ruo are good friends.

She wanted to reconcile with Su Ruo, even if it wasn't a reconciliation, she hoped that the matter would end here.

******

Yu Wan called her sister Yu Ling.

But Yu Ling is not at home.

Yu Ling just received her university admission letter a few days ago. She has been going out with classmates and friends every day and having a blast.

It was a rare opportunity for her parents to see her do well and actually get admitted to university. The New Year was almost coming, and her classmates and friends were all acquaintances of her family and they were trustworthy, so for the first time ever, they didn't say anything to her and let her have fun.

Yu Ling came back after having dinner outside in the evening.

It's almost ten o'clock.

She heard from her mother that her sister called her and it seemed quite urgent, so she dialed the number directly.

Yu Wan waited for Yu Ling's call for the entire afternoon, but she didn't call until ten o'clock in the evening.

Yu Wan was very unhappy and scolded as usual: "Lingling, why did you come back so late after playing outside? What if something happened outside?"

Yu Ling's scalp felt numb.

Her sister is seven years older than her and has loved preaching to her since they were young.

But she was used to it, so she said with a playful smile: "Sister, I heard from mom that you called me this afternoon, you didn't call me just to scold me... But then, how did you know that I would be back late tonight? Are you able to predict the future and teach me a lesson in advance now?"

Yu Wan:......

She was in a bad mood, but she wasn't in the mood to argue with her.

But it was already ten o'clock in the evening, her two sons had just fallen asleep, and her husband was in the room. She didn't want to discuss Su Ruo's problem with her sister at this time, lest her husband notice something was wrong, so she endured it and said, "Stop talking nonsense, be careful, don't let your parents worry. It's not convenient for me to talk to you more now, A Xu and A Yang just fell asleep, so as not to wake them up. Wait for my call at nine o'clock tomorrow morning."

After saying that, he hung up the phone.

Yu Ling was puzzled by the "beep" sound on the phone.

There's something wrong with her sister today.

When Yu Wan returned to the room, Gu Yilin saw that she looked unhappy and asked casually, "Who's calling so late?"

Yu Wan said unnaturally, "It's A Ling. I called her this afternoon. She was playing outside and just came back now."

Gu Yilin glanced at her, but didn't ask any more questions. Instead, he suddenly asked her, "You said you were going to apologize to Ze Cheng's wife. Have you found her yet?"

Yu Wan's expression froze again.

She took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and said, "I looked for her this afternoon. Yilin, she had a lot of misunderstandings and hostility towards me... I can understand that, so I listened to you and looked for A Ling. They are good friends, and I wanted A Ling to apologize to her on my behalf, at least to put an end to this matter... In short, I can't let my actions create a rift in your friendship with Ze Cheng over the years. And as for Dad, I don't want him to hear anything unpleasant."

Gu Yilin frowned.

He looked at her carefully, then reached out and patted her, saying, "You might as well ask Yu Ling for her opinion. After all, she is about the same age as Ze Cheng's wife, and they can usually talk to each other, so it's easier to communicate. As for Ze Cheng and I,"

He said, "Awan, you think too much and care too much. If you have nothing to do...Axu and Ayang are grown up, you should go back to work."

Yu Wan:......

Does this mean she is idle?

******

The next day was the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month.

Because the twelfth lunar month this year only has 29 days, this day is also New Year's Eve.

Yu Wan asked Gu Yilin to take his two sons, Gu Xu and Gu Yang, to his father-in-law Gu's mansion, while she stayed behind to call her sister Yu Ling.

Yu Ling was really surprised.

She and her sister are far apart in age and their relationship is not very close, so she never expected that one day her sister would call her so persistently.

Are you going to introduce her to a boyfriend?

She felt her scalp tingling again.

Yu Wan dialed the number and said, "Lingling, I want to ask you about Su Ruo."

Su Ruo?

Yu Ling was at a loss.

She said, "What do you want to ask me? Sister, you know more about Su Ruo than I do. If it's a private matter, even if you are my sister, I can't just say it casually. This is a matter of principle."

Yu Wan frowned.

This girl just talks about this and that all the time... She thought of Su Ruo's good mouth again.

Young girls nowadays are annoying.

She said patiently: "It's like this, your sister Nianxue came to me a few days ago and wanted to see Su Ruo..."

As she spoke, she simply told him how she had arranged for Zhou Nianxue to meet Su Ruo.

Zhou Nianxue is a good friend of hers. She can be said to have watched Yu Ling grow up when they were young. When Zhou Nianxue and Han Zecheng got engaged and then broke up, Yu Ling was already eighteen or nineteen years old, so she knew something about those entanglements.

When Yu Ling heard that her sister had arranged for Zhou Nianxue to meet Su Ruo, she sat up suddenly from her reclining position on the sofa.

She wanted to say, "Sister, are you out of your mind?"

But after all, she was her sister, so she restrained herself a little.

She said, "Sister, are you saying that you arranged for Zhou Nianxue to meet Su Ruo? Why did Zhou Nianxue want to meet Su Ruo? Did Su Ruo know that Zhou Nianxue was the former fiancée of Deputy Head Han? When you asked Su Ruo to meet Zhou Nianxue, did you explain the situation to Su Ruo?"

One question after another.

Yu Wan's face turned red when asked this question.

But she was asking Yu Ling for help, so she couldn't hide it. She could only endure it and said, "No, that's their business. How can I get involved too much? I just invited Su Ruo to my house and let her meet Nian Xue at my house."

silence.

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while.

Yu Wan: "A Ling?"

Yu Ling: "Sister, are you saying that you didn't tell Su Ruo anything and just took her home and left her to Zhou Nianxue?"

Yu Wan: "Well, I was thinking..."

"Sister, tell me, what do you want from me?"

Yu Ling interrupted her and asked.

Yu Wan took a deep breath.

She felt that her sister's attitude was wrong, but she stopped asking and felt much more relaxed.

She was a little embarrassed to speak, but still said: "Nianxue told Su Ruo about her past with Ze Cheng... and also told her about her current situation. A Ling, you know that Nianxue's previous marriage was forced and was not happy. She even..."

She took a deep breath and said, "She has even lost the right to be a mother."

Yu Ling:......

She was stunned on the other end.

When she heard her sister fall silent, she said sarcastically, "Why did she say this to Su Ruo? She went to her ex-fiancé's wife and said this. Did she want to say that she was miserable and wanted Su Ruo to give up Deputy Head Han to her? Is she crazy?"

Yu Wan:......

"A Ling..."

"Sister, please continue. What do you want from me?"

Yu Wan took another breath and said, "Su Ruo has a grudge against me because of this matter. I don't want your brother-in-law and Ze Cheng to have a rift because of this matter, so I went to apologize to her yesterday, but she didn't accept it. She said that I was malicious and wanted to help Nian Xue destroy the relationship between her and Ze Cheng and destroy her marriage. A Ling..."

"sister,"

Yu Ling said on the other end of the phone, "Did Aruo just scold you?"

"Um?"

"Sis, if it were me, I would throw the tea directly on your face."

Yu Ling said, "All kinds of people."

"A Ling?!"

Yu Wan was so angry that his face suddenly turned red.

She said angrily: "A Ling, why are you the same as her? I admit that I did not do it properly and did not think it through..."

"You haven't thought it through,"

Yu Ling interrupted her and said, "You are just like Zhou Nianxue. You never took Su Ruo seriously from the beginning to the end. You used your condescending attitude to force Su Ruo to leave Deputy Head Han in your own way."

"What nonsense are you talking about?!"

"Ask yourself carefully if I'm talking nonsense. Sister, I can imagine what your expression was when you went to apologize to Su Ruo. You didn't even feel that you did anything wrong in front of me. How could your apology to Su Ruo be sincere?"

"Sister, I just want to ask you one question,"

Yu Ling said slowly, "If Zhou Nianxue wants her brother-in-law now, she is miserable. She has nothing and can't have children anymore. Her brother-in-law grew up with her as a child. If she asks you to give her both brother-in-law and the child, would you agree? Anyway, you are not as miserable as she is. After losing Axu and Ayang, can you still have another child? How pitiful she is that she can't even have children."

"You don't have to answer me. If you are willing, then go and tell Zhou Nianxue. Didn't she marry that man because he was more successful than Deputy Head Han and could help her family more? I see that my brother-in-law's family is also in a high position and my brother-in-law is pretty good, right? I'm sure she will agree."

After saying that, she hung up the phone without paying attention to her sister's reaction.

Yu Wan was so angry that she almost fainted.

******

Yu Ling hung up the phone with her sister, but she was getting angry.

Her sister is just a fool who has lived too comfortable a life and has been flattered to the point of losing her brain.

It's not that she has no brains, it's just that her brain can only see the most superficial layer now.

Yu Ling walked around the house several times.

Still feeling angry.

She would never call Su Ruo to smooth things over for her sister.

She has to clean up the mess she made herself, otherwise she will only become more and more stupid and fall sooner or later.

But she is her sister after all.

She couldn't really ignore her.

What she hated even more was that Zhou Nianxue dared to take advantage of her sister.

She thought about it and couldn't help but call Zhou's house.

It was Zhou Nianxue's elder brother Zhou Chi who answered the phone.

He had just come back from the office, with a hint of anger on his face, but no one knew what it was about.

When Yu Ling heard Zhou Chi's voice, she said in a stiff voice, "Director Zhou, this is Yu Ling. I have something to talk to Zhou Nianxue about. Could you please transfer me?"

Zhou Chi frowned.

He knew Yu Ling, the little girl from the Yu family.

When we were young, we always called him Brother Zhou and Sister Nianxue.

Now that you're grown up, why are you so rude?

Zhou Chi said: "Wait a moment."

He immediately asked the nanny to go to the room upstairs to call his sister Zhou Nianxue.

In fact, he also had something to ask Nian Xue.

Zhou Nianxue went downstairs.

She was a little surprised to hear that Yu Ling was looking for her, and reached out to take the phone.

Zhou Chi handed her the phone, looked at her face twice, and then went upstairs.

"Hello, A-Ling?"

Zhou Nianxue said.

"I don't deserve to be called Ah Ling."

Yu Ling said coldly, "Zhou Nianxue, I know you and my sister are friends, but please don't drag my sister into it when you want someone else's man."

Zhou Nianxue blushed and said, "A Ling, what nonsense are you talking about? Did Su Ruo tell you something?"

"I didn't hear what she said."

Yu Ling said, "My sister told me. If she hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known you were using her to do this. If you wanted to find Su Ruo, why didn't you go directly to her? Instead of finding her through my sister, and asking her to meet at Gu's house, weren't you just showing off your relationship with my sister and the Gu family, and putting psychological pressure on Su Ruo? Not only are you the ex-fiancée of Deputy Head Han, you're also friends with all of his best friends. You grew up together, so you have a deep bond, right?"

"You used your family connections and your friends' connections to tell her a bunch of half-truths, and used all sorts of tricks to make her unable to bear it, so that her relationship with Deputy Head Han would break up. When she went to college, she would most likely divorce Deputy Head Han. Then you would use Uncle Zhou's illness to get Uncle Han to force Deputy Head Han to marry you, right?"

"Yu Ling!"

Zhou Nianxue shouted angrily.

But Yu Ling ignored her shouting and said coldly: "I don't care what dirty thoughts you have, even if it's Su Ruo, I can't control it. If you dare to hit on her, naturally Deputy Head Han will deal with you. But you can't use my sister. If you dare to use my sister again in the future, don't blame me for being rude!"

After saying that, he hung up the phone with a click.

Zhou Nianxue was so angry that she almost smashed the phone.

A little yellow-haired girl dares to threaten her!

She finally managed to calm down her anger a little and turned to go upstairs, but unexpectedly she saw her eldest brother standing on the stairs looking at her coldly.

Zhou Chi said: "Come to my study."

"Brother?"

"come over!"

After saying that, he turned around and went to his study.

Zhou Nianxue felt heavy in her heart.

The previous anger suddenly cooled down.

Her elder brother always loved her and rarely treated her like this.

Zhou Nianxue entered Zhou Chi's study. Zhou Chi turned to look at her and said, "Han Zecheng called my office today."

Zhou Nianxue was stunned and looked up at her elder brother with a confused look on her face.

Zhou Chi felt upset when he saw his sister's expression.

He said, "Nianxue, stop thinking about impossible things. He called me and said that he knew everything about what you did for Xu Hou in the past few years, including exposing the crimes of several uncles. In fact, not only he knew, I'm afraid several uncles also knew a little bit, but now Dad is seriously ill, they don't care about you because of their old relationship with Dad."

"But if you go to his wife again, or do something that makes her unhappy, even if he thinks of the friendship between dad and his dad, he won't mind telling dad about those things, or waiting for someone to settle accounts with you in the future."

The color on Zhou Nianxue's face suddenly disappeared, and his face turned as pale as a ghost.

My whole body felt cold, as if I had fallen into an ice cellar.

Zhou Chi felt like he was being stabbed by needles when he saw her like this.

He sighed and said, "Nianxue, what are you thinking about?"

"With his attitude like this, you still want to reconcile with him, are you crazy? Nianxue, Dad's health is not good anymore, please be quiet. If Dad knew what you did, he would be so angry that he would die. And our family..."

He didn't finish.

Their family is afraid that it will be finished once his father dies.

******

Let’s talk about Su Ruo again.

Yu Wan left the Han family in fear and embarrassment yesterday and had a bad day.

But Su Ruo lived a good life.

She saw Yu Wan off and continued cutting red paper for the couplets without being affected at all.

No, thinking that the matter was finally over...it was over for her, she was in a very happy mood.

She thought that Guoguo was born in the year of the tiger, so she specially cut a few little red tigers.

Han Zecheng took Guoguo to the army for two hours and returned at around four in the afternoon with New Year's goods distributed by the army.

Han Guo was really happy to see the little tiger, and he pestered Su Ruo to cut many different small animals.

Han Zecheng stood aside, very surprised.

He said, "I didn't expect you could do this."

Su Ruo pursed her lips and smiled, and said with some pride: "I know a lot of things."

After saying that, he held up the snowflakes he had just cut and looked at them in the light, squinting his eyes and saying, "This is an ancestral craft from my grandmother's family. She told me that if I learn it, I will never starve to death if I have a skill, and having many skills is always a burden."

Then he smiled and said, "I'll make a family portrait later."

“What is a family portrait?”

Guoguo asked curiously.

"You'll know when it's cut out."

The result was a paper-cut with three silhouettes of a family of three, Han Zecheng and Su Ruo on both sides, and Guoguo in the middle.

The silhouette is so lifelike, it really looks very similar.

Guo Guo yelled and grabbed it, saying, "I want to stick it on the head of my bed."

"It's up to you. Be careful."

Su Ruo rushed towards Guoguo who was already rushing towards her room with the paper cutting in her hand.

When Guoguo disappeared, Han Zecheng said, "Cut another one, we're together."

Su Ruo was stunned at first, and then she said "huh" after she reacted. She was arguing with her son... She's quite capable.

In the afternoon, the family members were writing couplets, pasting couplets, laughing and having fun, and it seemed like the atmosphere of the New Year was already there.