Chapter 3: Get lost, the Zhou family doesn't welcome you
Zhou Qingyan dragged Wen Ning directly to the empty terrace.
"Why did you run back?" Zhou Qingyan lowered his voice and said angrily, "It's Yaya's birthday, and you're dressed like this on purpose to embarrass us? Haha, waiter! If I hadn't pulled you away, you would have brought shame upon the Zhou family!"
Wen Ning rubbed her red wrist and looked at her second brother with cold eyes.
"Young Master Zhou brought me back. I couldn't escape back."
Zhou Qingyan was stunned for a moment, then angrily said, "Brother, why are you acting on your own?"
After saying that, he looked at Wen Ning critically from head to toe.
"So what if I brought you back? Trash should just stay hidden. You came to the banquet venue, are you trying to steal Yaya's limelight? Get out now! You are not welcome in the Zhou family!"
Wen Ning looked at the other person's hideous face, which was somewhat similar to his own, and his thoughts drifted back to four years ago.
At that time, she had just been found and was still being pitied by everyone - except Zhou Qingyan.
He was the member of the Zhou family who had never welcomed her from the beginning to the end.
From the first day he entered the house, he treated her coldly.
At first, Wen Ning was a little frightened by this attitude and tried to please Zhou Qingyan for a while.
But the more she tried to please Zhou Qingyan, the worse Zhou Qingyan treated her.
Wen Ning used his first month's pocket money to buy a small gift for each family member.
When she gave it to Zhou Qingyan, he refused to take it. During the scuffle, he accidentally pushed her down the stairs.
"Do you think that being a lapdog will make me accept you? Let me tell you! My only sister is Zhou Yaya! You are just... just..."
After talking for a long time, she still couldn't explain clearly what she was talking about.
Under the accusations of his family, Zhou Qingyan stiffened his neck, his eyes reddened and he roared, "Get out! The Zhou family doesn't welcome you!"
After saying that, he ran away without looking back.
Wen Ning really didn't understand.
Later, Zhou Qingci told her that she was kidnapped at the age of three because Zhou Qingyan insisted on taking her to the amusement park. Because she was sweating from playing, he gave the woolen hat embroidered with "boy" to the quiet Wen Ning.
The police analyzed that they did not abduct both of them because the kidnappers were short of manpower. They chose Wen Ning because they probably thought she was a boy. Generally speaking, boys can be sold at a higher price than girls.
Zhou Qingci asked Wen Ning to be considerate of Zhou Qingyan. After the incident, Zhou Qingyan had nightmares for several days and woke up crying every day. Zhou's mother was also heartbroken because of the loss of her child and was not friendly to Zhou Qingyan.
The family's situation did not improve until Zhou's father adopted Zhou Yaya from outside.
Although I don't understand why she is the one who gets hurt, she is also the one who needs understanding.
However, at that time, for the sake of family harmony, she continued to show kindness to Zhou Qingyan even after breaking her bones, and then was insulted by Zhou Qingyan again and again.
But this time, Wen Ning didn't want to be considerate anymore.
She raised her head, "Zhou Qingyan, is your heart black?"
Zhou Qingyan was stunned for a moment, then met the girl's calm eyes, feeling inexplicably anxious and angry. "What nonsense are you talking about!"
"Because of you, I was kidnapped." Wen Ning looked at him and said.
Zhou Qingyan opened his mouth, but his throat seemed to be tightly grasped by a pair of large hands, and he couldn't make a sound.
"I was sold to the mountains. Because I was too young, I had to become a child bride. I had no education, so I had to work before dawn every day. If I didn't do my job well, I would be beaten and scolded. They kept saying that I could have a child after my period started."
"I pray every day, please don't come, please don't come."
"Later, the police arrived and took away all the trafficked women in the village. I was too young when I was abducted and had no memories. I couldn't find my parents for a while, so I had to go to an orphanage."
"Zhou Qingyan, have you ever been to an orphanage? Do you know what life is like there? When I was ten years old, I had to work and take care of younger orphans while studying. Orphans are the most vulnerable to bullying in school."
"The source of all this is because of you..."
"Shut up! Shut up!" Zhou Qingyan jumped up as if he was pricked by an invisible needle, and frantically tried to cover Wen Ning's mouth.
"You clearly owe me so much, so why do you still treat me so badly as if it were your fault?" Wen Ning pried open his hand that was covering his mouth. His voice gradually became shrill as he exerted all his strength. "Zhou Qingyan, my brother, how dark is your heart?"
"Go to hell! Go to hell!"
These facts that had never been made clear were like arrows that pierced his fig leaf.
Zhou Qingyan's eyes turned red with anger, and he simply grabbed Wen Ning's neck and pressed him against the terrace railing.
Wen Ning's waist was bent hard. Below the terrace was a steep slope planted with roses.
She felt as if she was falling, and as if she was drowning.
Oxygen was squeezed out of her throat bit by bit.
"stop!"
The visitor stopped Zhou Qingyan.
Wen Ning straightened up suddenly, gasping for breath, and the tears she suffocated from breathing blurred her vision.
Before she could see clearly who was coming.
A choked cry was heard.
"Ningning, my daughter."
As soon as she finished speaking, the woman ran to Wen Ning, stretched out her arms, and hugged her tightly.
The air in my nostrils was filled with the scent of a woman's high-end perfume.
But perhaps because she had become accustomed to the smell of disinfectant over the past three years, Wen Ning felt nauseous. She subconsciously took a step back and broke free from the embrace, "Mrs. Zhou..."
Lin Wanyi froze in place, feeling hurt, tears streaming down her face. "What did you call me?"
Three years ago, when the Zhou family sent her to a nursing home, they said that from then on, the Zhou family would no longer have such a shameful daughter like her.
Wen Ning sensibly kept his distance from the Zhou family and didn't think there was anything wrong with his address.
However, this outrageous name made Zhou Qingyan extremely angry. He broke free from Zhou Qingci's hand and accused him fiercely.
"Wen Ning! Because of you, Mom has been unable to hold her head up these past few years. She's been crying all day and can't eat. And yet you're so good! I brought you home, but who are you pretending to be like this for? Do you understand the filial piety of a child?!"
What is filial piety?
Every night, she prepared hot water for Lin Wanyi to soak her feet, massage her acupuncture points, and stayed up late to sew sleeping sachets to relieve her insomnia.
Every day I go to the kitchen to prepare various nourishing medicinal foods and brew medicinal teas to replenish qi and blood to help regulate her body.
Or maybe she knew that Lin Wanyi liked pet dogs, so she taught herself veterinary knowledge to help her take better care of the dog.
Are these considered filial piety?
Maybe in the eyes of the Zhou family, it doesn’t count.
The suffocating pain still lingered in his neck, and Wen Ning didn't have the energy to argue. "If you say no, then no, cough."
Lin Wanyi turned around and lectured, "Second brother, your sister just came back, why are you saying that!"
"I didn't use any force at all just now, Mom. Don't be fooled by her." Zhou Qingyan sneered and threatened, "Wen Ning, are you going to try to act pitiful again?"
Wen Ning endured the pain and raised his head, pointing at the bloodstain on his neck, "What am I pretending for?"
The girl's skin was pale and bloodless, which made the tender pinch mark on her neck look even more glaring, as if it would bleed at any second.
Lin Wanyi cried out in surprise. She raised her hand to touch her, but was afraid of hurting her. She turned around and hit Zhou Qingyan on the shoulder, "You're still being stubborn. You pinched your sister like that."
Zhou Qingci also kicked her angrily, "Why were you so cruel to Ningning?"
Zhou Qingyan's fingers trembled, as if he didn't expect that the pinch just now would be so fierce.
He opened his mouth, his voice lacking confidence, "She provoked me first. Besides, she could have come back any other time, but she had to choose Yaya's birthday. Who knows if she's still thinking about being a mistress."
Lin Wanyi wanted to say something in rebuttal, but then she recalled what Wen Ning had done three years ago. She frowned and didn't know what to say.
Zhou Qingci also looked at Wen Ning suspiciously, but ultimately didn't help her out. Instead, he said, "I brought her back so she could apologize to Yaya in public today. It's almost time, Wen Ning, go out and apologize."
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