Qin Manshu had not originally intended to target Jiang Jianian so quickly.
She planned to completely deny any involvement with Old Mrs. Qin, and she planned to take the company public. She wanted to completely monopolize the entire pharmaceutical industry before slowly turning her attention to Jiang Jianian.
But now that Ye Zhiwei has exposed this secret, she can no longer wait patiently like before.
From the moment Ji Shuli rejected Qin Manshu, Qin Manshu knew that she could never start over in this life. She could only gradually get rid of all the resentment from her previous life.
There's no turning back for her.
She looked at Ye Zhiwei, who was lying in her arms, and said in a low voice, "How can you forgive him? He killed you, and you still went to this extent for him. Little cousin, you have just as many secrets as I do."
Qin Manshu helped Ye Zhiwei onto the sofa before turning his gaze to Madam Qin.
Madam Qin was terrified by Qin Manshu. She hid in a corner, trembling, while Qin Manshu stood there watching her. She sighed and said, "I really didn't want to do anything to you. After all, one of you has already died, and it would be hard to explain if something happened to another one. But why do you always try to test my limits again and again, Mother?"
Madam Qin stared intently at Qin Manshu, as if muttering to herself, "You want to kill her, you want to kill her, are you going to kill me too, are you going to kill me..."
Qin Manshu bent down slightly, looking at Madam Qin's disheveled appearance. In her mind, all that could be seen was Madam Qin's cold expression and cold actions in her previous life.
After she told the Qin family about Dong Xiaoying's threats, the Qin family changed. Madam Qin was originally a person who was extremely dependent on her husband. How could she let her husband's real bloodline fall outside? After learning about this, Madam Qin's first reaction was to ask Dong Yanqing to be brought back.
Grandma Qin was furious about such a scandal in the family. Fortunately, Qin Manshu was not outstanding at that time and was still in university, so she did not interfere in many family matters. In addition, Qin Manshu was often timid at that time, so Grandma Qin naturally did not like others to know that she had such a granddaughter.
At that time, Qin Manshu's only outstanding quality was her talent in medicine. Although she could not compare with Jiang Jianian, Qin Manshu, who had a photographic memory, was always liked by the school professors because of her meticulousness and innate talent. She participated in many experiments during her last year of the five-year medical school and was recommended by the school for postgraduate studies.
She thought that because she worked so hard, the Qin family at least still had feelings for her. She thought that Old Madam Qin only seemed stern, and that Madam Qin was only depressed when she saw her because of her father's departure. But she never expected that after this incident, all her assumptions would turn out to be just that—assumptions.
She watched as Madam Qin, who had been depressed and mentally exhausted after her husband's departure, returned with a kind and gentle demeanor, accompanied by Dong Yanqing. Back then, without Qin Manshu's intervention, Madam Qin was only somewhat depressed, not in her current state of madness.
Madam Qin seemed to have found solace. She looked at her own daughter, or rather, she had finally found a new source of solace and began to shed tears.
She had never seen her mother so gentle, coaxing Dong Yanqing and speaking to her tenderly. When Dong Yanqing took everything from Qin Manshu, she simply looked at Qin Manshu coldly and said, "This is what you owe her."
Qin Manshu didn't understand why she was the one who owed Dong Yanqing. She was clearly a victim too. What did she owe Dong Yanqing? She hadn't done anything. Wasn't she a victim as well?
She took the burden of Old Madam Qin's pressure in Dong Yanqing's place, she took the burden of Madam Qin's mental breakdown after her husband's departure in Dong Yanqing's place, and she took the burden of all the resentment in the Qin family after Qin's father left in Dong Yanqing's place.
The old lady's strictness was almost pathological. Qin Manshu's talent was also discovered under the old lady's crazy discipline. Fortunately, Qin Manshu had this talent so she could suffer less.
She appears glamorous, but if she makes even the slightest mistake, the old lady will punish her almost pathologically. Not letting Qin Manshu eat is just a minor issue; the old lady even makes Qin Manshu kneel in the ancestral hall.
She knelt for a day and a night, and Jiang Shichu secretly gave her a biscuit. She fainted the next day with a high fever, but there was no need to worry. After all, she was in the Qin family, and the old lady quickly cured Qin Manshu. Qin Manshu then had to endure the old lady's high-intensity pressure.
She wished she could have knelt and died that night.
But she pulled through.
To outsiders, the Qin family appears glamorous and prosperous, but only Qin Manshu knows the suffocating atmosphere within.
She was doing her job diligently, so what did she do wrong?
She clearly did nothing wrong!
But when the incident happened, not only did Dong Xiaoying make a mistake, but she also made a mistake as a result.
Dong Yanqing inherited Madam Qin's mental genetic defects, which caused her significant mental problems. She resented Qin Manshu and projected her own imagination onto him, seeing Qin Manshu as the culprit who caused her so much suffering. She dared not confront the old lady, so she kept crying in front of Madam Qin.
Although Old Madam Qin disliked Qin Manshu and felt ashamed of the matter, after Dong Yanqing returned to the Qin family, she simply let Dong Yanqing bully Qin Manshu. She had no intention of letting Qin Manshu leave the Qin family, nor did she even intend to let Dong Yanqing change her surname. It was only because of some circumstances that Old Madam Qin had to go out that Madam Qin took the opportunity to drive Qin Manshu away.
Because of Dong Yanqing's tearful complaints and resentment, Madam Qin felt that she had failed her husband's own flesh and blood. She turned all her original dependence and affection for her husband into guilt towards Dong Yanqing. Madam Qin said to Qin Manshu, "You are the one who caused my daughter to be displaced. You are the one who made my daughter like this. Go away and never come back."
Was Dong Yanqing not doing well with Dong Xiaoying?
Not entirely.
Although Dong Xiaoying was poor, she was actually quite shrewd. On one hand, she wanted her own daughter to take over the Qin family and use them as leverage. On the other hand, she hadn't neglected Dong Yanqing; she treated Dong Yanqing like a young lady. She was afraid that if Qin Manshu failed to take over the Qin family and Dong Yanqing returned to the Qin family as a young lady, she could use the excuse of making a mistake and her past maternal love to hold Dong Yanqing hostage.
However, Dong Xiaoying underestimated Dong Yanqing's resentment towards her family's poverty and overestimated her own importance in Dong Yanqing's heart.
Dong Yanqing never thought of Dong Xiaoying. She had long forgotten her adoptive mother and even cried as she told Madam Qin how Dong Xiaoying had abused her.
Madam Qin felt sorry for her daughter and directly ordered someone to teach Dong Xiaoying a lesson. Since Dong Xiaoying worked in medical care, Madam Qin ordered a blacklist to prevent any pharmaceutical company or hospital from hiring Dong Xiaoying.
Dong Xiaoying lost her job and was bullied, so she vented all her anger on Qin Manshu when he returned.
Qin Manshu looked at the woman who was hitting and scolding her, and felt extreme resentment towards the woman who was blaming her for everything. What was hateful was that she was cowardly by nature at that time and actually let Dong Xiaoying beat and scold her. Even the living expenses she saved by working part-time and studying were taken away by Dong Xiaoying.
Qin Manshu thought this was her desperate situation, but she didn't expect that her suffering had only just begun.
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