Zhou Chenyang was very satisfied with Jiang Xinrou's performance. He sighed and said, "They were family friends with my father's generation. I was also very saddened when I heard about their deaths."
"Although they are not Rou'er's biological parents, they are better than biological parents."
He looked at Lin Xiuyan and said in a magnanimous tone, "I know you are prejudiced against me and Rou'er because you can't accept this matter, and you acted a bit too much."
"But we are all relatives, so I will not hold it against you for hitting me and Rou'er today."
Lin Xiuyan listened to their back-and-forth banter, a hint of mockery in her eyes.
She asked them, "So you came to the Lin residence because my parents are gone and gave everything in the Lin residence to Jiang Xinrou."
"You abandoned your wedding night to come to the Lin residence to be with me because you were worried about me?"
Jiang Xinrou nodded: "That's right, cousin. I understand how you feel, but..."
"Shut up!" Lin Xiuyan didn't want to listen to her nonsense, so she turned her head and shouted inside, "Father, Mother, Jiang Xinrou said you are dead."
"She also said that you gave the entire Lin family estate to her. Is that true?"
Her shout made both Jiang Xinrou and Zhou Chenyang's hearts skip a beat.
Qu Shuangyue's voice rang out: "What utter bullshit! I'm still alive and well!"
After she finished speaking, she jumped down from the attic next to her, carrying Lin Yunzhi in her arms.
When they appeared, Jiang Xinrou was startled and couldn't help but scream, "A ghost!"
After she finished speaking, she hid behind Zhou Chenyang, whose face was extremely ugly.
Although she was ruthless, seeing the person she thought was dead appear before her still greatly shocked her.
Lin Xiuyan chimed in, "If you have a clear conscience, you have nothing to fear. Cousin, what are you afraid of?"
Jiang Xinrou's body was trembling slightly, but this time it wasn't an act; she was genuinely shaking.
Her mind went blank, and she vaguely knew that today's events had completely exceeded her expectations.
Commander Xu said loudly, "They all have shadows, they are not ghosts."
Lin Yunzhi stood firm and shouted, "I'm not brain-dead. Why would I give my vast fortune to someone who wants to kill me instead of my own daughter?"
"I ask everyone to be my witnesses today: if anything happens to Yue'er and me one day, the Lin family's estate will only go to my own daughter, Yan'er!"
"Even if Yan'er squanders the Lin family fortune in the future, I have no objection, because the money I earn is for her to spend, and she can squander it however she wants!"
The appearance of the two was like a slap in the face to Jiang Xinrou and Zhou Chenyang.
All their previous statements were immediately overturned.
Anyone with a brain knows this is definitely not a simple matter.
Lin Xiuyan walked up to Zhou Chenyang and Jiang Xinrou and said, "My parents are still alive. Aren't you surprised?"
"After all, you've resorted to all sorts of underhanded tricks from the martial arts world and planted so many poisons in my house. You deserve to be called well-intentioned."
"But you two, there are gods watching over you. Aren't you afraid of retribution for all the bad things you've done?"
Zhou Chenyang's mind was in complete disarray; he had no idea how things had developed to this point.
He looked coldly at Lin Xiuyan, who stared back at him without flinching, her eyes and brows revealing undisguised sarcasm.
Lin Xiuyan said loudly, "Aren't you also curious about why Jiang Xinrou came over to tell you that my parents are dead?"
"She even saw my parents' bodies with her own eyes, but now they're standing here perfectly fine. What on earth happened?"
Zhou Chenyang's expression was very serious, and he did not answer.
He cursed Jiang Xinrou in his heart for being such an idiot, unable to even handle such a simple matter!
Lin Xiuyan had managed to extract all their words from them, so anything they said now would be a slap in their own face.
Commander Xu shouted, "What exactly is going on?"
Qu Shuangyue took out two purses, and Jiang Xinrou's face turned very ugly as soon as she saw them.
Qu Shuangyue said coldly, "Last night, Jiang Xinrou came to say goodbye and embroidered a purse for me and Yunzhi each."
"At first we were very touched, thinking she was a sensible and good child."
"It just so happens that Yan'er bought a snake a while ago and kept it in our room."
"When we took the purse back to our room, the snake was running around in its cage like it had gone mad."
"I felt something was wrong, so I opened the tea bag and found this thing inside."
After she finished speaking, she showed the two portraits to everyone.
Commander Xu, being well-informed, immediately noticed the anomaly after a careful examination: "This is a Gu talisman!"
Qu Shuangyue nodded: "That's right, it's the Gu talisman used in the martial arts world to attract poisonous insects."
"At the time, I didn't believe that Jiang Xinrou, whom we had raised, would kill us in such a vicious way. Yan'er said to wait and see."
"Then last night, someone sneaked out of our window and dumped all sorts of poisonous insects into the house. Those insects crawled towards the purse like madmen."
"I've already caught the person who sold the poisonous insects. Jiang Xinrou, do you want to confront him?"
No matter how well Jiang Xinrou tries to argue, with witnesses and physical evidence readily available, coupled with her own previous statements, there's nothing she can do anymore.
She felt embarrassed and cursed inwardly, "How come these two weren't bitten to death by the poisonous insects?"
Questioning her like that makes her lose face!
Qu Shuangyue looked at her and asked, "Jiang Xinrou, Yunzhi and I raised you, and we have never done anything to wrong you over the years."
"And normally, no matter what it is, as long as Yan'er has it, I will prepare a portion for you."
"I want to ask you, why did you help outsiders to murder me and your uncle, and seize the Lin family's property?"
At this moment, there was a hint of ferocity in her eyes. Jiang Xinrou was frightened and couldn't answer the question, so she simply rolled her eyes and pretended to faint.
When Qu Shuangyue saw her like this, she wanted to slap herself for bringing home such a thing back then!
Lin Xiuyan looked at Zhou Chenyang and said, "City Lord Zhou, we've been betrothed since childhood. I accept that you've been having an affair with my cousin behind my back."
“My cousin has always been timid, and she is a sheltered young lady. Perhaps she could come up with such a vicious and harmful scheme.”
"But there's absolutely no way she could have a Gu talisman. You gave it to her, didn't you?"
Her words immediately drew everyone's attention to Zhou Chen.
Before Zhou Chenyang could deny it, Commander Xu said, "Lord Zhou, you've done something rather unethical!"
"The Lin family has a lot of money. If you want, you can ask them to donate. But to commit such a heinous act of murder for money, breaking into someone's house in the middle of the night, is not very ethical."
Xu Qianting shouted, "This is not just unkind, it's downright insane!"
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