Si Lijue shielded Su Niannian behind him, his sharp eyes fixed on Jiang Che, and asked coldly, word by word, "What is the purpose of saying all this?"
Jiang Che wouldn't dare make any unreasonable demands, and wisely said, "I just want to downplay this and let it go. My sister lost face, and your wife was wronged; everyone is at fault. So let's just let this matter pass and not pursue it any further, okay?"
In fact, he knew very well that this whole mess was started by his troublemaking cousin. A well-behaved girl like Su Niannian would never provoke Jiang Siyu.
As for why Jiang Siyu would go looking for trouble with Su Niannian?
Jiang Che could guess the general idea; it was probably all because of Si Lijue, who was always attracting attention. He knew that his silly little sister liked Si Lijue.
He used to warn Jiang Siyu not to let her like Si Lijue and to suppress her inappropriate feelings.
Who would have thought that his sister wouldn't listen to his advice at all? What could he do?
Jiang Siyu was secretly delighted to see Jiang Che speak up for her, and she was overjoyed that Jiang Che would settle scores with Su Niannian and help her vent her anger. However, she never expected that her cousin would say that he would let bygones be bygones.
She stared at her cousin in disbelief, and angrily questioned him loudly: "Big brother, I was the one who was bullied and wronged, how can you just let it go so easily?"
Who is your sister, her or me? How can you side with the outsider?
"Shut up!" Jiang Che snapped. "Aren't you completely blameless about what happened today? Besides, the Jiang family and the Si family have always had a good relationship. Is it really necessary to make things unpleasant over such a trivial matter?"
He cursed his stupid sister in his heart. If Jiang Siyu wasn't his cousin, and if her offending Si Lijue would implicate the Jiang family, he wouldn't bother getting involved in this matter.
Jiang Siyu couldn't understand it and wouldn't listen to any advice.
She muttered angrily, "I don't care! It was clearly her and Lili who bullied me and attacked me. I don't want to make peace." Then, she turned her gaze to Si Lijue, her lips pursed, her face full of grievance, "Brother Lijue, you've always been the most fair person. You definitely won't show favoritism or protect them, right?"
Xi Bao had been standing aside watching Jiang Siyu's self-directed and self-acted performance. Now she saw that Jiang Siyu was overacting, portraying herself as a victim and her mother as an utterly wicked person.
He could no longer remain calm.
He felt that if he didn't do something to protect his mother's reputation, who knew how badly this woman would slander her!
Although his mother didn't care about these things, he, as her son, would never allow her to be bullied.
He strode arrogantly towards Jiang Siyu, pointing his chubby little hand directly at her nose.
He shouted loudly in his childish voice, "You're lying! You were the one who wanted to hit me. My mom saw it and ran over to stop you so as to protect me from getting hurt."
As a result, in the struggle, the button on the clothes was accidentally torn off!
Furthermore, my mother immediately draped her clothes over you to cover yourself, but you tore them to shreds and threw them on the ground, and even verbally abused my mother. How dare you turn around and accuse her now?
Jiang Siyu saw Xibao suddenly appear and give a rough account of the situation. She worried that Jiang Che and Si Lijue would believe what the little brat said, which would be detrimental to her.
She immediately retorted, "I didn't lie, I'm telling the truth." Then, her eyes blazing with anger, she stared at Xibao and said, word by word, "You said she's your mother, so you're bound to side with her. I think you're the one who's lying."
When Si Lili saw that Jiang Siyu dared to glare at her little nephew, she immediately stood up to protect her best friend and sister-in-law, and also secretly protected Xibao to prevent Jiang Siyu from harming Xibao in a fit of anger.
“My nephew would never lie; you’re the one who’s really lying. Although I wasn’t there when the conflict broke out, based on my understanding of Niannian, she would never do such a thing.”
“You weren’t even there, how do you know I was lying? Besides, she’s your friend, so naturally you’ll side with her.”
When Jiang Siyu saw another Si Lili appear, her anger completely overwhelmed her reason, and she immediately argued her case.
She didn't notice that Si Lili kept referring to Xi Bao as a "big nephew," assuming that Xi Bao was Su Niannian's child with someone else. In her anger and embarrassment, she started to speak recklessly.
"A woman as shameless as her, who knows which random man she'd have a child with, it's no surprise she lies. Maybe this little bastard is just inherently wicked..."
Before Jiang Siyu could finish speaking, a crisp slapping sound came from the air.
"Slap!" Su Niannian could no longer bear it and slapped Jiang Siyu hard across the face, using all her strength and showing no mercy.
Her once delicate and beautiful face was now contorted with rage, and her beautiful eyes were fixed on Jiang Siyu as if she wanted to devour her alive.
"You liar, how dare you say my son is a bastard? I think you're tired of living and want to die."
She roared furiously, her voice so loud it made the eardrums of those around her buzz.
Then, she took another step forward, closing in on Jiang Siyu, and said sharply, "Let me tell you, Jiang Siyu, if you don't apologize to my son today, I will absolutely not let this go!"
Her son is her bottom line.
She could endure being wronged or humiliated, but she absolutely could not let Xibao suffer even the slightest grievance along with her.
Previously, when Xibao was teased by other children in kindergarten for being a child without a father, she would go to the school to demand justice from the teacher and find the child's parents, forcing the child to apologize to Xibao in front of the whole class and beg for her son's forgiveness.
This time, however, the situation is different. Jiang Siyu is an adult. How could she say such hurtful things to her son's young mind?
Jiang Siyu really touched Su Niannian's sore spot and crossed her bottom line, which is why she rushed to Jiang Siyu's side and slapped her without thinking.
"How dare you hit me?"
Jiang Siyu covered her swollen face while staring at Su Niannian with disbelief on her face.
She was extremely puzzled. She couldn't understand how Su Niannian, who was clearly no match for her during the fight, dared to provoke her and slap her now. Who gave her the courage and audacity?
"Yes, I hit you." Su Niannian admitted it fearlessly and frankly, then put her hands on her hips and continued to warn, "From now on, if you ever dare to call my son a bastard again, I will beat you every time I see you, until you kneel down and beg for mercy."
The way he confronted Jiang Siyu was exactly like Xibao's; they truly are mother and son.
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