"What nonsense are you spouting, you little brat?" Xia Jianguo looked guilty and didn't dare to admit it at all.
"Dad, why don't you dare to admit it? All the neighbors around here know what kind of people you and Mom are."
"Huanhuan, what kind of girl are you? Your parents are getting old, isn't it normal for them to play mahjong?"
Li Qin tried to gloss over the matter with vague words, little did she know that this was exactly what Ye Huanhuan wanted. Ye Huanhuan said with great grievance:
"If that's the case, then why did you come to work at this hotel? And why did you slander me in front of so many people? Isn't that obviously trying to embarrass me?"
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Li Qin looked embarrassed and didn't know how to explain. After stammering for a while, she finally said:
"Isn't this because you've gone back to the Ye family? We can't rely on you anymore, so your parents are thinking of finding a proper job?"
"Mom, since you're saying this, it means you're admitting that I've been the one supporting you financially all this time. But why are you saying these things about me in front of so many people today? Calling me ungrateful and a heartless wretch. Is it just because I'm not your biological daughter that you're willing to slander me like this?"
Ye Huanhuan became more and more upset as she spoke. Those around her immediately understood that it wasn't because Ye Huanhuan had treated her adoptive parents badly.
Rather, it was because her adoptive parents deliberately caused such a scene at the hotel in order to ruin Ye Huanhuan's reputation and make everyone think that she, Ye Huanhuan, was an ungrateful wretch.
"That's not how it is, Huanhuan, let us explain..."
Seeing the disdainful looks from the crowd, Xia Jianguo and his wife were sweating profusely with anxiety.
Ye Huanhuan wiped away her tears. "Mom and Dad, you don't need to explain. I understand. I'm not your biological daughter, so I have no right to blame you. If it weren't for your hard work in raising me, I wouldn't be where I am today."
Xia Jianguo's heart pounded with nervousness. He was terrified of falling into Ye Huanhuan's verbal trap again and dared not utter another careless word.
"But it was only when my biological parents found me that I suddenly understood why you were so strict with me from childhood to adulthood. If I didn't finish my chores every day, I wouldn't get any food. When my younger brother got into trouble, I was the one who got beaten. When I was in school, you weren't willing to spend a single extra penny on my tuition. After I was admitted to university, you even sold my admission to my cousin. Even after I became an adult, you forced me to become an older man's mistress for money. After I married into the Song family, you constantly leeched off me, making me look down on by my in-laws. After I divorced Song Lin, I was penniless. Seeing that I had no more use, you not only wouldn't let me return to the Xia family, but you also wanted to sell me to an older man as his mistress."
Everything you've done has hurt me deeply, but I don't blame you. If you hadn't raised me with such care and hardship, I wouldn't be alive today, let alone the young lady of the Ye family. So, I still want to thank you. Thank you for raising me, thank you for letting me live to this day.
Ye Huanhuan's words, seemingly expressing gratitude to Xia Jianguo and his wife for raising her, were in fact an accusation that Xia Jianguo and his wife were malicious and unfit to be parents.
He would do anything for money, raising Ye Huanhuan only because she still had some use to him.
Sure enough, the people around Ye Huanhuan looked at her with pity, while they looked at Xia Jianguo and his wife with contempt and disgust.
"I never imagined that Miss Ye, the eldest daughter of the Ye family, would suffer so much over the years."
"Yes, it's unimaginable how Miss Ye has managed to live all these years with such heartless adoptive parents."
"If I were Miss Ye, I probably would have kicked them out long ago. I wouldn't be as kind as Miss Ye, not only giving them money but also buying them a luxury house. This couple doesn't deserve it at all!"
"Exactly, these things, one after another, are things no human being could do. They're worse than pigs and dogs! It's really been a hardship for Miss Ye. If I had adopted Miss Ye back then, I would definitely have treated her like my own daughter. Alas, I just didn't have such good luck."
Hearing these comments, Xia Jianguo and Li Qin were so ashamed they wanted to disappear into the ground. Their faces flushed, they vehemently denied the rumors.
"Huanhuan, we didn't do anything like that, don't talk nonsense!"
"Yes, Huanhuan, your father and I are not those kinds of people at all. How could you frame us in front of so many people?"
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