My soul froze in mid-air, and Qiao Zhixian's ridiculous words just now kept echoing in my mind.
Was it me who killed Ji Linting's biological mother?
Qiao Zhixian continued to chatter on, recounting the things I had done in the past that had angered God and man.
She said that in the seventh month of my pregnancy with Ji Xing, Ji Linting's biological mother came to me and said she wanted to see her son.
But I despised this mother-in-law whom I had never met because she was poor and had no money, so I drove her away and spoke harshly to her on the street, which led to her being hit and killed by a car on the road.
And her last phone call was to me, which is enough to prove that I was the one who killed my mother-in-law!
Ji Linting spoke silently, as if he agreed with Qiao Zhixian's statement.
Father Qiao seemed to have just heard the news. He shook his head in disappointment and cursed, "How could we have given birth to such an ungrateful person? Not only was he unfilial to his biological parents, but he also killed his father-in-law. Why didn't she die?"
Mother Qiao even beat her chest and stamped her feet, repeatedly spitting at the icy coffin where my body once lay. "Why does this damn girl love money so much? She should just die and we can burn paper money for her. Why does she stay in this world and harm others?"
I listened numbly to these words with empty eyes, and looked at Ji Linting biting his lips and enduring it. Endless sorrow spread to every part of my body.
After being abandoned by her sponsor, his biological mother also abandoned Ji Linting, who was only seven years old.
I thought Ji Linting hated his biological mother because when I told him the news of her death, he looked calm.
But I didn't expect that he had such deep feelings for his mother in his heart, and he stubbornly believed that I was the one who killed his mother.
No wonder he gradually became distant from me during that period of time and found various excuses to come home late.
However, he didn't know that his biological mother had come there to renew their mother-son relationship with him.
She came to ask Ji Linting to donate a kidney to her and to pay her high medical expenses.
At that time, I was afraid that Ji Linting would be sad and upset if he found out that his mother, whom he hadn't seen for many years, came to ask for something from him, so I didn't tell him.
I begged her to let this son go.
But at that time, she cried and dragged me to the hospital where Ji Linting was interning and made a scene, scolding him for being unfilial and exposing the fact that he was an illegitimate child.
For Ji Linting's future, I endured it and transferred the only 50,000 yuan I had to her.
When she received the money, she was still determined not to give up, which made me scared.
Later, when I learned that she had been in a car accident, I did sigh at the impermanence of life but also breathed a sigh of relief. I handled her funeral without telling Ji Linting.
But it turned out that Ji Linting had a grudge against me because of this incident.
At this time, after listening to Qiao Zhixian's statement, Ji Linting seemed to have occupied the moral high ground and raised his head again.
However, the expression on Jiang Xi's face gradually changed from shock at first to deep anger.
She pointed at Ji Linting and cursed again, "Are you going to hurt your lover who has been with you for so many years and supported your studies again and again just because of a woman who abandoned you?"
"You said Chuyuan despised your mother for being poor, but aren't you poor yourself?"
Then, she pointed at Qiao Zhixian, her sarcasm undisguised. "And Qiao Zhixian, do you believe everything she says? Do you think her shit smells good? You just..."
Before she could finish her words, Ji Linting's eyes were bloodshot and he raised his hand to slap Jiang Xi hard.
My heart suddenly tightened, and I saw Qiao Shiyao, who was standing beside me, grabbing Ji Linting's wrist for the first time and hurriedly stopping him, "Stop fighting, Jiang Xi is already seriously injured!"
Qiao's father and mother hurried forward to pull their son, thinking that he was not willing to see Jiang Xi get hurt out of consideration for their old friendship.
But I am the only one who knows that he feels guilty.
Because when Ji Linting's biological mother dragged me to the hospital to make a scene, Qiao Shiyao who happened to be at the hospital witnessed how the woman who abandoned her son went crazy and threatened to drag Ji Linting to be buried with her because she had no money and no kidneys.
He clearly knew the truth, but he hid it for Qiao Zhixian!
Just because he thought Qiao Zhixian was the one who saved him in the alley that year, he chose to protect Qiao Zhixian.
I watched coldly as he defended Jiang Xi responsibly for the first time, but retreated in fear when Ji Linting's cold and intimidating eyes touched him. I really felt that he was not worthy of Jiang Xi's unwavering love for him for several years.
Because the police were present, Ji Linting didn't continue to use force on Jiang Xi. Instead, he looked down at her and said with gritted teeth, "Since you insist on believing Qiao Chuyuan, then I have reason to believe that you were instigated by her to deliberately kidnap my daughter. I will go to the police station to file a case. Not only will you never be able to be a doctor in this life, but you will also never have the chance to take care of your paralyzed mother!"
Listening to his lies, I clenched my fists, wishing I could punch his face and send him to hell with every punch!
How much does he hate me?
Why torture the people around me like this!
Jiang Xi's mother is a good person who treats him and me as her own children!
During the days when we lost the love of our family, she cooked our favorite sweet and sour pork ribs with a smile, and gave us money to buy medicine when we were sick with tears.
How could he have the heart to treat her and her daughter like this?
Just a few hours ago, he was crying bitterly in front of the police, regretting that he had caused me so much suffering in northern Myanmar.
The next second, he completely forgot everything and thought that I was the murderer of my mother who had faked his death and escaped with his lover for fear of his revenge!
At this moment, it was as if I was meeting him for the first time.
He is hypocritical, fickle, and ungrateful. He is a complete scumbag!
Even Officer Li standing by seemed unable to bear it anymore and retorted to him.
"Doctor Ji, as far as I know, your daughter got into someone else's car on her own, and it was Ms. Jiang who finally brought her back. How can you accuse her of child trafficking without any evidence?"
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