Chapter 350: Indulge
The hidden facts will eventually be revealed to the public.
Mr. Sheng's conflicted heart will eventually face reality one day.
Those two words were tantamount to declaring an unavoidable admission in front of the entire circle of power.
"Grandpa, don't you want to know how mother got lost and how she lost her memory? Don't you really want to know what happened to mother over the years?"
"She is your daughter too, why do you always treat her so unfairly!?"
Speaking is an art, and winning people’s hearts is the most important thing.
Facts are often the most convincing, based on actual events and an unavoidable objective existence.
Jiang Zhiyue told the whole truth, and Mr. Sheng had to face it no matter how hard he tried to avoid it. He had to face his dereliction of duty as a father and his infidelity as a husband!
The Sheng family tried so hard to cover up, but Jiang Zhiyue was determined to uncover this whitewashed peace and let everyone see the ugliness behind it!
"Zhiyue, what do you want to say? We can change the occasion. Today is an important day for the Sheng family. Don't be so naughty." Old Madam Sheng always speaks at the right time and signals the bodyguards around Old Man Sheng to take her away.
Jiang Zhiyue's insistence on resisting meant that she was deliberately trying to make things difficult for the Sheng family. If she really cared about Jiang Wanrou, she should not have revealed what she knew in front of others.
Otherwise...how should Jiang Zhiyue explain the fact that Jiang Wanrou gave birth to a child out of wedlock and that she was an illegitimate child?
If she insisted on forcing the Sheng family at this juncture, wouldn't she be putting herself in an embarrassing situation? She had finally gotten rid of her identity as a maid and became the princess of the Sheng family.
Would she have to admit in front of the rich and powerful that she was an illegitimate daughter of the lowest class? If Jiang Zhiyue admitted it, how would she deal with the future marriage?
Old Lady Sheng didn't believe that Jiang Zhiyue's clever mind would not be able to think of such a complicated situation. Smart people often know how to make choices at critical moments. They have already acknowledged her identity, so she'd better quit while she's ahead.
Looking at Mrs. Sheng's kind yet slightly warning eyes, Jiang Zhiyue couldn't help but sneer.
She took another step forward and stood in the brightest light, welcoming everyone's gaze.
Among them, there were several most unique gazes. Qin Si stood beside Qin's father, wearing solemn black clothes and with a handsome face that was not smiling.
When the security guard stepped forward to arrest the girl, the light deep in his pupils seemed to be ignited.
The man took a step forward and was met with the gaze of Xiao Jingrun and the look that Qin's father suddenly turned his head and gave him. There was no word, and his eyebrows and eyes were very similar to Qin Si's, but with more majesty from years.
Qin Si met his father's gaze calmly, "Father, why not listen to what she has to say."
Mu Liansheng stood beside his father, adjusting the lavender scarf around his neck with his slender pale fingers, with a playful expression on his face.
His slightly red lips were as white as jade. He licked his lips and said, "Old man, what do you think? Old man Sheng's granddaughter is much prettier than your lovers, right?"
"You want to hold your granddaughter, too."
Mu Liansheng always speaks in a casual manner. The exquisite and gorgeous tuxedo with a slim cut perfectly outlines the slender body lines, making him elegant and charming.
The contrast with this is always his playful expression.
Xiao Jingrun's gaze fell on the girl's pretty face. As someone was trying to stop him, he took a step forward, and a gentle smile like spring water naturally appeared at the corner of his eyes. The shallow curved arc was enough to melt everything in the world.
He said with a smile: "Don't be nervous, let her finish her words, the sky won't fall."
"Precisely because today is a crucial day, we should listen to more authentic voices."
Xiao Jingrun, known as the "Smiling Tiger", always appears gentle and elegant on the surface, but so far no one has been able to get a clear statement from him.
In such a solemn occasion, it is simply a pipe dream to expect Xiao Jingrun to publicly stand up and support one side!
As a leader among the younger generation, he has always been known for his low-keyness and prudence in words and deeds.
Senior officials who have long retired behind the scenes all joked privately that if this were the old era, Xiao Jingrun, as the "crown prince" and future "emperor" of the powerful circle, would be like living with a tiger to everyone who got along with him.
Old Madam Sheng glanced at him immediately. Xiao Jingrun still looked calm and composed. After he finished speaking, he retreated back to Old Man Xiao's side.
"Zhiyue!" In this situation, Mr. Sheng suddenly called the girl. It was a reminder, a warning, but also a complex emotion that was almost... a show of goodwill.
Jiang Zhiyue was still looking at the stage, her eyes were so bright that even Mr. Sheng didn't dare to look her in the face, and her red lips were tightly pursed.
"Grandpa, what you saw was my mother working as a caregiver in the Gu family. You saw the fact that my mother had a child before marriage, so you wanted to publicly acknowledge my mother's identity, but you didn't dare to make it public because of your face."
"But what you don't see is that my mother was lost when she was five years old. She was displaced and passed around for a year. She was almost sold to a foreign country. If someone hadn't found her dying in a container, she would have died long ago."
"What you don't see is the kindhearted person who adopted her and ended up being killed because of her, and her despair and collapse."
"When you are immersed in the joy of family reunion, you don't see the hardship of a 12-year-old girl struggling to survive and living on the edge of the society."
"She couldn't survive at all, but she had to survive anyway. She could search through the garbage dump in the slum and pick up garbage all over the ground just to exchange for a little bit of food to sustain her survival."
"She has been trying to live her life, weak and insignificant, fearing that she would lose her only chance to live. So she was filled with fear and had to lower herself to a humble position like dust, being extremely cautious in everything she did."
"What's worse is that she lost all her memories and didn't know who she was or where she came from. She also lost the most basic ability to express herself and couldn't tell others about her pain and experiences. For more than 30 years, she endured everything in silence and was forgotten by the world.
"If no one is willing to step forward and lend a helping hand to her, to seek even a glimmer of truth and hope, she will forever be trapped in this darkness..."
"Even her biological father was indifferent and unwilling to seek justice for her."
"Because her father..." Jiang Zhiyue paused, and her powerful tone became a little sad, "He was the instigator of all this and the culprit who allowed the tragedy to happen."
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