Shen Mu Ning used her mental power to invade Shen Guo Liang's brain, hypnotizing him to reveal his deepest secrets.
"Why are you so cruel to Shen Mu Ning?" Shen Mu Ning asked this question, which was what she was most interested in, right from the start.
“Cruel? I wouldn’t call myself cruel to her, it’s just that she didn’t have a good life.” Shen Guoliang disagreed with Shen Mu Ning’s question. He wasn’t that nice to Shen Mu Ning and usually neglected her, but it was far from being cruel.
"After all, she is the only bloodline left by your elder brother, and she is your own niece. Even if you don't want to treat her well, you don't have to let Li Hongmei torment her and try to take her house."
"Big brother, huh! It's precisely because she's my brother's child that I don't want to be good to her, that I want to see her fall from heaven to hell. The only pity is that she's a martyr's family member. In the past few years, no matter how unwilling I was, I had to keep her alive and didn't dare to torment her too much."
Shen Guoliang's answer was beyond Shen Mu Ning's expectations. She had always thought that Shen Guoliang was only after her family's wealth and did not want to support a burden, so he asked Li Hongmei to arrange housework for the original owner. However, she did not expect that he would want to kill Shen Mu Ning just because she was his elder brother's daughter.
"You don't like your older brother?" Shen Mu Ning frowned slightly.
“Why should I like him? He’s intelligent, hardworking, has a good education, a respectable job, and married a beautiful city woman. Everyone around me praises him, while I’ve always lived in his shadow. I can’t compare to him in any way.” Shen Guoliang’s face twisted with jealousy as he spoke, revealing his deep resentment.
Didn't your older brother arrange a job for you?
“What kind of job arrangement is that? He just used his salary to buy me a manual labor job. He owes me all of this. He joined the army right after graduating from high school and basically never took care of his parents at home. After we got married, not only did he not come back, but my sister-in-law also worked in the county town for very few days. Why can he have everything go his way, while I can only follow my father's arrangements, go to work in the fields early, and marry a country woman? He just doesn't want me to get ahead, so he found me a job with no future. In the end, only I am standing in the sunlight, while he and my sister-in-law can only lie in the cold, dark graves, watching their daughter suffer in my country.”
Shen Guoliang's excited tone left Shen Mu Ning speechless. So, just because of jealousy, one can disregard blood ties?
Having learned of this secret, Shen Mu Ning knew the appropriate level of revenge she should take. She then asked Shen Guo Liang if he had any other shady dealings that she could use against him. The question she asked completely shocked her.
It turned out that when Shen Guoliang first came to work in the county town, he met a worker with the same surname, Shen. The two shared the same surname and were about the same age, so they became like brothers. However, after meeting the man's wife once or twice, he fell in love with her, and the two secretly began seeing each other.
Not long after, his brother suddenly died of an acute illness, and his wife became a widow. The widow took over her deceased husband's position, making it easier for the two to meet. Without any worries, they became even more unrestrained. Soon after, the widow gave birth to a son for Shen Guoliang, claiming to the outside world that the child was posthumously born.
Moreover, the widow also got involved in the plot to seize the family property.
Originally, Shen Guoliang's idea was to prevent anything from happening to Shen Mu Ning. He planned to wait until Shen Mu Ning reached a certain age, then find someone to marry her off with a dowry, and the house would naturally become his family's property.
But the widow objected. She believed that even if Shen Mu Ning married, she wouldn't marry too far away. If her husband's family knew she still owned a house, they would definitely want to take it back. She could then talk to the relevant departments and the steel mill and get the house back. Going to the countryside was different; she could be sent far away. Anything could happen in the countryside, and generally, she wouldn't be able to come back, thus ensuring everything would be foolproof.
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