Zhang Moyan's pupils constricted, her ears deafened by Huang Qin's ridiculous voice. She looked at her stubborn and paranoid adoptive mother with a chill. After receiving the message that there was no room for retaliation, she cast a pleading gaze at Zhang Feng, but Zhang Feng remained silent, his thoughts unclear.
Against the light pouring in from the window, Xiao Xingyu's tall and slender figure remained silent for a moment. Soon, he pulled up his trouser legs nonchalantly and said, "Okay, I'll do anything for Zhang Moyan. I kowtow, but you have to keep your word."
As he was about to bend his knees, a green sleeve came across and grabbed his arm, straightening him up.
"Why should he kneel and kowtow? He hasn't wronged any of you!" Zhang Moyan frowned as she walked towards Huang Qin and Zhang Feng. "I'm the one who makes you resent and regret. What does that have to do with him? You can vent your hatred on me, but you can't go too far. I will never let him be humiliated innocently, and I will never let him be humiliated innocently because of me!"
Xiao Xingyu was stunned: "...Mo Yan?"
Zhang Moyan turned her head, and the gaze into his eyes was steady and firm. "I thought you would encounter many obstacles after being with me, but I didn't expect that the first obstacle would be my family. Xingyu, this is the first hurdle we encounter. There will be countless more to come. I will fight alongside you and protect you, just as you protect me."
Xiao Xingyu's chest tingled, and he was speechless from shock. This was the second time Zhang Moyan had declared her willingness to protect him, but this time it was far more serious and solemn than before, a promise she'd staked her all on.
Zhang Moyan turned to her adoptive parents with a serious expression, staring at them for a long moment. With red eyes, she asked, "Your daughter's life is precious, so does that mean I deserve to die? Is Doudou's misfortune my fault? Could the three-year-old me have controlled it? Doudou has lived with you for three years, and I've lived with you for twenty-three years. Why has the bond of twenty-three years suddenly become so fragile? ... Are adopted children inferior to biological children?"
"Stop it!" Huang Qin waved her hand to interrupt her lament, her expression like a wolf whose cubs had been ripped out. "If Doudou hadn't been your scapegoat, how could we hate you?! If it weren't for you and your family's mess, how could Doudou have been kidnapped and murdered? We also gave all the love that should have been given to Doudou to you, who indirectly harmed her... Now your mother is gone, and the murderer is gone too, and there's no one among us to blame but you. Is this so hard to understand? You say we've changed, but haven't you? You never would have dared to resist us like this before, right?!"
Zhang Moyan's head was buzzing from Huang Qin's barrage of words. Xiao Xingyu saw this and hooked his arm around her shoulders, rubbing her back up and down. He sighed, "What a tragedy... If that's the case, then don't say anything. Just call the police and get my lawyer over. Citizens have the right and freedom to migrate and naturalize according to law. The civil law doesn't allow anyone to interfere with another's freedom of marriage. Let the law handle everything!"
"Call the police? Go ahead!" Huang Qin rushed forward and roared, "Do you think I'm afraid? Let the lawyers and the police come, and see if I will give it to you. Whoever wants to take the household registration book today will have to step over me!"
"Okay," Xiao Xingyu took out his phone, "then let's test the law enforcement capabilities of our police officers."
"This, this won't work," Zhang Feng hurried over to hold Xiao Xingyu's hand and try to dissuade him. "You can't call the police or a lawyer! Mo Yan, listen to me. Ever since your mother met that Chen Guanfu, she's been devastated and mentally unstable. Grandpa and grandma have moved out because of this. If the police come, they'll definitely send your mother to the hospital! I'll get the household registration books if you want them, but please, don't come here again. She's just getting better. Please, don't provoke her anymore!"
Zhang Feng trembled as he went to the study to get his household registration book. Just as he reached the living room, Huang Qin rushed forward and knocked him off balance. She snatched the book away from him: "Tear it up and tell him to call the police! I want to see how this ungrateful person I raised treats me!"
Zhang Feng immediately tried to stop her: "Huang Qin, don't be impulsive..."
"You've gone too far!" Xiao Xingyufeng frowned and glared at Huang Qin. "Mo Yan was raised by you. She's the person in the world who looks most like your daughter. How could you treat her like this? No wonder she almost..."
Xiao Xingyu was filled with heartache and didn't say anything else. If it weren't for the fact that they had raised Zhang Moyan for more than 20 years, he would have punched them long ago.
Huang Qin was still fighting with Zhang Feng over the household registration booklet, and they even fell on the sofa. Zhang Moyan closed her eyes in grief, picked up the tissue box on the table and smashed it to the ground with a bang.
The red and white plastic box with "Happiness and Perfection" printed on the surface hit the ground and shattered into pieces. Neither the Zhang couple nor Xiao Xingyu had ever seen Zhang Moyan like this, and they all fell silent.
Although Huang Qin had clearly expressed her intention to break up with Zhang Moyan the last time they met, Zhang Moyan had never emotionally separated herself from the Zhang family. But now... she didn't expect that Huang Qin had become like this in just a few months. Perhaps the amount of love she had before, the amount of hatred she has now.
"Give me your household registration booklet," Zhang Moyan extended her hand to Huang Qin. Holding back the heartache and sadness, she looked at the portrait on the sofa and said solemnly, "I swear to you that I will dig out the culprit who murdered Zhang Shihan and bring him to justice."
Zhang Feng and Huang Qin were both shocked.
Huang Qin said nervously, "What did you say? Wasn't the murderer caught and executed long ago?"
Zhang Feng stumbled to his feet and said, "Do you know something? The one who was shot wasn't the real murderer?!"
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