Mrs. Gu came prepared, refusing to believe that Gu Wanwan could break in. "Gu Qingtang has accepted a thief as her mother and has abandoned her own parents. It's a waste of all the years I've raised her!"
Those fence-sitters who sided with Gu Yarou and the others began to denounce Gu Qingtang.
"Gu Qingtang has climbed up the social ladder and abandoned the Gu family. She's an ungrateful person. What's wrong with supporting her parents? It's a daughter's responsibility."
"How can you abandon your own family just because you marry into your husband's family? The Gu family may not be as prestigious as Mr. Gu, but they have raised you for thirty years. Even a dog should know how to repay its kindness, right?"
"Gu Qingtang's family only has three people. What's wrong with lending the house to her parents? If you drive away Mrs. Gu, it would be a great act of filial piety. We villagers will not stand idly by."
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Xu Luoxue saw the villagers joining in and thought this wave was stable, but who would have thought...
Gu Wanwan glanced coldly at the villagers, her gaze finally landing on Gu Yarou and the other two. "Did the old Gu family ever raise her? Mrs. Gu didn't even consider Gu Qingtang her own daughter. The old Gu family treated her like a slave. Stop telling me there's no such thing as a mother and daughter holding grudges."
"Biological parents? How ridiculous! Would biological parents torture their daughter and abuse their grandchildren? They are all their own children, yet the treatment is so different. Let alone Mrs. Gu's preference for boys over girls, what about Gu Qiuyan? Why is she living better than Gu Qingtang? She married well and has a respectable job, yet as an older sister, she doesn't let her younger sister down, but instead treats her like a slave."
"If they were my biological parents, they wouldn't have spread rumors about Gu Qingtang being abandoned and called my uncle a Chen Shimei. They humiliated Gu Qingtang and wanted to trap her in Qiyang Village for the rest of her life. What is Mrs. Gu afraid of? What secret is she hiding?"
As she spoke, she turned to He Shuyan and questioned, "You say the Gu family is good, and that my aunt is selfish and deserves her punishment? Then let me ask you, would a mother cruelly disfigure her own daughter? How would a disfigured daughter benefit the Gu family? Why doesn't Mrs. Gu care about her daughter's life or death? You're so good at making excuses. Give me a satisfactory and reasonable explanation."
This was the first time that He Shuyan formally looked at Gu Qingtang's shocking appearance. She had only seen him from a distance before, but this time she saw him up close and realized how completely his face was disfigured. She remembered Xu Luoxue mentioned that it was Gu Qingtang who went up the mountain to seek death and provoked wild beasts, which was why he was disfigured by the beasts.
She was no fool; how could she not tell whether the injury was caused by someone or by accident? She couldn't believe how cruel Mrs. Gu was to use such a heavy hand on Gu Qingtang. Not only was her face burned, but it was also scratched by her hair. "Why would the old Gu family do this?"
Gu Wanwan stared at He Shuyan, but her words were meant for Xu Luoxue to hear, "Because Mrs. Gu is not Gu Qingtang's biological mother at all. She is a vicious woman who maliciously switched children. Her own daughter went to the city to enjoy a good life, snatched away Gu Qingtang's biological parents, and usurped the person who belonged to Gu Qingtang. And what about Gu Qingtang? She is always abusing her or on the way to being abused."
"Mrs. Gu was worried that Gu Qingtang would be reunited with her biological parents. She was afraid that her biological daughter would lose everything, so she ruthlessly killed her and destroyed her appearance. Even if her biological parents came to visit, they wouldn't recognize Gu Qingtang as their biological daughter. Do you understand?"
"If you continue to help the Gu family, you'll be harming my aunt."
Xu Luoxue's hair stood on end when Sister Wan glared at her, and she suddenly felt as if her life story had been exposed.
Gu Wanwan actually guessed them all right!
He Shuyan had only seen the drama of swapping a real daughter in storybooks, but she never expected that a real case would happen to her.
She didn't know if there was something wrong with her brain, but she couldn't help but associate Gu Qingtang with Gu Qiulin, imagining that Gu Qingtang was originally the daughter of Gu's grandparents, but was maliciously replaced by the old Gu family.
Even now, Xu Luoxue was still trying to argue, "Shuyan, don't listen to her one-sided words. Her guess is not the truth..."
He Shuyan was in a very complicated mood. The more Xu Luoxue explained, the more she concealed her guilty conscience. Could it be that Xu Luoxue did not do it on a whim, but because Xu Luoxue already knew Gu Qiulin's life experience?
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