Fu Wanning raised her face, "Go ahead and hit me, you'll get even less money if you beat me to death!"
Pei Guangzong wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt that Fu Wanning's personality had changed drastically. She used to be very quiet and gentle, but now she had become aggressive and domineering, seemingly not caring about her situation in the Pei family. "I'm your own brother. If you dare to disobey me, I'll marry you off to an old man!"
Fu Wanning confronted her directly, "You're not my real brother. A real brother wouldn't sell his sister or abuse her. What kind of raccoon did you come from that replaced my real brother!"
Upon hearing this, Pei Guangzong's anger subsided, but he was immediately filled with boundless panic. He was unsure whether Fu Wanning had discovered something.
In the end, they could only drag Fu Wanning to the living room and let the elders judge her.
Zhao Baiping glanced at the face that resembled Fu Qingning with disgust. "You brat, hand over the money now! That's the Pei family's living expenses for this month. Your grandfather and father also need to be taken care of at work. Do you even have the right to spend so much money? Hurry up and give it to them!"
"What the hell am I supposed to get? I've been locked in a room by Cui Hailu and her two children for a whole day. How am I supposed to get money? Am I supposed to fly out the window?" Fu Wanning was utterly disappointed with the Pei family and was past the age of needing care from her elders. She had been walking on thin ice in the Pei family for years and had long since learned how to take care of herself. "You can ask Cui Hailu and the others what they've done!"
This sharp-tongued Fu Wanning was something Zhao Baiping and Pei Tai had never seen before.
Cui Hailu covered her face, as if she had suffered the most grievances, "Mom and Dad, Zexing, please don't blame Wan Ning, she was just a little upset, that's why she talked back to you..."
"Wan Ning, the Pei family really needs this money, please don't keep it for yourself."
Pei Zexing frowned and shouted angrily, "Fu Wanning, how dare you speak to your grandmother like that? She's your stepmother, she took care of you since you were little, and this is how you repay her?"
Without a second thought, Zhao Baiping immediately concluded that Fu Wanning was at fault. "Fu Qingning's daughter is indeed naive and ignorant, a wolf in sheep's clothing. If you didn't do anything wrong, why would Hailu lock you up? I think it's clearly malicious targeting on your part!"
Fu Wanning was determined to break ties with them. She no longer wanted to swallow her anger and cling to that illusory family affection. Besides, it wasn't even certain whether the Pei family was her family. "Ask yourselves honestly, has Cui Hailu ever taken care of me? She spends my great-uncle's money, yet she secretly abuses me. You keep calling yourselves my grandparents and my father, but instead of helping me, you indulge Cui Hailu. Is it because you think I don't have a mother to protect me that you can trample on me at will? What kind of family are you? You have the least right to scold me!"
"Don't say you don't treat me like your own child. I even suspect and feel fortunate that I'm not from your Pei family. You want to control and manipulate me? I'm all grown up now. I don't even want to think about it. At worst, I'll do what you did to my great-grandfather and report your Pei family. We might as well all die together."
Pei Zexing's eyes flickered slightly. "How could you not be my daughter? It's because your father neglected you before. I apologize to you and will take better care of your Aunt Cui from now on. I'll give you an explanation."
Fu Wanning rejected Pei Zexing's emotional appeal, saying, "You don't have to be my father. If you truly loved my mother, you wouldn't have brought your lover, Cui Hailu, into the house right after she disappeared."
Zhao Baiping felt her 'authority' challenged, and pointed a trembling finger at Fu Wanning, "You're crazy, just like your own mother, you're a bastard..."
Pei Tai slammed his hand on the table and asked the nanny beside him, "Aunt Liao, did Wan Ning really stay in her room all day?"
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