The phone remained silent for a long time. Xu Xiuzhen sat there like a soulless shell, not even blinking.
Xu Xiuzhen only came to her senses when Zhou Chunhua's hand came into view.
Right now, she felt like she had walked into a pitch-black dead end, wandering endlessly in this place where she couldn't see her own hand in front of her face.
The mocking laughter of those ungrateful wretches from her hometown lingers, and now that her only hope, Zhou Chunhua, is gone... won't her son never be able to get out again?
Her life's work...
Hope in life...
All the sacrifices I've made in this life...
For the first time in her life, Xu Xiuzhen experienced the utter helplessness of being powerless to change anything.
She looked up at Zhou Chunhua, the former daughter-in-law she had once looked down upon. How ironic!
She was clearly a rural woman who was completely unworthy of her son.
He's clearly a useless piece of trash who has nothing to offer.
But it just so happened to become the death knell for the Liao family!
It's all her fault! If she had insisted on not letting Zhou Chunhua into the house in the first place, none of this would have happened!
Thinking about this, Xu Xiuzhen felt even more remorseful.
But the truth struck Xu Xiuzhen like a heavy blow.
She had to realize that, right now, no one but Zhou Chunhua could save Nanxing.
At this moment, Zhou Chunhua, who felt Xu Xiuzhen's gaze, frowned and took a step back.
Before she came, she had thought that she might inevitably have to fight with Xu Xiuzhen.
Having spent so many years together, she knew Xu Xiuzhen's true nature very well.
Such a selfish person is incapable of recognizing their own problems; whenever a problem arises, they will always blame someone else.
Xu Xiuzhen would surely blame all the misfortunes she and Liao Nanxing had experienced over the years on her.
To prevent a desperate act, she should be cautious and prudent.
Just as Zhou Chunhua gripped the stun gun in her pocket, Xu Xiuzhen suddenly knelt down in front of her.
This... doesn't seem like Xu Xiuzhen's style at all!
Just as she was about to step back cautiously, Xu Xiuzhen grabbed her foot.
“Chunhua! It’s all my fault. I’ve been the one who’s made things difficult for you since you came into this family. I’ve also been the one who’s been the one who’s been the one who’s been the one who’s been the one to complain that you can’t have a son. Although Nanxing betrayed your marriage first, before that he was truly sincere to you.”
"It was me, it was me..." Xu Xiuzhen patted her chest and said, "It was me who stopped him from being too good to you, and it was me who stirred up trouble between you two as husband and wife. Please, for the sake of Nanxing's kindness to you in the past, and for the sake of the fact that you two were truly in love, help him this time, okay?"
You know, he's such a proud person. If he were sentenced to prison, it would be like nailing him to the pillar of shame... He, he wouldn't allow himself to go to that point. He, he would definitely do something stupid!
I beg you, please, even just for the sake of him being Nini's father, help him this one more time! Please!
After saying that, Xu Xiuzhen held up three fingers, her eyes red, and said, "I swear, as long as he can get out, we will never bother you again. And, and Nini, I promise I will never fight you for custody again."
Seeing Xu Xiuzhen tearfully pulling at her trouser leg, Zhou Chunhua couldn't help but laugh.
See, it's just as she thought.
She shook her head, pulled her foot away from Xu Xiuzhen, and walked straight towards the gate.
Behind her, Xu Xiuzhen's wailing cries continued: "Zhou Chunhua! How cruel you are! For more than ten years, you have eaten my son's food, worn my son's clothes, and spent my son's money! We have not asked you to repay the favor of raising you all these years, and we have even knelt down and begged you to let him go, but you still refused. Zhou Chunhua, are you trying to force me to my death before you are satisfied?"
"Fine! Fine! If my death can spare my son's life, I...I...I'll die right now, okay?"
Xu Xiuzhen suddenly sprang up from the ground and rushed towards the window.
Zhou Chunhua turned around and saw a middle-aged man desperately blocking Xu Xiuzhen.
Seeing her turn around, the man, speaking with a northern accent, said to her, "Young lady, the old lady is already quite old, there's no need to push her to her death."
Zhou Chunhua glanced around at the stares and sneered, "Big brother, you don't even know who she is before you blindly help her. Be careful she doesn't try to extort you."
The middle-aged man looked her and Xu Xiuzhen back and forth with a puzzled expression. His previous resolve had wavered, but his hand still blocked Xu Xiuzhen's path.
Then a young man next to him said, "Uncle, don't you ever go online? The woman you're holding is that vicious old woman who conspired with her mistress to abduct her own granddaughter."
As soon as he finished speaking, the middle-aged man not only withdrew his hand instantly, but also jumped aside, looking at his own hands with disgust.
His expression was as if he had touched something dirty, as if he didn't even want his own hands anymore.
He kept muttering to himself, "Tsk tsk tsk, bad luck! So bad luck!"
"Exactly! She still has the nerve to go out! If I were her, I'd be afraid of being dug up even if I hid in a hole!"
How can there be such heartless people in this world?
"A person? Is she even a person? To call her a beast is an insult to the word beast!"
Xu Xiuzhen panicked, her face as white as a paper doll as she shouted, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
"Nonsense? Don't you have any self-awareness about whether you're talking nonsense or not?"
"Exactly, aren't you and your son afraid of retribution for what you've done?"
"Who says there's no retribution? Her son is already in jail, isn't he? A university professor, and he's a real scoundrel! Come on, show me your face so I can post it online and let everyone see how you bullied Nini's mother."
"..."
As people raised their phones high, the whispers turned into unrestrained insults.
Xu Xiuzhen, who had just been acting like she was going to die, now looked as if she had been slapped dozens of times, her face turning a deep purplish-red.
Xu Xiuzhen glanced at everyone with a panicked look, then turned around and rushed out of the coffee shop.
Watching Xu Xiuzhen flee in a disheveled state, Zhou Chunhua didn't linger and went straight back to her ward.
Zhou Chunhua was unaware that a pair of malevolent eyes were staring intently at her from the shadows in the corner behind her.
She was once the envy of everyone in the family compound, someone everyone in Liaojiazhai looked up to. But because of Zhou Chunhua, she became a rat that everyone wanted to beat.
Great! Excellent!
Xu Xiuzhen came from that famine-stricken era of monsters and demons, how could she possibly capsize in such a small ditch?
Just wait! The humiliation we suffered today will be repaid to Zhou Chunhua tenfold, no! a hundredfold!
Xu Xiuzhen clenched her fists, her eyes red...
"Zhou Chunhua, if you want to know the truth about what happened back then, the only way is for you to kneel before me and beg me!"
As I slowly stood up, leaning against the wall, passersby cast surprised glances my way.
Xu Xiuzhen frowned, covered her face with her hand, and turned to disappear into the stairwell next door.
As she hurried downstairs, she took her phone out of her handbag and dialed Su Mu's number...
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