The eldest daughter's face was deathly pale, and she was so thin and frail that her collarbone was clearly visible through her dress. She looked like she weighed almost nothing, and she was extremely haggard and distressed.
The ground beneath her feet was littered with shards of broken porcelain, clearly indicating that she had been severely bullied. Yet, her stubbornly upright posture only made her all the more pitiful.
Gu Yanxue was visibly stunned when she heard her father's reprimand. Feeling wronged, she grabbed her father's sleeve aggressively.
"Uncle, I'm not talking nonsense! I'm not messing around at all! It was Gu Zhuyang who was being unreasonable and slapped me! Who does she think she is? How dare she hit me? Please help me hit her back!"
Looking at his haggard, aggrieved yet stubbornly upright eldest daughter, and then at his tall, strong, and aggressive second daughter, Gu's heart couldn't help but lean towards Tongsu.
"She's the older sister, and you're the younger sister. How could you call your older sister by her name?" After speaking sternly, he looked at Tong Su, his voice inexplicably softening. "Zhu Yang, tell me, why did you hit your younger sister?"
Gu Yanxue's eyes immediately welled up with tears of grievance. When had her father ever been so disrespectful to her, and was even biased towards Gu Zhuyang!
"Uncle! How could you do this? What did I do wrong? Why are you scolding me?"
The more spoiled she was, the less willing her father was to listen. He looked up at the person opposite him, and saw Tong Su with red eyes, but she stubbornly shook her head.
“Dad, it’s my fault. My sister is just a child. No matter what she did, I shouldn’t have hit her. Please punish me. It’s my fault.”
Seeing his eldest daughter looking aggrieved and about to cry, but biting her lip to refuse to shed a tear, Mr. Gu felt a pang of pain in his heart.
Even if she disliked her father-in-law's family, Gu Zhuyang was still her eldest daughter, and according to the customs of her hometown, she was the legitimate daughter recognized by the Neng clan.
Since his ex-wife didn't give birth to a son and couldn't carry on the family line, Gu Chengzong naturally wanted to take her home.
But Gu Yanxue was born to another woman, and she is currently under her elder brother's name. Gu Zhuyang is the rightful eldest daughter of her father!
The more Gu's father thought about it, the more he felt he had wronged his eldest daughter. He frowned and shook his head: "Stop favoring your sister. She's always been unruly. How can she compare to you, who is obedient and sensible?"
Judging from his expression, he seemed unhappy, but his words clearly showed that he was protecting Gu Zhuyang.
Gu Yanxue's face turned ashen instantly.
Looking at his aggrieved eldest daughter, whose eyes welled up with tears after his gentle words of comfort, Gu's father felt even more heartache.
"Just tell me. If your sister does something wrong, I will definitely punish her! You are the older sister, so it is only right for you to discipline your younger sister. Don't worry about it."
The eldest daughter clearly still felt sorry for her younger sister, and hesitated, worried that he would punish her, and didn't dare to speak.
Mr. Gu felt more and more that she cared about Gu Yanxue, and said seriously, "If you spoil her, and she makes a mistake, no one will tell her she's wrong, and she won't know how to correct it. That's what will harm her! In the future, no matter what Yanxue does wrong, if you can't bear to discipline her, just come and tell me!"
Tongsu then feigned reluctance, wiping away tears and choking back sobs as she spoke.
“My sister likes my room, so of course I can give it to her. But there are a lot of things my mother left me in this room, especially the photos she specially left for me—the photos of you and Mom before your wedding.”
Mr. Gu was taken aback: "Photos from before the wedding?"
Gu Yanxue looked at her father's stunned expression, which contained a hint of melancholy and nostalgia, and her heart suddenly skipped a beat.
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