Jiang Rong spoke in a flat tone, as if recounting someone else's story: "You slapped me twice and frantically asked if I had leaked it. I said no, but you refused to believe me and beat me madly. Finally, you stepped on me and stabbed my back with a cigarette butt. I could even smell the smell of my own flesh burning."
"Stop talking... I didn't do it! This is all your imagination!" Qiao Yixuan cursed, "Jiang Rong, you're crazy! You must be crazy to make up these things to frame me!"
"Am I crazy, or are you crazy?" Jiang Rong looked at Qiao Yixiuan's face, which was still beautiful after so many years. This face seemed to overlap with the hideous face more than ten years ago. It was the first embodiment of the word "pain" in her memory.
"Or perhaps you've already gone crazy more than a decade ago?" Jiang Rong chuckled. "Since you've decided to take revenge on your cheating husband, why are you scared now?"
When Qiao Yixuan was reminded of the most secret past events in her life, her features twisted. "It was Jiang Peihong who wronged me! He was the first to wrong me!"
"Yes," Jiang Rong said softly, "He's having a mistress outside and feels at ease, so why are you so terrified and fearful?"
"What do you know!" Qiao Yixuan screamed, "My Qiao family has long been in decline. If I divorce Jiang Peihong, what will happen to the Qiao family? What will I do?!"
She stared at Jiang Rong intently, "If you hadn't snitched on me, I wouldn't have nearly divorced Jiang Peihong. If I hadn't been pregnant with Ah Nian... I would have been kicked out long ago. This is all your fault!"
Yes, this is the origin of all the resentment Qiao Yixiuan has towards her.
It is said that children cannot remember things well, but Jiang Rong always remembered that when she was three years old, she was injured while playing outside. She felt wronged and wanted to seek comfort from her mother. As soon as she entered Qiao Yixiuan's room, she saw her lying in dishevel with a strange man.
She was too young at that time and had no idea what was going on, but Qiao Yixiuan reacted strongly, slapped her in the face, and told her to get out.
Little Jiang Rong didn't know why her mother was angry, and she sat in the corridor wiping her tears. She was so sad at that time, but she didn't know that the pain and torture that was about to happen had just begun.
Jiang Peihong is not a man who is content with what he has. When he first married Qiao Yixuan, the Qiao family had some power and he did not dare to do anything wrong. But when the Qiao family went downhill, he could not wait to keep women outside. There was even a woman who came to the Jiang family's house while pregnant and wanted to be Qiao Yixuan's "sister".
Qiao Yixuan couldn't bear the blow, but she didn't dare to divorce Jiang Peihong, and soon she had mental problems. Probably to take revenge on Jiang Peihong, she soon cheated on her husband with a servant in the house.
Little Jiangrong's reckless intrusion and discovery of their affair was like the last straw that broke the camel's back. She suspected all day that Little Jiangrong would tell Jiang Peihong about this, and at night she called her daughter to her room and tortured her in every way.
Kneeling as punishment, slapping, whipping, burning, and needle pricks... Jiang Rong experienced almost all of them when she was young. She couldn't understand why her mother became so horrible, and she couldn't understand why Qiao Yixiuan, who abused her so much at night, would become a gentle and kind mother during the day, taking good care of her.
How ridiculous! She tortured the wounds at night and then applied medicine to them herself during the day.
The servants in the house all said that Jiang Rong was too naughty and always got hurt. Qiao Yixiuan indulged her too much and raised a good girl to be wilder than a boy.
No one knew that the wounds on Jiang Rong's body were all caused by her mother who loved her the most.
This went on for a long time, until Jiang Rong was fifteen years old. Jiang Peihong somehow found out that Qiao Yixuan had cheated on her husband, and in anger he did DNA tests on all the children in the family.
It was also at that time that Jiang Rong was discovered to be not a child of the Jiang family. Fortunately, Jiang Rong was adopted by mistake and was not a bastard born by Qiao Yixiuan and someone else. Qiao Yixiuan was able to keep her position as Mrs. Jiang.
It was Qiao Yixiuan who insisted on sending Jiang Rong back to Huaihua Village. Jiang Rong was like a thorn in her heart, making her unable to swallow. Now that she finally had the chance to send her away with good reason, how could she let it go?
The night before leaving Jiang's house, Qiao Yixiuan grabbed her hair and asked her again if she was the one who told the secret. She used a cigarette butt to burn a scar next to her butterfly bone. Jiang Rong still remembers the pain clearly.
Of course, Qiao Yixiuan didn't get any advantage. Jiang Rong was no longer the child who had no power to resist. He stabbed Qiao Yixiuan in the back.
Even after so many years, Qiao Yixiuan still believed that it was Jiang Rong who informed on her. Jiang Rong didn't even know whether she was really stupid or having a mental breakdown.
"You know it very well, Mom." Jiang Rong said softly, like a spoiled child, "What does a three-year-old know?"
"It's your fault. You're cowardly and unwilling to give up the Jiang family's wealth and glory, but you're unwilling to hate yourself. I've become a channel for your hatred. You hate me so strongly, but aren't you also hating yourself?"
"...I told you to shut up!" Qiao Yixuan's eyes were red, and she stared at Jiang Rong like a trapped animal: "You bastard...what do you know! You will never be loved by anyone in your life, what do you know!"
Jiang Rong was stunned.
What Qiao Yixiuan said is true.
She lived to the age of nineteen without ever receiving love from anyone.
Her adoptive parents and her biological mother all hated her, despised her, and avoided her like the plague.
When she was young, Jiang Rong would wonder if she had done something wrong. Later, she realized that even if she was perfect, in their eyes, she was still just a rat in the sewer, and they felt disgusted at the sight of her.
"When I first came back, my eldest brother asked me what I was doing back home." Jiang Rong slowly sat down on the sofa, propped up his chin and tilted his head to look at Qiao Yixuan: "Do you know how I answered?"
Qiao Yixuan's pupils were trembling.
"I said, I'm here for revenge." Jiang Rong laughed: "Who do you think will be the first person I take revenge on?"
"Jiang Rong!" Qiao Yixuan gritted her teeth and said, "Don't go crazy, or I'll fight you to the death!"
"You must know that life has its own merits, Madam Jiang." Jiang Rong reached out and gently helped Qiao Yixuan adjust her dress. He smiled in her ear and said, "I bet your life can't compete with mine."
"Because I'm all alone." She looked at Qiao Yixuan's panicked face and said softly, "And you, Jiang Ci, Jiang Nian, Jiang Panyu, the Qiao family, and even Jiang Peihong... they are all your weaknesses, Madam Jiang."
After saying that, Jiang Rong no longer paid attention to Qiao Yixuan, turned around and walked out, muttering to himself, "It seems like Big Brother has something to say to me..."
Qiao Yixuan hissed, "Don't touch Ah Ci! Stay away from Ah Ci, I beg you—"
Jiang Rong opened the door and smiled softly: "It's late, Mom."
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