The jade pendant in the brocade box also rolled out, leaving a thin crack.

Faced with the sudden accident, the people who came to watch the excitement suddenly widened their eyes, held their breath, and subconsciously looked at Jiang Li.

Jiang Li didn't expect that the two children would be so hostile to her just after they met.

She glanced at the jade pendant that fell to the ground, then lowered her eyes to look at the two children in front of her.

"You bad woman, you stole our daddy away!"

Zhou Zhiheng puffed up his cheeks, looked up at her angrily, with no concealment of hostility in his eyes.

Everyone sighed in their hearts, it seems that Miss Jiang will have a hard time in the future!

As the daughter of the richest man in Jiangnan, people all over Jiangnan know Jiang Li and are familiar with her personality.

Miss Jiang is not the type of person who would just accept everything. As long as she is right, she will never let herself be bullied for no reason.

Although Miss Jiang insisted on marrying into the general's mansion despite the opposition of Mr. Jiang and Mrs. Jiang, this was reasonable and legal. Moreover, the general also agreed to their marriage. How could she become a bad person who stole someone else's husband? To be reasonable, everyone still stood on Jiang Li's side.

However, the person who spoke was, after all, the child of the general and his deceased wife. He had just returned home and now had a stepmother. The child was inevitably resentful and easily regarded Miss Jiang as a bad person.

How will Miss Jiang respond? Will she argue with a child and seek justice for herself?

Thinking of this, everyone looked at Jiang Li, wanting to see how she would handle this matter.

Faced with Zhou Zhiheng's hatred, Jiang Li not only did not blame him, but smiled gently. She bent down to pick up the jade pendant on the ground, bent down and moved in front of Zhou Zhiheng, looking at him tenderly.

"Your name is Zhiheng?"

Zhou Zhiheng looked at Jiang Li angrily and did not respond to her.

Seeing this, Jiang Li continued, "I will be your mother from now on. Don't worry, I will take good care of you like your biological mother."

"Bad woman, we don't want you to be our mother!"

"We only have one mother, and you stole our father away!"

Zhou Zhiheng put his hands on his waist and confronted Jiang Li, calling her a bad woman all the time. It was obvious that his hostility towards Jiang Li had been accumulating for a long time.

Although sister Zhou Zhiyao didn't say anything, she looked at Jiang Li with hatred and didn't seem to want to get close to her at all.

"Who told you that I was the one who took your father away?"

Jiang Li raised her eyebrows and looked at Zhou Zhiheng. Zhou Zhiheng was only five years old now. How could a five-year-old child understand these things? It was obvious that these words were taught by the adults at home.

After all, he was just a kid and had no guard. After hearing Jiang Li's question, Zhou Zhiheng subconsciously said, "It's an outsider..."

"You are the bad woman who stole Daddy away! Otherwise, why didn't Daddy come back to see us for so long?!"

Just as Zhou Zhiheng was about to speak, Zhou Zhiyao interrupted him.

Zhou Zhiyao, who is three years older than Zhou Zhiheng, is more cunning than Zhou Zhiheng. She looked up at Jiang Li with a wronged look on her face, her big eyes filled with tears, as if Jiang Li was really the evil person who had taken her father away.

"That's right, it's because of you that your father doesn't come back to see us!"

Mrs. Zhou was so distressed that she quickly bent down and wiped Zhou Zhiheng's tears: "Oh, my dear grandson, don't cry, don't cry, it hurts your grandmother to see you!"

Madam Zhou looked at Jiang Li with displeasure: "What are you doing? Isn't it normal for Heng'er to be unfamiliar with you since he just came back from Mobei? Why are you so fussy about a child!"

Mrs. Zhou, who loved her grandson, started scolding Jiang Li without saying a word.

"I'm fussy about things? Mother-in-law, when have you ever seen me fussy about things?"

Jiang Li looked at Mrs. Zhou with an aggrieved expression and started acting out in front of everyone.

"Now that I'm married to the general, I'm nominally the stepmother of these two children. Is it wrong for them to call me mother?"

"After I learned that the two children were coming back, I looked forward to it day and night. I was both excited and nervous, fearing that I had done something wrong and the two children would become estranged from me."

"My parents had already prepared gifts for the two children, but now the two children did not accept my parents' kindness, and instead threw the things they prepared with great care on the ground. I don't care about these, and I won't bother with the two children."

"But now they regard me as the enemy who stole their father. I will never admit this. The reason why I was able to marry into the general's mansion was with the consent of my mother-in-law and the general. How can it be said that I stole their father?"

After the voice fell, the people nodded one after another.

"Yes, after all, Miss Jiang was married to the general in a formal ceremony. How can you say she was robbed?"

"Once we're in the house, we're a family. How can there be any enemies?"

"Mr. Jiang and Mrs. Jiang are both extremely kind people. Even though the two children are not their biological grandchildren, they still prepared gifts for them. If Mr. Jiang and Mrs. Jiang knew that their kindness was mercilessly thrown to the ground, they would probably be very sad, right?"

"Yes, the quality of the jade pendant shows that it was made with great care. I would say that Mr. Jiang and Mrs. Jiang have done their utmost to be kind and righteous. But now, tell me, what is this?"

The people all stood on Jiang Li's side.

Rather than saying that they stood on Jiang Li's side, it would be better to say that they stood on the side of truth.

Mrs. Zhou didn't expect that everyone would speak well of Jiang Li. She narrowed her inverted triangle eyes into a slit and was about to speak when Jiang Li's voice came from in front of her again.

"I know they are still young and cannot judge some things by themselves. They just believe what others say. But if we don't correct them in advance, this perception will only become solidified in their minds, and the relationship between us will remain rigid."

Jiang Li spoke eloquently and every word she said made sense. Mrs. Zhou couldn't even refute it.

"So you two, I don't care who told you these words, you are not allowed to say nonsense anymore, okay? I'm not a bad woman, I'm your stepmother, your father's legal wife, and we're a family from now on."

Jiang Li lowered her eyes and looked at Zhou Zhiyao and Zhou Zhiheng gently, teaching them patiently and reaching out to touch their heads.

"You bad woman! I don't want you to be our mother!"

Zhou Zhiheng said this and rushed towards Jiang Li with all his strength! Jiang Li stumbled and fell backwards! "Miss!"

Qingzhu screamed and subconsciously tried to grab Jiang Li, but it was too late.

Just as Jiang Li was about to fall to the ground, a warm big hand grabbed her arm from behind...