Chapter 165 If you didn't love me back then, why did you adopt me?
With Xu Shanshan remaining silent, her visiting time came.
She left the detention center, walked to the bus stop, and finally made her way back to her residence in the afternoon.
It's not snowing today, but it's a bit cold outside, so Wen Qianqian still didn't go out and stayed on the sofa watching TV, though she had quite a few snacks in front of her.
Xu Shanshan heard her laugh again before opening the door, but after entering, Wen Qianqian sat up straighter. "Mom..."
Xu Shanshan glanced at her and couldn't help but ask, "Qianqian, do you know that your father has been arrested?"
Wen Qianqian looked completely innocent. "Mom, I know, but I can't help it. You can't beat the Wen family, so how can I?"
As she spoke, her lips trembled, and she looked like she was about to cry, "How about I go and beg the Wen family to let my dad go? I... I'll kowtow to them."
She just kept talking without moving an inch.
Xu Shanshan felt that what she said made sense, but "...the Wen family are all heartless people, why would they care about this?"
After Xu Shanshan finished speaking, she went inside, gathered the cash she had on her person, took the deposit slip, and wrapped her jewelry in a bag...
But as she held the jewelry, she noticed something was wrong; it seemed like some of her jewelry was missing.
She immediately got up and went out. "Qianqian, did anyone come to the house this morning?"
Her complexion was already quite bad.
Wen Qianqian shook her head. "No, but I went out to buy some food and lingered outside for a while. What's wrong?"
"My gold ring and gold pendant are gone."
These two items weren't particularly eye-catching among her jewelry, but she knew her jewelry well enough to know which was missing if she were to actually take stock.
"Your jewelry is missing?" Wen Qianqian stood up from the sofa, looking shocked, as if she really didn't know when it went missing.
She looked around, "Could it be... that a thief broke into the house while I was out buying things?"
"Are only these two things missing?"
"Mom, check again quickly. Is any money missing? This thief is incredibly audacious, daring to steal from us! If I find out who it is, I'll make them pay!" she said indignantly, clearly very angry, except for avoiding looking at Xu Shanshan.
The other reactions seemed normal.
“Go check if any of your things are missing,” Xu Shanshan suddenly said.
Wen Qianqian's expression froze for a moment, then she seemed to realize something and walked towards her room. "Yes, yes, don't steal mine too," she said, but she didn't seem anxious about her house being burgled.
It took a while to get to the door.
Just as she pushed open the door, Xu Shanshan said, "Let's check if anything is missing so we can report it to the police."
Wen Qianqian's hand, which was pushing the door open, paused there. After a moment, she said in a low voice, "It should... it should be enough."
She went inside as she spoke, but quickly ran out again, shaking her head at Xu Shanshan, "No, none of mine is missing."
Xu Shanshan stood there, her body trembling uncontrollably, "Wen Qianqian," she suddenly shouted loudly.
Wen Qianqian was startled, then complained, "Mom, what are you doing?"
Why are you shouting so loudly?
"You scared me," she said, her eyes reddening with grievance.
Xu Shanshan was also very sad. She looked at Wen Qianqian with a sorrowful expression and said, "Is this how I taught you?"
Wen Qianqian, seemingly unfazed, asked, "What is it now?"
"Why are you blaming me again?"
Seeing her expression, Xu Shanshan rushed over angrily, "You said your things weren't missing? Let me see where you put them. You didn't lose anything, come here, let me see."
She tried to pull Wen Qianqian away, but Wen Qianqian shook her off, saying, "Mom, you're hurting my arm."
Xu Shanshan was thrown off balance and stumbled, hitting the door frame. Her entire arm ached, and she was even more incredulous.
"you……"
Wen Qianqian didn't even look at her. "Mom, it's all the Wen family's fault. Why aren't you blaming them? Why are you taking your anger out on me?"
Am I easier to bully?
"If you didn't love me, why did you adopt me?"
"Even if my biological mother is gone, I still live with my biological father. He wouldn't mistreat me, would he?"
"He wouldn't be in prison now."
Xu Shanshan is skilled in manipulation, and Wen Qianqian is no less so.
After Wen Qianqian finished speaking, she walked towards the sofa, muttering, "You blame others for not liking you, but you've never changed your personality even once."
Xu Shanshan leaned against the door frame, no longer feeling the pain in her body, only feeling cold all over, as if her heart had been stuffed into an ice cellar.
She stood leaning against the doorframe, trying to open her mouth, but found it difficult to make a sound; she opened her mouth, but no sound came out...
She struggled to hold onto the door frame, then turned and went into Wen Qianqian's room.
After Wen Qianqian finished speaking, she sat down on the sofa, but she was still watching Xu Shanshan, afraid that Xu Shanshan would enter her room.
She said such harsh things, risking offending Xu Shanshan, just to get Xu Shanshan to leave her room, but the result...
She immediately jumped up from the sofa, "What are you doing?"
Xu Shanshan had already entered her room and started rummaging through her bedside table and bag.
When Wen Qianqian entered the room, she had already searched the wardrobe.
But she didn't find what she wanted.
Wen Qianqian breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that she hadn't found it, and then questioned, "You suspect that I stole your things?"
Xu Shanshan didn't say anything, but rummaged through the clothes in her closet and made a mess of them.
Then you have to search other places.
Wen Qianqian quickly stepped forward to stop her. "If you don't like me now and want to end the adoption relationship with me like the Wen family, just say so. I won't stay here. You don't need to humiliate me like this."
As she spoke, she cried and pushed Xu Shanshan out.
With tears streaming down her face, Wen Qianqian looked at the room she had messed up, her throat dry and unable to speak. She only managed to utter a hoarse "ho" when she was staggered out the door by Wen Qianqian.
Xu Shanshan fell ill immediately.
By the time she recovered, Tian Fang had already been transferred to Beijing as a key witness.
Tian Fang's testimony differed greatly from Wang Jinghui's.
Tian Fang said that she had met Xu Shanshan and Wang Jinghui beforehand, but she had only met Xu Shanshan twice: the first time she was sure she was handing the child over to her, and the second time was the day she took the child away.
After that, she kept in touch with Wang Jinghui.
The contact address and phone number are all from Wang Jinghui's side.
Do they provide you with child support?
Tian Fang is incredibly obedient now. With her hands cuffed and her head bowed, she said, "Yes, one year... two hundred yuan a year."
"But they only gave it to her for a few years, until she was ten. I ended up supporting her education for three more years for nothing. You can check this; she didn't finish school until she was thirteen."
"It's because they stopped sending money that I wouldn't have stopped her from going to school."
“They stopped paying me, and I… I didn’t have any money either. I couldn’t afford to support her, so I had to let her drop out of school. I even raised her until she was eighteen. I… I did right by her!” Tian Fang couldn’t help but shout as she spoke.
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