The standard temperature of the waiting room at the spaceport, which is warm in winter and cool in summer, did not calm Elena down; on the contrary, it caused her temper to rise rapidly. Her anger was so intense that it seemed like she was ready to kill anyone who stood in her way, with a clear message of "those who obey me prosper, those who oppose me perish."
"Where? Zheng Youyou? Hmm, it really is her." Elena was single-minded, focusing on following Lily's finger. The beast in human clothing who dared to bully her daughter was none other than Ji Xiaoxiao, her enemy who had never gotten along with her from beginning to end.
It's a small world, and old grudges and new ones are intertwined. Elena couldn't help but mutter curses under her breath, "It's Zheng Youyou again. Why is she always haunting me? I can see this disgusting bitch everywhere I go."
"Mom, do you know her?" Lily tugged at Elena's sleeve, her eyebrows dancing with excitement as she asked.
Although Lily was young, she was known for her viciousness and cruelty. Ji Xiaoxiao, without any provocation, slapped her in front of everyone. Lily, a newcomer to this unfamiliar place, was powerless to retaliate, but she remembered it vividly. She was waiting for the day she could rise to power, using Ji Xiaoxiao's influence to exact revenge for that slap.
Judging from her mother Elena's expression, it was clear that she harbored an irreconcilable hatred for Ji Xiaoxiao. Lily thought that if the two of them were united against a common enemy, they could work together against a common foe. With her idea and her mother's influence, taking down Ji Xiaoxiao would be a piece of cake.
A gentleman takes revenge even after ten years. A petty person takes revenge even after a day.
Now that she can get revenge for the slap, how could Lily not be overjoyed?
Driven by her own agenda, Lily added fuel to the fire. Elena, already quite dissatisfied with Ji Xiaoxiao, stormed off towards her in a rage.
In less than a minute, Elena was standing in front of Ji Xiaoxiao.
"Zheng Youyou, you shameless woman! It's one thing to bully me, but you even dare to bully my daughter. Do you really think that just because we've raised Dong and the others for a while, you can do whatever you want with our family?" Zheng Youyou retorted angrily.
Ji Xiaoxiao sat on the cold metal chair, looking up blankly at Elena. After Elena finished her long speech, Ji Xiaoxiao slowly took out a tissue from her bag and wiped her face.
"Elena, watch your manners. This is a public place. Please don't make loud noises. Besides, your spittle is flying everywhere, which is definitely polluting the environment. You need to have some manners, you know?" Ji Xiaoxiao said earnestly.
Previously, Elena's loud shouts, as noisy as a jet taking off, had attracted a crowd of onlookers with nothing better to do. Gradually, Elena, Lily, and Ji Xiaoxiao were surrounded by a sea of people. Humans are naturally drawn to a spectacle, and now, with Ji Xiaoxiao's calm provocation, the crowd promptly became restless.
Brothers fight tigers together, fathers and sons go to war together. If the mother isn't supportive, the women will come knocking on the door.
"Auntie, my mom just found out you hit me on the spaceship, and she got so angry that she came to confront you. I shouldn't have done that, it's all my fault, Auntie. Please don't blame my mom, she's just too concerned about me, that's why she was so rude." Lily spoke eloquently, cleverly placing Ji Xiaoxiao in a dangerous position of being heartless, unreasonable, and making a fuss.
Ji Xiaoxiao craned her neck, feeling a bit sore. She simply stood up and stretched. Every movement of her hands and feet was accompanied by a crisp, pleasant cracking sound.
Lily had experienced the power of Ji Xiaoxiao's punches and kicks before, and the pain from that time still lingered in her mind. She swallowed hard, a fleeting look of fear crossing her face, and she almost imperceptibly hid behind Elena.
Ji Xiaoxiao chuckled softly, "Hmph, you told your mother I hit you, but didn't you tell her why I hit you? The truth is I did hit you, but, girl, you're so mean, deliberately revealing only half and hiding the other half, making people twist the facts on their own."
“Elena, you really don’t know how to raise children. Look at her, she looks perfectly normal, yet she openly harasses respectable men in public. Anyone would find such a scoundrel unacceptable. I just stepped in to teach your daughter a lesson, you don’t need to thank me too much.” Ji Xiaoxiao patted Elena’s shoulder, a scene that looked like that of two good buddies to outsiders.
At this moment, the kind-hearted people who had traveled on the same spaceship as Ji Xiaoxiao stepped forward and righteously testified against Lily. Elena, upon hearing this, blushed deeply. Under the pointing fingers and whispers of the crowd, Elena wished she could dig a hole and disappear to avoid further embarrassment and ruining her hard-earned reputation.
Elena was filled with shame, and Lily wanted to burst into tears and lament her sorrow.
Back in her hometown, Lily was pampered and spoiled, always showered with flattery and compliments. If those things hadn't been discovered, and she hadn't been forced to leave, would she have traveled all this way to live with a woman like Elena?
"One who stays near vermilion gets stained red, and one who stays near ink gets stained black." A scoundrel only attracts scoundrels. Thinking that she too had become a rat everyone wanted to beat, Lily's eyes reddened even more.
"Zheng Youyou, can you please stop bullying my mother? She's a pitiful person, please let her go!" Ou Dongbaili pushed through the crowd, blaming Ji Xiaoxiao without distinguishing right from wrong.
“Zheng Youyou, if you dare to bully my family again, I will make you pay the price.” Ou Nanbaili reached out and shoved Ji Xiaoxiao. “Behave yourself and don’t give me a chance to make a move.”
Ou Dongbai's pleas and Ou Nanbai's threats, the world, unaware of the truth, relied solely on their feelings to engage in lofty discussions of right and wrong. The pitiful are often the most lovable, and the winds shifted rapidly, the fire landing on Ji Xiaoxiao. Ji Xiaoxiao was not prepared to sit idly by and wait for her doom; she had no choice but to take the initiative.
"Attack? What makes you think you can attack me? What gives you the right to attack me?" Ji Xiaoxiao roared. "I raised you for twenty years, but you severed your ties with me for a mother who gave birth to you but abandoned you for twenty years. I didn't make a fuss, I didn't accept a penny, yet you keep saying I bullied her. Ha, am I just supposed to swallow my anger and give in to her in everything? Bah, what kind of logic is that? If you want to be filial sons and loving mothers, that's your business, don't drag me into it."
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