"I once really took you as my mother." Song Chuyi's voice was like winter well water, cold enough to make one's fingertips ache at a touch: "But you never truly took me as your daughter."

  Having seen this stepdaughter's spoiled and arrogant appearance, having seen her being pampered to the point of being overbearing, but never having seen her with such a cold and hard gaze, as if she wanted to kill someone, it was intimidating just to look at her.

  At this point, Li suddenly realized that she had never really understood her stepdaughter, just like she had never truly understood her own biological daughter. She had always thought of them as a gentle and foolish little sheep and a considerate and close little cotton-padded jacket, but in reality they were completely different from what she had expected - one had become a rabbit that bites, the other was an emotionless poisonous snake.

  Her heart suddenly trembled, she touched Mrs. Song's eyes with a cold smile, and then looked at the big lady who seemed to have a mocking mouth, and suddenly cried, tears flowing down like a river bursting its banks.

  "How can you say that?!" She stood up, trembling and pointing at Song Chuyi, as if she had never known her before, filled with sadness and disappointment: "Don't I treat you like a daughter? How could I not treat you like a daughter?! All these years, ask yourself how I've treated you?"

  Li's sudden sobbing made her unable to utter a single word, and all the grievances she had accumulated over the years from treating Song Chuyi with caution suddenly surged up in her heart. She trembled as she pointed at Song Chuyi's forehead: "You think of your mother like this, do you still have a conscience?"

  Li thought he was more into the play than the actors on stage when he acted.

  "In the days when you were ill, I stayed up day and night to take care of you, even abandoning An Ning. She was really heartbroken, and her nose started running: 'I only made a mistake with Huang Yao and Wang Nian's matter, why are you punishing me like this? Bringing these people in front of Old Lady and Eldest Sister to humiliate me'"

  She couldn't admit it, once she admitted it, everything would be over ----- the reputation that had been carefully maintained for so many years, the hard-won favor of her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, and even Song Yi at times, would all leave her.

  Song Yi is her lifelong dream, she can't lose him, absolutely can't lose him.

  "Yes, I used to think so too." Song Chuyi smiled and looked at her, but her eyes were already filled with tears: "I thought Mother's love for me was the same as for An Ning, I thought Mother really liked me"

  "My mother is good to me, am I not good to my mother?" She smiled bitterly at Li Shi, the despair and resentment of her past life finally bursting out in this life: "I trusted you wholeheartedly and respected you. You said that my maternal grandparents' family didn't like me, so I listened and didn't dare see anyone from the Jinzhong family. You told me to distance myself from my grandmother, so I didn't dare serve her for six whole years. Whatever you told me to do, I did."

  Song Chuyi's tears fell to the ground: "You say you don't know what you did wrong, I also don't know what I did wrong. I respected and trusted you so much, but you pushed me into the fire pit time and again over Fourth Sister's affair. You had Huang Yao tell Third Aunt that I was faking illness, you had Huang Yao instigate me to offend Grandmother, and had Wang Yiniang lead me to read novels and drive away the people from my maternal grandparents' home. You had someone come to Tongzhou to deliver clothes to me, but instead had them collude with those people to inform them of my whereabouts, wanting to kill my mother. Until now, I'm calling you 'Mother' for the last time, tell me, what did I do wrong? Why are you treating me like this?"

  Song Chuyi's throat was as if stuffed with a ball of cotton, heavy and sour, making her eyes red.

  "I told you I didn't!" Li shouted: "Why don't you believe me? How could I have the ability to find these people to kill you?! Don't I value my own life?"

  Mrs. Song coughed and gazed at Li with a gloomy expression, saying in a low voice: "Enough!"

  She knew that Song Chuyi wouldn't shoot without a target, this little granddaughter had never been ambiguous in her actions. Since she dared to come and testify against Li, it proved that there was absolute evidence. Yet Li still foolishly thought he could move her and these people with emotions, how stupid.

  "What other evidence is there?" She felt a dull ache in her temples, and her mind was buzzing: "She's right, she didn't have the chance to go out, these rascals may not even have seen her, how can they identify her?"

  "They may not know her, but they recognize the one who paid." Song Chuyi turned his head to glance at Li Shi with an icy gaze: "Take them to the Li residence for a spin and everything will be clear."

  This matter actually involves the Li family as well! What does this make the Song family? Where do they place themselves, Song Chengnuo and Song Yi?! Old Lady Song was furious, heavily slapping the table.

  But Li Ruyue is the libationer of Guozijian, with peach and plum blossoms all over the world, and many disciples. How can he allow people to bring someone to his door to investigate these private matters?!

  Is this matter going to end like this? Old Lady Song felt indignant in her heart, but suddenly felt that there was nothing she could do.

  Until Song Chuyi dropped another bombshell: "Moreover, the woman who contacted these people and informed them of my whereabouts was caught by Ye Jingchuan, and it just so happened that she was the lady-in-waiting beside the madam."

  Old Lady Song had heard from Song Jue that Song Chuyi's residence was once attacked by the Tartar soldiers at night, and if it wasn't for Ye Jingchuan and Ta Sun Gongzhu saving them, things would have turned out badly.

  But now it seems that those were not some bandits or robbers that night, they were actually the local rascals sent by the Li family!

  Yes, how could I have forgotten this time!

  Li was struck as if by lightning and fell heavily to the ground. At first, she had thought that Song Chuyi would surely die, and once she died, there would be no evidence of her crime, so she had been careless and forgotten about this woman. Now, however, this woman had turned into a knife stabbing towards herself!

  The old woman has gone out and brought that woman in, who is pale and trembling all over, her legs shaking like a sieve, as soon as she came in, she kept crying and begging Mrs. Li to save her.

  It's already self-evident how things have turned out.

  The madam's eyes widened in shock, and she finally couldn't help but let out a sigh.

  She knew that her second brother and sister, who were supposed to be gentle and virtuous, might not be as kind and courteous as imagined, but she never thought that they would harbor such vicious thoughts and actually dare to put them into action.

  Song Chuyi lived under the cruel and ruthless stepmother, it's hard to imagine how difficult it was for her, if she wasn't careful, her life would be in danger, it was like walking on thin ice.

  Mrs. Song was finally enraged and kicked Li's body: "You are so depraved!"

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